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Title: News in General
Post by: josh on May 20, 2022, 05:52:22 PM: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/new-problem-at-SF-sinking-tower-17179301.php

The Millennium Tower's been sinking for years. The attempted fix has run into a problem and it is exacerbating a tilt that the building already had!

Values of homes in the building have dropped sharply by as much as half.

The intended fix seems to have been making thing worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2022, 06:33:46 PM: The foundation is so important.

Here in Anaheim as we buy old motels to build housing for the homeless, then we need to bull-doze the motels and build high luxury towers with a swimming pool and club house on the roof, the bottom floors can be for the poor people, and the top floors can be for the rich people. We need to build luxury towers on Beach Blvd where the motels are, and also we need luxury towers in the Platinum Triangle. As we build, we need to knock down the old cheap stuff, and build luxury high rises to house our people.

And in Battle Mountain, Nevada, I would build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, complete with swimming pools and tennis courts.

And I am sure there are ways to save a sinking building, but it is always wise to start with a good foundation to begin with.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2022, 07:12:29 PM: In Battle Mountain, Nevada, while you are drinking your coffee and while you are watching the morning news on television, on the news they tell you about all the prices for cattle and for pigs and all of the farm stuff, and also about the gold, etc, it is all different with the morning news in Los Angeles, in Los Angeles we have beautiful women who tell us about crime, and about local news and events.

You would think that Los Angeles would have more news about the Entertainment Industry and about Industry jobs and Industry happenings, etc, but it is just the same old stuff about rising crime, and about the drought, etc. Hollywood is an industry town, we need to have the hard core facts about the Entertainment Industry in Hollywood the same way that Battle Mountain, Nevada, has the facts about livestock and gold.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2022, 07:46:45 PM: In Hollywood the morning news should tell you what every studio is doing, and we should all know the names of every studio boss, we should know everything about the Entertainment Industry from the morning news here in Hollywood, just the same as how the news in a farm town tells you all about the Farming Industry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 20, 2022, 09:05:15 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2022, 06:33:46 PM
The foundation is so important.

That's deep, Tony.

Even second floors can make me a trifle nervous (but, for love of a good woman, I deal with ours). My wife doesn't care much for the single storey ranch house style, and some of them are dismal and energy inefficient, but I do like living on one floor. And absolutely no tilting. Tilting is for picturesque European ruins or Cervantes characters, period.

Also, basements are great, if dry. Satisfy the inner hedgehog, and also a good place to go when there's war, tornadoes, sudden loss of utilities, etc. If you have apartments, the best building plans should include enough basement space that tenants can go there during an emergency, with bedrolls and access to water and basic rations. If AC fails, basements remain fairly cool, and if heat goes out, they retain heat longer and are insulated by the earth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 20, 2022, 09:41:19 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on May 20, 2022, 09:05:15 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2022, 06:33:46 PM
The foundation is so important.

That's deep, Tony.

Even second floors can make me a trifle nervous (but, for love of a good woman, I deal with ours). My wife doesn't care much for the single storey ranch house style, and some of them are dismal and energy inefficient, but I do like living on one floor. And absolutely no tilting. Tilting is for picturesque European ruins or Cervantes characters, period.

Also, basements are great, if dry. Satisfy the inner hedgehog, and also a good place to go when there's war, tornadoes, sudden loss of utilities, etc. If you have apartments, the best building plans should include enough basement space that tenants can go there during an emergency, with bedrolls and access to water and basic rations. If AC fails, basements remain fairly cool, and if heat goes out, they retain heat longer and are insulated by the earth.

Single level living is in our relatively near future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 21, 2022, 03:31:24 PM: Towers are great in the cities where space is limited.

When I worked for Suzanne Pleshette she lived in Empire West, which is a high rise in West Hollywood, the parking is underground, and there is a swimming pool on the roof with a club house, and there is a tennis court in a lot next door.

https://www.highrises.com/los-angeles/empire-west-condos/

Buildings like Empire West would be perfect here in Anaheim to help to house our people. And the poor people can live on the bottom floors, and the rich people can live on the top floors. They can have penthouses on the top floors for the rich people.

And at Empire West we had zero crime. We had 24 hour security, door men, valets, and zero crime.

In areas where land is more plentiful you can do single story high density housing like in Santorini, Greece, which would be perfect for Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 21, 2022, 04:34:04 PM: Some people see mobile home parks as being a solution for housing, but many trailer parks are horrible places. I had a friend who was murdered at a trailer park. The only nice trailer park I know of is at Paradise Cove in Malibu, where they have 24 hour security. It is much better to have custom high density housing like in Santorini, Greece.

And when I posted a picture of an apartment complex in Santorini, Greece, Bambu thought it was a place for rich people. You could build that same style of housing for cheap in Battle Mountain, Nevada. So the poor people can live like the rich people, they can live in a location where they feel like they live in a resort. Instead of trailer parks, there can be high density Santorini, Greece, style apartments.

We can have communities where all of the people feel blessed and grateful.

Right now we have homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks, imagine if they had Greece style apartments in Nevada, they would be so much better off. There is no life being out there on the sidewalk.

Also, the poor people can work on farms and vineyards, so housing can be directed in that direction as well. And they can do trade with San Francisco, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 21, 2022, 05:57:37 PM: Is this the Tony forum?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 21, 2022, 06:22:34 PM: That's over in Arts/Theatre, last I checked. See you there on June 12. I'm hearing good buzz for Skeleton Crew .
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 21, 2022, 07:47:16 PM: I actually motivated the World Bank to start a post with "Lights, Camera, Action!" after I made a post about investing in the arts in Colombia, and in other poor nations, and I suggested that as people go to Paris and Milan to find models that so too can the industry go to Bogota, Colombia, to find new talent. And I suggested that the AADA and other schools be open to admitting students from Bogota, etc. The World Bank loved my post, and their next post began with "Lights, Camera, Action!"

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 23, 2022, 05:52:58 AM: Quote from: josh on May 20, 2022, 05:52:22 PM
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/new-problem-at-SF-sinking-tower-17179301.php

The Millennium Tower's been sinking for years. The attempted fix has run into a problem and it is exacerbating a tilt that the building already had!

Values of homes in the building have dropped sharply by as much as half.

The intended fix seems to have been making thing worse.

Ah yes...leaning towers, cracking towers, collapsing towers...happening all over the world.
Usually great views and easy living in hi rise, but bad things can happen if they're not constructed absolutely perfectly...and/or construction starts occurring on surrounding land.
The weight of the towers on the land must be astronomical.
I went right off "multi-storey" after 9/11.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 23, 2022, 02:36:52 PM: Not sure a single story abode offers much protection against ants, mice, fires, and floods which in your case are all more proximate risks.

Maybe the change in government can offer you some relief.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 23, 2022, 03:33:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 23, 2022, 02:36:52 PM
Not sure a single story abode offers much protection against ants, mice, fires, and floods which in your case are all more proximate risks.

Maybe the change in government can offer you some relief.

Steel frame /brick/concrete block single storey construction homes are fine.
The mice plagues are west of the Great Dividing Range...in the country, rural, in the farm hay stacks and barns.
The forest/scrub/grass fires will come again, always have, always will.
Build a home in the forest or in a flood zone, one day it will most likely end in disaster.
In the meantime the insurance premiums now in many cases are unaffordable.
In the tropical north they build single storey homes with concrete block walls, steel beams, tin rooves...timber rots, wet season it rains all the time...funny about that.
One minute it's sunny, hot sun, next minute it's raining...people just walk around, get wet, then are dry quickly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 23, 2022, 05:22:25 PM: Between 2002 and 2006, white and Asian American adolescents were the least likely to say theyd carried a handgun, while Black and Hispanic youth were the most likely.

More recently, Black teens have joined Asian Americans as among the least likely. But white youth have joined Hispanic adolescents, as most likely.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/26/metro/more-kids-report-carrying-handguns-with-largest-rise-among-white-wealthy-rural-teens-new-study-finds/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 23, 2022, 05:58:56 PM: Check.

Thanks for the info.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 23, 2022, 08:05:36 PM: Judge Newsom [wrote] that Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and others are engaged in constitutionally protected expressive activity when they moderate and curate the content that they disseminate on their platforms.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100831545/appeals-court-florida-social-media-law-unconstitutional-desantis
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 23, 2022, 09:47:12 PM: Tony called it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/anaheim-mayor-resigns-harry-sidhu.html?referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 11:50:22 AM: Horrible that this Florida couple faced this ordeal:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-70-shoots-kills-home-intruder

Life - changing for sure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 11:51:58 AM: Professor just had to unfurl his racist flag and fly it high and proud!

He literally fucked around and found out...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/princeton-fires-joshua-katz-tenured-professor-sexual-misconduct-probe-rcna30241
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 11:55:28 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 11:50:22 AM
Horrible that this Florida couple faced this ordeal:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-70-shoots-kills-home-intruder

Life - changing for sure.

Quite!

That guy also fucked around and found out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 24, 2022, 02:44:27 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 11:50:22 AM
Horrible that this Florida couple faced this ordeal:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-70-shoots-kills-home-intruder

Life - changing for sure.

What else are you supposed to do?....if you're a "peace, love and harmony" person.
This type of thing is what some people are faced with every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 02:47:03 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 11:51:58 AM
Professor just had to unfurl his racist flag and fly it high and proud!

He literally fucked around and found out...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/princeton-fires-joshua-katz-tenured-professor-sexual-misconduct-probe-rcna30241

Lets go!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 02:52:59 PM: Katz had written an online essay in July 2020 criticizing an open letter signed by students and faculty calling for a review into racism at Princeton. In his essay, he said he was embarrassed for colleagues who signed the letter, saying its demands could pose a potential threat to free speech.

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 02:54:23 PM: The professor also called the student Black Justice League at Princeton a small terrorist organization, drawing condemnation from Eisgruber, who, in an editorial published days later, branded Katz's comments irresponsible and offensive.

heh

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 04:03:55 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 23, 2022, 09:47:12 PM
Tony called it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/anaheim-mayor-resigns-harry-sidhu.html?referringSource=articleShare

I hate corruption so bad, we need for our officials to represent the people instead of being corrupt.

It looks like the good guys are winning this time, and luckily we have a few honest officials in Anaheim including Councilman Dr Jose F. Moreno who attended Harvard.

We also have lots of good investigative reporters who need to dig deep into this case, and hopefully Christina Pascucci of KTLA Channel 5 and others will dig deep and will reveal who all of the bad guys are so we can remove all of the bad guys.

I wish Gene Autry was still alive, Gene Autry owned the Angels, and he owned KTLA Channel 5, Gene would resolve this whole situation.

We need to keep our government honest, and we need to remove a bunch of bad people.

And NO SALE on Angel Stadium.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 04:10:40 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 02:54:23 PM
The professor also called the student Black Justice League at Princeton a small terrorist organization, drawing condemnation from Eisgruber, who, in an editorial published days later, branded Katz's comments irresponsible and offensive.

heh

heh

Hey! Professor asshole:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71GyA6xQEGL._AC_SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 04:11:15 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 04:03:55 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 23, 2022, 09:47:12 PM
Tony called it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/anaheim-mayor-resigns-harry-sidhu.html?referringSource=articleShare

I hate corruption so bad, we need for our officials to represent the people instead of being corrupt.

It looks like the good guys are winning this time, and luckily we have a few honest officials in Anaheim including Councilman Dr Jose F. Moreno who attended Harvard.

We also have lots of good investigative reporters who need to dig deep into this case, and hopefully Christina Pascucci of KTLA Channel 5 and others will dig deep and will reveal who all of the bad guys are so we can remove all of the bad guys.

I wish Gene Autry was still alive, Gene Autry owned the Angels, and he owned KTLA Channel 5, Gene would resolve this whole situation.

We need to keep our government honest, and we need to remove a bunch of bad people.

And NO SALE on Angel Stadium.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 05:24:48 PM: Business as usual...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Trump-returning-to-Houston-May-27-for-NRA-17169236.php
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM: We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 05:58:43 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM
We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.

We need sensible gun law reforms...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 24, 2022, 06:10:11 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM
We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.

No absolute security at schools, kids and teachers will keep being slaughtered.
The latest school massacre, allegedly by 18 yr old Salvador Romas, who was shot dead, obviously psycho-angry about something, his grandmother is reportedly among the victims, was totally preventable.
He just got out of his vehicle, entered the school and shot people.
Small town schools need absolute security too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 08:02:15 PM: Come on CNN lets be careful now

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 08:12:29 PM: I bet Loeb and Loeb would work Pro Bono for the citizens of Anaheim.

We need to bring in Loeb and Loeb for the people, and investigative reporters like Christina Pascucci.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 09:59:57 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 05:58:43 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM
We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.

We need sensible gun law reforms...

And the guns in circulation will still be so

Stop the madmen. Do a better job of that/ What say you,Blumenthal? No? You would rather get something passed that will help your re-election? Ok, pussy. Keep it up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 10:09:53 PM: Guns posted on instagram - on shooter/s page - 3 days ago

Nobody said a word. fuck the silent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 10:10:54 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 09:59:57 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 05:58:43 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM
We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.

We need sensible gun law reforms...

And the guns in circulation will still be so

Stop the madmen. Do a better job of that/ What say you,Blumenthal? No? You would rather get something passed that will help your re-election? Ok, pussy. Keep it up.

So do nothing, right?

Death Cult. You guys are fucking sick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 25, 2022, 12:25:09 AM: Build walls, fences, gates at schools.
Put locks on everything.
Can you just walk into a US prison and start shooting people?

Design schools like prisons...then only remove the security aspect of the prisons to a level that make schools absolutely safe from gun massacres.

Guns are great, and are needed for self defence...as the couple in Florida found out when they needed to protect themselves from harm from the man who entered their home, refused to leave even after they fired warning shots.

Every woman in America should carry 2 guns at all times.
Armed..serial killers, rapists, violent thugs roam the streets looking for victims...the movie The Abduction of Lisa McVey now on Netflix shows it all.
A true story, if only she'd had guns strapped on and been 'Lisa the Kid'.

Absolute security protects absolutely.

Schools...walls, fences, gates, auto/manual staged entry systems, metal detectors, bomb detectors, etc etc etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 25, 2022, 01:06:44 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 09:59:57 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 24, 2022, 05:58:43 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 24, 2022, 05:47:33 PM
We need to hire Veterans to help to protect our schools. Many Vets would love to help to protect our children.

Salute,

Tony V.

We need sensible gun law reforms...

And the guns in circulation will still be so

Stop the madmen. Do a better job of that/ What say you,Blumenthal? No? You would rather get something passed that will help your re-election? Ok, pussy. Keep it up.

Gun buy back programs work.

Requiring gun insurance would help.

Taxing ammo and/or restricting it would help.

Laws requiring guns be locked in the owner's home would help.

We don't have the scoop on this one, but the last mass shooting would not have occurred with consistently tighter gun laws - regardless of guns in circulation.

And sure, there are many in circulation. Why do you oppose limiting the ongoing increase?!

The sooner the fountain of guns is turned off, the sooner the number in circulation will start declining.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 25, 2022, 03:53:32 AM: You can't take a gun onto a plane...but you can just walk right thru the front doors of schools with a gun.
Someone should really stop that from happening.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 25, 2022, 10:00:32 AM: Small towns tend to feel more insulated from what they perceive as urban problems - even when reality keeps saying otherwise. Small town schools tend to have more relaxed security, there's an everybody knows everybody else mentality, as well as smaller budgets for making changes.. That may start to change.

Matthew McConaughey, the actor, who happens to be a native of Uvalde TX, seems to be tweeting philosophically and calls for introspection but is pretty vague on the matter of gun control...

https://twitter.com/McConaughey/status/1529321695110213632?s=20&t=7HtyYKNBGjRVHSs3sUqdkg
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 25, 2022, 10:22:49 AM: Bambu, it looks like the school had a security officer stationed at the entrance, and the shooter forced his way past by shooting him.

I am impressed at how quickly Wikipedia has assembled quite a bit of information from dozens of news sources. You may find this helpful. (someone needs to put Paul Gosar in a padded room, btw)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 25, 2022, 10:28:50 AM: It is worrisome that Paul Gosar can legally purchase firearms, and that he is allowed to run loose.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-gosar-texas-shooter_n_628db1f5e4b0edd2d01c8ef7
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 25, 2022, 11:14:03 AM: Thankfully some networks are helping piece together today the details of the latest tragedy in TX.

Some real security concerns, as we learn the shooter entered through back door of school.

Info continues to trickle in on timeline. Hard to imagine if police weird involved in a chase with the kid just how they lost sight of him (chase after grandma killing is unconfirndd)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 25, 2022, 01:34:33 PM: What networks, i.e. major news outlets with regional correspondents, are not helping piece together the details?

There will always be security concerns if we have lots of crazy angry people running around with assault weapons. As has now been verified, the shooter's weapon enabled him to breach security at the south entrance. We could put armed officers at every entrance of every school in the nation, and this sort of thing could still happen. Maybe security staffing, alone, is not the answer. And even if it were, who is to say that someone who wants to do a mass shooting would not shift to other venues if the school was really sealed up tight?

Maybe more resources allocated to mental health and at-risk youth, and addressing early signs of breakdowns. Maybe tighter restrictions on young people buying weapons, especially assault rifles. Waiting periods. Stringent background checks. Background checks of family members who might have access to a weapon. Maybe training and testing, as we do with automobiles (and those are not specifically designed for killing, lethal though they are). Come on, are you REALLY worried that you personally are going to be oppressed by invaders if you can't have an assault rifle? Do you really think any rifle sold now would be more than a peashooter against a modern military unit that has breached the borders?

Weird, we spent trillions of dollars on the possibility of more foreign terrorists attacking within the United States, but we can't seem to cough up a fraction of that for our children being slaughtered in schoolhouses. There have been 27 school shootings in the country since Jan. 1, 2022. The copycat effect is causing the trend to accelerate, as it often does.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 25, 2022, 02:06:30 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 10:09:53 PM
Guns posted on instagram - on shooter/s page - 3 days ago

Nobody said a word. fuck the silent.

It's legal, Kid. You support the laws that make it legal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 02:16:06 PM: One thing, all of the bad guys are being captured or killed, the bad guys are not getting away with their crimes, in Texas, Buffalo, Orange County, and the guy from the train in New York, they are catching or killing all of the bad guys. That is an important message to send to criminals is that they will be captured or killed and they will not get away with their crimes.

We also need to have better security at our schools, and on our trains, etc.

Where I live we have security guards everywhere, the grocery store, City Hall, the DMV, etc, etc, etc.

And with the rise of crime in Los Angeles, including in Beverly Hills, there needs to be new security guards everywhere.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 25, 2022, 02:23:04 PM: Quote from: josh on May 25, 2022, 02:06:30 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 10:09:53 PM
Guns posted on instagram - on shooter/s page - 3 days ago

Nobody said a word. fuck the silent.

It's legal, Kid. You support the laws that make it legal.

Legal to post your guns on Instagram? Yeah - no disagreement here
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 25, 2022, 02:34:55 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 02:16:06 PM
One thing, all of the bad guys are being captured or killed, the bad guys are not getting away with their crimes, in Texas, Buffalo, Orange County, and the guy from the train in New York, they are catching or killing all of the bad guys. That is an important message to send to criminals is that they will be captured or killed and they will not get away with their crimes.

Most of them have no expectation of living.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 03:07:01 PM: We need to do more to address the issue of Mental Illness in the USA, and we need to have more Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, and we need to take away the stigma, people need to not be ashamed to get help, and it should not be a bad thing for someone to be on medication, etc. When we have a society where people are killing themselves like Naomi Judd, and where they are killing other people, then we need to help our society. We need to become a healthier society.

And life does not have to be a big gang fight, and survival of the fittest, and all of that bullshit. It is okay to have moments of weakness and to need help, and sometimes we break down because we tried to be strong for too long. We need to not be ashamed to get help, and we need to have places where we can go, and we need to have people who will help us when we need help.

There is no shame in having moments of weakness and needing help. And we need to spend public funding to help people with the issue of Mental Illness.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 03:28:28 PM: We can train new Psychiatrists in San Diego, they have a great University there where Carl Rogers once taught.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 25, 2022, 03:46:30 PM: We do, Tony. We do. At great expense to the students creating the largest limiting factor for those who wish to go into the field and are otherwise ready to devote the enormous time and energy required.

Diminishing the role of profit in every aspect of our medical system would do this nation a phenomenal amount of good.

Unfortunately white nationalist fascist bastards stand in the way. Many call them republicans, but you can think of them as enemies of the United States.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 04:01:56 PM: I agree that we need to train Psychiatrists and Doctors for free, I support free education in the USA. If you have the talent to be a great Psychiatrist then we need to make sure that you are able to go to school and then lead a life of service.

I have been sending messages to everyone from our Vice President to Oliver Stone and the local news reporters, and my local City Councilman ( Anaheim is a rich City with a lot of assets, we have our own little Empire here, but we need to take ownership. And we need to have some more great guys like the late Gene Autry who are altruistic. And we train new Doctors at UCI, during the corona crisis UCI saved a lot of lives. ) in order to help to train Psychiatrists with public funding, and I support training all Doctors for free.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 06:14:15 PM: Bambu, in Battle Mountain, Nevada, we can build with plaster, and with cement, like in Greece, and we can have cobblestones, and swimming pools and tennis courts, etc.

And here in Orange County as I walk through these neighborhoods, I see so much wealth, we are so blessed to live in such a prosperous area. We need to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor so that everyone shares in the many blessings here. If we reach out to people, and if we help people, then we can reduce the crime dramatically, and we can reduce the number of suicides, etc. We need to bridge the gap between Disney and the wealth and between our poor communities. And we need to train these children for good careers with Disney, etc. We are blessed to have Disney, and we need for the Walt Disney Company to be a blessing for our children here in Anaheim.

We can build housing, and we can lower crime as we reduce human suffering. Healthy, happy people are less likely to become criminals.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 25, 2022, 07:12:13 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2022, 06:14:15 PM
Bambu, in Battle Mountain, Nevada, we can build with plaster, and with cement, like in Greece, and we can have cobblestones, and swimming pools and tennis courts, etc.

And here in Orange County as I walk through these neighborhoods, I see so much wealth, we are so blessed to live in such a prosperous area. We need to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor so that everyone shares in the many blessings here. If we reach out to people, and if we help people, then we can reduce the crime dramatically, and we can reduce the number of suicides, etc. We need to bridge the gap between Disney and the wealth and between our poor communities. And we need to train these children for good careers with Disney, etc. We are blessed to have Disney, and we need for the Walt Disney Company to be a blessing for our children here in Anaheim.

We can build housing, and we can lower crime as we reduce human suffering. Healthy, happy people are less likely to become criminals.

Salute,

Tony V.

All good, Tony.
Until everyone becomes happy and healthy, schools should be locked up and locked down...tight.
Fences, gates, staged entry systems, locked doors...parents informed "don't even bother arriving at school with your child after 9am, everything will be locked up".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 26, 2022, 03:29:26 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 25, 2022, 02:23:04 PM
Quote from: josh on May 25, 2022, 02:06:30 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 24, 2022, 10:09:53 PM
Guns posted on instagram - on shooter/s page - 3 days ago

Nobody said a word. fuck the silent.

It's legal, Kid. You support the laws that make it legal.

Legal to post your guns on Instagram? Yeah - no disagreement here

Kid will happily see another million children die rather than attempt to come to grips with the terrible price and noxious stench of his beliefs and affiliations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:29:23 AM: shhhhh...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:40:21 AM: Todays young killers are not motivated by material deprivation. They are typically from middle class families with access to smart phones and X boxes. Their deficit is social and spiritual. The rise of family dysfunction and the decline of mediating institutions such as churches and social clubs has consequences

Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 12:57:45 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:29:23 AM
shhhhh...

Silence = Death.

The time for "shhhh..." is long since over, Kid, and the only question is whether you will ever have the moral courage to admit it.

Not much of a question, even so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM: If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 01:01:26 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:40:21 AM
Todays young killers are not motivated by material deprivation. They are typically from middle class families with access to smart phones and X boxes. Their deficit is social and spiritual. The rise of family dysfunction and the decline of mediating institutions such as churches and social clubs has consequences

Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

"We tried blaming video games, but that did not turn out to be supportable. Let's blame the lack of church going and social clubs!"
~Fox/WSJ owners

SOCIAL CLUBS?! What the actual fuck?!

The same problems of churches and "social clubs" exist in England, Australia, and New Zealand, just as the video games do.

raucous buzzer sound

WRONG ANSWER, WSJ editorial writers.

WRONG ANSWER, feckless Kid.

Go look in the mirror and you will see one of the major reasons for the gun onslaught.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 01:24:01 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM
If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!

Or were prevented from playing Call of Duty

Evil begins/grows when fertilized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 26, 2022, 01:32:55 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 01:24:01 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM
If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!

Or were prevented from playing Call of Duty

Evil begins/grows when fertilized.
Considering the amount of manure you are spreading we are all in trouble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 01:36:21 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 01:24:01 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM
If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!

Or were prevented from playing Call of Duty

Evil begins/grows when fertilized.

Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 01:01:26 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:40:21 AM
Todays young killers are not motivated by material deprivation. They are typically from middle class families with access to smart phones and X boxes. Their deficit is social and spiritual. The rise of family dysfunction and the decline of mediating institutions such as churches and social clubs has consequences

Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

"We tried blaming video games, but that did not turn out to be supportable. Let's blame the lack of church going and social clubs!"
~Fox/WSJ owners

SOCIAL CLUBS?! What the actual fuck?!

The same problems of churches and "social clubs" exist in England, Australia, and New Zealand, just as the video games do.

raucous buzzer sound

WRONG ANSWER, WSJ editorial writers.

WRONG ANSWER, feckless Kid.

Go look in the mirror and you will see one of the major reasons for the gun onslaught.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 01:57:57 PM: Quote
The killer in Uvalde was bullied and lonely. The killers in Columbine had friends, as well as attentive parents who were involved in their lives and held them accountable for earlier bad behavior. One of them had gone to the prom three days before he killed his classmates.

The Parkland shooter had an unstable home life. The Isla Vista shooter had wealthy parents who got professional help for him; when it was clear he was armed and a threat, they unsuccessfully tried to stop him from killing anyone. The Oxford Township shooter received his weapon as a gift from his parents; when they were called to the school before the shooting because of his disturbing behavior, they told him he had to learn how not to get caught. The Sandy Hook shooter's mother liked guns too, and supported his enthusiasm for shooting. She was his first murder victim.

Most of the victims of the Nickel Mines, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde shootings were children. At Columbine and Parkland, almost all were teens. At Virginia Tech, they were mainly young adults. Most of the Buffalo victims were elderly.

Most of the school shooters were in their teens. The Las Vegas shooter was 64. The Holocaust Museum shooter was 88. Most were male, but not all; a 16-year-old girl shot 11 people in a San Diego schoolyard in 1993.

The Isla Vista shooter hated women. The Pulse Nightclub shooter hated gay men. The Buffalo and Charleston shooters hated Black people. The El Paso Walmart shooter hated Latinos. The Olathe bar shooter hated immigrants. The San Bernardino shooters hated Americans. The Tree of Life and Holocaust Memorial Museum shooters hated Jews. The Oak Creek shooter hated Sikhs. The Chapel Hill shooter railed against all religious people, and then killed three Muslim students he had menaced more than once before. The Knoxville Unitarian Church shooter hated liberals. The man who shot a Republican member of Congress and three other people on a Virginia baseball field hated conservatives. The Las Vegas shooter seems to have hated everyone. So did at least one of the Columbine shooters; the other seems to have hated himself more.

There were police or armed guards on the scene in several of these shootings. Guards were killed in the Holocaust Museum and Buffalo shootings. The police officer on duty at Parkland didn't seem to know what, if anything, to do. At Uvalde, armed law enforcement officers stormed the site and killed the shooter - and are still being criticized for not doing more.

The one thing all had in common was firearms, and we're not going to shoot our way out of this. We're not going to pray, punish, love, or hope our way out of it either. About a third of Americans own guns, and most never commit a crime with one. But depending on the poll and the proposed regulations, somewhere between half and four-fifths of us favor some additional regulation of firearms.

We can't read minds. Some people are angry and vengeful, and we can't force them to be happy. Some have a tenuous grip on reality, and we have no quick fix for that. Some people who are angry or out of touch with reality can hide their thoughts very, very well; some can't, but the people around them are in denial. Some people are habitually careless with their firearms. Some simply don't realize that a family member can figure out how to get to weapons they thought were secured or unavailable. And there are a lot of thoroughly-filled spaces between those extremes.

We can't solve those problems by ordering people to go to doctors, or to church, or to gun safety classes.
So: What are we going to do about it?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 02:32:45 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:40:21 AM
Todays young killers are not motivated by material deprivation. They are typically from middle class families with access to smart phones and X boxes. Their deficit is social and spiritual. The rise of family dysfunction and the decline of mediating institutions such as churches and social clubs has consequences

Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

Middle class deviants should not have access to weapons of war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 02:33:49 PM: Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 12:57:45 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:29:23 AM
shhhhh...

Silence = Death.

The time for "shhhh..." is long since over, Kid, and the only question is whether you will ever have the moral courage to admit it.

Not much of a question, even so.

True believer.

Hitler youth member gone to seed...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 02:35:53 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM
If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!

Quite!

Those locations are target rich environments. (sarcasm)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 02:56:29 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 01:24:01 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 26, 2022, 12:59:53 PM
If only these mass shooters went to church!!! Or joined social clubs!!!!

Or were prevented from playing Call of Duty

Evil begins/grows when fertilized.

Too many heavy weapons
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 04:39:24 PM: Rep. Lou Correa

21 minutes

A few days ago, Senator Tom Umberg, Assemblymember Tom Daly, and I AGAIN sent a letter to the Anaheim City Council urging them to cancel the sale of the Anaheim Angels Stadium with the city and taxpayers in mind. The sale of the Anaheim Angel Stadium, which appears to have been fraudulently negotiated, was not in the best interest of the city or its taxpayers. I am thrilled by the news that the City Council voided the sales contract!

I suggest the city of Anaheim look into buying the Angels baseball team.

If Green Bay can own the Packers, Anaheim can own the Angels.

-----------------------

It is going to heat up now, the bad guys are getting removed and the good people are rising. We need to clean it up and then we need to put we the people back in charge.

Lou Correa wants for the City of Anaheim to buy the Angels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 05:06:16 PM: It would be silly to stop dreaming now, the good guys are winning in Anaheim now, the good people have momentum. We need to keep moving ahead in a good way.

The corruption has been preventing us from doing good things here, and as we clean up the corruption then we can move forward with projects that make life better for the people here.

We need a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas.

And we need to keep creating new Wellness Centers like the one in Orange, and we need to keep making progress on helping the homeless and the mentally ill.

And we need to build a bridge between Disney and the children of our community so that the children can dream of careers with Disney when they grow up. We need to build a bridge between the rich and the poor. We also need for the community colleges to train people for jobs at Disney, etc.

We also need to get the money into the hands of the poor people who need it, we have surpluses, and we need to transform those surpluses into food, shelter, healthcare, and education, for our people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 26, 2022, 06:33:55 PM: There are always simpletons who believe in panaceas for mental health - social clubs, churches, taking away smartphones and/or Xboxes , free hugs and stuffed animals, blowing up Facebook....think I've heard them all. Yeah, maybe, if we do all those things and solve loneliness, alienation, paranoia, bad parenting, and impulsivity while we're at it.

Meantime: How about recognizing that humans cannot be trusted with anything more lethal than a pool noodle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 07:20:48 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on May 26, 2022, 06:33:55 PM

There are always simpletons who believe in panaceas for mental health - social clubs, churches, taking away smartphones and/or Xboxes , free hugs and stuffed animals, blowing up Facebook....think I've heard them all. Yeah, maybe, if we do all those things and solve loneliness, alienation, paranoia, bad parenting, and impulsivity while we're at it.

Meantime: How about recognizing that humans cannot be trusted with anything more lethal than a pool noodle.
You think that shit up all by yourself?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 07:25:35 PM: Biden to speak in Uvalde

I think the mayor might toss him out on his ass like he did Beto.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/uvalde-texas-school-shooting
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 07:27:04 PM: Meantime: How about recognizing that humans cannot be trusted with anything more lethal than a pool noodle.

Most gun owners do so responsibly.

Like with cars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:31:15 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 07:27:04 PM
Meantime: How about recognizing that humans cannot be trusted with anything more lethal than a pool noodle.

Most gun owners do so responsibly.

Like with cars.

Most car owners have insurance in case of accident caused by their autos, whether or not they are driving it at the time.

All publicly used autos are registered and the users licensed.

Manufacture of autos is heavily regulated for safety of the users and those around them.

So, sure, "like with cars" would be a good start.

Because it is hard for a driver to kill 19 elementary school children in a single drive.

Not impossible, just hard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM: Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.

And had it dawned on them that cars would exist, who is to say what they would have come up with.

Remember, Tony, these are the folks who compromised on Blacks being 3/5ths of a person, etc. Abortion was not illegal to them, but freeing a slave was.

Try not to put them on too high a pedestal. They did great things, but they were not saints nor were they prescient.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM: Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 26, 2022, 08:17:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Salute,

Tony V.

All good.
"A gun". Doesn't specify what type of gun. Handguns would cover it.
'Average Joe' in America does not need assault rifles...and could still protect himself/herself with handguns.

Arm the People...with handguns, all good. The new smart handguns that can only be fired by the owners, best idea.
Lock up the schools so armed psycho-crazy people can just waltz thru the front doors and kill everyone inside.

Kids love electronics...issue them and parents with electronic photo ID cards they have to swipe to enter the school...make it a game.
Front gate, enter card. Security guard/s on duty.
Second gate entry, body metal detector/bag searches by security guard/s.
Third stage entry, scan card at front door for entry.
Fire/emergency exits? other doors can be opened wide from inside but not outside.

***

Witnesses;

"The police should've raided the school sooner".

#####

Oh dear.
Sue the police dept [if any fault is found with their actions, that cost lives of students and teachers.]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 08:41:52 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 07:25:35 PM
Biden to speak in Uvalde

I think the mayor might toss him out on his ass like he did Beto.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/uvalde-texas-school-shooting

Th mayor has his own problems such as how come his police force failed to move on the shooter for a fucking hour.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 08:44:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Yeah?

Then why did Congress outlaw the Thompson sub machine gun AND sawed off shotguns during the gangster age?

Why were assault weapons banned from 1994-2004?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 08:46:39 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Salute,

Tony V.

Cars did not exist when the Constitution was ratified and neither did semi-automatic weapons with high capacity magazines.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 10:17:43 PM: Meanwhile we can build housing in Battle Mountain like in Santorini, Greece, we need to bring the island lifestyle to Battle Mountain. Just the same way that we brought Beverly Hills style cuisine to Battle Mountain.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 10:33:47 PM: House White Supremacist bill fails in Senate

GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky criticized the domestic terrorism bill in a floor speech Thursday ahead of the vote.
Today we will have a bill before us ostensibly titled and ostensibly about the subject of domestic terrorism. But this bill would be more accurately called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as White supremacists and neo Nazis how insulting, he said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/senate-domestic-terrorism-bill-vote/index.html

Clean up your talk, Dems. Clean up your acts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 10:35:05 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 10:33:47 PM
House White Supremacist bill fails in Senate

GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky criticized the domestic terrorism bill in a floor speech Thursday ahead of the vote.
Today we will have a bill before us ostensibly titled and ostensibly about the subject of domestic terrorism. But this bill would be more accurately called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as White supremacists and neo Nazis how insulting, he said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/senate-domestic-terrorism-bill-vote/index.html

Clean up your talk, Dems. Clean up your acts.

You really hate that we have evidence that there is a strong white supremacist presence in the police, don't you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 10:53:11 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 10:33:47 PM
House White Supremacist bill fails in Senate

GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky criticized the domestic terrorism bill in a floor speech Thursday ahead of the vote.
Today we will have a bill before us ostensibly titled and ostensibly about the subject of domestic terrorism. But this bill would be more accurately called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as White supremacists and neo Nazis how insulting, he said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/senate-domestic-terrorism-bill-vote/index.html

Clean up your talk, Dems. Clean up your acts.

Fuck off, Fritz.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:03:39 PM: What are the similarities between the killer Ramos and these 4 kids?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-police-arrest-four-threats-school-donna

Were they also heavily bullied, for instance (no, I do not mean their race)?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM: Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 26, 2022, 11:26:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 11:38:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

How many rounds per second can be fired from a 1776 rifle?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 11:43:11 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 26, 2022, 07:25:35 PM
Biden to speak in Uvalde

I think the mayor might toss him out on his ass like he did Beto.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/uvalde-texas-school-shooting

Th mayor has his own problems such as how come his police force failed to move on the shooter for a fucking hour.

Yeah. It would seem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 27, 2022, 12:00:18 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 11:38:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

How many rounds per second can be fired from a 1776 rifle?

3 rounds per minute for the 1790s rifles, if handled by an expert.

Same as an AR15! (If it jams after the 3rd round.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 27, 2022, 12:03:12 AM: With the high temperatures in Vegas then it requires the building of swimming pools as people build in Vegas. Vegas needs swimming pools and tennis courts.

And people need to plant a lot of shade trees in Vegas. And people can grow gardens in the desert.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 27, 2022, 12:07:14 AM: Quote from: josh on May 27, 2022, 12:00:18 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 11:38:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

How many rounds per second can be fired from a 1776 rifle?

3 rounds per minute for the 1790s rifles, if handled by an expert.

Same as an AR15! (If it jams after the 3rd round.)
you are an idiot
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 27, 2022, 12:38:29 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 27, 2022, 12:07:14 AM
Quote from: josh on May 27, 2022, 12:00:18 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 26, 2022, 11:38:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 11:18:48 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 08:13:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

Hahahahahaha!

Funniest thing you have ever written.

And most ignorant, which is amazing, given its competition.
The AR 15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

How many rounds per second can be fired from a 1776 rifle?

3 rounds per minute for the 1790s rifles, if handled by an expert.

Same as an AR15! (If it jams after the 3rd round.)
you are an idiot

I do keep responding to you, so perhaps I do less than clever things.

So, genius, got any evidence to support your laughable claim about 1776 arms vs. AR15s?

My comment about the 1790s weapons was not off the top of my head, so if you had any evidence to support your position, I would love to see it.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2016/06/gun_compare.png)

Of course, the Puckle Gun was patented before 1776 and could fire 9 rounds per minute:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Puckle_gun_advertisement.jpg)

OTOH, there is no evidence that it was ever used in combat and it may be that they never made more than two of them. Oops.

The Kalthoff repeater was a better weapon, with a higher rate of firing.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater
Quote
Despite having a remarkably fast fire rate for the time, the Kalthoff could never have become a standard military firearm because of its cost. The mechanism had to be assembled with skill and care, and took far more time to assemble than an ordinary muzzle-loader. Also, all the parts were interdependent; if a gear broke or jammed, the whole gun was unusable and only a specialist gunsmith could repair it. It needed special care; powder fouling, or even powder that was slightly wet, could clog it. Since it was so expensive to buy and maintain, only wealthy individuals and elite soldiers could afford it.

I've never seen evidence that it was used in America. Have you?

Oh, wait - what about the American-patented Belton flintlock?!

"Belton wrote that the musket could fire eight rounds with one loading,[1] and that he could support his claims "by experimental proof.""

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

The Continental Congress chose not to buy them. And post-revolution, the Brits declined, as well.

"There are no records that indicate that the gun was ever supplied, and it is uncertain if or how exactly the Belton improvement operated."

To the point that the Belton flintlock is better known as the Belton hoax.

LOL.

Knock yourself out, Ward.

And next, tell me about how sound travels through the aether and about the study of phrenology.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 27, 2022, 08:11:32 AM: There will always be security concerns if we have lots of crazy angry people running around with assault weapons. As has now been verified, the shooters weapon enabled him to breach security at the south entrance. We could put armed officers at every entrance of every school in the nation, and this sort of thing could still happen. Maybe security staffing, alone, is not the answer. And even if it were, who is to say that someone who wants to do a mass shooting would not shift to other venues if the school was really sealed up tight?

Care to amend/clarify, Barton?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 27, 2022, 10:39:14 AM: Dumbest member of Congress!

During an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, Boebert called former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) a jerk for confronting GOP Gov. Greg Abbott over Republican gun policies.

When 9/11 happened, we didn't ban planes, we secured the cockpits!

https://nordot.app/902771965171826688
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 27, 2022, 10:41:02 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 26, 2022, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: josh on May 26, 2022, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Nor would they have ratified in to permit semi-automatic rifles to be sold to 18 year olds in the current environment.
Huh? The AR15 is no different than the rifles of 1776.

But the cellular phone coverage has improved at least 23%!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 27, 2022, 10:50:54 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2022, 07:42:05 PM
Being able to own a car is not a Constitutional right, like with owning a gun. Being able to own a gun is part of the foundation of our nation. Our Founding Fathers would not have ratified our Constitution without our Second Amendment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Our founding fathers feared a standing army and saw state militias as the basis of our national defense against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is right there in the Second Amendment. That is why they insisted on it; the collective self defense. Times have changed, we have a massive standing army and have not called on militias for.self defense in over a century.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 27, 2022, 10:55:34 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 27, 2022, 08:11:32 AM
There will always be security concerns if we have lots of crazy angry people running around with assault weapons. As has now been verified, the shooters weapon enabled him to breach security at the south entrance. We could put armed officers at every entrance of every school in the nation, and this sort of thing could still happen. Maybe security staffing, alone, is not the answer. And even if it were, who is to say that someone who wants to do a mass shooting would not shift to other venues if the school was really sealed up tight?

Care to amend/clarify, Barton?

I did, a day ago, based on revised information. You missed it, I guess. Small towns, lax rules, can't happen here, I'm gonna go grab a cup of coffee. I know small towns well, so I know how these things happen. And, as Josh noted, if we do manage to seal up schools hermetically, raging loners with assault weapons can go plenty of other public places and do the same mass killing. Gun control is necessary, and it's what pretty much every other civilized nation does. Done holding your hand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 27, 2022, 08:46:01 PM: Lou Correa wants for the City of Anaheim to buy the Angels baseball team.

We need to bring in Mike Scioscia and Albert Pujols to help the City of Anaheim to own and run the Angels baseball team.

And the Citizens of Anaheim can bring in Loeb and Loeb if we need help from a law firm.

And people can sell food and hot dogs and beer and stuff at Angel Stadium to raise money for charity and to help to feed hungry people and to help to support Caterina's Club. The Chefs can have fun feeding people at Angel Stadium to raise money to feed hungry people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 28, 2022, 12:10:24 PM: ...As a starting point, Democrats should drop the mealy-mouthed formulation, Nobody supports the Second Amendment more than I do, but still... Claiming fidelity to the Second Amendment has never convinced a single NRA supporter of a candidate s sincerity, but it has stopped bold thinking about lasting solutions to Americas gun crisis. Since right-wingers have long been screaming that Democrats are after their guns, the political damage from talking realistically about the Second Amendment may be exaggerated. At minimum, outside cause groups advocating for rolling back the Second Amendment would make background checks and assault weapons bans seem like politically safer middle of the road options.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166628/democrats-repeal-second-amendment-guns

Good point. I think if we just say yes we ARE after your guns, and take the John Paul Stevens gambit, then a lot of mealy-mouthed talk would end, we would see that many Americans really don't give a flying fuck about 18th century concerns, and the middle path would be more recognizable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 28, 2022, 12:27:16 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-school-shooting-elon-musk-media-murderers
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 28, 2022, 12:41:41 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on May 28, 2022, 12:27:16 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-school-shooting-elon-musk-media-murderers

Says the biggest attention whore on earth...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 28, 2022, 06:59:42 PM: https://archive.ph/IlhIW

What lives of kids are like post-school shootings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 29, 2022, 06:39:25 PM: A little history of Memorial Day...

https://www.postandcourier.com/columnists/hicks-column-the-story-of-the-first-memorial-day-a-holiday-born-in-charleston/article_c737aa52-7cd3-11e9-befe-73ba8007ec96.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 30, 2022, 06:05:56 PM: Oh good Lord...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 30, 2022, 06:53:52 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on May 30, 2022, 06:05:56 PM
Oh good Lord...

I'm sure they did it "in His name."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 30, 2022, 06:57:06 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on May 30, 2022, 06:05:56 PM
Oh good Lord...

What are you afraid of?

Oh yeah...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 30, 2022, 06:57:59 PM: Not sure what the topic is here. Oh good Lord what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 30, 2022, 06:59:50 PM: Efforts to cancel Black history because it's too uncomfortable also reflect mainstream media narratives centering the anger and indignation of White parents regarding the teaching of Black history in public education. This has largely erased the perspective of Black parents. As one Black mother of three from Charlottesville, Virginia, told the Washington Post, They say, Our children are too young to hear about racism. Who is our children? I don't remember a day of my life when I wasn't taught about racism, or learning about it through just existing. Our children, meaning Black children, have had to be taught different ways to stay safe to maneuver through the world.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/opinions/black-history-month-white-discomfort-critical-race-theory-joseph/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on May 30, 2022, 07:01:15 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on May 30, 2022, 06:57:59 PM
Not sure what the topic is here. Oh good Lord what?

Kid hates accurate US history.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 30, 2022, 07:08:17 PM: Quote from: josh on May 30, 2022, 07:01:15 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on May 30, 2022, 06:57:59 PM
Not sure what the topic is here. Oh good Lord what?

Kid hates accurate US history.

AYFKM? Larry's link? Can't deal with the fact that former slaves founded Memorial Day? And how is this news? My wife says she learned this decades ago. Apparently her public university was part of a sinister radical Left conspiracy to get white people to believe they didn't do absolutely everything that matters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 30, 2022, 07:11:42 PM: http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers (http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers)

Worth remembering, today and always.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2022, 07:27:29 PM: I had a wonderful Black History professor in community college who was from Haiti, and she taught me that the first person to die in the American Revolution was a Black man by the name of Crispus Attucks.

People of all races and colors helped to build America. America is for everyone.

And if we are going to have a Statue inviting the poor and the homeless to come here then we damn well better start helping the immigrants when they get here. We have 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone, and we have refugees at the border waiting to come to America. We need Doctors, and Psychiatrists, and we need jobs for our people.

We can put people to work solving our supply chain issues, we can hire truck drivers, and port workers, etc, etc, etc.

We need to help our refugees, and our homeless, and our immigrants, we can help everyone at once.

Remember that land is only one thousand dollars per acre in Battle Mountain, Nevada, there is no reason to send everyone to California where land is expensive and where the average house in the OC costs over one million dollars.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 30, 2022, 09:25:04 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on May 30, 2022, 06:59:50 PM
Efforts to cancel Black history because it's too uncomfortable also reflect mainstream media narratives centering the anger and indignation of White parents regarding the teaching of Black history in public education. This has largely erased the perspective of Black parents. As one Black mother of three from Charlottesville, Virginia, told the Washington Post, They say, Our children are too young to hear about racism. Who is our children? I don't remember a day of my life when I wasn't taught about racism, or learning about it through just existing. Our children, meaning Black children, have had to be taught different ways to stay safe to maneuver through the world.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/opinions/black-history-month-white-discomfort-critical-race-theory-joseph/index.html

What "cancel"? We all watched ROOTS -and nobody scoffed at it as inaccurate. Just one example.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 30, 2022, 10:00:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 30, 2022, 07:11:42 PM
http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers (http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers)

Worth remembering, today and always.

Camus is one of my favorite people. I started reading him when I was in late teens, and was really struck by the importance of not seeing people as abstractions, and not being controlled by ideologies and violent impulses. I can imagine him having a sad fit of laughter at "We all watched Roots..."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 30, 2022, 10:24:49 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on May 30, 2022, 10:00:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 30, 2022, 07:11:42 PM
http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers (http://www.vox.com/features/22989761/vox-conversations-albert-camus-the-philosophers)

Worth remembering, today and always.

Camus is one of my favorite people. I started reading him when I was in late teens, and was really struck by the importance of not seeing people as abstractions, and not being controlled by ideologies and violent impulses. I can imagine him having a sad fit of laughter at "We all watched Roots..."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2022, 03:04:56 PM: The World Bank Economic Development forum on Facebook does not like it when I post local stuff about here in Anaheim, they want to focus on poor areas such as in Africa, etc. What they do not understand is that we have poor people here and people here who need help just like any other place on Earth, we have 60,000 homeless people out on the streets of Los Angeles alone. The World Bank can help a lot in California. But, the World Bank is more interested in Ukraine right now, and with other places where people really need help.

And our local government is rich, California has surpluses, but they are not helping the homeless, I do not see the money helping the people. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and there needs to be a bridge between the rich and the poor, and there needs to be people who are turning the surpluses in housing, healthcare, education, etc.

I am embarrassed that some of my posts were declined on the World Bank forum because they consider California to be rich and we are not supposed to need the World Bank in California. But, we have poor people and homeless people in California and the money is not making it into the hands of the people who need it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2022, 03:17:40 PM: The squeaky wheel gets the oil, I had to try to bring some of the World Bank money to California. The post was declined, but it was worth a try. For those homeless people on the street then I am sure any effort would be appreciated.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on May 31, 2022, 03:21:12 PM: She said it felt icky. But it was the right thing to do for democracy in Peach state.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-campaign-2016-congress-df4fa72d2d4a1e4d9344d61c0a3d4b9e
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 01, 2022, 12:57:58 PM: Let's go!!!!! Beat that Trumpish clown.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 01, 2022, 04:06:07 PM: Here is an interview of my local councilman about the corruption in Anaheim, Councilman Dr Jose F. Moreno has been trying to fight against the corruption for years, and he has been telling the people that we are losing our city, and that we needed to stand up and fight to get our city back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5mA6_iF-xc

Anaheim is rich, and we have Disneyland, and the Angels, and the Ducks, and we can do more, we need to end the corruption and then we need to build a bridge between the poor people of Anaheim and the wealth of Disney, and the Angels, and the Ducks, etc. We can have a great City, we have many blessings, we have great weather, we have beautiful women, we have great schools, and we can do more, we can build a movie studio, and a community theatre, etc, and an Opera, etc, there is a lot that we can do. And the children can know that they can grow up and go to work at a great job with Disney, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 10:10:25 AM: The woman has flipped her lid

Would minds change about guns in America if we got permission to show what was left of the children before they were placed in the caskets? Would a grieving parent ever agree to do this? I figured this would never happen. But perhaps now is finally the time to ask.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-anchor-brooke-baldwin-parkland-teacher-shooting-trump?dicbo=v2-ce772834f640a5557f94e302f648b76e
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 02, 2022, 01:44:57 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 10:10:25 AM
The woman has flipped her lid

Would minds change about guns in America if we got permission to show what was left of the children before they were placed in the caskets? Would a grieving parent ever agree to do this? I figured this would never happen. But perhaps now is finally the time to ask.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-anchor-brooke-baldwin-parkland-teacher-shooting-trump?dicbo=v2-ce772834f640a5557f94e302f648b76e

Just like Mamie Till, huh?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 01:51:12 PM: Elon Musk employs over 110,000 people, it is amazing that one person can make such a difference. It would be great if we could have some smart people to put our unemployed and homeless people to work, even just planting orange trees and picking oranges, anyone can pick oranges.

And it goes to show the losses endured by California as General Motors plants left the state, and as movie jobs have went to other places, etc. We need to work to bring those jobs back, we can open a new movie studio in Anaheim, and we can build electric cars in Mojave, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 02, 2022, 01:54:24 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 02, 2022, 01:44:57 PM

Just like Mamie Till, huh?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 02:21:07 PM: "Do not worry that you do not have love, wealth, honor, or high office; but instead spend your time making yourself worthy of love, wealth, honor, and high office." - Confucius

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 02, 2022, 03:09:31 PM: Quote
Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is running for reelection, said last week after the Texas shooting that it was too soon to talk about firearms policy. A pro-firearms group, the Oklahoma 2nd Amendment Association, is an influential force at the state Capitol, and the first bill Stitt signed into law after taking office in 2019 was a measure that allows most adults to openly carry firearms without the previously required background check or training.

https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-oklahoma-texas-school-shootings-61bba0dcf04e2f8dbc34ec4ee7fd02b0

Yeah, who would need training or a background check to openly carry a deadly weapon?

Hopefully the NRA proxy group can continue to suckle at Kevin Stitt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 03:33:40 PM: People need to work together like the Tribes, and as the Tribes send people to college then they need for those people to go get an education and then come back and help to advance the Tribe by using their education to help the Tribe. The same thing needs to happen in Kentucky, the poor people in Kentucky need to send people to colleges including to MIT and then those people need to go back to Kentucky and use their education to help the people.

Cesar Chavez said that the best use of an education is to help other people. That is what we need to do, we need for Kentucky to be like a big Tribe and we need for them to send people to college, and then we need for those people to go back to Kentucky and we need for them to use their education to help the people.

And in California, and in Nevada, we have great schools, and these children are highly educated, we have children here who are the children of farm workers who are going to grow up to be Doctors. Education is important, and we can bring great teachers to teach our children.

With the World Bank in Latin America the main thing is Education. They need to send people to the USA to get an education, and then they can go back to Latin America and they can help the people, like the President of Colombia who attended Harvard, he is using his Education to help the people of Colombia.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 04:54:47 PM: Italy got a new airline, I will be using it for sure.

It looks like they will be using French planes.

They said that the food is going to be fantastic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:35:22 PM: I wrote a story about a family of outlaws who sent their Brother to Law School to become a Lawyer to fight for Law and Justice in the Wild West. Everyone wanted me to make it into a television show. The name was "Progress" and the main character was Jimmy Corvalis, and he was like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason. He was brilliant with the law, and he was also fast with a gun. I lost it as I was moving around a lot, but it is still in my head. But, that is what we need in the world, we need for the educated people to use their educations to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:55:32 PM: Elko Daily Free Press

3 hours

ELKO - Nevada Gold Mines has pledged $500,000 to the Elko Institute for Academic Achievement to be paid over the next three years toward a new school, which EIAA is currently seeking bids to construct.

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Land is cheap in Elko, and they can build a nice school with that money. That is the kind of stuff that we need to do, we need to invest in Education. And they need to bring in fun architects from Greece, and from Spain, and from Italy, and they need to keep it fun as they build, and they need to build a fun new school where people can have fun as they learn.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 02, 2022, 06:41:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:35:22 PM
I wrote a story about a family of outlaws who sent their Brother to Law School to become a Lawyer to fight for Law and Justice in the Wild West. Everyone wanted me to make it into a television show. The name was "Progress" and the main character was Jimmy Corvalis, and he was like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason. He was brilliant with the law, and he was also fast with a gun. I lost it as I was moving around a lot, but it is still in my head. But, that is what we need in the world, we need for the educated people to use their educations to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Clearly time to write it down again, using the cloud so you don't lose it this time.

Happy to copy edit for you.

In Fiction.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2022, 07:14:39 PM: Quote from: josh on June 02, 2022, 06:41:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:35:22 PM
I wrote a story about a family of outlaws who sent their Brother to Law School to become a Lawyer to fight for Law and Justice in the Wild West. Everyone wanted me to make it into a television show. The name was "Progress" and the main character was Jimmy Corvalis, and he was like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason. He was brilliant with the law, and he was also fast with a gun. I lost it as I was moving around a lot, but it is still in my head. But, that is what we need in the world, we need for the educated people to use their educations to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Clearly time to write it down again, using the cloud so you don't lose it this time.

Happy to copy edit for you.

In Fiction.
I think it sounds like a really bad late 60's tv series starring James Farentino.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 02, 2022, 07:20:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2022, 07:14:39 PM
Quote from: josh on June 02, 2022, 06:41:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:35:22 PM
I wrote a story about a family of outlaws who sent their Brother to Law School to become a Lawyer to fight for Law and Justice in the Wild West. Everyone wanted me to make it into a television show. The name was "Progress" and the main character was Jimmy Corvalis, and he was like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason. He was brilliant with the law, and he was also fast with a gun. I lost it as I was moving around a lot, but it is still in my head. But, that is what we need in the world, we need for the educated people to use their educations to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Clearly time to write it down again, using the cloud so you don't lose it this time.

Happy to copy edit for you.

In Fiction.
I think it sounds like a really bad late 60's tv series starring James Farentino.

I agree.

Therefore just the thing for some of our more esoteric cable channels.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 07:26:34 PM: Nice move

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-pelosi-moderates-gun-package-split-senate-vote

More than 20 House Democrats are pressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi to split their partys omnibus gun control package into several bills and allow votes on each in order to increase their chance of becoming law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 02, 2022, 07:34:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2022, 07:14:39 PM
Quote from: josh on June 02, 2022, 06:41:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 05:35:22 PM
I wrote a story about a family of outlaws who sent their Brother to Law School to become a Lawyer to fight for Law and Justice in the Wild West. Everyone wanted me to make it into a television show. The name was "Progress" and the main character was Jimmy Corvalis, and he was like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason. He was brilliant with the law, and he was also fast with a gun. I lost it as I was moving around a lot, but it is still in my head. But, that is what we need in the world, we need for the educated people to use their educations to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Clearly time to write it down again, using the cloud so you don't lose it this time.

Happy to copy edit for you.

In Fiction.
I think it sounds like a really bad late 60's tv series starring James Farentino.

Or a pretty damn good series from the early 90s starring Bruce Campbell as a Harvard trained lawyer turned bounty hunter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 02, 2022, 07:42:28 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 07:26:34 PM
Nice move

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-pelosi-moderates-gun-package-split-senate-vote

More than 20 House Democrats are pressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi to split their partys omnibus gun control package into several bills and allow votes on each in order to increase their chance of becoming law.

Yeah because GOP Moderates will vote for GOP Lite, huh.

Dems never learn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 07:56:12 PM: I bought the top of the line equipment so that I can write and share stuff on the Cloud and stuff like the professionals do, but I still need to add some programs, and I need to learn how to use it. I need to go to the film school and see if I can hire a tutor to help me. I would love to hire a young female film student from Italy to teach me how to use my computer and to add programs and to be my writing partner. I need a smart writing partner to teach me what I need to know to move ahead to the next level.

And I know I have been talking a lot about going to the film school for help, without having went yet, but it is a long way on a bicycle and it is going to be a sole project for that day. I will have lunch, and check out the bookstore, and I will check out the bulletin board, and maybe I can find a tutor to help me.

Thanks Josh, yes, in the future I want to be able to share stuff on the Cloud and work with people in the industry, etc. I need to learn, I saved my money and I bought the equipment, now I just need a teacher to teach me how to use the equipment and to add the programs to it. I will get it figured out shortly.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 09:00:51 PM: In that nasty state of Florida:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/florida-red-flag-law/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 02, 2022, 09:29:58 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 02, 2022, 09:00:51 PM
In that nasty state of Florida:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/florida-red-flag-law/

Great!

Why not do that everywhere?

Oh yeah...

Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights, Cicilline said at one point during a debate over red flag laws, which can allow for guns to be temporarily taken away from individuals deemed a danger to themselves and others. Some opponents of the laws argue the measures infringe on due process rights.

You know who didn't have due process? You know who didn't have their constitutional right to life respected? The kids at Parkland, and Sandy Hook, and Uvalde and Buffalo, and the list goes on and on, he said.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/house-judiciary-committee-approves-wide-ranging-gun-control-legislation-in-wake-of-mass-shootings
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 10:53:51 PM: People are still allowed to hire beautiful women like Hugh Hefner did, and like Aaron Spelling did.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 11:08:35 PM: We can all publish a great book like J.D. Salinger and marry a hot young college student. In my case I want a young female Italian film student.

I have a great poetry book, and a great movie script, that can get me started.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 03, 2022, 12:10:01 AM: All of the stars are at the Juke Joint in Anaheim for NAMM...

https://www.facebook.com/jukejointanaheim

https://thejukejointbar.com/

All of the big stars will be here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 03, 2022, 03:16:16 PM: It is camp season for the youth. When I was a teen I worked at a YMCA summer camp for two summers, at Camp Earl Anna in Tehachapi, California, for the Burbank YMCA, it was great. The Burbank YMCA sold Camp Earl Anna, I do not know what was done with Earl Anna, the camp would be a perfect spot as a drug treatment camp for homeless people. The children from Burbank now go to Camp Fox with the children from Glendale, Camp Fox is on Catalina Island.

https://www.glendaleymca.org/campfox.html

Working at a summer camp is a great thing to do as a teen, I would recommend it to all teens. And it is not about the money, the camps do not pay the teens very much to work there, it is about the experience and the service and making new friends, etc. And it would be great for the teens to get to spend the summer on Catalina Island, I am sure they have fun when they work at the camp.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 03, 2022, 03:19:54 PM: Senate hopefuls want to end the filibuster.

Quote
.Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D), who is running in a crowded primary to face Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in November, said Democrats should end the filibuster to pass their most pressing policies.

I will never let archaic Senate procedure stand in the way of our basic human rights, whether its the right to live free from gun violence, abortion access or the right to vote, [Barnes said in an interview on Wednesday.] People are motivated, they want leaders that will do everything possible, and that means getting rid of the filibuster...it has to go.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/03/senate-filibuster-gun-control/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 03, 2022, 03:25:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 02, 2022, 11:08:35 PM
We can all publish a great book like J.D. Salinger and marry a hot young college student. In my case I want a young female Italian film student.

I have a great poetry book, and a great movie script, that can get me started.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony, your posts on social reform are often full of creative thinking and show compassion. But, small request, could you skip the endless repeating of your romantic fantasies and showbiz ambitions? Really getting old.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 03, 2022, 07:45:57 PM: Fuck off, Fink.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 03, 2022, 08:17:53 PM: Wasn't talking to you, Child Carter.

BTW how many members here have you told to "Stop"? Anyone here is allowed to push back on others posts, especially if they're offtopic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 03, 2022, 08:41:38 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 03, 2022, 08:17:53 PM
Wasn't talking to you, Child Carter.

BTW how many members here have you told to "Stop"? Anyone here is allowed to push back on others posts, especially if they're offtopic.

Go easy on him, his boys are having a bad day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 03, 2022, 09:58:03 PM: Shirley McCracken

In my Italian community in western NY the neighborhood sent a young man to medical school...collecting money every Friday for his expenses. He returned to the neighborhood and practiced in an office there til he retired

Love

------

We need to educate our children in order for them to be our Doctors. and for them to cure Cancer, etc. I support free education for our children who want to be Doctors and who want to serve our communities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 03, 2022, 10:19:43 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 03, 2022, 09:58:03 PM
Shirley McCracken

In my Italian community in western NY the neighborhood sent a young man to medical school...collecting money every Friday for his expenses. He returned to the neighborhood and practiced in an office there til he retired

Love

------

We need to educate our children in order for them to be our Doctors. and for them to cure Cancer, etc. I support free education for our children who want to be Doctors and who want to serve our communities.

Salute,

Tony V.

Still an anti-Republican attitude.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 03, 2022, 11:19:17 PM: Little Louie Gohmert was a fucking Judge in Texas....

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/louie-gohmert-complains-if-youre-a-republican-you-cant-even-lie-to-congress-and-says-democrats-advocate-for-castrating-children/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 03, 2022, 11:19:39 PM: I support everything which helps our people.

And we need to make our homeless people work making frozen burritos. And we can give everyone jobs making frozen burritos.

https://www.elmonterey.com/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 03, 2022, 11:29:11 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 03, 2022, 08:17:53 PM
Wasn't talking to you, Child Carter.

BTW how many members here have you told to "Stop"? Anyone here is allowed to push back on others posts, especially if they're offtopic.

yeah, tell ya what -stop Fac and I will help you stop Tony - not that they are anywhere near similar.

IGNORE function still works here. But I guess you cant stand that you may miss something
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 04, 2022, 02:31:28 PM: I watched a short video about the sardine canning industry in Portugal, at the time of WW II they had 400 factories canning sardines, and now there are only 20 factories and all of those jobs are gone. Portugal relies on tourism now and almost all of the sardine factories are gone, all of those jobs in the factories are gone.

I have seen what it looks like here in California as the factories and jobs left and I see the people here trying to make a living from tourism like the people of Portugal, and to be honest we need to bring the jobs back. It was better here in the 1980s than it is now. We need to bring back General Motors plants to Southern California, and we can build new supersonic planes with Lockheed, and we can create other jobs.

And those factory jobs in Portugal canning sardines were appreciated by the people who worked there, they loved working in the sardine factories, and they took pride in their work.

We can make frozen burritos, and canned foods such as Campbell Soup and Chef Boyardee here in the United States, and as we produce more food then it helps to keep the food prices low and fights inflation. And we can expand our orange juice industry in California to create jobs for people. Just like with the sardine factories in Portugal, the people are happier when they have jobs. When the jobs are gone then the people miss the jobs.

Here is a link for the video about the sardine factory in Portugal, they love their factory and they take pride in their work and I am sure that their sardines are fantastic.

https://youtu.be/jpTwHAt0Zxw

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 04, 2022, 03:15:02 PM: My name is Sardine Can, and I approve this message.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 04, 2022, 04:17:13 PM: Quote from: sardine can on June 04, 2022, 03:15:02 PM
My name is Sardine Can, and I approve this message.

Very cool.

All of the bodegas in these neighborhoods sell cans of sardines, they are great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 04, 2022, 05:49:44 PM: On the issue of the Bark Beetle, and saving trees, here in Orange County we are taking action to save the trees from being killed by the Bark Beetle.

And in our forests we need to take action to control and kill Bark Beetles and to save the trees.

We also need to have workers to remove dead trees, and to also plant new trees, along with allowing the loggers to do logging to give us lumber to build housing.

I would also put water sprinkler systems in the forests where fires can happen, if a fire happens you just turn on the sprinklers to put the fire out. You put a water tank on the hill-top and you let the water be gravity fed to the sprinklers.

Also, the prisoners can be out there cutting fire trails, and working in the forests.

The homeless people can be hired to plant trees and to work for the Forestry Service.

We need to pay attention to our forests, and we need to have people doing the work that needs to be done. And instead of just sitting around waiting for fires to happen then the people need to be pro-active and busy managing our forests and making it safe so that we do not have these wild out of control fires all of the time. We need to be pro-active. We have 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, and we can put people to work in the forests.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 05, 2022, 01:51:26 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 03, 2022, 11:29:11 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 03, 2022, 08:17:53 PM
Wasn't talking to you, Child Carter.

BTW how many members here have you told to "Stop"? Anyone here is allowed to push back on others posts, especially if they're offtopic.

yeah, tell ya what -stop Fac and I will help you stop Tony - not that they are anywhere near similar.

IGNORE function still works here. But I guess you cant stand that you may miss something

Here is some religious help for you Kid.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/4/2102283/-Political-Christianity-has-killed-biblical-Jesus-and-replaced-him-with-the-Fascochrist (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/4/2102283/-Political-Christianity-has-killed-biblical-Jesus-and-replaced-him-with-the-Fascochrist)

Try to get your soul right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 05, 2022, 01:56:54 PM: Ron DeBully is the new leader of the GOP Death Cult...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/03/special-olympics-reverses-vaccine-requirement-after-florida-threatens-27-5m-fine-00037123
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 05, 2022, 03:24:18 PM: Our system is broken when we allowed there to be 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles. Something is wrong. Those people need to be able to work and to pay for their own food and their own housing. And we need to care.

We need to take action and we need to fix the situation, we have smart and rich people like maybe Rick Caruso to help, and we have great schools, we need to figure out why we have 60,000 homeless people on our streets in Los Angeles and we need to fix it, they need to be able to provide for their own food and shelter.

If nothing else, then the people can always pick oranges and plant trees, etc. We need to expand our orange juice industry in California. And they can work for the Forest Department.

Also, people can volunteer for Habitat For Humanity and they can learn how to do construction.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 05, 2022, 04:04:42 PM: The world is drinking Mimosas now, that is wonderful for the California orange juice industry, and I recommend Cold Duck for the poor people to have with their California orange juice.

If we can get the Chinese, and the people of India, to drink Mimosas, with California orange juice, then we can help our homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 05, 2022, 05:11:17 PM: When the ships come in bringing stuff from China then we need to send the ships back full of California orange juice and Andre Cold Duck, along with other products from the USA, including beef from Nevada, etc. We need to have reciprocal trade.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 05, 2022, 05:27:01 PM: The way to get the Chinese and the people from India to drink Mimosas with California orange juice and Cold Duck is with product placement in their movies and television shows, and with advertising, and with public relations, etc. And you have the Governor of California to drink Mimosas made with California orange juice with the President of China, etc.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 05, 2022, 09:35:24 PM: Dems finally caving to get a wise law passed -

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/politics/chris-murphy-bipartisan-gun-talks-cnntv/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 05, 2022, 09:40:52 PM: It is a violation of federal labor law to close a store because workers exercised their legal rights, Ian Hayes, an attorney for Starbucks Workers United wrote in a statement to CNN Business. We have no doubt the NLRB will prosecute the company for this illegal union busting, and justice will be done.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/business/starbucks-ithaca-store-closure/index.html

yeah good luck with that
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 05, 2022, 10:10:22 PM: I had a good couple of days, I help to bring a restaurant in Italy together with a restaurant in my hometown of Lancaster, California, the restaurant in Italy wants to sell the best American style hamburgers, I hooked them up with the Texas Cattle Company.

https://www.texascattlelancaster.com/

I also hooked my hometown of Lancaster, California, up with a Hawaiian Barbecue restaurant.

https://www.hawaiianbarbecue.com/

And I tried to help to sell California orange juice to the Chinese and to the people of India, along with Andre Cold Duck, and other products from the USA including beef from Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 05, 2022, 11:22:34 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 05, 2022, 09:40:52 PM
It is a violation of federal labor law to close a store because workers exercised their legal rights, Ian Hayes, an attorney for Starbucks Workers United wrote in a statement to CNN Business. We have no doubt the NLRB will prosecute the company for this illegal union busting, and justice will be done.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/business/starbucks-ithaca-store-closure/index.html

yeah good luck with that

How
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 05, 2022, 11:28:30 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 05, 2022, 09:35:24 PM
Dems finally caving to get a wise law passed -

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/politics/chris-murphy-bipartisan-gun-talks-cnntv/index.html

Yeah, sure.

Like Tim Scott was really gonna make a deal on police reform.

GOP gonna put on a show, not agree to anything substantial and at the moment of truth say Dems were not willing to compromise.

Too bad for them this is not gonna blow over.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 06, 2022, 07:59:38 AM: Well, no - this time Dems ARE compromising - that's the point. Like I said - FINALLY.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 06, 2022, 11:04:48 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 06, 2022, 07:59:38 AM
Well, no - this time Dems ARE compromising - that's the point. Like I said - FINALLY.
Republicans continue to oppose a law that has the support of 90% of Americans - universal background checks - and DEMOCRATS are the ones that will not compromise? I would say you have to be joking if I thought you capable of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 06, 2022, 11:47:13 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 06, 2022, 07:59:38 AM
Well, no - this time Dems ARE compromising - that's the point. Like I said - FINALLY.

Up is down and in is out.

The fuck out of here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 06, 2022, 09:23:49 PM: Rick Caruso is a billionaire, so if he wants to help the homeless and stuff like he says he does then he can do it even if he loses the election. He could have been helping the homeless people all along if he really cared.

And the scumbags who have been in office this whole time who allowed there to be 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles need to all be fired, they are all corrupt. They are living the good life while we have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles.

I am just another one of the poor homeless people, you cannot blame me for the situation here. I tried to help people and I tried to bring jobs to Los Angeles, I cared and I tried.

I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a General in China, and I tried to get her to understand that all of the cheap crap from China was causing everyone to go out of business, and I told her they needed to get the wages up in China, they needed to be paid better in China, and they needed to buy goods from the USA, we needed fair trade.

I have tried to help.

I went to the Vatican in 2003 and I tried to meet with Pope John Paul II to explain to him what was happening here in Southern California as all of the jobs left. I tried to explain the situation to the Pope.

I guess the main thing is to just never give up, but it is hard, and some people are so corrupt, we just removed a corrupt Mayor in Anaheim. It is so hard for the good, honest people.

On the issue of Caruso, he can help the homeless even if he loses, he is a billionaire.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 06, 2022, 10:21:51 PM: If he wanted to do it, he could have done it years before getting into the election. Gives one a reason to doubt if he really wants to do it or just thinks it is a winning elect issue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 06, 2022, 11:11:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 06, 2022, 09:23:49 PM
Rick Caruso is a billionaire, so if he wants to help the homeless and stuff like he says he does then he can do it even if he loses the election. He could have been helping the homeless people all along if he really cared.

And the scumbags who have been in office this whole time who allowed there to be 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles need to all be fired, they are all corrupt. They are living the good life while we have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles.

I am just another one of the poor homeless people, you cannot blame me for the situation here. I tried to help people and I tried to bring jobs to Los Angeles, I cared and I tried.

I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a General in China, and I tried to get her to understand that all of the cheap crap from China was causing everyone to go out of business, and I told her they needed to get the wages up in China, they needed to be paid better in China, and they needed to buy goods from the USA, we needed fair trade.

I have tried to help.

I went to the Vatican in 2003 and I tried to meet with Pope John Paul II to explain to him what was happening here in Southern California as all of the jobs left. I tried to explain the situation to the Pope.

I guess the main thing is to just never give up, but it is hard, and some people are so corrupt, we just removed a corrupt Mayor in Anaheim. It is so hard for the good, honest people.

On the issue of Caruso, he can help the homeless even if he loses, he is a billionaire.

Salute,

Tony V.

When a billionaire spends $40 million to win a primary in order to get a job you should wonder what is his motivation.

He could more to help the homeless without having to negotiate through the city council, state legislature, etc.

Also, why did he become a Democrat two weeks before he filed to run in the Democratic primary?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 07, 2022, 09:46:40 AM: Democrats will have a tough fight for Montana new House seat, where they will be up against Ryan Zinke and his deep-pocketed donors. Tom Winter, one of the Dem challengers, looks sort of like Central Casting sent him.

https://www.winterformontana.com/about-tom

It'll be interesting to see how the rich colonies in the western half of the state influence the process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 07, 2022, 10:58:59 AM: You need Will Bailey to run in Montana.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 09, 2022, 03:28:22 PM: Vatican News

13 minutes

Pope Francis meets with the Bishops and priests of the Italian island of Sicily, and urges them to draw near and show tenderness to the many Sicilians who taste bitterness and disappointment due to a lack of employment opportunities.

------------

Frank Capra came to America from Sicily and rose to the top, he was one of the best filmmakers of all time.

And we have more Italians in New York City than there are in Rome.

Italians helped to build America, including brave explorers like Amerigo Vespucci and Cristoforo Colombo.

The Italians will always be welcome in America, and whatever opportunities that we have in America will always be available to the Italians.

And someday I hope to own a vineyard and winery in Tuscany, and a movie production office and also a night club in Rome. Americans love Italy just as the Italians love America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 09, 2022, 04:20:02 PM: BNY Mellon

6 hours

June 9 is Founder's Day at BNY Mellon!

On this day 238 years ago, Alexander Hamilton established the Bank of New York. Since 1784, we've been continually investing in people and opportunities that create a lasting impact. Times may change, years may go by, but our guiding principles remain anchored to the enduring spirits of our founder.

-------------

The Bank of New York was the first company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 09, 2022, 10:39:17 PM: Murder most foul...

https://www.facebook.com/10643211755/posts/pfbid02W11jhnv4N1YbN8bAxBav3TSC3H9CVWVZU1DgR7k53Ue6k24n629kuvM84J6bCBZol/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 10, 2022, 03:54:04 PM: In the 1980s they had a program for the Foster Youth to work as interns at the movie studios, so that the youth would have a shot at a good life with a job at a studio. Those were good programs, and we need for the studios to bring those programs back.

The studios can work together with CASA to identify and help the Foster Youth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 10, 2022, 04:41:40 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

Changing my mind about Chesa Boudin. Yes, you can't decriminalize everything. And some people need involuntary commitment. I had not realized how extreme he was.

She's also right about the housing woes there, and rampant NIMBYism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 10, 2022, 04:53:37 PM: On the issue of trying to teach the World Bank and others how to best serve and help the poor...

When I was in college I took a course on Small Business Management Consulting which trained people to be Consultants for the Small Business Administration. My Professor was a Black man who taught poor young Black men in Compton how to be entrepreneurs, he would set them up with a connection at the SBA and he would help the young Black men to open their own successful businesses, and after they were successful then they would all take a trip to Africa together. My only assignment was a swimming pool supply store in Lancaster, and they went out of business so I kind of failed on that one, but he was too far gone by the time he asked for help, if he would have asked for help sooner then I could have helped him. Anyhow, I am a trained Consultant, so that helps as I send ideas to the World Bank and to others as I try to help people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 11, 2022, 09:49:06 AM: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/07/oregon-portland-general-electric-builds-nations-first-large-scale-wind-solar-battery-facility/

A working installation that rebuts the solar/wind naysayers with 24/7 megawatts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 11, 2022, 10:27:51 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 10, 2022, 04:41:40 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

Changing my mind about Chesa Boudin. Yes, you can't decriminalize everything. And some people need involuntary commitment. I had not realized how extreme he was.

She's also right about the housing woes there, and rampant NIMBYism.

Sad that you ever thought highly of him
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 11, 2022, 11:27:00 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 11, 2022, 10:27:51 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 10, 2022, 04:41:40 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

Changing my mind about Chesa Boudin. Yes, you can't decriminalize everything. And some people need involuntary commitment. I had not realized how extreme he was.

She's also right about the housing woes there, and rampant NIMBYism.

Sad that you ever thought highly of him

I am finding it difficult to see what condition, aside from Asperger's, could allow you to so thoroughly sabotage a chat with someone gracefully conceding a point and revising their opinion based on more facts.

I hadn't heard of Boudin until a couple days ago. Then I questioned his recall, based on some initial impressions. Then I saw the merits of the recall, which you believed there were, based on an article from a SF based writer. Where was the need to close this chat with a cheap shot?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 11, 2022, 05:38:11 PM: The World Bank is saying that there is going to be a slowdown in advanced economies. It is not a good time for a slow down. We just came out of being locked down because of covid for a couple of years. And we have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone, those homeless people need food, housing, healthcare, and then jobs.

And we need to stop the corruption, and we need fair trade, and we need to create jobs for our people.

One simple thing is to get the world to drink Mimosas that are made with California orange juice, and to employ the homeless people by hiring them to work in the orange juice industry.

We can also build high density Greek style housing in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can do trade with San Francisco, etc. They can have greenhouses and they can grow flowers to sell to San Francisco, and they can raise pigs and they can sell bacon to San Francisco, etc.

We cannot go downhill into a worse economy, it is already bad, we need to fix things and we need to make things better, and we need jobs, housing, and healthcare, for our people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 11, 2022, 09:29:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 11, 2022, 05:38:11 PM

We cannot go downhill into a worse economy, it is already bad, we need to fix things and we need to make things better, and we need jobs, housing, and healthcare, for our people.

Clearly, you should hurry to tell the World Bank how to stop it from happening!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2022, 10:13:08 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 11, 2022, 11:27:00 AM

I hadn't heard of Boudin until a couple days ago.

often happens when the Daily Kos is your main source of info.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 12, 2022, 09:08:26 AM: Don't read it. As I've often listed here, AP News, WaPo, NPR, Reuters, TheHill, are main sources for me. But keep lying and trolling and wanking off to your Karl Rove pinup.

Kid is on Ignore. Probably permanent, as I've reached that Yank Guy threshold of finding engagement pointless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 12, 2022, 09:44:52 AM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/12/politics/alaska-house-special-primary-election-palin/index.html

Let's go!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 12, 2022, 10:15:31 AM: Because they do not have a case...

Babbitt family has not filed a wrongful death suits.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ashli-babbitt-20220610-52y62cxyzjbrnmtdivhhxicsmu-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/news/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 12, 2022, 10:42:54 AM: https://youtu.be/KwwD0MwQo5w

Archie Bunker, on gun control. A classic clip.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 09:08:26 AM
Don't read it.
(re: The Daily Kos )
But you cite it as Gospel often.
Quote
Kid is on Ignore. Probably permanent, as I've reached that Yank Guy threshold of finding engagement pointless.
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 12, 2022, 11:52:44 AM: Fac cites Daily Kos, I dont. Your mind is starting to blur boundaries between member identities. Nor have I ever offered opinion pieces, or news reports, as gospel. As you would notice, if you weren't struggling with Boschian Partisan Hack Syndrome.

I have one alias here, which I've openly stated multiple times over a period of at least five years. It's really just the preset login I use on a different device, and started out years ago as a joking homage to former NYT member Oilcanboyd. And now you know all there is to know on that matter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 12, 2022, 11:56:29 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 12, 2022, 10:15:31 AM
Because they do not have a case...

Babbitt family has not filed a wrongful death suits.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ashli-babbitt-20220610-52y62cxyzjbrnmtdivhhxicsmu-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/news/

From the piece linked to below

As Matt Walsh points out, it is inconceivable that any media outlet would present a sycophantic interview with the two subjects skin colors reversed. Were Byrd white and Babbitt black, the story would read simply White Cop Murders Unarmed Black Woman.

Then, there would be riots in the streets and buildings would have burned. In other words, the reaction would be mostly peaceful.

https://www.outkick.com/michael-byrd-ashli-babbitt/

So, so true
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:56:44 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 11:52:44 AM
Fac cites Daily Kos, I dont. Your mind is starting to blur boundaries between member identities. Nor have I ever offered opinion pieces, or news reports, as gospel.
As I said. You link Daily Kos. That is indisputable.
Quote
I have one alias here, which I've openly stated multiple times over a period of at least five years. It's really just the preset login I use on a different device, and started out years ago as a joking homage to former NYT member Oilcanboyd. And now you know all there is to know on that matter.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 12, 2022, 12:31:56 PM: Let me see if I'm following. You are saying that Facilitatorn is an alias of mine?? Not sure how else to read that, given that I don't post Daily Kos links and he does.

If that's your theory, we can dispose of it easily by asking Josh to check the IP addresses on our respective posts.

My guess is that his will geolocate in San Diego CA. And mine in the Black Hills area of South Dakota.

Meanwhile back on planet Earth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/12/senate-gun-deal-framework/

So when is compromise just capitulation to Alex Ham's "pertinacious minority?"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 01:14:56 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 12:31:56 PM
Let me see if I'm following. You are saying that Facilitatorn is an alias of mine?? Not sure how else to read that, given that I don't post Daily Kos links and he does.
Say what? Your reference to the Daily Kos was a repost of a link posted by a moron as if it had any credibility.
Quote
Meanwhile back on planet Earth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/12/senate-gun-deal-framework/

So when is compromise just capitulation to Alex Ham's "pertinacious minority?"
When Compromise is common sense.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2022, 02:18:45 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 12:31:56 PM
Let me see if I'm following. You are saying that Facilitatorn is an alias of mine?? Not sure how else to read that, given that I don't post Daily Kos links and he does.

If that's your theory, we can dispose of it easily by asking Josh to check the IP addresses on our respective posts.

My guess is that his will geolocate in San Diego CA. And mine in the Black Hills area of South Dakota.

Meanwhile back on planet Earth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/12/senate-gun-deal-framework/

So when is compromise just capitulation to Alex Ham's "pertinacious minority?"

We are all simply facets in Gods compound eye.

Some are just more clouded than others.

Republicans are hoping the fuss about guns dies down so they can pick an excuse to walk away and oppose all measures. They are waddling around pretending to consider things while the heat is on.

To understand republicans try to picture what a person would do if all thinking stopped at the level of the neck. They are zombie orcs and will always behave accordingly.

This is not an indictment of people. This is an indictment of people who choose to be affiliated with the republican party in its present form in the present day. Many people are walking away from the label into better lives with freer minds. Many more still should.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 12, 2022, 02:19:10 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 10:42:54 AM
https://youtu.be/KwwD0MwQo5w

Archie Bunker, on gun control. A classic clip.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link? I dunno, that's fairly convoluted, and seems to skip over the question of what I might or might not agree with. Or if the story was a reprint from elsewhere.

Gotta learn to discuss the actual topic, Alias King.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 12, 2022, 02:26:59 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 12, 2022, 11:56:29 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 12, 2022, 10:15:31 AM
Because they do not have a case...

Babbitt family has not filed a wrongful death suits.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ashli-babbitt-20220610-52y62cxyzjbrnmtdivhhxicsmu-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/news/

From the piece linked to below

As Matt Walsh points out, it is inconceivable that any media outlet would present a sycophantic interview with the two subjects skin colors reversed. Were Byrd white and Babbitt black, the story would read simply White Cop Murders Unarmed Black Woman.

Then, there would be riots in the streets and buildings would have burned. In other words, the reaction would be mostly peaceful.

https://www.outkick.com/michael-byrd-ashli-babbitt/

So, so true

White cop shoots black woman who breached security barricade protecting House members during terrorist attack on US Capitol.

You and Walsh are sick racist bastards always screaming how unfair life is for White men.

Whiny little schmeckls.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 12, 2022, 02:28:36 PM: OK, lets not shoot the messenger

Rumor is sides are close to an agreement on a bill that would:

1 - Greatly increase focus aand dollars on mental health both before and after incidents occur

2 - Call for ENHANCED review of gun permit applications for subjects under the age of 21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 12, 2022, 02:30:00 PM: Whiny little schmeckls.

shhhhhh....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:00:07 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link?
No, you used the link to reply to my post.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2022, 03:00:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 01:14:56 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 12:31:56 PM
Let me see if I'm following. You are saying that Facilitatorn is an alias of mine?? Not sure how else to read that, given that I don't post Daily Kos links and he does.
Say what? Your reference to the Daily Kos was a repost of a link posted by a moron as if it had any credibility.

Be nice, ward. I am one of the few friends you have left willing to help you give up you poisonous allegiance to the numerous false gods you blindly worship.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2022, 03:16:23 PM: Quote from: josh on June 11, 2022, 09:29:03 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 11, 2022, 05:38:11 PM

We cannot go downhill into a worse economy, it is already bad, we need to fix things and we need to make things better, and we need jobs, housing, and healthcare, for our people.

Clearly, you should hurry to tell the World Bank how to stop it from happening!

I have been trying.

Some things that I have suggested to them...

Invest in the ports in Mexico.

Make it as easy for the poor to get business loans after college as it is for the wealthy, and help the poor to have the same opportunities that the rich people have.

And I told them that if we can market and sell California orange juice to China and India that we could help our homeless people in California.

I told the World Bank about the cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the refugees, etc, and told them that they can do trade with San Francisco.

I told the World Bank that the Entertainment Industry and the Modeling Industry can help in nations such as Colombia where Shakira and Sofia Vergara came from. I told them that the students from Colombia and from other places can come to the USA and they can study here and then they can rise and they can take opportunities to Colombia, etc. Shakira has the Barefeet Children's Foundation and she builds schools for the children in Colombia, and more things like that can happen. This prompted the World Bank to open their next post with the headline "Lights, Camera, Action!"

And I tried to help to expand trade between Latin America and Kentucky.

I tried to help the homeless in California, and the Foster Children, etc.

In Africa I told them to invest in civil engineering projects that they need, etc.

Some stuff the World Bank has loved, and some stuff they declined to post. They are trying to help the poorest of the poor, and they do not really like to talk about issues in the rich places like in Los Angeles where we have surpluses. We have surpluses and the people in government here are so corrupt that the money is not going to help the homeless. Instead of surpluses then we need to have food, shelter, and health care for our people. The money in California is not making it to help the poor homeless people and Foster Children, and abused women, etc, who need help. But, the World Bank wants to help the really poor nations, and Ukraine, etc, they are not interested in "rich people problems." They want me to focus my brain power on Africa and Latin America, etc.

Anyhow, I am trying to help the world economy, and I am trying to help the homeless people and the orphans and the abused women. I am trying to be a voice for the people who cannot speak for themselves. Cesar Chavez said that the best use of an education is to help other people, and that is what I have tried to do. I have tried to help. I think some people have listened sometimes, and sometimes I have helped.

I will help if I can.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM: The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2022, 04:00:03 PM: People need to put away their differences, and we need to come together to help the foster children, and the homeless people, and the abused women, and the poor people who need help and jobs.

Here in the USA we need to come together to help the poor, and to solve our problems, we need to stop fighting about issues that we disagree on and we need to come together to help the poor people. We know we are going to fight about guns and abortion, we are never going to agree on the issues of guns and abortion, so we need to skip all of that and we need to focus on issues that we do agree on such as helping the homeless and helping the foster children and helping the abused women, and the mentally ill, etc.

Recently we had the President of Mexico decline to come to the Summit of the Americas because Cuba and Venezuela and Nicaraqua were not invited. We need to put away our political differences and we need to come together for the good of the people, the poor people in Mexico needed for their President to be at the Summit of the Americas, he needed to be there to fight to help the orphans in Mexico and to help all of the people in Mexico who he is representing.

People need to put away their differences on the same old hot button issues that we will never agree on, and we need to work together on issues that we will always agree on, such as creating honest opportunities for people, and helping the foster children, and helping the abused women, and helping the mentally ill, and helping the homeless people. There are many things that we agree on that we can work together to accomplish to help people, instead of wasting time fighting on stuff that we are never going to agree on.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:49:21 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link? I dunno, that's fairly convoluted, and seems to skip over the question of what I might or might not agree with. Or if the story was a reprint from elsewhere.

Gotta learn to discuss the actual topic, Alias King.
it is equally funny that RedDickJimmES, who has never proffered an opinion here he has not lofted, sometimes verbatim, from one of a handful of right wing web sites accuses you of the same thing. He really is a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:52:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM
The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.
LOL. Cannot stand be is going to get credit, can you, you Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:54:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:00:07 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link?
No, you used the link to reply to my post.
Nowhere near enough to meet the problem, but it is like 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 05:58:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:49:21 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link? I dunno, that's fairly convoluted, and seems to skip over the question of what I might or might not agree with. Or if the story was a reprint from elsewhere.

Gotta learn to discuss the actual topic, Alias King.
it is equally funny that RedDickJimmES, who has never proffered an opinion here he has not lofted, sometimes verbatim, from one of a handful of right wing web sites accuses you of the same thing. He really is a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Your above post has nothing to do with any previous conversations of mine.
Usually happens when you do not actually read what is typed.
It is also telling that you never point to any right wing verbatim post I am alleged to have copied.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 06:01:13 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:52:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM
The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.
LOL. Cannot stand be is going to get credit, can you, you Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Try to learn to edit. Unless you are mimicking Biden misreading a prompter.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2022, 06:35:47 PM: Ward is just happy that Biden is here to lead in the difficult time republicans have created for us with their endless graft and malfeasance.

Ward is just about to break his ties with the republican death cult and see if he can make some kind of life for himself in the United States.

Ward, you new full throated support for President Biden will be a good start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 07:55:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 06:01:13 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:52:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM
The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.
LOL. Cannot stand he is going to get credit, can you, you Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Try to learn to edit. Unless you are mimicking Biden misreading a prompter.
LOL!
If you say so, you Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 07:56:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 05:58:50 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 05:49:21 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 12, 2022, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2022, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 11:21:16 AM
Since over half the people you agree with on here are your aliases we should have seen this as coming( and hilarious).

Oh, yes, you could start a skillet factory with the irony in Ward calling out aliases.

And, just to be sure I'm following JimDickESPward's latest, if I read someone's link to Daily Kos and then reply to their post, that means I am posting a Kos link? I dunno, that's fairly convoluted, and seems to skip over the question of what I might or might not agree with. Or if the story was a reprint from elsewhere.

Gotta learn to discuss the actual topic, Alias King.
it is equally funny that RedDickJimmES, who has never proffered an opinion here he has not lofted, sometimes verbatim, from one of a handful of right wing web sites accuses you of the same thing. He really is a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Your above post has nothing to do with any previous conversations of mine.
Usually happens when you do not actually read what is typed.
It is also telling that you never point to any right wing verbatim post I am alleged to have copied.
LOL. Nice dodge you Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 13, 2022, 12:35:43 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM
The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.

The bill is a band-aid, at best, and will do far too little about mass shootings.

I applaud the proposal to increase support to mental health services, while noting that measure is unlikely to even do much about suicides and nothing about mass shootings.

The extra examination for 18-21 year olds is mostly a joke.

The boyfriend loophole for red flag laws is the most important of these in terms of reducing homicide by firearms. Still really not about mass shootings, but it's not nothing.

Still skeptical that even this light bill will get past the filibuster, but we can hope, even as the desire for substantive change is ignored or even laughed at by those who continue to put ridiculous gun ownership ahead of children's lives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM: http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

ATM, Russia is hogging all the pariah status, but there may come a point where we pull ahead. I hope public opinion can push some of these hate groups back under their rocks, before that happens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 11:17:17 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Good stuff, Fac - thanks
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:31:52 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?
I can.
Obviously a problem for you.
But you continue to behave as expected.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 13, 2022, 11:42:14 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?

It's not that he can't read\ and comprehend, I think, so much as he chooses not to consider others' points when they conflict with previously stated positions or held beliefs.

From a year ago:
Quote
The states with the greatest declines in travel, tourism and outdoor recreation employment were Rhode Island (decline of 37.9%), Vermont (37.4%), Connecticut (36.4%), Massachusetts (32.1%), New York (31.5%), and Washington (24.9%).Jun 23, 2021

As with other industries, tourism took a major hit from the pandemic.

If there were other reasons to avoid the US, that could happen again, because of the facts that Ward cited rather than in spite of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM: During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 12:20:42 PM: Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 11:42:14 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?

It's not that he can't read\ and comprehend, I think, so much as he chooses not to consider others' points when they conflict with previously stated positions or held beliefs.

From a year ago:
Quote
The states with the greatest declines in travel, tourism and outdoor recreation employment were Rhode Island (decline of 37.9%), Vermont (37.4%), Connecticut (36.4%), Massachusetts (32.1%), New York (31.5%), and Washington (24.9%).Jun 23, 2021

As with other industries, tourism took a major hit from the pandemic.

If there were other reasons to avoid the US, that could happen again, because of the facts that Ward cited rather than in spite of them.
Godot has your Mensa Card.
If he does not bring it tonight he will surely be there tomorrow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:41:29 PM: The problem with these hearings

Jason Miller testimony, CUT quite short for TV

Jason Miller, Donald Trump s campaign spokesperson, is claiming he was taken out of context during tonight s Jan. 6 hearing.

During the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney played a clip of Miller

I was in the Oval Office, Miller said in his deposition, a clip of which was played at Thursday s hearing. At some point in the conversation, Matt Oczkowski, who was the lead data person, was brought on, and I remember he delivered to the President, in pretty blunt terms, that he was going to lose.
Miller is now reacting on twitter, saying that Cheney did not play the rest of the clip in which Trump disagreed with Oczkowski and believed that Oczkowski was not looking at the prospect of legal challenges going Trumps way

Similar happened with Ivanka testimony re: her thoughts on Bill Barr. Would love to see/read her entire deposition but I am sure that would/will never happen
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 13, 2022, 12:45:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?

Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 12:56:29 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:31:52 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 11:08:07 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 10:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 06:14:09 AM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head

Have a friend in Europe saying that one way the world may exert pressure on the US, as regards bigotry, gun violence, etc, is through a decline in tourism. People will decide to take vacations elsewhere.

You cannot be serious. Come to think about it you and Josh rarely are.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated $1.9 trillion in economic output; supporting 9.5 million American jobs and accounted for 2.9% of U.S. GDP. At 14.5% of international travel spending globally, international travelers spend more in the United States than any other country.
Which is why a possible future decline in tourism would be bad. Can you actually read and comprehend what others say?
I can.
Then you are deliberately ignoring the content. To be expected from the PROVEN LOAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 13, 2022, 12:57:04 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM
During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.

I don't expect it to happen, Kid.

I'm noting that tourism has declined sharply previously and could do so again.

A rise in violent crime, either in general or against a specific group (like foreigners) could do it. Another disease could do it - especially one that was more virulent here than in Europe or Asia. I imagine severe inflation could do it.

I don't think our being a laughingstock would do it - if anything, that might even spur additional tourism!

But, for example, if at our ports of entry (or within a 100 miles of the border) CBP were to become (even more) aggressive toward visitors, using their powers to seize (more) laptops, etc., from tourists, that could have a chilling effect on people's willingness to travel to America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 01:03:39 PM: Then you are deliberately ignoring the content. To be expected from the PROVEN LOAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.

yawwwwwnnnn...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 01:19:37 PM: Reading the posts above, Kid and Ward have confirmed the truth in this,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103841/-This-Ex-Republican-Just-Tweeted-The-Best-Thread-About-What-The-GOP-Is-About-Ever (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103841/-This-Ex-Republican-Just-Tweeted-The-Best-Thread-About-What-The-GOP-Is-About-Ever)

It explains what is broken about our fellow posters and also why they will never fix it themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 13, 2022, 01:20:49 PM: People with strange and bloodthirsty beliefs can be kind of scary....

(https://debbimacktoo.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/clang.jpg)

Kaaaaallllliiiiiiii!

(and RIP Leo McKern)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:20:38 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 11:17:17 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:02:47 AM
http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/three-things-something-truck-ed-this-way-comes/)

Good stuff, Fac - thanks

Achtung, bitches!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:24:16 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM
During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.

People in Europe other places have a legitimate fear of being murdered while in the USA by incels with AR-15s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:28:06 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:41:29 PM
The problem with these hearings

Jason Miller testimony, CUT quite short for TV

Jason Miller, Donald Trump s campaign spokesperson, is claiming he was taken out of context during tonight s Jan. 6 hearing.

During the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney played a clip of Miller

I was in the Oval Office, Miller said in his deposition, a clip of which was played at Thursday s hearing. At some point in the conversation, Matt Oczkowski, who was the lead data person, was brought on, and I remember he delivered to the President, in pretty blunt terms, that he was going to lose.
Miller is now reacting on twitter, saying that Cheney did not play the rest of the clip in which Trump disagreed with Oczkowski and believed that Oczkowski was not looking at the prospect of legal challenges going Trumps way

Similar happened with Ivanka testimony re: her thoughts on Bill Barr. Would love to see/read her entire deposition but I am sure that would/will never happen

Jason Miller who knocked two mistresses and slipped abortion pills to one in a smoothie?

Yeah, I bet he says he was taken out of context.

(https://reikitherapypittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IMG_1362-1.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 13, 2022, 02:37:23 PM: We need to send the Foster Youth and the children without fathers to college for free.

We need for the poor people to have the same opportunities that the wealthy people have. And my family was well to do at one time, and my Grandfather sent my Mother's Cousin to college to become a Pharmacist and he is pretty wealthy and he owns Cole's Village Pharmacy in Fontana, he has had a good life. But then my Grandfather died and my Grandmother's business was burned down, and then with my immediate family my Father died and my Mother was a poor widow with 3 children to raise, so I did not have anyone to send me to college when I was young. We need to give the poor people who do not have fathers and who come from poor families the same opportunities that the wealthy people have, and we need to give the Foster Youth and the children without fathers a free college education.

And right now we have a huge shortage of Psychiatrists and Doctors. We need to send the Foster Youth to college to become Psychiatrists and Doctors, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM: News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 03:10:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM
News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQp4GBFr9M4OpsMF3lmQBHp3SeQLPFMazibvA&usqp=CAU)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 13, 2022, 03:21:47 PM: Is it true, if you watch 2000 Mules at a theater you can win one hundred boxes of Borax?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 13, 2022, 03:39:39 PM: I almost trained to be a Psychiatrist when I was young, I had a Professor in community college who worked at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, his name is Dr Herd, and he made it sound like a great job. And I have family in Palm Springs and I have always loved the area. I thought about going to college in San Diego to become a Psychiatrist and then going to work at the Betty Ford Center. But college is expensive, and it would have taken a long time to become a Psychiatrist, so I decided to try to make it here in Hollywood in the Entertainment Industry. Unfortunately I did not succeed, but I tried. But, I still have my poetry book to publish and I have a movie script that I need to sell, and then I think I am just going to retire and move to Europe. If I am lucky I will be able to open a night club in Rome so that I have a good retirement. I also might make some money writing television shows and more movies, we will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:54:43 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 13, 2022, 03:21:47 PM
Is it true, if you watch 2000 Mules at a theater you can win one hundred boxes of Borax?

It is the new right wing suppository cure.

If you survived Hydroxy, bleach, and your own urine, it is probably just the thing to try next.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:57:47 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 03:10:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM
News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQp4GBFr9M4OpsMF3lmQBHp3SeQLPFMazibvA&usqp=CAU)

Mitch just shat a turtle turd.

Do you think ward knows what the Scott Reduce America Plan is?

Oh right. Lead poison. That fool cannot read.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 04:00:04 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM
News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign

In any event, Scott was so worried about the stink of the tax-hike idea that his revised plan has 12 points rather than 11; the new one loudly advertises hatred of all taxes and includes the very dumb idea of making it even harder than it already is to avoid an economy-crushing debt default. But what interests me is the fact that he did not take the time to get rid of some of the other howlers in the original plan while he was at it. The five-year sunset on all federal laws that McConnell considered as bad as the minimum tax is still there.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/rick-scott-backtracks-but-his-plan-is-still-maga-madness.html

Sit down Ward, you Partisan Hack motherfucker!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 04:01:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 03:57:47 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 03:10:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM
News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQp4GBFr9M4OpsMF3lmQBHp3SeQLPFMazibvA&usqp=CAU)

Mitch just shat a turtle turd.

Do you think ward knows what the Scott Reduce America Plan is?

Oh right. Lead poison. That fool cannot read.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 04:05:27 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:24:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM
During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.

People in Europe other places have a legitimate fear of being murdered while in the USA by incels with AR-15s.

I dont have that fear at all

But I remember you - you were among the many here who trembled in fear after the 9/11 attacks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 04:21:52 PM: The republican party is a race riot in furtherance of wire fraud.

It explains what Rick Scott is doing so near the top when he should clearly be under a prison somewhere.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103939/-Jan-6-committee-follows-the-money-builds-fraud-case-against-Trump-and-team-in-the-Big-Ripoff (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103939/-Jan-6-committee-follows-the-money-builds-fraud-case-against-Trump-and-team-in-the-Big-Ripoff)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 04:34:45 PM: Do not send your kids to school in Ohio. Let them attend with a reconnaissance drone. Much safer that way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 04:36:09 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 04:05:27 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:24:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM
During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.

People in Europe other places have a legitimate fear of being murdered while in the USA by incels with AR-15s.

I dont have that fear at all

But I remember you - you were among the many here who trembled in fear after the 9/11 attacks.

You do not have that fear because you are chin deep in the death cult,

9/11?

No. I did not tremble in fear. I caught a heap of scorn from both sides the Times forum because I was the one who declared it to be a crime and not an act of war since it was not launched from a sovereign state. I also railed for months about the PNAC and their position America needed to have a Pearl Harbor moment that would justify military action in the Middle East to launch the beginning of a Pax Americana.

Sorry buy my memory of that time is waaaaaaay better than yours.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 04:44:28 PM: Bill Barr says Trump was detached from reality...

No shit, Sherlock!

February 2020 during the first impeachment

In the realm of DC Comics, there are multiple universes with their own version of Earth. These alternative Earths were usually so vastly different that no one would confuse our Earth, that is, Earth One or Earth Prime. However, the existence of an Earth Two was established and we should wonder how the Republican Party and its supporters wound up living on Earth Two.

This moment has been coming since way before the days the GOP straight up lied the nation into war. This has been a consistent and extremely successful longterm strategy as deliberate as it is insidious. It is, in effect, a Jedi Mind Trick on a massive scale. However we have now arrived at the space and time where the conservative bending of reality has crashed full on into the real-time reality where they are beholden to . . . Donald Trump?

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/were-living-in-the-republican-partys-altered-states/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 04:58:07 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 04:36:09 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 04:05:27 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 13, 2022, 02:24:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 12:19:16 PM
During the pandemic folks couldnt wait for travel to open up again so they could see NYC, DC and other locales. Why do you think it would start to shrink to problematic levels at this point? How they feel about being unsafe on their trip? Becaue US is becoming a laughingstock? What exactly?Not agreeing with ESPNTHREE here - but not sure you made a point initially.

People in Europe other places have a legitimate fear of being murdered while in the USA by incels with AR-15s.

I dont have that fear at all

But I remember you - you were among the many here who trembled in fear after the 9/11 attacks.

You do not have that fear because you are chin deep in the death cult,

9/11?

No. I did not tremble in fear. I caught a heap of scorn from both sides the Times forum because I was the one who declared it to be a crime and not an act of war since it was not launched from a sovereign state. I also railed for months about the PNAC and their position America needed to have a Pearl Harbor moment that would justify military action in the Middle East to launch the beginning of a Pax Americana.

Sorry buy my memory of that time is waaaaaaay better than yours.
For kiid anyone who was not all in for a balls out big dick swinging bomb dropping Merica! Fuck ya! response to 9/11 was cowering in fear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 04:59:13 PM: http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/13/january-6-committee-details-trumps-fundraising-fraud/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/13/january-6-committee-details-trumps-fundraising-fraud/)

For all the beaks that dipped in this conspiracy to defraud, including many seated elected officials, republicans now must line up and declare wether they were ignorant dupes or knowing co-conspirators at the time they cashed the checks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 05:01:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2022, 04:58:07 PM
For kiid anyone who was not all in for a balls out big dick swinging bomb dropping Merica! Fuck ya! response to 9/11 was cowering in fear.

All kid does is cower in fear. You smell his flop sweat even through a digital medium. Aside from being dumb and consistently wrong, that is his defining quality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 05:17:01 PM: Bi partisan push in Congress to set restrictions on private investing in China.
Take another nap, Joe
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 13, 2022, 08:37:02 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 02:50:40 PM
News Item

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott on Monday released the latest installment in a series of television ads targeting President Joe Biden and promoting the Scott Rescue America Plan.

Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, it is time to be honest with the American people. Joe Biden is unfit for office and should resign

Billions were just wiped off the ASX [Australian Stock Exchange] in the first 20 mins of trading today...now 10.23am on the east coast.
USA in turmoil as its economy collapses, as inflation shoots up to 8%.

Economies worldwide are tanking, especially those who've embraced the green dream/climate emergency.
SE Australia today is suffering blackouts, shortage of power...LOL.....as winter hits with a cold vengeance.
It's like a third world country where people on stationary bicycles pedal furiously to keep the power grid running.

They're running around trying to hook up diesel generators to keep the power stations going and the lights, heaters, tvs, radios, device chargers on...and industry going...LOL
No power, the nation grinds to a halt.

ScoMo and coal were demonised....and the green dreamers threw insults.
Who looks foolish NOW!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 08:44:21 PM: You look foolish now, as ever, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 13, 2022, 08:48:44 PM: Quote from: josh on June 13, 2022, 12:35:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2022, 03:27:20 PM
The Senate got serious, ignored the Sleepy Joe misguided(and misnamed) assault weapons ban
and produced a filibuster free bill that makes sense in fighting mass killings in schools.

The bill is a band-aid, at best, and will do far too little about mass shootings.
What law could?
Quote

I applaud the proposal to increase support to mental health services, while noting that measure is unlikely to even do much about suicides and nothing about mass shootings.
Josh doublespeak bullshit
Quote

The extra examination for 18-21 year olds is mostly a joke.
Any restrictions on owning a rifle before age 21 is stupid.
Quote

The boyfriend loophole for red flag laws is the most important of these in terms of reducing homicide by firearms. Still really not about mass shootings, but it's not nothing.
Caniglia v. Strom Might want to read it. the GOP put one over on the dems on this one
Quote

Still skeptical that even this light bill will get past the filibuster, but we can hope, even as the desire for substantive change is ignored or even laughed at by those who continue to put ridiculous gun ownership ahead of children's lives.
Say what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 13, 2022, 08:52:49 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2022, 08:44:21 PM
You look foolish now, as ever, Bambi.

Australia should be building a giant new coal-fired, best technology, power station....starting now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 13, 2022, 09:08:20 PM: RIP Lt. Joe Bookman, age 90. Your overdue copy of Tropic of Cancer is now safe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 13, 2022, 09:16:23 PM: And Larry David can now safely use the phone in the examination room.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on June 13, 2022, 10:14:55 PM: Joe!!!!!

Dow tumbles 876 points and stocks enter bear market on worries of drastic rate hikes

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2022, 08:30:53 PM: Millions of Australians are so dumb they think coal fired power stations can be shut down before there are available, affordable, reliable alternatives and there won't be an energy crisis...blackouts, with power to residential, farm and industrial properties affected. LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 14, 2022, 09:16:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2022, 08:30:53 PM
Millions of Australians are so dumb they...
...have a shit for Brains no. 1 radio host.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2022, 10:15:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 14, 2022, 09:16:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2022, 08:30:53 PM
Millions of Australians are so dumb they...
...have a shit for Brains no. 1 radio host.

He retired from radio...aged 79...breakfast radio host.
He was of course 100% correct, the coal fired power stations shouldn't be closed until the wind, solar, hydrogen etc alternatives have been built, are up and running, tested, and proven to be 100% reliable.
No degree from anywhere needed for this one either ...let alone from Harvard, Oxford, or Cambridge.

No 1 morning radio host has taken his place as the voice of reason on the subject.
He's started playing a ship foghorn to signal the arrival of people-smuggling boats, 3 so far since the election, emboldened by the change of gpvt to a leftist one.

If you think the coal fired power stations should be closed now, you need to sit on a chair in a dark room and think more deeply about it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 15, 2022, 12:28:33 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2022, 10:15:24 PM
He was of course 100% correct, the coal fired power stations shouldn't be closed until the wind, solar, hydrogen etc alternatives have been built, are up and running, tested, and proven to be 100% reliable.

You found one thing he was mostly right about and brag.

Too funny.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 15, 2022, 01:03:47 AM: Bambi gets his best toe cheese and nose hair recipes from that guy. Bambi follows him religiously, like a choirboy following a now defrocked priest into the sacristy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 15, 2022, 04:35:19 AM: He was brilliant, gave us all the correct information about everything.
Sad he's not on the radio anymore to fight the good fight to keep Australia a Constitutional Monarchy.
Ray Hadley ...2gb dot com...9am til noon M to F has taken his place.
Ray is the man! Our last hope. All the rest of radio has turned to the left/far left.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 15, 2022, 12:20:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 15, 2022, 04:35:19 AM
He was brilliant, gave us all the correct information about everything.

No, he gave you wrong information and then adjusted his opinions time after time when his original positions proved to be false.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 12:52:48 PM: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1105031075/bronx-zoo-elephant-not-person-court-rules (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1105031075/bronx-zoo-elephant-not-person-court-rules)

Happy is happy to be left alone. Gotta wonder about Justice Rivera, though. WTF?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2022, 02:42:13 PM: Pepperdine is a great Christian college, which has a fantastic Business school. ( That is where my Father went to study Business. ) Pepperdine has the power to help to make the world a better place, and we need to make sure that the Business students have access to Business Loans when they graduate.

The Business graduates from Pepperdine can help our homeless people, and they can create jobs for people. They can open Hostels, and other businesses to help the homeless, and they can expand trade with China and they can export products from California to China, etc, such as California orange juice.

As the students graduate from Business school then we need to give them financing and let them go make the world a better place.

Just imagine if we had a bunch of good Christian billionaires helping the people here in California.

We need to have more Christian billionaires.

We need to have more good guys like Rick Caruso.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2022, 02:55:36 PM: When I was in Small Business Management Consulting class in community college the Professor helped Black young men in Compton to start their own businesses, and he hooked them up with a representative from the SBA and he guided them as they opened their own businesses, and then they all took a trip to Africa together after they were successful. This type of thing can happen with any group of people, it works with young Black men in Compton, but it would work with Veterans, or for Foster Youth as they age out of the system, or for whomever. Consultants could guide any group of people to have their own successful businesses.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 04:04:13 PM: George Washington University is dropping its Colonials moniker because quote: it can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies end quote.

I suggest they change it to "Idiots".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2022, 04:06:05 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 04:04:13 PM
George Washington University is dropping its
...drawers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2022, 04:24:41 PM: There have been many new opportunities created in Englewood because of the Rams, etc, and people can go in and teach the poor people in Englwood how to make honest money from the tourism. People can even start small, such as just selling hot dogs and beer, and they can learn how to do honest business. And the chicken in Englewood is fantastic, they can make a lot of money by selling chicken to the tourists. Professors and retired business leaders can help to teach the poor people how to do honest business and how to profit from tourism, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2022, 04:32:01 PM: Facebook just banned me for 29 days saying that I was a terrorist and that I made comments in support of terrorists.

That is BULLSHIT. I never supported a terrorist ever.

And I do not support Trump even, I do do not support the Jan 6th events.

I am not a terrorist. That is silly of them to even accuse me of that. And I cannot protest, their decision is final.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 15, 2022, 08:27:34 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 04:04:13 PM
George Washington University is dropping its Colonials moniker because quote: it can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies end quote.

I suggest they change it to "Idiots".

You know the term Colonizer is not complimentary?

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/02/George-Washington-University-Colonials-Mascot-640x480.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 16, 2022, 05:59:50 AM: In bambuworld:
"Climate cult silent on energy crisis".
LOL
Of course.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 16, 2022, 11:38:14 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 15, 2022, 08:27:34 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 04:04:13 PM
George Washington University is dropping its Colonials moniker because quote: it can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies end quote.

I suggest they change it to "Idiots".

You know the term Colonizer is not complimentary?

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/02/George-Washington-University-Colonials-Mascot-640x480.jpg)

You know that American form of government only came about by those Colonials. Not sure why you'd like to deny their accomplishments and only dwell on their sins.

That's like saying MLK, JR deserves no respect because while he did great things, he was also a serial womanizer and a plagiarist.

Maybe get more upset about something meaningful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 16, 2022, 12:12:06 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 16, 2022, 11:38:14 AM

Maybe get more upset about something meaningful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 16, 2022, 12:28:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 16, 2022, 05:59:50 AM
In bambuworld:
"Climate cult silent on energy crisis".
LOL
Of course.

It's hard to hear them with your fingers so tightly plugged in your ears, Bambu.

The so-called energy crisis is thoroughly manufactured by the oil-producing companies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 16, 2022, 12:44:13 PM: Quote from: josh on June 16, 2022, 12:28:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 16, 2022, 05:59:50 AM
In bambuworld:
"Climate cult silent on energy crisis".
LOL
Of course.

It's hard to hear them with your fingers so tightly plugged in your ears, Bambu.

The so-called energy crisis is thoroughly manufactured by the oil-producing companies.
To be fair, there are issues with the supply chain, personnel and equipment, and a war in addition to the oil companies maximizing profits. But a wiser long term green solution, had it begun years ago, would have helped make us less vulnerable to this kind of issue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 16, 2022, 01:23:16 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 16, 2022, 11:38:14 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 15, 2022, 08:27:34 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2022, 04:04:13 PM
George Washington University is dropping its Colonials moniker because quote: it can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies end quote.

I suggest they change it to "Idiots".

You know the term Colonizer is not complimentary?

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/02/George-Washington-University-Colonials-Mascot-640x480.jpg)

You know that American form of government only came about by those Colonials. Not sure why you'd like to deny their accomplishments and only dwell on their sins.

That's like saying MLK, JR deserves no respect because while he did great things, he was also a serial womanizer and a plagiarist.

Maybe get more upset about something meaningful.

It is not about me or my desires because truly I really could not give a fuck. Hell, I grew up a Redmen fan, now St Johns has a different nickname and I did not care then.

I am not the target recruiting demographic they are trying to reach.

Kids coming of college age do not see the term Colonials in the same light.

Think Marvel Universe and the term Colonizer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 16, 2022, 01:31:53 PM: It is a shame that they put him off. Hammy could benefit from some college.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 16, 2022, 01:33:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 16, 2022, 01:31:53 PM
It is a shame that they put him off. Hammy could benefit from some college.

White people freaking out about WOKENESS over this.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 16, 2022, 01:43:02 PM: White people hate to see the idea of any of this country recovered from them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 16, 2022, 03:11:45 PM: We need for the young people to be service minded when they graduate from college, we have a lot of people right now who need help, our world is in rough shape.

And we have some good groups such as Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Kiwanis, the Peace Corps, and the World Bank, which the young people can join to do service.

We need for the young people to care about other people and to be altruistic.

As the young people travel around the country and see the state of affairs, then they need to care and they need to want to make it better. As they see the homeless people on the streets, and the empty factories, etc, then they need to care and they need to want to help the people. And they can travel around the world and they can see how different places deal with the issues of homelessness, etc, and they can see the hostels in Rome for $15 per night for a nice hot shower and a nice comfortable bed.

We need for people to be community minded.

Instead of looking inward and being depressed, then people instead need look outward at how they can help the world, and they need to find joy in helping others. And we need to shine a light on the good people who do good things, and we need to make sure that the good groups are well funded and that good people are able to help others if they want to, there needs to be good groups which are taking solid action that people can join, such as Kiwanis, the Peace Corps, UNICEF, and the World Bank and other groups.

And we need for our Government to be on our team, as we work to help the people. We can also do civil engineering projects that we need to do for water issues, etc, and we need to build high speed trains with Amtrak. And we need fair trade, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 16, 2022, 05:57:39 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 16, 2022, 01:31:53 PM
It is a shame that they put him off. Hammy could benefit from some college.

When you graduate 5th grade, get back to us, irrelevant one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 17, 2022, 12:46:02 AM: I raised it already. And sixth. Seventh even has a better view since the 87-88 academic year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 17, 2022, 10:41:06 AM: Take a moment today and praise the memory of Frank Wills, an American hero who never got his dues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 17, 2022, 11:10:19 AM: Yes. Good job, Wills. His later cycles of brief employment and poverty were a sad outcome for someone who played such a key part in protecting our democracy. Cool that he played himself in the 1976 film.

Meanwhile, this is weird...

https://apnews.com/article/john-hinckley-james-brady-new-york-city-brooklyn-5882248eb34ec127af0307a6c0bc89f8

His cover of Clapton's I Shot the Sheriff, with new lyrics (I shot the POTUS...) is not to be missed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2022, 12:03:08 AM: As we work through this crisis...

Some interesting things are happening, people are switching to electric cars, and people are putting solar panels on their roof-tops, and some people are saving a lot of money, so while some items may be more expensive then it is also true that some things are cheaper if you made wise investments in green energy items.

We can also invest in the ports in Mexico, and we can hire Mexican truck drivers to bring goods into the USA, etc. And Mexican truck drivers can join the Teamsters Union, etc, so they will be paid fair and they will be treated well.

We can also employ people to make food items such as canned soup and frozen foods, etc, to lower food costs. And people can plant orange trees, and strawberries, etc.

We will survive this crisis, and people will switch to green energy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2022, 03:29:52 PM: My Father died when I was 9 years old, so Father's Day has always been hard. When I was a kid in school and we would make crafts for our fathers on Father's Day then I used to just make crafts for my Mother. My Mother had a hard life, and she went through a lot, may God bless my Mother.

I wish a happy Father's Day to my Mother who had to be both Mom and Dad after my Father died.

And I wish my Father a happy Father's day in Heaven.

Maybe I can help the youth who do not have fathers, and the Foster Youth, as an advocate for them, and I can relate because I know what it is like to grow up without a father.

Some programs that we need to have is for one we need to send the Foster Youth and the children without fathers to college for free, and we also need to have intern jobs at the movie studios for the Foster Youth and for the children without fathers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 20, 2022, 04:30:00 PM: Mexico is building new electric trains for the tourists that run through the jungle. Many people are concerned because the trains are running through some very precious jungle, it is important like the Amazon jungle to the south. But, the electric trains will be better for the environment than highways. Running electric trains through the jungle is the best way to do it, and Mexico can make money from the tourism.

I support electric trains.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 20, 2022, 09:50:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 20, 2022, 04:30:00 PM
Mexico is building new electric trains for the tourists that run through the jungle...

Salute,

Tony V.

They will call it the John Fogerty Express.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 21, 2022, 01:49:49 PM: KTLA 5 News

1 hour

Sky-high mortgage rates and a construction slowdown could push record rents and home prices even higher, further threatening housing affordability for millions of Americans.

-----------

HUD needs to get busy building, we need to get our homeless people into housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 21, 2022, 02:27:30 PM: Why is there a life-guard shortage?

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/us-pools-close-lifeguards-amid-labor-shortage-85531867

In some places the lifeguards are union jobs and the pay is great, they get to work on the beach or at a pool, I do not understand the shortage. We live in strange times.

And we have 60,000 homeless people on our streets, and we have refugees pouring in, and we have more people at our Southern Border waiting to come in. There should not be a labor shortage. We need to put our homeless people to work, and our refugees, and our immigrants.

We need to bring back the work ethic of the Americans of the 1950s. And when people do work then they need to be able to afford food and shelter, we need to get the wages up, while providing affordable housing, etc.

One example of a good job now is managing an In N Out Burger here in California, a young person can make $120,000 per year for managing an In N Out Burger, those are good jobs now in the current climate. We need for other businesses to pay fair as well.

For me, the kind of jobs I wanted when I was young was something like acting on The Young and the Restless for $30,000 per week, I had 3 teachers who worked on The Young and the Restless, and I used to watch one teacher early in the day on television on Y & R and then go to class in the afternoon to have her teach me. Hollywood is great if you can succeed here, but of course it is hard. And I never made the big bucks, but on one acting job I was paid $300 for one hour worth of work.

For writers in Hollywood, here is what I know about the going rate of a movie script, I met the guy who wrote "Amistad" and Spielberg made his movie, and he used the money to buy 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa, and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants, so that is what a movie script is worth. For sure a movie script is worth enough to open a night club in Rome, and maybe make a down payment on a winery.

Anyhow, I do not see how there can be a worker shortage while we have all of these desperate people who need jobs, and we just need for the jobs to pay fair, and we need affordable housing, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 24, 2022, 06:27:32 AM: Bambu, Orianthi is a musician from Australia who has been paying her dues here in Hollywood, she worked with Alice Cooper, and Michael Jackson, and others. She would be good to play for the workers when they are building the high speed trains, etc. She can sing and play for the workers around the USA, I think the workers would like that.

Here is a video that she did a while back...

https://youtu.be/v8dknNm1xiw

If I was her manager then I would set Orianthi up to travel around the USA playing for the workers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 26, 2022, 05:07:50 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 24, 2022, 06:27:32 AM
Bambu, Orianthi is a musician from Australia who has been paying her dues here in Hollywood, she worked with Alice Cooper, and Michael Jackson, and others. She would be good to play for the workers when they are building the high speed trains, etc. She can sing and play for the workers around the USA, I think the workers would like that.

Here is a video that she did a while back...

https://youtu.be/v8dknNm1xiw

If I was her manager then I would set Orianthi up to travel around the USA playing for the workers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Interesting about Orianthi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 27, 2022, 11:11:22 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 21, 2022, 01:49:49 PM
KTLA 5 News

1 hour

Sky-high mortgage rates and a construction slowdown could push record rents and home prices even higher, further threatening housing affordability for millions of Americans.

-----------

HUD needs to get busy building, we need to get our homeless people into housing.

Salute,

Tony V.

Exactly correct.
Spend 580billion on defence instead of 600billion, and spend 20 billion on shelter from the weather for homeless people who can't afford a van to live in, or any other accom.
I was only saying this to mrs bambu this morning in our kitchen at breakfast when we awoke to very cold and misty weather...and her thoughts were with homeless people suffering in the cold.
Particularly the ones she saw in NYC in winter several years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 28, 2022, 10:37:22 AM: Big conspiracy theories are flying around this morning

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-stenger-sergeant-at-arms-during-january-6-b2110748.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM: Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2022, 03:47:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 27, 2022, 11:11:22 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 21, 2022, 01:49:49 PM
KTLA 5 News

1 hour

Sky-high mortgage rates and a construction slowdown could push record rents and home prices even higher, further threatening housing affordability for millions of Americans.

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HUD needs to get busy building, we need to get our homeless people into housing.

Salute,

Tony V.

Exactly correct.
Spend 580billion on defence instead of 600billion, and spend 20 billion on shelter from the weather for homeless people who can't afford a van to live in, or any other accom.
I was only saying this to mrs bambu this morning in our kitchen at breakfast when we awoke to very cold and misty weather...and her thoughts were with homeless people suffering in the cold.
Particularly the ones she saw in NYC in winter several years ago.

You are a good man, Bambu, and Mrs Bambu is a good woman.

Yes, and that twenty billion dollars for housing would go a long way in cheap areas such as Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they can buy land for one thousand dollars per acre. They can build nice high density housing like in Santorini, Greece, and then they can do trade with San Francisco.

In the Cities then people can build towers, and the bottom floors can be for the poor people, and the top floors can be for the rich people, they can have penthouses on the top floors for the rich people.

Also, we can allow people to run hostels tax free, to encourage entrepreneurs to open hostels, the poor people can take a nice hot shower and they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night.

We also need to create jobs for the homeless people that are easy to do, such as planting orange trees, and working in the forests, etc. Right now it is fire season here in the USA so we need workers to work in the forests to prevent fires, and to put out fires early, etc. Homeless people can also sell beer and hot dogs at sporting events, etc, I had a friend who raised over one million dollars for charity by hiring homeless guys to sell beer and hot dogs at Angel Stadium, he raised money for a group to feed the hungry people, "Canning Hunger." Another good group to support is "Food Without Borders" which goes into areas where it is against the law to feed the homeless people and they feed the homeless people. My friend hired workers from the homeless shelters, as well as from other groups such as Narcotics Anonymous, and the Mental Health Association, he had over 160 guys working to raise money for charity, they sold beer and hot dogs at Angel Stadium, and at the Rose Bowl, etc. A lot of the guys lived in group homes, they lived in big mansions with like 14 guys in each house, and they worked selling beer and hot dogs at sporting events, etc, and they received Social Security money, etc.

We can also create tourism jobs by building a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas.

Yes, Bambu, we need to spend less on defense, and more on housing for our people. And we need to let people run hostels tax free.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2022, 04:01:36 PM: On the issue of corruption in Anaheim...

My local representative, Dr Jose F. Moreno who attended Harvard, wrote a new proposal that will ban politicians from voting on issues which involve people who gave them money as campaign contributions. If you are voting on an issue which involves a company which gave you money, then you need to recuse yourself from voting on that issue.

So, I suggested that we also include the unions, if they get money as a campaign contribution from a union then they must recuse themselves from voting on that issue. Just the same as we do not want companies to control our politicians, then so too we would not want our politicians to be controlled by unions. But, I was informed that there are collective bargaining laws that would not allow people to be recused from voting on union issues. So, he included a part which says that the people need to be informed when unions are involved, but he cannot recuse people from voting on union issues after receiving union money as campaign contributions.

I also suggested that the City of Anaheim buy the Angels baseball team, and that because of the corruption scandal then the owner of the Angels, Arte Moreno, would be happy to walk away as a free man, I am sure he is being investigated by the FBI, he can walk away as a free man with a profit, the City of Anaheim can pay Arte handsomely for the Angels baseball team.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 28, 2022, 04:22:17 PM: Good-bye, pimp!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/us/ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/us/ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing/index.html)

I think she got off lightly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2022, 05:34:14 PM: The Italian Air Force has been in my hometown at Edwards training with their brand new fighter jets, I tried to find a link but it will not come up, I think the jets are called Tornadoes, they are pretty cool looking. We need for the Italians to be a good strong ally, and we need to make sure that they have all of the best equipment and training.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 12:03:14 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM
Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 12:05:34 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM
Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone

Buckhead has the right idea;

"We're going to pay them, we're going to give them a take-home car, we're going to welcome them," he continued. "We're going to honor them every day and make up for this dumbest move of the century, this
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM: When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 09:04:40 AM: Quote from: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM
When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?

Fuck Mark Meadows!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/01/congressman-plays-black-friend-card-showing-that-age-old-racist-attitudes-persist/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 11:30:48 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 12:03:14 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM
Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone

Buckhead is full of white, wealthy bigots. I know that sounds redundant to some of you, but there are some white, wealthy folks who are not bigots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 11:31:33 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 09:04:40 AM
Quote from: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM
When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?

Fuck Mark Meadows!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/01/congressman-plays-black-friend-card-showing-that-age-old-racist-attitudes-persist/

He's going to be busy taking the fifth for a while, it seems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 29, 2022, 12:52:11 PM: Quote from: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM
When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?

Luee, the once logical....

now led by the nose.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 29, 2022, 12:59:27 PM: Let's go!!!! Get rid of it all!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/cornell-university-removes-gettysburg-address-lincoln-bust-from-library-alleged-complaint
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 01:14:44 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 29, 2022, 12:52:11 PM
Quote from: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM
When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?

Luee, the once logical....

now led by the nose.

mark Meadows did not "let Jan 6 happen".

He was part of an active group who were perpetrating January 6.

Kid, whose nose is bent from being yanked so far to the extreme right isn't able to grasp that FACT, luee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 29, 2022, 04:55:13 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Way to blame white flight from desegregated schooling on the Blacks they didn't want to let in.

Besides, it's happening in many cities - it's called gentrification.

Check and see just how much damage was done in any inner city riots and protests to the gentrified communities. I'll wait.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 29, 2022, 05:05:49 PM: Ham's parallel makes no sense, if you read the Guardian story.

It's an epic fail, even at toxic racism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 05:08:02 PM: Quote from: josh on June 29, 2022, 04:55:13 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Way to blame white flight from desegregated schooling on the Blacks they didn't want to let in.

Besides, it's happening in many cities - it's called gentrification.

Check and see just how much damage was done in any inner city riots and protests to the gentrified communities. I'll wait.

Way to demonstrate that you and your sycophants lack any sense of humor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on June 29, 2022, 05:19:38 PM: Your joke was not remotely funny, except maybe to some gap-toothed halfwit hayseeds at your local Klan chapter meeting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2022, 05:20:00 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...
Did you even read the article? Because if you had your comment would be worse than your usual idiocy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 06:53:18 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on June 29, 2022, 05:19:38 PM
Your joke was not remotely funny, except maybe to some gap-toothed halfwit hayseeds at your local Klan chapter meeting.

I guess you would know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 29, 2022, 07:03:38 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 05:08:02 PM
Quote from: josh on June 29, 2022, 04:55:13 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Way to blame white flight from desegregated schooling on the Blacks they didn't want to let in.

Besides, it's happening in many cities - it's called gentrification.

Check and see just how much damage was done in any inner city riots and protests to the gentrified communities. I'll wait.

Way to demonstrate that you and your sycophants lack any sense of humor.

"Humor."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 29, 2022, 07:17:11 PM: Two things, we need for the cops to live in the areas where they serve, and we need for the cops to realize that just because people are poor does NOT mean that they are evil.

The cops live in the nice middle class neighborhoods and they come in to patrol the poor neighborhoods like they are superior, they come into the poor neighborhoods to bust bad people instead of feeling like part of the community. The community is at the bodega, drinking beer, and smoking pot, and eating tacos, etc, and there is a sense of community, and then the cops roll in like outsiders and like bullies and they harass people. The community ends up not liking the police, instead of realizing that the police are there to help them in the case of an emergency.

So, the cops need to live in the communities, and they need to be from the communities they serve, so that they know that these are good people, and the cops need to feel like they are a beloved part of the community instead of being outsiders.

The cops need to live in the communities, and they need to have families and friends in the communities, and the cops need to be more like the Cub Scouts, to protect and serve, and less like the Nazi Brown Shirts. Right now the cops are like outsiders, and they violate people's Constitutional Rights and these people do not even know their rights and they never read the Constitution. The cops need to be there to help people, instead of just trying to arrest them and bust them and harass them.

If all that the cops do is harass you and bust and arrest you, then that is not a good relationship to have within our communities. The cops need to live in the neighborhoods, and they need to go to the community barbecues, etc, and they need to have family and friends in the neighborhoods.

We also need to train Crisis Intervention Specialists, and we need more Wellness Centers, etc, and Mental Health Associations, etc.

Also, I had a cool thought, the senior citizens are lonely and bored in retirement homes, we could get them to run crisis intervention help-lines, they can learn how to run suicide prevention hot-lines, etc. Our senior citizens love to help people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 07:22:16 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 11:30:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 12:03:14 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM
Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone

Buckhead is full of white, wealthy bigots. I know that sounds redundant to some of you, but there are some white, wealthy folks who are not bigots.

The police were defunded, and rapes surged by 80%.
Yes, defund the police and the rape hordes lurking in the shadows attack.
Every woman (and man...men get raped too) in America should carry handguns and have them ready to fire at a moments notice.
Dead rapists do not rape anyone.
In the meantime, the BVC should be formed...Buckhead Vigilante Corps...citizens protecting each other.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 29, 2022, 07:26:30 PM: "Time served" is just too little.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/us/college-admission-scam-laura-janke-sentence/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:46:08 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 29, 2022, 12:59:27 PM
Let's go!!!! Get rid of it all!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/cornell-university-removes-gettysburg-address-lincoln-bust-from-library-alleged-complaint

Earth shaking...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 29, 2022, 07:46:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 07:22:16 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 11:30:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2022, 12:03:14 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 28, 2022, 11:55:14 AM
Let's go!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlanta-suburb-pushes-secede-city-due-surging-crime-war-zone

Buckhead is full of white, wealthy bigots. I know that sounds redundant to some of you, but there are some white, wealthy folks who are not bigots.

The police were defunded, and rapes surged by 80%.
Yes, defund the police and the rape hordes lurking in the shadows attack.
Every woman (and man...men get raped too) in America should carry handguns and have them ready to fire at a moments notice.
Dead rapists do not rape anyone.
In the meantime, the BVC should be formed...Buckhead Vigilante Corps...citizens protecting each other.

See, none of that would happen in a good, healthy community. Get the Boys into the Cub Scouts, and get the Girls into Girl Scouts, and teach people young how to be of service to their communities. I know a guy who is in charge of the Cub Scouts here in Anaheim and he grew up right in the middle of a gang community and he ended up getting all of the kids into Cub Scouts and he has been in charge of the Cub Scouts for 20 years now.

And where I grew up everyone owned guns. And the Supreme Court just strengthened the rights of Americans to own guns.

I recommend a good church too, but many people hate religion. I know for me my relationship with God has been very important, and God has given me miracles. I do not attend church right now, I need to find a good one to attend, but I do watch Dr Charles Stanley on Sunday on television, and I also love Pope Francis.

We need to raise better children, and we need to have better communities. And we need for people to go to college, the teens having kids is not really good for the communities, we have children who are having children, you cannot escape poverty if you are having kids at 14. I know, my brother was a dad at 14, and I have a lot of friends who were teen parents, and my advice is to stay in school and go to college and then have kids after college. People will also meet better mates in college, and they can be educated and they can know what a healthy relationship looks like, so they will not tolerate abuse.

I made mistakes, but I tried to work, and go to school, and make money before I found a woman and started a family, and I think it is wise advice. Get the kids into scouting, and keep them in school, and send them to college before they have kids.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:09:24 AM: Quote from: josh on June 29, 2022, 07:03:38 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 05:08:02 PM
Quote from: josh on June 29, 2022, 04:55:13 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Way to blame white flight from desegregated schooling on the Blacks they didn't want to let in.

Besides, it's happening in many cities - it's called gentrification.

Check and see just how much damage was done in any inner city riots and protests to the gentrified communities. I'll wait.

Way to demonstrate that you and your sycophants lack any sense of humor.

"Humor."

You've never shown you've had any.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 30, 2022, 11:46:53 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.
Lord knows I proudly tell enough unfunny jokes, but I cannot even figure what that joke is supposed to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 01:14:26 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.

Okay, Larry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 30, 2022, 01:24:03 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 01:14:26 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.

Okay, Larry.

Nobody thought it was funny.

Nobody even got what it would be a "joke" about.

Mostly, nobody believes it was a joke, but rather that you are trying to excuse it as a joke, after the fact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:26:06 PM: shhh.....

everyone....

Josh will now judge.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 30, 2022, 01:48:51 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:26:06 PM
shhh.....

everyone....

Josh will now judge.

Josh has been judging all the way along.

Just like you, Ward, Ham, Banks, Yank, Larry, and everybody else.

Unlike you, Ward, or Ham, Josh sometimes admits he was wrong.

Guess what the verdict on you would be!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:52:09 PM: Josh has been judging all the way along.

hahaha

yes, you have
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 30, 2022, 01:54:42 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:26:06 PM
shhh.....

everyone....

Josh will now judge.

A resident racist seem to think it is funny. That proves it is not funny. No further discussion required.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 30, 2022, 02:00:55 PM: Sonny Barger

12 hours

If you are reading this message, you will know that I am gone. I have asked that this note be posted immediately after my passing.

I have lived a long and good life filled with adventure. And I have had the privilege to be part of an amazing club.

Although I have had a public persona for decades, I have mostly enjoyed special time with my club brothers, my family, and close friends.

Please know that I passed peacefully after a brief battle with cancer.

But also know that in the end, I was surrounded by what really matters: My wife, Zorana, as well as my loved ones.

Keep your head up high, stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor.

Sonny
HAMCO

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Sonny Barger was friends with my Grandmother from when she was a car hop at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino, Sonny used to hang out at McDonald's with his buddies. Sonny called my Grandmother "Miss New York" because he said she had class. Sonny was always nice to my Grandmother.

Rest in peace Sonny.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 30, 2022, 02:35:48 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:52:09 PM
Josh has been judging all the way along.

hahaha

yes, you have

Show me a human who does not judge and I will show you a dead human. Or a fictional one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 03:08:15 PM: Well there's judging then there is......

you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 30, 2022, 03:11:28 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 03:08:15 PM
Well there's judging then there is......

you.

Sez Kid, judging me.

LOL

You are too fucking funny.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 30, 2022, 03:47:30 PM: The Supreme Court just ended the "Remain in Mexico" policy, so now we can bring the immigrants in and we can help them here on American soil, which is a win for the Biden Administration.

We have a huge Statue of Liberty inviting the poor and the homeless, and we have plenty of wide open land, so we need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to fix our laws so that future immigrants can become legal easily. We need for our immigrants to be able to join labor unions, and we need for our immigrants to be able to call the police in the case of an emergency.

Also, we need to stop ICE and the cops from searching the Greyhound buses for illegal immigrants, as the ACLU has been fighting on this issue on behalf of the immigrants, we need for people to be able to travel freely without fear of being arrested or deported. When I was a Limousine driver the police were not allowed to search a Limousine without a warrant, it is in the Constitution, and it is the same for a Greyhound bus, the police have to have a warrant before they can search a Greyhound bus. The immigrants need to be able to travel safely on Greyhound buses.

And land is only one thousand dollars per acre in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can do trade with San Francisco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 04:58:50 PM: Quote from: josh on June 30, 2022, 01:24:03 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 01:14:26 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.

Okay, Larry.

Nobody thought it was funny.

Nobody even got what it would be a "joke" about.

Mostly, nobody believes it was a joke, but rather that you are trying to excuse it as a joke, after the fact.

Omniscient josh speaks for all nobodies here. "Nobody" will admit they laughed, because then "nobody" would be considered a member of the cabal of hypocritical snoots you labeled correctly as being "nobody".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 04:59:57 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 30, 2022, 01:54:42 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 01:26:06 PM
shhh.....

everyone....

Josh will now judge.

A resident racist seem to think it is funny. That proves it is not funny. No further discussion required.

You keep using that word. I don't think you know what that word means, since you display the racist behavior here daily.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on June 30, 2022, 05:10:18 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 04:58:50 PM
Quote from: josh on June 30, 2022, 01:24:03 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 01:14:26 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.

Okay, Larry.

Nobody thought it was funny.

Nobody even got what it would be a "joke" about.

Mostly, nobody believes it was a joke, but rather that you are trying to excuse it as a joke, after the fact.

Omniscient josh speaks for all nobodies here. "Nobody" will admit they laughed, because then "nobody" would be considered a member of the cabal of hypocritical snoots you labeled correctly as being "nobody".

5 people spoke about it, after your bizarre post.

4 said they thought it unfunny.

The 5th was Kid, who offered no opinion on its humor, but instead joined you in attacking others.

NOBODY will admit they laughed because nobody laughed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 30, 2022, 05:39:35 PM: I still do not understand what the "joke" was supposed to be. Some sort of Replacement Theory? That would fit with Forrest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 05:46:17 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 04:58:50 PM
Quote from: josh on June 30, 2022, 01:24:03 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 01:14:26 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 30, 2022, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 30, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on June 29, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 29, 2022, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2022, 01:50:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach)

That's great.

Maybe now black folks can return Newark and Detroit and Baltimore and North and West Philadelphia and DC and Oakland and...

Damn dude...

Toughen up. If we can endure your consistent bigoted serious comments towards white folks, you can take a little bit of humor aimed your way, 'Bama.

But is was supposed to be funny.... and it was not in the least.

Okay, Larry.

Nobody thought it was funny.

Nobody even got what it would be a "joke" about.

Mostly, nobody believes it was a joke, but rather that you are trying to excuse it as a joke, after the fact.

Omniscient josh speaks for all nobodies here. "Nobody" will admit they laughed, because then "nobody" would be considered a member of the cabal of hypocritical snoots you labeled correctly as being "nobody".

A joke has to be funny, dig?

People were robbed of millions of dollars for a century and you wanna compare that folks getting shoved in sectors chosen by legislature and corporations as if THEY stole that land from white people.

It was not even absurdist it was just stupid. Not Dumb and Dumber stupid, just stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 30, 2022, 10:56:38 PM: West Hollywood voted to defund the police, will add "Security Ambassadors" instead of cops...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/abf45e5a-f888-11ec-84c1-32e852e780b0?shareToken=005c856e740a3083fe34a10256375263

But the thing in West Hollywood, is that everyone is rich, and they all have private security. I worked security for Suzanne Pleshette at Empire West, the stars there all have private security. And all of the clubs have private security, the Whisky, Roxy, Troubadour, Rainbow, etc, they all have private security.

Hiring less cops only hurts the poor people, it will not hurt the rich people who have private security.

Meanwhile the Security Ambassadors need to carry Greyhound bus tickets for people, and local transit tickets, and maps for the city and buses and subways, etc. The Security Ambassadors also need to know where the Wellness Centers are, as well as the Mental Health Associations, etc. The Security Ambassadors can be out there on the streets helping people. I just hope that people do not kill the Security Ambassadors. ( I had a friend who drove around in a van with a female nurse and they picked up homeless people and they took the homeless people to get help, and my friend did it successfully for a long time and he was never murdered, so he had good luck and was able to help people without getting killed. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 12:26:41 PM: The left extremists here work hard to shut down anything that either doesn't fit their narrow world views, or they determine offensive, based on those views. Later on, they lecture regarding the First Amendment.

It IS funny. But, no joke. They have ZERO sense of humor.

Heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM: I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 01, 2022, 02:51:38 PM: Facebook and Tiktok are not that great compared to the original America On Line, AOL was the best. And I still have AOL. I would love to buy AOL and return it to glory.

Social Networking on AOL was fantastic, you could share your interests and your location, etc, and you could find friends in your area who were into the same things that you were. I used to talk to women who were into acting, etc. If I wanted to find people in Anaheim who were into filmmaking, then I could just do a search on AOL and I could find all of the members on AOL who lived in Anaheim who are into filmmaking.

And AOL had forums, people could discuss events in the news, etc.

Plus AOL has email and AOL can have a top rate browser, etc, etc, etc.

Then you can bring in all of the new stuff such as screen-time communications, etc.

I am not really smart with computers, so I would have to bring in a team of experts, but I have cool ideas, I could tell my ideas to the experts.

I would buy AOL and make it the best.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 04:39:55 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?

No, you don't get it. If you did, you wouldn't work so hard to offer all those excuses for people's failure to take advantage of the opportunities that lie before them, the way so many similarly situated have done and are doing.

Put that in your smokstack, schmuck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 01, 2022, 04:44:02 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?

No, you don't get it. If you did, you wouldn't work so hard to offer all those excuses for people's failure to take advantage of the opportunities that lie before them, the way so many similarly situated have done and are doing.

Put that in your smokstack, schmuck.
DID YOU READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE? They built a successful business that was stolen from them by the city through an eminent domain action that was intended solely to destroy the business. The city didn.even do anything with the property for years before they gave it away. You stupid racist fuck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 01, 2022, 04:44:27 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?

No, you don't get it. If you did, you wouldn't work so hard to offer all those excuses for people's failure to take advantage of the opportunities that lie before them, the way so many similarly situated have done and are doing.

And there is the truth of it.

It was never intended as humor. It was an attack and a stupid one.

Same old, same old, Ham.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 01, 2022, 04:45:44 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?
He knows it is not funny. Except that Forrest has always found race baiting personally hilarious.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 01, 2022, 04:50:26 PM: Quote from: luee on June 29, 2022, 08:33:52 AM
When his country needed him, cowardly Mark Meadows let Jan. 6 happen

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article262971083.html#storylink=cpy

What do you have to do to be indicted?

Evidently you do not know
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 01, 2022, 05:11:50 PM: When my Buddy Tom ran his team to raise money for charity to feed the hungry people, he knew they did not want some middle aged man to be their leader, so he hired a beautiful young 19 year old blonde lady to run the crew, he made a 19 year old lady the boss and then she ran the crew. It works the same with influencers, the young people are not going to listen to you if you try to raise money to help the homeless, but if you hire a beautiful young 19 year old woman and make her the boss of the crew and let her influence the people then you can win over everyone. The people of Beverly Hills are not going to listen to me to help the homeless, but if we sent Brad Pitt, or Mahlagha Jaberi to Beverly Hills then they could get help for the people. So, as you raise money for charity, if you want to have your own non-profit like "Food Without Borders" then remember to plan on spending money to hire a beautiful young woman as a team leader and influencer, or on a star.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 06:13:47 PM: Quote from: josh on July 01, 2022, 04:44:27 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?

No, you don't get it. If you did, you wouldn't work so hard to offer all those excuses for people's failure to take advantage of the opportunities that lie before them, the way so many similarly situated have done and are doing.

And there is the truth of it.

It was never intended as humor. It was an attack and a stupid one.

Same old, same old, Ham.

Comedy is truth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 01, 2022, 11:52:22 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 06:13:47 PM
Quote from: josh on July 01, 2022, 04:44:27 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 01, 2022, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 01, 2022, 01:10:38 PM
I get it. You made a misfire of a joke, no one laughed, now you're all butt hurt and accusatory about being shut down and cancelled while you still keep posting and no one interferes with that. Meanwhile you keep hoping to redeem your joke that's basically about people screwed over by redlining and predatory financing and freeways splitting hoods in two and homes built downwind of smokstacks. Cause you really really believe it was funny. And who but a pack of Maoist zealots would not acknowledge that humor?

No, you don't get it. If you did, you wouldn't work so hard to offer all those excuses for people's failure to take advantage of the opportunities that lie before them, the way so many similarly situated have done and are doing.

And there is the truth of it.

It was never intended as humor. It was an attack and a stupid one.

Same old, same old, Ham.

Comedy is truth.

The problem is there is no truth in your punchline.

If you sought to find the humor in tragedy you blew that, too.

Stop trying to save it. It bombed.

You bombed and you bombed worse by standing there saying You do not get it? What is wrong with you?

Andy Kaufman was brilliant at that.

You suck.

Check, please!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxX8nvLalE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2022, 05:13:51 PM: The whole bear spray system needs re-inventing ... people in America are accidentally spraying it in their faces directly or it is hitting them in their faces accidentally after rebounding off something.
Others are applying it to their bodies deliberately as they would insect repellent, thinking that's how it repels bears.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 05, 2022, 05:44:18 PM: The economy in Turkey just collapsed and they have eighty percent inflation. I know how to fix it, and I can tell the World Bank.

Turkey needs to raise the tariffs on the imports on products which the people of Turkey produce themselves, and then use the money from the tariffs to educate the people of Turkey for the jobs of the future, and Turkey can produce films for the Arabs, etc., and Turkey needs to build more factories and they need to produce more goods locally and they need to sell exports to the Arabs, etc.

They also need to invest in Gold and then tie their currency to Gold. They can buy Gold from Nevada and from Colombia and from other places, Alaska has Gold, there are many places where they can get Gold.

Turkey needs to produce and export goods, and they need to invest in Gold and they need to tie their currency to the stability of Gold. And for instance, Israel ties their economy to diamonds. Turkey can do jewelry too, they can do Gold and diamonds, and also Real Estate, etc. And Turkey can do tariffs on imports at their ports of entry and they can use the money to train and educate their work force and to open new factories, etc, and to strengthen their economy by doing exports, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 05, 2022, 07:11:39 PM: The Large Hadron Collider was re-started at about 4pm their time.

It has not destroyed the world yet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 06, 2022, 03:33:35 PM: Turkey is an important transit point for the refugees coming from Ukraine, etc, the refugees are traveling to Turkey and then they are flying from Turkey to Mexico, and then they are coming into the USA from Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 01:42:44 AM: In Battle Mountain, Nevada, they have the rodeo periodically, it is part of their heritage.

And in Acapulco, Mexico, they have cliff divers, and the cliff divers are part of their heritage.

http://www.realacapulco.com/en/attraction/cliff-divers

If any of the refugees have problems getting into the USA for any reason, then I would suggest Acapulco, Mexico, as a destination for the refugees. And if the Russian refugees, and others, have problems getting into the USA, then they can check out Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 08, 2022, 02:53:31 AM: (https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/292429766_10160411602446155_876978207370302037_n.jpg?stp=cp1_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=aoNYzfNESCQAX9Ion41&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT8jiCcv5KvNry8VY1diDk7CgLtr6cpmSan_mnEXkZ1Ziw&oe=62CCF931)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 08, 2022, 09:56:14 AM: Shocking and saddening news from Japan. The weapon was reported to be handmade.

With a population of 125 million, Japan had only 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in one death and four injuries, according to police. Eight of those cases were gang-related. Tokyo had no gun incidents, injuries or deaths in the same year, although 61 guns were seized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM: Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:52:48 PM: Instead of fighting among ourselves as Americans, we need to work together as a team on issues that we all agree on, such as improving our economy, and helping our homeless people and our mentally ill, and helping our foster children, and improving education, and doing other good things. There are many things that Americans need to come together to do that we all agree on. And we can be a great force for good in the world, we could do a lot of good things instead of wasting time fighting over the most divisive issues.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 08, 2022, 06:10:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM
Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.

You like dead kids, don't you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 08, 2022, 11:16:31 PM: Cant believe this was even 4-3

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-transgender-woman-cannot-change-name-sex-offender?dicbo=v2-ae915e2b0ebacc8d13da420826ac2b58
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 08, 2022, 11:22:07 PM: White chicks?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-women-attacked-fast-food-employees-dipping-sauce-fee-viral-video-police
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 08, 2022, 11:39:24 PM: Thanks, Kid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 09, 2022, 11:11:50 AM: You should see the other thread yesterday. You would clean run out of thank yous.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 09, 2022, 11:47:36 AM: (https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IQY6ZWRMJFFXVL642XBSIYETG4.png&w=700)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2022, 03:14:39 PM: On the issue of education...

I have a friend and her son just turned 18, and she asked for advice, she is full blooded Indian and lives in the forest away from any big cities. She used to live in my home town with me back when we were teens, and we went to parties together, and drive in movies, and I was friends with her Father, I used to hang out with her and her Dad a lot. Her son grew up in the forest, and he does not know anything about the world.

So, I told her to send him to our old hometown, to Lancaster, and he can get a job at In N Out Burger, and he can attend Antelope Valley College. Lancaster is a good town, and the In N Out Burger pays their managers $120,000 per year, and Antelope Valley College is a great community college where he can get a good education.

She liked my advice. She is a cool person, and I hope I helped. I wish her son the best, 18 years old and going to college, that is such a fun age.

Some people are saying to drop out of school and do construction labor, but that is a bullshit path. There are plenty of ignorant people to do manual labor. If you have a chance to get a good job and to go to college, then I recommend college. And you can meet your future wife in college.

But for the people who love to do construction, then by all means, and we need housing, so we need people to build housing. It is all about your own personal choice. But people need to have the option of going to college.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2022, 03:21:14 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 08, 2022, 06:10:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM
Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.

You like dead kids, don't you?

Taking my guns away from me will not save children. You are only taking away my right to self defense. I have the right to own guns, and my right to own guns is protected in the Constitution.

The world is a hard, evil place, and you need to own guns for self defense. Or be rich and have body guards. When I am rich I will have body guards.

And the children in schools can have better security and more armed guards to protect them.

Of note, I worked security for Suzanne Pleshette, at Empire West, the stars all have security, the poor people need to have security too and the poor people have a right to self defense.

I know some very bad criminals who I do not want in my house, and I have a right to defend myself against people like that. I have a right to protect myself from evil people.

I love children, and my children will be protected by me with a gun.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 09, 2022, 05:43:31 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2022, 03:21:14 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 08, 2022, 06:10:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM
Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.

You like dead kids, don't you?

Taking my guns away from me will not save children. You are only taking away my right to self defense. I have the right to own guns, and my right to own guns is protected in the Constitution.

The world is a hard, evil place, and you need to own guns for self defense. Or be rich and have body guards. When I am rich I will have body guards.

And the children in schools can have better security and more armed guards to protect them.

Of note, I worked security for Suzanne Pleshette, at Empire West, the stars all have security, the poor people need to have security too and the poor people have a right to self defense.

I know some very bad criminals who I do not want in my house, and I have a right to defend myself against people like that. I have a right to protect myself from evil people.

I love children, and my children will be protected by me with a gun.

Salute,

Tony V.

Your children are more likely to die with your gun being in the house, or kill each other, or you. Or you are more likely to kill yourself.

The evil in the world is not healed by gun possession, but is in fact exacerbated.

School children need the security of growing up and knowing that the adults in their world are not armed with millitary grade weapons.

Your support for your alleged "right" is a detriment to our society.

Idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 09, 2022, 06:38:35 PM: Tony doesn't believe in science or statistics.

All the facts that contradict what he wants to believe have about as much chance convincing him as they do Ward or Kid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 09, 2022, 09:19:22 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 09, 2022, 05:43:31 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2022, 03:21:14 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 08, 2022, 06:10:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM
Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.

You like dead kids, don't you?

Taking my guns away from me will not save children. You are only taking away my right to self defense. I have the right to own guns, and my right to own guns is protected in the Constitution.

The world is a hard, evil place, and you need to own guns for self defense. Or be rich and have body guards. When I am rich I will have body guards.

And the children in schools can have better security and more armed guards to protect them.

Of note, I worked security for Suzanne Pleshette, at Empire West, the stars all have security, the poor people need to have security too and the poor people have a right to self defense.

I know some very bad criminals who I do not want in my house, and I have a right to defend myself against people like that. I have a right to protect myself from evil people.

I love children, and my children will be protected by me with a gun.

Salute,

Tony V.

Your children are more likely to die with your gun being in the house, or kill each other, or you. Or you are more likely to kill yourself.

The evil in the world is not healed by gun possession, but is in fact exacerbated.

School children need the security of growing up and knowing that the adults in their world are not armed with millitary grade weapons.

Your support for your alleged "right" is a detriment to our society.

Idiot.

That's one opinion

And a lost debate. Can't keep from using the immature tongue. Sad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 09, 2022, 10:11:59 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 09, 2022, 09:19:22 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 09, 2022, 05:43:31 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2022, 03:21:14 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 08, 2022, 06:10:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 08, 2022, 03:31:43 PM
Reportedly New York wants to look at your Social Media records now before they allow you to carry a gun. It is all bullshit, what part of "Shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Americans have the right to own guns, period. People need to stop trying to take 2nd Amendment rights away from Americans.

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-new-york-wants-make-you-submit-social-media-history-purchasing-1228579

And on the issue of Social Media, they lied and accused me of doing things I never did just because people disagreed with my political views, they accused me of supporting terrorism, and of associating with terrorists, and it is all bullshit. And they consider the Jan 6th people to be terrorists, and I was never associated with any of that, they see that I am a Republican and they assume I support Trump which I do NOT, I never voted for Trump, and I never supported Trump, I wanted Marco Rubio instead of Trump. Anyhow, it is all bullshit, and people are making up lies if they do not agree with you. I am really beginning to dislike Facebook, and I will never join TikTok.

I would like to buy America On Line and make it the new form of Social Media for Americans, I could make AOL great again, with new features to make it even better. AOL can be the social media for Americans. And I still have AOL, but it all needs to be updated, and there needs to be apps for my Apple to put AOL on my Apple, etc. I could make AOL great again.

Anyhow, guns are part of America, people need to stop trying to take guns away from Americans, and people need to learn how to live with guns. And people can buy guns and they can learn to shoot, and then they can shoot back to protect themselves and their families.

We also need to expand the hiring of armed guards for schools, and public places, etc, which will help to create jobs for veterans, etc.

Taking guns away from the good people will not help anyone, and we have a right to own guns in America.

And we have our whole Bill of Rights that we need to protect.

We also need to support our Constitution and all 3 branches of government, the President cannot just make an executive decision to over-rule the Supreme Court, the President needs to respect the Supreme Court.

We need to unite as Americans, and we need to stop trying to take rights away from other Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.

You like dead kids, don't you?

Taking my guns away from me will not save children. You are only taking away my right to self defense. I have the right to own guns, and my right to own guns is protected in the Constitution.

The world is a hard, evil place, and you need to own guns for self defense. Or be rich and have body guards. When I am rich I will have body guards.

And the children in schools can have better security and more armed guards to protect them.

Of note, I worked security for Suzanne Pleshette, at Empire West, the stars all have security, the poor people need to have security too and the poor people have a right to self defense.

I know some very bad criminals who I do not want in my house, and I have a right to defend myself against people like that. I have a right to protect myself from evil people.

I love children, and my children will be protected by me with a gun.

Salute,

Tony V.

Your children are more likely to die with your gun being in the house, or kill each other, or you. Or you are more likely to kill yourself.

The evil in the world is not healed by gun possession, but is in fact exacerbated.

School children need the security of growing up and knowing that the adults in their world are not armed with millitary grade weapons.

Your support for your alleged "right" is a detriment to our society.

Idiot.

That's one opinion

And a lost debate. Can't keep from using the immature tongue. Sad.

/snort/

Kid chiding somebody else for "the immature tongue."

Laughable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 09, 2022, 10:44:29 PM: It is the kind of crap kid uses as garnish for the things he says that are clearly wrong and have no basis in reality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 10, 2022, 09:42:33 AM: When it comes to having the proper training and self-discipline to own a gun, I have a low opinion of the human race. And that opinion: the human race has earned it. Fuck guns and gun culture. Only highly trained and vetted military and law enforcement
should have them. You "arm everyone" fanatics can take your "protecting my children" NRA propaganda bullshit and stick it up your ass. You are living in a Hollywood fantasy.

There, now I don't have to waste my time trying to be moderate and find some fabled common ground with the idiots who think murder sticks make them safer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 10, 2022, 10:43:46 AM: Cause I got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle (jingle, jangle)
As I go ridin merrily along (jingle, jangle)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 10, 2022, 02:19:21 PM: They cannot even keep heroin out of the maximum security prisons, the convicts are all doing heroin in prison, and they cannot even enforce the gun laws that we have on the books, they need to learn how to enforce the laws we already have before they go about trying to make new laws that we do not even need and which they cannot enforce.

And the world has bad people, child molesters, rapists, murderers, etc, etc, etc, and the good people need to be able to own guns.

I am not going to get into details but there have been multiple occasions in my life when I have been threatened by some real bad people, and owning guns brought me comfort, at least I could shoot back.

And if you live in a rural area, then you need to be able to protect yourself and your family. When my family had a cattle ranch outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada, the police station was 60 miles away, it would take a cop an hour to get there, so we had to provide for our own safety, and we had to provide for our own protection, and so we owned guns. I was just a little kid when my Father taught me how to shoot. Out in rural areas you need to protect yourself, there are not any cops to protect you.

In the cities you have gang members, drug dealers, sex offenders, pimps, mentally ill people, drug addicts, bullies, and other bad people, and I support our right to own guns.

One of my cousins was just stabbed twice in Palm Springs while trying to intervene in a domestic violence situation, he almost died. The world is an evil place, and we need to be able to own guns.

I have been threatened by some real evil people, and I have the right to own guns.

I support the Supreme Court decision to support our right to self defense and to own guns.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 10, 2022, 03:23:31 PM: You can use a bow and arrow as self defense too, I know a lady who does not like guns, but she has a bow and arrows for self defense. It is all about personal choice.

The important thing is that we have a choice, and freedom, and rights, and our right to own guns for self defense is an important right.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 11, 2022, 12:53:23 PM: One thing about a bow and arrow is that you cannot commit suicide with it, it is great self defense for people who have problems with depression or whatever.

Or if you are in a place where they do not allow guns, then you can have a bow and arrows.

Here is a video about a United States Army Special Forces Unit in 1961 that specialized in warfare with a bow and arrow...

https://youtu.be/PMK3y1wIrfs

You can defend your home and family with a bow and arrow.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 11, 2022, 04:59:19 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 11, 2022, 12:53:23 PM
One thing about a bow and arrow is that you cannot commit suicide with it, it is great self defense for people who have problems with depression or whatever.

Or if you are in a place where they do not allow guns, then you can have a bow and arrows.

Here is a video about a United States Army Special Forces Unit in 1961 that specialized in warfare with a bow and arrow...

https://youtu.be/PMK3y1wIrfs

You can defend your home and family with a bow and arrow.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sorry, Cochise, but you can take yourself out with a bow and arrow.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2022, 01:12:57 PM: The celebrities need to step forward to help the homeless.

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/hollywood-ignores-the-homeless-crisis-in-their-own-backyard/

People need to stop being so self centered and people need to look around at the world we live in, and we need to do as God asks us in Matthew 25: 31-46 and we need to help the orphans, and we need to help the homeless, and we need to feed the hungry, etc.

I once cooked for a group of guys in a Homeless Shelter, it was a holiday and I cooked a huge feast for the guys, and there was a guy there who was a chef for "Food Without Borders" and he said I passed the test, he used to feed the homeless people in Hollywood back when it was against the law the feed the homeless in Hollywood. We need more great people like him to help the homeless in Hollywood.

It is easy to start a 501c charitable organization, and you can have parties to raise money for charity, and concerts, and you can sell items, and you can do raffles, etc. In my neighborhood we have a park with an amphitheatre with 2,000 seats, and with an area where you can sell food and drinks to guests, where people can raise money for charity.

You could have a concert at Angel Stadium with the Red Hot Chili Peppers to raise money for charity, and you can broadcast the concert on television and you can ask people to send in donations, etc. You could do it for "Food Without Borders" to feed the hungry and the homeless.

Also, people can create jobs for the homeless, such as jobs planting orange trees, and making orange juice, to sell California orange juice around the world. Also, it is fire season, and we need to hire people to work in the forests, etc, to reduce fire dangers, etc. There are many easy jobs that we can create for the homeless people.

And we need to bring the jobs back to Hollywood, including bringing a new film and television studio in Anaheim.

People need to care about other people, and we need to help each other.

And there can be Hippy communes for the homeless in Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they can grow flowers for San Francisco, etc.

We have Kiwanis, and the Weingart Center, and other groups helping the homeless, and others can join in.

We need to help the homeless in Hollywood, and the stars can help, and we need to bring the jobs back to Hollywood. Hollywood can still sparkle and shine, we need to bring the shine back.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2022, 01:21:18 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 11, 2022, 04:59:19 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 11, 2022, 12:53:23 PM
One thing about a bow and arrow is that you cannot commit suicide with it, it is great self defense for people who have problems with depression or whatever.

Or if you are in a place where they do not allow guns, then you can have a bow and arrows.

Here is a video about a United States Army Special Forces Unit in 1961 that specialized in warfare with a bow and arrow...

https://youtu.be/PMK3y1wIrfs

You can defend your home and family with a bow and arrow.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sorry, Cochise, but you can take yourself out with a bow and arrow.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/)

Not like with a gun. A bow and arrow is safer self defense for a person with depression than a gun is.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 12, 2022, 01:35:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2022, 01:21:18 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 11, 2022, 04:59:19 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 11, 2022, 12:53:23 PM
One thing about a bow and arrow is that you cannot commit suicide with it, it is great self defense for people who have problems with depression or whatever.

Or if you are in a place where they do not allow guns, then you can have a bow and arrows.

Here is a video about a United States Army Special Forces Unit in 1961 that specialized in warfare with a bow and arrow...

https://youtu.be/PMK3y1wIrfs

You can defend your home and family with a bow and arrow.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sorry, Cochise, but you can take yourself out with a bow and arrow.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9539403/)

Not like with a gun. A bow and arrow is safer self defense for a person with depression than a gun is.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, gun's are easier to kill oneself with, and usually don't allow for second thoughts, which is what accounts for so many self-inflicted gunshot wounds. You do realize that is yet another reason to restrict gun ownership?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 07:38:18 PM: Yes, guns are easier to kill oneself with, and usually do not allow for second thoughts

You dont know shit
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2022, 07:41:22 PM: Hammy is right and you cannot argue with him on this.

Also Kid, you are a bloodthirsty creep.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 12, 2022, 08:26:10 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 07:38:18 PM
Yes, guns are easier to kill oneself with, and usually do not allow for second thoughts

You dont know shit

Why don't you do some research and get back to us and actually prove me wrong?

We'll wait.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 12, 2022, 08:39:41 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 07:38:18 PM
Yes, guns are easier to kill oneself with, and usually do not allow for second thoughts

You dont know shit

Bruh...

That is just plain logic...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM: Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 12, 2022, 11:18:22 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 07:38:18 PM
Yes, guns are easier to kill oneself with, and usually do not allow for second thoughts

You dont know shit

Are you disagreeing or just spouting off?

And if you are disagreeing, got any evidence to support your position?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 13, 2022, 12:16:49 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.

Thanks again, Kid!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 13, 2022, 12:30:18 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/05/10/james-cromwell-starbucks-glue-protest/

Story from a couple months back, just saw this. One of those headlines where your eye passes over and then you say "wait...what?" A journalist might be tempted to milk this for humor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 13, 2022, 12:52:23 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.

More use a firearm (52%) than every other method combined. Suffocation (mostly hanging) accounts for 23%, poisoning/overdose for 18%, jumps 2%, cuts 2%, and other 4%.

Most nonfatal self-harm treated in the emergency department results from poisoning/overdose (64%), followed by cutting (19%). Less than 1% of nonfatal attempts are with a gun.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/basic-suicide-facts/how/ (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/basic-suicide-facts/how/)

So, there you go, kid, yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:25:04 PM: This means it is PERMANENT not that it happened quickly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2022, 01:27:50 PM: I do not like the direction that things are heading, we need to change the trajectory.

Crime has been going higher and higher, while jobs continue to leave California, while inflation rises, and we have leaders who are corrupt and we had to remove a bad Mayor in Anaheim, etc, we need to change the direction that things are going.

Here in California we have have had gang murders, and there have been 7 Eleven robberies with a murder, and now several Starbucks locations are closing in Hollywood because they do not feel safe. Instead of hiring security guards, they are closing down. So sad.

We need for the stars like Brad Pitt to save Hollywood. The stars can work together to save Hollywood. They can have concerts at Angel Stadium to raise money to help the homeless, etc.

And our Government needs to step forward to help the homeless. HUD needs to build a lot of housing right now. People need to stop fighting over extreme issues such as guns and abortion, and people need to stop with the racism, and sexism, etc, and people need to work together to solve the problems that we are facing here in California, and in the USA.

Gavin Newsom has his head up his ass, and he is not doing anything to help Hollywood. I did not vote for Newsom.

Hopefully Rick Caruso can help Los Angeles if he wins as Mayor.

We also need to have better music for our kids, etc. The gangster rap is all BULLSHIT, they are turning the children into gangsters and they glamorize gangs, it is all bullshit. And the music about Satan is also bad. The producers who have been producing music have been producing shitty music. And I also hate the music about drugs. Here in California we used to have the Beach Boys, and Jan and Dean, the music was all about surfing, and love and making out with women, etc, we need to bring back the music that glamorizes the good things about California, instead of shitty music about gangs and drugs. We need new producers to rise, many of the current producers suck.

And we need to have better television shows and movies. And we need better role models for the children.

It sucks that Bill Cosby turned out to be a sex offender, I loved Bill Cosby, and he was right about so many things, and he was trying to lead the youth in the right direction. It is sad he turned out to be a criminal.

Maybe Brad Pitt can help to lead the people of Hollywood towards a better path. Or maybe Rick Caruso can help.

We need to improve our economy, and we need to reduce crime, and we need to raise better children, and we need to stop glamorizing gangsters.

We need to raise doctors and scientists instead of convicts and drug addicts and gang members.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:39:37 PM: Quote from: sardine can on July 13, 2022, 12:30:18 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/05/10/james-cromwell-starbucks-glue-protest/

Story from a couple months back, just saw this. One of those headlines where your eye passes over and then you say "wait...what?" A journalist might be tempted to milk this for humor.

Babe actor?

heh

What about SUCCESSION?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 03:09:34 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.

Jumping off a bridge is far less likely to result in death.

It is far less likely to be attempted.

And if the house has a gun, the gun is way too often both easier and quicker.

BTW - your estimation of how fast a gun suicide can happen is not based on any real statistics.

Stop being yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 03:34:04 PM: Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 03:09:34 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.

Jumping off a bridge is far less likely to result in death.

It is far less likely to be attempted.

And if the house has a gun, the gun is way too often both easier and quicker.

BTW - your estimation of how fast a gun suicide can happen is not based on any real statistics.

Stop being yourself.

Its hard to pull the trigger on yourself.

You dont include among the survivors those that put the gun down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 04:11:14 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 03:34:04 PM
Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 03:09:34 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.

Jumping off a bridge is far less likely to result in death.

It is far less likely to be attempted.

And if the house has a gun, the gun is way too often both easier and quicker.

BTW - your estimation of how fast a gun suicide can happen is not based on any real statistics.

Stop being yourself.

Its hard to pull the trigger on yourself.

You dont include among the survivors those that put the gun down.

It is hard for some to pull the trigger on themselves, but it seems to be less hard to do that then you seem to think.

Quote
more people in this country kill themselves with guns than with all other intentional means combined, including hanging, poisoning or overdose, jumping, or cutting. Though guns are not the most common method by which people attempt suicide, they are the most lethal. About 85 percent of suicide attempts with a firearm end in death. (Drug overdose, the most widely used method in suicide attempts, is fatal in less than 3 percent of cases.) Moreover, guns are an irreversible solution to what is often a passing crisis. Suicidal individuals who take pills or inhale car exhaust or use razors have time to reconsider their actions or summon help. With a firearm, once the trigger is pulled, there
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 13, 2022, 07:13:39 PM: Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 03:09:34 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.
unless Clarence Oddbody is on your side.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:14:08 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:25:04 PM
This means it is PERMANENT not that it happened quickly.

Shooting is quicker than suffocation, than poison, and then most hanging.

And if there is either a gun in the house or readily acquired, then it takes too little time.

Still waiting for something from you other than your opinion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:16:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 13, 2022, 07:13:39 PM
Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 03:09:34 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 12, 2022, 09:14:45 PM
Gun suicide do not happen quickly - dont kid yourself.

Jumping off a bridge happens quicker.
unless Clarence Oddbody is on your side.

You really need to learn the basics of this software, Ward.

I had no part in that quote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 08:19:45 PM: Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:14:08 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:25:04 PM
This means it is PERMANENT not that it happened quickly.

Shooting is quicker than suffocation, than poison, and then most hanging.

You still miss the point. Thinking through it counts for time. Long thought before trigger.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 13, 2022, 08:26:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 13, 2022, 07:13:39 PM
Sorry, Josh, I cannot grasp the arcane mysteries of the quote box. I am going to spank myself because I'm a naughty little girl!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 13, 2022, 08:31:00 PM: Primatologist Barbie!

https://people.com/human-interest/dr-jane-goodall-has-her-own-barbie-new-doll-made-of-90-recycled-ocean-bound-plastic/

Of course, if the child ends up tossing the doll, then it may still be ocean-bound plastic. Still, maybe a baby step forward.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:56:56 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 08:19:45 PM
Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:14:08 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:25:04 PM
This means it is PERMANENT not that it happened quickly.

Shooting is quicker than suffocation, than poison, and then most hanging.

You still miss the point. Thinking through it counts for time. Long thought before trigger.

You don't get it.

For most forms of suicide, prep has to go into it.

Contrary to your understanding of it, suicide by gun is far more often an impulsive action, not a deeply premeditated one.

The incidence of suicide by gun is highest within the week of purchasing it. You say "long before trigger," but of course don't define your terms.

Let me try this on you again:
More people die of suicide by gun than all other methods combined. Guns are still used in far less than the majority of suicide efforts.

Suicide can be either carefully planned or impulsive. The numbers on impulsivity are all over the map (20-80%)| because our ability to gauge it among those who died is not great.

But we know two things:
1) Those who carefully plan it out are more likely to be successful, but
2) Those who use a gun are far less likely to have thought it out.

This explains why we have such a low ratio of attempts to deaths among suicidal folks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 09:08:17 PM: Shhhhh...

You have already said enough
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 13, 2022, 09:23:09 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 09:08:17 PM
Shhhhh...

You have already said enough

Now can you learn from a source of better information than you had hitherto possessed?

I am doubtful, but your 227th chance starts now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 09:27:54 PM: Know-it-all mod arguing over suicide

Fucking ferret face.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 13, 2022, 09:33:48 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 09:27:54 PM
Know-it-all mod arguing over suicide

Fucking ferret face.

Mod who does research rather than express uninformed opinions.

No wonder you want me to "shhhhh..." - you despise being called out for your ignorance.

Kid, I wouldn't argue about suicide if (a) you weren't full of shit but expressing your bogus opinions anyway and (b) I had not spent much of the last 40 years working with suicidal folks.

But you are and I have.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 13, 2022, 09:44:03 PM: That you continue to have the patience to argue with that dolt is to either your everlasting credit or everlasting shame, Josh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 13, 2022, 11:01:35 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 13, 2022, 09:44:03 PM
That you continue to have the patience to argue with that dolt, Josh, is to either your everlasting credit or everlasting shame.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I will chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 01:45:29 AM: Amber was young and pretty.
How did it all go so wrong?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 03:01:51 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 01:45:29 AM
Amber was young and pretty.
How did it all go so wrong?

As if "young and pretty" was ever protection from anything including one's own foibles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 14, 2022, 09:09:56 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 13, 2022, 09:44:03 PM
That you continue to have the patience to argue with that dolt is to either your everlasting credit or everlasting shame, Josh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 14, 2022, 09:19:29 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 13, 2022, 11:01:35 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 13, 2022, 09:44:03 PM
That you continue to have the patience to argue with that dolt, Josh, is to either your everlasting credit or everlasting shame.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I will chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!

Khan you provide your source?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 14, 2022, 10:07:25 AM: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1109345201/theres-a-massive-housing-shortage-across-the-u-s-heres-how-bad-it-is-where-you-l

I speculate two trends will result. One, the Tiny House movement is really going to accelerate. Two, we will see a culture shift towards multigenerational homes, as has been long the tradition in Asia.

Our young neighbors are also following the trend to add a roommate who sleeps in a non-conforming bedroom. Originally it was set up for two people, then the landlord allowed them to create a BR in the basement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 11:57:20 AM: A surprisingly well done article for its length:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/health/signs-someone-is-suicidal-wellness/index.html

But nothing surprising.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 02:17:46 PM: On the issue of housing, as I have stated, I think that high density apartments that are built and designed nice, with swimming pools, and tennis courts, etc, like in Santorini, Greece, built in cheap locations like Battle Mountain, Nevada, are the way of the future in America.

In the cities we can have towers with the poor people on the bottom floors and the rich people can live on the top floors, and there can be a swimming pool on the roof, etc, like Empire West in West Hollywood.

And HUD needs to build like crazy.

Of note, here in California housing is so expensive that people share housing because it is all that they can afford, there are people here in my apartment complex with the parents and 4 kids living in a 1 bedroom apartment, there are whole families living in a 1 bedroom apartment.

In Italy people are having multigenerational homes, and many Latinos here in California have multigenerational homes. Of note, for many people their Grandparents do childcare, there are many benefits of multigenrational homes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2022, 03:10:17 PM: Quote from: sardine can on July 14, 2022, 10:07:25 AM
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1109345201/theres-a-massive-housing-shortage-across-the-u-s-heres-how-bad-it-is-where-you-l

I speculate two trends will result. One, the Tiny House movement is really going to accelerate. Two, we will see a culture shift towards multigenerational homes, as has been long the tradition in Asia.

Our young neighbors are also following the trend to add a roommate who sleeps in a non-conforming bedroom. Originally it was set up for two people, then the landlord allowed them to create a BR in the basement.

You are spot on all of that.

I just hope you do not live in a flood zone.

The aspiration of owning an electric cargo truck with deployable solar and turbine generators and an ebike that lets you park for a couple of days then move a hundred miles so your upkeep is down to insurance, registration, food, and water may soon outstrip the desire to own a brick and mortar home, at least out here in the south west. The mobile starter home can then evolve to RV or mobile shed duty if the owner does well enough and desires to purchase some land and put a home there. They might keep their living mobile as they develop or preserve their land in other ways.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 03:20:38 PM: Ah yes..homes where multi families live...20 and 30 in a house.
The women all stay home and wash, iron, cook, clean, grocery shop, shop...while all the men go out to work all day and half the night.
It's why such folk reportedly "own most of London, are rolling in cash and drive luxury cars".

When mrs bambu toured Japan several years ago, home stays, she slept on the floor in some homes.
Living room turns into a bedroom.
If I got down and slept on the floor I might * never* get up. :)
Some families very traditional, others very westernised, beds.
Some two storey homes, parents living downstairs, their 'married with children' children self contained upstairs.
Living in the same house as your parents forever?
Bring wife to live in parents' home when married?
Not for me, but with unaffordable housing and the cost of everything today, I can see how it could fast become popular.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2022, 03:26:30 PM: Your racist is showing again Bambi. I think that is part of why you guys lost control of Australia in the last election.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM: Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

So that means that we can help the refugees, the immigrants, and the homeless people, all at once, we can build mass high density apartments like Santorini, Greece, and we can house everyone there equally, all races, all sexes, etc, everyone can be housed equally in compliance with our Fair Housing Act.

ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL and our Fair Employment Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and our Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, make sure that we are all equal on the issues of jobs and housing.

People marched and fought and died so that America can have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and our Civil Rights Act of 1968, and we need to protect them and honor them.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 03:47:05 PM: It's the way things are, apparently.
It's certainly cheaper.
Outsourcing labour companies are tendering a cheaper price because they're bringing in workers from overseas putting them up in hotels 12 people to a room reportedly.
Oh, and locals are losing their "living wage" jobs.
Some think it's all sweet, bambu-ilk do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 04:10:25 PM: Fair housing?
Everybody equal in the real estate/housing game?
Friend of mine is 73, bad marriage, divorced, wife custody of kids, he stayed in home and worked two jobs.
Home now old and unlivable.
Depression etc saw him put on weight, now very overweight about 340lbs and walks with crutches.
He wants to rent a house or apartment, has the money, ...the properties go to young people with or without children.
He's had to resort to living in an aged care facility room.
He wants out of there so I told him to "flash the cash" at real estate agents, offer to pay all the rent in advance, at higher price than asking, and a bonus for the agent.
Seems to me that not much in life is fair and equal.
Seems to me that everything is a war.. in which only the rich do well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.

That you ignore it says nothing about the evidence and everything about you.

No news here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 07:32:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 04:10:25 PM
Fair housing?
Everybody equal in the real estate/housing game?
Friend of mine is 73, bad marriage, divorced, wife custody of kids, he stayed in home and worked two jobs.
Home now old and unlivable.
Depression etc saw him put on weight, now very overweight about 340lbs and walks with crutches.
He wants to rent a house or apartment, has the money, ...the properties go to young people with or without children.
He's had to resort to living in an aged care facility room.
He wants out of there so I told him to "flash the cash" at real estate agents, offer to pay all the rent in advance, at higher price than asking, and a bonus for the agent.
Seems to me that not much in life is fair and equal.
Seems to me that everything is a war.. in which only the rich do well.

If your friend lived in Hollywood then he could get Habitat For Humanity to fix his house, and he could let some young beautiful actresses live with him to help him to cook and clean and to shop for groceries, and to keep up the yard-work, etc. Here in Hollywood people come here from all over the world, and many end up homeless, and if your friend owned a house in Hollywood then he would have no problem finding young actresses to help him in exchange for a place to live.

When I lived in Malibu, I rented a room from the ex wife of Sammy Hagar's family Dr, and it was great, one of my roommates was the daughter of a Chinese general ( God sends me strong helpers ), and then there were two kids, and a scientist lived there with us, it was great. We had a beautiful home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. And you had to go through two security gates to get to our house, it was very safe. Sometimes you can rent a room with great people and you can live a great life, it was awesome in Malibu.

Also of note, right now the Francis Ford Coppola Winery is hiring cooks, that is a great opportunity for the right person.

And yes Bambu, life is better if you are rich, but sometimes you get lucky and hook up with cool people, like the lady who I rented a room from in Malibu, that was a wonderful time for me, it was great there.

Meanwhile, Anaheim is nice, and there are good people here who help each other. If I was homeless I could just go to the Wellness Center and they would put me in a group home, or to the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, we have helpers here in Orange County who help people. There are some good people in the world, you just need to find the cool good people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 07:45:26 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.

We need to stand up and demand our rights, and we need to protect our rights, and I support the ACLU to fight for our rights.

Some issues on rights are also violated when the police search the Greyhound buses, the cops are not allowed to search a Greyhound bus without a warrant. The immigrants do not need to die in hot trucks, the immigrants can travel safely on Greyhound buses, and the police are not allowed to search the Greyhound buses without a warrant.

We need to protect and defend our rights.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:57:02 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 08:39:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:57:02 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;

d) note that the enforcement agencies on the failures to follow those laws are not staffed by a particular party - only about 4,000 political appointees, but 2.1 civilian federal workers;

and lastly
e) will point out that despite your repetition of lack of credibility, you have never managed to explain why or how they were not credible, just thrown your usual denial out there.

Lie, deny, and obfuscate, Ward, because you have zero facts to support you.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM: Quote from: josh link=topic=223.msg213878#msg213878 date=people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.[/quote

If only it were practiced.
Quote
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
Quote

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.

After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
[/quote]that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2022, 09:39:40 PM: Ward is continuing his red bed wetting. He has been at it nonstop since he answered the call from his dark masters on December 19th, 2020.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 09:43:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL

OMG, how stupid can you be?

Just amazing.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:57:25 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 09:43:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL

OMG, how stupid can you be?

Just amazing.
pretty much takes you out of any credibility.
Thanks for playing.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 10:42:16 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:57:25 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 09:43:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL

OMG, how stupid can you be?

Just amazing.
pretty much takes you out of any credibility.
Thanks for playing.

It is not only the formatting of this system that you struggle with.

It is argumentation and/or debate.

"They lack credibility" is not a response.

"Here are some reasons that none of these studies were credible" followed by specific examples.

Like this:
"Studies 1, 3, and 6 were all run by groups who only get money when they find biases. Study 2 was too small. It should have at least (some rational number) to be taken seriously. And Study 5 failed to look at how Group W was treated, so bias is impossible to see there."

(You should come up with your own specific examples. These are wholly invented by me and not connected to any real studies.)

Or just eat shit. You're good at that.

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 10:59:02 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 10:42:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:57:25 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 09:43:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL

OMG, how stupid can you be?

Just amazing.
pretty much takes you out of any credibility.
Thanks for playing.

It is not only the formatting of this system that you struggle with.

It is argumentation and/or debate.

"They lack credibility" is not a response.
Oh, but it is.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: josh on July 14, 2022, 11:04:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 10:59:02 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 10:42:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:57:25 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 09:43:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 09:15:10 PM

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.
Quote

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.
You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:
Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?
Quote

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;
I never said laws were biased.
Quote

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;
How?
Quote

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;
[/quotes]ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats.
Quote

All appointees are managed by Biden or his lackeys.
Except SCOTUS
Damn those Fathers
LOL

OMG, how stupid can you be?

Just amazing.
pretty much takes you out of any credibility.
Thanks for playing.

It is not only the formatting of this system that you struggle with.

It is argumentation and/or debate.

"They lack credibility" is not a response.
Oh, but it is.

Sez the jerk who also said:
"ALL the legislative and executive branches are n the hands Of democrats."

I reiterate - "how stupid can you be?"

So, you have no actual objections to the studies. You just don't like them, so to you they cannot be credible.

You don't need anybody but yourself to point out your ignorance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 14, 2022, 11:22:44 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 14, 2022, 09:19:29 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 13, 2022, 11:01:35 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 13, 2022, 09:44:03 PM
That you continue to have the patience to argue with that dolt, Josh, is to either your everlasting credit or everlasting shame.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I will chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!

Khan you provide your source?

Aye! Melville!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 14, 2022, 11:29:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 04:10:25 PM
Fair housing?
Everybody equal in the real estate/housing game?
Friend of mine is 73, bad marriage, divorced, wife custody of kids, he stayed in home and worked two jobs.
Home now old and unlivable.
Depression etc saw him put on weight, now very overweight about 340lbs and walks with crutches.
He wants to rent a house or apartment, has the money, ...the properties go to young people with or without children.
He's had to resort to living in an aged care facility room.
He wants out of there so I told him to "flash the cash" at real estate agents, offer to pay all the rent in advance, at higher price than asking, and a bonus for the agent.
Seems to me that not much in life is fair and equal.
Seems to me that everything is a war.. in which only the rich do well.

Sounds like he fucked himself royally
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 11:47:31 PM: Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 08:39:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:57:02 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;

d) note that the enforcement agencies on the failures to follow those laws are not staffed by a particular party - only about 4,000 political appointees, but 2.1 civilian federal workers;

and lastly
e) will point out that despite your repetition of lack of credibility, you have never managed to explain why or how they were not credible, just thrown your usual denial out there.

Lie, deny, and obfuscate, Ward, because you have zero facts to support you.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2022, 11:53:00 PM: You cannot argue with RedWard, our resident gimp in a box. When he feels poked he sputters and giggles, but no kind of sense ever comes out.
Title: Re: News in Generalbias v
Post by: josh on July 15, 2022, 01:16:50 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 11:47:31 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 08:39:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:57:02 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 07:50:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 05:49:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2022, 05:06:43 PM
Quote from: josh on July 14, 2022, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 14, 2022, 03:40:50 PM
Here in America we have the Fair Housing Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, that says that all people must be treated equally on the issue of housing. We must all have the same opportunities for housing.

If only it were practiced.
Which it is.

Evidence has been provided repeatedly to you of how that fails in geographical area by geographical area, with bias in housing based on color and/or perceived ethnicity.
None was provided that has any credibility.

None that you would accept.

You have been clear that the only research you would accept is that with results with which you agree.

You are disingenuous at the best of times, which is how you earned your motto:

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.
that would be you.
After all the Government is in the hands of the democrats.
Any bias in housing laws reflects democrat bias.
How do you explain that?

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

In this case, I:
a) did not say the laws were biased, which shows yet again you either cannot read or you make shit up for bogus arguments;

b) asserted that people are not treated equally on the issue of housing, which I reiterate;

c) will point out to you that only parts of the government are in the hands of the Democrats and that the current super-majority on SCOTUS will hamstring any efforts by the federal government to enforce the laws that pertain;

d) note that the enforcement agencies on the failures to follow those laws are not staffed by a particular party - only about 4,000 political appointees, but 2.1 civilian federal workers;

and lastly
e) will point out that despite your repetition of lack of credibility, you have never managed to explain why or how they were not credible, just thrown your usual denial out there.

Lie, deny, and obfuscate, Ward, because you have zero facts to support you.
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate, Ward, because you have zero facts to support you.

As you prove again and again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 15, 2022, 02:43:26 PM: Councilman Dr. Jose F. Moreno

16 hours

ATTENTION ANAHEIM:

I am proposing allowing residents to vote on a modest 2% gate tax on large venues (capacity over 15,000 people), which includes Disney, Honda Center and Angel Stadium. The estimated revenue is $55 to $82 million per year to be used for general City services -- e.g. public safety, and emergency response, street maintenance, youth/senior services, parks etc.

City Council will discuss this on Tuesday July 19 at 5 pm.

Call or email your council to urge them to give YOU the option to vote.

-----------

We need more services to help the homeless, our current services include the Wellness Center in Orange, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, we need to do more to help our homeless people.

Also, to help people with a place to sleep, we can have hostels like in Rome, Italy, where people can take a nice hot shower, and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed, for $15 per night. And we can allow the hostels to operate tax-free to inspire entrepreneurs to open hostels in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 15, 2022, 05:42:16 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 14, 2022, 11:29:22 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 04:10:25 PM
Fair housing?
Everybody equal in the real estate/housing game?
Friend of mine is 73, bad marriage, divorced, wife custody of kids, he stayed in home and worked two jobs.
Home now old and unlivable.
Depression etc saw him put on weight, now very overweight about 340lbs and walks with crutches.
He wants to rent a house or apartment, has the money, ...the properties go to young people with or without children.
He's had to resort to living in an aged care facility room.
He wants out of there so I told him to "flash the cash" at real estate agents, offer to pay all the rent in advance, at higher price than asking, and a bonus for the agent.
Seems to me that not much in life is fair and equal.
Seems to me that everything is a war.. in which only the rich do well.

Sounds like he fucked himself royally

I used to work with him.
He's 'different', always has been.
Some people in the workplace called him 'weird'...not the usual beer swilling supposed 'macho man one of the lads'....quirky sense of humour.
I didn't fit in either.
Buddies we were, the two rejects keeping company...lol.
He went down the "happy wife, happy life" road...bought the old house decades ago to please wife when he should've moved further out from Sydney central and built/ bought a newer house.
His wife refused to work, and complained all the time that he didn't earn enough money.
I went down the "Happy wife, happy life, within reason" route...but mostly luck saw me end ugood woman
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM: Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM: Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 15, 2022, 09:57:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

If only you understood things well enough to make a cogent response.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 10:37:04 PM: Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 09:57:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

If only you understood things well enough to make a cogent response.
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 15, 2022, 11:07:42 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 09:57:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

If only you understood things well enough to make a cogent response.
ROFL!

Still failing to make a cogent response.

Zzzzz
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 11:55:30 PM: Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 11:07:42 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 09:57:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

If only you understood things well enough to make a cogent response.
ROFL!

Still failing to make a cogent response.

Zzzzz
When you wake up on Election Day I hope you are prepared.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 16, 2022, 02:58:31 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 11:55:30 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 11:07:42 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 09:57:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Lie, deny, and obfuscate.

If only you understood things well enough to make a cogent response.
ROFL!

Still failing to make a cogent response.

Zzzzz
When you wake up on Election Day I hope you are prepared.

Godz, are you dense.

This is not a game. It's not about scoring points in some infantile debate in which to be honest or to admit mistakes means you lose.

The truth is the truth, even when you try to ignore it.

Regular gas' average price dropped about 10% in the last 4 weeks. And it climbed not because of Keystone or actions by the Democrats or even by the Republicans, except to the extent that they aided the Russians in prepping the war.

Inflation is international, not national.

And your image of climate change and solutions for it are incredibly broken.

I am "ready" for the Nov. 2022 and Nov 2024 election results, though I have cause to believe they are a lot more volatile than you seem to, jerk. But if you are right, I will be mourning the loss of American lives and world lives that will come as a result, while you are celebrating being right and your party's having scored points in a game.

I care about people.

You care about "winning," when you cannot even recognize that every time your side wins, America and the world are both losing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 16, 2022, 03:00:16 AM: And the best you can come up with is "LOL!" because you think it's funny and that my passion and beliefs are funny.

Or you have to pretend you think they are funny, or you might start to cry.

"LOL," Ward. "LOL" all the way to your and our graves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 16, 2022, 08:50:06 AM: People will DIE if Republicans win in '22, ESPN3. (Whatever that means)

Come on, man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 16, 2022, 09:18:09 AM: Quote from: josh on July 16, 2022, 02:58:31 AM

This is not a game. It's not about scoring points in some infantile debate in which to be honest or to admit mistakes means you lose.

At least two members here seem to have a diametrically opposite view. And if they can't make it a zero sum game, then they pound on the table until people get bored and wander off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 16, 2022, 09:56:10 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 08:19:45 PM
Quote from: josh on July 13, 2022, 08:14:08 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 13, 2022, 01:25:04 PM
This means it is PERMANENT not that it happened quickly.

Shooting is quicker than suffocation, than poison, and then most hanging.

You still miss the point. Thinking through it counts for time. Long thought before trigger.

No thought before you posted this drivel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 16, 2022, 10:29:09 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 16, 2022, 08:50:06 AM
People will DIE if Republicans win in '22, ESPN3. (Whatever that means)

Come on, man.

Republicans are pure evil. It is a good thing they are being tracked, monitored, and recorded by their phones and in some cases their cars and homes as well. Stopping republicans and people who cast votes for republicans is a matter of life and death.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 16, 2022, 11:50:27 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 16, 2022, 08:50:06 AM
People will DIE if Republicans win in '22, ESPN3. (Whatever that means)

Come on, man.

What impact do you think making abortions illegal will have, Kid? Do you think there will not be an increase in 'home-made' efforts? Do you not think there will be an increase in domestic violence against pregnant women and new mothers of unwanted children receiving forced child support?

What impact do you expect from rollbacks of Social Security or other safety net programs?

And remember that both Ward and I are talking about state elections, not just seats in Congress.

"Come on, man."

Instead of that, try a rational argument for why you expect the intended changes the GOP platform pushes won't result in the same additional deaths that they have amounted to every time in the past.

Love to hear your reasoning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 16, 2022, 12:02:45 PM: Do not forget those with whom Kid is in bed

http://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/16/neo-nazi-white-supremacist-teenagers-00045589 (http://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/16/neo-nazi-white-supremacist-teenagers-00045589)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 16, 2022, 12:51:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2022, 09:42:49 PM
Quote from: josh on July 15, 2022, 05:49:47 PM
Plenty of people who are not wealthy seem to do fine, but I cannot argue that almost anywhere in the world in which wealth exists they have a better chance of doing well in their old age. I know plenty of folks who were wealthy, but screwed it up and ended up in elder housing of one sort or another.

And wealth is not, yet at least, protection from dementia which leads to not doing well no matter how much money you have.
Was that a test script in preparing a word salad to replace Kamala?
LOL!

Word salad?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-speech-2656511495/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 16, 2022, 12:53:03 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 16, 2022, 10:29:09 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 16, 2022, 08:50:06 AM
People will DIE if Republicans win in '22, ESPN3. (Whatever that means)

Come on, man.

Republicans are pure evil. It is a good thing they are being tracked, monitored, and recorded by their phones and in some cases their cars and homes as well. Stopping republicans and people who cast votes for republicans is a matter of life and death.
Title: Re: News in - 968 years ago, today.
Post by: josh on July 16, 2022, 02:42:59 PM: On July 16, 1054, a delegation sent by Pope Leo in Rome marched into the Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople and laid a papal bull (an official pronouncement) on the altar, excommunicating Patriarch Michael Cerularius and his followers. Four days later Cerularius excommunicated Leo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 16, 2022, 03:16:03 PM: Great Schism! There was some doubt about the validity of the papal bull, since Leo had died a couple months earlier. Also doubt about the excommunication of Leo, due to his being already dead. Still, it does conjure an amusing imaginary skit...

I'm excommunicated? Well, you're excommunicated! You can't excommunicate me, I already excommunicated you! (etc.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 16, 2022, 03:20:01 PM: Then Fetterman flew a plane over weekend beachgoers on the New Jersey shore trailing a sign that said, HEY DR. OZ, WELCOME HOME TO NJ! [heart symbol] JOHN.

https://apnews.com/article/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-race-7ee6a7ef1e4a37fc8c6ebeaff79c9450

Heh!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 16, 2022, 09:15:06 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 14, 2022, 11:29:22 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2022, 04:10:25 PM
Fair housing?
Everybody equal in the real estate/housing game?
Friend of mine is 73, bad marriage, divorced, wife custody of kids, he stayed in home and worked two jobs.
Home now old and unlivable.
Depression etc saw him put on weight, now very overweight about 340lbs and walks with crutches.
He wants to rent a house or apartment, has the money, ...the properties go to young people with or without children.
He's had to resort to living in an aged care facility room.
He wants out of there so I told him to "flash the cash" at real estate agents, offer to pay all the rent in advance, at higher price than asking, and a bonus for the agent.
Seems to me that not much in life is fair and equal.
Seems to me that everything is a war.. in which only the rich do well.

Sounds like he fucked himself royally

His first mistake was going down the "happy wife, happy life" road.
He, a non-smoking, non-drinking, employed, white Christian male, was turned into a *doormat*.
Doormat idea was a dismal failure...his life was far from happy.
Then divorce, and his life turned into misery.
Kids gone, living alone, working 2 jobs, resentment, etc...eventually screwed with his mind.
"Happy wife, happy life" is all well and good, ...but should always have "within reason" attached.

There are supposed to be anti--discrimination laws re housing real estate, but owners and agents can be cunning.
So for the time being he's still in the aged care village (nursing home section)...a room, aircon, ensuite bathroom, tv with some cable, laundry done, room cleaned, dining room.
He's not poor. He's still in frugal-living mode, having had to fend for himself.
He's applied for a self-care apartment in the same village, kitchen, fridge, microwave, washing machine...he doesn't need nursing, just needs assisted living, cleaner.
As luck would have it, mrs bambu stayed around or I could have easily finished up like, and exactly where my friend is.
Although think I would've moved to the country, things are cheaper, and the women more 'accepting'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 17, 2022, 12:07:35 AM: Senior citizen villages are a great idea to help to solve the homelessness crisis here in California.

One area is California City, they could have senior citizen housing for the people 55 and over, and they can have golf, and good restaurants, and a movie theatre, and a bowling alley, etc. And they can have a great book store, etc, etc, etc.

http://www.californiacity-ca.gov

Link for the Golf Course in California City...

https://tierradelsolgolfclub.com/

As for me, I am very grateful for my 1 bedroom apartment here in Anaheim, I have been in this apartment since 2006. And the City of Anaheim is starting some new programs, and we are removing people who were corrupt. Anaheim is nice. Not as nice as Malibu, but still nice. And I have a film school ten miles away. I am lucky to be here until I publish my poetry book and get my movie script made or sold. And someday I hope to find a good woman, I would like to find a beautiful young woman about 30 years old and have a kid. And maybe I will find a woman who wants to write and produce with me, and do other things, and travel and do charity. Etc.

No time for resentment, nor jealousy, etc. Just want to be grateful, and try to make the most out of however much time I have here on Earth, and hopefully make a difference in the world while I am here.

I need to have a good attitude, and I need to be grateful, and I am optimistic about the future.

Here in Anaheim we are going to put a new 2% gate tax on Disneyland, and on the Angel games, etc, and we are going to use the money to help the homeless, and for mental health support, etc, and we can build swimming pools and tennis courts, there are many things we can do with the money. We can make Anaheim nicer. We can start a trajectory towards improvement. Our motto is City of Kindness, and Anaheim can be great. We need love, and kindness, and a good sense of community, and we are lucky to have the Angels, and the Ducks, and Disney, etc, and the Chapman film school, etc. We are blessed.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM: Cooler heads.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/judge-temporarily-blocks-biden-order-on-transgender-bathroom-use/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 17, 2022, 11:27:50 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/judge-temporarily-blocks-biden-order-on-transgender-bathroom-use/

No.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 17, 2022, 11:35:49 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.
Certainly does not pertain to Biden.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 17, 2022, 12:46:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 17, 2022, 11:35:49 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.
Certainly does not pertain to Biden.

You are both too thick to serve as soup.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 18, 2022, 01:34:30 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/judge-temporarily-blocks-biden-order-on-transgender-bathroom-use/

In bambuworld 'transgender' is a tricky thing.
One problem is males 'identifying' as females, but still having all the genitalia they were born with intact.
There was some trouble at a 'women only' seaside pool. Apparently some such 'males identifying' were not genuine and were looking too longingly at women who had left their swimsuit tops in the dressing room.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 18, 2022, 01:56:38 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 18, 2022, 01:34:30 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/judge-temporarily-blocks-biden-order-on-transgender-bathroom-use/

In bambuworld 'transgender' is a tricky thing.
One problem is males 'identifying' as females, but still having all the genitalia they were born with intact.
There was some trouble at a 'women only' seaside pool. Apparently some such 'males identifying' were not genuine and were looking too longingly at women who had left their swimsuit tops in the dressing room.

There is a bambu in every group...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 18, 2022, 06:37:52 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 18, 2022, 01:56:38 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 18, 2022, 01:34:30 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 17, 2022, 11:03:48 AM
Cooler heads.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/judge-temporarily-blocks-biden-order-on-transgender-bathroom-use/

In bambuworld 'transgender' is a tricky thing.
One problem is males 'identifying' as females, but still having all the genitalia they were born with intact.
There was some trouble at a 'women only' seaside pool. Apparently some such 'males identifying' were not genuine and were looking too longingly at women who had left their swimsuit tops in the dressing room.

There is a bambu in every group...

LOL
Not pretending to be a trans woman in the ladies only swimming group.
That would be called 'abusive' surely.
Trickery...of that kind, would mess with my mind.
My mind doesn't need any more piled onto it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 18, 2022, 11:04:41 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 16, 2022, 03:16:03 PM
Great Schism! There was some doubt about the validity of the papal bull, since Leo had died a couple months earlier. Also doubt about the excommunication of Leo, due to his being already dead. Still, it does conjure an amusing imaginary skit...

I'm excommunicated? Well, you're excommunicated! You can't excommunicate me, I already excommunicated you! (etc.)
Extra History used that exact joke in its series on Early Christian Schism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 18, 2022, 03:03:15 PM: Those the ones with the cartoon figures with detached heads? Think I saw one of their series about Genghis Khan. Will look for their Schisms series, thanks. (my mental picture involved Python actors for Leo and Cerularius and the legates.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 18, 2022, 03:08:58 PM: Yes. And I look forward to your becoming conversant in the differences between "homoousian" and "homoiousian". It is way more entertaining than it appears.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 18, 2022, 05:22:31 PM: I support a new 2% gate tax in Anaheim if the money is used for real social programs to help the people, including programs to help the abused women, and the foster children, and the drug addicts, and the extreme poor and disabled, etc. We also need to teach English to our new immigrants, and we need physical structures for clubs such as Kiwanis, and Scouting, etc.

But if the money is just going to go to raises for the cops and business as usual, then I do not support the tax. I am tired of the corruption, and if the money is just going to make the cops fatter, then I do not support it. But, if we create real social programs to help the most vulnerable, then I support the tax.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 18, 2022, 06:20:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 18, 2022, 03:08:58 PM
Yes. And I look forward to your becoming conversant in the differences between "homoousian" and "homoiousian". It is way more entertaining than it appears.

Well, I recall something about Santa Claus punching a guy in the face at Nicaea. Arius got the beatdown from He Who Would Later Be Jolly St. Nick for his notion that Christ was not co-eternal with God, therefore not divine but a subordinate created thingy. I expect there is some entertainment in the attempts to work out the essence of Christ leading to a brawl.. I have no recollection of those hideous vowel spillages you wrote, but will give the floating heads video a chance to illuminate. Or demystify or whatever the term is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 18, 2022, 06:49:09 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 18, 2022, 06:20:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 18, 2022, 03:08:58 PM
Yes. And I look forward to your becoming conversant in the differences between "homoousian" and "homoiousian". It is way more entertaining than it appears.

Well, I recall something about Santa Claus punching a guy in the face at Nicaea. Arius got the beatdown from He Who Would Later Be Jolly St. Nick for his notion that Christ was not co-eternal with God, therefore not divine but a subordinate created thingy. I expect there is some entertainment in the attempts to work out the essence of Christ leading to a brawl.. I have no recollection of those hideous vowel spillages you wrote, but will give the floating heads video a chance to illuminate. Or demystify or whatever the term is.
Homoousian is of the same substance (we now use the term "consubstantial" to us Catholics, I believe Protestants still use one in being, or similar language). Homoiousian is of a similar substance. And yes there were fights though to others it does not make one iota of difference. So to speak....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 18, 2022, 06:57:24 PM: one iota of difference

Har!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 18, 2022, 11:06:50 PM: We need to connect the 988 Line directly to our Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, and also safe houses for abused women ( some may have children with them when they escape ), etc.

We need to make sure that when people call the 988 number that there are the resources to support the number, when people call then the people need to be able to get help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 19, 2022, 10:56:36 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 18, 2022, 06:57:24 PM
one iota of difference

Har!
I wish I could claim that as original, but it is allegedly the source of the phrase, though it sounds retrofitted to me.

Anyway, some of my favorite EH bits, 8ncluding an April Fool joke and more disembodied heads than you can shake a disembodied fist at. The last ~~two~~ three are the first episodes of a series:

https://youtu.be/sjW8cq57Dl8

https://youtu.be/6QaBYLAOaSY

https://youtu.be/bJL2Vnc5vLo

https://youtu.be/S-wSL4WqUws

https://youtu.be/3ieaDfD_h6s

I like how they tell stories, and their focus being for the most part away from Western European history.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 19, 2022, 09:05:49 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/17/politics/state-legislation-lgbtq-rights/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 20, 2022, 12:05:07 AM: The Colt in Battle Mountain wants to train people for management positions, the Colt creates good jobs for people in Battle Mountain, including for our new immigrants.

Here is a post from the Colt that they placed on Facebook, the Colt provides good opportunities for the right people.

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Colt Inn Casino

The Colt Restaurant on W Front St and I-80 in Battle Mountain has an opportunity for a supervisor who would also like to start working towards a management career. We are looking for a guest focused, experienced individual dedicated to preparing and serving great food.

The successful candidate must be able to self direct, be highly productive, manage time well, be responsible/dependable- and have the references to back it up.

This position includes supervisor training for the front and back of house positions, and training in all skill positions. Be part of building our management team and contact us today!

Our menu ranges from pastas, steaks, and seafood and classic comfort foods to awesome breakfast entrees served 24 hours a day.

We offer a warm atmosphere, operate restaurants, travel plazas and casinos in a 3 state area, and have proudly been family owned for 59 years! Visit us today and learn about joining our team and the benefits that we offer:

* Sick Pay
* Medical Insurance
* Free employee meals
* Paid vacation and Holiday Pay
* Great advancement opportunities and wages

Visit us at the Colt Restaurant at 654 W Front St, Battle Mountain, NV 89820 (Exit 229 off I-80)

---------------

I worked at the Colt for 2 years as a cook, our head chef was a retired chef from Beverly Hills and they taught me how to cook and how to run a restaurant, I cooked and ran the night shift with me, and my waitress, and a dishwasher. One of my waitresses was the daughter of the Vice President of the Bank of New York. Mostly our customers were travelers including truckers, and local Gold miners, and some local ranchers and farmers, etc.

Battle Mountain is a good safe spot for our new immigrants, and land is only $1,000 per acre.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 12:26:23 AM: One man in a forum in bambuworld has as his signature:
"Teach your boys to be men, before their teachers teach them to be women".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 20, 2022, 01:59:16 AM: Like you he sounds like a whiny little bitch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 06:21:06 AM: Guns are great.
Americans are so lucky to be able to own and carry guns with which to protect themselves from vile, sadistic, killer scumbags lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Lovely fulltime RV couple James and Michelle Butler were murdered and their RV stolen by such vile scumbags, a man and a woman.
They killed James and Michelle and buried them in the sand dune behind their campsite on Padre Island Texas.
The vile killers then drove the stolen RV into Mexico.
Caught and extradicted back to Texas.
Killer an ex-con, tattooed neck, muscular...James and Michelle were easy prey.
*
After this, many in the RV community say they are now more security conscious.
*
If I were an RVer in America I'd be armed with an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM: https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 09:24:48 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM
https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

You can't even go camping anymore without finishing up dead and buried staring you in the face.

Campers have been turned into 'sitting ducks' by thieves and killers.
This must be changed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:05:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 06:21:06 AM
Guns are great.
Americans are so lucky to be able to own and carry guns with which to protect themselves from vile, sadistic, killer scumbags lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Lovely fulltime RV couple James and Michelle Butler were murdered and their RV stolen by such vile scumbags, a man and a woman.
They killed James and Michelle and buried them in the sand dune behind their campsite on Padre Island Texas.
The vile killers then drove the stolen RV into Mexico.
Caught and extradicted back to Texas.
Killer an ex-con, tattooed neck, muscular...James and Michelle were easy prey.
*
After this, many in the RV community say they are now more security conscious.
*
If I were an RVer in America I'd be armed with an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Whereupon the scumbag in question would have your dead body, an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Plus your RV in which to try to escape to Mexico.

Mostly, people don't walk around with all those weapons in their hands every minute of the day - and even if they did, if somebody comes up behind them and puts a gun to their heads, saying "drop the weapons," the weapons get dropped.

If the killer bothered talking to them at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:12:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 09:24:48 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM
https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

You can't even go camping anymore without finishing up dead and buried staring you in the face.

Campers have been turned into 'sitting ducks' by thieves and killers.
This must be changed.

9 million RVs.

1 murder of a pair of people using an RV.

In 2020, there was a rise of 867% in RV theft, bringing the number up to...

TWENTY-SIX. 26. The year before it was 3.

Most RVs are not stolen from campgrounds or while occupied.

"Sitting ducks."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:15:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 12:26:23 AM
One man in a forum in bambuworld has as his signature:
"Teach your boys to be men, before their teachers teach them to be women".

Excellent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:17:31 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:15:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 12:26:23 AM
One man in a forum in bambuworld has as his signature:
"Teach your boys to be men, before their teachers teach them to be women".

Excellent.

Stupid.

You are a misogynist.

But we knew that.

Nobody is teaching boys to be women.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM: Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM: Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 20, 2022, 02:06:24 PM: Kid, you should carve those words backward into your forehead so you see the best advice you have ever given yourself every time you catch your awful reflection in anything.

I hope you have never been allowed damaging contact with children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2022, 02:21:16 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.
Why? I also want to know what it means to "Teach your boys to be men".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 20, 2022, 02:37:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2022, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.
Why? I also want to know what it means to "Teach your boys to be men".
If Kid was anything other than an abject dol, I'd be interested in hearing his answer to this question, too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 20, 2022, 02:42:14 PM: Councilman Dr. Jose F. Moreno

12 hours

UPDATE: My proposal TO ALLOW the people of Anaheim to vote on a modest 2% gate tax died for a lack of a second despite an overwhelming support from residents at City Council. Democracy in Anaheim was dealt another blow tonight.

During council discussion of the item, questions were asked about nonprofit charitable events and concerns raised that working families were not able to pay this tax.

I offered to amend the resolution to exempt all nonprofits and charitable events from the gate tax, and - what was legally communicated today - to exempt residents. Those two amendments were included in the final motion with the proposal being voted 1 - 5 - 0 (Yes - No - Abstention). This includes a no vote from Council Member Avelino Valencia who suggested the concern about nonprofits and charitable events, and residents. Council members Valencia and Trevor ONeil expressed concerns of the highest inflation in over 40 years knowing that Disney had raised ticket prices by 6% by October 2021, 6 months after the parks pandemic reopening. We know Disney is going to raise prices regardless of inflation - Council chose to assure those increases go to corporate profits and not to the people of Anaheim.

On June 29, 2022, Anaheim council majority protected their source of revenue for their campaigns, the resort industry and PACs. On July 19, the council majority protected the resort and Disney interests, both at the cost of the families and children of Anaheim.

PACs are funded through corporate profits - Anaheim Council has protected its campaign revenue source by protecting corporate revenues - that is how a corrupt rigged system operates.

Tonight the council majority decided what was best for you, that they cannot trust you to decide on the tax. I hope that you will see that the election is being sponsored by these interests. I hope that the people of Anaheim will elect a council that will balance the needs of our people and our City in a much more substantial and nourishing way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 20, 2022, 02:53:49 PM: My Councilman attended Harvard, and he is right, the people in City Hall are protecting the people who pay for their campaigns, etc, instead of supporting the people of Anaheim. They are corrupt, and they do not support the people. We have one of the wealthiest companies in the world operating here, and yet our streets are full of homeless people, and it looks like a fucking ghetto in parts of Anaheim. We have gangs, we have drugs, we have mentally ill people, we have the abuse of women and children, and yet the City Council opposes taxing Disney to help our people here in the City of Anaheim.

A 2% gate tax would not hurt Disney, but it would really help the people of Anaheim, we could help our poor, and our disabled, and our abused women and children, and our foster children, etc, and we could clean things up.

We need to end the corruption, we need transparency, and we need to help our people.

It is wrong for us to have homeless and mentally ill people on the streets in the same neighborhood as Disneyland.

And it seems like Disney would want Anaheim to be nice. It would be good for Disney if Anaheim was nice. If Anaheim helps people and makes it nice, then that would be good for Disney. There is also good community relations involved, you would think that Disney would really want to have good relations with Anaheim.

I support Councilman Dr Moreno, and we need to elect a new council and Mayor here in Anaheim who are not corrupt and who will serve the people and help the homeless and the foster children and the abused women, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 20, 2022, 02:58:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 20, 2022, 02:37:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2022, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.
Why? I also want to know what it means to "Teach your boys to be men".
If Kid was anything other than an abject dolt, I'd be interested in hearing his answer to this question, too.

It begins with farting and belching competitions. Then tent assembly. Then lawn mowing. Then moving up to Darwin Award activities, which are formally begun with "Hey, watch this!". And finally, honoring the Sacred Code of Male Discussion: never speak the words "I don't know."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2022, 03:08:53 PM: It could be anything from, "Never stop and ask for direction" to

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiZY3qC8IQ

A boys gotta know what a mans gotta do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 20, 2022, 03:45:08 PM: Fullerton College

1 hour

Let us make some magic!

Beyond excited to share we will soon be part of the Disney Aspire program. We are ready to help make the education + career dreams of Disney employees + cast members come true at Fullerton College

---------

Very cool, Disney is working together with Fullerton Community College and with Cal State Fullerton to train people for jobs at Disney. That is what people need, they need to train for available jobs and they need to be able to go right to work at a job after they finish college. For people here in the OC with dreams of working for Disney then this is great news.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:26:26 PM: Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:05:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 06:21:06 AM
Guns are great.
Americans are so lucky to be able to own and carry guns with which to protect themselves from vile, sadistic, killer scumbags lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Lovely fulltime RV couple James and Michelle Butler were murdered and their RV stolen by such vile scumbags, a man and a woman.
They killed James and Michelle and buried them in the sand dune behind their campsite on Padre Island Texas.
The vile killers then drove the stolen RV into Mexico.
Caught and extradicted back to Texas.
Killer an ex-con, tattooed neck, muscular...James and Michelle were easy prey.
*
After this, many in the RV community say they are now more security conscious.
*
If I were an RVer in America I'd be armed with an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Whereupon the scumbag in question would have your dead body, an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Plus your RV in which to try to escape to Mexico.

Mostly, people don't walk around with all those weapons in their hands every minute of the day - and even if they did, if somebody comes up behind them and puts a gun to their heads, saying "drop the weapons," the weapons get dropped.

If the killer bothered talking to them at all.

The killer talked to *everyone* at the camp ground, including the guy who posted the video on YouTube.
Very friendly male and female killers they were, just like regular campers.
It could easily have been the guy who posted the video who was ķilled...people posting comments about it suggest it could have been his dog that saved him...killers choosing an easier target.
What I learnt from this YouTube video.
. Never trust anyone, especially strangers, including women...including smiling and friendly strangers.. Best to treat everyone you meet like they're
evil killers, until proven otherwise.
. Remote camping attracts thieves and killers.
. Wise people carry guns on their person 24/7 even when at home,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 04:32:09 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.

Answer the fucking question.

What do YOU mean by "teach boys to be women?"

Calling me a clown because you can't answer what you mean is pretty juvenile.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 04:35:41 PM: To Bambu -

And damn the stats that make it clear there is increased likelihood of suicide and increased likelihood of violence to and death of women.

Must be part of what Kid means by "teach boys to be men."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:38:09 PM: Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:12:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 09:24:48 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM
https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

You can't even go camping anymore without finishing up dead and buried staring you in the face.

Campers have been turned into 'sitting ducks' by thieves and killers.
This must be changed.

9 million RVs.

1 murder of a pair of people using an RV.

In 2020, there was a rise of 867% in RV theft, bringing the number up to...

TWENTY-SIX. 26. The year before it was 3.

Most RVs are not stolen from campgrounds or while occupied.

"Sitting ducks."

Theft from RV's and camp sites is very prevalent.
Everything is being stolen...bikes, generators, passports, camera gear, computers, fuel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 04:39:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:38:09 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:12:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 09:24:48 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM
https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

You can't even go camping anymore without finishing up dead and buried staring you in the face.

Campers have been turned into 'sitting ducks' by thieves and killers.
This must be changed.

9 million RVs.

1 murder of a pair of people using an RV.

In 2020, there was a rise of 867% in RV theft, bringing the number up to...

TWENTY-SIX. 26. The year before it was 3.

Most RVs are not stolen from campgrounds or while occupied.

"Sitting ducks."

Theft from RV's and camp sites is very prevalent.
Everything is being stolen...bikes, generators, passports, camera gear, computers, fuel.

Yup.

But not RVs and not murder of RV operators or passengers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 20, 2022, 05:36:05 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 02:58:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 20, 2022, 02:37:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2022, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:39:19 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 20, 2022, 12:35:24 PM
Just the "confused" ones. And that's OK, right?

Ignore the first hand accounts. Be you.

What does it mean to "teach boys to be women," Kid?

Please...clown - stop.
Why? I also want to know what it means to "Teach your boys to be men".
If Kid was anything other than an abject dolt, I'd be interested in hearing his answer to this question, too.

It begins with farting and belching competitions. Then tent assembly. Then lawn mowing. Then moving up to Darwin Award activities, which are formally begun with "Hey, watch this!". And finally, honoring the Sacred Code of Male Discussion: never speak the words "I don't know."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 20, 2022, 05:45:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:38:09 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:12:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 09:24:48 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 20, 2022, 09:00:37 AM
https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

You can't even go camping anymore without finishing up dead and buried staring you in the face.

Campers have been turned into 'sitting ducks' by thieves and killers.
This must be changed.

9 million RVs.

1 murder of a pair of people using an RV.

In 2020, there was a rise of 867% in RV theft, bringing the number up to...

TWENTY-SIX. 26. The year before it was 3.

Most RVs are not stolen from campgrounds or while occupied.

"Sitting ducks."

Theft from RV's and camp sites is very prevalent.
Everything is being stolen...bikes, generators, passports, camera gear, computers, fuel.

I lived in an RV park in the desert for 1 year, and it was good in some ways, and bad in others. It was cheap, and I ate good, and I had margaritas, and music, and stuff, it was cool, and in the desert you can see the stars in the sky at night, and we had a telescope, and we had a 7 Eleven 24 hour convenience store there. But, the people were all ex convicts, and mentally ill veterans, you had to be careful, some of the people were dangerous people, and then there was poor foster youth. The secret was that I fed everyone, I had three barbecue grills, and I cooked carne asada tacos for everyone, and I made margaritas for everyone. They all loved me because I am a good cook and I fed them all. Also of note is that it can be like a resort, or it can be a ghetto, it is all in your attitude and how you choose to live, people said that my RV site was like being in Malibu. I had outdoor lights, and good food and margaritas, I made the most of it. And I did not get murdered.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 20, 2022, 05:56:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:26:26 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:05:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 06:21:06 AM
Guns are great.
Americans are so lucky to be able to own and carry guns with which to protect themselves from vile, sadistic, killer scumbags lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Lovely fulltime RV couple James and Michelle Butler were murdered and their RV stolen by such vile scumbags, a man and a woman.
They killed James and Michelle and buried them in the sand dune behind their campsite on Padre Island Texas.
The vile killers then drove the stolen RV into Mexico.
Caught and extradicted back to Texas.
Killer an ex-con, tattooed neck, muscular...James and Michelle were easy prey.
*
After this, many in the RV community say they are now more security conscious.
*
If I were an RVer in America I'd be armed with an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Whereupon the scumbag in question would have your dead body, an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Plus your RV in which to try to escape to Mexico.

Mostly, people don't walk around with all those weapons in their hands every minute of the day - and even if they did, if somebody comes up behind them and puts a gun to their heads, saying "drop the weapons," the weapons get dropped.

If the killer bothered talking to them at all.

The killer talked to *everyone* at the camp ground, including the guy who posted the video on YouTube.
Very friendly male and female killers they were, just like regular campers.
It could easily have been the guy who posted the video who was ķilled...people posting comments about it suggest it could have been his dog that saved him...killers choosing an easier target.
What I learnt from this YouTube video.
. Never trust anyone, especially strangers, including women...including smiling and friendly strangers.. Best to treat everyone you meet like they're
evil killers, until proven otherwise.
. Remote camping attracts thieves and killers.
. Wise people carry guns on their person 24/7 even when at home,

I swear each time I read one of bambus post I hear Colin Hay and Men at Work WHO CAN IT BE NOW?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 20, 2022, 06:05:09 PM: I would not know about RVing and camping these days. In my youth boating with fam was cool until we got a cruiser and my stepdad turned into Captain Fucking Bligh! I built runabouts with my buds and we would go camping on the sand islands in the bay. That was my glorious teen years.

My wife and I agreed that going out and roughing it meant staying in an establishment that didn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 07:14:27 PM: Miami Swim Week 2022: Extreme micro bikini trend storms catwalk.

Ah yes, they remind me of Borat's mankinis.
About as sexy as a dead fish.
*
What about a nice one piece swimsuit?
Modesty is like 'comfortable'...never overrated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 20, 2022, 07:20:30 PM: Everybody carrying a gun leads to news items like this:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/us/arlene-alvarez-9-year-old-shooting/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 21, 2022, 02:29:05 AM: Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 07:20:30 PM
Everybody carrying a gun leads to news items like this:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/us/arlene-alvarez-9-year-old-shooting/index.html

The bad people carry guns, knives etc...as they invade/rob homes in America every few minutes of every day, often while people are at home.
If that Aussie guy with the American wife, and child, had gone to investigate a noise in their Texas home at night carrying an assault rifle ready to fire, he'd likely be still alive today and the home invaders dead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2022, 03:17:00 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 20, 2022, 05:56:18 PM

I swear each time I read one of bambus post I hear Colin Hay and Men at Work WHO CAN IT BE NOW?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2022, 03:19:25 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 07:14:27 PM
Miami Swim Week 2022: Extreme micro bikini trend storms catwalk.

Ah yes, they remind me of Borat's mankinis.
About as sexy as a dead fish.
*
What about a nice one piece swimsuit?
Modesty is like 'comfortable'...never overrated.

You pervy old creep. Leave the young ladies alone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 21, 2022, 04:31:36 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 20, 2022, 05:56:18 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 04:26:26 PM
Quote from: josh on July 20, 2022, 12:05:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 06:21:06 AM
Guns are great.
Americans are so lucky to be able to own and carry guns with which to protect themselves from vile, sadistic, killer scumbags lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Lovely fulltime RV couple James and Michelle Butler were murdered and their RV stolen by such vile scumbags, a man and a woman.
They killed James and Michelle and buried them in the sand dune behind their campsite on Padre Island Texas.
The vile killers then drove the stolen RV into Mexico.
Caught and extradicted back to Texas.
Killer an ex-con, tattooed neck, muscular...James and Michelle were easy prey.
*
After this, many in the RV community say they are now more security conscious.
*
If I were an RVer in America I'd be armed with an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Whereupon the scumbag in question would have your dead body, an assault rifle or two, a pump-action shotgun and multiple handguns.

Plus your RV in which to try to escape to Mexico.

Mostly, people don't walk around with all those weapons in their hands every minute of the day - and even if they did, if somebody comes up behind them and puts a gun to their heads, saying "drop the weapons," the weapons get dropped.

If the killer bothered talking to them at all.

The killer talked to *everyone* at the camp ground, including the guy who posted the video on YouTube.
Very friendly male and female killers they were, just like regular campers.
It could easily have been the guy who posted the video who was ķilled...people posting comments about it suggest it could have been his dog that saved him...killers choosing an easier target.
What I learnt from this YouTube video.
. Never trust anyone, especially strangers, including women...including smiling and friendly strangers.. Best to treat everyone you meet like they're
evil killers, until proven otherwise.
. Remote camping attracts thieves and killers.
. Wise people carry guns on their person 24/7 even when at home,

I swear each time I read one of bambus post I hear Colin Hay and Men at Work WHO CAN IT BE NOW?

Pity James (US Navy veteran) and Michelle Butler who were murdered at the free beach campsite Padre Island Texas hadn't been prepared for the worst, been stranger danger aware, and armed with guns ready to fire.
One report said they'd driven their truck and RV..."pickup truck towing large caravan" in bambuland speak, out of the $25per night RV park and to one of the free beach campsites.
Reportedly killed near there...bodies partly clothed, indicating they met a very horrible end to their lives.
No cause of death released anywhere I can find.
Near an area where "people who don't know each other go to meet and hang out"...RV community life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 21, 2022, 04:37:00 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 21, 2022, 03:19:25 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2022, 07:14:27 PM
Miami Swim Week 2022: Extreme micro bikini trend storms catwalk.

Ah yes, they remind me of Borat's mankinis.
About as sexy as a dead fish.
*
What about a nice one piece swimsuit?
Modesty is like 'comfortable'...never overrated.

You pervy old creep. Leave the young ladies alone.

Featured story in my newspaper today.
Interesting given Me Too and women complaining about being objectified.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 21, 2022, 12:17:50 PM: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-technology-hydrogen-fuel-climate-and-environment-73ee387993a5d252083e3c000e6f3276

Green hydrogen might help save an old coal town. Another positive move towards solving the problems of intermittent power sources.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 21, 2022, 12:49:25 PM: cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/chicago-13-year-old-paralyzed-police/index.html

Unarmed 13 year old. He raised his hands as he turned toward the chasing police. One saw a cell phone in the kid's hand and reacted, he says, because it could have been a gun.

Oddly enough, we don't see what he saw because he didn't turn his bodycam on until 40 seconds after he shot.

The kid's "crime?" Running from a stolen car in which he had been a passenger.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 21, 2022, 01:09:05 PM: Quote from: sardine can on July 21, 2022, 12:17:50 PM
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-technology-hydrogen-fuel-climate-and-environment-73ee387993a5d252083e3c000e6f3276

Green hydrogen might help save an old coal town. Another positive move towards solving the problems of intermittent power sources.
As always. With the good there is bad.

But whether and how much a hydrogen revolution helps the climate and whether taxpayer and investor money is well spent depends on how the gas is produced, managed and used. Avoiding unintended consequences may require hydrogen advocates to curb their enthusiasm as they follow the science.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydrogen-isnt-as-green-as-it-looks-subsidies-climate-atmosphere-leakage-methane-warming-infrastructure-11658261653?mod=opinion_major_pos6 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydrogen-isnt-as-green-as-it-looks-subsidies-climate-atmosphere-leakage-methane-warming-infrastructure-11658261653?mod=opinion_major_pos6)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 21, 2022, 02:23:29 PM: H2 produced from NG is less green. Sardine's article is about electrolytic H2, which is the better alternative. And serves as "battery" backup where offpeak production can be stored. Nice try with the strawman.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 21, 2022, 02:32:18 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 21, 2022, 02:23:29 PM
H2 produced from NG is less green. Sardine's article is about electrolytic H2, which is the better alternative. And serves as "battery" backup where offpeak production can be stored. Nice try with the strawman.
That was no straw man., Sardine.The point is that Hydrogen may have advantages in certain situations but not in others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 21, 2022, 02:35:43 PM: The point is that it has advantages in the specific situation described in Utah. That's why they're doing it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2022, 02:41:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 21, 2022, 01:09:05 PM
Quote from: sardine can on July 21, 2022, 12:17:50 PM
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-technology-hydrogen-fuel-climate-and-environment-73ee387993a5d252083e3c000e6f3276

Green hydrogen might help save an old coal town. Another positive move towards solving the problems of intermittent power sources.
As always. With the good there is bad.

But whether and how much a hydrogen revolution helps the climate and whether taxpayer and investor money is well spent depends on how the gas is produced, managed and used. Avoiding unintended consequences may require hydrogen advocates to curb their enthusiasm as they follow the science.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydrogen-isnt-as-green-as-it-looks-subsidies-climate-atmosphere-leakage-methane-warming-infrastructure-11658261653?mod=opinion_major_pos6 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydrogen-isnt-as-green-as-it-looks-subsidies-climate-atmosphere-leakage-methane-warming-infrastructure-11658261653?mod=opinion_major_pos6)

Right. Do not let any of the complete crooks in charge of or involved in the fossil fuel industry get involved. They have proven constantly that they do not manage money well or care for or maintain their facilities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 02:43:01 PM: Brittney Griner Dear Mrs. Griner, We hope this letter finds you in good health and we understand you are having some rough times in your life. We are a group of old Vietnam Combat Veterans from North Carolina. Our average age is around seventy years old. We call ourselves, The Bunker Boys. We spent a lot of time living in rat and snake infested holes in the ground known as Bunkers. When we were not in the bunkers we were crawling through the jungle being shot at and shooting back at little people wearing black pajamas. We must be honest and tell you that the only thing we may have in common with you, is that we too, were drafted. We noticed you were drafted number one in the WNBA draft a few years ago. Since we all were drafted we thought we might let you know what it was like when we were drafted. Unlike you, most of us had no college. The people of the United States drafted us. We consisted of all colors, religions and personal beliefs. We had no choice of which team we played for Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines.
We were sent halfway around the world to fight and kill people we didnt know in a place we had never heard of. We were paid, we know you can relate to this, 3.00 a day and required to work 24 hours a day if needed. When we returned home many or most of us were treated very badly by our fellow Americans. We were spit on, hit by bottles and rocks as the police stood by and watched. We did not complain, we just continued on in life and made the best of it. We fought for God, family, country and of course, the Flag and the National Anthem a poem that was written by, of all people, a lawyer. He wrote the poem as he watched bombs fall on and kill fellow Americans. Ever since that night, our nation has played that little poem before millions of social functions. For some people its just a little song. For a Veteran it is a reminder of how many men and women of all colors, have given their life so the rest can have the right to be free. We found in our research that you requested the National Anthem not be played at sporting events. We find it odd that now you are requesting the citizens of the United States to pay for your release from a jail in Russia. Yes, we the taxpayers are paying for all of those diplomats working on your release. Our Government told you, and all fellow Americans in Russia, to leave Russia after the invasion of the Ukraine. You play basketball in a country that is known to treat Americans badly. You fly a great deal and must know by now, all the rules of what one can bring into a country. All of us that travel know the rules for entering a foreign country. You are a guest and must go by the rules of the land. By your own admission, you were attempting to bring an illegal substance into a country that is known for its long prison sentences. You had to know this because you are making a million dollars a year to play a game and hold a college degree. At six feet nine inches tall, you know that security officers are going to focus on you from the moment you stand in the boarding pass line. We also noticed that you are now saying you placed the drugs in your luggage by accident. Please, that is something an 18 year old would say. We also found out that your net worth is somewhere around 5 million bucks for playing a game. For old guys like us, living on a fixed income, thats a lot of money for just playing a game. Dont get us wrong we are not against you. We all went and fought so all Americans can have the freedom to make their own choices. We just hope the next time you have to endure the playing of that little poem, you will pay close attention to the, Land of the free, part. Wishing you the very best, The Bunker Boys
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 21, 2022, 02:48:22 PM: Nice when the apostrophe chops short a butt load of drivel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 02:53:42 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 21, 2022, 02:48:22 PM
Nice when the apostrophe chops short a butt load of drivel.

Que'?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 21, 2022, 02:59:06 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 21, 2022, 02:35:43 PM
The point is that it has advantages in the specific situation described in Utah. That's why they're doing it.
Good for them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 21, 2022, 03:21:46 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 02:43:01 PM
Brittney Griner Dear Mrs. Griner,

The Bunker Boys

What a stupid letter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2022, 05:08:21 PM: Quote from: sardine can on July 21, 2022, 12:17:50 PM
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-technology-hydrogen-fuel-climate-and-environment-73ee387993a5d252083e3c000e6f3276

Green hydrogen might help save an old coal town. Another positive move towards solving the problems of intermittent power sources.

It is a full blown global emergency, so hope and options are good things.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/21/2111772/-Agrivoltaics-pairs-solar-panels-with-farming-solving-multiple-climate-caused-problems (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/21/2111772/-Agrivoltaics-pairs-solar-panels-with-farming-solving-multiple-climate-caused-problems)

We should be doing this on a Marshall Plan and New Deal level at the same time.

A side benefit is how many republicans and other ugly thugs it would put out of business.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 21, 2022, 05:27:57 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 02:43:01 PM
Brittney Griner Dear Mrs. Griner, We hope this letter finds you in good health and we understand you are having some rough times in your life. We are a group of old Vietnam Combat Veterans from North Carolina. Our average age is around seventy years old. We call ourselves, The Bunker Boys. We spent a lot of time living in rat and snake infested holes in the ground known as Bunkers. When we were not in the bunkers we were crawling through the jungle being shot at and shooting back at little people wearing black pajamas. We must be honest and tell you that the only thing we may have in common with you, is that we too, were drafted. We noticed you were drafted number one in the WNBA draft a few years ago. Since we all were drafted we thought we might let you know what it was like when we were drafted. Unlike you, most of us had no college. The people of the United States drafted us. We consisted of all colors, religions and personal beliefs. We had no choice of which team we played for Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines.
We were sent halfway around the world to fight and kill people we didnt know in a place we had never heard of. We were paid, we know you can relate to this, 3.00 a day and required to work 24 hours a day if needed. When we returned home many or most of us were treated very badly by our fellow Americans. We were spit on, hit by bottles and rocks as the police stood by and watched. We did not complain, we just continued on in life and made the best of it. We fought for God, family, country and of course, the Flag and the National Anthem a poem that was written by, of all people, a lawyer. He wrote the poem as he watched bombs fall on and kill fellow Americans. Ever since that night, our nation has played that little poem before millions of social functions. For some people its just a little song. For a Veteran it is a reminder of how many men and women of all colors, have given their life so the rest can have the right to be free. We found in our research that you requested the National Anthem not be played at sporting events. We find it odd that now you are requesting the citizens of the United States to pay for your release from a jail in Russia. Yes, we the taxpayers are paying for all of those diplomats working on your release. Our Government told you, and all fellow Americans in Russia, to leave Russia after the invasion of the Ukraine. You play basketball in a country that is known to treat Americans badly. You fly a great deal and must know by now, all the rules of what one can bring into a country. All of us that travel know the rules for entering a foreign country. You are a guest and must go by the rules of the land. By your own admission, you were attempting to bring an illegal substance into a country that is known for its long prison sentences. You had to know this because you are making a million dollars a year to play a game and hold a college degree. At six feet nine inches tall, you know that security officers are going to focus on you from the moment you stand in the boarding pass line. We also noticed that you are now saying you placed the drugs in your luggage by accident. Please, that is something an 18 year old would say. We also found out that your net worth is somewhere around 5 million bucks for playing a game. For old guys like us, living on a fixed income, thats a lot of money for just playing a game. Dont get us wrong we are not against you. We all went and fought so all Americans can have the freedom to make their own choices. We just hope the next time you have to endure the playing of that little poem, you will pay close attention to the, Land of the free, part. Wishing you the very best, The Bunker Boys

Do you and your Bunker Boys have any idea how many people she has on payroll?

Old white men always wanna be in the pockets of Black folks who made use of their talent and skills.

This is a stupid letter from simpletons posted by a simpleton.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 05:57:54 PM: Do you and your Bunker Boys have any idea how many people she has on payroll?

uhhh ... one?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 05:58:22 PM: Unless her wife is also on for tax purposes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 21, 2022, 11:20:58 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 05:57:54 PM
Do you and your Bunker Boys have any idea how many people she has on payroll?

uhhh ... one?

I thought you knew how pro sports works...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 22, 2022, 04:05:23 AM: Kid dont know shit.

He talks shit, but he dont know shit.

He is the quintessential punk ass bitch.

That is why his mother disowned him and he thinks he has white parents.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 10:13:26 AM: Wow.

On 2 forums and at 4 am?

Sad, man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 12:26:05 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 21, 2022, 11:20:58 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 05:57:54 PM
Do you and your Bunker Boys have any idea how many people she has on payroll?

uhhh ... one?

I thought you knew how pro sports works...

Are you including her drug source?

Heh

Personal trainer? Yeah, OK, with agent that makes two.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 22, 2022, 12:43:47 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 10:13:26 AM
Wow.

On 2 forums and at 4 am?

Sad, man.

I see the arcane mysteries of time zones continue to baffle you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 01:21:43 PM: Doesn't change the "sad" part.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 22, 2022, 01:27:52 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 12:26:05 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 21, 2022, 11:20:58 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 21, 2022, 05:57:54 PM
Do you and your Bunker Boys have any idea how many people she has on payroll?

uhhh ... one?

I thought you knew how pro sports works...

Are you including her drug source?
Legally purchased under a prescription.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 02:02:39 PM: Hear some white folk were brawling at Disney World....

Oh, wait....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 02:03:09 PM: Maybe Mickey didnt look at her properly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 22, 2022, 02:37:35 PM: Damn right I'm in the front row. Best possible seat to view the rare Kidcarterus Moronus, the world's stupidest man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 02:39:47 PM: Good on ya, pal. I am simply the product here of this environment. Nice to see you are still around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:04:43 PM: Oh, Justine!

https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/nc-towns-entire-police-force-quits-in-protest/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 22, 2022, 06:09:09 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 01:21:43 PM
Doesn't change the "sad" part.

The fact that your evenings consist of an early bird special, diaper change, a fox bullshit enema, then bed does not make it sad that most people are getting more out of life than you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 22, 2022, 06:14:29 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:04:43 PM
Oh, Justine!

https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/nc-towns-entire-police-force-quits-in-protest/

Now the town is rid of its criminal element, it can hire real cops and get on the road to safety and prosperity that the citizens want.

Let us hope more like Justine rise to the top and stay there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 22, 2022, 06:26:41 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 22, 2022, 06:14:29 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:04:43 PM
Oh, Justine!

https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/nc-towns-entire-police-force-quits-in-protest/

Now the town is rid of its criminal element, it can hire real cops and get on the road to safety and prosperity that the citizens want.

Let us hope more like Justine rise to the top and stay there.

The lack of specifics is somewhat telling - not so much in the resignation letter, but in the intervening 7 weeks since she was hired. No complaints about her in the local papers.

I suspect some dirt will be forthcoming, but from and about whom is a matter of conjecture.

OTOH, if the resigning police had a grievance, I would have expected it to have already been filed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:28:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 22, 2022, 06:14:29 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:04:43 PM
Oh, Justine!

https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/nc-towns-entire-police-force-quits-in-protest/

Now the town is rid of its criminal element, it can hire real cops and get on the road to safety and prosperity that the citizens want.

Let us hope more like Justine rise to the top and stay there.

Nah - something tells me that at the emergency meeting she will be shitcanned. But do update us.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:31:19 PM: OTOH, if the resigning police had a grievance, I would have expected it to have already been filed.

Not everything "filed" is made public

"Toxic environment". You're right - could be a lot of things.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 22, 2022, 06:39:45 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 06:31:19 PM
OTOH, if the resigning police had a grievance, I would have expected it to have already been filed.

Not everything "filed" is made public

"Toxic environment". You're right - could be a lot of things.

You don't work in a small town government, I take it.

I've watched how numerous towns respond to such things, from the government to the papers to the social media. These folks have not been grousing either in public or to their friends about it. It is very curious.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 22, 2022, 07:11:00 PM: Police the police

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aNtxvoBXR4
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 22, 2022, 07:53:35 PM: Re:

Last night hearing...

Quote from: LarryBnDC on January 14, 2021, 10:57:54 PM
Quote from: josh on January 14, 2021, 10:47:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 14, 2021, 08:41:43 PM
More threads

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-large-bitcoin-payments-to-rightwing-activists-a-month-before-capitol-riot-linked-to-foreign-account-181954668.html (http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-large-bitcoin-payments-to-rightwing-activists-a-month-before-capitol-riot-linked-to-foreign-account-181954668.html)

So... once again, the right wing is being used by foreign powers to destabilize America, while claiming to be patriots.

Why is this unsurprising?

Most of the western world has a large segment of far right ideologues who use Brevik’s manifesto as a game plan.

They made a move here in DC to decapitate the US government and if not for that segment of the Capitol Police who literally fought for their lives (as well as the lives of the members) those motherfuckers could have succeeded.

These motherfuckers want Racial Holy War.

Achtung, bitches.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 22, 2022, 08:51:43 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 22, 2022, 07:11:00 PM
Police the police

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aNtxvoBXR4

Dark Reaper in the comments:

"No one has the right to put their hands on a woman for any reason".

WRONG!!!

What if she's throwing plates, lamps, vases at you and is blocking your exit from the room?
What if she's punched you in the head 50 times and has dragged you to the floor by the genitals 5 times? All detailed in Current Affairs program "When wives attack" on my tv.
The man finally hit her back, he was arrested.
What is she's inya face wielding a knife? [one of my very famous footballers, who happens to be Indigenous, was arrested for 'hitting a woman'...front page photo of him, the headline reading "the lowest blow". Oh the shame, the ridicule, the hate horrendous.]
Then the trial. he facing prison time.
The trial went along, he admitted to causing the marks on his partner's face...people were shocked, he a role model in the community for Indigenous youth etc. He still is, a good guy.
Then the defence lawyers had their turn.
All of a sudden the trial was halted, the victim had made a new statement to the police...saying that her partner hadn't hit her but had pushed her back because she'd had a knife in her hand and was very close to him...that she had then struck her face/head on a bed or cabinet or something.
Something about self harm and he trying to stop her or something.
He was still convicted of domestic violence or something but was only sent to do a self help program or something.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 09:46:27 PM: California's Newsom not a total zero

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/california-newsom-gun-bill-texas-abortion-law/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 23, 2022, 02:12:30 AM: Hey!

It is 2 AM (ha! Twilight Zone by Golden Earring) and I am posting in two forums. Sad!

LOL

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1550679929666211840?s=21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 23, 2022, 10:39:25 AM: https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-police-now-under-fire-have-a-history-of-secrecy-224742012.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 23, 2022, 10:58:36 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 23, 2022, 10:39:25 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-police-now-under-fire-have-a-history-of-secrecy-224742012.html

Old fake news
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 23, 2022, 02:11:28 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 23, 2022, 10:39:25 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-police-now-under-fire-have-a-history-of-secrecy-224742012.html

same posts in two forums at 10:40am. Sad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:25:42 PM: The bad people are "armed and dangerous" ......the camp ground killer was, cops said when looking for him and his girlfriend.
Notice how the bad men always have a girlfriend but the good men don't.
*
If the good people are not armed and very cautious, very security-aware, and very stranger-danger aware they have no hope.
. Never open the door.
. Never go outside.
. Never get out of the car.
. Never get involved.
...are good rules to live by.

"Who Can It Be Now? indeed.
Could be a serial killer knocking on your door...looking to trick you into opening your door so he can torture you to death.
Could be a scammer of many different varieties.
If you haven't invited someone to knock on your door, anyone knocking on your door is trouble of some kind.
Ignore them and eventually they go away, or try to break in...in that case you can just shoot them or scare them off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 23, 2022, 02:47:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:25:42 PM
The bad people are "armed and dangerous" ......the camp ground killer was, cops said when looking for him and his girlfriend.
Notice how the bad men always have a girlfriend but the good men don't.

No, the good guy had a wife.

Dolt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:53:14 PM: Quote from: josh on July 23, 2022, 02:47:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:25:42 PM
The bad people are "armed and dangerous" ......the camp ground killer was, cops said when looking for him and his girlfriend.
Notice how the bad men always have a girlfriend but the good men don't.

No, the good guy had a wife.

Dolt.

Not always.
Only 4% of women find the men on Tinder acceptable, but 70% of men find the women on Tinder
acceptable.....
survey says.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 23, 2022, 03:30:04 PM: Never open the door.
. Never go outside.
. Never get out of the car.
. Never get involved.
...are good rules to live by

That's not a life. That's a cowardly and fearful
existence.

Might as well save yourself from the extremely low chance of being killed by a serial killer and just take yourself out, if you call that "good rules to live by".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 23, 2022, 04:03:40 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 22, 2022, 09:46:27 PM
California's Newsom not a total zero

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/california-newsom-gun-bill-texas-abortion-law/index.html

Posting cluelessly at AM or PM. Sad. This would set up a terrible model for jurisprudence and Newsom knows it. It's a bad idea in Texas, turning anyone into a moral vigilante. Applying it to some other issue, no matter how positive it might seem, is a bad idea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 23, 2022, 04:05:45 PM: There is no way to take advantage of the flawed logic of the Texas law, the ACLU California Action wrote in a letter to the legislative authors of the (CA gun) bill, adding,

Replicating the reprehensible Texas model only serves to legitimize and promote it, as evidenced by the copycat measures already enacted in some states, with many more pending around the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 23, 2022, 04:14:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:53:14 PM
Quote from: josh on July 23, 2022, 02:47:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 02:25:42 PM
The bad people are "armed and dangerous" ......the camp ground killer was, cops said when looking for him and his girlfriend.
Notice how the bad men always have a girlfriend but the good men don't.

No, the good guy had a wife.

Dolt.

Not always.
Only 4% of women find the men on Tinder acceptable, but 70% of men find the women on Tinder
acceptable.....
survey says.

Tells us mor about Tinder than anything else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 06:49:58 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 23, 2022, 03:30:04 PM
Never open the door.
. Never go outside.
. Never get out of the car.
. Never get involved.
...are good rules to live by

That's not a life. That's a cowardly and fearful
existence.

Might as well save yourself from the extremely low chance of being killed by a serial killer and just take yourself out, if you call that "good rules to live by".

mmm, missed in the translation was...
. Never open the door ...to strangers, they'll only be trying to sell you something, scam you, preach their religion and tell you guns are evil, ...or worse.
. Never go outside...if people are in the street making a noise or arguing...that's how the Aussie woman got herself shot dead by the US cop accidentally.
. Never get out of the car.... in a road rage incident, it's only inviting danger upon your person.
. Never get involved in other
people's lives, problems etc...except in life or death situations where you might be able to help without any serious repercussions for you.
Woman next door and her children being bashed up, for example.
Call the cops.
Gotta love the cops, the good ones.
Even the bad ones on duty would likely save a woman and children from harm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 23, 2022, 11:17:58 PM: Gotta love the cops, the good ones.
Even the bad ones on duty would likely save a woman and children from harm.

If they do not shoot them first
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 24, 2022, 12:12:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 06:49:58 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 23, 2022, 03:30:04 PM
Never open the door.
. Never go outside.
. Never get out of the car.
. Never get involved.
...are good rules to live by

That's not a life. That's a cowardly and fearful
existence.

Might as well save yourself from the extremely low chance of being killed by a serial killer and just take yourself out, if you call that "good rules to live by".

mmm, missed in the translation was...
. Never open the door ...to strangers, they'll only be trying to sell you something, scam you, preach their religion and tell you guns are evil, ...or worse.
. Never go outside...if people are in the street making a noise or arguing...that's how the Aussie woman got herself shot dead by the US cop accidentally.
. Never get out of the car.... in a road rage incident, it's only inviting danger upon your person.
. Never get involved in other
people's lives, problems etc...except in life or death situations where you might be able to help without any serious repercussions for you.
Woman next door and her children being bashed up, for example.
Call the cops.
Gotta love the cops, the good ones.
Even the bad ones on duty would likely save a woman and children from harm.

Keep at it, coward.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:16:48 PM: Hallmark movie:
"It's a lot more work, but not a lot more money".
*
"It doesn't pay a lot".

#####

Are employers in America paying employees enough?
...or are they taking advantage?...low-paying them all?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:26:01 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 24, 2022, 12:12:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 23, 2022, 06:49:58 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on July 23, 2022, 03:30:04 PM
Never open the door.
. Never go outside.
. Never get out of the car.
. Never get involved.
...are good rules to live by

That's not a life. That's a cowardly and fearful
existence.

Might as well save yourself from the extremely low chance of being killed by a serial killer and just take yourself out, if you call that "good rules to live by".

mmm, missed in the translation was...
. Never open the door ...to strangers, they'll only be trying to sell you something, scam you, preach their religion and tell you guns are evil, ...or worse.
. Never go outside...if people are in the street making a noise or arguing...that's how the Aussie woman got herself shot dead by the US cop accidentally.
. Never get out of the car.... in a road rage incident, it's only inviting danger upon your person.
. Never get involved in other
people's lives, problems etc...except in life or death situations where you might be able to help without any serious repercussions for you.
Woman next door and her children being bashed up, for example.
Call the cops.
Gotta love the cops, the good ones.
Even the bad ones on duty would likely save a woman and children from harm.

Keep at it, coward.

I was called such long ago by women co-workers because I didn't chase a bank robber (note to a teller, no gun sighted) into the bowels of a building with other male staff.
That was about the time I really embraced the very wise words of my first boss (bank manager)...and my attitude to those female co-workers/all co-workers changed forever.
"Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will."
What was in it for me, the bank robber could've had a gun or a knife.
At that time in my life I was still a polite, well mannered doormat co-worker so I didn't say anything to the young women.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 24, 2022, 11:40:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:26:01 PM
I was called such long ago by women co-workers because I didn't chase a bank robber (note to a teller, no gun sighted) into the bowels of a building with other male staff.
That was about the time I really embraced the very wise words of my first boss (bank manager)...and my attitude to those female co-workers/all co-workers changed forever.
"Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will."

There you were with a bunch of living contrary examples - people looking out for others.

And the lesson you learned was that nobody would look out for you, only for themselves.

You were wearing blinders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 11:49:32 PM: Young British couple...Alex and Emma, very nice people...vanlifers...went to America to tour around...bought an older model classic campervan in America.
They post on Youtube as 'Travel Beans'.

They had it checked by a mechanic.
They were about to move all their things into it ready to start their American adventure...were doing last minute shopping etc...when Alex noticed smoke coming from underneath his side of the van, so he got out to investigate.
Seeing flames underneath the van and Emma still inside he called to her to get out...which she did before the van erupted into a massive fireball on the highway.
The black smoke seen for miles.
Before it erupted into a fireball a man stopped and tried to put out the flames under the fan with a fire extinguisher, to no avail.

Youtube "Travel Beans" and scroll down to "Our Campervan Was Destroyed" [about 11 videos down...you can't miss it, it's the one with the flaming campervan pictured].

*

Would I have stopped and tried to put out the fire, like the man did?
Would you have?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 25, 2022, 12:04:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:16:48 PM
Hallmark movie:
"It's a lot more work, but not a lot more money".
*
"It doesn't pay a lot".

#####

Are employers in America paying employees enough?
...or are they taking advantage?...low-paying them all?

As an actor I would love to work on Hallmark movies, I like those kind of movies. Also as a director.

I also like Soap Operas such as The Young and the Restless. Those are good jobs for actors.

Also, I would like to act and make movies at Cinecitta, in Rome, they are true craftsmen there.

And Bambu, the Union jobs are good jobs in the USA, even for the United Farm Workers, but the non-union jobs are a waste. Workers are living in their cars.

Also, In N Out Burger jobs are good jobs, and they pay their managers $120,000 per year.

In Nevada the casinos have good jobs, you can always find a job at a casino.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 25, 2022, 02:08:44 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 11:49:32 PM
Young British couple...Alex and Emma, very nice people...vanlifers...went to America to tour around...bought an older model classic campervan in America.
They post on Youtube as 'Travel Beans'.

They had it checked by a mechanic.
They were about to move all their things into it ready to start their American adventure...were doing last minute shopping etc...when Alex noticed smoke coming from underneath his side of the van, so he got out to investigate.
Seeing flames underneath the van and Emma still inside he called to her to get out...which she did before the van erupted into a massive fireball on the highway.
The black smoke seen for miles.
Before it erupted into a fireball a man stopped and tried to put out the flames under the fan with a fire extinguisher, to no avail.

Youtube "Travel Beans" and scroll down to "Our Campervan Was Destroyed" [about 11 videos down...you can't miss it, it's the one with the flaming campervan pictured].

*

Would I have stopped and tried to put out the fire, like the man did?
Would you have?

I would. You would not.

Simple question. Simple answer.

Simpleton.

I would have also called for more help than I could provide.

And when my efforts failed, I would have given them a ride to more help.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2022, 07:12:38 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 25, 2022, 12:04:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:16:48 PM
Hallmark movie:
"It's a lot more work, but not a lot more money".
*
"It doesn't pay a lot".

#####

Are employers in America paying employees enough?
...or are they taking advantage?...low-paying them all?

As an actor I would love to work on Hallmark movies, I like those kind of movies. Also as a director.

I also like Soap Operas such as The Young and the Restless. Those are good jobs for actors.

Also, I would like to act and make movies at Cinecitta, in Rome, they are true craftsmen there.

And Bambu, the Union jobs are good jobs in the USA, even for the United Farm Workers, but the non-union jobs are a waste. Workers are living in their cars.

Also, In N Out Burger jobs are good jobs, and they pay their managers $120,000 per year.

In Nevada the casinos have good jobs, you can always find a job at a casino.

Salute,

Tony V.

Thanks for that, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2022, 02:40:28 PM: The Pope is in Canada, apologizing to the Indigenous People for the sins of the past, including for the boarding schools. The Pope is from Argentina, and the Indigenous People love him in Canada. The Pope has been in Canada for 2 days, at a stadium. I hope this can start a new chapter for the Indigenous People of Canada and for the Church.

Also, Ashley Callingbull is in the current Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Ashley said that she felt like the Indigenous People did not have a voice in Canada, but now people listen to her because she is a famous model, and she loves that people listen to her now. People care what she has to say because she is famous now, and she loves having a voice. She is doing a lot to help the Indigenous People in Canada.

That is what we need to do in Hollywood, we need to have the Pope come bless the Homeless People in Hollywood while he is here in the Western Hemisphere, and we need for the local stars to help the Homeless People here, etc, and we need for the Homeless People to have a voice. If I was famous I would be helping the homeless people in Hollywood, and I would be bringing jobs to Hollywood, etc. And I would help to bring a new movie studio to Anaheim, etc. We can also have a new studio in the desert, for the people who like to film in the desert, etc. ( Of note, the new movie "Nope" was filmed here in California and they created good jobs for local people here, they filmed it in Aqua Dulce and in Santa Clarita, at the Firestone Ranch, etc. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2022, 02:43:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2022, 07:12:38 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 25, 2022, 12:04:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 24, 2022, 12:16:48 PM
Hallmark movie:
"It's a lot more work, but not a lot more money".
*
"It doesn't pay a lot".

#####

Are employers in America paying employees enough?
...or are they taking advantage?...low-paying them all?

As an actor I would love to work on Hallmark movies, I like those kind of movies. Also as a director.

I also like Soap Operas such as The Young and the Restless. Those are good jobs for actors.

Also, I would like to act and make movies at Cinecitta, in Rome, they are true craftsmen there.

And Bambu, the Union jobs are good jobs in the USA, even for the United Farm Workers, but the non-union jobs are a waste. Workers are living in their cars.

Also, In N Out Burger jobs are good jobs, and they pay their managers $120,000 per year.

In Nevada the casinos have good jobs, you can always find a job at a casino.

Salute,

Tony V.

Thanks for that, Tony.

You are welcome, Bambu, it was my pleasure.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2022, 03:59:27 PM: There used to be a General Motors plant in Van Nuys, they made Chevy Camaros and other cars there. It was a good factory, and GM created a lot of good jobs in Van Nuys, they were good jobs that you could buy a home and raise a family with. The factory was shut down, and they moved the factory to Canada. It is sad that Van Nuys lost the jobs.

But, now with the new electric cars, GM can build a factory in Van Nuys and GM can make electric cars in Van Nuys. Van Nuys can get those jobs back, as people make the new electric cars of the future.

The people of Van Nuys need to petition General Motors to build a new electric car factory in Van Nuys. Van Nuys can get the jobs back if the people make their voices heard to the bosses at GM.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 26, 2022, 04:14:20 PM: You have a very dangerous situation, said David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and legal adviser to the immigration advocacy group Americas Voice. This is a direct threat to the nation as a unified entity. This is one step closer to the country dividing into two separate countries.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/red-states-blue-states-control-of-national-policy-fault-lines/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2022, 04:54:10 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 26, 2022, 04:14:20 PM
You have a very dangerous situation, said David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and legal adviser to the immigration advocacy group Americas Voice. This is a direct threat to the nation as a unified entity. This is one step closer to the country dividing into two separate countries.
He clearly knows what he is talking about, since he is a graduate of the Harvard of the Midwest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 26, 2022, 06:46:51 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 26, 2022, 04:14:20 PM
You have a very dangerous situation, said David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and legal adviser to the immigration advocacy group Americas Voice. This is a direct threat to the nation as a unified entity. This is one step closer to the country dividing into two separate countries.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/red-states-blue-states-control-of-national-policy-fault-lines/index.html

Gee, I thought the Dobbs decision was supposed to fix that!

Huh.

Whoever would have guessed that leaving it to the states would just exacerbate things.

Oh, right. Nearly every liberal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 26, 2022, 08:05:59 PM: Lets go!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lia-thomas-ncaa-woman-year-bid-ends-ivy-league-selects-columbia-fencer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 26, 2022, 08:16:07 PM: Dizzy Lawton deserved the nomination out of PENN more than Ms. Thomas. Sad when players arent properly recognized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 27, 2022, 12:52:27 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/europe/brittney-griner-testifies-russia-hearing/index.html

Griner testifies that she was made to sign docs she did not understand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 27, 2022, 01:03:10 PM: Yes, you can call it a pandemic.

Given how widespread it is throughout the world, I would call it a pandemic, Glesby said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/07/27/monkeypox-explained-symptoms-vaccine-treatment-options/10152078002/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 27, 2022, 02:28:20 PM: Best news story of the week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/uk-emu-fleeing-driver-chef-hotel/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 02:39:23 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 27, 2022, 02:28:20 PM
Best news story of the week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/uk-emu-fleeing-driver-chef-hotel/

Especially that bit about the food waste.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 03:35:40 PM: I have high hopes for Rick Caruso in Los Angeles. Hollywood needs help bad. The people at the top are all corrupt, and there are 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles right now as I type this, we pay high taxes and there are surpluses at the top, while we have 60,000 homeless people on the street. And the mother fuckers build a few tiny homes and call that progress, their tiny homes suck, it would be better to have some fucking class and build nice custom high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, with swimming pools and tennis courts.

Newsom has his head up his ass, for some reason he cannot see the homeless people on our streets, something is blinding his vision. And Newsom wants to run for President. His job is to help the people of California right now, and Newsom is not helping the people. Newsom is busy partying with his rich friends, and he is not doing anything for the homeless people and for the mentally ill, nor is he bringing jobs to Hollywood, etc. Newsom is self centered, and he cannot see the suffering of the 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles. Do not support Newsom. If he was helping the homeless, and if Newsom was bringing jobs to Hollywood, then I would say to support him, but Newsom is not helping anyone, and we are losing jobs still, and we have more homeless people everyday.

We have Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations here in Orange County because the local people here made it happen and the people here did it themselves, and they went out and got help for the homeless here in the OC. Newsom is not responsible for our Wellness Centers and MHAs.

I support Rick Caruso and maybe later he can run for Governor of California, if he does a good job as Mayor of Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM: Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 27, 2022, 05:29:43 PM: Riley Gaines, American hero

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-ncaa-swimmer-riley-gaines-forced-compete-lia-thomas-details-extreme-discomfort-locker-room
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 05:29:50 PM: If I was working for free to build housing with Habitat For Humanity, then I would want to build the nicest housing possible, I would want my time and effort and hard work to go towards building beautiful housing that people can be proud of, like in Santorini, Greece. The people can feel like their home is a beautiful resort. With swimming pools, and tennis courts, and with libraries.

And land is cheap in Battle Mountain, Nevada, only $1,000 per acre. They can do trade with San Francisco to make money.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 27, 2022, 06:03:10 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 27, 2022, 05:29:43 PM
Riley Gaines, American hero

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-ncaa-swimmer-riley-gaines-forced-compete-lia-thomas-details-extreme-discomfort-locker-room

You certainly have a hard on for Lia Thomas... you want to hit that, doncha?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2022, 06:45:28 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM
Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.

Golf courses have a right to exist...as do churches.
Golf courses create employment for an *untold* number of people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 27, 2022, 07:20:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2022, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM
Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.

Golf courses have a right to exist...as do churches.
Golf courses create employment for an *untold* number of people.

There are 303,263 people employed in the Golf Courses & Country Clubs industry in the US as of 2022.
The average Golf Courses & Country Clubs business in the US has 28.9 employees.
The golf industry says "There are almost 2 million jobs created by the golf industry. This includes the corollary industries of food-service, administration and retail sales in golfing communities."

It is no longer untold.

And no, there is no "Right to have golf courses."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 08:01:11 PM: Quote from: josh on July 27, 2022, 07:20:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2022, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM
Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.

Golf courses have a right to exist...as do churches.
Golf courses create employment for an *untold* number of people.

There are 303,263 people employed in the Golf Courses & Country Clubs industry in the US as of 2022.
The average Golf Courses & Country Clubs business in the US has 28.9 employees.
The golf industry says "There are almost 2 million jobs created by the golf industry. This includes the corollary industries of food-service, administration and retail sales in golfing communities."

It is no longer untold.

And no, there is no "Right to have golf courses."

We have plenty of cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we have plenty of room for Golf Courses.

In California City, California, they have a great Golf Course, and that is a great town to have a retirement village at, with a Golf Course, bookstores, a movie theatre, a bowling alley, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, etc, etc, etc. The people 55 and over who are homeless in Los Angeles should be welcome to live in a retirement village in California City and they need to build apartments like crazy there, it is the perfect spot for the older people who are on the streets homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 08:38:04 PM: Of note, Battle Mountain, Nevada, has a nice 9 hole Golf Course, it is closed part of the year because of snow and cold weather, but it is a nice Golf Course.

http://www.battlemountaingolf.com/

We can build new Santorini, Greece, style apartment complexes with swimming pools, tennis courts, libraries, and Battle Mountain also has a Golf Course. And they can make money by doing trade with San Francisco.

And land is only $1,000 per acre in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they have zero crime. It is a good safe spot for our new immigrants and for our homeless people and for our refugees, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 27, 2022, 08:58:17 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/leaked-us-leaked-power-companies-spending-profits-stop-clean-energy

Corruption, dark money, attack ads on public officials who investigate fraud and rate gouging, fake candidates to throw elections...just a few tricks from utility companies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 09:01:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 08:01:11 PM
Quote from: josh on July 27, 2022, 07:20:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2022, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM
Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.

Golf courses have a right to exist...as do churches.
Golf courses create employment for an *untold* number of people.

There are 303,263 people employed in the Golf Courses & Country Clubs industry in the US as of 2022.
The average Golf Courses & Country Clubs business in the US has 28.9 employees.
The golf industry says "There are almost 2 million jobs created by the golf industry. This includes the corollary industries of food-service, administration and retail sales in golfing communities."

It is no longer untold.

And no, there is no "Right to have golf courses."

We have plenty of cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we have plenty of room for Golf Courses.

In California City, California, they have a great Golf Course, and that is a great town to have a retirement village at, with a Golf Course, bookstores, a movie theatre, a bowling alley, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, etc, etc, etc. The people 55 and over who are homeless in Los Angeles should be welcome to live in a retirement village in California City and they need to build apartments like crazy there, it is the perfect spot for the older people who are on the streets homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.

I go to Cal City periodically. I like you, Tony so I really hope you do not have to retire there.

I wish that only on Red and Kid, and I am sure that each in their own special way they have found that environment in a different location. If they have not found it, they are certainly making it where they are.

(http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/j1ltqy-CWH1wegQNv4QaNiTFKx8=/0x0:2000x1499/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:2000x1499):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/16298670/cali_city_161201_004.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 09:04:01 PM: Golfers can play nine holes twice, opening up close to half their real estate. Churches can pay their fucking taxes. If that means selling land to the government to stay in business, God bless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 09:29:15 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 09:01:47 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 08:01:11 PM
Quote from: josh on July 27, 2022, 07:20:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2022, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2022, 04:51:58 PM
Whos land should he seize, Tony?

If you say golf courses and church property, I am all for it.

We can do a petition to make it a referendum decided by direct democracy.

Golf courses have a right to exist...as do churches.
Golf courses create employment for an *untold* number of people.

There are 303,263 people employed in the Golf Courses & Country Clubs industry in the US as of 2022.
The average Golf Courses & Country Clubs business in the US has 28.9 employees.
The golf industry says "There are almost 2 million jobs created by the golf industry. This includes the corollary industries of food-service, administration and retail sales in golfing communities."

It is no longer untold.

And no, there is no "Right to have golf courses."

We have plenty of cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we have plenty of room for Golf Courses.

In California City, California, they have a great Golf Course, and that is a great town to have a retirement village at, with a Golf Course, bookstores, a movie theatre, a bowling alley, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, etc, etc, etc. The people 55 and over who are homeless in Los Angeles should be welcome to live in a retirement village in California City and they need to build apartments like crazy there, it is the perfect spot for the older people who are on the streets homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.

I go to Cal City periodically. I like you, Tony so I really hope you do not have to retire there.

I wish that only on Red and Kid, and I am sure that each in their own special way they have found that environment in a different location. If they have not found it, they are certainly making it where they are.

(http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/j1ltqy-CWH1wegQNv4QaNiTFKx8=/0x0:2000x1499/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:2000x1499):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/16298670/cali_city_161201_004.jpg)

Compared to sleeping on the sidewalk, California City would be a good place for the retired people 55 and over who are currently sleeping on the sidewalk.

And they can plant more trees there, and they can do things to make it nicer.

And with solar power it is cheap to cool the apartments in the heat of summer. And they can have swimming pools, etc.

Also, they can party at night, like they do in Palm Springs in the heat of summer, and in Vegas.

California City has the potential to be a great retirement village for the homeless people 55 and over who are currently on the streets of Los Angeles.

And people have to have the vision of what things can be like with some work from Habitat For Humanity, and HUD, and other groups working together to get the homeless people into nice, safe housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 09:48:57 PM: 80% of the homeless adults 55 and over are men.

https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=806-2020-los-angeles-homeless-count-older-adult-homelessness

And I am sure they would be happy to live in California City and to play Golf and they can bowl at the bowling alley and they can drink beer.

People can come to California City who have big ideas on how nice California City can be for a retirement village for the homeless adults 55 and over. Kiwanis can help, and other groups can help.

And some of the younger people can go to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can have communes, etc, and they can do trade with San Francisco. And Battle Mountain has schools for the kids, and there is a college in Elko. The schools in Battle Mountain are good schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 27, 2022, 10:18:15 PM: Could you imagine if you lived in a retirement village and 80% of the people there were men, with only 20% women? That would suck, we need to fix it, we can allow in immigrants and we can bus up the women immigrants to live in California City with the men who had formerly been homeless. They used to do that in New Orleans, they brought ships full of women to New Orleans so that there would be lots of women in New Orleans.

In Nevada they have legal prostitution because of a shortage of women in the West, it was all men and very few women in the West. Battle Mountain has a bordello named "The Calico Club" and they mostly cater to the Gold miners and also they are there for the truck drivers, etc. If California City was 80% men, then they would need a bordello like Battle Mountain.

As we get the homeless people into housing there are many factors to consider, but California City seems like a good spot for the homeless men 55 and over, and we can bring up female immigrants from Mexico so the men can have women living there with them.

And the young people and the families with children can get the cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and people can build custom, fantastic housing, and they can do trade with San Francisco. Battle Mountain will always be a successful town because they have Gold there.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 28, 2022, 12:12:19 AM: California City is a planned community, they planned for the city to be huge.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/california-city-the-gigantic-master-planned-community-that-never-really-grew-up-bartells-backroads/ar-AAXfFXo

California City is meant to be huge, and there is certainly room for a wonderful retirement village for the homeless of Los Angeles who are 55 and over, and great people and great groups can be brought to California City to design and build and contribute towards housing for the homeless people who are 55 and older.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 28, 2022, 08:20:26 AM: Jim Harbaugh is a great American

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/michigan-wolverines-coach-jim-harbaugh-says-raise-baby-player-instance-rcna40263
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 28, 2022, 10:28:22 AM: Seems out of touch with the real life situations many women find themselves in when pregnant. Somewhere over 90% of abortions happen before 12 weeks, do not harm a sentient being, and spare a woman who is not ready to birth a child and handle all that goes with in missed work, potential health threats, medical bills, postpartum issues, etc.
Why does the far Right keep deferring to men as somehow authoritative on women's bodies and medical decisions?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 28, 2022, 10:59:28 AM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 28, 2022, 10:28:22 AM
Seems out of touch with the real life situations many women find themselves in when pregnant. Somewhere over 90% of abortions happen before 12 weeks, do not harm a sentient being, and spare a woman who is not ready to birth a child and handle all that goes with in missed work, potential health threats, medical bills, postpartum issues, etc.
Why does the far Right keep deferring to men as somehow authoritative on women's bodies and medical decisions?

Jim says he's also willing to take on any post-partum depression or complications.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 28, 2022, 04:31:46 PM: They told the story of Vera from the Channel 5 News in Los Angeles this morning, she was my Uncle Dennis' favorite weather woman, and she lived an inspirational life.

Her Mother was an immigrant, and she had 6 kids, and they lived in Garden Grove, California. Vera's Dad died when she was 3 years old, and Vera was raised by a poor immigrant Mother who was a widow with 6 kids. They were poor and Vera's Mom made her dresses to wear, her Mom made her own clothes. Vera learned English from playing with her neighbors. Vera attended Santa Ana Community College and that was what led her to her current job as a weather woman for the Channel 5 News. Her Mother still lives in Garden Grove. The Santa Ana Community College is giving her an award, and she is so proud. She has had quite a life, and she is living the American Dream.

I lived in Garden Grove right by where Vera grew up, and Garden Grove is nice, it is a good area. And we have some great community colleges, I attended the community college in the Antelope Valley before I went to acting school, and the community college was fantastic. Vera said that an award from the community college was like an Oscar for Vera, Santa Ana Community College helped her on the path to a good life.

Vera has done great. A lot of people have hard lives and go on to do great things, the secret is not to sit around and dwell on how poor you are or how bad your life is, instead of feeling sorry for herself, Vera went to community college and is doing great things.

Salute,

Tony V.

P.S. - Of note on community colleges, Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs at Disney now, people can go get their AA degree and then they can go right to work for Disney. Our community colleges are great places. ( Cal State Fullerton is also working together with Disney if people want to get a 4 year degree and then go to work for Disney. )
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 28, 2022, 08:06:43 PM: I have had some great roommates in my life, God has blessed me to have lived with some cool people.

When I lived in Garden Grove, before I went to Italy, I had a roommate who had an uncle who was the Mayor of a city in Thailand. She was very generous and she was always buying everyone food. She wanted me to move to Thailand, she said that I could buy a house cheap in Thailand, and she said that I could have cheap helpers for my household, she said workers are very cheap in Thailand and she said that I could have a housekeeper, and a cook, and a gardener, etc, very cheap, household workers are very cheap in Thailand. She was a cool roommate, and she can live anywhere in the world and she picked California. She loves California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 28, 2022, 08:47:16 PM: http://www.vox.com/23280472/strong-dollar-euro-economy (http://www.vox.com/23280472/strong-dollar-euro-economy)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on July 29, 2022, 11:32:49 AM: Quote from: josh on July 28, 2022, 10:59:28 AM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 28, 2022, 10:28:22 AM
Seems out of touch with the real life situations many women find themselves in when pregnant. Somewhere over 90% of abortions happen before 12 weeks, do not harm a sentient being, and spare a woman who is not ready to birth a child and handle all that goes with in missed work, potential health threats, medical bills, postpartum issues, etc.
Why does the far Right keep deferring to men as somehow authoritative on women's bodies and medical decisions?

Jim says he's also willing to take on any post-partum depression or complications.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 29, 2022, 02:34:59 PM: Now This

1 hour

Prosecutors in Spain said Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud.

------------------

Shakira has been giving her money to charity since the beginning, Shakira has donated schools for the poor children in Colombia, and she has her charity The Bare Feet Children's Foundation, Shakira is a saint. Shame on Spain for threatening Shakira with punishment over taxes, Shakira is very generous and she has done so much to help the children.

Shakira is one of the good people in the world, she is not a criminal and she has done so much for charity, Spain needs to drop the charges and they need to work things out quietly with Shakira.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 02:47:28 PM: Mikal Dixon was known to Burlington police as a loose cannon up to no good - and now a young woman is DEAD, her friend fighting for her life.

Welcome to America 2022

https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-vermont-student-killed-friend-critically-injured-murder-suicide-blocks-campus-cops
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 02:55:58 PM: What do you think becomes of these three young ladies?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-teen-girls-arrested-hate-crime-charges-anti-white-assault?dicbo=v2-cbf2df5039b50475662e92be5deab948
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 29, 2022, 03:21:30 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 02:47:28 PM
Mikal Dixon was known to Burlington police as a loose cannon up to no good - and now a young woman is DEAD, her friend fighting for her life.

Welcome to America 2022

https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-vermont-student-killed-friend-critically-injured-murder-suicide-blocks-campus-cops

Fictitious right leads to ever growing body count.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM: Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 29, 2022, 04:13:35 PM: Now it is time to lock up his flunkies in the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 05:59:04 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM

Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government

"Russian propoganda"

Any examples?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 06:13:59 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 05:59:04 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM

Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government

"Russian propoganda"

Any examples?

How about you read the statement from THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 10:22:08 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 06:13:59 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 05:59:04 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM

Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government

"Russian propoganda"

Any examples?

How about you read the statement from THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE?

You didn't give me that link
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 11:41:24 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 10:22:08 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 06:13:59 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 05:59:04 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM

Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government

"Russian propoganda"

Any examples?

How about you read the statement from THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE?

You didn't give me that link

Go fish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 30, 2022, 12:44:11 AM: Just not surprised.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/26/ivermectin-has-become-a-popular-treatment-for-long-covid-with-a-push-from-doctors-with-ties-to-right-wing-political-groups
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 11:25:56 AM: Quote from: josh on July 30, 2022, 12:44:11 AM
Just not surprised.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/26/ivermectin-has-become-a-popular-treatment-for-long-covid-with-a-push-from-doctors-with-ties-to-right-wing-political-groups

As more people are affected by long Covid, and established, evidence-based medicine struggles to respond, the false promise of ivermectin holds undeniable allure for patients struggling to recover.

yes
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 12:13:22 PM: https://share.newsbreak.com/1ijdebai
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2022, 12:35:00 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 11:25:56 AM
Quote from: josh on July 30, 2022, 12:44:11 AM
Just not surprised.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/26/ivermectin-has-become-a-popular-treatment-for-long-covid-with-a-push-from-doctors-with-ties-to-right-wing-political-groups

As more people are affected by long Covid, and established, evidence-based medicine struggles to respond, the false promise of ivermectin holds undeniable allure for patients struggling to recover.

yes

It does not help any to recover, but it will help many of them die.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 30, 2022, 12:37:36 PM: Republicans mad because Dems actually did politics... so they fuck over vets with cancer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-steve-daines-fist-bump-blocking-burn-pit-veterans_n_62e4b68ae4b0c60a5668673d
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 30, 2022, 03:23:52 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 10:22:08 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 06:13:59 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 05:59:04 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM

Russian indicted in Florida.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government

"Russian propoganda"

Any examples?

How about you read the statement from THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE?

You didn't give me that link

Wow. This may be a contender for stupidest posting in Elba history.

The entertainment factor here is undeniable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 04:00:08 PM: International Monetary Fund

July 27

Latin America and the Caribbean have continued their strong post-pandemic rebound, but the winds are shifting as global financial conditions tighten and commodity prices reverse their upward trend, while inflationary pressures persist.

On the back of a solid first half of 2022, and despite an expected slowdown in the second half, the IMF forecasts the region to grow by 3.0% this year.

However, the region faces greater challenges ahead, including tightening global financial conditions, lower global growth, persistent inflation, and increasing social tensions amid growing food and energy insecurity. These factors contribute to the downgrade in growth to 2.0% in 2023.

Read the #IMFBlog: https://bit.ly/3OEGtld

-------------

Times are hard right now, and things are going to get a lot harder according to the IMF.

I sent the World Bank every idea that I could think of to help our world economy. That is all that I can do.

Meanwhile, I am grateful to have food and shelter, and I need to use this opportunity to try to get my movie made or sold, and my book published, and I want to work for free acting in student films in order to see if I can make some money acting, I can make student films and then put my films on You Tube and maybe the right person will see my work and help me.

So far as helping the homeless and the poor, which there will be more of as the economy gets worse, I support Habitat For Humanity, and we need to all get out and work for free to build housing for the homeless people. And if I am going to work hard for free, then I want for my hard work to go towards building nice housing, like in Greece. I do not want to build ghetto housing, I would want to build nice housing if I volunteered.

So we have the issues of food security, and housing security, and health care, which every human being should have globally.

Every area should have Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations to help people.

And the people on Social Security need a raise.

Right now all of my family members are signing up for help with food, my Mother is old and retired and on a fixed income and she cannot make it through the month, she had to apply for help with food. So, we have problems with food security right now here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 04:26:03 PM: On the issue of food security, we can bring in the immigrants from our Southern Border and we can put them to work growing food. We can put every available hand to work growing food.

And the immigrants can build housing in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can raise pork and beef for the people of San Francisco, etc.

We can also expand our economy by increasing the sale of California orange juice to China and India, etc.

Putin is such an asshole, and he is not helping, the last thing the world needs right now is an asshole like Putin. What a selfish prick.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 05:47:28 PM: Right now I am thinking about the movie "The Grapes of Wrath," my family experienced all of that during the Great Depression, my Grandfather hitchhiked from Arkansas to California to find work, and my Grandmother's family came from Colorado to California, and they all picked fruit. They became extremely hard workers, and they rose, but they went through hell for a time.

We need to remember the lessons of the Great Depression, and we need our anti-trust, anti-monopoly rules to be enforced, etc. And we should not be having baby food shortages, WIC should not have only a few suppliers, they need to open up and allow more suppliers.

Also, a lesson from the Great Depression was the importance of labor unions, and when workers are paid fair then it helps the economy. Starving people are not able to negotiate for high wages, so the workers need to join unions so they can bargain collectively. When the workers are paid fair then everyone wins.

We cannot just have a free economy, we need to operate within a framework of rules and laws that prevent another Great Depression from happening, and the workers need unions.

Right now I think a lot of our problems are do to corruption, people are putting themselves first instead of being honest and serving our nation with honor. And here in Anaheim we had a Mayor who was so corrupt that he was going to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back.

Some things that we need to look at are how we brought ourselves out of the Great Depression and steps that were taken to make sure that another Great Depression never happens, and we also need to look at how Reagan saved the world economy when he was President. ( And we know that Reagan got Health Care and Retirement Benefits for the actors when he was head of the Screen Actors Guild. )

One scene from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" that still rings true, is that the fortunate people never understand what it is like for the poor people, and as they looked at the Joad family the fortunate people said that they could never understand how the poor people live like that, as if being poor was a choice that the people made. If people knew what it was really like then there would be more of a sense of urgency to help our homeless people and our poor.

We need to learn from the Great Depression, and we need to make sure that another Great Depression never happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 30, 2022, 07:28:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 05:47:28 PM
Right now I am thinking about the movie "The Grapes of Wrath," my family experienced all of that during the Great Depression, my Grandfather hitchhiked from Arkansas to California to find work, and my Grandmother's family came from Colorado to California, and they all picked fruit. They became extremely hard workers, and they rose, but they went through hell for a time.

We need to remember the lessons of the Great Depression, and we need our anti-trust, anti-monopoly rules to be enforced, etc. And we should not be having baby food shortages, WIC should not have only a few suppliers, they need to open up and allow more suppliers.

Also, a lesson from the Great Depression was the importance of labor unions, and when workers are paid fair then it helps the economy. Starving people are not able to negotiate for high wages, so the workers need to join unions so they can bargain collectively. When the workers are paid fair then everyone wins.

We cannot just have a free economy, we need to operate within a framework of rules and laws that prevent another Great Depression from happening, and the workers need unions.

Right now I think a lot of our problems are do to corruption, people are putting themselves first instead of being honest and serving our nation with honor. And here in Anaheim we had a Mayor who was so corrupt that he was going to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back.

Some things that we need to look at are how we brought ourselves out of the Great Depression and steps that were taken to make sure that another Great Depression never happens, and we also need to look at how Reagan saved the world economy when he was President. ( And we know that Reagan got Health Care and Retirement Benefits for the actors when he was head of the Screen Actors Guild. )

One scene from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" that still rings true, is that the fortunate people never understand what it is like for the poor people, and as they looked at the Joad family the fortunate people said that they could never understand how the poor people live like that, as if being poor was a choice that the people made. If people knew what it was really like then there would be more of a sense of urgency to help our homeless people and our poor.

We need to learn from the Great Depression, and we need to make sure that another Great Depression never happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

Who would Tom Joad believed cared about his familys plight, Rick Caruso or Karen Bass?

Why?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 07:32:34 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 30, 2022, 12:37:36 PM
Republicans mad because Dems actually did politics... so they fuck over vets with cancer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-steve-daines-fist-bump-blocking-burn-pit-veterans_n_62e4b68ae4b0c60a5668673d

Reublicans kill another overkill bill. Film at11

Good luck Monday

https://abcnews.go.com/US/republicans-reject-spending-bill-veterans-exposed-burn-pits/story?id=87619926
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 30, 2022, 07:49:19 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 12:13:22 PM
https://share.newsbreak.com/1ijdebai

Not clicking. No idea what it's about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 30, 2022, 08:42:14 PM: \https://vice.com/en/article/5d3gnx/this-town-closed-its-on/y-library-after-residents-chased-out-lgbtq-workers
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 08:49:01 PM: Quote from: josh on July 30, 2022, 07:49:19 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 12:13:22 PM
https://share.newsbreak.com/1ijdebai

Not clicking. No idea what it's about.

Nothing for you to worry over
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 30, 2022, 09:12:55 PM: Hint: On an online forum it's common courtesy to give a brief description when you have linked a blind URL.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 30, 2022, 09:40:43 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 08:49:01 PM
Quote from: josh on July 30, 2022, 07:49:19 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 12:13:22 PM
https://share.newsbreak.com/1ijdebai

Not clicking. No idea what it's about.

Nothing for you to worry over

And I am not.

I'll just resume deleting unlabeled links.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 11:08:57 PM: Quote from: sardine can on July 30, 2022, 09:12:55 PM
Hint: On an online forum it's common courtesy to give a brief description when you have linked a blind URL.

We will just have to live with your temporary disappointment
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 11:42:58 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 30, 2022, 07:28:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 05:47:28 PM
Right now I am thinking about the movie "The Grapes of Wrath," my family experienced all of that during the Great Depression, my Grandfather hitchhiked from Arkansas to California to find work, and my Grandmother's family came from Colorado to California, and they all picked fruit. They became extremely hard workers, and they rose, but they went through hell for a time.

We need to remember the lessons of the Great Depression, and we need our anti-trust, anti-monopoly rules to be enforced, etc. And we should not be having baby food shortages, WIC should not have only a few suppliers, they need to open up and allow more suppliers.

Also, a lesson from the Great Depression was the importance of labor unions, and when workers are paid fair then it helps the economy. Starving people are not able to negotiate for high wages, so the workers need to join unions so they can bargain collectively. When the workers are paid fair then everyone wins.

We cannot just have a free economy, we need to operate within a framework of rules and laws that prevent another Great Depression from happening, and the workers need unions.

Right now I think a lot of our problems are do to corruption, people are putting themselves first instead of being honest and serving our nation with honor. And here in Anaheim we had a Mayor who was so corrupt that he was going to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back.

Some things that we need to look at are how we brought ourselves out of the Great Depression and steps that were taken to make sure that another Great Depression never happens, and we also need to look at how Reagan saved the world economy when he was President. ( And we know that Reagan got Health Care and Retirement Benefits for the actors when he was head of the Screen Actors Guild. )

One scene from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" that still rings true, is that the fortunate people never understand what it is like for the poor people, and as they looked at the Joad family the fortunate people said that they could never understand how the poor people live like that, as if being poor was a choice that the people made. If people knew what it was really like then there would be more of a sense of urgency to help our homeless people and our poor.

We need to learn from the Great Depression, and we need to make sure that another Great Depression never happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

Who would Tom Joad believed cared about his familys plight, Rick Caruso or Karen Bass?

Why?

Rick Caruso seems smarter, and he wants to help our homeless people.

Of note on the current situation with the inflation, in order to give more money to workers then the USA can lower taxes for workers and let them keep more of their hard earned money. Instead of giving people stimulus checks, then instead the Government can lower taxes and let people keep more of their own money.

And the retired people and disabled people need a raise on Social Security.

We also need to continue to strive to better educate our people, and to prepare our people for the jobs of the future.

Of note, in California one third of our people are foreign born, we need to educate and train them, and we need to teach them what America is all about and what it means to be an American. And people need to learn that America is not just about being selfish and making money, the American Dream is about more than that, it is about having a good nation where you can raise your family, and where you can be a part of a community.

And we need for the companies to be altruistic, they need to care about the communities where they operate. For instance, the neighorhood around Paramount Studios is a ghetto, the studio has a high fence, and Paramount does not give a shit about their community, and that must change, Paramount needs to hire the people from their community, and they need to give schollarships to send the youth to film school to work at Paramount, etc. Hollywood needs to train the people for studio jobs, and the studios need to hire local workers. The studios need to care about the people of Hollywood.

We are making progress here in Anaheim, as Fullerton Community College, and Cal State Fullerton, are training people for jobs at Disney now, so people can get an education and training and then they can go right to work for Disney, so that is great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 12:21:48 AM: Elizabeth Taylor said that the best use of fame is to help other people, and she used her fame to help the people with AIDS and she did other good things. Not only was she a good actress, but she was also a good person. We need for more people to be like Elizabeth Taylor was.

Right now Brad Pitt could be helping the homeless people in Los Angeles, he can use his fame to help the homeless people.

If I was famous I would be out there helping people and I would be doing good deeds, I would use my fame to help people.

Right now I am poor and unknown, but I still spend time trying to help other people, and I use what training and experience I have to try to help other people.

And Rick Caruso seems like a rich guy who wants to help people by giving back to the community, we need for more rich people to care about our people here in America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 31, 2022, 03:33:58 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 12:21:48 AM
And Rick Caruso seems like a rich guy who wants to help people by giving back to the community

You are being conned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 03:46:41 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 30, 2022, 11:08:57 PM
Quote from: sardine can on July 30, 2022, 09:12:55 PM
Hint: On an online forum it's common courtesy to give a brief description when you have linked a blind URL.

We will just have to live with your temporary disappointment

Like Kid lives with KKK dick up his ass.

Did I use your proper pronoun, Kid? If not I apologize.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 31, 2022, 06:03:14 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 02:55:58 PM
What do you think becomes of these three young ladies?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-teen-girls-arrested-hate-crime-charges-anti-white-assault?dicbo=v2-cbf2df5039b50475662e92be5deab948

Ah yes, anti-white hatred.
So, instead of the white lady the 3 girls bashed, it had been me...an elderly white male on the bus?
After the one with the green hair had yelled racial hatred at me, said "I'm gangsta", told me as the bus passed the cemetery..."that's where I'm going to bury you", then started hitting me and her two buddies joined in...would I have been allowed to shoot them?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 31, 2022, 09:51:01 AM: So glad that after 400 years of brutal oppression, murder, rape, enslavement, then Jim Crow and segregation and more brutal murder for looking at a white woman or not being deferential or just being in the wrong place, then more economic discrimination and marginalization and massive imprisonment, we found a case of a white woman getting beaten up! That really balances out the picture! That anecdote just changed our whole understanding of racial issues in America!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 10:31:12 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 31, 2022, 06:03:14 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 29, 2022, 02:55:58 PM
What do you think becomes of these three young ladies?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-teen-girls-arrested-hate-crime-charges-anti-white-assault?dicbo=v2-cbf2df5039b50475662e92be5deab948

Ah yes, anti-white hatred.
So, instead of the white lady the 3 girls bashed, it had been me...an elderly white male on the bus?
After the one with the green hair had yelled racial hatred at me, said "I'm gangsta", told me as the bus passed the cemetery..."that's where I'm going to bury you", then started hitting me and her two buddies joined in...would I have been allowed to shoot them?

No guns for you bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 10:36:04 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 11:42:58 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 30, 2022, 07:28:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2022, 05:47:28 PM
Right now I am thinking about the movie "The Grapes of Wrath," my family experienced all of that during the Great Depression, my Grandfather hitchhiked from Arkansas to California to find work, and my Grandmother's family came from Colorado to California, and they all picked fruit. They became extremely hard workers, and they rose, but they went through hell for a time.

We need to remember the lessons of the Great Depression, and we need our anti-trust, anti-monopoly rules to be enforced, etc. And we should not be having baby food shortages, WIC should not have only a few suppliers, they need to open up and allow more suppliers.

Also, a lesson from the Great Depression was the importance of labor unions, and when workers are paid fair then it helps the economy. Starving people are not able to negotiate for high wages, so the workers need to join unions so they can bargain collectively. When the workers are paid fair then everyone wins.

We cannot just have a free economy, we need to operate within a framework of rules and laws that prevent another Great Depression from happening, and the workers need unions.

Right now I think a lot of our problems are do to corruption, people are putting themselves first instead of being honest and serving our nation with honor. And here in Anaheim we had a Mayor who was so corrupt that he was going to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back.

Some things that we need to look at are how we brought ourselves out of the Great Depression and steps that were taken to make sure that another Great Depression never happens, and we also need to look at how Reagan saved the world economy when he was President. ( And we know that Reagan got Health Care and Retirement Benefits for the actors when he was head of the Screen Actors Guild. )

One scene from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" that still rings true, is that the fortunate people never understand what it is like for the poor people, and as they looked at the Joad family the fortunate people said that they could never understand how the poor people live like that, as if being poor was a choice that the people made. If people knew what it was really like then there would be more of a sense of urgency to help our homeless people and our poor.

We need to learn from the Great Depression, and we need to make sure that another Great Depression never happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

Who would Tom Joad believed cared about his familys plight, Rick Caruso or Karen Bass?

Why?

Rick Caruso seems smarter, and he wants to help our homeless people.

Of note on the current situation with the inflation, in order to give more money to workers then the USA can lower taxes for workers and let them keep more of their hard earned money. Instead of giving people stimulus checks, then instead the Government can lower taxes and let people keep more of their own money.

And the retired people and disabled people need a raise on Social Security.

We also need to continue to strive to better educate our people, and to prepare our people for the jobs of the future.

Of note, in California one third of our people are foreign born, we need to educate and train them, and we need to teach them what America is all about and what it means to be an American. And people need to learn that America is not just about being selfish and making money, the American Dream is about more than that, it is about having a good nation where you can raise your family, and where you can be a part of a community.

And we need for the companies to be altruistic, they need to care about the communities where they operate. For instance, the neighorhood around Paramount Studios is a ghetto, the studio has a high fence, and Paramount does not give a shit about their community, and that must change, Paramount needs to hire the people from their community, and they need to give schollarships to send the youth to film school to work at Paramount, etc. Hollywood needs to train the people for studio jobs, and the studios need to hire local workers. The studios need to care about the people of Hollywood.

We are making progress here in Anaheim, as Fullerton Community College, and Cal State Fullerton, are training people for jobs at Disney now, so people can get an education and training and then they can go right to work for Disney, so that is great.

Salute,

Tony V.

Did you know before becoming a member of Congress Karen Bass was a social worker?

You have a good heart, Tony, but you are a sucker.

Rich republicans buying government jobs are pretty damn suspect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 11:16:51 AM: Ms Bass would have made a good VP.

But I dont think they figured her strong for the next step.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 31, 2022, 11:27:11 AM: If Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, China has threatened to shoot down her plane and basically start a war.

youtube video
'The US *have gotten themselves into an almighty conundrum*
-Sky News.

#####

Yes, the communist China y'all love.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 11:28:59 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 11:16:51 AM
Ms Bass would have made a good VP.

But I dont think they figured her strong for the next step.

I do believe her age was a factor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 02:28:08 PM: Thinking China would do a better job running Australia than Australians do is not love for China. It is deep, deep well founded distain for Australians. Dont get it twisted Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 02:51:50 PM: Shoulda left the bill the way it was

But the Jon Stewarts of the world would never criticize Schumer and his pals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 03:45:23 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 02:51:50 PM
Shoulda left the bill the way it was

But the Jon Stewarts of the world would never criticize Schumer and his pals.

Waaah waaah! The Democrats practiced politics and caught you flat footed.

It was the same amount of money just moved from discretionary to mandatory meaning the funding was secure.

That made 30 Senators change their minds and celebrate with fist bumps on the floor?

GOP were pissed because they got played on the CHIPs bill and Climate reconciliation so they pouted and took it out on the veterans.

Yeah, but Black athlete disrespect OUR TROOPS when they protest police violence.

The GOP and their supporters are nothing but skid marks...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 04:14:24 PM: I think that the people who have been in government have been allowing things to get bad, they allowed there to be 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, I think that competent and diligent leaders would have dealt with the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles a long time ago.

You do not see homeless people on the streets of Rome, Italy, because they are diligent in helping the poor, and also you can sleep in a hostel where you can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

The people in the USA seem greedy, and corrupt, and everyone is out for themselves instead of helping other people, and our leaders are corrupt and they allowed there to be 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles. We need to have a sense of community in the USA and we need to help our poor. And we need honest leaders. As you all know we had a Mayor in Anaheim who tried to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back, he was very corrupt, he was not serving the people, he was instead corrupt and he was ripping the people off.

Also, people in the USA need to stop trying to get rich from food, shelter, and health care. Instead of building new housing which would help our homeless, people keep buying the existing housing and they raise the rent to make more money, and they just keep raising the rent. Raising the rent on existing housing hurts the poor, and instead we need to build new housing and create new housing for the homeless and we need reasonable rent.

On the issue of food, we can bring our immigrants in from our Southern Border and we can put them all to work growing food.

And a thing about Rick Caruso is that he is an outsider, he was not in charge when Los Angeles got as bad as it is, and he is rich so he cannot be bought by special interests.

I did not know that Karen Bass was a social worker, and may God bless her for her service.

The streets are full of homeless people, crime is rising, there is food insecurity, and one third of our people in California are foreign born and they need for Americans to guide them and to teach them what it means to be an American.

The stars and the rich people used to help the people, and the writers in Hollywood tried to have good messages in their movies, and Hollywood helped to teach people what it meant to be an American, we need for the good people to rise in Hollywood. And we need more stars like Elizabeth Taylor was who work to help our people.

I cannot force everyone to be a Christian and to help the poor and the needy like it says in Matthew 25; 31-46, but we can teach people to be good people no matter what religion they decide to follow.

And we need to have filmmakers like Frank Capra was who inspire the best in humanity.

Of note, on hostels, we can allow the hostels to operate tax free in order to inspire people to open hostels in the USA, for $15 per night for a shower and a bed.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 31, 2022, 04:28:30 PM: Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 31, 2022, 12:40:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 31, 2022, 11:27:11 AM

Yes, the communist China y'all love.

Striving to make sense of this. Who here has expressed love of red China?
Bo Diddley, for one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 04:32:31 PM: And a thing about Rick Caruso is that he is an outsider, he was not in charge when Los Angeles got as bad as it is, and he is rich so he cannot be bought by special interests.

Gee...

That is the exact thing they said about Donald J. Trump: Billionaire who owns a mansion and a yacht.

Look how that turned out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 04:41:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2022, 04:28:30 PM
Quote from: Barton3.0 on July 31, 2022, 12:40:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 31, 2022, 11:27:11 AM

Yes, the communist China y'all love.

Striving to make sense of this. Who here has expressed love of red China?
Bo Diddley, for one.

I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a general in China, and she loves Malibu, she is a good person and she loves Malibu. Her desire is for wisdom and patience, and she wants peace. I liked her, and I was lucky to be able to live there.

We were living in a beautiful beach house in Malibu overlooking the ocean, and it was one of the best years in my life. I could never have afforded to live there, but they liked me and they gave me a room for only $500 per month, it was a dream come true for me. The lady who owned the house was the ex wife of Sammy Hagar's family doctor, and she was friends with everyone in Malibu, and she liked me and she let me live there cheap, she is a wonderful woman.

They all knew that I am poor, but they treated me great, they treated me like an equal even though all of my roommates were wealthy. My roommate who was the daughter of the Chinese general did not look down on me for being poor, she treated me like an equal.

They did not judge me unfairly for being poor, and they let me live there cheap. I lived like a king in Malibu for one year with the rich people, it was great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 04:46:25 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 04:32:31 PM
And a thing about Rick Caruso is that he is an outsider, he was not in charge when Los Angeles got as bad as it is, and he is rich so he cannot be bought by special interests.

Gee...

That is the exact thing they said about Donald J. Trump: Billionaire who owns a mansion and a yacht.

Look how that turned out.

True.

Rick Caruso seems like a better guy than Trump, but you are right, we cannot trust him just because he is rich and unable to be bought. It is all about if the person is honest or not.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 31, 2022, 04:50:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 04:46:25 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 04:32:31 PM
And a thing about Rick Caruso is that he is an outsider, he was not in charge when Los Angeles got as bad as it is, and he is rich so he cannot be bought by special interests.

Gee...

That is the exact thing they said about Donald J. Trump: Billionaire who owns a mansion and a yacht.

Look how that turned out.

True.

Rick Caruso seems like a better guy than Trump, but you are right, we cannot trust him just because he is rich and unable to be bought. It is all about if the person is honest or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

He is a special interest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 05:15:16 PM: The reason billionaires try to buy political office is they crave power. Rich boy toys are not big examples of power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 31, 2022, 05:15:49 PM: Good byes to Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols.

They both had a significant impact on America. They will be missed.
Title: Statement by Honourable Murray Sinclair on the Pope
Post by: josh on July 31, 2022, 05:34:51 PM: https://lastrealindians.com/news/2022/7/28/statement-by-honourable-murray-sinclair-on-the-popes-apology

Worth a read.

Worth thinking about by Congress - especially, but not only, by the GOP.

They are not called out for greater responsibility, but because they have far greater resistance to taking responsibility now for past actions of the federal government.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 06:26:56 PM: Quote from: josh on July 31, 2022, 05:15:49 PM
Good byes to Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols.

They both had a significant impact on America. They will be missed.

Two rough losses.

May they both Rest in Power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 06:35:04 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2022, 04:46:25 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on July 31, 2022, 04:32:31 PM
And a thing about Rick Caruso is that he is an outsider, he was not in charge when Los Angeles got as bad as it is, and he is rich so he cannot be bought by special interests.

Gee...

That is the exact thing they said about Donald J. Trump: Billionaire who owns a mansion and a yacht.

Look how that turned out.

True.

Rick Caruso seems like a better guy than Trump, but you are right, we cannot trust him just because he is rich and unable to be bought. It is all about if the person is honest or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Just because Creepy Caruso does not need a dime does not mean that he is also not easily bought. LA will fall to shit faster under Caruso who has not got a clue, so much so that you will miss Garcetti.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 07:33:11 PM: Cha chinggg!!!

I am sure she gets paid big time

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/north-carolina-police-resign-black-city-manager-reaj/?dicbo=v2-7d9d0988d3728318b559e26c35641747&hpt=ob_blogfooterold
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on July 31, 2022, 07:49:06 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 31, 2022, 07:33:11 PM
Cha chinggg!!!

I am sure she gets paid big time

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/north-carolina-police-resign-black-city-manager-reaj/?dicbo=v2-7d9d0988d3728318b559e26c35641747&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

Cuz she forced them to resign all at once.

WTF do you always take the white people's side in these?

Oh, right. We know. It is not a coincidence.

You go immediately to money for her.

No data. No info other than "all resigned less than 2 months after she took office" and only one involved party heard from - a complaint that he had been written up, but not what he got written up for.

You are a piece of work, Kid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2022, 07:50:56 PM: You might call it work. I call it shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 01, 2022, 01:21:06 AM: World Bank

2 hours

The poorest countries face dangers they have not encountered in decades, with many now at risk of a simultaneous food and debt crisis.

Policymakers across the world must act promptly and decisively to prevent potentially devastating outcomes.

http://wrld.bg/jXiH50K1HOp

---------

The experts need to speak up, and people need to take action. And we need teamwork.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:27 AM: I am not going to blame Jon for not knowing all the facts, Watters said on his Friday show. Going forward, lets do this I will do the research and Jon Stewart can handle the farming. Its better for everybody that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/jon-stewart-ted-cruz-veterans-burn-pits/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 01, 2022, 12:44:24 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:27 AM
I am not going to blame Jon for not knowing all the facts, Watters said on his Friday show. Going forward, lets do this I will do the research and Jon Stewart can handle the farming. Its better for everybody that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/jon-stewart-ted-cruz-veterans-burn-pits/
Ted Cruz voted for the bill with the same "budgetary trick" in it back in June.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 01, 2022, 02:03:34 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:27 AM
I am not going to blame Jon for not knowing all the facts, Watters said on his Friday show. Going forward, lets do this I will do the research and Jon Stewart can handle the farming. Its better for everybody that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/jon-stewart-ted-cruz-veterans-burn-pits/

Ted Cruz and Pat Toomey: Fuck tha troops!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 02:25:52 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sinema-undecided-manchin-social-spending-bill-make-determination-after-parliamentarian-review
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 01, 2022, 04:52:58 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:27 AM
I am not going to blame Jon for not knowing all the facts, Watters said on his Friday show. Going forward, lets do this I will do the research and Jon Stewart can handle the farming. Its better for everybody that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/jon-stewart-ted-cruz-veterans-burn-pits/

GOP pissed because Chuck Schumer finally learned to make boss moves.

Mr President, passage would not have been delayed if Senator Schumer had kept his promises. Good news is, despite his mendacity, it will pass this next week.

Senator John Cornyn on Twitter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 01, 2022, 05:09:55 PM: What does the VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS say about the GOP.?

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2022/7/vfw-expresses-outrage-over-senators-failing-to-advance-pact-act
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 08:31:21 PM: Not so much
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 01, 2022, 08:39:56 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 08:31:21 PM
Not so much

Kid again knows more than the reporters do.

So amazing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 01, 2022, 09:37:11 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 08:31:21 PM
Not so much

GOP sez

Fuck Tha Troops!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:24 PM: I think plenty of vets like the party just fine. 100 per cent agreement on every matter just isnt realistic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 02, 2022, 12:18:54 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 01, 2022, 09:58:24 PM
I think plenty of vets like the party just fine. 100 per cent agreement on every matter just isnt realistic.

Yeah.

Vets are used to being screwed by the GOP.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/macarthur-bonus-march-may-july-1932/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 02, 2022, 12:19:41 PM: I do not hold this against pro choice groups, Dems, anyone -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/teenage-pro-life-activist-allegedly-punched-face-while-knocking-doors-kansas

Good people (and bad) on both sides
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2022, 12:31:36 PM: The activist was advocating the state enforced murder of expectant mothers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 02, 2022, 07:17:53 PM: Shakira had some problems in Spain, so she moved here to Los Angeles. If I was her, with her two sons, I would buy a house at Latigo Beach, where the boys can surf, and there is 24 hour security there.

We have stadiums all over Southern California where Shakira can make money, she can just do a concert whenever she needs money.

If she needs a lawyer I recommend Loeb and Loeb.

I like Shakira, she is a saint, and it is cool that she moved to live here in Southern California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 02, 2022, 11:15:58 PM: Bambu, the Newmont company operates there in Australia, they are huge, it started with a guy from Montana who went to New York and got people to invest in Gold mining, and now they mine Gold all around the world.

https://www.newmont.com/operations-and-projects/global-presence/australia/default.aspx

Gold is important and it can help to stabilize economies if they tie their currency to Gold, the World Bank has used Gold to stabilize economies in the past, including in Turkey.

Gold is easy to find now, and NASA and Sverdrup can tell you where the Gold is with the use of a satellite. The same way that they can tell you what minerals are on the face of Mars, NASA can tell you where the Gold is on Earth.

My Grandmother worked for the Gold mines in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and she also went to Mexico and she opened Gold mines in Mexico. They treated her like a Queen in Mexico. ( And I hope that the Gold mining companies can be altruistic, including helping the orphans in Mexico, etc. I know that when my Grandmother worked for the mining companies that they helped to bring telephones, electricity, paved roads, running water, television, radio, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico, and they did other good things. They can also do libraries, etc. )

The mining companies can be altruistic, and they can do great things.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2022, 12:20:14 AM: Rest in peace Vin Scully, some of the best times of my youth were spent watching Dodger games with Vin Scully announcing the games, Vin had such a love for Baseball and for the Big League Players, Vin, and Tommy Lasorda, and the great Players, they were heroes here when I was a kid.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2022, 04:30:43 PM: Hollywood is putting more cops on the street, on foot, and on horses, and on bicycles, etc, and at the same time they are bringing in more mental health specialists so that the cops do not have to handle the mental illness issues, the cops can handle crime, while the mental illness specialists help the mentally ill people.

Hollywood also needs Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, and there needs to be places where the hungry people can eat. It used to be against the law to feed the homeless in Hollywood, they figure that if they do not feed people that the people will just go away, like animals, but it is all bullshit. We need to feed the homeless people in Hollywood and we need to get them into at least a $15 per night hostel where they can shower and sleep in a bed.

We also need to have programs to help the orphans, and the abused women ( safe houses are needed, etc ).

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 03, 2022, 06:24:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2022, 04:30:43 PM
Hollywood is putting more cops on the street, on foot, and on horses, and on bicycles, etc, and at the same time they are bringing in more mental health specialists so that the cops do not have to handle the mental illness issues, the cops can handle crime, while the mental illness specialists help the mentally ill people.

Hollywood also needs Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, and there needs to be places where the hungry people can eat. It used to be against the law to feed the homeless in Hollywood, they figure that if they do not feed people that the people will just go away, like animals, but it is all bullshit. We need to feed the homeless people in Hollywood and we need to get them into at least a $15 per night hostel where they can shower and sleep in a bed.

We also need to have programs to help the orphans, and the abused women ( safe houses are needed, etc ).

Salute,

Tony V.

You will get exactly NONE of that if people keep voting GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 03, 2022, 06:51:42 PM: A very bad day for Mr Jones..

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-jones-cell-phone-jan6-committee-subpoeana-1392270/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 01:18:09 PM: Is this really news LB?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 04, 2022, 01:34:23 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 01:18:09 PM
Is this really news LB?

Did you know everything in the story already?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 01:38:38 PM: I do always appreciate reminder Rolling Stone still exists.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 04, 2022, 02:00:43 PM: Thanks, Kid!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 04, 2022, 02:12:01 PM: Quote from: SardineMartin on July 30, 2022, 09:12:55 PM
Hint: On an online forum it's common courtesy to give a brief description when you have linked a blind URL.

LOL! You're looking for "common courtesy" in these Fora?

TFF!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 04, 2022, 02:20:31 PM: This ought to blow your mind, and maybe make you think a little bit about what matters: https://www.quantamagazine.org/particle-physicists-puzzle-over-a-new-duality-20220801/ (https://www.quantamagazine.org/particle-physicists-puzzle-over-a-new-duality-20220801/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM: Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 04, 2022, 02:34:51 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html

Authoritarians are so popular with you members of the Insurrectionist Party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2022, 02:39:26 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 04, 2022, 02:34:51 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html

Authoritarians are so popular with you members of the Insurrectionist Party.

Dems in Florida gotta sink their oppressors deep under the swamps till Florida republicans never dare to darken a doorway again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 04, 2022, 02:53:03 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html

How does that authoritarian boot taste?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 04, 2022, 03:10:34 PM: Daniel Cameron is a piece of shit!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/us/breonna-taylor-federal-charges/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 04, 2022, 05:36:56 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 04, 2022, 02:53:03 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html

How does that authoritarian boot taste?
Like most right wingers kiid loves cancel culture. Provided they get to do the canceling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 04, 2022, 07:17:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 04, 2022, 05:36:56 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 04, 2022, 02:53:03 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
Dems in Florida gotta toe the line

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/desantis-suspends-prosecutor/index.html

How does that authoritarian boot taste?
Like most right wingers kiid loves cancel culture. Provided they get to do the canceling.
What culture is DeSantis canceling.?
The suspended prosecutor openly stated he would not follow the laws duly enacted by the Florida Legislature
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/us/desantis-tampa-prosecutor-abortion.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/us/desantis-tampa-prosecutor-abortion.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 04, 2022, 08:03:25 PM: Wait... aren't you the one who keeps harping on the consent of the governed?

DeSantis is seeking to remove a Democrat twice elected by Hillsborough voters, by a clear majority. Isn't DeSantis cancelling their vote? This is usually where you admonish us that the voters can always vote someone out if they don't feel he's doing his job properly. Why not let the people of Hillsborough decide?

Heh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 04, 2022, 08:55:00 PM: Quote from: SardineMartin on August 04, 2022, 08:03:25 PM
Wait... aren't you the one who keeps harping on the consent of the governed?

DeSantis is seeking to remove a Democrat twice elected by Hillsborough voters, by a clear majority.
Nixon was elected twice by large majorities.
I could go on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2022, 09:16:58 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 04, 2022, 08:55:00 PM
Quote from: SardineMartin on August 04, 2022, 08:03:25 PM
Wait... aren't you the one who keeps harping on the consent of the governed?

DeSantis is seeking to remove a Democrat twice elected by Hillsborough voters, by a clear majority.
Nixon was elected twice by large majorities.
I could go on.

Do not bother. I will go on for you.

Nixon started the modern republican tradition of getting caught cheating in every presidential bid with his key aids serving every kleptocrat adversarial to the United States up to and including donald trump.

Now that his mythical silent majority is mostly fertilizer, his lasting legacy is a republican party full of hateful cheating lying scum.

And yes, he was a crook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 09:26:10 PM: Ohhhhhh that Holder - what a kidder

https://share.newsbreak.com/1jgy70ns
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2022, 09:36:28 PM: Some foods that we can serve to the poor in the poorest nations are fish and bread, like in the Bible, people can live on fish and bread.

Also, people can eat fish tacos, and fish burritos, with whatever ingredients that are plentiful at the time. The type of fish can depend on the area and the time of year, etc.

Of note for a healthy planet, is people can eat oranges, and people can drink orange juice, and also to celebrate life people can drink mimosas, the poor people can make mimosas with Cold Duck.

California can also sell avocados to the world.

The Mexicans also eat scrambled eggs with cactus, prickly pear cactus. They also make candy out of the prickly pear cactus.

And China can help to get food and products onto the store shelves in the poorest of poor nations.

I am blessed to have 3 great grocery stores in my neighborhood, Vons, Stater Brothers, and Northgate, they are all 3 great stores.

And we have a Carl's Jr in the location where the original Carl's Jr was built, it is right next to a beautiful park.

Close by we have a Guadalajara restaurant that sells authentic Mexican food 24 hours per day. We are blessed to be able to get tacos 24 hours per day. It is a great restaurant.

So, we will get through this crisis, and the fishermen can help to provide fish, and people can have canneries where they can the fish, etc, and the farmers can grow wheat and they can make flour and people can make bread, and people can make tortillas, etc. Then, to make everyone healthier we can all have orange juice, and avocados, and tomato sauce, etc.

And Pasta is cheap, and beans, and rice, etc. Salsa and sauces can spice things up.

Of the nations who are doing well one is Colombia, Colombians are making a lot of money from coffee, as people have spent more time at home then more people are drinking coffee, and the growth in the industry in Colombia is way above all of the other nations in their area. It is great to see Colombia getting wealthy while they enjoy peace, peace and prosperity is what it is all about. I drink my Colombian coffee every morning, it is a treat, and it is a great way to start my day.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 04, 2022, 09:54:53 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 09:26:10 PM
Ohhhhhh that Holder - what a kidder

https://share.newsbreak.com/1jgy70ns

As Joe Biden would say, Not a joke! Not a joke!

Trump is like a punch drunk fighter getting banged from all sides.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2022, 09:55:43 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 04, 2022, 09:26:10 PM
Ohhhhhh that Holder - what a kidder

https://share.newsbreak.com/1jgy70ns

Your whole nest of vipers is about to get weed whacked.

What a day for you!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2022, 11:28:47 PM: Texas is now making great wine, I will have to try some.

https://texasfinewine.com/wine-facts/

The poor people of Kentucky can get good wine from Texas for a good price. And the people of Nevada would drink the Texan wine. It is good that Texas is making wine now. And the people in Florida will drink the Texan wine, I am sure a lot of people are willing to try the Texan wine.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2022, 12:36:47 AM: Governor Andy Beshear

3 hours

Very good news this morning - President Joe Biden has approved Individual Assistance for Floyd and Pike counties. This support is critical for our Eastern Kentucky families as we work together to recover and rebuild. The devastation is enormous and every level of support will help. - AB

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Little things like good Colombian coffee can be sent to Kentucky, and Top Ramen with canned sardines and canned salmon, and good cheap wine from Texas, and Louisiana can send corn and crawfish to Kentucky, etc. Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli is also great for the hungry people, and Campbell Soup. And California can send orange juice to Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 05, 2022, 01:15:44 AM: Jon Stewart lambastes Tucker

https://twitter.com/wutangkids/status/1555391515492491265?s=21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 05, 2022, 09:23:55 AM: Jobs growth and wage growth soared in July. Republicans will deny it!

Unemployment rate matches pre-pandemic level, at 3.5%. (50 year low).

Shut up and keep working.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/05/business/jobs-report-july-economy (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/05/business/jobs-report-july-economy)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 05, 2022, 09:52:24 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 04, 2022, 08:55:00 PM
Quote from: SardineMartin on August 04, 2022, 08:03:25 PM
Wait... aren't you the one who keeps harping on the consent of the governed?

DeSantis is seeking to remove a Democrat twice elected by Hillsborough voters, by a clear majority.
Nixon was elected twice by large majorities.
I could go on.

Quote
This is usually where you admonish us that the voters can always vote someone out if they don't feel he's doing his job properly. Why not let the people of Hillsborough decide?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 05, 2022, 11:02:07 AM: https://apnews.com/article/oddities-seoul-south-korea-51cedde41e667df73fe996cf707899ab

One of South Korea s root problems. Ad leaves a bad taste in some viewers mouths.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 05, 2022, 11:10:22 AM: Quote from: AlexisDTokeville on August 05, 2022, 09:52:24 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 04, 2022, 08:55:00 PM
Quote from: SardineMartin on August 04, 2022, 08:03:25 PM
Wait... aren't you the one who keeps harping on the consent of the governed?

DeSantis is seeking to remove a Democrat twice elected by Hillsborough voters, by a clear majority.
Nixon was elected twice by large majorities.
I could go on.

Quote
This is usually where you admonish us that the voters can always vote someone out if they don't feel he's doing his job properly. Why not let the people of Hillsborough decide?
Preaching to yourself exposes two fools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 05, 2022, 11:34:21 AM: Still won't answer the question = white flag.

It's an elected position. Why not let voters decide? This is exactly what you kep asking us when it's a GOP official you're defending. You CTPH.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 05, 2022, 11:45:09 AM: Quote from: SardineMartin on August 05, 2022, 11:34:21 AM
Still won't answer the question = white flag.

It's an elected position. Why not let voters decide? This is exactly what you kep asking us when it's a GOP official you're defending. You CTPH.
RedDickJimmEspn answering questions about his views. Heh. Lower your expectations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 01:57:09 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/europe/scientist-space-image-chorizo-intl-scli-scn/index.html

A (formerly) highly respected scientist posted to his 90,000 twitter followers an image he claimed was a very detailed planet image taken by the Webb telescope.

It was a slice of spicy Spanish sausage.

He has apologized.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZAV0R1XoAEXE14?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2022, 02:57:07 PM: Some local news in Los Angeles is that Los Angeles now has the highest rent in the nation, followed by Orange County, and San Diego.

The reason why the rent is high in California is because people keep buying existing housing and raising rent, instead of building new housing. We need to build tons of cheap new housing in California City for the homeless and for retirement housing.

The cheapest rent in the nation is in Flint, Michigan.

And remember that land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, only costs $1,000 per acre.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 05, 2022, 03:02:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2022, 02:57:07 PM
Some local news in Los Angeles is that Los Angeles now has the highest rent in the nation, followed by Orange County, and San Diego.

The reason why the rent is high in California is because people keep buying existing housing and raising rent, instead of building new housing. We need to build tons of cheap new housing in California City for the homeless and for retirement housing.

The cheapest rent in the nation is in Flint, Michigan.
How much are they paying people to live there?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 05, 2022, 03:20:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 05, 2022, 11:45:09 AM
Quote from: SardineMartin on August 05, 2022, 11:34:21 AM
Still won't answer the question = white flag.

It's an elected position. Why not let voters decide? This is exactly what you kep asking us when it's a GOP official you're defending. You CTPH.
RedDickJimmEspn answering questions about his views. Heh. Lower your expectations.

He has gotten nose blind to right wing tyranny due to his long exposure lead poisoning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2022, 03:40:21 PM: I do not know how people can afford to pay the high rent here in California, and we have beautiful houses all over and I do not know how people can afford to buy the houses.

We used to have good paying film and television studio jobs, but those have been going to Canada, and now to Georgia, and to other places. While we still have some great studio jobs it is certainly not like it was during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

A lot of people are making money from Real Estate, and they are the reason for the high prices in Real Estate, many people are trying to get rich from Real Estate.

The lady who owns In N Out Burger is a billionaire, and she pays people $120,000 per year to manage an In N Out Burger, so those are good jobs.

Truckers who are in the Teamsters Union are making $100,000 per year now.

For the writers, I only met one guy who made his movie, he wrote "Amistad" and Spielberg made his movie, and he used the money that he earned to open 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants. So that is the approximate value of a good movie script, 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa.

Everyone here in Anaheim is making money from Tourism, and Disneyland employs a lot of people. And there are good new programs to train people at Fullerton Community College and at Cal State Fullerton for jobs at Disney, they can go right to work when they graduate.

We also have USC film school, Chapman film school, and the AADA in Hollywood which is training actors.

The Mexicans here share housing, they live with many people in a small apartment. They all work for low wages, and they share housing. They work together as a team and they help each other.

And a lot of people are not making it, we have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone. California City is already designed to be a huge city, we need to build retirement housing for the homeless who are 55 and over in California City, the homeless who are able bodied can be hired to help to build the housing in California City. Homeboy Industries, and other groups, can also help to build retirement housing in California City, and Habitat For Humanity can help, etc.

General Motors used to have a plant in Van Nuys which created great jobs, but they moved the plant to Canada. We need to bring a new electric auto plant to Van Nuys, to bring the jobs back.

We also have aerospace and defense, and JPL, and NASA, etc, etc, etc, and China Lake, and Edwards, etc, and a lot of stuff is happening here, and a lot of top secret stuff is happening.

We also need for Amtrak to build a high speed train between Las Vegas and Anaheim, to connect Disneyland with Vegas. Vegas is booming right now, Vegas is doing great. People love Las Vegas. And Vegas is a good place for housing. It is easy to get a job at a casino.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 05, 2022, 04:03:07 PM: For most of these plans you need to sort the water and waste management before I
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 05, 2022, 04:34:27 PM: Hamas reaping what it's been sowing. Again.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-strikes-gaza-rising-tensions-4539de5f30c605b3423d3472351cd638 (https://apnews.com/article/israel-strikes-gaza-rising-tensions-4539de5f30c605b3423d3472351cd638)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 05, 2022, 04:37:14 PM: Gee, maybe you should of thought of this before you killed an innocent man, dumbfuck!

https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-prisons-violence-georgia-hate-crimes-5a80d56431a0f1d54750ea7b6dc75cf9 (https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-prisons-violence-georgia-hate-crimes-5a80d56431a0f1d54750ea7b6dc75cf9)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 05, 2022, 04:42:36 PM: Achtung, bitches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/04/viktor-orban-cpac-dallas-speech/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 05, 2022, 04:53:09 PM: Just quoted from that WaPo piece in the Biden thread. Josh mentioned Orban visit over there. Thanks for ach-tonguing it over here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:35:44 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 05, 2022, 04:42:36 PM
Achtung, bitches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/04/viktor-orban-cpac-dallas-speech/

pay site
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 05:40:59 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:35:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 05, 2022, 04:42:36 PM
Achtung, bitches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/04/viktor-orban-cpac-dallas-speech/

pay site

So fucking what?

Y\ou've been told how to access many WaPo articles.

If you didn't \want to do that, a quick web search for Orban CPAC speech would give you the story in a dozen other places.

So, spend the meager energy you used to respond to that to find the information elsewhere.

And shut the fuck up about "paysite" when it is irrelevant.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:51:26 PM: I think the monkeypox post belongs here, by the way
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 05, 2022, 05:53:29 PM: It says a lot that one of Orban's top aides resigned over the mixed race commentary, and saying his One of Orb
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 06:01:17 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:51:26 PM

I think the monkeypox post belongs here, by the way

I think how the Biden administration handles it is very much appropriate to that forum.

I also think given your lack of care in reading the CDC link about it and your salacious commentary, that I don't give a fuck about your opinion, just now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 06:16:52 PM: I read it lonnnng before you posted it
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 06:26:26 PM: According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, the virus has primarily spread through close knit social networks of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), but that anyone can get infected.

Wouldnt worry to much about those kids, though of course put the daycare worker on leave and disinfect the facility.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 06:57:40 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 06:16:52 PM
I read it lonnnng before you posted it

And yet failed utterly to understand it, evidently.

And still asked a stupidly salacious question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 06:58:26 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 06:26:26 PM
According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, the virus has primarily spread through close knit social networks of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), but that anyone can get infected.

Wouldnt worry to much about those kids, though of course put the daycare worker on leave and disinfect the facility.

Still ignoring what it said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 09:40:02 PM: Its OK - the press is ignoring the facts on the disease as well. Maybe worry some on that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 05, 2022, 09:42:12 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 09:40:02 PM
Its OK - the press is ignoring the facts on the disease as well. Maybe worry some on that.

Like you are?

How would you know?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 06, 2022, 10:36:49 AM: American Academy of Pediatrics push for puberty blockers in transgender kids is
unethical

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6310524108112#sp=show-clips
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 06, 2022, 10:53:52 AM: I don't click Faux. Don't want the cookies or bots. Is there a text summary of this opinion?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 06, 2022, 11:01:33 AM: no
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 06, 2022, 11:46:57 AM: Quote from: AlexisDTokeville on August 06, 2022, 10:53:52 AM
I don't click Faux. Don't want the cookies or bots. Is there a text summary of this opinion?

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is a self-described "Medical News Expert."

She also says she is "a top Family and Emergency Medicine doctor."

On a prior occasion, she said "Obamacare was built on a faulty foundation" in one of her Fox News appearances and explained why the GOP health plan was getting a ton of pushback.

Oddly enough, on her personal and professional bio pages and on her Fox News bio page, it neglects to mention that her MD comes from the Central University of The Caribbean / School of Medicine.

Huh.

So... I'm glad she runs urgent cares - they are important. I don't care that her reviews as a doctor rate her a 3 out of 5 - one never knows if the 5s are her friends and family or her 1s are political, not medical.

But she is less than upfront about who she is and that makes me take her and her opinions with a grain of salt and to double-check them when we agree on something.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 06, 2022, 12:27:20 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 06, 2022, 11:01:33 AM
no

And evidently you are hampered in using words to tell us your own thoughts on this.

There seems to be some clinical evidence that puberty blockers allow some time for gender dysphorics to work through therapy, and lead to better decisions on gender affirmation or reassignment when the blockers are withdrawn. Reductions in height and bone strength are temporary, and reversed when puberty is allowed to resume.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 06, 2022, 01:11:39 PM: If Kid knew in his heart if he were really a boy or a girl, this issue would trouble him less and he would have more room in his tiny soul for nuance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 06, 2022, 04:42:36 PM: I would love to be an Ambassador. I would be a great diplomat.

I applied for a job at the United States Embassy in Rome, Italy, when I was there, it is a cool Embassy, there is a McDonald's there, and a Hard Rock Cafe, and there is the Pantheon.

I have had training in Communication, and Healthy Conflict Resolution skills, and I worked with crowds at Universal Studios, and I escorted stars, and I worked security for stars, and we were the official limousine service for the Jay Leno show when I drove a limousine, I am very good at working with the rich and with the famous.

We need to have good diplomats helping our people on a road to peace and prosperity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 06, 2022, 04:51:25 PM: Swiss Guard maybe?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 06, 2022, 05:01:34 PM: Keep up the fine work, Israel: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62445951 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62445951)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 06, 2022, 06:11:43 PM: Attorney who just won his lawsuit vs Alex Jones:

"There is going to be a large set of plaintiffs dividing up the corpse of Infowars ... That could get very, very dangerous for Mr. Jones, because there is going to be a new level of financial scrutiny."

There are two more cases to come against him. The one in Texas is in front of the same judge. The other is in Connecticut.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 07, 2022, 10:07:05 AM: I assume in CT the amount he could have to pay is more than 750K per plaintiff, which is the max in TX. (The 45.1 mil then chopped to 1.5 mil ending some kind of "appeal" to the structure)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 07, 2022, 12:37:40 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 07, 2022, 10:07:05 AM
I assume in CT the amount he could have to pay is more than 750K per plaintiff, which is the max in TX. (The 45.1 mil then chopped to 1.5 mil ending some kind of "appeal" to the structure)

He'll have the $4.1 million to pay in addition to whatever happens with the $45.2 million in punitive damages. So, it could be as little as $5.6 million, but given what the judge and the plaintiffs' attorney said, it could well not be restricted by the cap, when all is said and done.

Connecticut doesn't have a firm cap the way Texas and many other states do. Instead, they have a descriptive cap, limiting punitive damages to attorney's fees and other expenses.

There are exceptions to that limit, some of which double or triple the amount of damages while others are vaguer in their impact. Their supreme court has not been receptive to most arguments that the limits should not apply.

Defamation may fall outside that restriction:
Quote
Conn. Gen. Stat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2022, 05:11:41 PM: We need to be open and honest as we work to create a cleaner planet.

We have made a lot of progress over the years on polluting less, and I remember as a child in Los Angeles the smog would burn my eyes and make my lungs hurt, but now the air is clean in Los Angeles and the air does not burn my eyes anymore and the air no longer makes my lungs hurt. We have made obvious progress on having cleaner air in Los Angeles.

People are saying that there are many problems with electric cars because of the mining of the lithium, and the electricity needed to charge cars, etc, but the problems can all be solved if we are open and honest, our scientists can solve the problems.

I also support trains, I love trains. We can get people out of their cars and onto trains. And Amtrak needs to build a high speed train between Disneyland and Las Vegas for our tourists, and the locals will love the trains as well. We need to build high speed trains in the USA with Amtrak.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 07, 2022, 05:33:33 PM: "We got a crisis of Black manhood. I don't care what name you want to put on it---you can call it Black-on-Black violence, you can call it gentrification, you can call it whatever the hell you want to call it, but at the end of the day we have a crisis of Black manhood."

https://www.inquirer.com/news/gun-violence-community-groups-stanley-crawford-salvation-army-20220806.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alerts_8_6_2022&sfmc_id=0031U00001eN8yuQAC&sub_source=news-alert-newsletter&list_name=DE34_Newsletter_News_Alert&int_promo=newsletter&et_rid=242099554 (https://www.inquirer.com/news/gun-violence-community-groups-stanley-crawford-salvation-army-20220806.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alerts_8_6_2022&sfmc_id=0031U00001eN8yuQAC&sub_source=news-alert-newsletter&list_name=DE34_Newsletter_News_Alert&int_promo=newsletter&et_rid=242099554)

Well put.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 07, 2022, 10:34:13 PM: Two types of folks in The MAGA world...

The grifters and the suckers.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/07/federal-trade-commission-finalizes-action-against-made-usa-offender-who-ripped-made-china-tags-out
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2022, 12:50:09 AM: On the issue of Mexico...

Elvis made a movie in Acapulco, the stars used to love Mexico. The stars need to go to Mexico and help to fix things in Mexico.

Also, Kiwanis can help to improve things in Mexico, and Kiwanis has over six million members world-wide.

The good people need to save Mexico. Mexico was great in the 1950s and in the 1960s, people need to save Mexico and they need to make Mexico great again.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2022, 02:30:46 AM: ;D
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 06, 2022, 04:51:25 PM
Swiss Guard maybe?

There was/is Swiss Army Card.
Credit card size.
I had one.
It had a tiny knife/letter opener that slid out.
A pin that pulled out of the side.
A pair of scissors.
It was great, I used to carry it in my pocket.
'bambu-MacGyver".
Next minute a cop appeared on my tv screen declaring the tiny knife/letter opener a "concealed weapon" under the bambustate's new knife laws.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2022, 02:44:34 AM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 06, 2022, 05:01:34 PM
Keep up the fine work, Israel: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62445951 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62445951)

If they had asked bambu-wisdom if they should be firing missiles into Israel he would've answered:
"No".

Some people in the Middle East seem to be slow-learners.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 08, 2022, 06:14:10 PM: RIP grandchild of Nobel physicist Max Born, whose theories got physical - but were unable to predict my mind being blown by said grandchild in the final act of "Grease."

Let her take you to that wonderland that only toucans share...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 08, 2022, 06:24:15 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 08, 2022, 06:14:10 PM
RIP grandchild of Nobel physicist Max Born, whose theories got physical - but were unable to predict my mind being blown by said grandchild in the final act of "Grease."

Let her take you to that wonderland that only toucans share...

G'bye, Olivia Neutron-Bomb.

Hopelessly devoted to her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 08, 2022, 09:43:45 PM: Welp!

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 08, 2022, 10:01:28 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 08, 2022, 09:43:45 PM
Welp!

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid

This sure sounds like threatening the AG of the United States:
Quote
The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy of California, warned Attorney General Merrick B. Garland of payback for the search of Trump's property. McCarthy, who has refused a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, said the Justice Department had "reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization" and pledged to investigate if Republicans retook the House in the 2022 midterm elections.

"Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar," he wrote in a statement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 08, 2022, 10:34:45 PM: Quote from: josh on August 08, 2022, 10:01:28 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 08, 2022, 09:43:45 PM
Welp!

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid

This sure sounds like threatening the AG of the United States:
Quote
The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy of California, warned Attorney General Merrick B. Garland of payback for the search of Trump's property. McCarthy, who has refused a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, said the Justice Department had "reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization" and pledged to investigate if Republicans retook the House in the 2022 midterm elections.

"Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar," he wrote in a statement.

Goddamn shame that I, having grown up under J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO, have more faith in the DOJ and FBI than the GOP and MAGA...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 09, 2022, 04:52:20 PM: Benghazi!!

What about her email? Lock her up!!

Oh...that's different?

Heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 06:40:20 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/americas/brazil-german-consul-arrest-intl-scli/index.html

He was arrested for the murder of his husband.

The Brazilian judge denied the consul's claim of diplomatic immunity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM: Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 07:34:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM
Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?

Why?

www.google.com
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 08:29:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM
Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?

In America I think that people of all cultures meet by introduction, people introduce them to people and they fall in love and marry.

My wealthiest friend from the Philippines wanted me to marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines, so they were going to take me to a charity ball in Catanduanes, and we were going to do ball room dancing, the minuet, the waltz, etc, and they hoped that I would fall in love at the charity ball and marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines. I was to be escorted by a cousin of the President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, and Gloria was to be at the charity ball. But, my friend fell ill, and our trip was canceled.

People in the USA meet from being introduced by friends. And at charity events and balls, etc.

People also meet in school, and at work, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 09:00:46 PM: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/i-team-mbta-federal-takeover-fta-orange-line/

When was the last time the feds took over a subway system?!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 09, 2022, 09:15:33 PM: 2015, in DC.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 09, 2022, 09:44:55 PM: Shazam!

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1557171258818691072?s=21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 10:25:12 PM: There is a reported mustard shortage, as Canada has cut back world sales because of a drought. So we need for new places to grow mustard. Maybe Nevada can help by growing mustard, and then there is Kansas and Nebraska where they can grow mustard, and there might be parts of Mexico where they can grow mustard. It is all about supply and demand, as Canada cuts back sales then other people need to step in and grow and expand in sales.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:29:15 PM: Wow - OMAR just holds on in primary

50-48
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM: And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 10:40:54 PM: The Deli Mustard is OUT OF STOCK on-line...

https://truenaturaltaste.com/morehouse-mustards/morehouse-stoneground-deli-mustard/

The number one state for growing mustard in the USA is Montana. We need to expand mustard production in Montana and around the USA, and in Mexico, we can pick up the production as Canada cuts back sales.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:00:59 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM
And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html

Every so often, you forget yourself and show your true trumpist colors.

This would be one of those times.

Beutler behaved with integrity.

You mock integrity. And your anti-law-and-order flails at the merest notion of integrity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 09, 2022, 11:15:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 10:25:12 PM
There is a reported mustard shortage, as Canada has cut back world sales because of a drought. So we need for new places to grow mustard. Maybe Nevada can help by growing mustard, and then there is Kansas and Nebraska where they can grow mustard, and there might be parts of Mexico where they can grow mustard. It is all about supply and demand, as Canada cuts back sales then other people need to step in and grow and expand in sales.

Salute,

Tony V.

The nation should use the abandoned shopping malls to do climate controlled vertical farming and fisheries.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 11:22:40 PM: Quote from: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:00:59 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM
And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html

Every so often, you forget yourself and show your true trumpist colors.

This would be one of those times.

Beutler behaved with integrity.

You mock integrity. And your anti-law-and-order flails at the merest notion of integrity.

Had she to do it again....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 11:23:30 PM: Trump smashing Pence in Wisconsin as well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:25:29 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 11:22:40 PM
Quote from: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:00:59 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM
And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html

Every so often, you forget yourself and show your true trumpist colors.

This would be one of those times.

Beutler behaved with integrity.

You mock integrity. And your anti-law-and-order flails at the merest notion of integrity.

Had she to do it again....

She would probably do it again.

But you would assume she wouldn't because you cannot conceive of that level of integrity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:26:58 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 11:23:30 PM
Trump smashing Pence in Wisconsin as well.

Odd how you only cite the cases in which Trump's candidates are doing well and not those in which they are not.

"Odd" as in totally predictable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2022, 12:07:08 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 09, 2022, 11:15:48 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 10:25:12 PM
There is a reported mustard shortage, as Canada has cut back world sales because of a drought. So we need for new places to grow mustard. Maybe Nevada can help by growing mustard, and then there is Kansas and Nebraska where they can grow mustard, and there might be parts of Mexico where they can grow mustard. It is all about supply and demand, as Canada cuts back sales then other people need to step in and grow and expand in sales.

Salute,

Tony V.

The nation should use the abandoned shopping malls to do climate controlled vertical farming and fisheries.

For sure we need to support Future Farmers of America, FFA, programs for our youth, and Four H programs, etc, to teach the youth how to grow and make organic mustard. And we can pick up on the opportunities to sell mustard as Canada cuts back on global sales.

The best use of an abandoned department store that I have seen was "Club Metro" in Rubidoux, California, they had 3 dance floors, a lounge, a restaurant, etc, it was huge.

And Detroit has done some interesting things with abandoned buildings.

Of note, is that people need to be able to recycle electric cars, the parts need to be made so they can be recycled instead of just all becoming waste.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2022, 12:24:07 AM: With the high price of fuel, you can expect more people to buy Vepas, you can get a nice Vespa for about $7,000.

https://ocmotorcycle.net/vespa-oem/All/VESPA/

In Italy they all ride Vespas. Gasoline is expensive in Italy, and so they ride Vespas, and they drive tiny cars.

I would expect more Vespa dealers to open in the cities all over the OC, and around the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2022, 12:24:45 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 08:29:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM
Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?

In America I think that people of all cultures meet by introduction, people introduce them to people and they fall in love and marry.

My wealthiest friend from the Philippines wanted me to marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines, so they were going to take me to a charity ball in Catanduanes, and we were going to do ball room dancing, the minuet, the waltz, etc, and they hoped that I would fall in love at the charity ball and marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines. I was to be escorted by a cousin of the President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, and Gloria was to be at the charity ball. But, my friend fell ill, and our trip was canceled.

People in the USA meet from being introduced by friends. And at charity events and balls, etc.

People also meet in school, and at work, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Thanks.
I like hearing your about your life stories.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2022, 12:27:52 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 10, 2022, 12:24:45 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2022, 08:29:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM
Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?

In America I think that people of all cultures meet by introduction, people introduce them to people and they fall in love and marry.

My wealthiest friend from the Philippines wanted me to marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines, so they were going to take me to a charity ball in Catanduanes, and we were going to do ball room dancing, the minuet, the waltz, etc, and they hoped that I would fall in love at the charity ball and marry a wealthy woman from the Philippines. I was to be escorted by a cousin of the President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, and Gloria was to be at the charity ball. But, my friend fell ill, and our trip was canceled.

People in the USA meet from being introduced by friends. And at charity events and balls, etc.

People also meet in school, and at work, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Thanks.
I like hearing your about your life stories.

Thanks. It is my pleasure. I love to tell stories.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 10, 2022, 12:29:40 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2022, 12:24:07 AM
With the high price of fuel, you can expect more people to buy Vepas, you can get a nice Vespa for about $7,000.

https://ocmotorcycle.net/vespa-oem/All/VESPA/

In Italy they all ride Vespas. Gasoline is expensive in Italy, and so they ride Vespas, and they drive tiny cars.

I would expect more Vespa dealers to open in the cities all over the OC, and around the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.

Only Vespas over 150cc are street legal in the US, even though you need a motor cycle license to drive the smaller ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2022, 02:04:11 AM: Trump's problem, if he decides to run again, will be the same as it was at the last election...his faithful 74 million are not enough to win an election.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2022, 02:15:43 AM: Quote from: josh on August 09, 2022, 07:34:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2022, 07:23:51 PM
Are arranged marriages common in the African-American community?

Why?

www.google.com

On Steve Harvey Show a young Black man asked Steve what he should do...because his wife had taken over all the space in the bedroom wardrobe, and told him to put all his clothes etc in the basement.
Steve Harvey's reply was:
"You better get your butt into the basement".
Got me thinking it might be an arranged marriage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 10, 2022, 09:52:33 AM: Quote
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.

About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116688726/most-americans-support-using-the-popular-vote-to-decide-u-s-presidents-data-show
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 10, 2022, 09:57:36 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM
And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html

Yes! I thank her, too! A dedicated public servant who put her constitutional duty before partisanship.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 10:32:58 AM: Quote from: Bart on August 10, 2022, 09:52:33 AM
Quote
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116688726/most-americans-support-using-the-popular-vote-to-decide-u-s-presidents-data-show

Very shoddy and incomplete piece. NPR usually better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 11:02:48 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 10:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 10, 2022, 09:52:33 AM
Quote
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116688726/most-americans-support-using-the-popular-vote-to-decide-u-s-presidents-data-show

Very shoddy and incomplete piece. NPR usually better.

Nah.

You just do not like its conclusions
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:22:12 AM: Yep. I'm the Save the Electoral College Guy

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM: If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 10, 2022, 11:38:37 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 10:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 10, 2022, 09:52:33 AM
Quote
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116688726/most-americans-support-using-the-popular-vote-to-decide-u-s-presidents-data-show

Very shoddy and incomplete piece. NPR usually better.

How so? What was missing? I posted it for the Pew research, whose main findings are in the article.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 10, 2022, 11:48:00 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands?

Why would you think that? Still people going to the polls in each state, or mailing in votes, with state election commissions overseeing it, the votes are counted, the results then added to the other state results. The assignment of electors is removed from the process, simplifying it and reducing the oversight needed. Would remove the need for recounts of close results at the state level. And remove a potential motivation for fraud, since one state's results do not create a slate of electors all for one candidate. Not that there's been any evidence of fraud of any significance in modern presidential elections.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 12:32:53 PM: Sure wouldn't then be anyone looking to vote in more than one state, eh?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 12:34:32 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 10, 2022, 11:38:37 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 10:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 10, 2022, 09:52:33 AM
Quote
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116688726/most-americans-support-using-the-popular-vote-to-decide-u-s-presidents-data-show

Very shoddy and incomplete piece. NPR usually better.

How so? What was missing? I posted it for the Pew research, whose main findings are in the article.

Its just numbers - no reasoning on why electoral college has worked/doesnt work. And no stating of who was polled, by who, how many and when.

Other than that it was fine

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 10, 2022, 02:01:12 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 12:32:53 PM
Sure wouldn't then be anyone looking to vote in more than one state, eh?

Think this through. Maybe the coin will drop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2022, 02:07:35 PM: Quote from: josh on August 09, 2022, 11:00:59 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 09, 2022, 10:35:06 PM
And in Wasshingto....

Buh-bye now. Buh-bye. Thanks for your "service".

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concession/index.html

Every so often, you forget yourself and show your true trumpist colors.

This would be one of those times.

Beutler behaved with integrity.

You mock integrity. And your anti-law-and-order flails at the merest notion of integrity.
On the other hand it is a competitive district and the Repo who came in second in the jungle primary (the Democratic candidate was first) has connections to right wing extremists which bodes well for a Democratic gain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 02:07:59 PM: If we use just the simple vote, then the tyranny of the majority upsets the tyranny of the minority. OTOH, if we have a national election day on the first Sunday of November and we use ranked choice voting ala the State of Maine, I think a lot of folks could get behind that.

But likely not enough votes can be had to amend the Constitution, especially when lobbyists realize their pigs might get slaughtered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 04:00:26 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 12:32:53 PM
Sure wouldn't then be anyone looking to vote in more than one state, eh?

Judging from recent history that would be Republicans
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 10, 2022, 06:46:53 PM: Knock yourself out, Kid:

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:13:19 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.

Yes. That's the point of the whole discussion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:15:27 PM: Quote from: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:13:19 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.

Yes. That's the point of the whole discussion.

Don't tell me. Tell the DC wheezer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 10:16:06 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.

Give that man an apple!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:43:46 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:15:27 PM
Quote from: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:13:19 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.

Yes. That's the point of the whole discussion.

Don't tell me. Tell the DC wheezer.

Geez, you pick stupid fights when there was no conflict with Larry.

The conflict is with Ward. Larry's on the same side of this debate that you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 05:31:33 PM: Nevada has a huge shortage of doctors and nurses, it is an emergency, as Americans get older then more and more people need medical care, and Nevada needs more doctors and nurses.

The best doctor who I ever had was from the Philippines, and he was involved with a program to help to train poor youth from the Philippines to grow up to be doctors here in the USA. The people of the Philippines all speak English, and they love the USA. Nevada can invite the people of the Philippines to send Filipino doctors to Nevada, and Nevada can help to pay for medical school for students who want to become doctors in Nevada. Nevada can also build more Medical schools, such as putting a new Medical School in Elko, etc. Also, we can train our refugees to work in hospitals, we can train our refugees from Ukraine to be nurses and doctors in Nevada, etc, we can send them to free school if they work in the Medical Field in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 11, 2022, 06:45:21 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 05:31:33 PM
Nevada has a huge shortage of doctors and nurses, it is an emergency, as Americans get older then more and more people need medical care, and Nevada needs more doctors and nurses.

Same story across much of the country, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 08:08:12 PM: Quote from: josh on August 11, 2022, 06:45:21 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 05:31:33 PM
Nevada has a huge shortage of doctors and nurses, it is an emergency, as Americans get older then more and more people need medical care, and Nevada needs more doctors and nurses.

Same story across much of the country, Tony.

My doctor retired recently, and now I have to see a Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor, and I see her every 6 months instead of every 3 months. Also my Psychiatrist went on vacation and she never returned, and I have not been able to find another one, we have a huge shortage of Psychiatrists as we also have a shortage of doctors.

We need to build new Medical Schools all over the USA and we need to train the people who have the aptitude to be a doctor for free, we need to send them to Medical School for free. If we want kind, compassionate, well trained health care professionals then we need to train more of them now.

We need to build universities and Medical Schools instead of prisons, and we need to raise our children to be doctors instead of being drug addicts and criminals. And we are losing a whole generation of people who are homeless on the street right now, they cannot contribute anything to society because they are living on the sidewalk in a tent. It is a long way to go from a tent on the sidewalk to going to Medical School. We need more people in Medical School and fewer people on the sidewalk or in prison.

And training doctors from the Philippines is a great idea, I support it, and on training refugees from Ukraine, etc, to work in the Medical Field here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 11, 2022, 09:02:26 PM: Giving Don Lemon another shot tonight (10-11 ) after some fill in for Cuomo chick
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 10:39:22 PM: The first plane flew in 1903 and the first man walked on the Moon in 1969, it only took 66 years to go from initial flight to walking on the Moon.

In Mexico they feel like they wasted a generation because of poverty, and here in the USA we have over 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone who are not able to contribute anything to mankind, we need for human beings to live up to their potential, in Mexico, as well as in the USA on our streets and with our youth in our bad neighborhoods. We need to be brave, and we can build a Medical School right in the middle of our worst neighborhoods, instead of prisons we can build Medical Schools. If we can go to the Moon in 66 years, maybe we can cure Cancer soon if we train more doctors, and if we teach people how to read and write and then give them access to the World Wide Web, etc. We also need libraries everywhere, and book stores.

We need for people to live up to their potential, to best serve humanity. If they are smart enough to be doctors, then we need to make sure they have a chance to become doctors. The world needs doctors. We need to always invest in helping our people to reach their potential.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 11:50:37 PM: Gov Newsom appointed Antonio Villaraigosa to be in charge of getting infrastructure funding...

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/08/11/governor-newsom-names-antonio-villaraigosa-infrastructure-advisor-to-leverage-federal-dollars-in-building-california-infrastructure-for-the-next-century/

We need to build high speed trains, including a high speed train between Disneyland and Vegas.

And we need the trolley cars like we used to have in Los Angeles. The traffic in Los Angeles is horrible, we need to get the people out of their cars and onto trains and buses and trolley cars, etc, and people can ride bicycles, etc. And they can ride a Vespa like in Italy.

Villaraigosa needs to get funding for Amtrak to build high speed trains, including a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas, and we also need trolley cars, and more subways.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 11, 2022, 11:54:14 PM: Yes the speed with which initial flight to moon walking happened was *ridiculous*.
Pity nuclear weapons and portable launching sites on trucks hadn't been invented by the good guys before 1939.
Germany and Japan could've been nuked and stopped before they slaughtered millions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2022, 11:54:32 PM: The whole West needs to invest in water storage and in aquaducts and water pipes, etc, we need to work to solve our water issues in the West.

And here in California we can use desalination plants to help with water for Los Angeles, etc, for watering lawns, etc. We can have an abundance of water, enough for swimming pools and lawns, if we invest wisely in water storage and in desalination plants, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:02:14 AM: More water falls on Sydney than on London.
Is any of it saved?
Not really.
The dam's catchment area is out in the mountains.
Does every home in Sydney basin have a water tank attached?
No.
The rainwater just flows into the harbour/rivers/ocean.
No 1 radio host tried to get something done...to no avail.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 12, 2022, 12:04:18 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:02:14 AM
More water falls on Sydney than on London.
Is any of it saved?
Not really.
The dam's catchment area is out in the mountains.
Does every home in Sydney basin have a water tank attached?
No.
The rainwater just flows into the harbour/rivers/ocean.
No 1 radio host tried to get something done...to no avail.

Incompetence frequently has that end result.

Alienating people also makes it harder to get them to work with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:05:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2022, 11:54:14 PM
Yes the speed with which initial flight to moon walking happened was *ridiculous*.
Pity nuclear weapons and portable launching sites on trucks hadn't been invented by the good guys before 1939.
Germany and Japan could've been nuked and stopped before they slaughtered millions.

l

I am sure there were things that could have been done earlier to stop WW II, and that is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA now. We can know what is happening, and we can act sooner, and we can take our issues to the United Nations, etc. We can also remove the bad guys when the problems are small and we can hopefully prevent the big problems from happening.

One recent issue, is the issue of Russia, and Russia invading the Ukraine, I would have prevented the crisis by having built a good relationship with Russia after the Berlin Wall came down and after the people got their freedom, after November 9th, 1989. Then at that time the Russians had a big concert in Moscow with Pantera and other American bands. I would have built up a relationship with Russia, and I would have been having American concerts all over Russia all of the time. And I would produce plays, and movies, and television shows, in Russia, along with having American rock concerts in Russia. I would be involved with all of the entertainment industry in Russia. I would teach the Russians how to love Americans and the West. You stay engaged, you know the intelligence, and you deal with problems early when the problems are still small.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:07:09 AM: Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 12:04:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:02:14 AM
More water falls on Sydney than on London.
Is any of it saved?
Not really.
The dam's catchment area is out in the mountains.
Does every home in Sydney basin have a water tank attached?
No.
The rainwater just flows into the harbour/rivers/ocean.
No 1 radio host tried to get something done...to no avail.

Incompetence frequently has that end result.

Alienating people also makes it harder to get them to work with you.

It's the politicians, not enough could/can see the need.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:09:37 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:05:01 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2022, 11:54:14 PM
Yes the speed with which initial flight to moon walking happened was *ridiculous*.
Pity nuclear weapons and portable launching sites on trucks hadn't been invented by the good guys before 1939.
Germany and Japan could've been nuked and stopped before they slaughtered millions.

l

I am sure there were things that could have been done earlier to stop WW II, and that is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA now. We can know what is happening, and we can act sooner, and we can take our issues to the United Nations, etc. We can also remove the bad guys when the problems are small and we can hopefully prevent the big problems from happening.

One recent issue, is the issue of Russia, and Russia invading the Ukraine, I would have prevented the crisis by having built a good relationship with Russia after the Berlin Wall came down and after the people got their freedom, after November 9th, 1989. Then at that time the Russians had a big concert in Moscow with Pantera and other American bands. I would have built up a relationship with Russia, and I would have been having American concerts all over Russia all of the time. And I would produce plays, and movies, and television shows, in Russia, along with having American rock concerts in Russia. I would be involved with all of the entertainment industry in Russia. I would teach the Russians how to love Americans and the West. You stay engaged, you know the intelligence, and you deal with problems early when the problems are still small.

Salute,

Tony V.

Now, Russia (and China) basically rule the UN and the world.
Last week China was hurling more insults at Australia...then all of a sudden the rhetoric changed.
Maybe they ran out of coal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:20:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:09:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:05:01 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2022, 11:54:14 PM
Yes the speed with which initial flight to moon walking happened was *ridiculous*.
Pity nuclear weapons and portable launching sites on trucks hadn't been invented by the good guys before 1939.
Germany and Japan could've been nuked and stopped before they slaughtered millions.

l

I am sure there were things that could have been done earlier to stop WW II, and that is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA now. We can know what is happening, and we can act sooner, and we can take our issues to the United Nations, etc. We can also remove the bad guys when the problems are small and we can hopefully prevent the big problems from happening.

One recent issue, is the issue of Russia, and Russia invading the Ukraine, I would have prevented the crisis by having built a good relationship with Russia after the Berlin Wall came down and after the people got their freedom, after November 9th, 1989. Then at that time the Russians had a big concert in Moscow with Pantera and other American bands. I would have built up a relationship with Russia, and I would have been having American concerts all over Russia all of the time. And I would produce plays, and movies, and television shows, in Russia, along with having American rock concerts in Russia. I would be involved with all of the entertainment industry in Russia. I would teach the Russians how to love Americans and the West. You stay engaged, you know the intelligence, and you deal with problems early when the problems are still small.

Salute,

Tony V.

Now, Russia (and China) basically rule the UN and the world.

Ah, but the entertainment, the movies, and music, and television shows, can come from Hollywood. And they are all reading books written by Americans, if they are available to them.

The Russians all loved Pantera, who were a bunch of musicians from Texas, the Russians loved Texas Rock and Roll when Pantera played in Moscow.

They even had McDonald's restaurants in Russia, we were making progress. We should have worked harder to build a better relationship with Russia. They love our music, they love our movies, they love our food, we need to be engaged with the good people in Russia.

And look at what wonderful progress we have made in Colombia. The President of Colombia attended Harvard, and Colombia is doing great, they have growth way higher than their neighbors, all because we stayed engaged and we kept helping the good people in Colombia.

After we remove Putin and get peace again in Russia, we need to stay better engaged next time, and we need to be involved with their entertainment industry and we need to make sure that we have a positive relationship with the Russians in the future. And we can send the Catholics to win all of the Russians over for Christianity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:51:11 AM: Bambu, Disney made a movie named "The Black Widow," the heroes of the movie are a family of Russian spies, with the Russians as the heroes of the movie. We need to do more movies with the Russians as the heroes.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Widow_(film) Or this link... https://tinyurl.com/ywrnnp97

We can improve relations with Russia via Hollywood. And we can teach the Russians to love Americans, they already love McDonald's, and they loved Pantera, we need to look for ways that we can improve our relationship with Russia after we remove Putin and after Russia gets a good new government.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 12, 2022, 01:37:18 AM: It is the tax cheats more than politicians, though tax cheats have their own politicians, that stop good big things from getting done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 03:32:32 AM: The voters voted in support of high speed trains in California, we need to see results, we need for the government to put more workers on the high speed train projects and to get our high speed trains built faster, we need to have a sense of urgency when building our high speed trains.

We also need to have a sense of urgency when we help our homeless people and our mentally ill and our foster children, and our abused women, etc.

We need for the high speed trains to get built, and we need for the homeless people to get help and to get into housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 12, 2022, 07:53:44 AM: Quote from: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:43:46 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:15:27 PM
Quote from: josh on August 10, 2022, 10:13:19 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 10, 2022, 10:11:44 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 10, 2022, 03:57:21 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 10, 2022, 11:25:11 AM
If we changed to a popular vote nation would national elections be taken out of states' hands? What would the oversight entail?

National elections mean national electi9ns.

Not according to the current Constitution.

Yes. That's the point of the whole discussion.

Don't tell me. Tell the DC wheezer.

Geez, you pick stupid fights when there was no conflict with Larry.

The conflict is with Ward. Larry's on the same side of this debate that you are.

GFY, Nanny..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 12, 2022, 10:21:42 AM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/12/florida-state-attorney-desantis-fired-me/

https://archive.ph/M0hct

Andrew Warren, on the threat DeSantis poses to democracy.

I wish Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist well in the Dem primary next week. May the best opponent to DeSantis win. Fried is young, with fresh ideas. Crist is a former GOP guy, who has changed his mind on several issues and now changed.parties. I can't tell if Florida dems and indies will trust him, but he has been governor before and seems to know how to pitch bipartisanship.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 12, 2022, 10:34:02 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:07:09 AM
Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 12:04:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:02:14 AM
More water falls on Sydney than on London.
Is any of it saved?
Not really.
The dam's catchment area is out in the mountains.
Does every home in Sydney basin have a water tank attached?
No.
The rainwater just flows into the harbour/rivers/ocean.
No 1 radio host tried to get something done...to no avail.

Incompetence frequently has that end result.

Alienating people also makes it harder to get them to work with you.

It's the politicians, not enough could/can see the need.

Did former #1 Radio Host join the fray or just sit on the sidelines and kibbitz?

Did he run for office? Did he serve a major party as one of their advisors?

Or did he sit in his radio booth and just safely run his radio sshow?

And given how wrong he was about the climate, why would anybody trust his acumen, anyway. (And don't tell us he was right all along. He was wrong when he said the climate wasn't changing in a way that was bad for humanity. And wrong when he said humans couldn't have had an impact to start with. And finally wrong when he said there was nothing we could do about it now.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 12, 2022, 12:00:47 PM: I wish Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist well in the Dem primary next week. May the best opponent to DeSantis win. Fried is young, with fresh ideas. Crist is a former GOP guy, who has changed his mind on several issues and now changed parties. I can't tell if Florida dems and indies will trust him, but he has been governor before and seems to know how to pitch bipartisanship.

Burgeoning Florida chuckles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 12, 2022, 01:32:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 12, 2022, 12:09:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 12:05:01 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2022, 11:54:14 PM
Yes the speed with which initial flight to moon walking happened was *ridiculous*.
Pity nuclear weapons and portable launching sites on trucks hadn't been invented by the good guys before 1939.
Germany and Japan could've been nuked and stopped before they slaughtered millions.

l

I am sure there were things that could have been done earlier to stop WW II, and that is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA now. We can know what is happening, and we can act sooner, and we can take our issues to the United Nations, etc. We can also remove the bad guys when the problems are small and we can hopefully prevent the big problems from happening.

One recent issue, is the issue of Russia, and Russia invading the Ukraine, I would have prevented the crisis by having built a good relationship with Russia after the Berlin Wall came down and after the people got their freedom, after November 9th, 1989. Then at that time the Russians had a big concert in Moscow with Pantera and other American bands. I would have built up a relationship with Russia, and I would have been having American concerts all over Russia all of the time. And I would produce plays, and movies, and television shows, in Russia, along with having American rock concerts in Russia. I would be involved with all of the entertainment industry in Russia. I would teach the Russians how to love Americans and the West. You stay engaged, you know the intelligence, and you deal with problems early when the problems are still small.

Salute,

Tony V.

Now, Russia (and China) basically rule the UN and the world.
Last week China was hurling more insults at Australia...then all of a sudden the rhetoric changed.
Maybe they ran out of coal.

They were hurling insults!

Oh, you poor Australians. You suffer terribly.

We'll tell the Ukrainians how much you are suffering. And the Uyghurs, too. Maybe the two groups can send you aid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2022, 03:36:09 PM: One third of our population here in California are foreign born immigrants, and it is up to us to teach them what it means to be an American, and what it means to be a Californian.

California is a beautiful state where people from all of the other states come when they need opportunities, such as during the Great Depression when my family first came to California.

We have the ocean, and wonderful beaches. We have vineyards, and the whole state of California is a garden that has been referred to in movies as "Eden" in "East of Eden." California is blessed with beautiful weather, and lots of sunshine, and great beaches, and lots of farms and ranches.

California leads the world in entertainment, and we have had great bands such as the Beach Boys who tell people what California is all about. And Aaron Spelling made television shows such as "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills 90210" about the California lifestyle.

We get to teach our immigrants what California is all about.

Our enemies want our state to be about drugs, and crime, and gangs, and homelessness, and they want to point their fingers and say how bad California is. There are a lot of people who hate California, because they are jealous. We need to make California about all of the good things, in spite of the people who hate us. ( And instead of building prisons we need to build colleges. )

We need to bring back the "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies, and music like the Beach Boys, and we need to have great producers like Aaron Spelling, and great filmmakers like Frank Capra.

There is the American Dream, and there is the California Dream.

All great things are dreams incarnated, someone had to dream it, and then people could make it happen. We need to have big dreams on what California is and on what California can become.

When I travel around the world the people all ask about Hollywood, people love Hollywood, and we need to take pride in Hollywood and we need to clean Hollywood up. Hollywood is a dream factory, we need to clean Hollywood up.

California is great, and as people come here from all over the world for opportunities then we need to teach them the good things about California, and we want for them to have good lives here for them and their families.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 12, 2022, 04:10:37 PM: So... Frankie Avalon can save California? Who knew?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 12, 2022, 08:24:38 PM: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

Salman Rushdie is not doing well, after the attack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 12, 2022, 09:27:10 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/southern-baptist-convention-investigation-sexual-abuse (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/southern-baptist-convention-investigation-sexual-abuse)

Baptists giving Catholics a run for their money.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 13, 2022, 12:25:43 AM: Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 08:24:38 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

Salman Rushdie is not doing well, after the attack.

Exactly what happens when security is not absolute.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 13, 2022, 12:42:02 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 13, 2022, 12:25:43 AM
Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 08:24:38 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

Salman Rushdie is not doing well, after the attack.

Exactly what happens when security is not absolute.

As previously noted "absolute security" is mythical. The only way to be certain you cannot be killed is to be dead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 13, 2022, 02:18:52 PM: Vatican News

3 hours

The Holy See's Permanent Observer to the Organization of American States expresses concern over the social and political situation in Nicaragua, calling for dialogue that serves the common good.

---------------

Poor Nicaragua, they have had so many problems.

When Carter was President the USA supported the Sandinistas, and then President Reagan came along and supported the Contras, so the USA ended up supporting both sides in the civil war in Nicaragua, while Nicaraguans died and their nation suffered.

We need to learn, and we need to rise up, and we need to save lives by promoting peace and democracy in Nicaragua.

The Western Hemisphere is almost all completely free and democratic now, we only have Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, that have the worst problems so far as not having democracy and good human rights. We need to work hard in those three nations so that we can promote peace and democracy, and avoid civil wars, and save lives. Democracy can be attained peacefully with wisdom and hard work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 13, 2022, 02:59:00 PM: We need to make friends with Nicaragua, and Cuba, and Venezuela, by working together on projects of mutual benefit, and then as we develop a better relationship with them then we can work on coming together on more deeper set issues.

We can work with Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba, on the issue of Global Warming, we can help them go Green and Clean and as we work together with them on Global Warming then we can work together to improve our relationship on other issues. We can also work together with the World Bank and others on the issue of food insecurity, and inflation, etc, and we can work together so that everyone can have food and supplies on the shelves of the stores, and medical care.

When I lived in a bad neighborhood in an R.V. park, I had 3 barbecue grills, and a blender, and I made tacos and burritos and margaritas and barbecued chicken and other great stuff for my neighbors, I fed all of my neighbors and served them margaritas, and that is the same way that we need to handle international relations here in the USA, we need to have a relationship with the people in our international community. You do not build a wall and hide behind a gun, instead you fire up the barbecue and get busy cooking and you have feasts with your neighbors and celebrate the blessing of good food and margaritas. As long as you have good food and margaritas then you have a good foundation to build on, and it is the same with international relations.

I used to have a lot of issues with China, and then God gave me the daughter of a Chinese general as a roommate, God put me together with China, and I was able to talk with her about all of my issues, and we made peace. We agreed that our leaders must be wise and patient, and that we need to have peace and prosperity. That is how we need to do international relations.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 13, 2022, 03:51:51 PM: http://www.huffpost.com/entry/nycha-heat-pump_n_62ed4ff5e4b0c5501619f92e (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/nycha-heat-pump_n_62ed4ff5e4b0c5501619f92e)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:19:30 AM: cnn.com/2022/08/14/africa/egypt-fire-intl/index.html

41 dead including an unknown number of children.

The "good news" is that it sounds like an accidental electrical fire.

Still awful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM: It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:32:21 AM: We're lucky only one is dead, at least so far. 17 injured. No motive known, yet.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/us/pennsylvania-car-drives-through-crowd/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 11:49:41 AM: You can't make bad things go away by pretending they don't exist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:26:08 PM: Quote from: josh on August 13, 2022, 12:42:02 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 13, 2022, 12:25:43 AM
Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 08:24:38 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

Salman Rushdie is not doing well, after the attack.

Exactly what happens when security is not absolute.

As previously noted "absolute security" is mythical. The only way to be certain you cannot be killed is to be dead.

Not so.
These days you can have absolute security.
In Rushdie's case, where were the armed guys and gals shooting the attacker before he stabbed Rushdie?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:30:22 PM: Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

He should never have gone down The Satanic Versus path or whatever it was that caused the fatwa to be issued.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 14, 2022, 12:52:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:26:08 PM
Quote from: josh on August 13, 2022, 12:42:02 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 13, 2022, 12:25:43 AM
Quote from: josh on August 12, 2022, 08:24:38 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

Salman Rushdie is not doing well, after the attack.

Exactly what happens when security is not absolute.

As previously noted "absolute security" is mythical. The only way to be certain you cannot be killed is to be dead.

Not so.
These days you can have absolute security.
In Rushdie's case, where were the armed guys and gals shooting the attacker before he stabbed Rushdie?
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 14, 2022, 01:52:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:30:22 PM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

He should never have gone down The Satanic Versus path or whatever it was that caused the fatwa to be issued.

You should crawl deeper into your bunker, Bambi. It is not safe when you can still communicate with the surface world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 14, 2022, 05:16:29 PM: Bambu believes you should never express an opinion or take a stand for anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 14, 2022, 06:49:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:30:22 PM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

He should never have gone down The Satanic Versus path or whatever it was that caused the fatwa to be issued.

Did you see that dress she was wearing? She was asking for it!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 14, 2022, 06:52:47 PM: The Trouble with Gribbles

(and naval shipworms)

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/14/shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-being-eaten-by-termites-of-the-ocean-expert-says
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 15, 2022, 11:27:33 AM: Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

Well, he (and we) are dealing with fanatics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 15, 2022, 11:28:44 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:30:22 PM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

He should never have gone down The Satanic Versus path or whatever it was that caused the fatwa to be issued.

So, you're not a fan of free speech. no surprise there, given your Errol Flynn like tendencies to authoritarianism, you Aussie Putz.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 15, 2022, 01:14:35 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 15, 2022, 11:27:33 AM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

Well, he (and we) are dealing with fanatics.

If anyone deserved a license to carry......
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 15, 2022, 02:22:01 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 15, 2022, 11:27:33 AM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

Well, he (and we) are dealing with fanatics.

They live among us.

It's the American way.

Be cautious. Be observant. Of your neighbours - yes. And everywhere.

(New Jersey man attacked Rushdie)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 15, 2022, 03:49:15 PM: Indonesia has new pink buses for women, because Indonesia thinks that the women need to have their own buses to be safe from the sexual harassment of the men.

https://en.antaranews.com/news/241089/transjakarta-resumes-special-bus-services-for-women

That is sad that they do not think that men and women can travel peacefully on the same buses, and that men are treated as being something bad that must be kept away from the women.

I would rather that men were taught to be gentlemen, and that men were taught good manners, and it is good that men and women should travel together.

Something is wrong if the men and women cannot even travel on the same buses together.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 15, 2022, 04:43:06 PM: As we work to help to get our homeless people into housing, a local woman here in Orange County went to Washington DC about 30 years ago and she got sixty million dollars to open the Mental Health Association of Orange County and a MHA Thrift Store, to help the homeless and the mentally ill in Orange County. People need to have initiative and people need to be able to go to Washington DC to get money to help the homeless the same way that this lady did in Orange County to open the MHA.

We also have a new Wellness Center in Orange.

There are people in Washington DC who love to help the homeless and they have the resources.

And the United States Government is the biggest buyer of goods and services in the world.

We also need for the States to do more to help the homeless, and the foster children, and the abused women, etc. California is wealthy, we need to do more to help our own people here at home.

This lady, Darlene, got sixty million dollars to open the Mental Health Association and the MHA Thrift Store, and other people can go to Washington DC and they can get money to help the homeless in their area too. And the States need to do more to help our homeless.

And we need to build housing like crazy, Homeboy Industries can work together with Habitat for Humanity and other groups to build housing, and we should start by getting the young healthy people to build housing for the old people and for the disabled and for the children. And as we help the homeless people then we can get the homeless people to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and they can help to build housing, the homeless can learn how to help to build housing and as they go to work then they can help to solve the homelessness crisis.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2022, 01:19:54 AM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 15, 2022, 11:28:44 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2022, 12:30:22 PM
Quote from: josh on August 14, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
It's good to hear that Salman Rushdie is awake and on the road to recovery, though full recovery is impossible.

I guess he'd lowered his guard, but he should never have had to have it up.

He should never have gone down The Satanic Versus path or whatever it was that caused the fatwa to be issued.

So, you're not a fan of free speech. no surprise there, given your Errol Flynn like tendencies to authoritarianism, you Aussie Putz.

Free speech is like free trade...rarely free.
Words and cartoons are free speech, but you've seen what can happen when people are offended by them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2022, 12:31:36 PM: One might think that sixty million dollars is a lot for a Mental Health Association and a MHA Thrift Store, but Darlene set it up to serve the whole county, the OC has 3.17 million people, she has helped a lot of people over the last 30 years. I do not know exactly how much funding she got from Washington DC, but I know that Darlene is a hero to many people in the OC because she has helped a lot of people.

The Wellness Center in Orange is newer, and a bunch of people worked together as a team to make it happen. We need to copy it and build more of them.

And Biden needs to address the issue of homelessness in America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2022, 01:21:42 PM: Someone needs to buy America On Line and they need to bring it into the future, AOL is horrible now, I still have it from the beginning, but it is a total waste of money now, I am paying just so I get to keep my same email address. If someone was smart they would buy AOL and then add cool stuff to it, make it to where you can browse for friends with similar interests, and add forums, etc, etc, etc, AOL can be number one again if they make it cool. They need to at least make it worth the money that I pay for the service. And we should get free virus protection, and zero commercials and zero advertisements.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2022, 01:40:29 PM: KTLA 5 News

23 minutes

The Academy apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather decades after refusing Marlon Brando's Oscar on his behalf.

https://bit.ly/3zZOg7Q

------------

The Native American Indians have a voice now, Robert Redford helped the Native American Indians to open the first all Native American owned movie and television studio, the name of it is Camel Rock Studios, in New Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2022, 01:42:12 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2022, 01:21:42 PM
Someone needs to buy America On Line and they need to bring it into the future, AOL is horrible now, I still have it from the beginning, but it is a total waste of money now, I am paying just so I get to keep my same email address. If someone was smart they would buy AOL and then add cool stuff to it, make it to where you can browse for friends with similar interests, and add forums, etc, etc, etc, AOL can be number one again if they make it cool. They need to at least make it worth the money that I pay for the service. And we should get free virus protection, and zero commercials and zero advertisements.

Salute,

Tony V.
We should bring Compaq into the future too. Not to mention tvs with rabbit ears, and buggy whips.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 16, 2022, 02:15:21 PM: Some kind of hand cranked mangle for help with the laundry.
Title: Come on, Kid, give birth to another kid!
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:36:42 PM: Florida has a maturity standard for abortion

Florida, of all places, assessing the maturity of others. According to state law, the 16 year old woman is supposed to consult with her parents regarding an abortion. But...she has no parents. So, the state acted in loco parentis, saying she wasn't mature enough to have an abortion. So, she's mature enough to have the baby, but not mature enough to decide not to have the baby.

Got that?

If you think that makes no sense, maybe you're not mature enough to understand Florida.

Or maybe you support a form of institutional slavery as that state of Florida has claimed women's vaginas as its own.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-court-will-force-teen-to-give-birth-as-shes-not-sufficiently-mature-for-abortion (https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-court-will-force-teen-to-give-birth-as-shes-not-sufficiently-mature-for-abortion)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:39:15 PM: Greedy people attempt to use their descendants to shake down a religious order: https://time.com/6206585/jesuits-reparations-descendants-slavery/ (https://time.com/6206585/jesuits-reparations-descendants-slavery/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:46:36 PM: Blacks keep up their attacks on Asian-Americans: https://abc7news.com/asian-woman-beaten-in-sf-attacked-by-four-people-sfpd-arrests-attackers-elderly-kicked-head/12127820/ (https://abc7news.com/asian-woman-beaten-in-sf-attacked-by-four-people-sfpd-arrests-attackers-elderly-kicked-head/12127820/)

This is how the children are "raised". Apparently, hate has a home in some black communities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2022, 05:55:56 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:46:36 PM
It has been so long since someone has called me.a.racist! Please someone call me racist!
Translated for general use.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 16, 2022, 06:20:11 PM: Yes. Funny his lack of outrage over white rednecks beating Asian Americans. Who are three quarters of attackers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/viral-images-show-people-color-anti-asian-perpetrators-misses-big-n1270821
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2022, 06:26:06 PM: As we fund Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, around the USA to help the homeless, and the mentally ill, then we can create local jobs by building schools locally and by training local people to be Psychiatrists and Councilors, etc. And a lot of times the mentally ill people will get help and they will get treatment, and some respond well to treatment and can go on to become doctors, etc, and certainly many people go on to manage homeless shelters, and to help to cook for the homeless, etc. Homeless people also go on to work at the MHA Thrift Store. In Orange County we are funding the Wellness Center and there is the MHA, but we have a huge shortage of Psychiatrists, and also there is a shortage of Primary Care Physicians.

We need to start building schools instead of prisons, and we need to help the homeless and the mentally ill.

Biden's new next big deal can be helping our homeless people and our mentally ill people, and building schools to train scientists, doctors, and psychiatrists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 16, 2022, 06:27:46 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:39:15 PM
Greedy people attempt to use their descendants to shake down a religious order: https://time.com/6206585/jesuits-reparations-descendants-slavery/ (https://time.com/6206585/jesuits-reparations-descendants-slavery/)

Someone has set out to get the jesuits back to poverty, chastity, and obedience. It is not only about time, it is long overdue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM: Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 16, 2022, 10:50:06 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

I don't think she did well enough among the GOP to have a ghost of a chance nationally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:55:22 PM: Quote from: josh on August 16, 2022, 10:50:06 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

I don't think she did well enough among the GOP to have a ghost of a chance nationally.

Me neither but only because she crossed The Orange Od on Earth. She is dead to MAGA base But she can help blow the GOP to bits in order to rebuild/rebrand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 16, 2022, 11:09:01 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:55:22 PM
Quote from: josh on August 16, 2022, 10:50:06 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

I don't think she did well enough among the GOP to have a ghost of a chance nationally.

Me neither but only because she crossed The Orange Od on Earth. She is dead to MAGA base But she can help blow the GOP to bits in order to rebuild/rebrand.

we can only hope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 16, 2022, 11:57:42 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

Nahh

Biden Administration will hire her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 12:07:21 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 16, 2022, 11:57:42 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

Nahh

Biden Administration will hire her.

Depends on the 2022 elections. More likely, if there is still a Jan 6 committee, they would hire her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2022, 09:28:03 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 16, 2022, 11:57:42 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 16, 2022, 10:24:14 PM
Liz Cheney just entered the 2024 race

Nahh

Biden Administration will hire her.
For what?

She would not take the job Biden will not offer. It would destroy her credibility with Republicans. I think she is thinking the party will need people like her when it emerges from the black hole of Trumpiness, blinks its eyes in the sun and says, Hey, we need to be a political party again with ideals and policies. It has become a cult of personality and the best thing for it would be to get its MAGAist members trounced at the hustings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 11:50:05 AM: You actually think Liz Cheney can be a future "leader" of the Republican Party?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 12:18:59 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 11:50:05 AM
You actually think Liz Cheney can be a future "leader" of the Republican Party?

If there is a future for the GOP at all, then she is as good a bet as any.

But it is unclear that there is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2022, 12:21:13 PM: Depends on your definition of leader. I doubt she is a candidate for elective office for a few years at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 17, 2022, 12:22:58 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2022, 05:55:56 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:46:36 PM
It has been so long since someone has called me.a.racist! Please someone call me racist!
Translated for general use.

Nice obfuscation. Attack the messenger instead of the message. It's what the weak-minded like you always do. Bottom line, there is a long history of race based violence by blacks towards Asians in America.

Sorry that bothers you so much that you feel the need to attack those willing to point to a fact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 17, 2022, 12:26:14 PM: Standing up to censure, character assassination and threats while maintaining your principles and defending the Constitution? You're quite right, KC, the GOP has no interest in qualities like that.

But perhaps in some possible future, where Trump has joined the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Club of Infamy, the party could reorganize around her brand of conservatism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 17, 2022, 12:28:09 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 16, 2022, 06:20:11 PM
Yes. Funny his lack of outrage over white rednecks beating Asian Americans. Who are three quarters of attackers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/viral-images-show-people-color-anti-asian-perpetrators-misses-big-n1270821

Try reading.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 17, 2022, 12:37:10 PM: One GOP congressman's struggle to be both pro-MAGA and pro-law enforcement. With a meek rebuke to Steve Scalise.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/brian-fitzpatrick-fbi-trump-mar-a-largo-search-rcna43120

"Contortionist" should be added to the resume of most Republican politicians these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2022, 12:48:50 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 17, 2022, 12:22:58 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2022, 05:55:56 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 16, 2022, 05:46:36 PM
It has been so long since someone has called me.a.racist! Please someone call me racist!
Translated for general use.

Nice obfuscation. Attack the messenger instead of the message. It's what the weak-minded like you always do. Bottom line, there is a long history of race based violence by blacks towards Asians in America.
By whites as well, as Bart noted. I was pointing out why your interest lies where it does, Forrest. And it is not sympathy towards the Asian community.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 01:25:25 PM: "Contortionist" should be added to the resume of most Republican politicians these days.

heh

Yeah, indeed.

Except those strong enough to say, "I appreciate President Trump's support but I am running on my own merits, thank you".

Need more of those.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 01:30:05 PM: Quote from: josh on August 17, 2022, 12:18:59 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 11:50:05 AM
You actually think Liz Cheney can be a future "leader" of the Republican Party?

If there is a future for the GOP at all, then she is as good a bet as any.

But it is unclear that there is.

So a party that just left the White House and is about to capture the House of Representatives will soon be defunct?

Please.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 01:36:11 PM: The GOP is already defunct, Kid.

The principles that it has claimed to stand for for decades are shredded by the current "leaders."

Small government? Local control? Fiscal responsibility? America over Russia? Law and Order?

All gone from your party's conduct for the last few years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 01:45:02 PM: The principles that it has claimed to stand for for decades are shredded by the current leaders.

Both parties are somewhat transitory . Even you couldn't deny that your party has become more extreme the last 14 years.

But stabilizing tenets do remain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 02:42:33 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 01:45:02 PM
The principles that it has claimed to stand for for decades are shredded by the current leaders.

Both parties are somewhat transitory . Even you couldn't deny that your party has become more extreme the last 14 years.

But stabilizing tenets do remain.

I dispute that the GOP has remaining stabilizing tenets.

The Dems have returned to where they were pre-Bill Clinton, I would say, but also that the "more extreme" positions of the moment are about two things:

1) Civil Rights

2) Survival of humanity in the face of even more extreme climate changes now and to come.

Also note: what you refer to as "extreme" in the Dems in Europe and much of the world is known as "moderate."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 17, 2022, 07:41:34 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 17, 2022, 12:26:14 PM
Standing up to censure, character assassination and threats while maintaining your principles and defending the Constitution? You're quite right, KC, the GOP has no interest in qualities like that.

But perhaps in some possible future, where Trump has joined the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Club of Infamy, the party could reorganize around her brand of conservatism.

Her brand of conservatism set the table for Trump and MAGA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 17, 2022, 07:50:58 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 01:45:02 PM
The principles that it has claimed to stand for for decades are shredded by the current leaders.

Both parties are somewhat transitory . Even you couldn't deny that your party has become more extreme the last 14 years.

But stabilizing tenets do remain.

Lef. Center. Right
Democrats. MAGA

Nuff said
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 07:52:14 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gncRvkn9bQU

Rick Wiles, an evangelical church leader, says that vegan burgers are part of a "luciferian" plot to change human DNA so that they can no longer be saved by Jesus.

This is part of the ire against the Cracker Barrel folks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 09:20:53 PM: Standing up to censure, character assassination and threats while maintaining your principles and defending the Constitution? You are quite right, KC, the GOP has no interest in qualities like that.

Sure we do

But actions have consequences.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 17, 2022, 09:23:19 PM: That we makes everything coming out of your mouth a lie including the stuff you only say to yourself, Kiddo. It is time to pack up and leave the death cult you call home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 17, 2022, 10:52:40 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 17, 2022, 09:20:53 PM
Standing up to censure, character assassination and threats while maintaining your principles and defending the Constitution? You are quite right, KC, the GOP has no interest in qualities like that.

Sure we do

But actions have consequences.

Yes - and the consequences for standing up against fear-mongering, lying, and power-grabbing is to be voted out and to be censured by your GOP colleagues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2022, 11:09:47 PM: Alligators are eating people in South Carolina.
Another person was eaten *today*...an 88 yr lady who was gardening and slipped into a pond.
Some wetlands or something.
Where was the fence?
The lady was in some sort of retirement complex.
Totally horrible, and totally preventable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 17, 2022, 11:27:29 PM: You old ladies got to stick together.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2022, 11:54:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2022, 11:27:29 PM
You old ladies got to stick together.

LOL
I've been called an "old woman" more than once...for fussing, being particular, doing things the way I want to, having things how I like them
*
Elderly people in retirement complexes should not be able to be eaten by alligators.
There oughta be a law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 18, 2022, 12:09:54 AM: "Don't go into the pond where the alligator lives."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 18, 2022, 12:10:24 AM: We have to let the alligators know that DeSantis keeps his office in Tallahassee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 18, 2022, 10:48:11 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2022, 11:09:47 PM
Alligators are eating people in South Carolina.
Another person was eaten *today*...an 88 yr lady who was gardening and slipped into a pond.
Some wetlands or something.
Where was the fence?
The lady was in some sort of retirement complex.
Totally horrible, and totally preventable.

https://youtu.be/u4csFnpZXek

Polk salad Annie, the gators ate your granny...

Elvis explains it for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 18, 2022, 10:58:57 AM: That's really Tony Joe White's song. Accept no substitutes (even Elvis'):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 18, 2022, 12:08:23 PM: Quote from: josh on August 18, 2022, 12:09:54 AM
"Don't go into the pond where the alligator lives."

"Don't go into the ocean. That's the shark's house!"

https://www.newsweek.com/great-white-shark-size-four-wheel-drive-attacks-teen-fishing-1734376 (https://www.newsweek.com/great-white-shark-size-four-wheel-drive-attacks-teen-fishing-1734376)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 18, 2022, 02:43:02 PM: Didnt see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin afrom the dorsal to the tail. What we didnt know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didnt even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin and hollerin and sometimes that shark he go away, but sometimes he wouldnt go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is hes got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a dolls eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesnt even seem to be livin ... til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then ...ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin and your hollerin those sharks come in and
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 18, 2022, 03:05:03 PM: they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I dont know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosuns mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, hed been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin for my turn. I ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 18, 2022, 03:23:47 PM: The trump org is a cess pit according to the mea culpa of its CFO.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 18, 2022, 06:02:38 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 18, 2022, 03:05:03 PM
they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I dont know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosuns mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, hed been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin for my turn. I ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb

Dialogue by John Milius...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2022, 06:49:44 PM: I have been seeing photos from the UNICEF camps for refugees around the world, it is horrible, they have tents as far as the eye can see and none of those people can take care of themselves, they are all depending on other people for aid. They cannot even feed themselves.

My advice for the Muslims is to go to Abu Dhabi, and to Dubai, and get a job as an essential worker there, they can support families, and they can have a life. It is better than living at a refugee camp.

For the Christians, they can come help to grow food in the USA, they can grow mustard in Montana, and they can raise pork and beef in Nevada, and they can grow oranges and avocados in California, and they can make wine, etc. In Hollywood the immigrants can live with 10 people in a one bedroom apartment and they can all work at In N Out Burger while they take Acting classes, etc. In Hollywood it is all about serving the tourists, food, sunglasses, theme parks, etc. And meanwhile California has great schools, the immigrants can study while they work serving the tourists. We also need nurses, psychiatrists, and doctors.

Acapulco is a good spot for the refugees too, and Elvis made a movie there. Acapulco is a nice spot, people need to just protect it and make it nice again.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 18, 2022, 06:54:47 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 18, 2022, 06:02:38 PM

Dialogue by John Milius...

There is quite the debate about that. Will post something in the Movies thread if I can dredge it up from the web.

Milius is held to be an inspiration for Walter, in The Big Lebowski. Partly for Milius well known love of toting guns.

The debates about Milius are so fierce that his wikipedia article gets wiped every so often. Just checked, all the subcategories have been deleted in the past week.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 18, 2022, 08:26:48 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 18, 2022, 06:54:47 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 18, 2022, 06:02:38 PM

Dialogue by John Milius...

There is quite the debate about that. Will post something in the Movies thread if I can dredge it up from the web.

Milius is held to be an inspiration for Walter, in The Big Lebowski. Partly for Milius well known love of toting guns.

The debates about Milius are so fierce that his wikipedia article gets wiped every so often. Just checked, all the subcategories have been deleted in the past week.

Spielberg clarified who did what in an interview a few years back. I
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2022, 09:52:33 PM: The Exotic Dancers want to join the Actor's Equity Union.

I support protection for the Dancers.

My favorite club is Bare Elegance, it is where Clint Eastwood goes, and Danny Devito, and David Spade. A lot of stars go to Bare Elegance.

https://www.bareelegance.com/

I support Unions for the Dancers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 18, 2022, 10:31:11 PM: (https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/300171116_10227304936833309_770651953798872213_n.jpg?stp=cp1_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=BmVwq2V5E-UAX8GKk5C&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT_f93-Gk1h9QJV0ePPOcLum_FizmT7CeuctoEzFMt_MKA&oe=63047AD0)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 18, 2022, 10:57:58 PM: https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Troubled-petitions-were-assembled-at-NY-17372685.php

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"Of 52,000 photocopied signatures submitted, more than 11,000 were determined by the Board of Elections to be xeroxed copies of other, original signatures within those same records. The copied pages were interspersed in a manner leading some election experts to conclude their inclusion may have been intentional, possibly to inflate the number of signatures to surpass the daunting new threshold of 45,000 valid signatures for upstart state parties to gain ballot access."

The GOP claims it was a mistake.

The copied pages were renumbered with a different number than the original from which they were copied.

Does that sound like a mistake to you?!

Only that that they got caught, perhaps.

The Dems are seeking an investigation. It should have happened without their seeking it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 19, 2022, 09:55:38 AM: The Dems are seeking an investigation. It should have happened without their seeking it.

Sure, man. You keep us updated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 19, 2022, 11:19:07 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 19, 2022, 09:55:38 AM
The Dems are seeking an investigation. It should have happened without their seeking it.

Sure, man. You keep us updated.

The local representative of the anti-law-and-order party has spoken.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on August 19, 2022, 11:32:44 AM: https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/north-idaho-library-director-announces-resignation/293-e48caef6-9e68-4440-920b-67569e0aa330
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 20, 2022, 03:13:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2022, 06:49:44 PM
I have been seeing photos from the UNICEF camps for refugees around the world, it is horrible, they have tents as far as the eye can see and none of those people can take care of themselves, they are all depending on other people for aid. They cannot even feed themselves.

My advice for the Muslims is to go to Abu Dhabi, and to Dubai, and get a job as an essential worker there, they can support families, and they can have a life. It is better than living at a refugee camp.

For the Christians, they can come help to grow food in the USA, they can grow mustard in Montana, and they can raise pork and beef in Nevada, and they can grow oranges and avocados in California, and they can make wine, etc. In Hollywood the immigrants can live with 10 people in a one bedroom apartment and they can all work at In N Out Burger while they take Acting classes, etc. In Hollywood it is all about serving the tourists, food, sunglasses, theme parks, etc. And meanwhile California has great schools, the immigrants can study while they work serving the tourists. We also need nurses, psychiatrists, and doctors.

Acapulco is a good spot for the refugees too, and Elvis made a movie there. Acapulco is a nice spot, people need to just protect it and make it nice again.

Salute,

Tony V.

Bigot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 20, 2022, 04:00:14 PM: The Islamic terrorists have risen up in Mogadishu again. I sent a long post to the World Bank explaining that the good people must have arms and the good people must be able to protect themselves from the bad people. I explained to the World Bank that there are bad people who would make the good people starve if the good people do not have weapons and if the good people are not able to protect themselves.

I also wrote about the importance of the good people standing up to protect and defend the good people in Mexico. We must not let the bad drug cartels rule Mexico, we need for the good people to rule Mexico.

And progress has been made in Colombia, Colombia is doing great and they have a smoking hot economy with coffee leading the way.

Facebook accused me of supporting terrorism for writing that the good people must have guns and that the good people must be willing to stand up to do what is right. The good people must be armed and in control. I was put on an account restriction for 30 days for saying that the good people must stand up against the bad people.

Mexico can be rich and people can have great lives in Mexico, my Grandmother opened Gold mines in Mexico and she loved living in Mexico, she loved the people of Mexico a lot. It is wrong to allow the drug cartels and corrupt politicians to rule Mexico. The good people must take control of Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 20, 2022, 05:10:50 PM: Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on August 20, 2022, 03:13:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2022, 06:49:44 PM
I have been seeing photos from the UNICEF camps for refugees around the world, it is horrible, they have tents as far as the eye can see and none of those people can take care of themselves, they are all depending on other people for aid. They cannot even feed themselves.

My advice for the Muslims is to go to Abu Dhabi, and to Dubai, and get a job as an essential worker there, they can support families, and they can have a life. It is better than living at a refugee camp.

For the Christians, they can come help to grow food in the USA, they can grow mustard in Montana, and they can raise pork and beef in Nevada, and they can grow oranges and avocados in California, and they can make wine, etc. In Hollywood the immigrants can live with 10 people in a one bedroom apartment and they can all work at In N Out Burger while they take Acting classes, etc. In Hollywood it is all about serving the tourists, food, sunglasses, theme parks, etc. And meanwhile California has great schools, the immigrants can study while they work serving the tourists. We also need nurses, psychiatrists, and doctors.

Acapulco is a good spot for the refugees too, and Elvis made a movie there. Acapulco is a nice spot, people need to just protect it and make it nice again.

Salute,

Tony V.

Bigot.

I am not a bigot.

And California is a hard state, and my family all picked fruit when they first came here during the Great Depression. Working at McDonald's was a good job when my Grandmother worked at McDonald's as a car hop back when they had young women to bring your food out to your car for you. For the immigrants today, the Fast Food jobs are good jobs, and picking fruit is better than being homeless and hungry, and the Farm Workers have the United Farm Workers now. Right now for a poor immigrant just arriving in California, the rent is very expensive and it is hard to get a job, I was born and raised in Los Angeles and I was clean and sober with a degree and work experience begging for work and I was out on the streets homeless for 2 years. It is hard to get a good job in Los Angeles, and the apartments are expensive in Los Angeles.

The immigrants who come to the USA need to be willing to pick fruit, and they need to be willing to do Fast Food jobs, etc, right now any job is a good job, and jobs are hard to get.

People need to also take advantage of the great schools that we have here in the USA, and for sure the community colleges are fantastic.

I am not a bigot, I am just a man who knows how hard it is for people who come to California poor and alone. The refugees need to help each other, and they need to share housing, and they need to be willing to work any honest job that they can get.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 20, 2022, 05:19:33 PM: People need to stop republican Christian nationalists from destroying our great schools any more than they have so far.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 21, 2022, 01:59:21 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 20, 2022, 04:00:14 PM
The Islamic terrorists have risen up in Mogadishu again. I sent a long post to the World Bank explaining that the good people must have arms and the good people must be able to protect themselves from the bad people. I explained to the World Bank that there are bad people who would make the good people starve if the good people do not have weapons and if the good people are not able to protect themselves.

I also wrote about the importance of the good people standing up to protect and defend the good people in Mexico. We must not let the bad drug cartels rule Mexico, we need for the good people to rule Mexico.

And progress has been made in Colombia, Colombia is doing great and they have a smoking hot economy with coffee leading the way.

Facebook accused me of supporting terrorism for writing that the good people must have guns and that the good people must be willing to stand up to do what is right. The good people must be armed and in control. I was put on an account restriction for 30 days for saying that the good people must stand up against the bad people.

Mexico can be rich and people can have great lives in Mexico, my Grandmother opened Gold mines in Mexico and she loved living in Mexico, she loved the people of Mexico a lot. It is wrong to allow the drug cartels and corrupt politicians to rule Mexico. The good people must take control of Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The bad people lurk in the shadows,
waiting to pounce...the moment you get security careless"- bambu

The good people everywhere must indeed arm themselves and be ready to strike at the bad people when they come calling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 21, 2022, 01:08:34 PM: We need for people to learn that it is easier to be a good person than it is to be a criminal, and no one is going to punish you if you work hard and stay honest.

For instance, Colombia is getting wealthy from coffee, people can be honest and they can grow and sell coffee and they can have great lives and they can send their children to the best schools, etc.

And in the USA people are paid $120,000 per year to manage an In N Out Burger, there is no need to be a criminal, you can make honest money doing Fast Food and you do not have to worry about being a criminal or going to prison and having all of your belongings confiscated.

It is stupid to be a criminal, when it is easy to make honest money. You can have a coffee shop, or a Fast Food restaurant, and you can have an honest life without being punished for it.

For me, at this point, I want to open a night club in Rome, Italy, after I make money from my movie script and from my poetry book, if I can make it happen. All of my dreams are honest, and none of my dreams are about crime. ( I met a guy who wrote the movie "Amistad" that was made by Steven Spielberg and he made enough money to open 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and then he hired his family members to work at his restaurants, so that is what a good movie script is worth. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 22, 2022, 12:43:58 PM: Earth has been hit by three CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the sun in the past few days, and the geomagnetic storms are expected to last through today at least. Some disruption of communications. Possibly the site glitches here in the past couple days have been due to effects of that storm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 22, 2022, 05:30:56 PM: Mayor Pete causing many wingers to tear their shirts while wailing and gnashing their teeth...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/20/23312981/americans-are-ready-for-high-quality-passenger-rail?_amp=true&fbclid=IwAR0xC3Rajj8cwUFVi2PcnKTx4LvbD1KlwVwy0l1TCCUeuJ4DYDCa61szBuA&fs=e&s=cl
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2022, 05:39:49 PM: Disneyland receives fifty thousand guests per day, and the City of Anaheim advertises our City around the world for our Convention Center and Disney and Tourism. That is where the Gold is for the Citizens of Anaheim, people need to sell stuff to the tourists. Sunglasses, sunblock, coffee shops with free wi fi, etc, bookstores, etc. The Citizens of Anaheim also own Angel Stadium, and the Honda Center, etc. Our Citizens can make money to feed the hungry by selling hot dogs at Angel Stadium, etc. You can sell hot dogs and beer to the tourists.

We also need to build a high speed train between Vegas and Disneyland for our tourists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 22, 2022, 10:47:45 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/3adany/brock-turner-tiktok-ohio-rape (http://www.vice.com/en/article/3adany/brock-turner-tiktok-ohio-rape)

Ohio seems like his kind of place at the moment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2022, 03:56:05 AM: We have a great train station in Anaheim, our train station is all ready to have a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas...

https://www.visitanaheim.org/plan-your-trip/transportation/artic/

Our City takes pride in our train station, it is a nice train station.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2022, 03:01:54 PM: It is time for the City of Anaheim to buy the Angels baseball team, the team just announced that they are ready to sell.

The City of Anaheim already owns Angel Stadium, and now would be a great time for the City of Anaheim to buy the Angels baseball team.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 23, 2022, 11:59:29 PM: Brittney Griner was right.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119082305/breonna-taylor-warrant-cop-conspiracy-guilty-plea
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 09:50:50 AM: Hopefully this AP writer gives more detail in the next piece.

What did the "added line" of the warrant say?
What was done post shooting that is now considered a "coverup"?

Thanks in advance, AP. I am sure LB will pass along your further efforts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 11:05:48 AM: It took two years but Atlanta Police officers were cleared of wrongdoing and are back on active duty.

CNN)
A Georgia special prosecutor announced Tuesday that murder and assault charges will be dismissed against two Atlanta police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in June 2020, saying the officers acted reasonably in response to a deadly threat.

Both acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances of the events of that night,special prosecutor Peter Skandalakis said. Both acted in accordance with well established law and were justified in the use of force regarding the situation.
The announcement comes two years after Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot and killed outside a Wendy restaurant after he fought two officers who tried to arrest him for DUI. During the struggle, Brooks overpowered officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan, took a Taser from Brosnan and ran away, according to prosecutors. While fleeing, he turned back and fired the stolen Taser at Rolfe, who then shot Brooks twice, in the back and buttocks, killing him, prosecutors said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-police-charges/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-police-charges/index.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM: I love those new bullets with the looping backwards trajectory! You can fire at someone who's facing you and firing a taser, and the bullets circle round and strike their back and buttock. BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 01:28:55 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
I love those new bullets with the looping backwards trajectory! You can fire at someone who's facing you and firing a taser, and the bullets circle round and strike their back and buttock. BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
I love those new bullets with the looping backwards trajectory! You can fire at someone who's facing you and firing a taser, and the bullets circle round and strike their back and buttock. BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.
Except, of course, the testimony and body camera evidence says those are not the facts.

At 11:23,[20] Rolfe told Brooks: All right, I think you have had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me [23] he and Brosnan then moved behind Brooks to handcuff him.[18] Brooks tried to break free and he and the officers scuffled on the ground. During the struggle Brosnan drew his taser, but Brooks wrested it from him and fired it [28] Brosnan says the taser contacted him and he struck his head on the pavement, causing a concussion.[24] Brooks stood up and punched Rolfe, who drew his own taser and fired both cartridges at Brooks with no effect.[25] Brooks fled through the parking lot with Brosnan s taser still in hand. While still running, Brooks glanced back, half-turned, and fired the second shot of Brosnan s taser capable of two shots before being reloaded[26] at Rolfe but his aim was high.[19][27]

According to prosecutors, Brooks and Rolfe were 18 feet (5.5 m) apart[29][a] when Rolfe dropped his taser, drew his handgun[19] and shot Brooks once in the midback and once in the buttocks;[30] prosecutors allege the third shot struck a nearby vehicle, narrowly missing its three occupants.[25][28]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM: So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away, when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 24, 2022, 02:21:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away, when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of way.

Meanwhile, they had his car and he was on foot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 05:08:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away, when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of way.
Except that none of the witness accounts and video neither demonstrated nor was credible to anything close to what you described.
Ergo, charges dropped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 06:23:48 PM: "Brooks tried to break free..."

Isn't this how it usually happens?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 24, 2022, 07:31:15 PM: Are you finally ready to give us the story of how you lost your teeth, Kid?

That is what you meant by usually
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 10:35:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 05:08:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away", when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of way.
Except that none of the witness accounts and video neither demonstrated nor was credible to anything close to what you described.
That you would say that without pointing to any specific statement i made that is not supported by the snippet of fact you posted is the least surprising thing ever. Because you cannot. In fact, let us do this.
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Brooks tried to break free and he and the officers scuffled on the ground. During the struggle Brosnan drew his taser, but Brooks wrested it from him and fired it [28]
That is one for the two shots in the taser.
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Brosnan says the taser contacted him and he struck his head on the pavement, causing a concussion.[24] Brooks stood up and punched Rolfe, who drew his own taser and fired both cartridges at Brooks with no effect.[25] Brooks fled
"So he shot a fleeing suspect"
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...through the parking lot with Brosnan s taser still in hand. While still running,
Still fleeing.
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Brooks glanced back, half-turned,
Again, still fleeing.
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and fired the second shot of Brosnan s taser capable of two shots before being reloaded[26]
The second shot meant the taser was unloaded. As I wrote, "when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of way." Now, the lolipop man bit is an In Bruges reference for Bart, but the point is, without a charge the taser is only a weapon in a blunt force trauma way.
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at Rolfe but his aim was high.[19][27]

According to prosecutors, Brooks and Rolfe were 18 feet (5.5 m) apart[29][a]
"from 18 feet away" which means the taser could not even be used to strike Rolfe.

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when Rolfe dropped his taser,
"what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser." Rolfe knew it had only two shots. That is why he dropped his.
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drew his handgun[19] and shot Brooks once in the midback and once in the buttocks;[30]
"So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back". You cannot shoot someone in the midback or butt except from behind, meaning Brooks was either still fleeing, or had stopped,.which would be worse for the cop. I chose the more favorable presumption.
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prosecutors allege the third shot struck a nearby vehicle, narrowly missing its three occupants.[25][28]
I realize you will not admit it, but every single thing I wrote was factual supported by the very quote you posted.
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Ergo, charges dropped.
Indeed they were. And that is the problem. Prosecutors do not pursue use of force charges against police, leaving them unaccountable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 24, 2022, 10:54:21 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 06:23:48 PM
"Brooks tried to break free..."

Isn't this how it usually happens?

Why not just give him a ticket and let him walk home? They had his car. They had his personal info. They verified a relative lived up the block where he could crash.

Nah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 12:06:04 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 10:35:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 05:08:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away", when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of weapon.
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Ergo, charges dropped after two years of detailed investigation and a special prosecutor.Everything you posted is your speculation with no evidence or testimony to support whatever point you are trying to make.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 25, 2022, 12:27:28 AM: Having failed in his attack on debt relief, ward is back to defending needlessly violent cops.

Lead poisoning has crippled everything important about the boy. A damn shame.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 25, 2022, 12:29:11 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 24, 2022, 10:54:21 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 06:23:48 PM
"Brooks tried to break free..."

Isn't this how it usually happens?

Why not just give him a ticket and let him walk home? They had his car. They had his personal info. They verified a relative lived up the block where he could crash.

Nah.

You would need to bring this up with the board in charge of policy. Are you asking that they go against the "book"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 08:13:54 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 12:06:04 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 10:35:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 24, 2022, 05:08:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
So he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, from 18 feet away", when the suspect had what the police officer knew to be an empty, fully discharged taser. Even if a taser was a lethal weapon it no longer was except in a Chinese Lolipop Man sort of weapon.
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Ergo, charges dropped after two years of detailed investigation and a special prosecutor.Everything you posted is your speculation with no evidence or testimony to support whatever point you are trying to make.
Your response to my detailed point by point linking of each comment from my post to the facts you posted is to delete it and pretend it does not exist. Typical.

And is it that hard to learn formatting?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 09:02:11 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 08:13:54 AM

Your response to my detailed point by point linking of each comment from my post to the facts you posted is to delete it and pretend it does not exist. Typical.

It does not have any bearing on the two year investigation since the facts uncovered do not warrant charges.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 25, 2022, 09:35:40 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 25, 2022, 12:29:11 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 24, 2022, 10:54:21 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 06:23:48 PM
"Brooks tried to break free..."

Isn't this how it usually happens?

Why not just give him a ticket and let him walk home? They had his car. They had his personal info. They verified a relative lived up the block where he could crash.

Nah.

You would need to bring this up with the board in charge of policy. Are you asking that they go against the "book"?

Yeah.

I rode with NYPD for 11 months as a contract videographer.

Police have discretion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 25, 2022, 09:37:41 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 09:02:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 08:13:54 AM

Your response to my detailed point by point linking of each comment from my post to the facts you posted is to delete it and pretend it does not exist. Typical.

It does not have any bearing on the two year investigation since the facts uncovered do not warrant charges.

Charges were
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on August 25, 2022, 10:15:33 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 25, 2022, 09:35:40 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 25, 2022, 12:29:11 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 24, 2022, 10:54:21 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 24, 2022, 06:23:48 PM
"Brooks tried to break free..."

Isn't this how it usually happens?

Why not just give him a ticket and let him walk home? They had his car. They had his personal info. They verified a relative lived up the block where he could crash.

Nah.

You would need to bring this up with the board in charge of policy. Are you asking that they go against the "book"?

Yeah.

I rode with NYPD for 11 months as a contract videographer.

Police have discretion.

Soft on crime LB...

Your current Dem heroes applaud you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 25, 2022, 10:25:10 AM: Thanks, Kid!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM: Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 12:34:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
An empty, uncnarged taser.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 12:54:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 12:34:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
An empty, uncnarged taser.
Not necessary to the policeman giving chase, even if he could have known for sure.
His partner had already been knocked down by a taser charge and could have been fatally injured.
Might want to study up on the law in Fulton County. And the evidence. In this case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 25, 2022, 01:05:55 PM: Imagine my delight that Ward just researched and then argued for the lethal danger of tasers.

The cops should probably shoot any fleeing drunk, given that he might know karate and his hands and feet could be quite deadly. Or he could be part of an Argentine college debt conspiracy - a dangerous desperado! Or debt-sperado!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2022, 01:12:31 PM: Education is the great equalizer, giving all Americans 2 free years of college is a great idea, and we need to make a full education available to those who are capable.

I do not understand the people who are opposed to an education for all Americans. They say that an education is not for everyone, and that the poor people should spend the money on tools for the trades instead of spending the money on an education, etc, etc, etc. Now, the rich people are complaining that the poor people get a free education, it is all bullshit, we need to just give a free education to all Americans.

And here in Anaheim, our children are becoming very educated, they are teaching the children how to do coding for computers, then when they reach college age we have Fullerton Community College, Cal State Fullerton, Chapman University and the Dodge film school, and we also have UCI medical school. The OC has a very educated population. We have a lot of Spanish speakers, but the children are becoming very educated.

Biden is right to help the students with debt reduction, and we need to do more to help to better educate the people of the United States, and we need to value an education.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 01:14:20 PM: Quote from: Bart on August 25, 2022, 01:05:55 PM
Imagine my delight that Ward just researched and then argued for the lethal danger of tasers.
LOL!
I repeat part of the evidence in the case and the status of tasers and the law in Atlanta.
These are facts, not my opinions

Not necessary to the policeman giving chase, even if he could have known for sure.
His partner had already been knocked down by a taser charge and could have been fatally injured.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2022, 01:55:03 PM: We can make education fun for the children. Right now they have computers, and video games, and they are learning how to do coding, etc, and there is more that the children can do.

The children can learn how to make paper airplanes and they can fly their planes and they can learn the science behind flight. The children can also launch model rockets. For field trips on flight they can go to JPL in Pasadena, and they can go to NASA out at Edwards, etc. The Antelope Valley needs to build a giant space and flight museum. And for me, I went to Florida with the Shuttle program as a kid and I watched them launch rockets at the Cape, we lived in a condominium on the beach and we could watch rockets launch from the beach. That kind of stuff is great for kids.

On the issue of math, Algebra is not fun and especially if you do not have a good teacher. I would start the youth off learning Euclidean Geometry, I had a Professor in community college who was a Magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and he taught Euclidean Geometry, it is the fun version of math, on the first day of class we learned then 2+2 does not necessarily equal 4 and 0 only exists because we say it does. He taught us fun stuff, like if we wanted to put a band of steel around the moon we learned how to figure out how much steel we would need. And Euclidean Geometry is like solving problems and then you do QED like a Lawyer wrapping up his case before a jury. My Professor said that all Lawyers should study Euclidean Geometry. So as we present math to the youth, I recommend Euclidean Geometry, and we need to keep it fun. Making a kid do Algebra with a boring teacher is a horrible thing to do to a kid, instead we can introduce the youth to Euclidean Geometry with fun teachers. Professor Thompson was my teacher for Euclidean Geometry and that kind of stuff would be great for the young people.

We can also teach the children how to approach problems from a scientific approach, and other useful stuff.

Those are a few ideas as we work to raise healthier and smarter children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 02:13:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 12:54:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 12:34:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
An empty, uncnarged taser.
Not necessary to the policeman giving chase, even if he could have known for sure.
His partner had already been knocked down by a taser charge and could have been fatally injured.
Might want to study up on the law in Fulton County. And the evidence. In this case.
Pretty sure cops can count to two.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2022, 03:41:07 PM: There are some very good people who I really respect who are sadly against a free education for all Americans. They say that the people who are out there doing hard manual labor should not have to pay taxes to send the wealthy spoiled brats to college to study Philosophy and Gender Identity.

I started by stating that we are training Doctors, Nurses, Scientists, Public School Teachers, etc, and that we all benefit from having a better educated society. And I told him that where I live we have a huge shortage of Doctors, and that we need to train more Doctors.

We cannot be so selfish that we should be jealous of people who receive an education, and we need to make an education available to all who want one and who are capable of attaining one. We cannot say "If I have to dig ditches all day for minimum wage then everyone else needs to as well and I should not have to pay for some rich kid to study Philosophy." We need to value an education, and we need to see that educating our society helps us to become a better society.

We have truck drivers who feel like they are working hard to pay taxes to send some spoiled rich kid to college, and we need to stop that type of thinking, and we need for the truck drivers to know that their children can get an education here too.

We need to value an education, and we need to desire a better educated society, and I support any effort by Biden to better educate our society.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2022, 04:33:39 PM: I know how we can provide a free education and job training for our workers here in the USA. Right now the workers do not want to pay for an education for people, they feel like the people can get out and work like they do, driving a truck, or whatever, and they do not feel like a truck driver should have to pay for a rich kid to get an education. So, what we need for people to realize is that many of our jobs have left for China, and we have a shortage of jobs, and so we need to train our workforce for the jobs of the future so that we can have jobs for our people. In order to pay to train our people for the jobs of the future we can put a tax on imports from China and we can use the money to educate and train our workers for the jobs of the future. Then, if we use the tariffs on imports to pay to educate and train our workforce the workers will accept the aid because the aid is coming from tariffs on imports and not from the taxes from the hard working people of America.

The money for education and job training can come from tariffs on imports and not from taxes on the hard working people of America. Then, the people will support the aid, but people are not going to accept the aid in education and job training if they feel like the poor working tax payers are paying for it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 04:36:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 02:13:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 12:54:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2022, 12:34:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM
Quote from: Bart on August 24, 2022, 12:30:43 PM
BTW, is a taser a lethal weapon? The police keep telling me it's not.

A 2012 study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation found that Tasers can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death. In 2014, NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile and the Connecticut NAACP argued that Tasers cause lethal results.[13] Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers.[14] At least 500 people died in 2018 in the US after being shocked by police with a Taser.[3][4] Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon.
An empty, uncnarged taser.
Not necessary to the policeman giving chase, even if he could have known for sure.
His partner had already been knocked down by a taser charge and could have been fatally injured.
Might want to study up on the law in Fulton County. And the evidence. In this case.
Pretty sure cops can count to two.
No need to in this case. It was not a Dirty Harry movie scene.
The suspect fired a lethal weapon and struck a policemen. His partner was justified according to Fulton County procedures in using lethal force against that fleeing suspect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 25, 2022, 11:31:27 PM: Hominah hominah hominah!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-blake-masters-backtracks-abortion-scrubs-campaign-website-rcna44808
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 26, 2022, 08:12:52 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on August 25, 2022, 11:31:27 PM
Hominah hominah hominah!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-blake-masters-backtracks-abortion-scrubs-campaign-website-rcna44808
Heh. There is video.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on August 26, 2022, 09:20:25 AM: So the Kelly campaign forced the deletion of Masters statement that he is one hundred per cent pro life.

Nice job by them

Heh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 26, 2022, 09:46:11 AM: Thanks again, Kid!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 26, 2022, 09:54:25 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on August 26, 2022, 09:20:25 AM
So the Kelly campaign forced the deletion of Masters statement that he is one hundred per cent pro life.

Nice job by them

Heh.
Well, not all the ads are his. My interpretation is that when the ads hit Masters polling told him the issue is a disaster for him and so he completely changed his stance. But there are clips calling to have a federal law banning abortions nationwide - he apparently did not get the memo from RedDickJimmEspn that this is impossible - prosecuting doctors, supporting a personhood amendment without any qualifications. So the next run of.ads will doubtless juxtapose his new statements with the very real extant footage of Masters saying exactly what the ads claim he has said.

I get 2010 vibes from this election. I still think Repos get the house but it looking more and more like the Dems keep and perhaps even add to their majority in the Senate thanks to some really awful candidates in AZ, PA and GA. And I guess from what I have seen, Wisconsin, but that one was set when Johnson decided to run again.

AZ was probably set when Governor Douchey decided to go back to being the emperor of ice cream rather than run for the Senate. Well, and the one proven candidate opted to do his job properly. I think it says something about the current state of the Repo party when the likes of Doichey and Sununo nope out of running for Senate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 26, 2022, 01:15:39 PM: You mean Ducey, in the Wallace Stevens sense, wants to just have a joke position, be merely the emperor of ice cream - a figurehead in the GOP governor's association or whatever it is? You said "go back to being," as in...OK, sorry, I had forgotten he was CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. Ha! I really can't afford to overthink things.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 26, 2022, 01:23:26 PM: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22267179-govuscourtsflsd6178541021

I have not seen so many black bars since the last time I watched a Girls Gone Wild video.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 26, 2022, 01:32:37 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 26, 2022, 01:15:39 PM
You mean Ducey, in the Wallace Stevens sense, wants to just have a joke position, be merely the emperor of ice cream - a figurehead in the GOP governor's association or whatever it is? You said "go back to being," as in...OK, sorry, I had forgotten he was CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. Ha! I really can't afford to overthink things.
The Emperor of Ice Cream is why I cannot think of certain issues in Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey without thinking of the word "concupiscent".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 26, 2022, 01:59:51 PM: The worst thing in the world is starving and not knowing how to grow food, and being homeless and not knowing how to build housing, and being poor and not knowing how to do Business to make money, we need to teach all of these things to our people.

For Farming we need to support the Future Farmers of America, and we need to support 4-H, etc, we need for our children to learn how to grow food and how to raise animals.

And for housing, I learned Building Construction in High School, we need to have Building Construction classes in all High Schools. There is also Habitat for Humanity, etc, where people can volunteer to work building housing and they can learn as they volunteer. Then of course we have labor unions and people can start out as an apprentice, etc.

So highrise apartment buildings, we can make the steel right here in the USA, and we can build housing in areas such as the Platinum Triangle in Anaheim, we can build wonderful towers, the rich people can live in penthouses at the top, and the poor people can live on the bottom floors.

Here is a link for a company in my neighborhood that helps to build highrise towers.

https://www.ocerectors.com/about-us/

And we need to teach our children how to do business and how to make money. I learned as a kid by mowing lawns for my neighbors to earn money as a kid. And I washed dogs for my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer. I worked many jobs as a kid to earn money. We need to teach the kids that companies like McDonald's are great companies and that there is no shame in working at a Fast Food restaurant, and we need to teach our youth that any honest job is a good job. We also need to support unions. And when the youth come out of school and go to work they need to learn how to be able to make money. I am not saying that we all need to be money motivated, but the fact of life is that we need money to survive, and so we need to learn how to make money.

There are many things that we need to teach our youth, including how to grow food, how to build housing, and how to do Business and how to make money. We also need Doctors, Nurses, and Public School Teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 26, 2022, 04:31:13 PM: We need to invest in solving water issues in the West, we need to bring the scientists and the engineers together to solve the problems.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, has a high water level, there is plenty of ground water. The people of Battle Mountain simply have wells with water pumps. Reno also has plenty of water, and so does Lake Tahoe.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 01:11:21 PM: There is a story about the King of Morocco during World War II, he was asked to assign the Star of David to the Jews and to separate the Jews from the rest of society, but instead of doing so he reportedly said that Morocco did not have Muslim citizens or Jewish citizens but instead only had Moroccan citizens, and the Jews from Morocco were saved and did not perish in the Holocaust.

Here in the USA we are built on the idea that ALL people are created equal. We are entitled to brotherhood from sea to shining sea with ALL Americans. It is wrong to start breaking the USA up into ethnic groups and it is wrong to give benefits to one race and not to all races equally.

We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is the Fair Employment Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for a job. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which is the Fair Housing Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for housing. That is all that we need. We need an equal chance at a job, and we need an equal chance at housing.

Here in Anaheim the City recently designated an area "Little Arabia" and I feel like it was the wrong thing to do because Anaheim belongs to all people equally. I feel like Anaheim needs to belong to all citizens of Anaheim equally, and I do not approve of designating an area for the Arabs. I sent them my point of view, and that is all I can do. They designated the area "Little Arabia" in spite of my objection.

The USA has to be built on the idea that ALL people are created equal, otherwise it is all bullshit. And the Jews would never have died in the Holocaust if they had not first been separated from the rest of society and marked with the Star of David. All citizens of Anaheim need to be equal, and the City of Anaheim needs to belong to everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 02:46:21 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 01:11:21 PM
There is a story about the King of Morocco during World War II, he was asked to assign the Star of David to the Jews and to separate the Jews from the rest of society, but instead of doing so he reportedly said that Morocco did not have Muslim citizens or Jewish citizens but instead only had Moroccan citizens, and the Jews from Morocco were saved and did not perish in the Holocaust.

Here in the USA we are built on the idea that ALL people are created equal. We are entitled to brotherhood from sea to shining sea with ALL Americans. It is wrong to start breaking the USA up into ethnic groups and it is wrong to give benefits to one race and not to all races equally.

We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is the Fair Employment Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for a job. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which is the Fair Housing Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for housing. That is all that we need. We need an equal chance at a job, and we need an equal chance at housing.

Here in Anaheim the City recently designated an area "Little Arabia" and I feel like it was the wrong thing to do because Anaheim belongs to all people equally. I feel like Anaheim needs to belong to all citizens of Anaheim equally, and I do not approve of designating an area for the Arabs. I sent them my point of view, and that is all I can do. They designated the area "Little Arabia" in spite of my objection.

The USA has to be built on the idea that ALL people are created equal, otherwise it is all bullshit. And the Jews would never have died in the Holocaust if they had not first been separated from the rest of society and marked with the Star of David. All citizens of Anaheim need to be equal, and the City of Anaheim needs to belong to everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, "immigrant ethnic enclaves", "ethnic enclaves"...call them whatever...bambu-ilk lost that one too.
They're everywhere, many waving their own national/racial flags, sometimes against the national flag of the country in which they live.
They take over whole districts of cities etc..." no-go" zones for anyone else in many places.
"Little Arabia" is but one.

Then there are whole states...with allegations being made for example that "California is returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a shot".

One woman in the old NYT forums said that her sister in California was told "learn Spanish or be sacked".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2022, 03:01:25 PM: COULD MODERATOR PLEASE ASK SITE OWNER TO FIX THE CLIENT-SERVER ISSUE WITH SSL AUTHENTICATION?? IT IS STILL HARD TO LOG ON HERE, AND HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST WEEK FOR ANDROID USERS.

PERHAPS ELBA NEEDS TO UPDATE ITS CERTIFICATES AND SOFTWARE VERSION?

IS JOSH SHUT OUT THIS WEEK? IS THAT WHY NO ACTION CAN HAPPEN ON THIS?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 03:24:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 02:46:21 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 01:11:21 PM
There is a story about the King of Morocco during World War II, he was asked to assign the Star of David to the Jews and to separate the Jews from the rest of society, but instead of doing so he reportedly said that Morocco did not have Muslim citizens or Jewish citizens but instead only had Moroccan citizens, and the Jews from Morocco were saved and did not perish in the Holocaust.

Here in the USA we are built on the idea that ALL people are created equal. We are entitled to brotherhood from sea to shining sea with ALL Americans. It is wrong to start breaking the USA up into ethnic groups and it is wrong to give benefits to one race and not to all races equally.

We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is the Fair Employment Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for a job. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which is the Fair Housing Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for housing. That is all that we need. We need an equal chance at a job, and we need an equal chance at housing.

Here in Anaheim the City recently designated an area "Little Arabia" and I feel like it was the wrong thing to do because Anaheim belongs to all people equally. I feel like Anaheim needs to belong to all citizens of Anaheim equally, and I do not approve of designating an area for the Arabs. I sent them my point of view, and that is all I can do. They designated the area "Little Arabia" in spite of my objection.

The USA has to be built on the idea that ALL people are created equal, otherwise it is all bullshit. And the Jews would never have died in the Holocaust if they had not first been separated from the rest of society and marked with the Star of David. All citizens of Anaheim need to be equal, and the City of Anaheim needs to belong to everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, "immigrant ethnic enclaves", "ethnic enclaves"...call them whatever...bambu-ilk lost that one too.
They're everywhere, many waving their own national/racial flags, sometimes against the national flag of the country in which they live.
They take over whole districts of cities etc..." no-go" zones for anyone else in many places.
"Little Arabia" is but one.

Then there are whole states...with allegations being made for example that "California is returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a shot".

One woman in the old NYT forums said that her sister in California was told "learn Spanish or be sacked".

Here in California one third of our people were born in other nations, and we need to teach them that we are all equal, and we need to teach them about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1968, people marched, and fought, and died, for our Fair Rights Acts.

The USA has to all be equal. And I do not have an ethnic team to join, I am just an old White guy, they are making me feel alone and isolated in my own country. I was homeless for 2 years and no one helped me. I finally ended up in the hospital before they put me in housing and helped me. It is hard being poor and alone in the USA and they think that the White men have it so easy. And I am friends with the Mexicans here, and I want for us all to be equal, and I love the Italians, and the Jews, I just want for everyone in the USA to be equal. My family has been in the USA for hundreds of years and I want to feel like this is my home and like the people here are my people. If the people here in the USA are not my people then I do not have anyone, I am just an old White American. ( Meanwhile, I love the Europeans, and I may end up moving to live in Italy. )

It is sad that I have to go do a DNA test to find out who my people are. My people should be all Americans, with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 03:28:19 PM: Sometimes I feel like I am insignificant, and like my ideas do not matter, but at the same time I have eaten dinner with Mayors here in Orange County on several occasions, and I was able to help on the issues of homelessness and mental illness, and I had friends who were the best people may they rest in peace ( I hate that we get old and die, I miss my friends. ) Anyhow, I have dined with the leaders and I was able to share my ideas with them, and to them my ideas mattered. I get depressed if I focus on my own life, depression is the deepest form of self centeredness. When we get depressed we need to get outside of ourselves and we need to go help other people. We need to find those who are suffering and we need to bring them aid. As we help the people in need then it heals us as we get outside of ourselves and help others.

( Of note, I enjoy helping the poor, and I love helping the poor people in Mexico, and instead of building walls I want for us to work together as a team with the Mexicans and to help Mexico. And Elvis made a film in Acapulco. We need to work together with Mexico as a team. ) ( Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico, Jeb is a cool guy. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 04:38:26 PM: As the refugees come to our Southern Border for help, then we need to help the people. We can help the people by putting them all to work, we can create jobs for the people building high speed trains, and water systems including aqueducts and new dams, etc. The refugees can also help by planting orange trees here in California and we can send orange juice to the UNICEF refugee camps. Refugees can also pick strawberries, etc, and they can work on farms helping to make cheese, etc. Instead of building walls then we instead need to bring the people in and give them good honest jobs. And the refugees can safely ride on Greyhound buses and they do not need to travel in a dangerous fashion, the Greyhound buses are nice and safe. We also need to build housing for the homeless, so we can put the refugees to work with Habitat for Humanity, and the refugees can also join the United Farm Workers, etc.

We need to help our refugees on our Southern Border.

Also, the Mexicans can drive trucks, and they can bring goods up to the USA from ports in Mexico. People in Kentucky can get goods from Mexican ports delivered by Mexican truck drivers, the Mexicans can help to make sure that the good people of Kentucky have food and supplies on the shelves of their stores.

We have lots of jobs that the refugees can be doing instead of being stuck in refugee camps. We need to free the refugees and we need to help them to go to work. Food Insecurity and Global Warming are two big issues that the refugees can help us to solve, the refugees can help to grow food, and the refugees can help to build high speed trains and subways, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 08:03:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 03:24:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 02:46:21 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 01:11:21 PM
There is a story about the King of Morocco during World War II, he was asked to assign the Star of David to the Jews and to separate the Jews from the rest of society, but instead of doing so he reportedly said that Morocco did not have Muslim citizens or Jewish citizens but instead only had Moroccan citizens, and the Jews from Morocco were saved and did not perish in the Holocaust.

Here in the USA we are built on the idea that ALL people are created equal. We are entitled to brotherhood from sea to shining sea with ALL Americans. It is wrong to start breaking the USA up into ethnic groups and it is wrong to give benefits to one race and not to all races equally.

We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is the Fair Employment Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for a job. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which is the Fair Housing Act, which guarantees that ALL people have an equal chance for housing. That is all that we need. We need an equal chance at a job, and we need an equal chance at housing.

Here in Anaheim the City recently designated an area "Little Arabia" and I feel like it was the wrong thing to do because Anaheim belongs to all people equally. I feel like Anaheim needs to belong to all citizens of Anaheim equally, and I do not approve of designating an area for the Arabs. I sent them my point of view, and that is all I can do. They designated the area "Little Arabia" in spite of my objection.

The USA has to be built on the idea that ALL people are created equal, otherwise it is all bullshit. And the Jews would never have died in the Holocaust if they had not first been separated from the rest of society and marked with the Star of David. All citizens of Anaheim need to be equal, and the City of Anaheim needs to belong to everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, "immigrant ethnic enclaves", "ethnic enclaves"...call them whatever...bambu-ilk lost that one too.
They're everywhere, many waving their own national/racial flags, sometimes against the national flag of the country in which they live.
They take over whole districts of cities etc..." no-go" zones for anyone else in many places.
"Little Arabia" is but one.

Then there are whole states...with allegations being made for example that "California is returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a shot".

One woman in the old NYT forums said that her sister in California was told "learn Spanish or be sacked".

Here in California one third of our people were born in other nations, and we need to teach them that we are all equal, and we need to teach them about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1968, people marched, and fought, and died, for our Fair Rights Acts.

The USA has to all be equal. And I do not have an ethnic team to join, I am just an old White guy, they are making me feel alone and isolated in my own country. I was homeless for 2 years and no one helped me. I finally ended up in the hospital before they put me in housing and helped me. It is hard being poor and alone in the USA and they think that the White men have it so easy. And I am friends with the Mexicans here, and I want for us all to be equal, and I love the Italians, and the Jews, I just want for everyone in the USA to be equal. My family has been in the USA for hundreds of years and I want to feel like this is my home and like the people here are my people. If the people here in the USA are not my people then I do not have anyone, I am just an old White American. ( Meanwhile, I love the Europeans, and I may end up moving to live in Italy. )

It is sad that I have to go do a DNA test to find out who my people are. My people should be all Americans, with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

Salute,

Tony V.

Not to worry, everyone in America is equal...under the law.
Equal justice though seems to depend on how rich you are.
No money for the best lawyers...a person is wise to obey all laws, all the time, everywhere.

Equality in everything else seems to be a bit of a lottery.
Mrs bambu is of the absolute opinion that blondes/tall, leggy, busty, blondes are at the top of the equality tree...and short brunettes, busty or not, are at the bottom of it.

Men in particular seem to be judged/desired as lovers, friends, etc by the cars they drive, jobs and amount of money they have. Tall, dark and handsome preferred.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 08:18:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 04:38:26 PM
As the refugees come to our Southern Border for help, then we need to help the people. We can help the people by putting them all to work, we can create jobs for the people building high speed trains, and water systems including aqueducts and new dams, etc. The refugees can also help by planting orange trees here in California and we can send orange juice to the UNICEF refugee camps. Refugees can also pick strawberries, etc, and they can work on farms helping to make cheese, etc. Instead of building walls then we instead need to bring the people in and give them good honest jobs. And the refugees can safely ride on Greyhound buses and they do not need to travel in a dangerous fashion, the Greyhound buses are nice and safe. We also need to build housing for the homeless, so we can put the refugees to work with Habitat for Humanity, and the refugees can also join the United Farm Workers, etc.

We need to help our refugees on our Southern Border.

Also, the Mexicans can drive trucks, and they can bring goods up to the USA from ports in Mexico. People in Kentucky can get goods from Mexican ports delivered by Mexican truck drivers, the Mexicans can help to make sure that the good people of Kentucky have food and supplies on the shelves of their stores.

We have lots of jobs that the refugees can be doing instead of being stuck in refugee camps. We need to free the refugees and we need to help them to go to work. Food Insecurity and Global Warming are two big issues that the refugees can help us to solve, the refugees can help to grow food, and the refugees can help to build high speed trains and subways, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
However, there is a limit to new jobs that can be created, and there's only so much land (which China is being allowed to buy up at express pace) ... "ownership is not 'investment', ownership is 'ownership' - no 1 radio host.

The pie in America is only so big. An uncapped flood of refugees and immigrants pouring in, just for the sake of the govt's appearing to be generous, means there are less slices of the pie for existing Americans.
You, Tony, are an "existing American".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 27, 2022, 09:21:08 PM: It must come from living in a shit country where all you mud huggers have to cling to the coasts. You have a stupidly skewed and paranoid concept about resources, abundance, scarcity, and carrying capacity.

Here in the US we can absorb a lot more folks and manage our land and resources so they all have an opportunity to live abundant free lives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 09:31:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 03:28:19 PM
Sometimes I feel like I am insignificant, and like my ideas do not matter, but at the same time I have eaten dinner with Mayors here in Orange County on several occasions, and I was able to help on the issues of homelessness and mental illness, and I had friends who were the best people may they rest in peace ( I hate that we get old and die, I miss my friends. ) Anyhow, I have dined with the leaders and I was able to share my ideas with them, and to them my ideas mattered. I get depressed if I focus on my own life, depression is the deepest form of self centeredness. When we get depressed we need to get outside of ourselves and we need to go help other people. We need to find those who are suffering and we need to bring them aid. As we help the people in need then it heals us as we get outside of ourselves and help others.

( Of note, I enjoy helping the poor, and I love helping the poor people in Mexico, and instead of building walls I want for us to work together as a team with the Mexicans and to help Mexico. And Elvis made a film in Acapulco. We need to work together with Mexico as a team. ) ( Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico, Jeb is a cool guy. )

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, 'insignificant'.
Worry not, Tony...'significant' is way overrated.

I love being 'insignificant'...'invisible'. I love being 'comfortable'. 'Comfortable' should never be underestimated.
I am quiet, softly spoken. Walk slowly, talk slowly, drive slowly, think slowly and carefully.
No way would I have been walking around in the crater of that supposedly kind of extinct volcano in NZ that erupted all over the tourists recently.

Tony, you had dinner with the mayors and contributed. An achievement.
I have never dined with a mayor.

Nothing more insignificant today than 'Old people'.
Seems to be that most 'Young people' today think that 'Old people' today are 'worthless', a nuisance, that the sooner they die and leave their money/assets behind the better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 09:56:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 27, 2022, 09:21:08 PM
It must come from living in a shit country where all you mud huggers have to cling to the coasts. You have a stupidly skewed and paranoid concept about resources, abundance, scarcity, and carrying capacity.

Here in the US we can absorb a lot more folks and manage our land and resources so they all have an opportunity to live abundant free lives.

Really?
Because looking in, watching YouTube videos, reading, it appears that the US is full.
The streets of LA, Seattle, etc are sewers, with 'existing Americans' there living and dying in putrid squalor.
People are starving in Kansas and no doubt elsewhere, and the leftist ideal is to flood the country with an "open borders" unbridled number of refugees and immigrants.
*
It won't be your land much longer, once China owns it.

61% of the land in bambuland, including some of the coastline is now owned by Indigenous communities...in some/many they're reportedly issuIng passports and visas.
The woke darlings will get a shock one day when they awake from their slumber.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 10:14:01 PM: Bambu, I read that you are getting nukes, we are sending Australia nuke armed subs, and new stealth bombers armed with nukes. So, Australia has nukes now.

And one thing that I always loved about the Native American Indians is that they respect their elders, and the elders lead all of the councils, the elders are their leaders.

You and I, Bambu, are elders. We are the wise men who need to guide the youth.

That is one thing about acting and filmmaking and producing, we get to help to guide the youth. You Bambu would make a great Studio Executive, they have to think like Bankers.

Meanwhile, we need to remember that the USA was built on the foundation provided by Athens, and Rome, and we need to progress in that direction. And we need to build more colleges, including building new schools in the South Side of Chicago, and in Detroit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 10:25:09 PM: Bambu, we have lots of wide open land in Nevada. Battle Mountain, Nevada, has wide open land for $1,000 per acre.

Reno, and Lake Tahoe, also have wide open land at good prices.

There is also Merced, California, which has good land at cheap prices, and also Bakersfield, California. California City is a good spot with a golf course for old people of retirement age.

Vegas is also cheap and fast growing, the new refugees love Vegas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 11:13:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2022, 10:25:09 PM
Bambu, we have lots of wide open land in Nevada. Battle Mountain, Nevada, has wide open land for $1,000 per acre.

Reno, and Lake Tahoe, also have wide open land at good prices.

There is also Merced, California, which has good land at cheap prices, and also Bakersfield, California. California City is a good spot with a golf course for old people of retirement age.

Vegas is also cheap and fast growing, the new refugees love Vegas.

Salute,

Tony V.

Trouble is, most immigrants and refugees want to live in the already-crowded cities, where the jobs and apartments are.

Some in bambuland suggested special deals for immigrants, where they would be let in if they agreed to live and work in rural areas for a specified number of years.
Sounded good, but how do you ensure they stay there...microchip them?

The youth don't seem to want to listen to "old people"...so they'll just have to work it out themselves.

Don't think I'd be suited to running a movie studio...I've run up 'too much' debt on my credit card...oops. :)

Nukes for bambuland...Yippee!
Now we'll have something to fight with when China invades.
Aussie might not win the invasion war, but we'll sure make a mess of China in the process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2022, 08:43:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 27, 2022, 09:56:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 27, 2022, 09:21:08 PM
It must come from living in a shit country where all you mud huggers have to cling to the coasts. You have a stupidly skewed and paranoid concept about resources, abundance, scarcity, and carrying capacity.

Here in the US we can absorb a lot more folks and manage our land and resources so they all have an opportunity to live abundant free lives.

Really?
Because looking in, watching YouTube videos, reading, it appears that the US is full.
The streets of LA, Seattle, etc are sewers, with 'existing Americans' there living and dying in putrid squalor.
People are starving in Kansas and no doubt elsewhere, and the leftist ideal is to flood the country with an "open borders" unbridled number of refugees and immigrants.
*
It won't be your land much longer, once China owns it.

61% of the land in bambuland, including some of the coastline is now owned by Indigenous communities...in some/many they're reportedly issuIng passports and visas.
The woke darlings will get a shock one day when they awake from their slumber.
You know literally nothing about the US, Kansas or liberal immigration policies. Go fuck a wallaby you fool.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2022, 11:32:33 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2022, 03:01:25 PM
COULD MODERATOR PLEASE ASK SITE OWNER TO FIX THE CLIENT-SERVER ISSUE WITH SSL AUTHENTICATION?? IT IS STILL HARD TO LOG ON HERE, AND HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST WEEK FOR ANDROID USERS.

PERHAPS ELBA NEEDS TO UPDATE ITS CERTIFICATES AND SOFTWARE VERSION?

IS JOSH SHUT OUT THIS WEEK? IS THAT WHY NO ACTION CAN HAPPEN ON THIS?
Perhaps if you had fewer signon personalities you would have fewer problems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2022, 02:09:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2022, 11:32:33 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2022, 03:01:25 PM
COULD MODERATOR PLEASE ASK SITE OWNER TO FIX THE CLIENT-SERVER ISSUE WITH SSL AUTHENTICATION?? IT IS STILL HARD TO LOG ON HERE, AND HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST WEEK FOR ANDROID USERS.

PERHAPS ELBA NEEDS TO UPDATE ITS CERTIFICATES AND SOFTWARE VERSION?

IS JOSH SHUT OUT THIS WEEK? IS THAT WHY NO ACTION CAN HAPPEN ON THIS?
Perhaps if you had fewer signon personalities you would have fewer problems.
Good one RedDickJimmEspn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2022, 02:39:27 PM: Dr Charles Stanley just mentioned that we need to trust God, we may not understand it at the time, but we just need to trust God.

I do not know why I had to be poor and homeless on the streets of Los Angeles for 2 years, clean and sober with a few years of school and management experience and other work experience, I was out there on the streets begging for an honest job. But, I need to trust that God has a plan for me, and that everything is a part of God's plan.

One purpose of my experiences was that I can help other people, I have dined with Mayors and I given them my ideas on how to help the homeless and the mentally ill, and I not only studied Psychology and Sociology, etc, but then after studying I spent 2 years out there homeless on the streets so that I could experience what the homeless people are going through, then I have been trying to use what I learned to help the homeless and the mentally ill, and to make California a better place. And I am friends with the people who run the local Mental Health Association and I know how it all works. I experienced homelessness and hunger and poverty so that I can help other people who are going through those same things. I can teach the Mayors and others how to best help the homeless and the mentally ill, and I spent time out there on the streets so I speak from experience.

Also, our leaders are wealthy and spoiled and there is no sense of urgency when it comes to helping the homeless and the hungry and the mentally ill, but if they had all experienced homelessness and hunger then they would have more of a sense of urgency and they would be helping the homeless right now this minute.

And as a writer, and a poet, and as an actor, and as a movie producer and television producer I can help the homeless, etc, if I succeed. Like Ratso Rizzo by Dustin Hoffman I can create characters to help the homeless. And I wrote a movie script "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" which makes one fall in love with a drug addicted porn star, and you cry when she dies, the film is a tragedy, and it makes you want to save the woman, the way that we all wanted to save Ratso Rizzo. And I have written poems while sitting on a bus bench in Hollywood homeless, you cannot fake that experience, and I can use the experience to help others.

I also lost my Father who died when I was 9 years old, so I can help the Foster Children and the children without Fathers, I can relate to how they feel having grown up without a Dad, and not having a family business to work for or a Father to teach and help you. And many of the homeless people on the streets are Foster Children who aged out of the system and ended up homeless, they are not criminals, they just do not have a Father to help them, and to teach them.

God allowed me to be homeless and he allowed my Father to die when I was a child, so that I can use my experiences to help other people. I have a sense of urgency because I know what it is like to be out there on the streets homeless and hungry, and I have compassion and empathy. And God has brought me to Mayors and others so that I can pass on what I learned so that we can help people.

Also of note, I went to Mexico as a teen with Youth For Christ and we helped the poor people and the orphans in Mexico, and I can relate to the poor, and I have a special connection with them, helping the poor people in Mexico was a fantastic experience for me. And I can relate to the poor people of the world, and I know what it is like to be hungry. You cannot fake that.

I need to trust that everything that I have went through was all part of God's plan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2022, 04:11:41 PM: Here is a poem I wrote a long time ago, while sitting on a bus bench on Hollywood Blvd.

The Blvd
by T.L. Verley

People scared of each other
like everyone is a killer
Homeless, beaten, and not unlike a frightened animal
amongst the cream of the crop
an eighty thousand dollar horn honks at a man with no shoes
An angry fist raises to a lady who is doing no wrong
Three out of a thousand are not afraid to smile
A lady from thousands of miles away
struts beautiful legs and seems not afraid of anything
Another lady smiles and says "Hi"
A dude bums a smoke and outstretches a hand to shake
Autographs of the immortal in concrete
living in millions of minds
In between the desert and the sea
had Thomas Edison not been so greedy
this place might not exist
had others not wanted freedom away from him
this place might not exist
but it does
And people come from all over the world
to see reminants of their home-screen heroes
A hooker sells love because love for free pays no bills
was this her childhood dream
Is the empire crumbling
Why don't people smile at each other more
Why does some asshole bombard through traffic with his horn blowing
are everyone's rights not equal to his
If I were on the roof of a passing bus I would have pissed on his hood
Come on people we are not all killers
enjoy each other and embrace each other and love each other
I walk until my feet hurt
then I sit and watch
Cool place really
but it is all crumbling
Am I and are we

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2022, 05:52:00 PM: One issue right now is education for the poor, and I fully support giving a free education to the Foster Youth.

The rich people like Ivanka Trump have rich families and they can pay for their own educations, but for the poor people without parents then I think we need to send them to college for free.

Of note, having studied Psychology, I know that if we can change how people think and feel then we can change how people behave. If a movie, or a television show, or a poem, can change how a person thinks and feels, then you can change how they behave. An education also effects how one thinks and feels, and thus also effects how they behave. ( In France the people are all educated, and very polite, it is like they all went to charm school. If you educate your population then you can see the education on the streets because the people are so nice and polite. We can raise ladies and gentlemen by educating our population. )

We do not need to give a free college education to the rich people, but we should give a free education to the Foster Youth who do not have parents. An education is the great equalizer and we can raise good people, and they can work and help others instead of being poor and homeless, right now a huge percentage of the Foster Youth end up homeless, and instead we need to send them to college for free.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2022, 11:00:45 PM: We need to publish best versions of the entire curriculum online and hire tutors to work at libraries, community centers, and group homes. That way there is a free education for everyone along with top quality material available for every school. A teacher or a school or system could still choose to use a substitute for some or all material, but it would still be there for any student to pursue who was further curious on a topic or wants to see how a lesson or chapter or subject is generally taught.

This would diminish the influences of backwaters like Texas on the content of American education which would be a great boon to our learners in and of itself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 29, 2022, 10:02:35 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2022, 04:11:41 PM
Here is a poem I wrote a long time ago, while sitting on a bus bench on Hollywood Blvd.

The Blvd
by T.L. Verley

People scared of each other
like everyone is a killer
Homeless, beaten, and not unlike a frightened animal
amongst the cream of the crop
an eighty thousand dollar horn honks at a man with no shoes
An angry fist raises to a lady who is doing no wrong
Three out of a thousand are not afraid to smile
A lady from thousands of miles away
struts beautiful legs and seems not afraid of anything
Another lady smiles and says "Hi"
A dude bums a smoke and outstretches a hand to shake
Autographs of the immortal in concrete
living in millions of minds
In between the desert and the sea
had Thomas Edison not been so greedy
this place might not exist
had others not wanted freedom away from him
this place might not exist
but it does
And people come from all over the world
to see reminants of their home-screen heroes
A hooker sells love because love for free pays no bills
was this her childhood dream
Is the empire crumbling
Why don't people smile at each other more
Why does some asshole bombard through traffic with his horn blowing
are everyone's rights not equal to his
If I were on the roof of a passing bus I would have pissed on his hood
Come on people we are not all killers
enjoy each other and embrace each other and love each other
I walk until my feet hurt
then I sit and watch
Cool place really
but it is all crumbling
Am I and are we

Salute,

Tony V.
Kill your darlings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 29, 2022, 12:25:15 PM: Then read Bukowski. He was the FBI's Most Wanted darling killer for many years.

(Edit: deleted login suggestions - they still don't fix the site glitch)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2022, 12:37:51 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2022, 04:11:41 PM
Here is a poem I wrote a long time ago, while sitting on a bus bench on Hollywood Blvd.

The Blvd
by T.L. Verley

People scared of each other
like everyone is a killer
Homeless, beaten, and not unlike a frightened animal
amongst the cream of the crop
an eighty thousand dollar horn honks at a man with no shoes
An angry fist raises to a lady who is doing no wrong
Three out of a thousand are not afraid to smile
A lady from thousands of miles away
struts beautiful legs and seems not afraid of anything
Another lady smiles and says "Hi"
A dude bums a smoke and outstretches a hand to shake
Autographs of the immortal in concrete
living in millions of minds
In between the desert and the sea
had Thomas Edison not been so greedy
this place might not exist
had others not wanted freedom away from him
this place might not exist
but it does
And people come from all over the world
to see reminants of their home-screen heroes
A hooker sells love because love for free pays no bills
was this her childhood dream
Is the empire crumbling
Why don't people smile at each other more
Why does some asshole bombard through traffic with his horn blowing
are everyone's rights not equal to his
If I were on the roof of a passing bus I would have pissed on his hood
Come on people we are not all killers
enjoy each other and embrace each other and love each other
I walk until my feet hurt
then I sit and watch
Cool place really
but it is all crumbling
Am I and are we

Salute,

Tony V.

Brilliant.
Very deep and meaningful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 29, 2022, 07:16:34 PM: G! L! O! R! I! A!

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/29/1119941550/whatever-happened-to-the-malawian-anti-plastic-activist-inspired-by-goats
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 29, 2022, 07:44:42 PM: Nice. Thanks, Oilcan. She is an inspiration.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2022, 05:49:26 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpg4g/a-shocking-number-of-californians-are-moving-to-texas-unless-you-do-basic-math (http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpg4g/a-shocking-number-of-californians-are-moving-to-texas-unless-you-do-basic-math)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2022, 06:07:56 PM: "Gloria" was my no 1 radio host's program introduction theme music.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 30, 2022, 06:23:53 PM: What, not Tie Me Kangaroo Down? Would have wrapped up all the best iality listeners.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on August 31, 2022, 11:33:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 30, 2022, 06:07:56 PM
"Gloria" was my no 1 radio host's program introduction theme music.

Van Morrison Gloria or Laura Branigan Gloria? Oil's exclamation points refer to the VM song.

Kangaroo bondage joke? Well done.

Where do you find a tired kangaroo? Out of bounds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 31, 2022, 12:20:07 PM: There's also U2's "Gloria".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2022, 12:51:38 PM: The Doors did Gloria too.

I was friends with a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was the President of the Philippines.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2022, 04:58:19 PM: The rich people from the Philippines have been helping the USA for a long time, the Philippines sent doctors and social workers to Los Angeles and to Orange County, and to other areas, and the people from the Philippines have helped a whole generation here in Southern California. And Gloria Arroyo was a hero here in Orange County. I love the people from the Philippines.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on August 31, 2022, 08:07:21 PM: Breonna Taylor
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2022, 04:20:56 AM: Do you think they got the alias?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 01, 2022, 03:13:15 PM: Carlos Santana has said that he wants to join together with wise people to work together to try to make the world a better place.

That is what we do here on Elba, people from all over the world meet here to discuss the issues of the world, and we discuss ways to make the world a better place.

That is what I would do at my winery in Italy, were I to eventually buy one, is that I would like to have meetings with great people to work together to try to make the world a better place.

The next time Carlos Santana talks about wanting to meet with wise people to discuss how to improve our world, I will tell him about Elba.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 01, 2022, 04:55:05 PM: In areas with high heat warnings, the people who are living in their cars need to remember to park under a shade tree before they go to sleep at night, because in the morning when the sun comes up then it gets hot quickly, and a person in a hot car can die.

Also, we need to have hostels all over Southern California where people can take a nice hot shower and where people can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night.

Of note as well, is that the homeless people can go to the Wellness Center and the people at the Wellness Center will put the homeless people into housing, the housing is nice expensive homes which are filled full of beds, such as a 10 bedroom house with 20 beds, in a nice neighborhood. The Wellness Centers will help all people who need help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 01, 2022, 08:34:56 PM: President Joe Fucking Biden with the major FLEX!

HELL YEAH!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 01, 2022, 11:44:42 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech-biden/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 02, 2022, 03:08:42 AM: McCarthy has gotten very kinky. He has moved way past his usual whips and chains.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 05:25:16 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 01, 2022, 11:44:42 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech-biden/index.html
Yeah, Biden should apologize for that "semi" part.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 02, 2022, 09:21:44 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 05:25:16 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 01, 2022, 11:44:42 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech-biden/index.html
Yeah, Biden should apologize for that "semi" part.

Yep
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 09:24:26 AM: Joe doing his part to keep the peace in the nation.

Heh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:00:57 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 09:24:26 AM
Joe doing his part to keep the peace in the nation.

Heh.
Suck it up, snowflake. A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive.

Besides, one of my Senate candidates spent the primary calling me a socialist who was ts to destroy America, undermine the American economy and replace white people. And that was all Democrats. While he is a coward who has scrubbed all that from his campaign, he was not and is not alone. Y all can go fuck Y all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 02, 2022, 10:24:06 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 09:24:26 AM
Joe doing his part to keep the peace in the nation.

Heh.

Republicans:

FUCK JOE BIDEN!

Joe Biden:

FUCK YOU TOO!

Republicans:

WHAT???????????!!!!

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 02, 2022, 10:29:33 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:00:57 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 09:24:26 AM
Joe doing his part to keep the peace in the nation.

Heh.
Suck it up, snowflake. A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive.

Besides, one of my Senate candidates spent the primary calling me a socialist who was ts to destroy America, undermine the American economy and replace white people. And that was all Democrats. While he is a coward who has scrubbed all that from his campaign, he was not and is not alone. Y all can go fuck Y all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 02, 2022, 10:37:22 AM: Compared to Trumpian rhetoric, slander, and trash talk, Biden looks like a New Age healer having everyone hold hands and sing Kumbayah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 10:43:56 AM: A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive

The entirety of this is debatable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:48:20 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 10:43:56 AM
A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive

The entirety of this is debatable.
No, it is not. Not rationally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2022, 12:59:28 PM: Los Angeles, California has the highest wage gap between workers and the cost of rent...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-02/millennials-cant-afford-to-pay-rent-in-these-california-cities-because-of-the-renter-wage-gap

Florida is also hard for the workers.

We need to do a better job of teaching our youth how to make money, and we need for the unions to get the wages up for the workers. We need for the workers to be able to afford to pay rent and to be able to afford the cost of living.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2022, 01:52:54 PM: The Mayor of my Hometown is in Japan, seeking to work together with Japan to create new high tech jobs, involving hydrogen, etc.

https://www.dailynews.com/2021/07/20/lancaster-japanese-city-team-up-for-historic-hydrogen-pact/

My Hometown built the Space Shuttles, and many top secret aircraft were built in my hometown, and the sound barrier was broken at Edwards, etc. Watch the movie "The Right Stuff." My hometown has a lot of great, creative people.

My advice for my Hometown would be to improve education, and to build more schools, and hire more teachers. There can be schools for Science, and Flight, and Space, and a new Medical School can be built in Lancaster, etc.

Antelope Valley College is fantastic, and more schools need to be built in the Antelope Valley.

Children love to learn, we need to get the children into paper airplanes, and model rockets, and we need to let the children know how special my Hometown is, it is a special place, and they have done great things in the Antelope Valley.

The Antelope Valley needs a huge new museum celebrating space and flight, and the Antelope Valley needs to build more schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2022, 02:07:19 PM: A new high speed train between Lancaster and Los Angeles needs to be built as well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 02:12:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:48:20 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 10:43:56 AM
A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive

The entirety of this is debatable.
No, it is not. Not rationally.

I think it's 0 for 3.

NOT a significant portion.......
Not a free and fair election
And yes, Biden's current action is divisive
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 02:15:11 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 02:12:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:48:20 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 10:43:56 AM
A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive

The entirety of this is debatable.
No, it is not. Not rationally.

I think it's 0 for 3.

NOT a significant portion.......
Not a free and fair election
Again, not RATIONALLY debatable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2022, 02:30:10 PM: It is stupid right now that we have people who are against supporting having a free education for poor people in the United States. It costs more to put someone in prison than it does to send them to Harvard, let us send our people to Harvard instead of sending our people to prison.

And we want an educated population. We do not want a bunch of ignorant people and a bad economy, we want educated and trained people and a great economy.

Children love to learn, and we need to teach the children and we need to raise a better society.

I support a free education for the Foster Children, and for the poor youth, and for the rich people like Ivanka Trump then it is not a big issue and the rich people can afford an education.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 02, 2022, 02:39:58 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 02:15:11 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 02:12:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2022, 10:48:20 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 02, 2022, 10:43:56 AM
A significant portion of your party, including its dominant leader, was actively involved in trying to overturn a fair and free election. Pointing that out and asking people to fight that is not divisive

The entirety of this is debatable.
No, it is not. Not rationally.

I think it's 0 for 3.

NOT a significant portion.......
Not a free and fair election
Again, not RATIONALLY debatable.

Told you guys...

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/were-living-in-the-republican-partys-altered-states/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2022, 04:55:19 PM: Some people talk as though the study of Philosophy is a waste of time and money, but I would remind people that all of the great statesmen of Rome studied Philosophy and Rhetoric, and then they drank wine and had feasts as they discussed the issues of their day. Philosophy and Rhetoric were not a waste of time then, nor are they a waste now. And I learned a lot from studying the ancient Greeks and the Romans, from whom their civilizations were the building stones for America.

And imagine in the South Side of Chicago if they could have a school of Philosophy and Rhetoric, and the young people can smoke pot and they can discuss Aristotle, etc. It would be way better than crime and dealing drugs.

I also like Poetry, and I consider the study of Poetry worthwhile. Along with all of the great literature, I support good libraries in all neighborhoods. We should strive to go into the worst neighborhoods and give them libraries and schools and parks. And legalize pot and let them smoke pot and drink wine while they discuss the issues of our time.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 03, 2022, 02:10:27 AM: It is important to educate our children, and to satisfy their natural curiosity. We need to make sure that all children in America have access to libraries and books.

And we need to always be a nation of industry, our children need to know how to make steel, and how to make glass, and how to generate electricity, and how to make paper, etc. People in Detroit need to study on how to make cars. People in California need to study on how to make movies and television shows. People in New York need to know how to do banking and Wall Street and they need to know how to do international business, etc. And it is important to teach the children how to make honest money. There are a lot of things that we need to teach the children.

We need to keep investing in education and training for our children and for our people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 03, 2022, 02:34:28 PM: I watched a show on PBS last night about the Opioid Crisis, it is horrible, the first responders are having to deal with people dying everyday from over-doses, they said that the number of deaths have surpassed the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. And we all knew people who over-dosed and died during this crisis.

The answer is for people who are addicted to seek help, there is no shame in seeking help. And N/A is free to get help, just go to a meeting and reach out for help. People need to get help and help is available.

Ironically there was a movie on PBS last night, "Giant" starring Elizabeth Taylor, and Elizabeth Taylor was an addict who went to the Betty Ford Center to get help for her addiction, I had a professor in community college who worked at the Betty Ford Center, and Elizabeth was an example of a person who beat her addiction and went on to have a great life. With help people can beat addiction the way that Elizabeth Taylor did.

I hate addiction, and I lost my Uncle Dennis who over-dosed and died right here in my apartment. People who need help need to be willing to reach out, and help is available.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 04, 2022, 01:44:50 PM: Dropkick Murphys are no fan of MAGA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxdUUVB7OM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 05, 2022, 11:11:46 AM: After months of blaming the Palestinians for Shireen murder and calling any one who doubted that conclusion Anti-Semitic the IDF says, yeah... it might have been us, but we will not investigate.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-09-05/ty-article/.premium/israel-admits-highly-probable-soldier-mistakenly-killed-journalist-shireen-abu-akleh/00000183-0c94-dd51-ada7-6eff54180000
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 05, 2022, 12:01:05 PM: Will a Truss help Brits with herniated pocketbooks?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 05, 2022, 12:43:12 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 04, 2022, 01:44:50 PM
Dropkick Murphys are no fan of MAGA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxdUUVB7OM

Excellent
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2022, 08:42:47 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 05, 2022, 12:01:05 PM
Will a Truss help Brits with herniated pocketbooks?

Yes.
She needs bambu-wisdom as her advisor...or at least she needs to read this forum and adopt his ideas.

She needs to;

. Crank up the coal-fired power stations.
. Provide coal and wood at cheap prices so average-joes/josephines can heat and cook in their homes at affordable prices.
. Provide cheap energy to businesses/industry so they can prosper.
. Import gas as long as it's not from Russia.
. Embrace nuclear power [if not already].
. Wind power has its place, as does solar...but in no way can they be the only sources of energy...as many of the 'green-dreamers' seem to believe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2022, 09:17:32 PM: I thought you were giving military and diplomatic advice to the Kremlin, Bambi. You do not have time to fix the economy in GB, even as a side gig.

Maybe if you did less overextending yourself your ideas would not all be so fucking stupidly wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 06, 2022, 07:43:20 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 05, 2022, 09:17:32 PM
I thought you were giving military and diplomatic advice to the Kremlin, Bambi. You do not have time to fix the economy in GB, even as a side gig.

Maybe if you did less overextending yourself your ideas would not all be so fucking stupidly wrong.

The energy mess in Britain, Australia etc is another perfect example of why govts should own, invest in, build, control and operate all the energy-producing *factories* in their countries.
Global gas trading market...baaah.
Global electricity market...baaah.
Govts should build coal-fired power stations, nuclear power stations etc and have govt employees operate them. Bye bye govts being held to ransom by private industry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2022, 11:04:50 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 06, 2022, 07:43:20 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 05, 2022, 09:17:32 PM
I thought you were giving military and diplomatic advice to the Kremlin, Bambi. You do not have time to fix the economy in GB, even as a side gig.

Maybe if you did less overextending yourself your ideas would not all be so fucking stupidly wrong.

The energy mess in Britain, Australia etc is another perfect example of why govts should own, invest in, build, control and operate all the energy-producing *factories* in their countries.
Global gas trading market...baaah.
Global electricity market...baaah.
Govts should build coal-fired power stations, nuclear power stations etc and have govt employees operate them. Bye bye govts being held to ransom by private industry.
You fucking Commie.

Where is France and Germany going to get the gas and coal for its state owned power plants and refineries?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 06, 2022, 12:35:19 PM: Funny, places with actual public power, like Nebraska, are doing the decommish on coal, and investing heavily in wind turbines. And continuing their historically low rates, and high reliability, for consumers.

Nebraska, Land of Socialists. They don't call the Cornhusker team Big Red for nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 06, 2022, 12:37:30 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/ukraine-invasion-civilian-volunteers-survival/671241/

Horizontal relations between people. Self-organization. Equals: migraine for any would-be invading army.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 06, 2022, 04:04:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 06, 2022, 12:35:19 PM
Funny, places with actual public power, like Nebraska, are doing the decommish on coal, and investing heavily in wind turbines. And continuing their historically low rates, and high reliability, for consumers.

Every state has public power, Nebraska is the only one that has 100 per cent, or close to it.
And it has nothing to do with Socialism. It was a decision of voters nearly a hundred years ago.
The high interest in wind energy is logical since the wind blows a lot over cornfields. Still 50 per cent of the energy comes from coal, 18 per cent from nuclear. Wind, 25 per cent.
That ratio is not going to change much given that two thirds of the 2 million state residents live outside large metro areas,(Omaha -500,00o, Lincoln 250,000.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2022, 05:00:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 06, 2022, 04:04:34 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 06, 2022, 12:35:19 PM
Funny, places with actual public power, like Nebraska, are doing the decommish on coal, and investing heavily in wind turbines. And continuing their historically low rates, and high reliability, for consumers.

Every state has public power, Nebraska is the only one that has 100 per cent, or close to it.
And it has nothing to do with Socialism. It was a decision of voters nearly a hundred years ago.
The high interest in wind energy is logical since the wind blows a lot over cornfields. Still 50 per cent of the energy comes from coal, 18 per cent from nuclear. Wind, 25 per cent.
That ratio is not going to change much given that two thirds of the 2 million state residents live outside large metro areas,(Omaha -500,00o, Lincoln 250,000.)
Publicly owned power having nothing to do with Socialism would come as a huge surprise to Tom Johnson.

It is always amusing to see what counts as Socialism for the right. Taxing and regulations, yep. Actual state control over the means of production? Apparently not. And do not get me started on ths strange argument that something is not Socialism because it came into being 100 years ago. It is pretty apparent that to RedDickJimmEspn and the rest of the hard right "Socialism" is nothing but a Red herring, used as a pejorative with no connection to the real meaning of the word.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2022, 05:01:12 PM: I may have just stolen a joke from Clue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 06, 2022, 05:55:13 PM: As cleaner forms of energy generation become more affordable, then there is no reason for people not to go with clean energy production.

And in Anaheim our public utilities are owned by we the citizens, so we get cheap electricity, plus some of the money goes into a general fund to be spent however we choose. Thus, some of the money from the sale of energy is going to help the homeless people, and for other social programs. The only danger about the electric company being owned by the City is that we have so much money that the money attracts corruption, we had a Mayor who was so corrupt that he tried to sell Angel Stadium and get a million dollar kick-back. When you have a lot of money going to companies which are owned by the people then you have to be careful of corrupt people who try to steal and divert the money that is supposed to help the people. If you have corrupt leaders then the money does not make it to help the poor citizens. The people at the top are stealing the money that rightfully belongs to the people, while the poor people suffer and do not even know that they are getting ripped off and that we have blessings as citizens of Anaheim, and that we have help available and money available to help the citizens of Anaheim. We own the public utilities, and we own Angel Stadium, and we own the Convention Center, and we own lots of other assets, and it is great if we have honest Nuns running our City government, we need the most honest and sincere people in City government, we have a lot of money coming into our City, and we need to make sure that the money makes it to improve the lives of the Citizens of Anaheim and the poor and homeless people of Anaheim. Anaheim is rich, but we must guard ourselves against corruption, otherwise the corrupt people will benefit instead of the good people of Anaheim who our City was built to serve. The money needs to go to the Citizens and not to corrupt politicians and their special interests.

Of note too, an energy that few people discuss is Geo-Thermal, and I had a friend who drilled for Geo-Thermal energy production as a job, Geo-Thermal is viable, and people are using Geo-Thermal as I type this, and Geo-Thermal is growing in popularity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 06, 2022, 06:32:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2022, 05:00:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 06, 2022, 04:04:34 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 06, 2022, 12:35:19 PM
Funny, places with actual public power, like Nebraska, are doing the decommish on coal, and investing heavily in wind turbines. And continuing their historically low rates, and high reliability, for consumers.

Every state has public power, Nebraska is the only one that has 100 per cent, or close to it.
And it has nothing to do with Socialism. It was a decision of voters nearly a hundred years ago.
The high interest in wind energy is logical since the wind blows a lot over cornfields. Still 50 per cent of the energy comes from coal, 18 per cent from nuclear. Wind, 25 per cent.
That ratio is not going to change much given that two thirds of the 2 million state residents live outside large metro areas,(Omaha -500,00o, Lincoln 250,000.)
Publicly owned power having nothing to do with Socialism would come as a huge surprise to Tom Johnson.

It is always amusing to see what counts as Socialism for the right. Taxing and regulations, yep. Actual state control over the means of production? Apparently not. And do not get me started on ths strange argument that something is not Socialism because it came into being 100 years ago. It is pretty apparent that to RedDickJimmEspn and the rest of the hard right "Socialism" is nothing but a Red herring, used as a pejorative with no connection to the real meaning of the word.
Then I suggest you research Socialism since your post ignored its definition.
The Nebraska Public Power System had its roots in citizens wanting a better system than was provided ( mostly) by corporate plants in cahoots with the Government. The fact it is the ONLY such state system in the country tells you a lot. Kudos for citizens shaping a system that can usually handle demand in a lightly populated state with a high rural population. But do not forget Nebraska suffered rolling blackouts due to being part of a multi state grid which failed to diversify enough into natural GAS.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 06, 2022, 06:57:17 PM: Do not think it is not a Socialist program since it so clearly is one, a Socialist program that is weaning itself from fossil fuels and going green for the good of the collective people of Nebraska.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 07, 2022, 01:33:40 PM: This world is unpredictable. And honestly, at the end of the day, the people that want to ban guns, they're only banning it from good people, not criminals. Because again, there is no gun laws for criminals.

Amen. You are a great American.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-man-shot-head-party-celebrates-second-amendment-thwarting-shooter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 07, 2022, 01:45:43 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 07, 2022, 01:33:40 PM

This world is unpredictable. And honestly, at the end of the day, the people that want to ban guns, they're only banning it from good people, not criminals. Because again, there is no gun laws for criminals.

Amen. You are a great American.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-man-shot-head-party-celebrates-second-amendment-thwarting-shooter
Well, you also only ban bank robbery from bad people too.

Besides that argument is bull shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 02:16:32 PM: It is a favored argument among the white criminal underclass in America, republican base voters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2022, 02:28:49 PM: Senator Masto of Nevada is working to bring more funding to Nevada for Education and job training for the people of Nevada, and she wants to bring more Science and STEM training to Nevada.

So, I posted about how here in Anaheim we have a new program where people can go to Fullerton Community College to train for jobs with Disney, you can go to school with the specific purpose of going to work for Disney and then you can go right to work when you graduate.

You would think that everyone would support education and being able to go right to work when you graduate, but instead there are people who complain about what a waste an education is.

And as I suggested that we build a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas to connect Disneyland with Vegas, the people start saying that it will never happen but if it did happen that the skilled labor building the train would be worth more than people who went to school to work at Disney.

First of all, Disney is a huge world-wide company which provides vast opportunities, and it is wonderful that Fullerton Community College is working together with Disney to train people for jobs at Disney.

And on the issue of the high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas, I would want for the workers to all be Union workers, and I would want for the workers to make enough money to buy a house and raise a family and have health care, etc. I support Unions and I support fair pay for workers, I want for the railroad workers to make good money.

I support the Disney workers, and I support the railroad workers, it is all good, we need to work together to advance the USA and we need to support creating good jobs for everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 07, 2022, 07:49:46 PM: The next person to knock on your door could rape and murder your daughter, wife, wife and daughter, partner, or son.
Or rape and murder you.
Shown clearly in the movie "Eye for an Eye" starring Sally Field and Ed Harris now on my Netflix.

Rape them at gunpoint in their home or workplace etc, then shoot them dead.
Or just shoot them dead.
As shown in the movie "Hunt for the I-5 killer".

Good people must be able to carry guns on their person, in their bags, in their cars, and have pump-action shotguns near their front/back etc doors.

Never open the door, and train all members of the family to do the same. Train all members of the family in gun use, do range firing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 08:19:35 PM: Why not just provide everyone personal nukes for some real deterrence?

With one exception of course,

No nukes for you, Bambu!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 07, 2022, 09:05:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 08:19:35 PM
Why not just provide everyone personal nukes for some real deterrence?

With one exception of course,

No nukes for you, Bambu!

No need for nukes, guns are enough.
Make home a fortress, including strong steel mesh screen doors in front of front and back doors.
Cameras or peep holes to see who's knocking on the front and back doors.
Could be the little child from next door needing help...or it could be armed evil.
Could be armed fake utility co employees seeking entry to rob and worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 07, 2022, 10:14:25 PM: Rape them at gunpoint in their home or workplace etc, then shoot them dead.
Or just shoot them dead.
As shown in the movie Hunt for the I-5 killer

Real fuckin life - a number of years ago in Connecticut. Wife and daughter raped, house burned to ground with them in it. Bet that guy wishes he had a gun.

But no - asshole gun control freaks on this forum are OK with this - as long as it isnt anyone they know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 07, 2022, 10:16:33 PM: Yet.....

Folks who choose to not have protective firearms in the household - I get it

But please - have other weaponry stashed around the house and a plan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 07, 2022, 10:22:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 07, 2022, 09:05:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 08:19:35 PM
Why not just provide everyone personal nukes for some real deterrence?

With one exception of course,

No nukes for you, Bambu!

No need for nukes, guns are enough.
Make home a fortress, including strong steel mesh screen doors in front of front and back doors.
Cameras or peep holes to see who's knocking on the front and back doors.
Could be the little child from next door needing help...or it could be armed evil.
Could be armed fake utility co employees seeking entry to rob and worse.

bambu land!

(http://thecriticalreel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mad-Max-2.png)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 10:24:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 07, 2022, 09:05:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 07, 2022, 08:19:35 PM
Why not just provide everyone personal nukes for some real deterrence?

With one exception of course,

No nukes for you, Bambu!

No need for nukes, guns are enough.
Make home a fortress, including strong steel mesh screen doors in front of front and back doors.
Cameras or peep holes to see who's knocking on the front and back doors.
Could be the little child from next door needing help...or it could be armed evil.
Could be armed fake utility co employees seeking entry to rob and worse.

You shot the meter man, the mailman, and two kids. It is not even noon yet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 07, 2022, 10:28:36 PM: asshole gun control freaks on this forum are OK with this

Thanks for remaining the stupidest person alive!!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2022, 12:40:23 AM: Bambu, my house in Malibu was safe, you had to drive through two security gates to get to our house, and we had motion detectors with spot lights all over the property, plus we had two Golden Retrievers who were good guard dogs. ( Plus I had a gun, an Aldo Uberti old style .44 Magnum Cowboy style gun. ) Our house was very safe. I lived like a Movie Star for one year in Malibu, I got to live the good life for one year.

Where I am at now is good, Anaheim is a good City. And I live in a gated apartment complex with security cameras all over the property. You have to get past a gate, and plus you are on camera. Plus, I have neighbors who are professional boxers, I would not want to mess with my neighbors, I have some tough neighbors. And we have a neighborhood gang, La Fabrica, so they watch over the neighborhood and protect the neighborhood.

And I felt safe in France, and in Italy. I was sad by what I saw in Mexico, I saw people living in complete and total poverty in Mexico, we need to help Mexico.

Recently a billionaire was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, and so people need to be more careful. The rich people need to have body guards. She should have had a body guard jogging with her to protect her.

And all of the stores are getting robbed. People need to spend the money to hire security guards and body guards.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2022, 12:48:27 AM: When my Mother went to Mexico to do a real estate deal then she took an armed body guard with her and her group. People need to spend the money to hire armed body guards and security.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 08, 2022, 08:38:35 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 07, 2022, 10:28:36 PM
asshole gun control freaks on this forum are OK with this

Thanks for remaining the stupidest person alive!!!!!

I think your post aroused Tony's competitive streak.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 08, 2022, 09:22:00 AM: Unconscionable

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/seth-rich-investigation-trump-police-conspiracy-1234586954/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 08, 2022, 11:40:17 AM: Fascinating. Thanks for sharing her story of failure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 08, 2022, 11:46:27 AM: Aileen Cannon is a great American -

But a terrible judge...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 08, 2022, 11:58:54 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 07, 2022, 10:28:36 PM
asshole gun control freaks on this forum are OK with this

Thanks for remaining the stupidest person alive!!!!!

You and your brthren's contention all along is that you don't want that man to have a gun in his home. So what did I get wrong?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 08, 2022, 12:04:14 PM: Real nice to see YG is still a valued member of this forum, though surely no contributor.

I sometimes miss his wisdom.

Guess he went to FaceCrock.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2022, 12:39:37 PM: Your boys are getting driven out of Izyum, Kershon, and the US Congress all at once, Kid. Your heros are getting thrown down and locked up. Your failed mind continues to produce nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 08, 2022, 05:10:23 PM: My Android devices...phone and tablet...no longer work for this site...something about "unsecure connection" and "unsupported protocol".

As luck would have it...my desktop computer still works for this site.

*****

If my desktop computer no longer works here at some time in the future...I can be found as 'bambu' at usmessageboard dot com
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2022, 06:48:15 PM: My favorite investigative reporter in Los Angeles is Christina Pascucci, she worked for KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles, she flew to Ukraine to bring the story to the Citizens of Los Angeles, and she is a great reporter, she now works for KTTV Channel 11 in Los Angeles, and she is going to start her own show.

She is involved with the Catholic Big Sisters program in Los Angeles, and she does a lot of other good things. And she knows the importance of freedom of the press in the USA, and for the people to be able to get the news of what is going on in the world. And like here in Anaheim the people need to know when we have corruption in our City government so that we can clean it up. The news reporters need to let the people know about the corruption so that the people can stop the corruption. Freedom of the press is very important.

And she works to help the homeless, etc. Christina Pascucci is a great reporter and she will be working for Channel 11 in Los Angeles. Send her news tips if you want, I send her news tips all of the time.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2022, 06:52:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 08, 2022, 05:10:23 PM
My Android devices...phone and tablet...no longer work for this site...something about "unsecure connection" and "unsupported protocol".

As luck would have it...my desktop computer still works for this site.

*****

If my desktop computer no longer works here at some time in the future...I can be found as 'bambu' at usmessageboard dot com

Mozilla Firefox works for this site, it says it is not secure but it works. I am using a very old desktop with Firefox and it is working.

I hope Josh is okay. I hope Josh can find his way back. And Josh might be working on updating the site, you never know.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2022, 06:57:17 PM: Kamala Harris wants for all of the poor people to be able to use Mozilla Firefox, they want to keep Firefox supported so that the poor people can have access to the world wide web. Mozilla Firefox will always be supported as it has been designated as a sure place to go for the poor.

Any old computer from a thrift store will work with Mozilla Firefox and will be able to access the world wide web.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: NotYourAverageSockPuppet on September 08, 2022, 07:12:32 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 07, 2022, 10:14:25 PM
Rape them at gunpoint in their home or workplace etc, then shoot them dead.
Or just shoot them dead.
As shown in the movie Hunt for the I-5 killer

Real fuckin life - a number of years ago in Connecticut. Wife and daughter raped, house burned to ground with them in it. Bet that guy wishes he had a gun.

William Petit was asleep on a couch when he was smacked a few times in the head with a bat; a gun would have been of no help.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 08, 2022, 07:17:24 PM: News from a year ago.

The Queen has been told to give up her evening drink which is usually a martini,a family friend told Vanity Fair of the of the 95-year-old monarch.

I knew right then this would not end well for her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 08, 2022, 07:36:30 PM: It won't end well for any of you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2022, 07:50:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 08, 2022, 07:36:30 PM
It won't end well for any of you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 08, 2022, 09:14:33 PM: Elizabeth II reign saw:
6 Popes
14 US Presidents
59 different starting Quarterbacks for
the Cleveland Browns
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 08, 2022, 10:07:14 PM: One of my dads story about the guys he crewed with during the war was about a crew mate from New Bedford.

And he would imitate his buddies brogue...

They say the Sun never sets on the British Empire and you want to know why?

Because the good Lord does not trust them in the dark.

RIP Elizabeth II
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 09, 2022, 09:31:53 AM: 30th in line to the throne is now Richard, Duke of Gloucester. A man can hope. Two was child's play. 29 is beyond even beyond the Dukes of Chalfont.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 09, 2022, 09:37:16 AM: You don't actually think you can slip a "Kind Hearts and Coronets" reference past me, do you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 09, 2022, 10:09:32 AM: Arthur Chatto will be hard to kill. You can tell.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 09, 2022, 10:39:48 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 09, 2022, 09:31:53 AM
30th in line to the throne is now Richard, Duke of Gloucester. A man can hope. Two was child's play. 29 is beyond even beyond the Dukes of Chalfont.

Only lost best pic BAFTA because 3rd Man came out the same year. I was both appalled and delighted to learn my spouse has never seen KHaC. Delighted because now I can watch again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 09, 2022, 10:52:38 AM: Without explaining the differences and explaining why there are the such differences it's interesting to note that the British and American versions of
Kind Hearts...." have very different endings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 09, 2022, 11:15:07 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 09, 2022, 10:39:48 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 09, 2022, 09:31:53 AM
30th in line to the throne is now Richard, Duke of Gloucester. A man can hope. Two was child's play. 29 is beyond even beyond the Dukes of Chalfont.

Only lost best pic BAFTA because 3rd Man came out the same year. I was both appalled and delighted to learn my spouse has never seen KHaC. Delighted because now I can watch again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 09, 2022, 12:21:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 09, 2022, 10:52:38 AM
Without explaining the differences and explaining why there are the such differences it's interesting to note that the British and American versions of
Kind Hearts...." have very different endings.

Aside from the reduced adultery references and toe entrapment victim profiles in a nursery rhyme, the real problem for the American audience (IMO) was the uncertainty in the original as to whether Louis's true crime was ever discovered. No dark ambiguous British endings, please! So the guards have to find Louis's memoirs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 09, 2022, 12:28:11 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 09, 2022, 12:21:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 09, 2022, 10:52:38 AM
Without explaining the differences and explaining why there are the such differences it's interesting to note that the British and American versions of
Kind Hearts...." have very different endings.

Aside from the reduced adultery references and toe entrapment victim profiles in a nursery rhyme, the real problem for the American audience (IMO) was the uncertainty in the original as to whether Louis's true crime was ever discovered. No dark ambiguous British endings, please! So the guards have to find Louis's memoirs.
Yes indeed. I've scheduled a showing on Sunday. All invited!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 09, 2022, 03:10:01 PM: We still have the issues of Northern Ireland, the Rock of Gibraltar, and the Malvinas Islands, among other issues.

I did not agree with the Queen on a lot of stuff, but no one could ever question her dedication to her people.

And the Constitutional Monarchy is a good form of government, France should have kept their King, and Spain was wise to put a Bourbon back on the Throne of Spain. I also love the Grimaldi family of Monaco ( I attended the same acting school as Princess Grace Kelly, the AADA. Now her Granddaughter Princess Carlota Casiraghi is my favorite Royal in Europe. )

In the USA we have our Constitutional Republic that often contradicts itself, we had Carter who supported the Sandinistas, while we had Reagan who supported the Contras, while England never had problems like that because the Queen kept England consistent.

With the USA our allies never know what to expect as we change leaders and everything changes as the leaders change. There was a huge difference between Obama and Trump, and England never had that problem because they had the Queen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 09, 2022, 05:57:41 PM: And let's not rule out the Norwegians, up there in the nineties! Everything got shuffled, for the better, when they passed that law in 2015 which ended male primogeniture and Roman Catholic exclusion.

https://www.britroyals.com/succession.asp

Caution before clicking this. It's an intellectual rabbit hole that may leave you wondering things like "who the fuck are the Ogilvies?" Or "how many people in the world could be named Ingeborg Ribeiro?"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 09, 2022, 06:23:00 PM: Not getting any better for MAGA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/former-us-attorney-dishes-how-he-held-line-against-trump-white-house/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 09, 2022, 06:26:40 PM: SUCKERS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0vPIo9eyY
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on September 09, 2022, 07:18:56 PM: A divine one the brits would have you believe. At least they stood up to the Nazis unlike some other divine leaders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 09, 2022, 08:04:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 09, 2022, 03:10:01 PM
We still have the issues of Northern Ireland, the Rock of Gibraltar, and the Malvinas Islands, among other issues.

I did not agree with the Queen on a lot of stuff, but no one could ever question her dedication to her people.

And the Constitutional Monarchy is a good form of government, France should have kept their King, and Spain was wise to put a Bourbon back on the Throne of Spain. I also love the Grimaldi family of Monaco ( I attended the same acting school as Princess Grace Kelly, the AADA. Now her Granddaughter Princess Carlota Casiraghi is my favorite Royal in Europe. )

In the USA we have our Constitutional Republic that often contradicts itself, we had Carter who supported the Sandinistas, while we had Reagan who supported the Contras, while England never had problems like that because the Queen kept England consistent.

With the USA our allies never know what to expect as we change leaders and everything changes as the leaders change. There was a huge difference between Obama and Trump, and England never had that problem because they had the Queen.

Salute,

Tony V.

The Falkland Islands are British...and will be defended by Britain...until the Falkland islanders decide they no longer want to be British...so said the Queen.
Mr Penn got involved and caused a stir...drama there was...Britain sent Prince William for the anniversary, and HMS Dauntless, some nuke ship...just patrolled around, parked out of sight behind some mountains.
Then the people of the Falkland Islands sent a message;

"The Flag is mightier than the Penn"...as a convoy snaked out of Stanley, flags waved as battle standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/feb/29/sean-penn-simplistic-view-falklands
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 09, 2022, 08:09:57 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 09, 2022, 06:23:00 PM
Not getting any better for MAGA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/former-us-attorney-dishes-how-he-held-line-against-trump-white-house/

thanks
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 09, 2022, 08:55:42 PM: Northern Ireland can be part of Ireland when the people of Northern Ireland wish it to be..so said the Queen.

Northern Ireland...the Orange and the Green.
The Protestants and the Catholics.

Ireland...Catholic..aligned with Rome.
Britain...Protestant...Protestant Monarch.

Back in the day, 1688, there was the Battle of The Boyne...when William Prince of Orange came over from Holland and kicked the Catholic-aligned King James out.

There is a song on You Tube.."The Battle of the Boyne, Ulster Loyalist song."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 09, 2022, 08:57:50 PM: Y'all should love King Charles 111, he's an avid "climate change emergency" guy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 09, 2022, 11:58:58 PM: From the market to monarchies, everyone but fossils is onboard. People get the feels about the livability of the planet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 10, 2022, 12:20:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 09, 2022, 08:57:50 PM
Y'all should love King Charles 111, he's an avid "climate change emergency" guy.
Not any more
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2022, 02:56:06 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 10, 2022, 12:20:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 09, 2022, 08:57:50 PM
Y'all should love King Charles 111, he's an avid "climate change emergency" guy.
Not any more

Maybe he's seen the light, that 'gradual transition' to renewables/electric vehicles is the way to go.
Lots of people in Britain. Not all are rich.
Lots of chimneys, methinks the People won't be too impressed with the new King if they're sitting up in the dark and freezing.

Britain, not quite sure who exactly, criticised bambuworld for its lack of progress on renewables/electric vehicles etc.
Those critics do not understand...bambuworld is not Britain-world. bambuworld is nearly the size of mainland America.
Australia is about 32 times bigger than the UK..and has about 1/3 of the population of the UK.

One of the favourite hobbies of bambulanders, ...'grey nomads', young families, couples is to hitch up the caravan/travel trailer to the tow vehicle and go 'Waltzing Matilda' in comfort...weekends, vacations, and permanently...many now on YouTube showing how and telling all.

Tow vehicle:

Caravans/travel trailers...now luxurious, and weigh 3ton, 3.5 ton, 4 ton.
Tow vehicles...mostly 2.8L, 3.0L, turbo diesel 4cyl 'dual cab utes/pick ups' with 'tradie' canopies on the back.

Say AUS$60,000 for the ute to pull the caravan.
No such vehicles are made in Australia.
The only towing capable electric ones are in America. US$60,000 +. That's about AUS$90,000. But they're left hand drive. By the time they're brought here and changed to right hand drive, the price then jumps to about AUS$170,000...and the batteries weigh one ton! The US pick ups are about 3'3" [one metre] longer wheel base. Only travel about 100 miles before they need recharging.

Should be interesting watching new bambuland PM "Albo" and local and foreign "electric vehicles now" folk telling the 'grey nomads/van lifers' they can't go Waltzing Matilda in their rigs out to "dingo p.ss creek" and beyond...living the dream.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2022, 03:25:58 AM: The Chinese will make something perfect for your market. It should be available over the next couple of years.

They are currently focused on gaining shares in the American and European markets as well as in Asia itself.

They are cutting the balls of the Koreans, Germans, Japanese, and Americans who each have more lineage and prestige in the field.

Moores Law is effecting both batteries and motors to the consumers advantage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 10, 2022, 11:48:44 AM: Towing heavy trailers likely will be more workable with fuel cell vehicles or hydrogen based IC engines. And Oz might need, due to its huge land area and relatively sparse population, mass transit options. Each country will have its own optimal mix. And yes, getting to camp at Dingo Piss Creek might be more expensive in a world where carbon costs are passed directly to consumer. Maybe big backpacks and walkabouts will be more the trend. Or biking or e-biking out to small cabins set up for everything from primitive to glamping. People need to be positive in their attitudes about how to recreate without pumping out lots of CO2.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2022, 02:59:50 PM: Wendy Carrillo in Los Angeles is working together with Homeboy Industries to introduce at risk youth to the opportunities created in the Entertainment Industry, and to entry level openings as Production Assistants.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/nbcuniversal-to-offer-production-assistant-workshop-with-assemblywoman-wendy-carrillo-homeboy-industries-1235113618/

Universal is owned by a company in Pennsylvania now, it is American owned again, when I worked at Universal it was owned by the Japanese and it was not so good, they wanted hard work for low pay when I worked there, but it is better now that Americans own the company. The Entertainment Industry is a good industry with good high paying jobs that people can use to buy a home and raise a family, and thanks to Unions people are paid well and are treated well, and there is health care, and also retirement benefits. ( I was told that the Soap Opera "The Young and the Restless" pays new young actors $30,000 per week, and it goes up from there. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2022, 03:08:03 PM: I guess Universal is owned by Comcast and their headquarters are in New York City...

https://www.nbcuniversal.com/about

I worked at Universal in 1995 and it was owned by the Japanese, I worked hard for low pay, minimum wage. The Japanese work themselves to death for low pay. It is much better to work for an American company.

I am happy that Universal is American owned now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2022, 03:45:20 PM: It is important for us to have a community and good jobs here that we can all be a part of.

We need to teach the Youth that if they are honest, and if they work hard, then they can have a great job, and a nice car, and a nice house, and a beautiful wife, and they can travel, etc, the Youth can have great lives if they remain honest.

My family has successful people, and some of my family members were criminals who did prison time. So, I was able to see how they lived, and I could compare and contrast. And I liked the lives that the honest people lived better than the lives that the criminals lived. The criminals had horrible lives. I saw the rewards of staying honest, and going to college, and working hard.

So, we need for the Youth to see what I saw. They need to see how the prison life is, compared to having a good honest life and a good job. I saw all of that when I was young. My record is clean, and I never committed any crimes, I went to school, and I tried to work hard until I could no longer work. The economy went to shit, and all of the jobs left, and we have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, I became one of the homeless people. I was homeless for 2 years. Then I had a nervous breakdown. Finally I got help and they put me in a group home ran by my dearly departed friend Lisa. But, my record is still clean, I was never a criminal.

The Youth need to see what I saw. We need to show the Youth how the criminals live, and then show them how the successful people live, and the Youth are going to choose to stay honest. And we need for there to be a good honest community of good citizens for the Youth to join together with.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2022, 03:53:35 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 10, 2022, 11:48:44 AM
Towing heavy trailers likely will be more workable with fuel cell vehicles or hydrogen based IC engines. And Oz might need, due to its huge land area and relatively sparse population, mass transit options. Each country will have its own optimal mix. And yes, getting to camp at Dingo Piss Creek might be more expensive in a world where carbon costs are passed directly to consumer. Maybe big backpacks and walkabouts will be more the trend. Or biking or e-biking out to small cabins set up for everything from primitive to glamping. People need to be positive in their attitudes about how to recreate without pumping out lots of CO2.

People are already starting to tackle this challenge from another angle.

http://youtu.be/4vHuldVlpFA (http://youtu.be/4vHuldVlpFA)

That is with the currently available crap batteries.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2022, 04:17:38 PM: Electric motors have a lot of torque, and they use electric motors to power our current trains, the diesel engines power generators which power electric motors to run the trains. And we have electric trash trucks, and electric buses, I think they will be able to invent good electric trucks for Australia, and vehicles to pull trailers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 10, 2022, 04:39:43 PM: Should be interesting watching new bambuland PM "Albo" and local and foreign "electric vehicles now" folk telling the 'grey nomads/van lifers' they can't go Waltzing Matilda in their rigs out to "dingo p.ss creek" and beyond...living the dream.

Hey get yourself a couple of equines and Glamorous away!

(https://www.splashrvresort.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/splash-rv-resort-conestoga-wagon.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2022, 05:13:19 PM: Also as we give the Youth incentives to lead honest lives....

We can also teach the Youth about opportunities at China Lake, and at NASA, etc, and about jobs building top secret aircraft in the desert. If the Youth remain honest then they can work at some great jobs. The Youth need to keep their records clean so that they can get their Security Clearances. They are not going to give you a Security Clearance if you have a criminal record.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on September 10, 2022, 08:58:05 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/africa/colonialism-africa-queen-elizabeth-intl/index.html

Fuck these assholes

Fuck Ana Navarro

And FUCK SUNNY HOSTIN.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 11, 2022, 12:08:00 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 10, 2022, 08:58:05 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/africa/colonialism-africa-queen-elizabeth-intl/index.html

Fuck these assholes

Fuck Ana Navarro

And FUCK SUNNY HOSTIN.

Yeah!

FUCK YOU, TOO!

I give the Queen credit for overseeing the dismantling of the genocidal and destructive British Empire and the establishment of the Commonwealth but criticism of the Royal Family is well earned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 11, 2022, 11:36:38 AM: Sunny has it right - we can mourn the queen and not the empire, which did loot and pillage half the world. Liz Two did a decent job towards atonement and reparations, within her very limited powers as a figurehead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 11, 2022, 12:30:13 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 11, 2022, 11:36:38 AM
Sunny has it right - we can mourn the queen and not the empire, which did loot and pillage half the world. Liz Two did a decent job towards atonement and reparations, within her very limited powers as a figurehead.

LOL!
The Man Who cannot sign on still finds a tiny soap box for his leftist minutiae.
At least there are fewer of you to clutter up this dying board
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 11, 2022, 12:36:13 PM: Charles and his descendants and property, should be transferred to Africa as reparations. It would be only a small symbolic gesture, but it would be a good start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:06:41 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 11, 2022, 12:08:00 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 10, 2022, 08:58:05 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/africa/colonialism-africa-queen-elizabeth-intl/index.html

Fuck these assholes

Fuck Ana Navarro

And FUCK SUNNY HOSTIN.

Yeah!

FUCK YOU, TOO!

I give the Queen credit for overseeing the dismantling of the genocidal and destructive British Empire and the establishment of the Commonwealth but criticism of the Royal Family is well earned.

Some of the Royal family...many of them are decent and caring human beings, working to make the Commonwealth and the world better places.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:08:46 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 11, 2022, 12:36:13 PM
Charles and his descendants and property, should be transferred to Africa as reparations. It would be only a small symbolic gesture, but it would be a good start.

Maybe once the rich descendants of the tribal chiefs who sold their own people into slavery do so first.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:18:52 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 11, 2022, 11:36:38 AM
Sunny has it right - we can mourn the queen and not the empire, which did loot and pillage half the world. Liz Two did a decent job towards atonement and reparations, within her very limited powers as a figurehead.

Indeed she did.
For which she should be praised...instead of having this posted on social media about her....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:25:39 AM: "Todays a good fkn day, ..............and this dumb dog dies Happpy fkn Friday"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:31:26 AM: bambu-ilk saw her post...were totally outraged....no 1 morning radio host agonised over what to do, then outed her, made it all public.

The 25-year-old, an Indigenous All-Star and former Jillaroos player, took to Instagram in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II to share a post with her thoughts
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:47:23 AM: She's been named, shamed [if she has any], her family is now known [who knows if they're happy with her or not], she has to front the NRLW [National Rugby League Women] Integrity Unit this week.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 12, 2022, 08:03:49 AM: "There's no one who's done more for Christianity than Donald Trump. No one."--Eric Trump

I apologize for questioning the Trumps' (one and all) bona fides as great thinkers. I now understand why Kid considers them as such.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 12, 2022, 09:47:52 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2022, 12:30:13 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 11, 2022, 11:36:38 AM
Sunny has it right - we can mourn the queen and not the empire, which did loot and pillage half the world. Liz Two did a decent job towards atonement and reparations, within her very limited powers as a figurehead.

LOL!
The Man Who cannot sign on still finds a tiny soap box for his leftist minutiae.
At least there are fewer of you to clutter up this dying board

I learned a Dorgi was an accidental hybrid of a Corgi and a Dachshund. I envision you as a less viable hybrid, perhaps a dachsund and a warthog. Call it a Warthodox. It emits content-free yapping noises while it rolls in its own shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 11:33:08 AM: News Item

A Punishing heat wave in California has triggered rolling blackouts and brownouts.

Climate change?
Well yeah but made intolerable by the Californian Electric Grid relying too much on unreliable green energy in a time of record energy demand.
See Germany under Merkel for more proof of human stupidity in adapting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:05:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 06:06:41 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 11, 2022, 12:08:00 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 10, 2022, 08:58:05 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/africa/colonialism-africa-queen-elizabeth-intl/index.html

Fuck these assholes

Fuck Ana Navarro

And FUCK SUNNY HOSTIN.

Yeah!

FUCK YOU, TOO!

I give the Queen credit for overseeing the dismantling of the genocidal and destructive British Empire and the establishment of the Commonwealth but criticism of the Royal Family is well earned.

Some of the Royal family...many of them are decent and caring human beings, working to make the Commonwealth and the world better places.
Her fascist regime made you a moron. Granted you were there already but still.

When did we adopt the rule that looking critically at the entirety of a person's life on earth and place in history is a bad thing? QE II was human, and while she had her virtues she and her rule were far from unmixed blessings, especially for some populations. Good to have the cautioning dissenting voices out there before the hagiography congeals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM: News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:32:16 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM
News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession
Fake news. Meghan is not in the Line of Succession and it would take an act of Parliament to change it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 02:07:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:32:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM
News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession
Fake news. Meghan is not in the Line of Succession and it would take an act of Parliament to change it.
I used to think only Josh was the King of Anal on Elba.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 02:37:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 02:07:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:32:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM
News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession
Fake news. Meghan is not in the Line of Succession and it would take an act of Parliament to change it.
I used to think only Josh was the King of Anal on Elba.
Funny, when I think of anal you are the first person I think of.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 12, 2022, 03:09:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:05:13 PM

When did we adopt the rule that looking critically at the entirety of a person's life on earth and place in history is a bad thing? QE II was human, and while she had her virtues she and her rule were far from unmixed blessings, especially for some populations. Good to have the cautioning dissenting voices out there before the hagiography congeals.

The whole Dorgi incident was a stain on her reign. For one thing, it sanctioned interbreed rape.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 12, 2022, 04:30:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 02:07:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 12, 2022, 01:32:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM
News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession
Fake news. Meghan is not in the Line of Succession and it would take an act of Parliament to change it.
I used to think only Josh was the King of Anal on Elba.

Biden Rule...

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 12, 2022, 06:15:58 PM: MAGA!

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/politics/trump-aides-jan-6-doj.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 07:22:21 PM: QE11's reign was great for me...kept my Constitutional Monarchy Australia orderly, stable, successful.
And as we here all know by now I'm all about "me first in life"...
My first boss' wise words long ago that I gradually got to embrace from about age 30 until present day [should've done it sooner, saved myself some heartache...but I was a slow learner in my teens and twenties]..."Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will".

Britain is America's greatest ally today.
Canada and Australia are America's allies, QE11 was their Head of State.

QE11 was not the Head of State of China and Russia...they are not America's allies.

The picture is clear to me.

Think the Queen missed her beloved husband greatly...seemed to go downhill quickly after his passing.

QE11 was the first British Monarch to visit Australia ...and toured 16 times during her reign.
She received a 'rock star' reception wherever she went...including indoors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 07:50:43 PM: News Item

Obama latest Biography traces the making of his Portrait
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 07:53:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 07:50:43 PM
News Item

Obama latest Biography traces the making of his Portrait

Obama is a White man. [Well he's as much White as he is Black.]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 12, 2022, 08:27:58 PM: No one is as Irish as Barry OBama.

Is that white enough for your pasty ass?

Bambu, I am sure you are ready to bite the strap for Charlie 3 as you were for Liz 2. Nothing that has happened in recent days suggests you would have grown a backbone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 12, 2022, 08:31:59 PM: I liked the portrait even before I knew it gave Ward a headache.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 12, 2022, 08:36:20 PM: The running through line between the Russian army and the republican party, aside from the marching orders coming from the same location, is that when you prepare your people to carry out bad orders you get people who carry out orders badly and never mind how bad.

That is why both organizations are where they are doing what they are and why both organizations need to be ended as expeditiously as possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 12, 2022, 09:41:26 PM: DOWN GOES FRAZIER!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-justice-department.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 12, 2022, 10:18:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 12, 2022, 01:21:09 PM
News Item

King Charles Replaces Harry & Meghan With Two Corgis In Line Of Succession

When I see Charles the 3rd my first thought is Cavalier.

My awesomely cute mutt is half Cocker half Cavalier King Charles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 11:45:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 12, 2022, 08:27:58 PM
No one is as Irish as Barry OBama.

Is that white enough for your pasty ass?

Bambu, I am sure you are ready to bite the strap for Charlie 3 as you were for Liz 2. Nothing that has happened in recent days suggests you would have grown a backbone.

No use having a 'backbone' in my world, not allowed to have anything to enforce it with.
Hiding under the bed, hoping the home invaders don't find you...running out the back door and leaving them to loot your 'castle', hoping they won't chase you,...staying indoors at night so you don't get caught in a 'dark alley'...never opening the door, never getting out of the car, and never going outside.............the safest rules to live by in my world.

King Charles 111, the Monarch of bambuland for now...but the "Republic' movement is already making noises, many multicultural immigrants waving the flags of their homelands seem to just want to turn this country into the basket cases they left behind instead of embracing better, and most of the leftists/far leftists seem to hate the Monarchy and be more in love with that dead dope Karl Marx.

Bonnie Prince Charlie, now King, ...given his past sins, would be well-advised to spend most of his time away from the limelight,... relax by the fire in his slippers and dressing gown with Camilla...and leave the Royal engagements including overseas visits to Prince William, Kate and their kids.......................if he wants to still be King of Australia, and King of anything.
The "Willie Wombat, Kate and the kids" show is certainly sellable downunder, Charles and Camilla not so much..."old people" don't seem to be valued much in Australia anymore.
When Charles and Diana brought baby William to Australia, he was affectionately 'nicknamed' "Willie Wombat" as it was thought he resembed a cute baby Wombat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 10:15:55 AM: (Good) News Item

Oberlin College finally paid its 30+$million fine against a Mom and Pop bakery it defamed 8 years ago with false charges of racism. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the school appeal of the just decisions of lower courts

Another humiliation of wokeness is always worth celebrating to the highest degree.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 13, 2022, 10:18:51 AM: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62884861

This is why we must tie the kangaroo down, sport.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 11:44:23 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 10:15:55 AM
(Good) News Item

Oberlin College finally paid its 30+$million fine against a Mom and Pop bakery it defamed 8 years ago with false charges of racism. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the school appeal of the just decisions of lower courts

Another humiliation of wokeness is always worth celebrating to the highest degree.

99.99999% of the people who use the term woke nowadays are just trying to say nigger and dress it up nicely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 11:50:41 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 11:44:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 10:15:55 AM
(Good) News Item

Oberlin College finally paid its 30+$million fine against a Mom and Pop bakery it defamed 8 years ago with false charges of racism. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the school appeal of the just decisions of lower courts

Another humiliation of wokeness is always worth celebrating to the highest degree.

99.99999% of the people who use the term woke nowadays are just trying to say nigger and dress it up nicely.
You may be underestimating.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 12:51:14 PM: News Item

Biden FBI concerned about lack of MAGA attacks.
May need to fake one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 01:21:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 12:51:14 PM
News Item

Biden FBI concerned about lack of MAGA attacks.
May need to fake one.

Obviously the daily email of talking points is struggling...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 13, 2022, 02:02:43 PM: News Item

Ward struggles with abandonment and the pervasive sense of failure that defines every aspect of his life
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 13, 2022, 02:32:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 12, 2022, 11:45:54 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 12, 2022, 08:27:58 PM
No one is as Irish as Barry OBama.

Is that white enough for your pasty ass?

Bambu, I am sure you are ready to bite the strap for Charlie 3 as you were for Liz 2. Nothing that has happened in recent days suggests you would have grown a backbone.

No use having a 'backbone' in my world, not allowed to have anything to enforce it with.
Hiding under the bed, hoping the home invaders don't find you...running out the back door and leaving them to loot your 'castle', hoping they won't chase you,...staying indoors at night so you don't get caught in a 'dark alley'...never opening the door, never getting out of the car, and never going outside.............the safest rules to live by in my world.

King Charles 111, the Monarch of bambuland for now...but the "Republic' movement is already making noises, many multicultural immigrants waving the flags of their homelands seem to just want to turn this country into the basket cases they left behind instead of embracing better, and most of the leftists/far leftists seem to hate the Monarchy and be more in love with that dead dope Karl Marx.

Bonnie Prince Charlie, now King, ...given his past sins, would be well-advised to spend most of his time away from the limelight,... relax by the fire in his slippers and dressing gown with Camilla...and leave the Royal engagements including overseas visits to Prince William, Kate and their kids.......................if he wants to still be King of Australia, and King of anything.
The "Willie Wombat, Kate and the kids" show is certainly sellable downunder, Charles and Camilla not so much..."old people" don't seem to be valued much in Australia anymore.
When Charles and Diana brought baby William to Australia, he was affectionately 'nicknamed' "Willie Wombat" as it was thought he resembed a cute baby Wombat.

Bambu, buy a bow and arrow, a bow and arrow works great for home protection. And buy a couple of Dobermans. Put cameras around your property, and motion detectors with spot lights. Also, have a neighborhood watch program with your neighbors, work together as a team with your neighbors to protect your neighborhood ( Here we even have a gang for our neighborhood "La Fabrica." )

And the Native American Indians love their elders, they put the old people on their councils. The old people are valued with the Indians.

Also of note, you have nukes now, stealth bombers armed with nukes, and submarines armed with nukes. Australia is safe.

And Anaheim is the first City in the USA to have a "Little Arabia." I tried to tell them that Anaheim is for everyone, Jews, Italians, Greeks, French, Anaheim is for everyone and no section should be designated for just one group, but they went against my wishes and they established Little Arabia anyway. We for damn sure do NOT want to turn Anaheim into Arabia.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-26/little-arabia-is-designated-in-anaheim-after-decades-of-seeking-recognition

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 13, 2022, 02:46:23 PM: Bambu, Karl Marx is buried in England, I believe Marx was at the service of England, I think England was behind China's fall to communism and retained Hong Kong as a tool to take advantage of the labor and business in China after China fell to communism. England was involved when Russia fell to communism too. Communism is a weapon of conquest, and England used that weapon, and Karl Marx is buried in England.

Just a few thoughts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 03:04:34 PM: I imagine a cartoon version of Tony with springs and screws shooting from his head with the huge red bold faced word SPROING!!!! at the top of the frame.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 03:43:32 PM: Headline on my news feed: "Queen Elizabeth will be buried wearing only two sentimental pieces of jewelry". I pray God it is closed casket.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 04:42:32 PM: A perspective on Woke

https://eurweb.com/2022/07/10/how-woke-went-from-a-black-social-justice-term-to-a-pejorative-for-conservatives-watch/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 13, 2022, 05:36:47 PM: There is a scene in the book The Count of Monte Cristo when a group of French rebels revealed themselves to a man and invited him to join in the Rebellion, when he refused he was immediately challenged to a duel, and was killed, they could not let him live once he knew their secrets.

I would love to produce a mini-series for Netflix or Disney of a true to the book version of The Count of Monte Cristo, we can shoot the mini series in Rome at Cinecitta. It is old and the rights to make the series are free, just like with Shakespeare. And since it is free, anyone could shoot it. There are versions of it but none are long enough to be true to the book.

Disney could put up the money, or Netflix, those two would be my two top choices.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 13, 2022, 05:54:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 11:50:41 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 11:44:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 10:15:55 AM
(Good) News Item

Oberlin College finally paid its 30+$million fine against a Mom and Pop bakery it defamed 8 years ago with false charges of racism. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the school appeal of the just decisions of lower courts

Another humiliation of wokeness is always worth celebrating to the highest degree.

99.99999% of the people who use the term woke nowadays are just trying to say nigger and dress it up nicely.
You may be underestimating.

There's that CRT teaching shining through
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 06:19:07 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 13, 2022, 05:54:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 11:50:41 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 13, 2022, 11:44:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 10:15:55 AM
(Good) News Item

Oberlin College finally paid its 30+$million fine against a Mom and Pop bakery it defamed 8 years ago with false charges of racism. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the school appeal of the just decisions of lower courts

Another humiliation of wokeness is always worth celebrating to the highest degree.

99.99999% of the people who use the term woke nowadays are just trying to say nigger and dress it up nicely.
You may be underestimating.

There's that CRT teaching shining through
It has nothing to do with Critical Race Theory but then I have never seen anyone on the right willing to discuss what the theory ACTUALLY is. If they even understand it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 06:55:00 PM: A tear ago inflation was 5.3%
Today it hit 8.3%and the market crashed by 1300 points.
Check your 401ks everyone!
So, naturally Joe called for a celebration of his Presidency at the White House, a free work getaway for the staff slugs complete with songs from dem apologist James Taylor.
Talk about bad optics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 13, 2022, 06:58:40 PM: RIP
Ken Starr
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 13, 2022, 07:16:47 PM: The Devil will stick him right next to Scalia. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 13, 2022, 08:25:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 03:43:32 PM
Headline on my news feed: "Queen Elizabeth will be buried wearing only two sentimental pieces of jewelry". I pray God it is closed casket.

Copy editors get bored, too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 14, 2022, 02:23:09 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 13, 2022, 10:18:51 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62884861

This is why we must tie the kangaroo down, sport.

Not as dangerous as bears and big cats.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 09:59:43 AM: Signs of the times

MAGA voters sport Biden Signs in front yards to ward off FBI raids.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 10:16:16 AM: September 14

The Anniversary of ?

Do you know?

If you are woke you can use Google.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 11:08:22 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 10:16:16 AM
September 14

The Anniversary of ?

Do you know?

If you are woke you can use Google.
Broadway reopening after the pandemic. The canonization of Ste. Elizabeth Seton. The death of William McKinley. The Battles of South Mountain and Homildon Hill, 460 years apart. The first perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.

I amsure you have something in mind but are too much of a smug little asshole to just say it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 11:20:25 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 11:08:22 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 10:16:16 AM
September 14

The Anniversary of ?

Do you know?

If you are woke you can use Google.
Broadway reopening after the pandemic. The canonization of Ste. Elizabeth Seton. The death of William McKinley. The Battles of South Mountain and Homildon Hill, 460 years apart. The first perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.

I amsure you have something in mind but are too much of a smug little asshole to just say it.
ROFL
Not much knowledge of American Historical conflict with the Crown, eh?
Tsk, tsk
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM: Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 12:10:18 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 14, 2022, 12:38:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 12:10:18 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

During the Revolution and War of 1812 the Brits promised freedom to slaves and indentured who joined on the side of the crown.

Americans? Not so much.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

One of the reasons it took 117 years to become the national anthem was because the lyrics are racist as fuck.

1931 was near the height of the re-emerging of the Klan on a national level along with the burgeoning America First movement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 14, 2022, 01:28:28 PM: Voice of reason in NYC

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-city-dem-republican-lee-zeldin-kathy-hochul?dicbo=v2-907c365b5ad515ace281caea54e2c035
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 14, 2022, 01:35:30 PM: This is who you side with and become identical to when you give support to republicans and their causes,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/14/2122815/-Armed-clown-outside-Dairy-Queen-wanted-to-restore-Trump-as-President-King-of-the-United-States (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/14/2122815/-Armed-clown-outside-Dairy-Queen-wanted-to-restore-Trump-as-President-King-of-the-United-States)

It also answers the question of what Bambu would be doing with his life if had the access he desires to firearms.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 14, 2022, 02:05:56 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 14, 2022, 01:28:28 PM
Voice of reason in NYC

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-city-dem-republican-lee-zeldin-kathy-hochul?dicbo=v2-907c365b5ad515ace281caea54e2c035
A responsible article (and one not linked to by the world's stupidest person) would explain Holden's history and note that while the Councilman is a registered Democrat he was also elected on the Republican Party line.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 14, 2022, 02:13:12 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 14, 2022, 01:28:28 PM
Voice of reason in NYC

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-city-dem-republican-lee-zeldin-kathy-hochul?dicbo=v2-907c365b5ad515ace281caea54e2c035

Voice of reason?

Hanging out with Hikind and Diaz is telling.

When you lie down with dogs you get fleas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 02:41:24 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.
Of course that is what he meant. He is just to big of a smug asshole to just say it. 3ven though 99.99999% of the people would not know it. Even though he would not have known it if it had not come up on one of his right wing feeds. "Woke" or not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 03:13:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 02:41:24 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.
Of course that is what he meant. He is just to big of a smug asshole to just say it. 3ven though 99.99999% of the people would not know it. Even though he would not have known it if it had not come up on one of his right wing feeds. "Woke" or not.
Feel better?
How can someone from northern Ohio, like you, be so ignorant of the War of 1812?
A junior high school lesson.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 03:23:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 03:13:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 02:41:24 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.
Of course that is what he meant. He is just to big of a smug asshole to just say it. 3ven though 99.99999% of the people would not know it. Even though he would not have known it if it had not come up on one of his right wing feeds. "Woke" or not.
Feel better?
How can someone from northern Ohio, like you, be so ignorant of the War of 1812?
I am not. For either half.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 04:42:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 03:23:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 14, 2022, 03:13:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 02:41:24 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 14, 2022, 11:43:03 AM
Well, the previous day to Sept. 14th was Sept. 2nd, if it was 1752. So it's sorta the British/American annniversary of the Gregorian calendar.

My guess is you mean Francis Scott Key writing his famous poem as he watched the battle at Fort McHenry. Later set to an English drinking song, reportedly.
Of course that is what he meant. He is just to big of a smug asshole to just say it. 3ven though 99.99999% of the people would not know it. Even though he would not have known it if it had not come up on one of his right wing feeds. "Woke" or not.
Feel better?
How can someone from northern Ohio, like you, be so ignorant of the War of 1812?
I am not. For either half.
LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 14, 2022, 05:44:07 PM: From Meshuggenah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 14, 2022, 06:39:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 14, 2022, 02:05:56 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 14, 2022, 01:28:28 PM
Voice of reason in NYC

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-city-dem-republican-lee-zeldin-kathy-hochul?dicbo=v2-907c365b5ad515ace281caea54e2c035
A responsible article (and one not linked to by the world's stupidest person) would explain Holden's history and note that while the Councilman is a registered Democrat he was also elected on the Republican Party line.

Life long Dem, yes.

And a smart dude. Ended up winning by less than 1 per cent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2022, 05:03:09 PM: I am tired of the fantanyl epidemic and the opioid epidemic. We need to end it now.

We need to shame the drug dealers, they need the ridicule of society, they are the lowest of the low, and they are selling death. There is nothing cool about being a drug dealer.

We need to value an education, and we need to value libraries and books, and we need to value an education and job training.

We also need to shame the rappers who support illegal drugs and gangs and all of the other bullshit that they are all about.

A teen girl just died from an over-dose in Los Angeles. My Uncle over-dosed and died right here in my apartment. This drug crisis is preventable, we just need to shame and stop the dealers and we need to tell the rappers to fuck off, etc.

We need to show people that it is fun to do Business and to make money honestly, there is no need to break the law or to deal drugs to make money, even a manager of an In N Out Burger here in California makes $120,000 per year, there is no need to sell drugs to make money, sell Burgers instead. Even mowing lawns for your neighbors as a teen, I used to charge $20 per lawn and I earned $100 before I took my lunch break for steaks at Sizler, it was fun to go make some honest money mowing lawns with my buddies and then we would have steak for lunch, and then we would make some more money and maybe buy a keg of beer and have a party in the desert with a bon fire and a keg of beer and music, just like a "Beach Blanket Bingo" movie only in the 1980s.

It is fun to do Business and to make honest money. You can sell post cards and sunglasses to tourists, it does not have to be complicated to make honest money.

Meanwhile, we need to work together as a team with Mexico and we need to stop the illegal drugs, we need to stop the heroin and the fentanyl, etc. And we need to shame the scumbags who are making money from selling death, we need to stop the dealers and the manufacturers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 15, 2022, 06:42:59 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-reject-grahams-radical-plan-allow-abortion-15-weeks

Now Republicans want to be consistent with European countries? Swalwell said. They dont want to give people health care like European countries do, but they want to have some semblance of what European countries do on womens rights? I mean, it's nonsense. This is government manded pregnancies.

The voters overwhelmingly do not want that, he said.

A very silly take

91 per cent of abortions are before 15 weeks. Lets talk about the 9 per cent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 15, 2022, 07:12:42 PM: Anything that makes you a permanent and irrelevant minority is a position I am fine with you holding, Kiid. As you were.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2022, 07:14:23 PM: We need DOCTORS, we do not have enough doctors to give European style health care to our people.

And what is worse, people glorify ignorance and no one wants to pay for our poor people to get an education and job training. If it were up to me I would be training doctors right now for free. I would be training doctors, and nurses, and public school teachers, for free right now.

If we remove the debt that the doctors accrue in Medical School, then they can afford to help people cheaper because their education was cheaper.

Many doctors work for free with groups such as Doctors Without Borders and the least we can do is to give the doctors a free education.

Of note, my Doctor was from the Philippines, the Filipinos all speak English and they are good Christian people, the Filipinos make good doctors. We can train the people from the Philippines to be doctors as we train more people to serve people.

We need to make health care available to all people, and the way to succeed is to provide a free education for our people in order to train doctors and nurses, etc. And we need to build more Medical Schools, build a Medical School in my hometown of Lancaster, California, they built the Space Shuttles and many people there would be good doctors. Here in the OC we have UCI which is a great Medical School. We need to build more schools, and we need to train the doctors for free.

And we need Psychiatrists too.

And people want Wellness Centers, and people want training for Crisis Intervention Specialists, etc, we need to build more schools.

We need to build more schools and we need fewer prisons. And we need to stop neglecting our Youth, including the Foster Youth, we need to help our Youth, our Youth are the future.

We also need to teach the Labor Unions to value an education, an education makes workers more valuable, and prepares them for leadership positions, etc. And Cesar Chavez said that the best use of an education is to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 15, 2022, 07:27:15 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 15, 2022, 06:42:59 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-reject-grahams-radical-plan-allow-abortion-15-weeks

Now Republicans want to be consistent with European countries? Swalwell said. They dont want to give people health care like European countries do, but they want to have some semblance of what European countries do on womens rights? I mean, it's nonsense. This is government manded pregnancies.

The voters overwhelmingly do not want that, he said.

A very silly take

91 per cent of abortions are before 15 weeks. Lets talk about the 9 per cent.

Let us not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 15, 2022, 07:30:49 PM: Aileen Cannon is a politician, not a judge... and she is a hack.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cannon-denies-doj-bid-to-keep-use-of-mar-a-lago-classified-docs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 15, 2022, 09:28:46 PM: 11th circuit, here we come.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2022, 10:08:24 PM: In Orange County we have a Wellness Center where the homeless people can get help. Mental Health Professionals can drive around in vans picking up the homeless people off of the streets and taking them to the Wellness Center for help.

https://www.bewelloc.org/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2022, 11:32:00 PM: We are lucky here in California because we have industry, plus we have farming, so we get the best of both worlds, we get the jobs of industry plus we get the good healthy food from our farms.

Italy is the same way, they have industry in the North, and farming in the South, so they get the benefits of the industry jobs plus good healthy food from the farmers.

( Of note, as I have stated before, we can build Santorini, Greece, style apartments in Merced, and in Napa, here in California, and in Battle Mountain in Nevada, and the homeless people can go there to live and people can grow food and they can make cheese, and they can make wine, etc. The homeless people can ride Greyhound Buses to Merced, and to Napa, and to Battle Mountain. And they can do trade with San Francisco, etc. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2022, 11:56:19 PM: The CIRCLE program is in charge of helping the homeless in Los Angeles, I guess, it is a program by Garcetti, I guess.

https://ktla.com/news/unique-task-force-aims-to-reduce-homelessness-in-hollywood-with-compassion/

As we get the homeless people in Los Angeles into housing, we need to make living in Gardens in Merced, and in Napa, an option for the people, they can live and work in a Garden, growing food and making cheese and making wine, etc, and also in Battle Mountain, Nevada, where land is only $1,000 per acre.

We need to get organized, and we need to work together as a team to help the people who need help.

Once the Gardens are established in Napa, and in Merced, then people can just give the homeless people Greyhound Bus tickets to get there, and people can help the homeless once they arrive, and in Battle Mountain, Nevada, too. And pork and beef are at high prices now, people can raise pork and beef in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can help to feed San Francisco, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 12:36:28 AM: People should not be using our desperate refugees and immigrants to make a political statement, these are human beings who are living the long tradition of coming to the USA in the search of safety and the American Dream, we must welcome our immigrants, and we must create jobs for them. The Bible says we will be rewarded if we create jobs for the poor. We can hire the refugees to grow avocados, and orange juice, and to make wine, and cheese, and to raise pork and beef, and chickens and eggs, etc.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/migrants-arrive-marthas-vineyard-massachusetts-charter-flights-florida/41220505

We need to spend the money to create jobs for our immigrants. Land can be purchased for $1,000 per acre in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can raise pork and beef for San Francisco, etc.

The SBA, and HUD, and other groups, and Christians, and the United Farm Workers union, etc, need to work together, Kiwanis International can help, and others, and we need to create jobs and opportunities for our refugees and for the homeless people and for our immigrants. The World Bank can help too, and the IMF, and the Bank of New York Mellon, we need people to work together as a team to help the people who need help and who need honest jobs. They can also join the Teamsters to drive trucks, and they can join the construction unions to do dry wall and electrical, and other jobs building housing, and also Habitat For Humanity can help. The refugees can build Santorini, Greece, style apartments and they can all do what is necessary to create housing, and to create jobs growing food, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 12:52:29 AM: It is human trafficking, a major crime.

We need to keep gitmo open for prominent republicans and deepen the water boards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 01:28:27 AM: UCI Health

2 hours

Dignitaries and #UCIHealth physician-scientists gathered Sept. 7 to celebrate the opening of the Center for Innovative Health Therapies, a state-of-the-art facility for leading-edge #clinicaltrials and research studies located on the UCI Medical Center campus in Orange. The center, which will observe the highest operational and clinical standards, is dedicated to producing breakthrough therapies that will benefit patients throughout #OrangeCounty.

-----------

UCI is a great Medical School, and it is great that they keep expanding.

And we need to build more Medical Schools around the USA, and Lancaster, California, is a good place to build a Medical School. Also, Elko, Nevada, would be a good place to build a medical School. We need to spend some money and build schools, parks, and libraries, around the USA, including building Medical Schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 01:31:13 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 12:52:29 AM
It is human trafficking, a major crime.

We need to keep gitmo open for prominent republicans and deepen the water boards.

It is time to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did, we need to make everyone legal, and then we need to write a new immigration law, we need to have a Good Neighbor Policy, and we need a program for workers, and for students, and basically we need to make it easier for people to come to the USA legally and to become a USA Citizen easily.

And immigrants need to be able to travel safely on nice new Greyhound Buses, etc, we need for people to be able to travel safely and legally.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 01:52:32 AM: When borders are open, and immigrants can just waltz in un-documented, un-identified, un-background checked, ...anarchy.....along with them can waltz in the bad people, the really bad people, the really really bad people, including rapists, killers, drug cartel kings and their foot-soldiers.

The once-nice nation then quickly turns into a basket-case of evil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 02:43:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 01:52:32 AM
When borders are open, and immigrants can just waltz in un-documented, un-identified, un-background checked, ...anarchy.....along with them can waltz in the bad people, the really bad people, the really really bad people, including rapists, killers, drug cartel kings and their foot-soldiers.

The once-nice nation then quickly turns into a basket-case of evil.

We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to bring them out of the shadows so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency and so that they can join labor unions, etc.

Making our immigrants legal, and fixing our immigration laws so that it is easier for people to become legal citizens, will reduce crime. And the immigrants will not be afraid to report crimes if they are legal.

Right now we have women who are getting raped by evil men, and they cannot call the police because they are poor and illegal, and they are afraid they will be deported if they report the crime. It is a shameful situation. We need to make our people legal, like Reagan did, so that the people can report crimes.

And if our immigrants are legal then they can join the United Farm Workers union and other unions and they can be paid fair and they can be treated well.

We also need libraries and schools for the Farm Workers, etc.

We need to help the good people, and we need for the good people to be able to call the police in the case of a crime. And we need for the workers to have good working conditions and fair pay, etc, we need for our workers to be able to legally join unions.

The Unions can tell the workers where the jobs are, and the immigrants need to legally be able to go to work, and they need to be able to safely travel on Greyhound Buses, etc.

And the homeless people can get housing and help right along with the immigrants and with the refugees. We can help everyone at once. All people are created equal and we can help everyone at once. And they need to all be able to call the police to report a crime.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 03:27:41 AM: We had a corrupt Mayor here in Anaheim, thank God that our FBI is still honest as they investigate the crime.

I hate crime and corruption.

We have a wealthy City but the wealth will not benefit the people of our City if the wealth is stolen by corrupt officials. We need to stop the corruption, and we need to have a transparent City government.

And we have good people who are out there homeless on the streets who cannot help themselves, and they need for the people at the top to be honest and to care about the poor and to want to create a better society. We need Mayors who care about the people, and who are honest and who will do the right things in service of the people.

I would also spend more money on public landscaping, and on fountains, and statues, and parks, like in Rome. As we build in the Platinum Triangle here in Anaheim we can have towers with swimming pools on the roofs of the towers, and we can have cool public landscaping like in Rome, Italy.

We need to stop the corruption so that the wealth benefits the poor people. The wealth needs to help the people, instead of being stolen by corrupt politicians.

And the same thing in Mexico, the good people need to be in charge, the good Christians in Mexico need to rule Mexico. The good people out-number the bad people, and the good people need to rise up and take charge. The good people need to own Mexico.

And the good people need to own Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 04:54:44 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 02:43:19 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 01:52:32 AM
When borders are open, and immigrants can just waltz in un-documented, un-identified, un-background checked, ...anarchy.....along with them can waltz in the bad people, the really bad people, the really really bad people, including rapists, killers, drug cartel kings and their foot-soldiers.

The once-nice nation then quickly turns into a basket-case of evil.

We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to bring them out of the shadows so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency and so that they can join labor unions, etc.

Making our immigrants legal, and fixing our immigration laws so that it is easier for people to become legal citizens, will reduce crime. And the immigrants will not be afraid to report crimes if they are legal.

Right now we have women who are getting raped by evil men, and they cannot call the police because they are poor and illegal, and they are afraid they will be deported if they report the crime. It is a shameful situation. We need to make our people legal, like Reagan did, so that the people can report crimes.

And if our immigrants are legal then they can join the United Farm Workers union and other unions and they can be paid fair and they can be treated well.

We also need libraries and schools for the Farm Workers, etc.

We need to help the good people, and we need for the good people to be able to call the police in the case of a crime. And we need for the workers to have good working conditions and fair pay, etc, we need for our workers to be able to legally join unions.

The Unions can tell the workers where the jobs are, and the immigrants need to legally be able to go to work, and they need to be able to safely travel on Greyhound Buses, etc.

And the homeless people can get housing and help right along with the immigrants and with the refugees. We can help everyone at once. All people are created equal and we can help everyone at once. And they need to all be able to call the police to report a crime.

Salute,

Tony V.

The best thing to do is allow "good people" immigrants in, and keep "bad people" immigrants out.
This can easily be done by having "closed borders" and an orderly and thorough immigration system.
Some prospective immigrants are lovely people who will be an asset to America.
Other prospective immigrants are horrible people who will be nothing but a serious menace to America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 05:03:36 AM: While the West was sleeping;

In 2020 Chinese firms owned or had a stake in 15 of Congo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 05:10:40 AM: ...15 of Congo's 19 Cobalt-producing mines.

Cobalt of course an essential mineral in the production of electric vehicles.
70% of the world's Cobalt is mined in Congo.

How much farmland in America did China buy this week?

Looks like Aussie will be waltzing matilda via his 2.8Lire and 3.00Litre turbo diesel utes for decades to come.
Chinese electric vehicles...might not be so popular in matildaworld, given the insults and trade war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM: 911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 16, 2022, 10:01:02 AM: So where do these 50 immigrants end up? Streets of Boston? If providedd housing, how many will work steady and immediately? Curious in this and similar cases. For if even 10 per cent are not, arent we just contributing to the welfare state (nation)?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 10:23:42 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 16, 2022, 10:01:02 AM
So where do these 50 immigrants end up? Streets of Boston?
Or next to Charlie on the MTA, The Gang Who Wouldn t Return!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 10:54:02 AM: https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelty-and-the-crazy

Stunting for LOLs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:08:45 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM
911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
The reality:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/09/15/vineyard-community-rallies-relief-efforts-assist-stranded-migrants
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:09:38 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 16, 2022, 10:01:02 AM
So where do these 50 immigrants end up? Streets of Boston? If providedd housing, how many will work steady and immediately? Curious in this and similar cases. For if even 10 per cent are not, arent we just contributing to the welfare state (nation)?
The do not get welfare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 11:21:41 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM
911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
The reality:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/09/15/vineyard-community-rallies-relief-efforts-assist-stranded-migrants
Reality? From the official propaganda sheet of the rich elitist neighbors of Obama?
Or the words of Jean Pierre and Kamala Harris
The BorderIs Closed!

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:35:24 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 11:21:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM
911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
The reality:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/09/15/vineyard-community-rallies-relief-efforts-assist-stranded-migrants
Reality? From the official propaganda sheet of the rich elitist neighbors of Obama?
Or the words of Jean Pierre and Kamala Harris
The BorderIs Closed!

LOL!
Of course you cannot post any contrary facts because you have none.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:47:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. link=topic=223.msg218076#msg218076

The best thing to do is allow "good people" immigrants in, and keep "bad people" immigrants out.
This can easily be done by having "closed borders" and an orderly and thorough immigration system.
Some prospective immigrants are lovely people who will be an asset to America.
Other prospective immigrants are horrible people who will be nothing but a serious menace to America.

You have convinced me. I am starting a petition for a total ban on Australians, very clearly bad people immigrants to a man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 11:49:36 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:35:24 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 11:21:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM
911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
The reality:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/09/15/vineyard-community-rallies-relief-efforts-assist-stranded-migrants
Reality? From the official propaganda sheet of the rich elitist neighbors of Obama?
Or the words of Jean Pierre and Kamala Harris
The BorderIs Closed!

LOL!
Of course you cannot post any contrary facts because you have none.
Just 1.5 million or so documented at the (closed) Border.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM: Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 12:32:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 11:21:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 08:34:16 AM
911 call from Chappaquiddick

Help! there is brown skinned man in my gated community and he is not carrying a leaf blower!
I am scared!

LOL!
The reality:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/09/15/vineyard-community-rallies-relief-efforts-assist-stranded-migrants
Reality? From the official propaganda sheet of the rich elitist neighbors of Obama?
Or the words of Jean Pierre and Kamala Harris
The BorderIs Closed!

LOL!

Have you ever been to MV?

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22627047/marthas-vineyard-black-tourism-oak-bluffs-inkwell
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 16, 2022, 01:07:16 PM: Still a frat boy prank. An island with a population that peaks at 15,000 and mostly needs counter help and waiters with fluent English is not going to be able to achieve placement for a lot of migrants. Boston would have been the more logical destination, if this were simply about humanitarian help on DeSatan's part and getting them to a spot where a larger social service team could find placements. Omaha or Des Moines or Kansas City would have made even more sense, in terms of matching skills with jobs, but this isn't about making sense or efficiently providing help.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 16, 2022, 01:08:52 PM: https://archive.ph/Rz1Q2

David Brooks is sometimes an alert voice of reason.

The net effect of these strategies has been to sell a lot of books and subscriptions and to make anti-Trumpists feel good. But this entire barrage of invective has not discredited Trump among the people who will very likely play the most determinant role....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:19:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
And they are living up to it with their welcoming hearts. Which you cannot stand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 01:21:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.

And they took these folks in without reservation.

The folks were relocated to a Cape Cod military facility with $50 cash cards.

The stunt backfired. The nation saw the migrants received with support and empathy and they saw DeSantis and Abbott looking like a bunch of dicks at a frat part.

Would have been a different story if they sent the migrants before Labor Day when the summer industry shuts down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:24:01 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 01:07:16 PM

but this isn't about making sense or efficiently providing help.
LOL!

But the border is CLOSED according to Biden.

So he does not give a shit what happens to those tens of thousands of documented illegals, many dealing in drugs and killing Americans with fentanyl,etc. Let Texas, Arizona, Florida, et al deal with them.
But do not send them places where Obama lives or rich elitist democrats eat and play.

That would be INHUMANE!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 01:27:28 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 01:08:52 PM
https://archive.ph/Rz1Q2

David Brooks is sometimes an alert voice of reason.

The net effect of these strategies has been to sell a lot of books and subscriptions and to make anti-Trumpists feel good. But this entire barrage of invective has not discredited Trump among the people who will very likely play the most determinant role....

David Brooks is always behind the curve... ALWAYS.

This week, I talked with a Republican who was incensed by Bidens approach. He is an 82-year-old emigre from Russia who is thinking of supporting Ron DeSantis in the 2024 primaries because he has less baggage. His parents were killed by the Nazis in World War II. And now Biden is calling ME a fascist?! he fumed.

If the old Russian is still dick riding MAGA than he still on the side of the fascists.

You lay with dogs you get fleas
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:31:36 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:19:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
And they are living up to it with their welcoming hearts. Which you cannot stand.
Not a surprise since Massachusetts is run by a GOPer, and Trump designated the Vineyard as a sanctuary.
It is the reaction of Biden and his elitists who reflects the sheer hypocrisy of the left.
They are the ones screaming INHUMANE, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:42:27 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 01:21:11 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.

And they took these folks in without reservation.

The folks were relocated to a Cape Cod military facility with $50 cash cards.

The stunt backfired. The nation saw the migrants received with support and empathy and they saw DeSantis and Abbott looking like a bunch of dicks at a frat part.

Would have been a different story if they sent the migrants before Labor Day when the summer industry shuts down.
It is just like RedDickJimmEspn to love a punk ass move, and when it backfires celebrate it as if it succeeded.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 01:44:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:24:01 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 01:07:16 PM

but this isn't about making sense or efficiently providing help.
LOL!

But the border is CLOSED according to Biden.

So he does not give a shit what happens to those tens of thousands of documented illegals, many dealing in drugs and killing Americans with fentanyl,etc. Let Texas, Arizona, Florida, et al deal with them.
But do not send them places where Obama lives or rich elitist democrats eat and play.

That would be INHUMANE!

I believe the Administration said the border was SECURE.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 04:02:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:19:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
And they are living up to it with their welcoming hearts. Which you cannot stand.
Not a surprise since Massachusetts is run by a GOPer, and Trump designated the Vineyard as a sanctuary.
It is the reaction of Biden and his elitists who reflects the sheer hypocrisy of the left.
They are the ones screaming INHUMANE, etc.

Hypocrisy, indeed...

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1570803548501446661?s=21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 04:46:52 PM: Supervisor Kathryn Barger

September 15, 2022

The County of Los Angeles has seen a significant rise in RVs in homeless encampments. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to get non-working RVs off our streets and to create a program that offers safe and legal RV parking spots accompanied by supportive services for those experiencing homelessness.

----------------

Acton, California, would be a good place for the people to park their RVs and to live in their RVs, and services for the homeless people can be provided in Acton. Instead of taking away someone's RV and making them homeless, the RVs can be towed, and driven if they run, to Acton, and services can be provided for the people in Acton.

I lived in my RV at an RV park in Lancaster, and it was $300 per month for my space rent. There was a 24 hour 7-Eleven next to the park so we had a 24 hour convenience store. I set up 3 barbecue grills, and I cooked tacos and burritos and stuff for my neighbors, and I had a blender and we made margaritas. It was kind of dangerous, a lot of the people were ex convicts, and mentally ill Veterans, etc, but I made friends with the people by feeding everyone. I am a good cook, and the people liked me because I fed them all.

People can create more RV parks in Acton and they can add services such as a pharmacy, and homeless services, and a Social Security office, and a medical clinic, etc, and 7-Elevens can be built, and grocery stores, etc. There can be a huge RV community in Acton, it is the perfect spot for an RV community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton,_California

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 05:05:19 PM: I love Florida, and I loved living in Florida as a kid, we lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, and I had a step dad who was a supervisor on the Space Shuttle, when the Shuttle program went from the desert in California to Florida we went with the Shuttle program, my step dad was one of the main bosses on the Shuttle program.

Florida is beautiful, with great beaches, and beautiful women, Florida is great.

But DeSantis is an idiot, he does not deserve to live in Florida, he has no idea what Florida is all about, and he does not understand what the USA is all about. We are a nation of immigrants, and we have our Statue of Liberty welcoming the homeless masses. And Florida has an orange juice industry, DeSantis could easily have sent the immigrants to work in the orange juice industry in Florida.

Here in California we have Sunkist and the immigrants can always find jobs with Sunkist, and Sunkist could use the free publicity, DeSantis can send the immigrants to come to California to make orange juice, etc, and then the whole world would rather drink California orange juice instead of Florida orange juice. I bet the orange juice growers in Florida are upset with DeSantis.

We are a sanctuary nation, and DeSantis is an idiot.

Send the immigrants to California, and we can put them to work with the United Farm Workers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 05:25:14 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 01:08:52 PM
https://archive.ph/Rz1Q2

David Brooks is sometimes an alert voice of reason.

The net effect of these strategies has been to sell a lot of books and subscriptions and to make anti-Trumpists feel good. But this entire barrage of invective has not discredited Trump among the people who will very likely play the most determinant role....

The people who convict trump will receive instructions when they are impaneled to set aside their personal opinions and follow the law. Invective in books should have no bearing one way or the other.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 05:56:45 PM: DeSantis has set an ironclad precedent for snatching up republican governors without consent and dumping them in places they do not want to go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 06:43:23 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:47:19 AM
Quote from: bambu. link=topic=223.msg218076#msg218076

The best thing to do is allow "good people" immigrants in, and keep "bad people" immigrants out.
This can easily be done by having "closed borders" and an orderly and thorough immigration system.
Some prospective immigrants are lovely people who will be an asset to America.
Other prospective immigrants are horrible people who will be nothing but a serious menace to America.

You have convinced me. I am starting a petition for a total ban on Australians, very clearly bad people immigrants to a man.

Mostly, they enter as tourists, and spend heaps of cash...then return home. No welfare cash for life much in America.
No universal healthcare...one guy in an American movie, ex porn star down on his luck who was trying to corrupt an 18 yr old girl at the donut shop with weed, booze and sex...got beaten up by her boyfriend and her parents but couldn't seek medical attention because he had no healthcare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 07:19:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 06:43:23 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:47:19 AM
Quote from: bambu. link=topic=223.msg218076#msg218076

The best thing to do is allow "good people" immigrants in, and keep "bad people" immigrants out.
This can easily be done by having "closed borders" and an orderly and thorough immigration system.
Some prospective immigrants are lovely people who will be an asset to America.
Other prospective immigrants are horrible people who will be nothing but a serious menace to America.

You have convinced me. I am starting a petition for a total ban on Australians, very clearly bad people immigrants to a man.

Mostly, they enter as tourists, and spend heaps of cash...then return home. No welfare cash for life much in America.
No universal healthcare...one guy in an American movie, ex porn star down on his luck who was trying to corrupt an 18 yr old girl at the donut shop with weed, booze and sex...got beaten up by her boyfriend and her parents but couldn't seek medical attention because he had no healthcare.

When I was a teen one of my friends set me up with a girl at a party at his house, and he wanted for me to have sex with her, I was not attracted to her, but I drank some whisky and I went ahead and had sex with her. I should not have done it. I am a Christian and I want to find a wife, it was stupid to have sex with a woman who I was not in love with. Anyhow, the next day after I got home from work, I got a knock on the door, and it was a big guy and I thought he was my Brother's friend because he asked if my Brother was there. The guy asked me to step outside, I thought he was my Brother's friend so I stepped outside. After I stepped outside he beat me up, and he threw me through a window of my Mother's house, cutting my arm by my wrist and severing tendons. It turns out the guy was the girl's boyfriend. My asshole friend set me up with a girl who had a jealous boyfriend and he beat me up, and he damaged my arm permanently, I cannot dig ditches with a shovel so I could never be a landscaper, etc. One arm is weak from being damaged and losing tendons. So, I went to the hospital, and it was the hospital where I was born, and they did not want to treat me because I was poor and I did not have medical insurance. They would not clean my wound, they sent me to a sink and they made me clean my own wound. And then they charged me $1,000 to stitch up my arm, I had to send them monthly payments to pay my medical bill.

I learned a lot of lessons from that experience, I learned that my friend was an asshole and I quit hanging out with him, with friends like that you do not need enemies. Friends are supposed to help each other, not get me beat up. That guy stopped being a friend immediately after that experience.

And I learned not to have sex with a woman who I do not love. I should not have had sex with her. All of those people were bad people and I should not have even been spending time with them, and I certainly should not have had sex with her. So, I quit having sex, until I find a woman who I love. I need to take my time, and find a woman I love. And I need to make sure that I find a good, honest, loving woman who I respect and who I want to be with and who I would want to have as a Mother for my children.

I also learned that everything is about money, and the people at the hospital where I was born were more interested in money than they were about helping me with my wound. I did not have medical insurance, so they did not want to help me. The doctors were not working so that they could help people, but instead they only cared about money.

Those are the biggest issues in my life, being poor, and being lonely. No money, and no wife.

And it is not worth it to have sex with a stranger and to get beat up, that whole situation was bad. Those people were dirt-bags, and the doctors at the hospital in my hometown where I was born were dirt-bags too for not wanting to help me. Doctors are supposed to be in the business of helping people, but some doctors just care about money.

Yes, Bambu, if you do not have insurance then the doctors in America do not want to help you, it is a shame, we need to train more doctors and we need to train them for free, and we need doctors who want to help people instead of only caring about money. And we need to have Universal Healthcare for all Americans.

In Orange County I now have health insurance from the County, I have Cal Optima, and I am so grateful to have medical insurance. California is rich and it is good that poor people like me are being helped by programs such as Cal Optima. And I had a wonderful Christian doctor from the Philippines, he was a wonderful doctor, but he just retired. Now I need to see a Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor. We need to train more doctors and we need to build more medical schools like UCI here in Orange County, and we need Universal Healthcare.

The world can be hard and cruel, I need to stay away from bad people, and I need to choose my friends wisely. I also need to figure out how to make money, and I want a wife. I want to have money and a wife, I am tired of being poor and alone. My only crime was having my Father die when I was a child, and being poor. I had a few step dads but they were all assholes, they wanted my Mom but they did not want us kids. My current step dad is okay, he is good to my Mom and I tolerate him, I try my best to get along with him.

Anyhow, yes, if you get beat up then some doctors are assholes who do not want to help you if you do not have medical insurance. And the USA needs to have Universal Healthcare.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 08:32:04 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 16, 2022, 07:19:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 06:43:23 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:47:19 AM
Quote from: bambu. link=topic=223.msg218076#msg218076

The best thing to do is allow "good people" immigrants in, and keep "bad people" immigrants out.
This can easily be done by having "closed borders" and an orderly and thorough immigration system.
Some prospective immigrants are lovely people who will be an asset to America.
Other prospective immigrants are horrible people who will be nothing but a serious menace to America.

You have convinced me. I am starting a petition for a total ban on Australians, very clearly bad people immigrants to a man.

Mostly, they enter as tourists, and spend heaps of cash...then return home. No welfare cash for life much in America.
No universal healthcare...one guy in an American movie, ex porn star down on his luck who was trying to corrupt an 18 yr old girl at the donut shop with weed, booze and sex...got beaten up by her boyfriend and her parents but couldn't seek medical attention because he had no healthcare.

When I was a teen one of my friends set me up with a girl at a party at his house, and he wanted for me to have sex with her, I was not attracted to her, but I drank some whisky and I went ahead and had sex with her. I should not have done it. I am a Christian and I want to find a wife, it was stupid to have sex with a woman who I was not in love with. Anyhow, the next day after I got home from work, I got a knock on the door, and it was a big guy and I thought he was my Brother's friend because he asked if my Brother was there. The guy asked me to step outside, I thought he was my Brother's friend so I stepped outside. After I stepped outside he beat me up, and he threw me through a window of my Mother's house, cutting my arm by my wrist and severing tendons. It turns out the guy was the girl's boyfriend. My asshole friend set me up with a girl who had a jealous boyfriend and he beat me up, and he damaged my arm permanently, I cannot dig ditches with a shovel so I could never be a landscaper, etc. One arm is weak from being damaged and losing tendons. So, I went to the hospital, and it was the hospital where I was born, and they did not want to treat me because I was poor and I did not have medical insurance. They would not clean my wound, they sent me to a sink and they made me clean my own wound. And then they charged me $1,000 to stitch up my arm, I had to send them monthly payments to pay my medical bill.

I learned a lot of lessons from that experience, I learned that my friend was an asshole and I quit hanging out with him, with friends like that you do not need enemies. Friends are supposed to help each other, not get me beat up. That guy stopped being a friend immediately after that experience.

And I learned not to have sex with a woman who I do not love. I should not have had sex with her. All of those people were bad people and I should not have even been spending time with them, and I certainly should not have had sex with her. So, I quit having sex, until I find a woman who I love. I need to take my time, and find a woman I love. And I need to make sure that I find a good, honest, loving woman who I respect and who I want to be with and who I would want to have as a Mother for my children.

I also learned that everything is about money, and the people at the hospital where I was born were more interested in money than they were about helping me with my wound. I did not have medical insurance, so they did not want to help me. The doctors were not working so that they could help people, but instead they only cared about money.

Those are the biggest issues in my life, being poor, and being lonely. No money, and no wife.

And it is not worth it to have sex with a stranger and to get beat up, that whole situation was bad. Those people were dirt-bags, and the doctors at the hospital in my hometown where I was born were dirt-bags too for not wanting to help me. Doctors are supposed to be in the business of helping people, but some doctors just care about money.

Yes, Bambu, if you do not have insurance then the doctors in America do not want to help you, it is a shame, we need to train more doctors and we need to train them for free, and we need doctors who want to help people instead of only caring about money. And we need to have Universal Healthcare for all Americans.

In Orange County I now have health insurance from the County, I have Cal Optima, and I am so grateful to have medical insurance. California is rich and it is good that poor people like me are being helped by programs such as Cal Optima. And I had a wonderful Christian doctor from the Philippines, he was a wonderful doctor, but he just retired. Now I need to see a Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor. We need to train more doctors and we need to build more medical schools like UCI here in Orange County, and we need Universal Healthcare.

The world can be hard and cruel, I need to stay away from bad people, and I need to choose my friends wisely. I also need to figure out how to make money, and I want a wife. I want to have money and a wife, I am tired of being poor and alone. My only crime was having my Father die when I was a child, and being poor. I had a few step dads but they were all assholes, they wanted my Mom but they did not want us kids. My current step dad is okay, he is good to my Mom and I tolerate him, I try my best to get along with him.

Anyhow, yes, if you get beat up then some doctors are assholes who do not want to help you if you do not have medical insurance. And the USA needs to have Universal Healthcare.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, Tony...life is all about money...Abba sang it true: "Money, money, money, in a rich man's world".
Yes, dirtbag-bad people are everywhere, literally everywhere.
They'll bash you senseless with the slightest provocation.
The world is hard and cruel. Some people get lucky, usually the rich, and don't suffer its daily horrors.
Some people are born into rich families in America. Others are born on garbage dumps in Asia and spend their whole lives there. Others suffer the evil of Russia.
It's the luck of the draw.
The US does need to have Universal Healthcare.
If I were a Republican Presidential candidate against Biden or whoever Dem it might be, I'd be promising "Free healthcare for all".

Sex with strangers is a very dangerous thing to do, for many reasons...one of which being what happened to you.
Friends, baaah...look what they did to you. Friends are best selected very very carefully, and only allowed into one's inner circle [even if the inner circle is only one person, you] after thorough testing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 16, 2022, 08:33:55 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 04:02:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:19:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
And they are living up to it with their welcoming hearts. Which you cannot stand.
Not a surprise since Massachusetts is run by a GOPer, and Trump designated the Vineyard as a sanctuary.
It is the reaction of Biden and his elitists who reflects the sheer hypocrisy of the left.
They are the ones screaming INHUMANE, etc.

Hypocrisy, indeed...

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1570803548501446661?s=21

Yup, the details emerging of the deception get worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 09:26:09 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 08:33:55 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 16, 2022, 04:02:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2022, 01:19:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2022, 12:49:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 16, 2022, 12:18:23 PM
Would make more sense to move migrants to states/regions where agriculture predominates and there are usually abundant unskilled labor jobs which are hard to fill with native citizens. (yes, obviously the Martha dump is a political stunt by DeSatan, who doesn't mind using human beings as pawns in his Far Right Frat Boy pranks) But no one dare does that, because it would validate the value of all those immigrants with strong work ethics and willingness to grab the bottom rung. As always, chaos is the point.
Martha s Vineyard has styled itself as a sanctuary destinationthat welcomes migrants a position it took early in former President Donald Trump s administration.
And they are living up to it with their welcoming hearts. Which you cannot stand.
Not a surprise since Massachusetts is run by a GOPer, and Trump designated the Vineyard as a sanctuary.
It is the reaction of Biden and his elitists who reflects the sheer hypocrisy of the left.
They are the ones screaming INHUMANE, etc.

Hypocrisy, indeed.
Yes indeed.
It only took a few hours for the Island bigots to call in the National Guard to move those brown skinned folks elsewhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 16, 2022, 09:32:21 PM: If anyone has Josh's email, he might want to know I've found a fix for the logon problem. Install the DuckDuckGo browser app. No glitch, no weird SSL protocol message, just logs right in. Am starting to suspect the glitch is only in handshaking between Android chrome and the site. Cheers.

Anyone who reads The Post... look at Dana Milbank column today, on the MyPillow guy. All the pillow puns fit to print and a few more.

Please see my post previous to Ward's formatting fuckfest, to get a sense of the dishonesty baked into his bloopers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 09:53:19 PM: Glad you got the browser thing sorted.

Ward gets lost in the sauce by midweek. Nobody pays him any mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 11:17:51 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 16, 2022, 09:32:21 PM
If anyone has Josh's email, he might want to know I've found a fix for the logon problem. Install the DuckDuckGo browser app. No glitch, no weird SSL protocol message, just logs right in. Am starting to suspect the glitch is only in handshaking between Android chrome and the site. Cheers.

Anyone who reads The Post... look at Dana Milbank column today, on the MyPillow guy. All the pillow puns fit to print and a few more.

Please see my post previous to Ward's formatting fuckfest, to get a sense of the dishonesty baked into his bloopers.

Yo!
Quack Quack...the Duck works fine!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 11:30:12 PM: Tony,
The cheating woman is the one the dirtbags should've beaten up, not you.
Could've been that she told them a pack of lies to save her own skin.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:36:06 PM: I am glad you are too much of a toothless chump to act on your violent fantasies, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2022, 12:47:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2022, 11:30:12 PM
Tony,
The cheating woman is the one the dirtbags should've beaten up, not you.
Could've been that she told them a pack of lies to save her own skin.

Thank you Bambu.

In Hollywood I lived for a time in cheap motels while I tried to get acting work, and the owners of the motels told me horrible stories of men being robbed by women, the men would be picked up by a woman and the woman would take the man to a motel room, the man thought he was going to have sex, but when he got to the motel room then he was met by a group of men who robbed him and stole his car. The women were bringing the men to the motels to be robbed.

One needs to be careful. And the lessons that I learned as a Youth probably saved my life and are the reason why I am still alive. I am still alive because I do not have sex with strange women, and I am very careful in who my friends are. And it is better to be alone, than be with bad people.

I am still alive because I learned the lessons of my youth.

And God will bless me with a wife, I just have to wait and prepare and be ready for her when God sends her to me. Instead of just having sex with strange women, I would rather have a loyal and trust-worthy wife.

It would be fun to have a wife who wants to write and produce movies and television shows with me, and to do charity work with me, we will see what happens.

Thanks Bambu, yes, the bad people were the ones who should have been punished and not me, but I was meant to learn a lesson, and the lesson might be the reason why I am still alive today. I might be alive because I stopped having sex with strange women, and because I quit hanging out with dirt-bag people.

Thanks.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2022, 01:18:00 AM: Another lesson that I learned in Hollywood, is that if you want to hang out with safe, beautiful exotic dancers, then go to Bare Elegance where Clint Eastwood goes, and Danny DeVito, and David Spade, you can hang out with beautiful women and stars like Clint Eastwood.

https://www.bareelegance.com/

Bare Elegance is safe, and you do not need to worry about getting accosted by unsavory people. And you get to hang out with the rich and famous people at Bare Elegance.

And if life is beating you up, and if you feel alone and depressed, then you can go to Bare Elegance and the women will cheer you up.

( Of note, when I worked at China Lake Navy Weapon Center there were no women there, it was all military men with no women, so China Lake needs a club like Bare Elegance for the men. At Edwards Air Force Base in my hometown they had Pancho Barnes and her "Happy Bottom Riding Club" for the men, and China Lake needs a club for the men like Bare Elegance in Hollywood. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2022, 04:00:07 PM: On the issue of the refugees from Venezuela, we can teach them how to help each other and how to help other immigrants while they are at it. They can work together to create jobs, and to build housing, and to help the new people as they arrive, etc.

I met a cool guy here in Anaheim who is a social worker who came here from Venezuela, he came to Anaheim and now he works as a social worker helping other people.

And I had friends from the Philippines who were helping the homeless people, as they also helped refugees and immigrants.

We need to make sure that the people who want to help other people are able to do so, they need to have the opportunities and resources.

My friend from the Philippines was wealthy from the Banana Industry, and she came to America and opened a night club in Los Angeles, "Manila Gardens" was the name of her night club. And then she spent her whole life helping the homeless people and the refugees and the immigrants.

Instead of people feeling poor and powerless to help other people, we need to make it possible for those who want to help other people to do so.

Another group which helps people is Kiwanis International, which is world-wide.

If people want to build housing, and if they want to grow food, and if they want to help other people, then they need to have the opportunities and the resources.

We also have the United Farm Workers, and we have other unions, the unions can tell the desperate refugees where the jobs are, and then the refugees can ride a nice safe new Greyhound Bus to where the jobs are.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2022, 05:10:37 PM: We need to organize the charity groups and aid organizations so that the people who need help are able to get help.

With our Wellness Center in Orange, the Center has many groups working together as a team to help the people who need help, there are Federal, State, County, and City programs, working together with charities and churches.

We can do the same thing to help our refugees on our Southern Border and our homeless people and our immigrants. We can organize the various groups to work together as a team to help the people who need help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 17, 2022, 06:30:29 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2022, 11:36:06 PM
I am glad you are too much of a toothless chump to act on your violent fantasies, Bambi.

There are 252,000 burglaries (home invasions if you like) in America annually in which a person in the home is a victim of physical violence.
You got a plan for that?
Draw your gun or run out the door...there aren't many other options...except submitting to rape and/or being bashed senseless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 17, 2022, 06:51:31 PM: Prisons in America are wonderful places to live.
Luxury cells, ensuite bathrooms with unlimited hot water in every cell, conjugal visits, 5 star food, computers and TV's in every cell, mobile phones with plenty of data and outgoing call allowances.
No wonder Americans are not afraid of committing crimes and having to go live there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 17, 2022, 07:14:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 17, 2022, 06:51:31 PM
Prisons in America are wonderful places to live.
Luxury cells, ensuite bathrooms with unlimited hot water in every cell, conjugal visits, 5 star food, computers and TV's in every cell, mobile phones with plenty of data and outgoing call allowances.
No wonder Americans are not afraid of committing crimes and having to go live there.
Is there no bottom to your utter ignorance of America?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 01:54:38 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 17, 2022, 07:14:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 17, 2022, 06:51:31 PM
Prisons in America are wonderful places to live.
Luxury cells, ensuite bathrooms with unlimited hot water in every cell, conjugal visits, 5 star food, computers and TV's in every cell, mobile phones with plenty of data and outgoing call allowances.
No wonder Americans are not afraid of committing crimes and having to go live there.
Is there no bottom to your utter ignorance of America?

Well you'd think that's what they're like, given the number of people robbing homes...3.5 million burglaries, a decent number while the residents are at home!
Yes, Americans are eating in the dining room while robbers are looting the rest of the house. No fear have the robbers, jail cells don't scare them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 18, 2022, 01:59:09 AM: Compared to anywhere in Australia, in the minds of Australians, American prisons are at least a marginal upgrade not least because you so rarely have to deal with any stinking Australians there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 03:28:14 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 18, 2022, 01:59:09 AM
Compared to anywhere in Australia, in the minds of Australians, American prisons are at least a marginal upgrade not least because you so rarely have to deal with any stinking Australians there.

Still no word about in which US prison the African-Australian model who threw a major tantrum on the plane is being held after being arrested even though she was obeying all the terms of her court sentence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 18, 2022, 09:57:07 AM: She is currently being held in a gulag in Badger Piss, Wyoming, where inmates are forced to wear cheap wool cardigans, do their own dusting, and eat gluten.

Meanwhile, thousands of Ukrainians, both military and civilians, imprisoned in Russia and subjected to torture, over one million Uighurs held in concentration camps, a couple dozen countries where thousands are imprisoned for taking a bong hit or being gay or being female and showing their face....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 11:15:28 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 03:28:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 18, 2022, 01:59:09 AM
Compared to anywhere in Australia, in the minds of Australians, American prisons are at least a marginal upgrade not least because you so rarely have to deal with any stinking Australians there.

Still no word about in which US prison the African-Australian model who threw a major tantrum on the plane is being held after being arrested even though she was obeying all the terms of her court sentence.
2hy is it Australians behave so badly overseas, and then get in a piff when they pay the price for it.

Of course, from experience with bambu if instead of being a model she was fat and ugly, he would not care about her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 18, 2022, 02:51:32 PM: Interesting idea on how Chaz 3 might still promote green energy without violating the policy silence imposed by his Crown obligations.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/charles-iii-and-climate-change-in-the-uk

(By Bill McKibben)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 04:40:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 11:15:28 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 03:28:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 18, 2022, 01:59:09 AM
Compared to anywhere in Australia, in the minds of Australians, American prisons are at least a marginal upgrade not least because you so rarely have to deal with any stinking Australians there.

Still no word about in which US prison the African-Australian model who threw a major tantrum on the plane is being held after being arrested even though she was obeying all the terms of her court sentence.
2hy is it Australians behave so badly overseas, and then get in a piff when they pay the price for it.

Of course, from experience with bambu if instead of being a model she was fat and ugly, he would not care about her.

Not so.
Yes, Schapelle Corby was young and pretty when she was arrested in Bali in 2004.
A flower of Christian womanhood.
In 2005 'The Bali 9' were arrested for smuggling 8 kgs of heroin.
Renee Lawrence was part of the group.
When the Indonesian cops ripped off the shirts of the smugglers to discover the heroin, they were horrified to see than Renee was female and not a man they thought she was.
Whatever considerations we could get for Schapelle Corby when she was "banged up abroad" in Indonesia, would most likely flow to other Aussie etc inmates as well...Renee Lawrence for example.
It's was why 'dontshootschapelle.com' was started.
Last time I was at Sydney airport there was a huge photo/poster/billboard of Schapelle at the entrance to the security/baggage check-in section...as a warning.
bambu--ilk couldn't save Aussie boys Chan and Sukumaran from execution-slaughter in a field in Indonesia though.
"Cocaine Cassie" arrived home from South America recently after spending time in prison there for drug smuggling.
Bambu-ilk (who include some people in govt) ask other countries to give some consideration to young and not so young, dumb, misguided, preyed-upon, conned, used and abused in the named of love, etc sinners. Pointing out how citizens of other countries who sin are treated in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 05:12:36 PM: Bambu, my favorite person from Australia here in Malibu is Mel Gibson, he is a great actor, like Marlon Brando. He lived in Malibu at the same time that I did, at that time James Garner also lived there and Mel Gibson was friends with James Garner. As an actor after I finished acting school I called Mel Gibson's production company to send him a headshot and resume to try to get some acting work, and the lady asked me if I wanted to talk with Mel, and I was afraid to talk to him, I got scared and I just asked for the address to mail my picture and resume. Mel is one of the best, and I was scared to talk with him. It was silly, I should have talked with him and maybe he would have helped my career.

Mel Gibson had some problems with the Gays because of an interview that he did with Playboy Magazine where he stated that he did not like the Gays to look at his naked butt in his movies, he said it was for the women and not for the Gays. So, the Gays all took offense, and the whole Gay community rose up to attack Mel Gibson. Mel even got ran off of the road by a Gay over the incident. But, it is all cool now, the Gays stopped attacking Mel.

Then, Mel had a problem with getting drunk and attacking a police officer in Malibu, and saying bad things about the Jews. That was a foolish thing for Mel to do. The Jews help to run Hollywood, and if you want to work in Hollywood then you are going to be working with Jews. At Broadway in New York City, and in Hollywood, there are many powerful Jews, and you need to get along with the Jews because you will be working with Jews in the Entertainment Industry. So Mel apologized to the Jews.

Some more problems with the Jews arose when Mel made "The Passion of the Christ" because some bad Jews at the time of Jesus had Jesus executed, but it was all part of Jesus' plan, and we cannot blame the Jews, and Jesus himself was a Jew. Jesus was a Jew and if you love Jesus then you need to love Israel and the Jews. The Jews are God's chosen people, and Israel is the Holy Land.

Then, Mel got in a fight with his girlfriend from Russia and she recorded Mel screaming at her, and she make his rant public, which damaged Mel's career and made him look like a lunatic. She was a bad woman, and she tricked him and she made him look bad. He should have never dated her. And when you are a star you have to have self control and you never know if your calls are being recorded. So, Mel went to a Psychiatrist and to therapy for his anger issues.

Mel is doing good now, he is still acting. I think he still lives in Malibu at Cross Creek Road, and Mel has a big family.

As an actor and filmmaker I would love to work with Mel Gibson, and he is one of the greats like Brando, and DeNiro.

Mel Gibson is one of the best in the Entertainment Industry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 05:20:40 PM: The prisons are horrible here in the USA Bambu, the men get raped by other men, and the people there are murderers and rapists and other bad people.

As Christians we are told to minister to the people in prison, and to help to bring them to Jesus, but they are bad people who rape each other, they are not good people.

I have 2 uncles who spent their whole lives in prison because they did not have a Father and they did stupid stuff, one of them over-dosed and died here in my apartment. He was a sad and miserable person, and he finally over-dosed on pills. He was sad that he wasted his whole life in prison.

Prison sucks.

It is important for the good adults to teach the Youth who do not have Fathers, and the Foster Youth, how to be good people and how to obey the law and how to avoid prison.

And we have the 10 Commandments, and the Golden Rule, if you obey the 10 Commandments and if you obey the Golden Rule then you never end up in prison.

Watch the movie "Blood In and Blood Out" Bambu, it will show you what prison is like in California.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106469/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 05:40:31 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 18, 2022, 02:51:32 PM
Interesting idea on how Chaz 3 might still promote green energy without violating the policy silence imposed by his Crown obligations.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/charles-iii-and-climate-change-in-the-uk

(By Bill McKibben)

Interesting indeed...especially what I.P.C.C. has to say on the subject.

New Prime Minister Truss has been given the difficult task of providing the British People with, in the words of my former 'No1 radio host':

"Energy must be ...Available, Reliable, and Affordable".

You know, affordable for every person in Britain, not only the rich, titled, famous, and
beautiful.
. Affordable for "old people" (mrs bambu said recently that she's "never felt more worthless" now that she's aged 70+ and society seemingly despises old people and can't wait for them go die).
. Affordable for families.
. Affordable for single people living alone.
. Affordable for small, medium, large, and very large businesses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 06:00:34 PM: We need to value our elders the way that the Native American Indians do, they put elders in charge of all of the councils, etc. The elders rule the tribes.

And grandparents make the best baby-sitters to watch the children while the parents work. The grandparents can teach the children while the parents work.

I washed dogs for my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer, and it was hard work, but I loved my Grandmother very much, and she was a very special person, and I am happy that I spent those years with my Grandmother washing dogs and listening to her stories about the Great Depression and about America during World War II, and stories about my family. My Grandmother also worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino. My Grandmother taught me how to run a business, and how to work with the public and how to do customer service, etc.

Instead of sending the kids to strangers while the parents work, then the children should be taught and nurtured by their Grandparents.

We need to value our old people, and the old people are wise from a lifetime of learning.

And Kiwanis International is made up mostly of old retired people who serve our communities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 18, 2022, 06:02:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 05:40:31 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 18, 2022, 02:51:32 PM
Interesting idea on how Chaz 3 might still promote green energy without violating the policy silence imposed by his Crown obligations.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/charles-iii-and-climate-change-in-the-uk

(By Bill McKibben)

Interesting indeed...especially what I.P.C.C. has to say on the subject.

New Prime Minister Truss has been given the difficult task of providing the British People with, in the words of my former 'No1 radio host':

"Energy must be ...Available, Reliable, and Affordable".

You know, affordable for every person in Britain, not only the rich, titled, famous, and
beautiful.
. Affordable for "old people" (mrs bambu said recently that she's "never felt more worthless" now that she's aged 70+ and society seemingly despises old people and can't wait for them go die).
. Affordable for families.
. Affordable for single people living alone.
. Affordable for small, medium, large, and very large businesses.

Living with you must be like living with this guy:

(https://lightlytethered.com/wp-content/uploads/6a00e54ef85fc488340191043befdd970c.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 07:14:06 PM: Speaking of detainees, the WH made a bit of a SHOUT of it when they were getting involved in talks to get Ms Griner released.

Havent heaard BOO since.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 18, 2022, 07:29:07 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 05:12:36 PM
Bambu, my favorite person from Australia here in Malibu is Mel Gibson,

Mel Gibson is from Peekskill, NY. His father moved the family to Australia when Mel was 12.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 18, 2022, 07:31:13 PM: Yes, Bambu is very like Joe Btfsplk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 09:36:28 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 18, 2022, 07:31:13 PM
Yes, Bambu is very like Joe Btfsplk.

LOL

bambu is a realist...always has with him:
. an umbrella
. access to money, cash is now not accepted in some places...6 cash debit cards with $50 on them, plus 2 credit cards, plus cardless access to cash from ATMs.
. a warm jacket
. band-aids and antiseptic cream
. water
. hair brush
. mask
. cap
. tissues
. nail file and nail clippers
. toothpiks
. pen and paper
. torch
. 2 cell phones and a USB charging cable for each.
. reading glasses, distance/driving glasses, sunglasses.

Comfortable is a lifestyle.
Sitting up in the dark, cold...with no tv, no hot food, no hot water etc is not comfortable.
It's the responsibility of the federal govt to ensure all citizens are comfortable as far as housing, food, and heating go.
There should be no homeless people living on the streets. If there are It's the fault of the federal govt...national disaster.
New UK PM seems to understand this.
King Charles 111 needs to also understand this if he doesn't already.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 09:37:06 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 07:14:06 PM
Speaking of detainees, the WH made a bit of a SHOUT of it when they were getting involved in talks to get Ms Griner released.

Havent heaard BOO since.
Met with the family this weekend. Not Boden's fault you do not pay attention.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 09:38:41 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 05:12:36 PM
Bambu, my favorite person from Australia here in Malibu is Mel Gibson,..

Salute,

Tony V.
Res insane loquitor. I mean, he is not Australian, but still, res insane loquitor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 09:49:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 09:37:06 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 07:14:06 PM
Speaking of detainees, the WH made a bit of a SHOUT of it when they were getting involved in talks to get Ms Griner released.

Havent heaard BOO since.
Met with the family this weekend. Not Boden's fault you do not pay attention.

With the families..... yep
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 10:08:48 PM: Mel broke the rule.
The "Never discuss sex, religion, or politics in public" rule, and paid the price.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 18, 2022, 10:49:02 PM: Too late today, my phone shows the time in US mainland to be anywhere from 7.38pm to 10.38pm.

So, tomorrow when y'all get home from work, pretend you are living in no electricity and no gas Britain, because your income is not enough to pay the energy bills.

NO switching on the lights in your homes, no using anything that plugs into a power point...including phone chargers, ...no having a hot shower.
Call into Wal-Mart on the way home and buy some battery operated candles.
NO using the stove.

That's what It's like for old people, single people living alone who can't pay the astronomical power and gas bills driven by the cost of renewables.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 18, 2022, 10:54:05 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 07:14:06 PM
Speaking of detainees, the WH made a bit of a SHOUT of it when they were getting involved in talks to get Ms Griner released.

Havent heaard BOO since.

You have the attention span, higher order thinking, and world knowledge of a typical five year old.

You should never be picking anyones leader.

You can barely be trusted to pick your own nose.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 18, 2022, 11:36:48 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 09:49:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2022, 09:37:06 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 18, 2022, 07:14:06 PM
Speaking of detainees, the WH made a bit of a SHOUT of it when they were getting involved in talks to get Ms Griner released.

Havent heaard BOO since.
Met with the family this weekend. Not Boden's fault you do not pay attention.

With the families..... yep

Too bad you are so uninformed

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/bill-richardson-new-mexico-governor-moscow/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2022, 11:43:17 PM: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vendetta

If anyone kills me, then they will be killed by La Fabrica, there will be a Vendetta, La Fabrica will not let anyone kill me while I am living on their turf. I am protected while I live on La Fabrica turf in the City of Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 19, 2022, 12:32:56 AM: Sunscreen, Tony. Do not forget to use sunscreen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2022, 12:44:48 PM: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-18/voting-turnout-protest-vote

Zackly
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 19, 2022, 01:55:13 PM: Pay site
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 02:18:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 19, 2022, 12:44:48 PM
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-18/voting-turnout-protest-vote

Zackly
Abstaining is voting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 19, 2022, 02:23:07 PM: That will be your best choice in all races this cycle. Make sure your friends abstain as well if you have any.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 03:14:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 02:18:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 19, 2022, 12:44:48 PM
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-18/voting-turnout-protest-vote

Zackly
Abstaining is voting.

Please do. And tell,all your friends and family to do the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 04:11:19 PM: (Good) News Item

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.

In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment that buried somewhere in the enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation s unenumerated right to muzzle free speech. Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 19, 2022, 04:13:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 19, 2022, 12:32:56 AM
Sunscreen, Tony. Do not forget to use sunscreen.

This place is a total dichotomy, we have had murders on the streets, and yet we are a resort where we are reminded to wear sunscreen.

We have had corruption, and murders on the streets, times have been crazy.

I have a friend from New York, and she said they had their own gang for protection, and their community all pitched in money to send local people to Medical School so that they could have community doctors, etc. Instead of going without doctors, they worked together to send people to Medical School so that they could have doctors. Certainly the Government helped with whatever they could, but the people were able to come to their own aid by working together as a community.

Here in Anaheim we need to clean up the corruption, and we need to buy the Angels. And there are many ways that we can help the homeless, as we also help the refugees and immigrants. And we can have Wellness Centers. And we have UCI Medical School.

The Local gang is La Fabrica, and they have been here for hundreds of years. They have been here working growing strawberries, and growing oranges, etc. If you need workers, I can send you however many workers you need, I just tell my Buddy, and he calls a town in Mexico, and they will send you however many workers you need. If you need people to pick your avocados, or oranges, or strawberries. They are The Factory. And the women know how to make their own dresses, etc. Anyhow, the local gang is La Fabrica, and they are well known.

I met a guy in Hollywood, he was dating the niece of Federico Fellini, and he was in a famous New York protection gang named "The Gentlemen" and he had a cane and a top hat tattooed on his arm to represent The Gentlemen gang that he was in. That is sort of like La Fabrica, but La Fabrica helps immigrants, and they help the neighborhood, and they help each other in prison, and they help each other to get jobs, etc.

In Santa Ana the gang is " F Troop " and they own some of the local businesses, and they are involved in a lot of stuff. As Hillary Clinton rightfully stated that we can work together with the Youth to have good Youth instead of neglecting the Youth and having bad Youth. If you teach the Youth how to run honest businesses and if you hook them up with the SBA and Business Loans, etc, then you will have healthier Youth. Also, they are teaching the youth Boxing, and Soccer, etc. Teach the Youth, and keep them away from the illegal drugs and keep them away from the crime.

And I would love if we could organize and start busing the homeless people and refugees and immigrants to Merced, and to Napa, here in California, and also to Battle Mountain in Nevada. It would be great if people could organize it and get it done. And if the Governors want to send buses of people to someplace, then they need to send the people to Merced, and to Napa, and to Battle Mountain, etc. And we need to send the people building materials so that they can build housing, etc.

Anyhow, this is a resort, but we also have the whole world fighting for dominance and control here. And I just want for the people to have good safe lives and opportunities.

And my Mother sent me a ton of sunscreen, people are dying on the street, but I have sunscreen. If only we can reach our potential here instead of having the idiots killing people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 05:03:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 04:11:19 PM
(Good) News Item

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.

In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment that buried somewhere in the enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation s unenumerated right to muzzle free speech. Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2022, 06:42:52 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 05:03:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 04:11:19 PM
(Good) News Item

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.

In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment that buried somewhere in the enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation s unenumerated right to muzzle free speech. Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Nice to note RedDickJimmEspn only supports the First Amendment rights of conservative corporations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 07:26:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2022, 06:42:52 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 05:03:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 04:11:19 PM
(Good) News Item

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.

In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment that buried somewhere in the enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation s unenumerated right to muzzle free speech. Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Nice to note RedDickJimmEspn only supports the First Amendment rights of conservative corporations.
The Texas Law does not discriminate against corporations by political opinions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 07:41:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 07:26:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2022, 06:42:52 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 19, 2022, 05:03:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2022, 04:11:19 PM
(Good) News Item

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.

In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment that buried somewhere in the enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation s unenumerated right to muzzle free speech. Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Nice to note RedDickJimmEspn only supports the First Amendment rights of conservative corporations.
The Texas Law does not discriminate against corporations by political opinions.

BIDEN RULE

Forget arguing with this dickhead he is only a parrot for concepts he does not understand
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 06:10:33 AM: This place is crazy, we have people coming from all over the world, there are hotel rooms at Disney going for $800 per night, and yet we have homeless people living at the bus stops. And every now and then we have murders. On the issue of our City Government, it is great if we have honest people, but there is a fountain of wealth that attracts corruption. And 30% of our people are foreign born, aside from the 50,000 tourists we get here every day.

The stars all have security, and Disneyland has security all over.

I have been trying to get people to open hostels for the homeless, so they can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night like in Rome, Italy, but everyone here is too greedy, they want for people to pay $80 per night for a motel room.

My record is clean, so I can serve in public office if I ever need to. And I can help at City Hall.

And 50,000 new tourists will be here tomorrow. Every new day has all new people to sell stuff to.

Then we have us Americans and Mexicans who have been here forever. We are down here 100 miles from the Mexican Border. Mexico is our number one trade partner down here. We need to invest in the ports in Mexico, it would be wise.

I still want to build a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas, but there are too many greedy people wanting to sell cars and gasoline, etc. And the airports are greedy. Biden said he loves trains, we need to be building high speed trains all over the USA. And on our California high speed train the route between Lancaster and Los Angeles should have been the first route, and meanwhile we need to get more people working on the project and we need to speed it up.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 04:43:49 PM: There is a Renewable Energy Conference going on at the Anaheim Convention Center, it is good for everyone, and the convention is good for Anaheim because we the Citizens own the Convention Center, whenever we have a conference then some of the money goes to our City to help the homeless people, etc.

And as we build new housing, I am reminding them to keep it fun, with fun landscaping, and with swimming pools and tennis courts, like in Rome, and in Athens. And we need hostels where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Money from our Convention Center is going right into housing for the homeless, and we need to keep it nice like Rome, and like Athens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2022, 05:07:54 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 04:43:49 PM
And we need hostels where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.
Surely the LA area has plenty of flop houses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 05:15:36 PM: Anaheim is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, with 50,000 guests per day for Disneyland alone. We need to have nice housing for the poor, and we need to have nice parks, and nice landscaping, and pools and tennis courts, etc. And we can do like Greece, and France, and we can squeeze people into beautiful yet small high density apartments, with nice outdoor space and nice courtyards, etc. We can sell people books, and they can read books at the park, etc. Anaheim is a world class city.

And we have a Medical School at UCI, and we have the Dodge film school at Chapman, and now Fullerton Community College is training students for jobs working for Disney. That is a great new program and Disney is a great company.

Anaheim is world class city, we need to stop the crime, and we need to clean it up and make it nice, so people can feel safe with their children and with their families. And we want for the tourists to all feel safe here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 05:22:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2022, 05:07:54 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 04:43:49 PM
And we need hostels where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.
Surely the LA area has plenty of flop houses.

No, the streets are lined with homeless people, and RVs full of homeless people. Los Angeles needs to allow people to run hostels tax free to cheaply provide a bed and a shower for people. In Italy they can shower and sleep in a bed for $15.

The RVs can park in Acton, California, and we can get the homeless all into hostels. And people need to build apartments like crazy. And as people build, people need to keep it fun and they need to build nice stuff.

In the OC we have the MHA and the Wellness Center which are putting people into housing, but good old fashioned European style hostels would help big time.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on September 20, 2022, 05:41:07 PM: "but some defendants are not currently in the US"

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/doj-minnesota-covid-fraud-scheme-feeding-our-future/index.html

Ya think?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on September 20, 2022, 06:33:20 PM: House announces one further day of hearings

Which basically means they have BUPKUS.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 20, 2022, 07:04:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2022, 05:07:54 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2022, 04:43:49 PM
And we need hostels where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.
Surely the LA area has plenty of flop houses.

Yup. 100 - 150 a night flop houses, if you are lucky.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 20, 2022, 07:08:12 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 20, 2022, 06:33:20 PM
House announces one further day of hearings

Which basically means they have BUPKUS.

If by Bupkus you mean trump, by his tiny wrinkled nuts, you are 100 percent correct.

You republicans will have to interrupt your big gay fascist orgy for his funeral.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 20, 2022, 07:48:49 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 20, 2022, 06:33:20 PM
House announces one further day of hearings

Which basically means they have BUPKUS.

It announced the NEXT hearing...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2022, 11:56:06 AM: The reason why Rome does not have homeless people on the streets there is because people can get a shower and a bed for $15 per night.

California needs hostels like Rome, for $15 per night for a shower and a bed, and the hostels need to be listed on the web, etc, and need to be easy to find.

Rome is amazing, and I want to go back, meanwhile one of my Buddies wants for me to try to use what I learned in order to make California better, he wants me to share my ideas with California, and he wants for me to help California to become more like Rome.

So we need fountains, and statues, and outdoor landscaping, and cobblestone courtyards, etc.

Here is a cool, cheap Hotel in Rome in the neighborhood where I spent 6 weeks back in 2003... I will return when I can...

http://www.hotelivanhoe.it/

And a thing in Rome, it is the Christian capital of the world, there are churches all over, and you can feel the love in the streets, the people are so kind there. California needs more churches, and more kindness.

One cool area in the USA is Saint Augustine, Florida, they have cobblestone streets, it is really a beautiful City. The USA can learn from Saint Augustine.

As we build new housing here in Anaheim we need to include amazing landscaping like in Italy. And we need hostels, etc.

And California has great weather so we need swimming pools and tennis courts, etc. And great outdoor spaces.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2022, 01:56:45 PM: A Mexican company just bought 10% of Nordsrtom, but Nordstrom does not want to be bought out...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/mexican-department-store-chain-liverpool-buys-99-stake-nordstrom-2022-09-16/

The Mexicans should buy The Broadway, and they should bring The Broadway Department Stores back to the USA, they can start in Pasadena, California, and then they can go from there, San Bernardino, and then Las Vegas, etc

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 21, 2022, 02:40:33 PM: LEMON - owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUZQNpWZ10
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM: Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 04:30:24 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 21, 2022, 02:40:33 PM
LEMON - owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUZQNpWZ10

I loved the way Hillary turned capitalism on its head talking about going back to the beginning of the supply chain and how the Brits were first to abolish the trade.

Brits made hay with slavery UNTIL they gave up the territories that made up the USA.

Also, what good is a supply chain if there is no DEMAND?

Girl so full of shit the whites of here eyes are brown.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 05:37:23 PM: House passes Electoral Count Act with 9 Republican votes.

Should have heard the floor speeches with GOP objecting to term violent insurrection because... just because.
No one died during the lawful exercise of free speech.

Dems better win and if they dont you can tar and feather Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema along with House guys like Gottheimer and crew.
Imagine all these big programs passed last year?
How about passing crime/police reform instead of keeping the filibuster?

They willingly surrendered power and that is political criminality.
Any one who says shit about fiscal responsibility when it comes to New Deal/Great Society 2.0 is full of crap if they insist spending on projects like the F-35

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/lockheed-s-398-billion-f-35-at-risk-of-costly-fixes-gao-says

The platform is an aerodynamic marvel and as they spend more and more money it could probably be perfected before it becomes obsolete
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:52:05 PM: News Item

Fed chief Jerome Powell does not agree with President Joe Biden on inflation.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Powell said that inflation has not fallen, directly contradicting the Biden assertion on 60 Minutes over the weekend that inflation had fallen and prices were now rising just an inch, hardly at all.

Powell is preaching to the choir.
No one believes anything Joe Biden says about anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:56:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM
Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Note the final line of the laughable NY AG press release

My door is open for a settlement
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 21, 2022, 06:17:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:56:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM
Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Note the final line of the laughable NY AG press release
The cult has received its marching orders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 21, 2022, 06:30:24 PM: https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-power-blackout-climate-change.html

A reminder that bad (corrupt and/or paralyzed) government is deadly and destructive. Had PR been able to spend the other 4/5 of their storm assistance on what people actually wanted, like micro grids and roof panels owned by individuals or neighborhood coops, they would be well along the way to climate resiliency by now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 21, 2022, 06:35:02 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 21, 2022, 02:40:33 PM
LEMON - owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUZQNpWZ10

Go back to Africa, Kid. You are defective. You are being returned. We want a refund.

Two notes for bitches before they bitch,

We are all from Africa.

I realize no African nation would be willing to accept Kid, due to his lack of education and his profound moral turpitude.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 21, 2022, 06:40:03 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 21, 2022, 06:30:24 PM
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-power-blackout-climate-change.html

A reminder that bad (corrupt and/or paralyzed) government is deadly and destructive. Had PR been able to spend the other 4/5 of their storm assistance on what people actually wanted, like micro grids and roof panels owned by individuals or neighborhood coops, they would be well along the way to climate resiliency by now.

Statehood for PR.

Keep marching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 21, 2022, 07:01:18 PM: Statehood or independence. More there coming to believe either is better than the present mess.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/puerto-rico-independence-not-statehood/671482/

This is a long article, but the first half outlines the basic problems with remaining under US control.

Drinking rum and Coca-Cola, going down Point Coomanah,
mother and daughter,
Working for the Yanqui dollahhh...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 09:15:55 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 21, 2022, 06:17:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:56:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM
Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape 5Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Note the final line of the laughable NY AG press release
The cult has received its marching orders.
Interesting case considering there were no victims.
Pretty clear Letitia is behind in her re-election campaign.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 10:14:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 09:15:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 21, 2022, 06:17:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:56:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM
Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape 5Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Note the final line of the laughable NY AG press release
The cult has received its marching orders.
Interesting case considering there were no victims.
Pretty clear Letitia is behind in her re-election campaign.

Letitia is giving Donnie the full length of the strap on!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 10:16:48 PM: Judge Aileen Cannon May be a good American but she is a lousy lawyer who just got BONED!

https://www.lawfareblog.com/eleventh-circuit-grants-justice-departments-motion-partial-stay
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 21, 2022, 10:21:15 PM: LB - what do you say of these accusations of African kings?

That was in Africa, she continued. Across the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? It was the British, Fordwich declared, adding, In Great Britain they abolished slavery. 2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them in cages, waiting in the beaches.

She concluded, I think you are totally right. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely, that is where they should start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 11:53:23 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 21, 2022, 10:21:15 PM
LB - what do you say of these accusations of African kings?

That was in Africa, she continued. Across the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? It was the British, Fordwich declared, adding, In Great Britain they abolished slavery. 2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them in cages, waiting in the beaches.

She concluded, I think you are totally right. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely, that is where they should start.

Capitalism Yo!

No DEMAND
No SUPPLY.

No kudos to getting out of the business when it was no longer worth the return on investment
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 22, 2022, 01:17:11 AM: Kid and Ward seem to have grown tired of talking about the dissolution of the republican party.

It must be a difficult topic for them as joyous as it is to everyone else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 22, 2022, 01:31:50 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 09:15:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 21, 2022, 06:17:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 21, 2022, 05:56:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 21, 2022, 02:59:11 PM
Only took three years after Mike Cohen's damning testimony, looks like New York AG suit is underway. I hope the allied criminal referral passed on to DOJ is successful. Something that leads to manacles and maybe a permanent ball gag or muzzle for the Rape 5Treason Liar Grifter Pig.
Note the final line of the laughable NY AG press release
The cult has received its marching orders.
Interesting case considering there were no victims.
Pretty clear Letitia is behind in her re-election campaign.

Where you at

I will come over and take your money if you have any. Since you will not feel like a victim it will not bother you at all. If you do not have any money I will take your shopping cart, your pup tent, and whatever stolen goods you use to access the internet.

As for your glorious larder, he owes about six bucks to every living soul in New York, roughly all the money he sucked out of you mouth breathers with his stop the steal scam.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 22, 2022, 01:42:13 AM: Leticia James landslide re-election will herald a nation wide renaissance in prosecuting white collar crime.

That will take a major bite out of inflation and cool off the housing market so decent people can finally find a place to live again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 22, 2022, 02:36:47 AM: Well, not enough electricity in California to charge electric cars, reportedly.
So, that's the end of the electric vehicles experiment there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 22, 2022, 10:14:05 AM: Quote
The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

-- Albert Michelson, Nobel Laureate physicist, 1903
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 22, 2022, 10:15:40 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 21, 2022, 11:53:23 PM

Capitalism Yo!

No DEMAND
No SUPPLY.

No kudos to getting out of the business when it was no longer worth the return on investment
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 22, 2022, 02:12:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 22, 2022, 02:36:47 AM
Well, not enough electricity in California to charge electric cars, reportedly.
So, that's the end of the electric vehicles experiment there.

It sounds like you are still being lied to by idiots, idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 22, 2022, 03:07:29 PM: For the people out on the sidewalks in tents homeless, they need help, they cannot help themselves. In Orange County we have had teamwork happening between charities and churches and also from wealthy immigrants from the Philippines, and with the help of the federal, state, county, and city governments. Our Wellness Center in Orange was created by a bunch of groups working together as a team.

Now, we have a new program with Fullerton Community College which is training people for jobs at Disney, people can train for good jobs which will pay them enough to rent their own apartment.

Also many people can go to work managing homeless shelters, and people can train to help the homeless, and to be crisis intervention specialists, etc.

In Los Angeles the problem is a lot worse than in Orange County, and I recommend sending people to work in gardens in Merced, and in Napa, and also land is cheap in Battle Mountain, Nevada, they can grow food and they can raise animals and they can make cheese, etc. For some people the farm life is the way for them to go. And meanwhile Rick Caruso wants to build a lot of new housing, and he wants to help the homeless people.

We also need for people to work in the forests to prevent forest fires, etc. We can hire the homeless people to live and work in the forests.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 22, 2022, 07:42:06 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 22, 2022, 03:07:29 PM
For the people out on the sidewalks in tents homeless, they need help, they cannot help themselves. In Orange County we have had teamwork happening between charities and churches and also from wealthy immigrants from the Philippines, and with the help of the federal, state, county, and city governments. Our Wellness Center in Orange was created by a bunch of groups working together as a team.

Now, we have a new program with Fullerton Community College which is training people for jobs at Disney, people can train for good jobs which will pay them enough to rent their own apartment.

Also many people can go to work managing homeless shelters, and people can train to help the homeless, and to be crisis intervention specialists, etc.

In Los Angeles the problem is a lot worse than in Orange County, and I recommend sending people to work in gardens in Merced, and in Napa, and also land is cheap in Battle Mountain, Nevada, they can grow food and they can raise animals and they can make cheese, etc. For some people the farm life is the way for them to go. And meanwhile Rick Caruso wants to build a lot of new housing, and he wants to help the homeless people.

We also need for people to work in the forests to prevent forest fires, etc. We can hire the homeless people to live and work in the forests.

Salute,

Tony V.

If bambu were in charge, there'd be no one living on the streets there.
The streets would be swept clean, pristeen streets there would be.
There would be a/many 'tent cities' where homeless people would be housed, medically checked/treated.
Hot showers, warm beds, good food...aaah, "love thy neighbour as thyself."

Special patrols would make sure the streets stayed pristeen, with anyone camping quickly removed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 02:03:04 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 22, 2022, 01:17:11 AM
Kid and Ward seem to have grown tired of talking about the dissolution of the republican party.

Heh

Not so much a dissolution. More of a ......

But you do so like when your entire party is united and vanilla. (hint - makes for poor governing)

See you in November, mate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 23, 2022, 02:18:33 PM: Vanilla? I do not think that word means what you think it means. Thanks again, Kid!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 02:29:55 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-farmer-near-border-says-migrants-bull-rushed-property-broke-elderly-grandparents-house

Doesnt matter

Very high percentage of migrants from souther border crossings behave quite well, will seek work immediately and never contribute to the gang related and gang-type behaviors that are hurting this nation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 03:28:15 PM: Sorry, guys

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department-probe/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 23, 2022, 04:51:50 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 03:28:15 PM
Sorry, guys

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department-probe/index.html

True believer of the GOP defends the shitbag.

DOJ does not go after sex trafficking because all the direct witness are lying convicted douchebags.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 23, 2022, 05:37:18 PM: Poof!

The smell of Brimstone and sulfur fills the air.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/558233-pete-antonacci-top-election-cop-and-longtime-gop-official-has-died/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 23, 2022, 07:27:12 PM: PETA calls for meat-eating men to be banned from sex.

German division claims eating sausages and schnitzel is a symptom of "toxic masculinity" and has urged women to go on a sex strike to "save the world".
Well there you go.
There would be benefits:
. Need for abortions would decrease.
. World population would decrease.
. Would help solve the shortage of nurses.
. Fewer baby formula wars in supermarkets etc.
. Reality show "One Born Every Minute" would become "One Born Every Now And Again".
. More room on freeways.

Barns would be busier at midnight, with meat-eating men joining the Christian men in secret.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 08:34:24 PM: Heh

Is there no end with these minorities?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/business/mcdonalds-byron-allen-lawsuit/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 23, 2022, 09:00:57 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 08:34:24 PM
Heh

Is there no end with these minorities?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/business/mcdonalds-byron-allen-lawsuit/index.html

Seems not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 23, 2022, 09:44:50 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 08:34:24 PM
Heh

Is there no end with white people descriminating against these minorities?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/business/mcdonalds-byron-allen-lawsuit/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 23, 2022, 10:13:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 23, 2022, 09:44:50 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2022, 08:34:24 PM
Heh

Is there no end with white people descriminating against these minorities?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/business/mcdonalds-byron-allen-lawsuit/index.html
The basis of the frivolous lawsuit boils down to Byron Allen and his assertion
McDonalds takes billions from African American consumers and gives almost nothing back.

LOL

What he means is McDonalds gives consumers what they ask for but does not cut him in.
Because it does not need him to sell hamburgers to anyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 24, 2022, 10:25:41 AM: Mickey D's attorney was Obama's AG. And briefly famous for the Phoenix tarmac Nothing Burger. Ha.

Don't fully understand the lawsuit, or how one determines discrimination in a company choice of where to advertise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 24, 2022, 03:36:31 PM: Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries was on television this morning, he did a half hour interview with Frank Buckley. Father Greg is so good, and he knows that we cannot solve the gang problems with Police and Prisons, just as we cannot solve the crime problem with Police and Prisons. We have to deal with the issues that are causing the problems.

One issue is that these boys are being raised without fathers, we need for good honest men to get involved with the lives of the youth, such as with the Big Brother program, etc. And with sports the coaches are father figures. And we need to make our youth feel safe, and we need to stop people from coming in from outside areas and killing our people. One reason for the gangs is protection, and people know that there will be retaliation if they kill someone. Cops can help with law enforcement, and with capturing criminals who commit murders, and in that way the police help, we need justice for all, and then the gang does not have to administrate justice, justice can come from the cops and the prisons, etc, instead of from gangs.

But we must not neglect the youth. And I support after school programs, and libraries, and parks. And the Cub Scouts, and other programs.

For the Youth who want to go from gangs to a good honest life then Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries will help the Youth. And the Youth can help to build housing for the homeless people.

Father Boyle is a great man.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 24, 2022, 04:13:47 PM: Also of note, is that if you teach the youth how to make money honestly, then they will not have to commit crimes in order to make money.

I had a professor in community college who went to Compton and he helped the poor young Black men in Compton to create a business plan and to get a small business loan from the SBA, and then he guided and acted as a consultant for the youth as they became successful, and then they all took a trip to Africa together to celebrate their success. Honest business is fun, and you can travel around the world with the money that you make, when you go out and earn honest money then you can spend your money however you want to. For them going to Africa to enjoy the fruit of their wealth was part of the lesson.

And in Santa Ana there are programs to help the Youth to learn how to run an honest business, and one gang, F Troop, owns honest businesses and creates honest jobs for the guys. The guys need to learn how to make honest money and they need honest opportunities.

And we need to build schools, and libraries, in our ghettos, and nice parks, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 25, 2022, 02:54:29 PM: As we choose leaders, let us choose the ones who studied, and trained, and who prepared, instead of just people who are famous and rich.

One example of a great leader who studied and prepared was my dearly departed friend Rose's cousin Gloria Arroyo who was President of the Philippines, Gloria trained and prepared and studied before she became President of the Philippines. Gloria studied economics, etc, and attended Georgetown University here in the USA. Gloria studied, and trained, and prepared.

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

But with Manny the Pac Man, he is a great Boxer, but he is just famous from being a Boxer, and he did not study and train and prepare to be President of the Philippines. Manny did not prepare to be President like Gloria did.

We need to be careful electing people who are just rich and famous, instead of electing people who actually studied to be leaders and who studied economics and sociology, etc.

The President of Colombia attended Harvard, and he is doing a great job, he trained and prepared.

Here in California we have Sabrina Cervantes who is a rising star in California politics, and she studied and trained, and prepared, and she is working her way up in politics.

We need to elect people who are prepared and who trained and studied, instead of just electing people who are rich and famous.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 25, 2022, 05:20:33 PM: Quote
...But, while unattractive, that is not even close to the legislation s most consequential element; the fact that the bill would ease construction of power lines is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/joe-manchin-big-oil-side-spending-deal-democrats/

A Green grid will need more/better power lines. That's the important part of Joe M's side deal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 25, 2022, 05:26:33 PM: Just saw new MARINES ad featuring skinny female sort.

What a joke!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 25, 2022, 06:31:47 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 25, 2022, 05:26:33 PM
Just saw new MARINES ad featuring skinny female sort.

What a joke!

A joke? Tell that to the women of the IDF

My next door neighbor is a grandmother and a Marine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 25, 2022, 07:34:23 PM: I had neighbors who were the wives and families of Marines in service, the women trusted me and they felt safe to party with me, we had barbecues and we made margaritas, etc. While the men were in Iraq and in Afghanistan their wives were partying with me in the desert. But I was cool, I never laid a hand on any of the wives, I watched over them like a free body guard, and I cooked for them, and made them margaritas. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 25, 2022, 07:40:42 PM: My friend Tom was a Combat Medic, he served in war, but mostly he served as a doctor in Pennsylvania for the Military. He retired, and then he managed homeless shelters in Orange County. He also ran work crews selling hot dogs and beer at sporting events and at concerts, etc, for charity, they raised over one million dollars for charity to feed people. Tom spent his whole life doing charity work. He was a brave doctor who served in war.

The Combat Medics make the best guys to run the homeless shelters.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 25, 2022, 08:30:19 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 25, 2022, 05:26:33 PM
Just saw new MARINES ad featuring skinny female sort.

What a joke!

Skinny female sorts can push nuke buttons.
...so can elderly men.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 25, 2022, 08:34:01 PM: https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/ (https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/)

California is the first state to make electric cars mandatory. Now it's telling owners not to charge them.

#####

Well there you go.

Mandatory is madness.
Sensible transition is wonderful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2022, 10:48:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 25, 2022, 08:34:01 PM
https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/ (https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/)

California is the first state to make electric cars mandatory. Now it's telling owners not to charge them.

#####

Well there you go.

Mandatory is madness.
Sensible transition is wonderful.
Yes,.that explains the 13 years, dumbass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 25, 2022, 10:56:17 PM: California needs high speed trains, and more subways.

The highways are over-crowded as it is, people need to get out of their cars and people need to be able to ride the trains and buses and subways.

And Los Angeles used to have a great trolley system, we need to bring back the trolley cars.

We also need to become more bicycle friendly, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 26, 2022, 01:58:52 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2022, 10:48:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 25, 2022, 08:34:01 PM
https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/ (https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/california-electric-cars-charge-newsom/)

California is the first state to make electric cars mandatory. Now it's telling owners not to charge them.

#####

Well there you go.

Mandatory is madness.
Sensible transition is wonderful.
Yes,.that explains the 13 years, dumbass.

Mandatory is still madness.
Carrots work better than big sticks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 26, 2022, 01:10:00 PM: In Arid Zone-ah, the sandstorm of regressivism continues.

The old (abortion ban) law was first enacted among a set of laws known as the Howell Code adopted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1864. Legislative researchers said it remained in the penal code in 1901 and was readopted in subsequent rewrites, including in the 1970s.

The GOP candidates got real quiet. Their sweaty brows, no doubt, knitted in concentration as to how to not sabotage their campaigns. I trust that Arizona Democrats are smart enough, owing to the relentless challenge of, er, being Arizona Democrats, to exploit this moment to the max.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 26, 2022, 03:21:49 PM: Universal Studios is working together with Homeboy Industries to offer entry level Production Assistant jobs to former young people who have had problems, part of going clean and honest is having an honest job and being able to make honest money. The Entertainment Industry is the top industry here in Hollywood, and it is good that the studios are working together with Homeboy Industries.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/nbcuniversal-to-offer-production-assistant-workshop-with-assemblywoman-wendy-carrillo-homeboy-industries-1235113618/

One of my favorite directors who works for Universal is Rob Zombie, it would be great if the young people could be assistants for Rob Zombie.

We also have film schools where the former gang members can study filmmaking and they can study writing, and we have acting schools, etc, Southern California has great schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 26, 2022, 07:05:12 PM: I cannot even imagine the horror of going to school, and living in bambuland with my name being bambu-zombie.
A hollywood director would likely be respected and treasured with such a name...wouldn't happen in my world.
Well it might if you were rich and powerful...but only then.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 26, 2022, 10:05:12 PM: Yikes!

https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/09/22/judge-rules-wasilla-lawmaker-likely-ineligible-for-office-due-to-oath-keepers-membership-delaying-election-certification-until-trial-concludes/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 27, 2022, 10:46:58 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 26, 2022, 10:05:12 PM
Yikes!

https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/09/22/judge-rules-wasilla-lawmaker-likely-ineligible-for-office-due-to-oath-keepers-membership-delaying-election-certification-until-trial-concludes/

...If Eastman wins the election, and is deemed eligible to hold public office, he can be seated in the House of Representatives in January. If he wins reelection and is deemed ineligible to hold public office, the Alaska Division of Elections can exclude Eastman from the ranked choice voting tabulation process, meaning votes for him would go to the voters next-highest choices.

A nicely done decision. Defuses disenfranchisement either way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 12:39:10 PM: Dems give up - play the race card for 2022.

Battle begins to rage of former presidents on who is more embarrassing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 27, 2022, 02:10:42 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 12:39:10 PM
Dems give up - play the race card for 2022.

Battle begins to rage of former presidents on who is more embarrassing.

To what are you referring?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 27, 2022, 02:38:20 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 02:10:42 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 12:39:10 PM
Dems give up - play the race card for 2022.

Battle begins to rage of former presidents on who is more embarrassing.

To what are you referring?

I wonder what he is talking about...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2022, 03:16:03 PM: KWTV - NEWS 9

5 hours

BRITISH POUND: The British pound has plunged, sliding against the U.S. dollar to touch an all-time low.

----------------

The British are going to expand exports, the lower pound will make British made products more affordable in the USA, which is going to create jobs in England.

And lowering taxes in England for the British will help their economy as well.

They need low taxes with high exports, with good labor unions and labor laws so that the workers benefit from their labor, and their economy will improve quickly.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2022, 03:40:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 26, 2022, 07:05:12 PM
I cannot even imagine the horror of going to school, and living in bambuland with my name being bambu-zombie.
A hollywood director would likely be respected and treasured with such a name...wouldn't happen in my world.
Well it might if you were rich and powerful...but only then.

His real name is Robert Cummings...

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

He is from Massachusetts.

Rob is one of the best modern filmmakers at Universal, and he does a lot of stuff for Halloween and for Horror which is popular this time of year, Rob Zombie would be a good guy to help the youth from Homeboy Industries. As they connect Homeboy Industries up with Universal, then Rob Zombie would be a good man to send the youth to, the youth can all be assistants for Rob Zombie, and he can put them all to work, and the people from Homeboy Industries can help Rob at the Universal theme park during Halloween, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:37:54 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Which was obvious but censored by the MSM and big tech.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:45:12 PM: The revelation comes in a book set to be released on Oct. 18 titled, Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump
written by Politico Playbook co-author Rachael Bade and Washington Post reporter Karoun Demirjian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 05:38:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:37:54 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Which was obvious but censored by the MSM and big tech.
LOL. obvious. You could not explain it if you understood it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 27, 2022, 05:59:57 PM: Meanwhile the Florida property insurance crisis is raging as DeSantis spends his efforts owning the libs with immigration stunts and attacks on Critical Race Theory, Trans kids and teachers... oh, and Disney.

I feel badly for residents in Florida because some of them, well a lot of them, are gonna get boned by Ian.

And the insurance industry is crumbling

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2022/09/26/6th-property-insurer-in-florida-declared-insolvent/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 05:38:50 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:37:54 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Which was obvious but censored by the MSM and big tech.
LOL. obvious. You could not explain it if you understood it.
I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 06:37:15 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 05:38:50 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:37:54 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Which was obvious but censored by the MSM and big tech.
LOL. obvious. You could not explain it if you understood it.
I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.
I am not. But I note you side step trying to explain the actual issue which had more to do with the House rules than the Constitution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:52:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 06:37:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 27, 2022, 05:38:50 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 04:37:54 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 03:53:23 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-feuded-schiff-pelosi-unconstitutional-impeachment-donald-trump

A new book reveals that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D N.Y., was at odds with how House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s handling of impeachment proceedings against former President Trump, insisting that the methods used by the prominent Democrats were unconstitutional and could be used to attack the party.
Which was obvious but censored by the MSM and big tech.
LOL. obvious. You could not explain it if you understood it.
I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.
I am not. But I note you side step trying to explain the actual issue which had more to do with the House rules than the Constitution.
Again Jerry Nadler can clear that up for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 27, 2022, 08:15:52 PM: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-pressure-drops-russia-gas-pipeline-90561092

It is confusing, the choice to sabotage pipelines not in use. Why would Russia attack its own infrastructure - sheer spite seems not a compelling explanation. Especially when Russia could be facing a lot of debt at the war conclusion and desperately need renewed NG revenue. And if it is a warning to EU, it is a pretty expensive one. I am no engineer but would guess that seawater filling a gas pipeline is probably not real good for it. Could it be some other rogue faction in Russia trying to send a message to Putin?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 08:21:46 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:15:52 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-pressure-drops-russia-gas-pipeline-90561092

It is confusing, the choice to sabotage pipelines not in use. Why would Russia attack its own infrastructure - sheer spite seems not a compelling explanation. Especially when Russia could be facing a lot of debt at the war conclusion and desperately need renewed NG revenue. And if it is a warning to EU, it is a pretty expensive one. I am no engineer but would guess that seawater filling a gas pipeline is probably not real good for it. Could it be some other rogue faction in Russia trying to send a message to Putin?
Or was it the UNited States?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 27, 2022, 08:29:27 PM: Very unlikely. Any US fingerprint found would potentially precipitate WW3. And would be a gross violation of multiple treaty agreements with NATO I would think.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 08:32:04 PM: Need I remind you that the Biden Adminstration made it clear that

If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another Nordstrom2 will not move forward.
January, 2022
Toria Nuland US Undersecretary of of State.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 08:52:50 PM: Joe Biden also is on record

If Russia invades Ukraine there will lo longer be a Nordstrom 2
We will bring an end to it.
Follow up question
HOW WILL YOU BE ABLE TO DO THAT.?

Biden:
I promise you we will be able to do that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM: GREGG JARRETT: There has been an uptick in violence against pro life clinics offering pregnancy advice. They have been the subject of arson attacks. The media pays no attention to it. But it is not at all surprising, given the ugly rhetoric that we've seen from politicians in Washington. And its not just Chuck Schumer and Liz Warren issuing veiled threats outside the United States Supreme Court. Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers. Is it any wonder, then, that we are seeing this kind of violence, and it comes from the top. And you got President Biden who says Republicans are a clear and present danger to democracy. Theyre fascists or semi fascists, whatever the hell that means. Youve got Hillary Clinton comparing Trump supporters to Nazis. This kind of incendiary rhetoric will inevitably result in acts of violence.

Yyyyyeppp....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 27, 2022, 11:06:48 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: There has been an uptick in violence against pro life clinics offering pregnancy advice. They have been the subject of arson attacks. The media pays no attention to it. But it is not at all surprising, given the ugly rhetoric that we've seen from politicians in Washington. And its not just Chuck Schumer and Liz Warren issuing veiled threats outside the United States Supreme Court. Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers. Is it any wonder, then, that we are seeing this kind of violence, and it comes from the top. And you got President Biden who says Republicans are a clear and present danger to democracy. Theyre fascists or semi fascists, whatever the hell that means. Youve got Hillary Clinton comparing Trump supporters to Nazis. This kind of incendiary rhetoric will inevitably result in acts of violence.

Yyyyyeppp....

How many anti-abortion activists have been murdered over the years by pro choice activists?

Yeah....

Meanwhile all this faux outrage being ginned up is over a guy who knocked down a 72 year old client escort at a Philadelphia facility... TWICE.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/mark-houck-arrest-abortion-planned-parenthood-the-kings-men-20220926.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 01:32:07 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
You won't get it because he does not understand it. Nadler was upset that Pelosi had the impeachmemt.run through Intelligence rather than Judiciary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 04:49:18 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
I suggest you buy the book about Nadler and his opinion on the matter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 09:31:14 AM: QED
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 10:06:27 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 04:49:18 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
I suggest you buy the book about Nadler and his opinion on the matter.
So despite claiming the Constitutional violation was both obvious and covered up by the media, you are unable to explain the nature of the violation or identify the Constitutional provision involved, let alone defend either Nadler's view or your statements the violation was obvious and covered up by the media. As expected you are behaving you intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 28, 2022, 10:11:04 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?

Here is the article he quotes but did not link.

Jarrett is a lunatic

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pennsylvania-pro-life-activists-arrest-puts-doj-fbi-injustice-contempt-full-display
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 10:37:25 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 10:06:27 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 04:49:18 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
I suggest you buy the book about Nadler and his opinion on the matter.
So despite claiming the Constitutional violation was both obvious and covered up by the media, you are unable to explain the nature of the violation or identify the Constitutional provision involved, let alone defend either Nadler's view or your statements the violation was obvious and covered up by the media. As expected you are behaving you intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Obviously you do not read the news. I will not call you dishonest just misinformed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 11:09:06 AM: Get Thai d! Youre talking to a tourist
Whose every moves among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
(and no computer pulsing Morse code in my shoe!)

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125316142/chess-magnus-carlsen-hans-niemann-cheating

You'll find a golden chip in every cloister?
One uplink and the world's your oyster?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 11:28:57 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 10:37:25 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 10:06:27 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 04:49:18 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
I suggest you buy the book about Nadler and his opinion on the matter.
So despite claiming the Constitutional violation was both obvious and covered up by the media, you are unable to explain the nature of the violation or identify the Constitutional provision involved, let alone defend either Nadler's view or your statements the violation was obvious and covered up by the media. As expected you are behaving you intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Obviously you do not read the news. I will not call you dishonest just misinformed.
Oh, I have read it and can explain it and explain why Nadler is wrong. You cannot. Because you are like an ape reading philosophy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 11:29:37 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?
Maybe Hirono should learn the meanings of Literally and figuratively.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 11:33:45 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 11:28:57 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 10:37:25 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 10:06:27 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 04:49:18 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 27, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2022, 06:33:18 PM

I suggest you write to Nadler if you are confused.

Arent you the guy who was accusing me of condescension a couple days ago?

We still await your explanation of what Constitutional law was violated, scholar.
I suggest you buy the book about Nadler and his opinion on the matter.
So despite claiming the Constitutional violation was both obvious and covered up by the media, you are unable to explain the nature of the violation or identify the Constitutional provision involved, let alone defend either Nadler's view or your statements the violation was obvious and covered up by the media. As expected you are behaving you intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Obviously you do not read the news. I will not call you dishonest just misinformed.
Oh, I have read it and can explain it and explain why Nadler is wrong. You cannot. Because you are like an ape reading philosophy.
Nadler can
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 28, 2022, 12:46:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 11:29:37 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?
Maybe Hirono should learn the meanings of Literally and figuratively.

So no direct quote, then. BAE, CTPH.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 28, 2022, 12:52:14 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 11:09:06 AM
Get Thai d! Youre talking to a tourist
Whose every moves among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
(and no computer pulsing Morse code in my shoe!)

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125316142/chess-magnus-carlsen-hans-niemann-cheating

You'll find a golden chip in every cloister?
One uplink and the world's your oyster?

Siam is gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would-a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

Thanks to a transponder hidden in a cube of Gouda!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 12:57:04 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?

Nope. I guess.....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zero-arrests-16-janes-revenge-attacks-pro-life-organizations

Waiting for Hirono to disown/degrade this group.

Nahh - too many of her voters would be incensed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:01:06 PM: So no direct quote, then. BAE, CTPH.

Yet you know the quote is out there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:23:00 PM: And one person's response:

I say to Senator Hirono Bring your weapons. Bring everything you can muster up, because remember which side has the majority of the guns in this country. Remember which side knows how to use them effectively. Remember that we are trying to save lives rather than killing children just so women can have consequence free promiscuity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 28, 2022, 01:28:55 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:01:06 PM
So no direct quote, then. BAE, CTPH.

Yet you know the quote is out there.

So neither you nor Red can provide an actual quote supporting Jarrett's claim. BAE. And LOL at the completely pointless filler of "one person's response." Your brilliance is undiminished, Kid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:33:51 PM: Fetterman gets smart

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-fetterman-wipes-black-lives-matter-section-campaign-site-attacks-crime
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 01:34:34 PM: Kamala Harris is siccing state attorneys general on the nonprofit organizations that serve mothers in crisis pregnancies because those nonprofit organizations do not abort the babies that come through their doors.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has said she wants crisis pregnancy centers shut down.

Jane s Revenge, formed this year, has claimed responsibility for at least 18 acts of vandalism and arson nationwide in the name of abortion rights.

The first of the attacks occurred on May 8 at Wisconsin Family Action in Madison, which was firebombed and vandalized with the threat, If abortions are not safe, then you are not either.

Last week a crisis pregnancy center outside of Detroit was attacked for the second time, with death threats spray painted. More than 70 such attacks have happened in the past few months, and the Biden administration has said and done nothing about it. It is as if they are fine with the threats, arson, and vandalism.

It sure looks like part of the Biden administration defense of abortion is to outlaw pro life activity, death threats included.
Obviously Senator Hirono is on board.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:36:08 PM: So neither you nor Red can provide an actual quote supporting Jarrett's claim.

Sure we could
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 01:40:08 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:33:51 PM
Fetterman gets smart

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-fetterman-wipes-black-lives-matter-section-campaign-site-attacks-crime
Looks like dems in battleground states have found a new Magazine to subscribe to.
BACKTRACKING
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2022, 02:16:03 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:23:00 PM
And one person's response:

I say to Senator Hirono Bring your weapons. Bring everything you can muster up, because remember which side has the majority of the guns in this country. Remember which side knows how to use them effectively. Remember that we are trying to save lives rather than killing children just so women can have consequence free promiscuity.

Yeah, the bolded part screams everything you need to know about whoever wrote that. And kiid.

Here is a thought: if it is just women being promiscuous there would be no abortions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 02:26:28 PM: A woman was beaten to death, and then the criminal had sex with her dead body...

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-charged-in-home-invasion-homicide-of-l-a-county-probation-officer-in-lancaster-intended-to-rape-victim-lada/

Everyone should have a couple of dogs to warn them of strangers, and a big dog can protect you, I recommend 2 Dobermans and you will be safe. And I recommend owning a gun for home protection, and especially if you are a female probation officer working with criminals everyday.

The cops caught the criminal, I guess they caught him having sex with her dead body. Better to have a couple of dogs and a gun and for the criminal to be dead instead of the woman.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 02:48:49 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:36:08 PM
So neither you nor Red can provide an actual quote supporting Jarrett's claim.

Sure we could

You haven't. No quote supporting Jarrett's claim that Ryan and Hirono were advocating or fomenting violence against pro life centers. Zilch. Because Jarrett is lying. And you are repeating the lie as if it were truth.

Your only actual quote comes from some random kook fired up by RW propaganda. No wonder you were reticent about citing the source beyond "one person."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 03:04:12 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 02:48:49 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 01:36:08 PM
So neither you nor Red can provide an actual quote supporting Jarrett's claim.

Sure we could

You have not .No quote supporting Jarrett's claim that Ryan and Hirono were advocating or fomenting violence against pro life centers. Zilch. Because Jarrett is lying. And you are repeating the lie as if it were truth.

Your only actual quote comes from some random kook fired up by RW propaganda. No wonder you were reticent about citing
the source beyond "one person."
You are oblivious to the world you live in. And changing your name to avoid previously stated facts is typical hypocrisy on your part.

Kamala Harris is siccing state attorneys general on the nonprofit organizations that serve mothers in crisis pregnancies because those nonprofit organizations do not abort the babies that come through their doors.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has said she wants crisis pregnancy centers shut down.

Jane s Revenge, formed this year, has claimed responsibility for at least 18 acts of vandalism and arson nationwide in the name of abortion rights.

The first of the attacks occurred on May 8 at Wisconsin Family Action in Madison, which was firebombed and vandalized with the threat, If abortions are not safe, then you are not either.

Last week a crisis pregnancy center outside of Detroit was attacked for the second time, with death threats spray painted. More than 70 such attacks have happened in the past few months, and the Biden administration has said and done nothing about it. It is as if they are fine with the threats, arson, and vandalism.

It sure looks like part of the Biden administration defense of abortion is to outlaw pro life activity, death threats included.
Obviously Senator Hirono is on board.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 03:18:40 PM: Still no quote that Ryan or Hirono actually advocated any violence. The crisis center vandalism was done by extremists, no one here disputes that. Local law enforcement is investigating, with federal assistance. And not relevant to my point which is that Jarrett makes a false imputation about Sens Ryan and Hirono. Again, put up or STFU.

Not hiding with a name change. Have repeatedly explained that Oilcan was originally a login on my work computer, Bart at home. I have addressed the facts under both monikers and pointed out that you lack the relevant fact in this matter. You keep deflecting with the same irrelevant snippets about Jane's Revenge which was not the issue. All you really have is that Sen Hirono misused "literally" in the way that most Millennials and under have heen doing for the past couple decades.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 28, 2022, 03:26:05 PM: C'mon, guys, how many of you have kids? And heard one say something like "my head literally exploded..." ? Did you just smile, or did you turn into Grammar Martinet and haul them out to the semantic woodshed? Or did they use it correctly and you have a child without a head due to its loss in an explosion, but who miraculously retained the powers of speech through their neckhole?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 28, 2022, 03:33:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 11:29:37 AM
Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 09:38:25 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on September 27, 2022, 10:16:41 PM
GREGG JARRETT: Youve got Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Tim Ryan who are saying its a call to arms against the pro life movement, that we need to kill and confront pro lifers....

Yyyyyeppp....

Leaving aside that Jarrett is not exactly an icon of fact based reporting, can you find any direct quote from Ryan or Hirono saying we need to kill pro lifers?
Maybe Hirono should learn the meanings of Literally and figuratively.

Man just shut up. Violent Abortion rights activists gonna have to do a lot of catching up to murderous anti abortion terrorists

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/06/24/attacks-on-abortion-providers-surged-in-2021-report-finds-ahead-of-roe-v-wade-ruling/

https://www.justice.gov/crt/recent-cases-violence-against-reproductive-health-care-providers
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 28, 2022, 03:34:38 PM: Yeah, the bolded part screams everything you need to know about whoever wrote that. And kiid.

Sure - I will own that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 03:43:41 PM: Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 03:18:40 PM
Still no quote that Ryan or Hirono actually advocated any violence. The crisis center vandalism was done by extremists, no one here disputes that. Local law enforcement is investigating, with federal assistance. And not relevant to my point which is that Jarrett makes a false imputation about Sens Ryan and Hirono. Again, put up or STFU.
Discard all the uncomfortable evidence if it makes you feel better
The rest of us pay attention to the actions( or inactions) of the Biden Team and democrat Senators.
And we certainly know the meanings of the words they choose to use.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 04:28:50 PM: My thoughts are with the people of Florida.

That is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. When I was there we had a tornado, and then I had to evacuate when Hurricane David hit Florida. I went to Florida with the Space Shuttle program, I had a step dad who was one of the main guys on the Shuttle program. I lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great. But, then Hurricane David hit and I had to go back to the desert. Then when the first Space Shuttle flew they landed it in the desert and I got to be there to watch it land, and President Reagan was there and he gave a speech. The Cape is a cool place, and the people there are great people, everyone lives everyday like it is a vacation. And I saw Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin play at a blues club on the beach with a band named The Groove Monsters, in Cocoa Beach, it was right on the sand, great club, that was a great night.

Florida is great, but the storms are a bad part of living there. Just like here in California we have to worry about earthquakes. The buildings can be built with the facts in mind, we know about the earthquakes so we build buildings to withstand earthquakes, and in Florida they can build to try to withstand hurricanes.

Of note, the Philippines just had a hurricane too, but they are used to it, they get hurricanes all of the time.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 04:33:20 PM: I have a friend who is from the Philippines, from Catanduanes, and he said that they build up the dirt in front of their house like a giant ramp and the storm follows the ramp up and over the house. All of the people would go to their house and they would feed them all. In the Philippines they all work together as a team to help each other. The people from the Philippines are great people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 04:45:20 PM: My friends from the Philippines were used to helping each other, and they were used to helping the people in the Philippines, and when they came to America then they brought that same community spirit, and they feed and house the homeless, and they help the people who need help. My friends from the Philippines used to take roasted pigs to the public park and feed all of the people at the park, they would have friends and family there and they would feed the strangers at the park, they fed everyone. So, they were used to helping people in the Philippines, then when they came to the USA they brought that same community spirit and they helped the poor in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 07:17:12 PM: The reason why the people from the Philippines serve roasted pigs at their parties is because King Philip of Spain loved the people of the Philippines and he sent them many ships full of pigs so that the people of the Philippines would have lots of pork to eat. To this very day the people from the Philippines serve roasted pigs at parties, and they serve it as a gift of being blessed.

To be able to party and eat roasted pigs and being surrounded by friends and family and other people, is a blessing for the people from the Philippines.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 07:59:10 PM: Here is an acting scene on You Tube of me doing the Second Chorus from Anouilh's Antigone. My Uncle Dennis was my cameraman (He died in January of 2012, I miss him). I did a few takes that I liked better, but this was one of the few that I made it all of the way through without any mistakes, all in 1 shot with zero editing and without a teleprompter, my Uncle Dennis got tired of shooting it, and so we had to settle on this take. I hope that you enjoy it. I will make more You Tube videos eventually.

"Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles's classic produced in the context of the anti-fascist French resistance, is Jean Anouilh's (1910 to 1987) most often-produced work today. Antigone premiered in Paris in 1944, but Anouilh had written his tale of lone rebellion against the state two years earlier, inspired by an act of resistance during Paris's occupation by the Nazis. In August 1942, a young man named Paul Collette fired at and wounded a group of directors during a meeting of the collaborationist Legion des volontaires france. Collette did not belong to a Resistance network or organized political group, but acted entirely alone and in full knowledge of his certain death. For Anouilh, Collette's solitary act at once heroic, gratuitous, and futile, captured the essence of tragedy and demanded an immediate revival of Antigone. Aware of Anouilh's thinly veiled attack on the Vichy government, the Nazis censored Antigone immediately upon its release. It premiered two years later at the Theatre de l'Atelier in Paris under the direction of Andrea Barsacq, a few months before Paris' liberation. The play starred (his wife) Monelle Valentin as the doomed princess."

Here is a link for my video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnXQpikxyk&feature=youtu.be

Hopefully you enjoy it.

Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 28, 2022, 09:13:31 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 04:28:50 PM
My thoughts are with the people of Florida.

That is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. When I was there we had a tornado, and then I had to evacuate when Hurricane David hit Florida. I went to Florida with the Space Shuttle program, I had a step dad who was one of the main guys on the Shuttle program. I lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great. But, then Hurricane David hit and I had to go back to the desert. Then when the first Space Shuttle flew they landed it in the desert and I got to be there to watch it land, and President Reagan was there and he gave a speech. The Cape is a cool place, and the people there are great people, everyone lives everyday like it is a vacation. And I saw Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin play at a blues club on the beach with a band named The Groove Monsters, in Cocoa Beach, it was right on the sand, great club, that was a great night.

Florida is great, but the storms are a bad part of living there. Just like here in California we have to worry about earthquakes. The buildings can be built with the facts in mind, we know about the earthquakes so we build buildings to withstand earthquakes, and in Florida they can build to try to withstand hurricanes.

Of note, the Philippines just had a hurricane too, but they are used to it, they get hurricanes all of the time.

Salute,

Tony V.

My thoughts too are with the people of Florida.
When in Florida in 2019 mrs bambu stayed with a lady in Fort Myers, and with her visited people in north and east Florida.
This Hurricane is reportedly the worst ever.
Horrible.

Not many, if any, places in America seem safe from horrific natural disasters.
'Twister alley', 'hurricane central', etc...how do people even cope with living there.
One minute you're happy and comfortable, next minute your home is blown away and some of your friends and family are dead or maimed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 09:20:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 28, 2022, 09:13:31 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 04:28:50 PM
My thoughts are with the people of Florida.

That is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. When I was there we had a tornado, and then I had to evacuate when Hurricane David hit Florida. I went to Florida with the Space Shuttle program, I had a step dad who was one of the main guys on the Shuttle program. I lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great. But, then Hurricane David hit and I had to go back to the desert. Then when the first Space Shuttle flew they landed it in the desert and I got to be there to watch it land, and President Reagan was there and he gave a speech. The Cape is a cool place, and the people there are great people, everyone lives everyday like it is a vacation. And I saw Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin play at a blues club on the beach with a band named The Groove Monsters, in Cocoa Beach, it was right on the sand, great club, that was a great night.

Florida is great, but the storms are a bad part of living there. Just like here in California we have to worry about earthquakes. The buildings can be built with the facts in mind, we know about the earthquakes so we build buildings to withstand earthquakes, and in Florida they can build to try to withstand hurricanes.

Of note, the Philippines just had a hurricane too, but they are used to it, they get hurricanes all of the time.

Salute,

Tony V.

My thoughts too are with the people of Florida.
When in Florida in 2019 mrs bambu stayed with a lady in Fort Myers, and visited with her visited people in north and east Florida.
This Hurricane is reportedly the worst ever.
Horrible.

Not many, if any, places in America seem safe from horrific natural disasters.
'Twister alley', 'hurricane central', etc...how do people even cope with living there.
One minute you're happy and comfortable, next minute your home is blown away and some of your friends and family are dead or maimed.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, is a safe spot with no natural disasters, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no earthquakes, Battle Mountain is safe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Mountain,_Nevada

We need to send the new people to Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2022, 09:38:48 PM: For the refugees from Russia and from Ukraine, etc, we have Acapulco as a good safe location for the migrants.

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

Acapulco, Mexico, is a good safe spot for the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 04:57:05 AM: 1million residents in Florida are now without power.
Looks like they'll have to become fans of log fireplaces, wood-burning stoves, coke(coal) fireplaces under cover camp fires etc to provide light, cooking, and heating.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 29, 2022, 07:42:40 AM: Nothing confirms Bambu's world view that "the world is a terrible place and everybody should be scared about everything all the time" better than a natural disaster.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 29, 2022, 08:37:09 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 04:57:05 AM
1million residents in Florida are now without power.
Looks like they'll have to become fans of log fireplaces, wood-burning stoves, coke(coal) fireplaces under cover camp fires etc to provide light, cooking, and heating.
To say nothing ofgas generators
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 29, 2022, 09:07:25 AM: If America
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on September 29, 2022, 09:32:41 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 03:43:41 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 03:18:40 PM
Still no quote that Ryan or Hirono actually advocated any violence. The crisis center vandalism was done by extremists, no one here disputes that. Local law enforcement is investigating, with federal assistance. And not relevant to my point which is that Jarrett makes a false imputation about Sens Ryan and Hirono. Again, put up or STFU.
Discard all the uncomfortable evidence if it makes you feel better

How would I discard evidence you never produced?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 29, 2022, 09:50:47 AM: Quote from: Bart on September 29, 2022, 09:32:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 28, 2022, 03:43:41 PM
Quote from: Bart on September 28, 2022, 03:18:40 PM
Still no quote that Ryan or Hirono actually advocated any violence. The crisis center vandalism was done by extremists, no one here disputes that. Local law enforcement is investigating, with federal assistance. And not relevant to my point which is that Jarrett makes a false imputation about Sens Ryan and Hirono. Again, put up or STFU.
Discard all the uncomfortable evidence if it makes you feel better

LOL!
You are similar to an attorney asking a jury to disregard testimony it just heard.

How would I discard evidence you never produced?
You must not
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 06:52:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 29, 2022, 07:42:40 AM
Nothing confirms Bambu's world view that "the world is a terrible place and everybody should be scared about everything all the time" better than a natural disaster.

Now there's a run on the banks in Britain as the pound tanks.
Yes, cash is king.
Best not to tell anyone where your cash stash is.
I was at the supermarket the other day.....(gotta stock up on food, never know when the blackouts are gonna start now that the green dreamers in bambuworld are going *super crazy* against fossil fuels).....arrived at the checkout, the nice lady packed all my groceries neatly in the plastic bags, early in the day, and life was grand.
Grand...until...it came time to pay and the three cards from a major bank I tried to use came up "denied".
Banks...baaah.

*
The world is becoming a more terrible place every day...look around, closely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 29, 2022, 07:04:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 06:52:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 29, 2022, 07:42:40 AM
Nothing confirms Bambu's world view that "the world is a terrible place and everybody should be scared about everything all the time" better than a natural disaster.

Now there's a run on the banks in Britain as the pound tanks.
Yes, cash is king.
Best not to tell anyone where your cash stash is.
I was at the supermarket the other day.....(gotta stock up on food, never know when the blackouts are gonna start now that the green dreamers in bambuworld are going *super crazy* against fossil fuels).....arrived at the checkout, the nice lady packed all my groceries neatly in the plastic bags, early in the day, and life was grand.
Grand...until...it came time to pay and the three cards from a major bank I tried to use came up "denied".
Banks...baaah.

*
The world is becoming a more terrible place every day...look around, closely.

Maybe try paying your bills.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 29, 2022, 07:11:02 PM: Judge Aileen Cannon appears to have been bought and paid for...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/29/cannon-dearie-trump-documents-classified/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 07:25:41 PM: Wanna be a "climate change emergency" warrior?
Wanna go public and make statements that people "should stop flying in planes to save the planet" or the like?
Wanna set yourself up as a poster child for the *revolution*?
Lovely, no harm in caring about the future, people, and the planet.
Before you do that though, you might want to cast a critical eye over your lifestyle and see if there's anything in it that might cause you *grief*.
Like the fact that you had flown in a jet plane to Fiji for a holiday only a few months ago...for instance.
Wanna buy a ticket to ride the "Climate Change Express"? You'll need to have thick skin like a crocodile because questions, ridicule etc could come at you thick and fast, as has happened to one teen girl in bambuworld...her mother outraged at "the way my daughter has been treated".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 07:43:55 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 29, 2022, 07:04:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 06:52:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 29, 2022, 07:42:40 AM
Nothing confirms Bambu's world view that "the world is a terrible place and everybody should be scared about everything all the time" better than a natural disaster.

Now there's a run on the banks in Britain as the pound tanks.
Yes, cash is king.
Best not to tell anyone where your cash stash is.
I was at the supermarket the other day.....(gotta stock up on food, never know when the blackouts are gonna start now that the green dreamers in bambuworld are going *super crazy* against fossil fuels).....arrived at the checkout, the nice lady packed all my groceries neatly in the plastic bags, early in the day, and life was grand.
Grand...until...it came time to pay and the three cards from a major bank I tried to use came up "denied".
Banks...baaah.

*
The world is becoming a more terrible place every day...look around, closely.

Maybe try paying your bills.

Wasn't my fault, there was enough money in the 3 "debit card" savings accounts (Visa, MasterCard, cards using your own cash funds.)
It was Mon morning 7.30am and the major bank's computers must've slept in.
Luckily my card from the biggest bank did work and I was saved.
But, what if it hadn't?
Cash in king. I've rejoined the cash monarchy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2022, 08:18:36 PM: Bambu, sell stuff to the tourists.

We have 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim and they are forcing women into prostitution and they force people to sell drugs, when there is no reason to do so. We can sell stuff to the tourists, there is no reason for crime. Anaheim receives 50,000 people per day, there is no reason for crime.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 29, 2022, 08:23:22 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2022, 08:18:36 PM
Bambu, sell stuff to the tourists.

We have 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim and they are forcing women into prostitution and they force people to sell drugs, when there is no reason to do so. We can sell stuff to the tourists, there is no reason for crime. Anaheim receives 50,000 people per day, there is no reason for crime.

Salute,

Tony V.

Supply and demand...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 29, 2022, 08:58:45 PM: We have 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim and they are forcing women into prostitution and they force people to sell drugs,

Who is "they"?

People have free will.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 09:28:30 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2022, 08:18:36 PM
Bambu, sell stuff to the tourists.

We have 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim and they are forcing women into prostitution and they force people to sell drugs, when there is no reason to do so. We can sell stuff to the tourists, there is no reason for crime. Anaheim receives 50,000 people per day, there is no reason for crime.

Salute,

Tony V.

A more generous welfare system and then a more rigorous law enforcement system would solve a lot of the problems.
Legalised prostitution only in govt approved and monitored indoor facilities..."separation of church and state" is the best system. Legal escorts also, "consenting adults in private" as part of that best system.
If I were a lonely man (or woman), in bambuworld I could watch a footy game from 4pm until 6pm, phone for takeout food delivery for 6.30pm, and phone for a takeout woman (or man) for 8pm.
We could talk about movies, play board games...or play other games, the possibilities are endless, all legal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2022, 09:39:23 PM: In Battle Mountain, Nevada, they have a legal bordello named The Calico Club. Yes, it is best to keep prostitution legal and supervised.

And in Hollywood we have Bare Elegance where Clint Eastwood, Danny DeVito, and David Spade goes, along with other stars.

https://www.bareelegance.com/

And China Lake needs a Bare Elegance club.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2022, 10:09:45 PM: Battle Mountain, Nevada has a legal bordello, The Calico Club...

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/life-goes-on-at-rural-brothel-in-northern-nevada-despite-odom-scandal-in-nye-county/

Nevada has legal bordellos.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 10:48:09 PM: "Good Southern men go faster than fried chicken at a family reunion picnic.
If you find one grab hold and don't let him go." - Hallmark movie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2022, 10:54:13 PM: I have accounts/ cards credit and debit at 4 different banks.
I have 4 cell phones at two different Telcos, the two major ones here.
2 new, mrs bambu has one...and 2 old and only used as back up.

On any given day, something might work. People in some of the
fire areas had poor mobile phone service

Telstra, the biggest one, has the largest and most powerful network.
Optus, my other one, was recently hacked big-time (1million current and former customers) by thugs demanding a ransom not to release any more private details, bank accounts, passport nos, driver licence nos, other than those of the10,000 people they had done so already.
Customers are going berserk, totally outraged. Radio hosts, the media, the govt are also angry.
AFP IS investigating. Now joined by the FBI.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on September 30, 2022, 07:14:01 PM: The House of Representatives approved a continuing resolution on Friday, giving the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the ability to spend through the Disaster Relief Fund, freeing up $15 million more in aid for disaster relief. Only 10 Republicans voted for the measure, two days after a Category 4 hurricane barreled through Florida, killing dozens and causing billions in economic damage.
*

https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-votes-against-disaster-relief-hurricane-ian-1748055

*This is a pull quote

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 30, 2022, 11:34:59 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on September 30, 2022, 07:14:01 PM

The House of Representatives approved a continuing resolution on Friday, giving the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the ability to spend through the Disaster Relief Fund, freeing up $15 million more in aid for disaster relief. Only 10 Republicans voted for the measure, two days after a Category 4 hurricane barreled through Florida, killing dozens and causing billions in economic damage.
*

https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-votes-against-disaster-relief-hurricane-ian-1748055

*This is a pull quote

heh

Which is why the Democrats are in office and not the Republicans.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 01, 2022, 12:20:45 AM: Ronald Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: i am from the government and I am here to help!

Federal Government to storm ravaged states:

How do you like me now?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 02, 2022, 11:05:15 AM: Sneering at the federal government while taking their money is a long tradition in red states.

meanwhile Tories in the UK undergoing giant goatfuck this week...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/02/ten-days-that-shook-the-british-political-world-the-inside-story-of-tory-collapse
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 02, 2022, 02:10:10 PM: Ohhhh, that Stacy!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/georgia-voting-rights-ruling-abrams-kemp/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 02, 2022, 03:30:29 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 02, 2022, 02:10:10 PM
Ohhhh, that Stacy!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/georgia-voting-rights-ruling-abrams-kemp/index.html

Abrams still has not conceded her loss (by 50,000 votes) in the2018 Ga gubernatorial race to Kemp

Instead she has been using the time to make money and fame for herself tilting at election windmills.
Now a Obama appointed federal judge has finally slammed the door on her sham performance.

Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 02, 2022, 04:02:07 PM: The world is rising up against the violence against women in Iran, and the world is demanding better treatment for women in Iran.

One prominent Persian woman from Iran is Mahlagha Jaberi and she is speaking up for improved human rights for women in Iran. The world needs to make Mahlagha's voice LOUD as she pleads for improved rights for women in Iran. Mahlagha Jaberi can do an interview for Playboy, and for whatever magazines will interview her on the issue of improved human rights for women in Iran. And Mahlagha Jaberi can go on the morning shows such as Good Morning America and she can talk about the issue fo improved human rights for women in Iran. And Mahlagha Jaberi can go to the Vatican and she can talk with Pope Francis about improved human rights for women in Iran, etc. Mahlagha Jaberi can be a voice in the fight for improved rights for women in Iran.

Here is a link for the Facebook page for Mahlagha Jaberi...

https://www.facebook.com/MahlaghaOfficial

And Beverly Hills, and Los Angeles as a whole, supports improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 03:55:45 PM: Watched Youtube yesterday, saw homeless people in Anerica.
One lady in a wheelchair asked the guy filming for some Coca Cola, and clothes (when asked what would brighten her day.)
She said the people there are nasty to her.
Exactly why the govt should have tent cities for all homeless people.
***
Also saw a homeless mom with 3 small girls, about 3, 6, and 8/ 9.
Then homeless and hungry men...one eating some fries he retrieved from a trash bin.
*
Can homeless people in America get any financial assistance from the federal govt?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 03, 2022, 04:47:57 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/florida-hurricane-ian-damage-desantis/671630/

Floridians often dwell in a fantasy world. And prefer to live where nature is most likely to deliver a reality check. They're going to get sweet fuck all, in terms of rational leadership, from DeSantis and his ilk. Or SFA from an increasing number of insurance underwriters, who are pulling out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 03, 2022, 05:54:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 03:55:45 PM
Watched Youtube yesterday, saw homeless people in Anerica.
One lady in a wheelchair asked the guy filming for some Coca Cola, and clothes (when asked what would brighten her day.)
She said the people there are nasty to her.
Exactly why the govt should have tent cities for all homeless people.
***
Also saw a homeless mom with 3 small girls, about 3, 6, and 8/ 9.
Then homeless and hungry men...one eating some fries he retrieved from a trash bin.
*
Can homeless people in America get any financial assistance from the federal govt?

In Hollywood it was against the law to feed me when I was homeless. Everything was expensive and work was hard to get. So, it is different to be homeless in Hollywood than it is to be homeless in the OC.

In the OC you simply go to the Mental Health Association and they will put you in a shelter and they will feed you, and you can shower, and they have a Thrift Store where the homeless can get free clothes and free furniture for when they get into housing. The MHA will sign you up for all of the programs and the people can get on medication to stop the voices in their heads, and they can get therapy so that they come to reality, and they get the people into N/A, etc, whatever they need.

There is also a newer Wellness Center in Orange, if you are homeless then you simply go to the Wellness Center and they will put you into a shelter and get you a psychiatrist, and whatever you need. There are also abused women who need safe houses. And Foster youth who need group homes, etc.

The money to help the homeless in the OC is coming from every direction, money is coming from churches, charities, and also from the federal, state, county, and city governments, etc. The Wellness Center and the MHA are both being funded in a million ways.

Hollywood is cold, and hard, and brutal, but in the OC the Wellness Center in Orange and the MHA in Santa Ana will help you. Anaheim also has a Housing Authority to help people with housing, and Anaheim is a wealthy city, with Disney, the Ducks, the Angels, and with UCI medical school, and Fullerton Community College, and Cal State Fullerton, the OC is rich. The homeless people in Hollywood need to ride the Metrolink Trains to the OC and they need to go to the Wellness Center in Orange and they will get help immediately.

For the actors, new housing is being built in Hollywood for homeless actors, etc. SAG and other groups are involved with new housing for the actors, etc.

And the United Farm Workers can tell the refugees where the farm jobs are.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 03, 2022, 06:00:38 PM: Brad Pitt needs to come help the homeless in Hollywood.

There is a new six hundred million dollar movie studio that is going to be built in Hollywood.

And there is Occidental which is surrounded by cheap safe apartments, Disney uses Occidental all of the time.

Maybe Rick Caruso can help to save Hollywood, we will see.

Don Johnson is cool, and Morgan Fairchild is cool, and Dick Van Dyke is cool, there are a lot of people in Hollywood who help the homeless. Cheech and Chong are cool. There are a lot of good people. And we need for new young people to do public service.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 06:13:01 PM: Tony, thanks for all that information.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 03, 2022, 06:15:41 PM: Can homeless people in America get any financial assistance from the federal govt?

Yes

One was interviewed recently and not at all bothered with his status, getting a monthly check.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 03, 2022, 06:53:56 PM: TEN SENATE RACES - winners given after -

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/senate-race-rankings-october-elections/index.html

COL - Dem (Bennett)
FLA - Rep (Rubio)
OH - Rep (Vance)
NH - Dem (Hassan)
NC - Rep (Budd)
AZ - Dem (Kelly)
WIS - Rep (Johnson)
GA - Dem (Warnock)
NEV - Rep (Laxalt)
PA - no clue (Oz, Fetterman - winner gives Senate control to party)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 03, 2022, 07:15:08 PM: Not really much clue on Wisconsin in five weeks, either, given the averages at 538 have been showing spreads less than the average margin of error. And North Carolina has been at a dead heat, pollwise, the past month.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/north-carolina/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 08:00:28 PM: Country song (US) on my radio now:
"There ain't no country music for old men".

Are there any old men left in America, or have they all been slaughtered in wars?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 03, 2022, 09:14:55 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 03, 2022, 08:39:17 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 08:00:28 PM
Country song (US) on my radio now:
"There ain't no country music for old men".

Are there any old men left in America, or have they all been slaughtered in wars?

Country song on the radio:
Do you have any brains left after that last #2?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2022, 09:49:38 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 03, 2022, 06:15:41 PM
Can homeless people in America get any financial assistance from the federal govt?

Yes

One was interviewed recently and not at all bothered with his status, getting a monthly check.

Thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 04, 2022, 09:55:02 AM: i think it's safe to say Christian Walker aint votin for Pops.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 04, 2022, 11:53:19 AM: What?

One of the female students told WCAX-TV that the dispute began when the trans student made an inappropriate comment as the volleyball team was changing in the locker room, triggering an incident between students

then...

The outlet reported that school officials emailed parents to tell them an investigation into

*whether the transgender student *

was harassed has been launched.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 04, 2022, 12:15:19 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 03, 2022, 06:53:56 PM
TEN SENATE RACES - winners given after -

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/senate-race-rankings-october-elections/index.html

COL - Dem (Bennett)
FLA - Rep (Rubio)
OH - Rep (Vance)
NH - Dem (Hassan)
NC - Rep (Budd)
AZ - Dem (Kelly)
WIS - Rep (Johnson)
GA - Dem (Warnock)
NEV - Rep (Laxalt)
PA - no clue (Oz, Fetterman - winner gives Senate control to party)

A few minutes later I replied.

Quote from: Bart on October 03, 2022, 07:15:08 PM
Not really much clue on Wisconsin in five weeks, either, given the averages at 538 have been showing spreads less than the average margin of error. And North Carolina has been at a dead heat, pollwise, the past month.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/north-carolina/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 02:34:23 PM: Here it is...in plain english...the madness of "renewables now", "kill the fossils now".
Lunacy if you like.

Daily Telegraph
Oct 4, 2022
James Morrow.
Subscribers only...so I'll have to type it.
Coming soon...all will be revealed.
Stand by...premiering in about 30 minutes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 03:23:59 PM: DT
JM

One of the funny quirks of being human is that we sometimes do really stupid things because someone convinces us it's the right thing to do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 04, 2022, 03:38:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 03:23:59 PM
DT
JM

One of the funny quirks of being human is that we sometimes do really stupid things because someone convinces us it's the right thing to do.
Yes that literally explains all of your posts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 03:41:55 PM: DT
JM

In the last century, Chinese peasants melted down their woks and farm tools to make steel because the all-seeing, all-knowing communist state told them the country needed to industrialise.
The result was mass starvation and poverty, but those who suffered at least knew they were on the "right side of history".

One hundred years earlier. tribal cattle farmers in present day South Africa slaughtered their herds - their source and measure of wealth- because some Messianic teenage girl had visions and told them this would solve all their problems ( sound familiar?).
The results were similarly catastrophic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 03:55:39 PM: DT
JM

Europeans are now staring down the barrel of a horror show of a winter where thousands could freeze to death because their leaders allowed them to become dependent on Russia for gas while simultaneously shutting down their coal and even nuclear plants because they believed doing so would save the planet.

The Germans, it can safely be said, are suffering the most thanks to former Chancellor Angela Merkel's insanely ambitious plan to transition the industrial heartland of Europe to green energy - a plan which was showing cracks long before Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

#####

Well there you go...*insanity*
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 04:06:25 PM: DT
JM

Irony always having the last laugh, just the other week one of Germany's largest wind turbine manufacturers announced it was laying off 2,900 workers, in part due to rising energy costs.

With the possible exception of France with its large domestic nuclear power network, and with the northern winter lurking just around the corner, Europe is facing awful choices that will involve recession, unemployment, loss of industry, quite possibly large numbers of dead, and years of economic pain.

It's not just Europe. California's energy grid is under similar stress thanks to years of green policies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 04:12:57 PM: California:

DT
JM

A massive power crisis in September which almost saw blackouts across the state was averted only because the state's Democratic govt wisely decided to extend the life of its last nuclear power plant and a few gas-fired generators.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 04, 2022, 04:16:51 PM: You crackheads have the weirdest fantasy lives, Bambu. Please, do go on.

It is like A David Lynch adaptation of Buckaroo Banzai minus any humor or charm and completely free of any useful information.

You are worth every bit of rotten cabbage that could ever be thrown your way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 04:24:03 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 04, 2022, 04:16:51 PM
You crackheads have the weirdest fantasy lives, Bambu. Please, do go on.

It is like A David Lynch adaptation of Buckaroo Banzai minus any humor or charm and completely free of any useful information.

You are worth every bit of rotten cabbage that could ever be thrown your way.

What James Morrow wrote is all true though, like it or not.
In the article is shown a placard by Californians protesting blackouts....

"P G & E
Turn
Our
Power
ON!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 04:54:31 PM: DT
JM

Head back to the 1490s and you will find citizens of Florence publicly burning their luxury goods in what became known as the "bonfire of the vanities", simply because a mad monk told them these objects were sinful excesses blocking their road to Heaven.

In a twist to this pattern, the monk in question was eventually burned at the stake, leaving everyone free to enjoy the go-go 1500s.

*
Today's bonfire of the vanities means no more cheap holiday flights or air conditioning.

#####

Yes, probably best to keep a lookout for *mad monks* and their *bonfires of the vanities*, lest we be without luxuries like heating, cooling, lighting, cooking on stoves and in ovens, computers, phones, tablets and cars.etc. [Electric cars run on electricity].
The jobs of such *mad monks* should be burned at the stake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 04, 2022, 05:28:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 04:54:31 PM
DT
JM

Head back to the 1490s and you will find citizens of Florence publicly burning their luxury goods in what became known as the "bonfire of the vanities", simply because a mad monk told them these objects were sinful excesses blocking their road to Heaven.

In a twist to this pattern, the monk in question was eventually burned at the stake, leaving everyone free to enjoy the go-go 1500s.

*
Today's bonfire of the vanities means no more cheap holiday flights or air conditioning.

#####

Yes, probably best to keep a lookout for *mad monks* and their *bonfires of the vanities*, lest we be without luxuries like heating, cooling, lighting, cooking on stoves and in ovens, computers, phones, tablets and cars.etc. [Electric cars run on electricity].
The jobs of such *mad monks* should be burned at the stake.

Oi!

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqEbPx4oBvc3vpMWfkPQGRnQlSLZ0-llJYKg&usqp=CAU)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 04, 2022, 05:43:33 PM: Straw man. California can flex during heat and drouth because investment in wind and solar provides more power when hydro is dropping. And it still has extensive NG plants because it's understood that 100% renewables is still a ways off. Same with nukes, like Diablo Canyon, which still is in good repair and can also be a bridge.

The way RW fossil fuel boosters attack renewables is by distorting the opposing perspective into a caricature. (Added in case some readers don't know what a straw man argument is). If they'd stop using their heads as ass corks, they would strive for more investment in storage tech and renewables and work WITH green energy. Most renewables supporters are like me, amd recognize that the transition will require some years of NG, and nuclear. France is a good example -- excellent stewardship of their nuke plants. And fossil fuel fans always forget the third leg of that stool: better insulated homes, more efficient appliances, zone heating etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 04, 2022, 06:57:44 PM: Record fundraising day for Walker campaign after accusations

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-republican-reaction/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 08:09:45 PM: One doesn't have to be Einstein to understand that closing down existing coal-fired, gas-fired, and nuke-fired power stations before alternative renewables are 100% up and running successfully and covering all weather events with ease...is "mad monk" stuff...sheer folly.
Like when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, for example.
Like when the renewables are so expensive that average Joe, and less than average Joe (ME!) can't afford them.
Looks like it's back to horse, horse and coach, and camel for team bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 04, 2022, 08:13:12 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 04, 2022, 06:57:44 PM
Record fundraising day for Walker campaign after accusations

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-republican-reaction/index.html

The party of family values...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 04, 2022, 11:20:25 PM: I have never thought of it like that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 05, 2022, 12:42:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 04, 2022, 08:09:45 PM
One doesn't have to be Einstein to understand that closing down existing coal-fired, gas-fired, and nuke-fired power stations before alternative renewables are 100% up and running successfully and covering all weather events with ease...is "mad monk" stuff...sheer folly.

One just has to be an irredeemable fucking idiot.

I am sure that is why it makes sense in that rats nest you wear as a head.

Relatively complete humans do not understand or believe anything of the sort, but they all have better sources of information so it only stands to reason that they are far better informed than you are on this and most every matter.

Stick to posting about life in your retirement gulag in Malaproria or wherever the fuck you live.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 12:56:34 AM: BIG rape trial in bambuworld...jury of 16, 10 women and 6 men.
Charming...the world we live in today.
Nothing like equality!
BIG trial, alleged rape in the parliament building, in the former Defence Minister's Office early am, two staffers went there after a night of drinking.
She didn't report the alleged rape, didn't visit a doctor/hospital, didn't take morning after
pill.
...according to the media.
You'd hope the alleged rapist gets a fair trial, and doesn't get nailed to the cross of injustice to satisfy those wanting change in the parliamentary workplace as regards sexual harassment etc.
Lord only knows how the alleged rapist gets a fair trial seeing as how the woman has been *paraded* very publically around society as "rape victim xxxxxxx".

ScoMo and former govt Ministers likely called as witnesses.
Mike Pence's "Never be alone in the company of a woman (who is not your wife)" policy is the best ever."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 05, 2022, 02:03:23 AM: The whole Aussie conservative hierarchy should get locked up as accessories. A little time in a hinterland work camp should help them develop the good Christian values Scummo flunkies pretend to have but never follow.

Of course Scummo led a rapey government. It is exactly what you get from every right wing government the whole world over.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 04:05:07 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 05, 2022, 02:03:23 AM
The whole Aussie conservative hierarchy should get locked up as accessories. A little time in a hinterland work camp should help them develop the good Christian values Scummo flunkies pretend to have but never follow.

Of course Scummo led a rapey government. It is exactly what you get from every right wing government the whole world over.

ScoMo was 'johnny come lately'...been there for '5 minutes in history'...but of course everything was his fault...the drought, the fires, the floods, the culture in Parliament House, Covid, everything that was wrong with the nation, basically. LOL

Of course no blame whatsoever was attributed to Leftist govts led by Mr Rudd, Ms Gillard [she's the one who addressed the US Congress], then Mr Rudd again [he was elected PM in 2007 "Keven 07" T shirts, he opened the asylum-seeker floodgates saying the Right's policies were "racist and too harsh"...his popularity tanked and the leftist Labor Party replaced him with her before the 2010 election.
She promised "there will be no carbon tax under the govt I lead"...then after elected she tried to introduce a carbon tax in coalition with the Greens.
She didn't like the heat that came to her, started going on 'misogynist' rants, and 'men in blue suits' rants...then a 'handbag hit squad' of like minded female leftist politicians joined her.
She tanked in the polls, and the leftist Labor Party replaced her with Mr Rudd. He verbally abused an RAAF female who brought his meal on a plane, meal not hot or satisfactory he said...uproar!
He threw a tantrum in Iraq [war] because there was no hairdryer for him.
It was revealed that he often used 'robust language' to staff, limo drivers etc.
He lost the 2013 election to right wing "The Monk" Tony Abbott..."tow back the boats Tony".

What did Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard actually DO about the culture in Parliament House from 2007 to 2013?
Yes exactly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 04:11:22 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 05, 2022, 02:03:23 AM
The whole Aussie conservative hierarchy should get locked up as accessories. A little time in a hinterland work camp should help them develop the good Christian values Scummo flunkies pretend to have but never follow.

Of course Scummo led a rapey government. It is exactly what you get from every right wing government the whole world over.

Andrew Thorburn resigns as Essendon CEO after one day over links to controversial church. Andrew Thorburn has resigned as Essendon chief executive 24 hours after being appointed because his links to a church condemning homosexuality and abortion were in "direct contradiction" to the values of the AFL club.

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Leave out the "homosexuality", and I wonder if you get moved on, basically,... for the 'abortion' bit.

Yes, Christians everywhere are under attack and hate today, whether or not they belong to a controversial church, or any church.
People assume things.

Wouldn't surprise me that if you condemn abortion, the only job you'll get is no job...such is the woke world today.

Christians gotta build more barns to meet in at midnight...by invitation only.
Disguises, so members of the Christian club can't be recognised going to the secret club meetings.
Heavily armed security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 06:02:11 AM: DT
JM
Oct 5 2022

Thorburn's Church, like pretty much every other church that claims to follow the Bible, says that marriage is between a man and a woman and that sex outside marriage - whether gay or straight - is a sin.

This has been the position, incidentally, of the three monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - since time immemorial.
But Christianity is, to the so- called progressive left, a uniquely dangerous doctrine that also underpins Western civilisation and so must be driven from the public square at every opportunity.

#####

Seems to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 05, 2022, 08:01:08 AM: How does one reconcile being a Christian with the unbridled fear, hate and paranoia you seem possessed of?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2022, 11:33:54 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 06:02:11 AM
DT
JM
Oct 5 2022

Thorburn's Church, like pretty much every other church that claims to follow the Bible, says that marriage is between a man and a woman and that sex outside marriage - whether gay or straight - is a sin.

This has been the position, incidentally, of the three monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - since time immemorial.
But Christianity is, to the so- called progressive left, a uniquely dangerous doctrine that also underpins Western civilisation and so must be driven from the public square at every opportunity.

#####

Seems to be.
Only if you ignore the tens of millions of professing liberal Christians, like me. Who do not confuse people taking issue with the political implications of my beliefs with oppression.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 12:12:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 05, 2022, 08:01:08 AM
How does one reconcile being a Christian with the unbridled fear, hate and paranoia you seem possessed of?

Being a Christian doesn't save you from living hell on earth at the hands of others, including professed-Christians.

Fear/paranoia
We have been informed by those who know in the former ScoMo govt that we will be at war with China within 5 years, invaded.
China's military might is very great.
Chinese warships are already cruising around our coastline within sight of land, obviously scoping for the best landing points for the invasion. 2 million troops, very fearsome looking, probably all martial arts experts. They are shown on my tv news every other night.
Only a COUSAN style alliance ready and willing to defend its members will have any chance of saving me/us from being enslaved by China.
I didn't make this up, the govt, with access to all the security information, told us, when AUKUS was formed several years ago.

Hate.
You bet.
My list is long:
*Everything* from Reversing to Islamic terrorists.
Islamic terrorists, you know...like the ones who blew up NYC 911...and hacked to death Aussie girls and others on London bridges.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 02:18:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2022, 11:33:54 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 06:02:11 AM
DT
JM
Oct 5 2022

Thorburn's Church, like pretty much every other church that claims to follow the Bible, says that marriage is between a man and a woman and that sex outside marriage - whether gay or straight - is a sin.

This has been the position, incidentally, of the three monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - since time immemorial.
But Christianity is, to the so- called progressive left, a uniquely dangerous doctrine that also underpins Western civilisation and so must be driven from the public square at every opportunity.

#####

Seems to be.
Only if you ignore the tens of millions of professing liberal Christians, like me. Who do not confuse people taking issue with the political implications of my beliefs with oppression.

Or those like me.

Christian principles drive my politics.

Damn near everything practiced and preached by Republican Christian Nationals is antithetical to the teachings of Christ.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM: Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 03:13:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2022, 03:24:01 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!
The apostles certainly were. After all, the gave us from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
Quote

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Having been there many times let me just stand up for the relative economic diversity of Sanibel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 05, 2022, 03:31:14 PM: https://twitter.com/christianwalk1r/status/1577284445367042049

Walker's family clearly doesn't trust him or believe his lies. A tad incoherent at times, but I thought this kid's take was spot on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 05, 2022, 03:50:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 03:13:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So? None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting. No one is questioning bridges and power lines. But homes may have to move inland. Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful. Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas. Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore. Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going. We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains. Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 04:02:02 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 03:50:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 03:13:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So? None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting. No one is questioning bridges and power lines. But homes may have to move inland. Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful. Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas. Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore. Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going. We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains. Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.
Comeback sometime when you are sober.
Choosing a barrier Island( or Marthas Vinyard) to live in or play at is an individual choice an adds to the diversity of lifestyles , not to mention jobs and livelihoods.
If they are hazards to you stay inSouth Dakota.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 04:58:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 04:02:02 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 03:50:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 03:13:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So? None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting. No one is questioning bridges and power lines. But homes may have to move inland. Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful. Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas. Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore. Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going. We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains. Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.
Comeback sometime when you are sober.
Choosing a barrier Island( or Marthas Vinyard) to live in or play at is an individual choice an adds to the diversity of lifestyles , not to mention jobs and livelihoods.
If they are hazards to you stay inSouth Dakota.

I guess you missed the part about the Florida property insurance industry imploding before Ian?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM: He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over. Sure, someone who likes to gamble can put a temporary dwelling someplace that gets blasted with God's powerwasher every few years, and duck the whole permitting procedure. And they should assume the risk for that lifestyle.

And LOL Ward suddenly championing "the diversity of lifestyles," as if he's ever championed anything other than soft landings for the monied class.

One alternative to endless rebuilding of flood/storm damaged properties:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/waterfront-retreat-a-bay-community-faces-rising-seas-and-buyouts
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 05, 2022, 07:53:10 PM: So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 05, 2022, 08:18:22 PM: When he was avoiding the land mines of his personal Viet Nam, Trump never paid that much
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 09:28:19 PM: What I learnt from Youtube today:

Take important photos with a camera-SD card as well as with your phone...because if you put your phone in for repair the shop might damage your phone and your photos could be lost forever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:32:42 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 05, 2022, 07:53:10 PM
So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?

It was like 500 and change. The 700 is from the personal check he wrote to reimburse the girlfriend with a dollop of sweetener added.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:36:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 09:28:19 PM
What I learnt from Youtube today:

Take important photos with a camera-SD card as well as with your phone...because if you put your phone in for repair the shop might damage your phone and your photos could be lost forever.

What I know is take my photos on my phone and upload them to my iCloud account.

Though I must say YouTube came in handy when I repaired my front loading washing machine a while back.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 12:47:25 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 05, 2022, 07:53:10 PM
So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?

You pay for the confidentiality if you cower in a hypocrite church as Walker does. Plus the special celebrity rate because of situations like this.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 12:49:04 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:36:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 09:28:19 PM
What I learnt from Youtube today:

Take important photos with a camera-SD card as well as with your phone...because if you put your phone in for repair the shop might damage your phone and your photos could be lost forever.

What I know is take my photos on my phone and upload them to my iCloud account.

Though I must say YouTube came in handy when I repaired my front loading washing machine a while back.

Larry,

Consider physical local backup under your own control. There are cheap east solutions that are a snap to set up. I recommend one makes it somewhere on your holiday list. Strong, strong rec.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 12:50:49 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 02:18:50 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2022, 11:33:54 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 05, 2022, 06:02:11 AM
DT
JM
Oct 5 2022

Thorburn's Church, like pretty much every other church that claims to follow the Bible, says that marriage is between a man and a woman and that sex outside marriage - whether gay or straight - is a sin.

This has been the position, incidentally, of the three monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - since time immemorial.
But Christianity is, to the so- called progressive left, a uniquely dangerous doctrine that also underpins Western civilisation and so must be driven from the public square at every opportunity.

#####

Seems to be.
Only if you ignore the tens of millions of professing liberal Christians, like me. Who do not confuse people taking issue with the political implications of my beliefs with oppression.

Or those like me.

Christian principles drive my politics.

Damn near everything practiced and preached by Republican Christian Nationals is antithetical to the teachings of Christ.

You cannot get more anti-Christ than Brett Farve, allegedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 12:54:41 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 03:13:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

Echolocating off of Wards BS here, I smell serious misappropriation in disaster relief being plotted by thieving cunts on the right. We call them republicans. The all try to look like Brett Farve, noted thieving cunt, allegedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:23:36 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
So you would deny any housing?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:31:34 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
People choose where they want to live.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 06, 2022, 09:55:06 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:32:42 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 05, 2022, 07:53:10 PM
So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?

It was like 500 and change. The 700 is from the personal check he wrote to reimburse the girlfriend with a dollop of sweetener added.

heheh

yeah, the numbers just do not happen to match

funny
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 06, 2022, 09:56:43 AM: So.....latest is the woman is the mother of one of Herschel's children

Let me guess -

Christian?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 06, 2022, 10:05:12 AM: Have to wonder how many followers the younger Walker has added the last few days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 06, 2022, 10:30:06 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:23:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
So you would deny any housing?

Still missing the point. Government helps create housing on higher ground. The fact that I can't build in the Missouri floodplain doesn't mean I've been denied housing. It means the house I do buy will be insurable and I won't be financially wiped out when Big Mo does jump its banks. Government banning builds in flood zones must go hand in hand with subsidizing builds of affordable housing on dry land. Stop trying to assign callous intent on urban planning and zoning that prepares working class people for rising sea levels and more powerful storm surges.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 10:40:31 AM: Quote from: Bart on October 06, 2022, 10:30:06 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:23:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
So you would deny any housing?

Still missing the point. Government helps create housing on higher ground. The fact that I can't build in the Missouri floodplain doesn't mean I've been denied housing. It means the house I do buy will be insurable and I won't be financially wiped out when Big Mo does jump its banks. Government banning builds in flood zones must go hand in hand with subsidizing builds of affordable housing on dry land. Stop trying to assign callous intent on urban planning and zoning that prepares working class people for rising sea levels and more powerful storm surges.
What you described is what already exists.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 06, 2022, 10:44:44 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 06, 2022, 09:56:43 AM
So.....latest is the woman is the mother of one of Herschel's children

Let me guess -

Christian?

Bzzzt

That guess would be wrong...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:12:32 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 05, 2022, 02:37:11 PM
Jesus was a Commie!

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Jesus didn't have a mortgage to pay, electricity and gas bills to pay.
No car insurance, house insurance, land taxes to pay.
He didn't have to amass wealth to avoid being homeless and starving...his loaf of bread and other food were never ending.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 11:32:10 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:23:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
So you would deny any housing?
No. Do you even know the point you are trying to make?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 11:37:14 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:31:34 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
People choose where they want to live.
In much the same way rich and poor people can choose to live in their cars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM: Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 11:55:34 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 11:37:14 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:31:34 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
People choose where they want to live.
In much the same way rich and poor people can choose to live in their cars.
How is that?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 12:00:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.
Hereditary wealth has been responsible for the creation of more useless idiots than anything outside of Republicans fucking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 12:04:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 11:37:14 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2022, 09:31:34 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 09:05:01 AM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 05, 2022, 11:34:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 05, 2022, 07:33:29 PM
He never argues with the point actually made. No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain. Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.
To the point. Why not? The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage
It is worth noting that the vast majority of people who live in areas prone to flooding in this country are poor.
People choose where they want to live.
In much the same way rich and poor people can choose to live in their cars.
How is that?
Work it out for yourself, Neville. Start with finding one rich person and one poor person who live in their car and ask them why they chose to live there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 01:06:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.

That sounds like a winning policy that should be brought back for large estates. I will write to my congressperson immediately.

Thanks Bambi. You are occasionally struck by good ideas that then carom right over your head.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 06, 2022, 06:04:59 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/

An optimist view of the coming clean energy economy. A Credit Suisse research paper looks at how the IRA could bring more change in the next four years than in the past forty.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 06:13:55 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 12:00:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.
Hereditary wealth has been responsible for the creation of more useless idiots than anything outside of Republicans fucking.

Americans over the generations have worked very hard in very difficult situations to save enough money to provide a home by way of mortgage for their families, save enough money to send their kids to college, and upon their death leave by way of will whatever assets they have to their children so the children can have a better life than they had.

The alternative is.....young people in America seeing no point in hard work and trying to save money for the future of themselves and any family they might have...as the leftist communist system would take *all* their income for the state.

Then instead of young Americans having incentives to work hard and save money for the future...they'd see no future, no hope.
Yes, instead of smart young people studying hard and working hard...there could well be a nation of young drug-addicted lay-abouts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 06, 2022, 06:30:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 06:13:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2022, 12:00:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.
Hereditary wealth has been responsible for the creation of more useless idiots than anything outside of Republicans fucking.

Americans over the generations have worked very hard in very difficult situations to save enough money to provide a home by way of mortgage for their families, save enough money to send their kids to college, and upon their death leave by way of will whatever assets they have to their children so the children can have a better life than they had.

The alternative is.....young people in America seeing no point in hard work and trying to save money for the future of themselves and any family they might have...as the leftist communist system would take *all* their income for the state.

Then instead of young Americans having incentives to work hard and save money for the future...they'd see no future, no hope.
Yes, instead of smart young people studying hard and working hard...there could well be a nation of young drug-addicted lay-abouts.

We need to respect an education. And people who train for management positions need to be paid more than those without training.

My father worked for the Los Angeles County Road Department when I was born, and they made him a manager and they sent him to study Business at Pepperdine in Malibu. The LA County Road Department valued management training and so they sent my Father to college, they paid for everything, he got a free education from the Road Department.

And when I worked at Universal Studios, I had a college degree and years of work experience working with the public and with the stars, they should have paid me a lot of money, I should have at least earned enough for an apartment and food, and it was not like I was working helping orphans, I was working for a giant Japanese corporation, they were making a lot of money from the work that I did, I should have earned enough for an apartment and food. Jobs like that need to pay fair. I would work for free for the Catholic Church to help orphans, but I am not going to work for free for wealthy Japanese corporations.

And now the secret is to learn how to make money working from home, if you have a home then you can have a home office.

And I wrote a poetry book and a movie script, and I am still learning. I value what I learned, and I want to continue to learn. I want to go to workshops at the film school, etc, and I want to learn more. And I want to go to work in the Entertainment Industry as a writer, and producer, and maybe as an actor, we will see, you are never too old to act.

I also support labor unions, and every area needs a Wellness Center and a Mental Health Association.

And if you are honest, and if you work hard, then you should not be poor and homeless. We need to make the companies pay the workers enough so that the workers can afford food and shelter.

We also need to build good affordable high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece. With tennis courts and swimming pools.

I support building housing for all people. We need to put the workers to work building housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 06:32:34 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 01:06:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.

That sounds like a winning policy that should be brought back for large estates. I will write to my congressperson immediately.

Thanks Bambi. You are occasionally struck by good ideas that then carom right over your head.

My young Lutheran maternal ancestor in Prussia, and his ilk, in the 1800s, decided they weren't going to suffer Marx and his ilk's communist [b ]"work all day for not much pay only to have the state take everything when you die" [/b] oppression, and boarded the ships for Adelaide, South Australia.
There they worked hard, farmed the land, grew the grapes, opened produce markets, had large families, and prospered.
Their descendants can be seen there today, doing the same things, living the same lives...on the land their ancestors purchased.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 06, 2022, 06:36:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 06:13:55 PM

The alternative is.....young people in America seeing no point in hard work and trying to save money for the future of themselves and any family they might have...as the leftist communist system would take *all* their income for the state.

Then instead of young Americans having incentives to work hard and save money for the future...they'd see no future, no hope.
Yes, instead of smart young people studying hard and working hard...there could well be a nation of young drug-addicted lay-abouts.

Eeyore? Is that you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 06, 2022, 08:27:53 PM: Bambu, instead of everyone sitting around using heroin, then instead we should be like Athens, and Rome, and people can read books in gardens while drinking the finest wines, and while smoking the best pot, etc, and the people can cure cancer, and they can solve all of our problems. We can sit around and smoke a joint and drink a glass of wine and try to figure out how to cure cancer. Like Greece, and Rome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 06, 2022, 09:30:48 PM: Here's one way that housing is becoming more available - YIMBY and the ADU. Facilitat and Tony live where this great trend is happening.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/california-accessory-dwelling-units-legalization-yimby/671648/

In short, merely legalizing ADUs triggered a boom in affordable housing at no cost to the taxpayer....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 09:54:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 06:32:34 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 06, 2022, 01:06:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 06, 2022, 11:55:25 AM
Karl Marx and his merry band of commies were a menace.
Previously-hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors...as one example.

That sounds like a winning policy that should be brought back for large estates. I will write to my congressperson immediately.

Thanks Bambi. You are occasionally struck by good ideas that then carom right over your head.

My young Lutheran maternal ancestor in Prussia, and his ilk, in the 1800s, decided they weren't going to suffer Marx and his ilk's communist [b ]"work all day for not much pay only to have the state take everything when you die" [/b] oppression, and boarded the ships for Adelaide, South Australia.
There they worked hard, farmed the land, grew the grapes, opened produce markets, had large families, and prospered.
Their descendants can be seen there today, doing the same things, living the same lives...on the land their ancestors purchased.

Now you are poor as fuck and entirety useless.

Someone along the line of your family clearly fucked up quite badly.

Probably could have done with a bit more Marx.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 06, 2022, 10:00:12 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 06, 2022, 06:04:59 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/

An optimist view of the coming clean energy economy. A Credit Suisse research paper looks at how the IRA could bring more change in the next four years than in the past forty.

And why is a clean energy economy essential?

It is not only because of fossil fuels.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florida-hurricane-ian-climate/index.html

This community in Florida got hit by Ian and did not lose power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 06, 2022, 10:28:18 PM: We still have a police problem.

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/nation-world/3-arkansas-officers-suspended-after-video-captures-beating-viral-video-social-media-civil-rights-violations-fbi-department-of-justice
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 07, 2022, 01:07:29 AM: What I learnt from Youtube last night...
US cops allegedly try to trick people by asking "Mind if I search your car", "Mind if I search your bag"..a "yes" or "no" answer allegedly being taken as consent.
People should say instead "I do not consent to any searches".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 07, 2022, 06:00:43 AM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/6/2127383/-DeSantis-cracks-under-the-pressure-of-his-first-real-crisis (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/6/2127383/-DeSantis-cracks-under-the-pressure-of-his-first-real-crisis)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 07, 2022, 10:13:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 07, 2022, 01:07:29 AM
What I learnt from Youtube last night...
US cops allegedly try to trick people by asking "Mind if I search your car", "Mind if I search your bag"..a "yes" or "no" answer allegedly being taken as consent.
People should say instead "I do not consent to any searches".

I learned that before I got a driver license
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 07, 2022, 10:38:13 AM: Step by step... inch by inch.

Jeremy Bertino, 43, of Belmont, N.C., agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department against Tarrio and four other Proud Boys leaders with ties to influential Donald Trump supporters Roger Stone and Alex Jones. The Proud Boys defendants are set to face trial in December on charges including plotting to oppose by force the presidential transition, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/06/proud-boys-bertino-plea-seditious-conspiracy/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 07, 2022, 01:52:51 PM: pay site
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 07, 2022, 02:02:49 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 07, 2022, 01:52:51 PM
pay site

Gods are you lazy.

https://archive.ph/L9Ssn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 07, 2022, 02:06:51 PM: Just a heads-up:

archive.ph is now generating a Trojan (malware) warning from many browsers, including Edge and Chrome, and may be impossible for many users to access. (I wonder if this is the NYT, et al striking back at them?) I cannot currently access the site. Will try later, at home, where I can use my DuckDuckGo browser. (which is, again, a joy to use)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 07, 2022, 02:12:26 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 07, 2022, 02:06:51 PM
Just a heads-up:

archive.ph is now generating a Trojan (malware) warning from many browsers, including Edge and Chrome, and may be impossible for many users to access. (I wonder if this is the NYT, et al striking back at them?) I cannot currently access the site. Will try later, at home, where I can use my DuckDuckGo browser. (which is, again, a joy to use)

Hmm...

I've just updated my protections and did not have a problem accessing the site from either Chrome or Edge. Nor did they detect a virus after I used the site.

I will keep an eye open going forward.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 07, 2022, 02:18:21 PM: That's good to hear. I'm hoping it's just overzealous security on this public PC.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 07, 2022, 08:56:57 PM: Yep having some problem at times. Site unsafe warning than just an easy access.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 07, 2022, 11:24:55 PM: (https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/309372707_10229452381238463_4421693141195481855_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=OenQZjTOYJkAX-Mu05h&tn=pmV1mfWSKAXQCrDW&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT9tpnPB2UfjTVVuvcKKhjfALqr6Jm5V1qRdSVSaCH87Cg&oe=6345DE7F)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2022, 01:57:51 AM: Guns...

"you don't need one, until you do...then you''re happy you have one" - a movie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2022, 04:29:55 AM: Evil scum will kill your 10 yr old daughter.
You need to guard her everywhere she goes.
Only guns offer absolute protection.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:46:15 AM: Careful running a business - who you hire and especially who you screw

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/california-family-kidnapped-killed-saturday/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:54:14 AM: Thank you, Perla Huerta - for your service to this great nation

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-perla-huerta/?dicbo=v2-81d0b3e2b2f6fda3175f0a4b78204d5c&hpt=ob_blogfooterold
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 08, 2022, 12:21:31 PM: Quote from: luee on October 07, 2022, 08:56:57 PM
Yep having some problem at times. Site unsafe warning than just an easy access.

Did you get any damage from Ian where you are, Luee?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 08, 2022, 12:29:20 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:46:15 AM
Careful running a business - who you hire and especially who you screw

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/california-family-kidnapped-killed-saturday/index.html

Saw that sad story. Salgado had a rap sheet that makes you wonder if more psych eval in prisons would better help identify violent sociopaths and keep them incarcerated. We incarcerate too many people, but such sociopaths are generally not curable and need to be sequestered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2022, 01:07:28 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:46:15 AM
Careful running a business - who you hire and especially who you screw

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/california-family-kidnapped-killed-saturday/index.html

Indeed.

Never trust anyone.
Always be armed to the teeth.
Treat everyone as evil.
Have absolute security.
Have every member of the family armed 24/7, trained in firearms carrying and use.
Then, you might have a chance.
The bad people are capable of anything, nothing is beyond their evil and every living person is at risk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 08, 2022, 01:46:06 PM: MAGA!

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys

That pattern was strikingly similar to how Mr. Trump confronted inquiries into his conduct while in office: entertain or promote outlandish ideas, eschew the advice of lawyers and mislead them, then push lawyers and aides to impede investigators.

In the process, some of his lawyers have increased their own legal exposure and had to hire lawyers themselves. And Mr. Trump has ended up in the middle of an investigation into his handling of the documents that has led the Justice Department to seek evidence of obstruction.

The path began well before Mr. Trump left office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/trump-documents-lawyers.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 02:39:03 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 08, 2022, 12:29:20 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:46:15 AM
Careful running a business - who you hire and especially who you screw

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/california-family-kidnapped-killed-saturday/index.html

Saw that sad story. Salgado had a rap sheet that makes you wonder if more psych eval in prisons would better help identify violent sociopaths and keep them incarcerated. We incarcerate too many people, but such sociopaths are generally not curable and need to be sequestered.

Hospital setting though right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 08, 2022, 03:03:42 PM: Guys like Salgdo? Hospital? Pfft! Penal colony on an island surrounded by shark infested waters. A plane can drop minimal rations on them once a month and then they figure out how to survive. Or they drop coconuts on each other then cannibalize the victims. I don't always lean Liberal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 08, 2022, 03:48:38 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 08, 2022, 10:54:14 AM
Thank you, Perla Huerta - for your service to this great nation

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-perla-huerta/?dicbo=v2-81d0b3e2b2f6fda3175f0a4b78204d5c&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

And so sad that following that service, you went down this path.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 08, 2022, 03:49:51 PM: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/dr-oz-adolf-hitler-car

Dr. Oz, doing his schtick in front of one of Hitler's cars.

Could it have been intentional?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 08, 2022, 03:50:29 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 08, 2022, 12:21:31 PM
Quote from: luee on October 07, 2022, 08:56:57 PM
Yep having some problem at times. Site unsafe warning than just an easy access.

Did you get any damage from Ian where you are, Luee?

No Tampa for some reason has avoided heavy hurricane damage lately. Just south in ft myers a different story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2022, 07:02:12 PM: Neck tattoos, bad record ex con...maybe they're the only people willing to drive trucks these days for the money and conditions on offer ?
Some ex cons are nice people, just made a little mistake.
See Joe has pardoned lots of federal prisoners convicted of drug offences...urging the states to do the same.
Some ex cons are very bad news.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 08, 2022, 07:33:47 PM: As are some cops.

I agree with Bart as far as it concerns sociopaths convicted of crime. What to do with those displaying strong sociopathic tendencies who however have not behaved in such a way to draw accusations? That is where I think it becomes more complicated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2022, 02:00:52 AM: Give your daughters an armed escort everywhere they go...including to school.
If you don't, the bad people will get them, jump out of the bush wearing a camo suit, drag them into the bush [woods/forest], tie them to a tree and rape them for an hour.
Is that what you want for your daughters? ...of course not, but that's what you'll get.

Or, even worse, if anything could be worse...as happened to a father in America who stood on his home verandah every morning and watched his young daughter walk up the road to the school bus stop...a white van will pull up beside her, a man jump out and drag her into the van, the van driving off, takes seconds...and like his lovely daughter yours will never be seen again.

Gotta escort your daughters everywhere, gun/s ready to fire at the first sign of trouble.
Guns and only guns are the answer in America.

Yes, the bad people are out there, always looking for victims,

Judge Wilson pointed out Johnson had stalked the schoolgirl for weeks before carrying out his abhorrent plan to rape her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2022, 06:52:11 PM: Oh dear...most of the things used to make solar, wind, etc energy come from mining.
Mine away for a happier day!

And, most all things renewable energy are now made in China.
Yes, smart China now rules the world...everyone has to go to it for *everything*.

The West was warned not to embrace cheap labour China, but it wouldn't listen.
Chinese cars are walking out the doors of dealers in bambuworld.
Won't be long before great Ford etc vehicles in America are replaced by Great Wall etc Chinese vehicles...it's the price you see. [if nothing changes].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 09, 2022, 09:01:54 PM: Roll back into your ball, Aussie possum.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 09, 2022, 11:15:19 PM: 1917 in the upper image.

1922 in the lower image.

(https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/310064164_791133892222006_201828162835908620_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=BO_9ZlULkWIAX-TNmGY&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT82UcTwZQ9xKVlJZQH49SZkUJILGcrgWxNsBeZ4dfQYfA&oe=6347C5FB)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2022, 11:27:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 09, 2022, 06:52:11 PM
Oh dear...most of the things used to make solar, wind, etc energy come from mining.
Mine away for a happier day!

And, most all things renewable energy are now made in China.
Yes, smart China now rules the world...everyone has to go to it for *everything*.

The West was warned not to embrace cheap labour China, but it wouldn't listen.
Chinese cars are walking out the doors of dealers in bambuworld.
Won't be long before great Ford etc vehicles in America are replaced by Great Wall etc Chinese vehicles...it's the price you see. [if nothing changes].

Much of the crap used to extract, store, transport, process, and distribute fossil fuels comes about the same way. The vast bulk of it can be recycled to support renewable energy systems without being missed in its current role at all, saving us a lot of mining.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2022, 11:31:13 PM: Test drive a Polestar you fucking xenophobe. You might then understand enough to pause your wingeing about backward ass Oz being to slow to cook nukes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 02:59:12 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkebv/virginia-mom-rammed-by-police-car (http://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkebv/virginia-mom-rammed-by-police-car)

That police problem again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 07:57:51 AM: Climate activists glue themselves to Picasso painting in Melb.
No surprise to many.
What they don't understand is that nothing Australia does or doesn't do will make one iota of difference to climate anything.

The painting is fine, someone had the good sense to display it in a glass case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 10, 2022, 10:11:53 AM: Everyone makes a difference. And Oz selling coal to other nations certainly makes a difference.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2022, 11:44:43 AM: Somebody should ask Red if he felt that the U.S. participation in the Viet Nam was a good idea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 12:04:00 PM: He was a big fan of helping cause alQaeda in Iraq and getting all that oil.

I would guess he was dodging Vietnam like his idols, dick and don.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2022, 12:51:31 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2022, 11:44:43 AM
Somebody should ask Red if he felt that the U.S. participation in the Viet Nam was a good idea.
Already answered that weeks ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 10, 2022, 01:16:46 PM: Sorry, I didn't take notes for the quiz.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:26:42 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 10, 2022, 01:16:46 PM
Sorry, I didn't take notes for the quiz.

The answer to that one is Jim, the chicken hawk chicken shit chicken head, cannot come clean.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 10, 2022, 01:54:29 PM: Maybe there is some hope for bambutistan after all.

The country has long sustained its economy on natural resources. Its number one commodity is iron ore, representing nearly a third of all exports, but its coal and gas sales into Asia and India make up a further quarter of the countrys export profile. These dirty fossil fuel dollars have an expiry date on them, but the countrys huge expanses of hot desert represent an opportunity both to power Australia itself, and to replace coal and gas exports with renewably generated clean fuels.

https://newatlas.com/energy/net-zero-australia/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 10, 2022, 02:10:48 PM: I was a Cub Scout as a child, and guys like Columbus were heroes for me. Columbus, and Amerigo Vespucci, they were heroes, and so were guys like Louis and Clark. The explorers were my heroes.

So, today on Columbus Day is a day to remember what a brave man Columbus was. To get on a ship and take off to where no one he knew had ever gone. Some people thought the world was flat and that he would sail off of the edge of the Earth, but he had the knowledge from Euclid and he knew the world was round, and not only did they know it was round but they knew approximately how big the Earth is, the Greeks were amazing and Euclid knew almost exactly how big the Earth is. Columbus mostly used what they call "Dead Reckoning" to travel, but they used sextons and the stars at night and they used clocks, etc. It is amazing that Columbus could set sail to places he had never been, and then find his way back to the same port that he had left, without getting permanently lost. A lot of people get lost just going for a walk in the woods, just imagine setting sail in a ship and taking off across the ocean.

Then, after my family got to New York hundreds of years ago they kept traveling and they came all the way to the West Coast. I had ancestors who lived in New York, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Colorado, Oregon, and here in California, that I know of. And I have Native American Indians in my family tree, my ancestors fell in love with the Indians and married Indians, I need to do my DNA test and all of that still, but I am sure that I have Cowboys and Indians in my family tree.

I have the same love of travel that the explorers had, and I was a Cub Scout as a child, I love to explore.

Columbus was a very brave man, with the spark of curiosity and skill to make the unknown known. I love the Native Americans Indians, and I have Indian blood in my veins, and I also respect the bravery and skill of Columbus.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 02:37:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.

With nothing to replace it.
It, the base load power that powers industry, businesses, homes, computers, tv's and now electric cars.
The leftist and greenist politicians are rushing to close it and have admitted they have no plan B for if the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
Talk about madness.
Britain was no1 green dreamer...now look what's happened as a result.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 10, 2022, 02:51:31 PM: Of course it's replaceable -that is why the power company itself moved the date up to 2035. They issued a statement that coal is no longer economically viable and will replace with solar/wind/large battery storage. The wind blows, the sun glows, enough for distributed grid power. Learn the science you antipodal anencephalic. And Britain will be fine because Truss isn't going to be able to kill all the wind farms and subsidizing home insulation upgrades, LED lights, rooftop solar, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 10, 2022, 03:29:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 02:37:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.

With nothing to replace it.
It, the base load power that powers industry, businesses, homes, computers, tv's and now electric cars.
The leftist and greenist politicians are rushing to close it and have admitted they have no plan B for if the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
Talk about madness.
Britain was no1 green dreamer...now look what's happened as a result.

Maybe there is some hope for bambutistan after all.

The country has long sustained its economy on natural resources. Its number one commodity is iron ore, representing nearly a third of all exports, but its coal and gas sales into Asia and India make up a further quarter of the countrys export profile. These dirty fossil fuel dollars have an expiry date on them, but the countrys huge expanses of hot desert represent an opportunity both to power Australia itself, and to replace coal and gas exports with renewably generated clean fuels.

https://newatlas.com/energy/net-zero-australia/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 03:32:18 PM: They're gambling that their planned green energy will replace fossil fuels.
The very cautious population, bambu-ilk, say build the green energy first, then when it's proven shut off the coal and gas fired power stations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 04:25:30 PM: You cheap bastards need to invest like grown up countries are starting to do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 10, 2022, 04:46:03 PM: My Mother lives in the desert where she has plenty of sun-light, and she has solar panels on her roof, with a Tesla battery system, and she is getting very cheap electricity, she has a huge new air conditioner with complete climate control, and she has a swimming pool. She loves the desert, and for her it is paradise. She is retired, on a low income, and she is blessed to have solar panels on the roof of her home with a Tesla system.

Also, people can use GEOTHERMAL, I had a friend who drilled for Geothermal power for a living, and it is viable in some areas.

Wind and solar are both expanding here big time.

In Anaheim we own the power company, so we make the money, and we are using mostly Natural Gas to generate power. Natural Gas is cheap and plentiful here, and the money is going to the city, some of the money goes into a fund to help the homeless, etc. There is no need for the city to change away from Natural Gas, Natural Gas is cheap and plentiful here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 06:24:50 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 04:25:30 PM
You cheap bastards need to invest like grown up countries are starting to do.

Next year electricity is to rise by 35% (green subsidies?) it was announced today.
Leftist PM Albo promised electricity prices would fall by $250 per household. LOL.

"Cost of living" increases have seen homelessness rise sharply.
Much price-gouging going on, seems to many people.
Not many 'specials' in the supermarkets anymore.
The Aussie dollar is tanking, bad for tourists wanting to travel to U.S....but good for exporters.
Wanna buy some cheap coal?
We have to export coal to live.
No exports, no income, go broke.
Coal power is:
Available.
Reliable.
Affordable.
Should be interesting when little kids are shown homeless and starving on the streets..."cost of living" unaffordable...rent, utilities, food, clothing etc...time to build tent cities.
Should be interesting when the families of the 'Wild Colonial Boys' are falling apart, starving.
Parliament House has already been invaded once in history...unionists and students protest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2022, 07:14:07 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 02:37:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.

Britain was no1 green dreamer...now look what's happened as a result.
The inevitable result of sustained conservative rule.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 07:22:11 PM: No relief, my leftist federal govt insists it is going ahead with renewable energy.
One gas station owner rang Raaay on the radio (no 1 morning host) and said his electricity bill from Jan 1 2023 will increase from $3,500 per month to $7,000 per month.

Electricity prices have already increased by 40% this year.
It's all gonna hit the fan...sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2022, 07:27:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 07:22:11 PM
No relief, my leftist federal govt insists it is going ahead with renewable energy.
One gas station owner rang Raaay on the radio (no 1 morning host) and said his electricity bill from Jan 1 2023 will increase from $3,500 per month to $7,000 per month.

Electricity prices have already increased by 40% this year.
It's all gonna hit the fan...sooner rather than later.
Yeah. How are the other energy costs? Renewable energy is your path to energy independence and cheaper energy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 08:10:49 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2022, 07:14:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 02:37:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.

Britain was no1 green dreamer...now look what's happened as a result.
The inevitable result of sustained conservative rule.

More like foolish Britain chasing and achieving no1 "lowest carbon dioxide ( plant and tree food) emitter."
Its chest-thumping is not so loud these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 10:44:09 PM: Word to the wise,

When you get your news directly from the arsehole of a wombat, it gets a little distorted in the squaring off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2022, 03:35:19 AM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 10, 2022, 03:29:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 02:37:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 10, 2022, 01:21:36 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63070475)

Another one bites the dust.

With nothing to replace it.
It, the base load power that powers industry, businesses, homes, computers, tv's and now electric cars.
The leftist and greenist politicians are rushing to close it and have admitted they have no plan B for if the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
Talk about madness.
Britain was no1 green dreamer...now look what's happened as a result.

Maybe there is some hope for bambutistan after all.

The country has long sustained its economy on natural resources. Its number one commodity is iron ore, representing nearly a third of all exports, but its coal and gas sales into Asia and India make up a further quarter of the countrys export profile. These dirty fossil fuel dollars have an expiry date on them, but the countrys huge expanses of hot desert represent an opportunity both to power Australia itself, and to replace coal and gas exports with renewably generated clean fuels.

https://newatlas.com/energy/net-zero-australia/

All good.
But that's in the future, not 'next week'.
The People will be rioting before that happens if electricity prices increase as expected.
The govt has to provide it all, the People cannot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 11, 2022, 11:28:17 AM: The wombat's poo it comes out square,
Each piece formed with loving care.
I think it clever of the wombat
To use its poo for defense in combat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 12:03:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2022, 07:27:39 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 07:22:11 PM
No relief, my leftist federal govt insists it is going ahead with renewable energy.
One gas station owner rang Raaay on the radio (no 1 morning host) and said his electricity bill from Jan 1 2023 will increase from $3,500 per month to $7,000 per month.

Electricity prices have already increased by 40% this year.
It's all gonna hit the fan...sooner rather than later.
Yeah. How are the other energy costs? Renewable energy is your path to energy independence and cheaper energy.
Only if you do not count the cost of fossil fuels to make up for days when the sun is blocked or the wind takes a nap.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 11, 2022, 12:15:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 12:03:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2022, 07:27:39 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2022, 07:22:11 PM
No relief, my leftist federal govt insists it is going ahead with renewable energy.
One gas station owner rang Raaay on the radio (no 1 morning host) and said his electricity bill from Jan 1 2023 will increase from $3,500 per month to $7,000 per month.

Electricity prices have already increased by 40% this year.
It's all gonna hit the fan...sooner rather than later.
Yeah. How are the other energy costs? Renewable energy is your path to energy independence and cheaper energy.
Only if you do not count the cost of fossil fuels to make up for days when the sun is blocked or the wind takes a nap.

Tell me you know nothing about renewable energy without saying you know nothing about solar and wind power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 11, 2022, 12:56:50 PM: C'mon, he knows he's trolling. Literally dozens of posts here have been linking to basic scientific information on how intermittent power sources will rely on storage systems to store peak output and even out supply. Also watch for the red herring that only coal can handle baseloads where gravity or battery storage is not online yet - there's modular nukes, thorium reactors, geothermal, tidal, etc. You're just engaging with someone who is entrenched in their ignorance and misinformation, stacking their square blocks of partisan poo.

There's also IR panels - a new line of research that can absorb heat radiated from the ground at night, which helps balance out solar PV systems especially in desert regions. I'll put a link up here some time, as that progresses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 01:22:54 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 11, 2022, 12:56:50 PM
C'mon, he knows he's trolling. Literally dozens of posts here have been linking to basic scientific information on how intermittent power sources will rely on storage systems to store peak output and even out supply.

LOL A technology we do not have nor will we ever have in total since wind and solar only work in certain parts of the country.
The only limitless renewable at this point is Nuclear but has been ignored by alarmists for so long we would need over a hundred years of constructing new plants and even then will not be able to totally replace fossil fuels.
Get real. We are one hundred per cent reliable on fossil fuels for generations to come.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 11, 2022, 01:33:14 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 11, 2022, 12:56:50 PM
C'mon, he knows he's trolling. Literally dozens of posts here have been linking to basic scientific information on how intermittent power sources will rely on storage systems to store peak output and even out supply. Also watch for the red herring that only coal can handle baseloads where gravity or battery storage is not online yet - there's modular nukes, thorium reactors, geothermal, tidal, etc. You're just engaging with someone who is entrenched in their ignorance and misinformation, stacking their square blocks of partisan poo.

There's also IR panels - a new line of research that can absorb heat radiated from the ground at night, which helps balance out solar PV systems especially in desert regions. I'll put a link up here some time, as that progresses.

Come on!

Trolling is not half of his schtick.

He is a shill for everything stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2022, 01:44:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 01:22:54 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 11, 2022, 12:56:50 PM
C'mon, he knows he's trolling. Literally dozens of posts here have been linking to basic scientific information on how intermittent power sources will rely on storage systems to store peak output and even out supply.

LOL A technology we do not have nor will we ever have in total since wind and solar only work in certain parts of the country.
The only limitless renewable at this point is Nuclear but has been ignored by alarmists for so long we would need over a hundred years of constructing new plants and even then will not be able to totally replace fossil fuels.
Get real. We are one hundred per cent reliable on fossil fuels for generations to come.

You are dead in a ditch. We are already moving on without you.

We will not forget you entirely. Every so often we will look back and tell stories of the incredible assholes who drowned in fossil fuels out of fear of a better future. You may live on as a sort of ridiculous cautionary tale of rank fug and foolishness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 11, 2022, 01:46:00 PM: "one hundred per cent reliable (sic) on fossil fuels for generations to come"

The facts about our using renewables now have already disproven what you meant to have said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 01:54:07 PM: Quote from: josh on October 11, 2022, 01:46:00 PM
"one hundred per cent reliable (sic) on fossil fuels for generations to come"

The facts about our using renewables now have already disproven what you meant to have said.
You cannot be serious.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 11, 2022, 04:40:06 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2022, 01:54:07 PM
Quote from: josh on October 11, 2022, 01:46:00 PM
"one hundred per cent reliable (sic) on fossil fuels for generations to come"

The facts about our using renewables now have already disproven what you meant to have said.
You cannot be serious.

Cone on guys. No fish for this fuck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2022, 04:49:34 PM: Today...20th anniversary of the Bali bombings.
Horror as Muslim terrorists blew up the Sari Club, turning innocent tourists and locals into flaming corpses...burnt beyond recognition were many of them.

Service today in Sydney's east, at the memorial.
Service also in Bali, at the memorial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 11, 2022, 10:05:12 PM: Indictment: When not if.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/merrick-garland-donald-trump-investigation-indictment/671683/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 11, 2022, 10:06:14 PM: Let's go!!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2022, 11:09:19 PM: Yes. He should have been put down decades ago, before he had a regular spot on television.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 11:01:12 AM: Quote from: Bart on October 12, 2022, 10:08:50 AM
What's interesting about this tape is that the "he's like a monkey" comment is directed at a child who is climbing with agility over a float. IOW I have no way to tell if the woman even meant to be racist, given how often agile small children are compared to monkeys. It is the fact that she knows it will be recorded and is too clueless to understand how it could be taken as racist, given the snide things she has already said. I think she should resign simply on the basis of stupidity and lack of self awareness.

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-city-council-uncertainty-e87533fd143b4526e208909129443c93

She called the adopted black child of a gay white man a monkey and said they were raising him like a white kid and that he needed a beat down.

Stupid my ass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 12, 2022, 02:57:02 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 11:01:12 AM
Quote from: Bart on October 12, 2022, 10:08:50 AM
What's interesting about this tape is that the "he's like a monkey" comment is directed at a child who is climbing with agility over a float. IOW I have no way to tell if the woman even meant to be racist, given how often agile small children are compared to monkeys. It is the fact that she knows it will be recorded and is too clueless to understand how it could be taken as racist, given the snide things she has already said. I think she should resign simply on the basis of stupidity and lack of self awareness.

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-city-council-uncertainty-e87533fd143b4526e208909129443c93

She called the adopted black child of a gay white man a monkey and said they were raising him like a white kid and that he needed a beat down.

Stupid my ass.

Fair point, LB. I hadn't read about the "raising like...beat down" part. So, yes, I would say both stupid and racist. Unequivocally racist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 12, 2022, 03:01:30 PM: Since my skimming the story led to missing some key information I'm deleting the original post. I'm to that point where, if I can't read the whole story, then I just don't read it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 03:36:02 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 12, 2022, 03:01:30 PM
Since my skimming the story led to missing some key information I'm deleting the original post. I'm to that point where, if I can't read the whole story, then I just don't read it.

Well, she is an equal opportunity bigot.

This is what happens when Latinos believe they have been assimilated into whiteness.

This is why so many Latinos are supporting the GOP.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-11/nury-martinez-leak-reveals-crude-comments-about-jews-armenians#
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 04:17:57 PM: A slightly disturbing pleasure to see your work, Deej. Bravo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 12, 2022, 04:32:47 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 11, 2022, 10:05:12 PM
Indictment: When not if.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/merrick-garland-donald-trump-investigation-indictment/671683/

Interesting bio stuff on Garland. Had a smile at this:

When he was on the bench, Garland would occasionally orient new clerks to his idiosyncrasies by playing a song by the band Vampire Weekend which contains the refrain, Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? It was amusing because the band was so distant from his range of expected cultural references, and because the straitlaced attorney general would never utter that sentence himself. It was also funny because Garland does care about punctuation, deeply.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 12, 2022, 04:40:10 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 04:17:57 PM
A slightly disturbing pleasure to see your work, Deej. Bravo

Yes. A little Dali in there, with the scoundrels.

Someone should put Stephen Miller on a big old jetliner that carries him too far away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 05:49:02 PM: Mine mine mine!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/12/maralago-witness-trump-boxes-moved/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 12, 2022, 06:42:05 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 03:36:02 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 12, 2022, 03:01:30 PM
Since my skimming the story led to missing some key information I'm deleting the original post. I'm to that point where, if I can't read the whole story, then I just don't read it.

Well, she is an equal opportunity bigot.

This is what happens when Latinos believe they have been assimilated into whiteness.

This is why so many Latinos are supporting the GOP.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-11/nury-martinez-leak-reveals-crude-comments-about-jews-armenians#

You like any Latinas, Larry?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 07:04:40 PM: What the fuck is your problem, Kiid?

Since we are asking questions
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 08:33:31 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 12, 2022, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 03:36:02 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 12, 2022, 03:01:30 PM
Since my skimming the story led to missing some key information I'm deleting the original post. I'm to that point where, if I can't read the whole story, then I just don't read it.

Well, she is an equal opportunity bigot.

This is what happens when Latinos believe they have been assimilated into whiteness.

This is why so many Latinos are supporting the GOP.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-11/nury-martinez-leak-reveals-crude-comments-about-jews-armenians#

You like any Latinas, Larry?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? (One of my grandmothers faves.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 12, 2022, 10:23:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 07:04:40 PM
What the fuck is your problem, Kiid?

Since we are asking questions

I dont think he does
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 11:10:07 PM: It is hard for you to imagine people less ignorantly bigoted than yourself, kid, though they are all around you all the time.

It is another facet of your pinhead paradox that makes you less and less of a man.

Mostly these days it is diagnosed as conservatism with positive cases being written off as a near total loss.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 12, 2022, 11:15:00 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 12, 2022, 10:23:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 07:04:40 PM
What the fuck is your problem, Kiid?

Since we are asking questions

I dont think he does

I think you are a wannabe Brownshirted fascist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 13, 2022, 10:53:36 AM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/anthony-novak-parma-ohio-onion-scotus-parody/671697/

Parody must be protected.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 11:13:10 AM: Quote from: Bart on October 13, 2022, 10:53:36 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/anthony-novak-parma-ohio-onion-scotus-parody/671697/

Parody must be protected.

From the amicus brief (paraphrased):

the Onion is the worlds leading news publication with a daily readership of 4.3 trillion that has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.

Pure gold...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 13, 2022, 12:03:30 PM: Here
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 12:23:56 PM: Latinas?
Bad idea to be exalting Latinas above any other race.
Everyone should be treated the same.
"Latinas are all lovely people" seems to be the popular mantra these days.
No they're not.
Some are very horrible, MS13 gang members doing very bad things.
Criminals of all types, from drug carteliers to rapists, mudrerers, thugs of all types, just like any other race.
Some are very nice people, like in every other race.
Borders should be closed tight, slammed shut, with only authorised people allowed to cross them.
Italy has finally seen the light.
Countries in Europe have finally seen the light.
Anything else is anarchy, no way to run a nation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 13, 2022, 12:58:56 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 13, 2022, 12:03:30 PM
Here

Horseman, pass by!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 01:27:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 12:23:56 PM
Latinas?
Bad idea to be exalting Latinas above any other race.
Everyone should be treated the same.
"Latinas are all lovely people" seems to be the popular mantra these days.
No they're not.
Some are very horrible, MS13 gang members doing very bad things.
Criminals of all types, from drug carteliers to rapists, mudrerers, thugs of all types, just like any other race.
Some are very nice people, like in every other race.
Borders should be closed tight, slammed shut, with only authorised people allowed to cross them.
Italy has finally seen the light.
Countries in Europe have finally seen the light.
Anything else is anarchy, no way to run a nation.

Let us celebrate Fascism!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 13, 2022, 02:45:12 PM: Oh, myyyyy....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/saudis-say-biden-admin-requested-oil-production-cut-come-midterms
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 13, 2022, 03:18:53 PM: If only they could find some treason monkeys to amplify their bogus claim
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 13, 2022, 04:58:10 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 01:27:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 12:23:56 PM
Latinas?
Bad idea to be exalting Latinas above any other race.
Everyone should be treated the same.
"Latinas are all lovely people" seems to be the popular mantra these days.
No they're not.
Some are very horrible, MS13 gang members doing very bad things.
Criminals of all types, from drug carteliers to rapists, mudrerers, thugs of all types, just like any other race.
Some are very nice people, like in every other race.
Borders should be closed tight, slammed shut, with only authorised people allowed to cross them.
Italy has finally seen the light.
Countries in Europe have finally seen the light.
Anything else is anarchy, no way to run a nation.

Let us celebrate Fascism!
How to know if you, as a man, could be a fascist.
Marry a woman.

Hitler did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 05:19:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 13, 2022, 04:58:10 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 01:27:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 12:23:56 PM
Latinas?
Bad idea to be exalting Latinas above any other race.
Everyone should be treated the same.
"Latinas are all lovely people" seems to be the popular mantra these days.
No they're not.
Some are very horrible, MS13 gang members doing very bad things.
Criminals of all types, from drug carteliers to rapists, mudrerers, thugs of all types, just like any other race.
Some are very nice people, like in every other race.
Borders should be closed tight, slammed shut, with only authorised people allowed to cross them.
Italy has finally seen the light.
Countries in Europe have finally seen the light.
Anything else is anarchy, no way to run a nation.

Let us celebrate Fascism!
How to know if you, as a man, could be a fascist.
Marry a woman.

Hitler did.

My Dad was an active Anti Fascist when he served in WWII.

I was married 30 years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 13, 2022, 05:19:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 13, 2022, 04:58:10 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 13, 2022, 01:27:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 12:23:56 PM
Latinas?
Bad idea to be exalting Latinas above any other race.
Everyone should be treated the same.
"Latinas are all lovely people" seems to be the popular mantra these days.
No they're not.
Some are very horrible, MS13 gang members doing very bad things.
Criminals of all types, from drug carteliers to rapists, mudrerers, thugs of all types, just like any other race.
Some are very nice people, like in every other race.
Borders should be closed tight, slammed shut, with only authorised people allowed to cross them.
Italy has finally seen the light.
Countries in Europe have finally seen the light.
Anything else is anarchy, no way to run a nation.

Let us celebrate Fascism!
How to know if you, as a man, could be a fascist.
Marry a woman.

Hitler did.

Plenty of people married to women have not fucked up like you have, you douche bag. Do not try to lump them in with your anti-life, anti-Christ sadistic program of destruction.

You will fail at dragging people married to women into your camp just as you have failed in every way throughout your life for if no other reason then because those women with the rings will not be taking any fascism from you or any of the scum you hide behind or from any of the shills you love to swallow.

Take your fascism and shove it up your own ass, little red dick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2022, 05:49:02 PM: On the issue of Waste Management, I was friends with a whole family who owned the local Waste Management company in my hometown, and I had several family members who worked for them. They also owned a swimming pool and jacuzzi construction company, etc.

If you owned the Waste Management company in Battle Mountain, Nevada, then you could have a nice comfortable life, you could earn enough money to raise a family on, with a nice ranch, etc.

Also, the water companies make money when they go in and sell water to the people, and the cable television companies, and the Apple stores, and the cell phone stores, etc. Battle Mountain needs all of that, and a new bowling alley, and a new giant screen movie theatre with great sound and 3 D. The local Native American Indian Tribe is the Shoshone Tribe, and people can work with them to open new companies in Battle Mountain.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2022, 05:57:18 PM: Having border security is not fascism.
Was mrs bambu just able to fly into America from Canada, set up house in New York, and obtain a job because she felt like it?
NO.
She had to have a valid passport, the correct visa for her holiday, was fingerprinted and face-scanned?
Then, and only then was she allowed to enter America.
Fascism?
Nah, border security. Border integrity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 13, 2022, 07:15:31 PM: Its easier to just let all (the potential voters) in, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 13, 2022, 10:30:50 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 13, 2022, 07:15:31 PM
Its easier to just let all (the potential voters) in, Bambu.

Aw. You kids goose step yourselves to Hungary and get a room. Bless your hearts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 01:19:16 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 13, 2022, 07:15:31 PM
Its easier to just let all (the potential voters) in, Bambu.

Some republican douche bags have to traffic them illegally across state lines using misappropriated federal funds first, but yeah, it can go like that.

http://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/transported-migrants-may-be-on-a-path-to-citizenship-because-of-desantis-flights-00061671 (http://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/transported-migrants-may-be-on-a-path-to-citizenship-because-of-desantis-flights-00061671)

It offsets some children so badly raised that they turned out republican.

Keep marching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 14, 2022, 08:33:42 AM: Age old GOP strategy

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2022-10-14/how-race-entered-the-midterms-in-the-guise-of-crime
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 12:40:23 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 14, 2022, 08:33:42 AM
Age old GOP strategy

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2022-10-14/how-race-entered-the-midterms-in-the-guise-of-crime

Republicans always find people better than themselves to be afraid of. It is usually Black people. This cycle appears no different.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM: And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

The report card?

65 percent of Americans in late June remembered Jan. 6 as a RIOT
64 percent said the same at the end of the hearings.
In the same period of time
29 percent thought Joe Biden had been fraudulently elected before
29 percent did after.

Politics is all it was

Democracy marches on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 14, 2022, 12:59:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

The report card?

65 percent of Americans in late June remembered Jan. 6 as a RIOT
64 percent said the same at the end of the hearings.
In the same period of time
29 percent thought Joe Biden had been fraudulently elected before
29 percent did after.

Politics is all it was

Democracy marches on.

GOP and red to America:

Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 01:56:00 PM: To the extent we can counter and contain GOP ratfucking, Democracy marches right over republicans as they wonder why nobody wants them to be in charge of anything anymore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:09:22 PM: We have been having bad forest fires here in the West, including in Oregon where my cousin Cindy lives, Cindy lives in a beautiful clean forest and it should be beautiful, but they have forest fires and she cannot breath, her lungs are hurting from the smoke from the forest fires. We need to take action to restore the beauty of the forest. And the fires are all caused by man, these are not just natural fires. We need to hire the homeless people to work in the forests, Los Angeles has 60,000 homeless people and a lot of those homeless people can live and work in the forests to do work to prevent forest fires. Oregon has homeless people too who can work in the forests, etc, as does every state.

The beauty of the forests needs to be restored, and we need to hire the homeless people to work in the forests to help to prevent and fight forest fires.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:37:00 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 14, 2022, 02:21:07 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:09:22 PM
We have been having bad forest fires here in the West, including in Oregon where my cousin Cindy lives, Cindy lives in a beautiful clean forest and it should be beautiful, but they have forest fires and she cannot breath, her lungs are hurting from the smoke from the forest fires. We need to take action to restore the beauty of the forest. And the fires are all caused by man, these are not just natural fires. We need to hire the homeless people to work in the forests, Los Angeles has 60,000 homeless people and a lot of those homeless people can live and work in the forests to do work to prevent forest fires. Oregon has homeless people too who can work in the forests, etc, as does every state.

The beauty of the forests needs to be restored, and we need to hire the homeless people to work in the forests to help to prevent and fight forest fires.

Salute,

Tony V.

As always, Tony V., you tell us how we can organize others lives, but you can not seem to get your own act together. Why is that?

I have struggles for some of the same reasons as the 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, one reason for my struggles was the death of my father when I was a child, he was the main bread-winner, and he left my Mother as a poor widow with 3 children to raise. Many of the homeless people have lost parents, or are Foster Children. I have had a hard life, but I have never been a criminal, I never sold drugs, I am not violent, I am a good neighbor, and I worked hard and tried hard. Also of note, is that I attended the AADA after AVC and I tried to have a career here in Hollywood in the Entertainment Industry, but those jobs are hard to get. And we have people from Canada and everywhere else trying to steal our jobs. Canada wants to be the new Hollywood. Anyhow, Hollywood is hard, and the streets are full of homeless people, and I was one of the homeless people. And that is one reason why I work so hard to help the homeless and the orphans is because I lost my Father as a child, and I was homeless on the streets for 2 years.

But, I am not a bad man, I am not a criminal, I remained honest all of my life, and I tried hard. I was 9 years old when my Father died, and I had a hard life.

But, I was a Cub Scout as a child, and I was in Youth For Christ as a teen, and I worked for the Burbank YMCA at a summer camp, and later I was involved with Kiwanis International, and I have done other good things, and I have always tried to help other people.

And I am good at organizing people and managing events, etc. I could easily produce films, or produce events for charity, etc.

Donald Trump is rich because he had a rich Father, if Trump did not have a Dad then he might be poor just like me.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:52:25 PM: Of note, I wrote a poetry book a long time ago, it is a fantastic book and I would have been a huge success as a poet a long time ago if I had a rich family and could publish my book. I also wrote a movie script a long time ago, and Hugh Hefner liked my script, it is a great script, if I had a rich family then I would have been wealthy from my movie script a long time ago. I also managed a dog kennel for 6 years, and was a cook at a casino, I could easily manage my own night club, or own my own dog kennel for the stars in Malibu, if I had a rich family and support.

I can still publish my book, and make my movie, and have some success in life. And I hope to find a wife who is smarter and better than me, I want to find a good wife who can help me with Business and with life, we can run a night club in Rome, and we can produce and write movies and television shows, and maybe make wine in Tuscany, etc. I hope to find a wife who will be a good partner in life. After I publish my book, and sell my movie script, then I might go to Italy and find a wife, and maybe I can get a wife with a big Italian family, and my wife can help our family that we can create to do well.

We will see what happens.

If I had a Father who published books like Carly Simon then I could have been rich and famous a long time ago as a poet, and that would have led to other things.

My Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter, Kristen, so you just never know who you can find as a wife. You never know who love will bring into one's life. And my wife can help me with Business, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 14, 2022, 04:34:07 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:52:25 PM

My Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter, Kristen, so you just never know who you can find as a wife.

Is it me, or is that sentence wondrously ambiguous?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 14, 2022, 05:26:32 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 12, 2022, 10:23:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 12, 2022, 07:04:40 PM
What the fuck is your problem, Kiid?

Since we are asking questions

I dont think he does

He discusses the actions of an individual and then about a trend among some, explicitly limiting it.

And you decide to generalize it into a baseless accusation about him, while ignoring your own far greater record of bigoted comments.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 14, 2022, 05:29:24 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

Been drinking?

That didn't end their existence, you ninny.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 05:53:11 PM: Quote from: josh on October 14, 2022, 05:29:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

Been drinking?

That didn't end their existence, you ninny.
Yes it did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 14, 2022, 06:04:16 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 05:53:11 PM
Quote from: josh on October 14, 2022, 05:29:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

Been drinking?

That didn't end their existence, you ninny.
Yes it did.
No it did not, you nanny. It has done its last public hearing. They have subpoenaed at least one more witness and has a report to issue. You ninny.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 06:09:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 14, 2022, 06:04:16 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 05:53:11 PM
Quote from: josh on October 14, 2022, 05:29:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
And so the January 6 Committee has ended its existence.

Been drinking?

That didn't end their existence, you ninny.
Yes it did.
No it did not, you nanny. It has done its last public hearing. They have subpoenaed at least one more witness and has a report to issue. You ninny.
LOL.
The jig is up.
Kaput.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 06:13:55 PM: So it turns out Biden was begging Saudi Arabia to delay cutting back on oil production until AFTER the USA midterms.

Hmmm. Who does he think he is, Trump?

ROFL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 06:28:09 PM: AOC is heckled for behaving like a NEOCON!
She could find solace in ELBA
She would be welcomed here, I am sure.
Sounds like she ducked the hecklers complaints.
Not a good move for her longevity as a politician.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 14, 2022, 07:31:00 PM: Why the failure to act or use this ready force? Had even a small percentage of National Guard or fencing been there, there would have been no problem, January 6th would have been just another date. I did my job long ahead of schedule. Some people call it good instinct, but the troops were ready to go.

https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=test123&_nhids=TEST
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 14, 2022, 09:56:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 06:28:09 PM
AOC is heckled for behaving like a NEOCON!
She could find solace in ELBA
She would be welcomed here, I am sure.
Sounds like she ducked the hecklers complaints.

Newsflash: forum members have lives and don't obsessively follow every AOC story that gets spun by the Right Wing outrage factory. So, I have no idea what whatever sounds like because you provided no link to whatever tidbit caused you to tumesce. Of course for you all she has to do is show a bit of leg.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 14, 2022, 10:04:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)

It's good to see this excerpt getting some exposure on a popular website. I followed this story a few years back when the NYT Sunday Magazine did a long feature story on this sordid business. Corporate capitalism has rarely worked harder at gaslighting the nation than it did with climate denial. Truly despicable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 11:25:26 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 14, 2022, 10:04:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)

It's good to see this excerpt getting some exposure on a popular website. I followed this story a few years back when the NYT Sunday Magazine did a long feature story on this sordid business. Corporate capitalism has rarely worked harder at gaslighting the nation than it did with climate denial. Truly despicable.
Climate Denial?
What exactly does that mean?
No one denies there has been a change in climate as the world accommodates a growing population now topping 7 billion people.
How could it not be changing? When has it never changed?
The question is how do we adapt?
Certainly not by eliminating the energy sources that keep all of us alive and growing economically.
Especially since the Energy Companies are the ones leading us to long term solutions.

What is most ironic is alarmists like AOC who Predict the end of the planet within a few years without the elimination of carbon sources while egging on a nuclear war over a border dispute.

Jesus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 14, 2022, 11:59:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 11:25:26 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 14, 2022, 10:04:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)

It's good to see this excerpt getting some exposure on a popular website. I followed this story a few years back when the NYT Sunday Magazine did a long feature story on this sordid business. Corporate capitalism has rarely worked harder at gaslighting the nation than it did with climate denial. Truly despicable.
Climate Denial?
What exactly does that mean?
No one denies there has been a change in climate as the world accommodates a growing population now topping 7 billion people.
How could it not be changing? When has it never changed?
The question is how do we adapt?
Certainly not by eliminating the energy sources that keep all of us alive and growing economically.
Especially since the Energy Companies are the ones leading us to long term solutions.

What is most ironic is alarmists like AOC who Predict the end of the planet within a few years without the elimination of carbon sources while egging on a nuclear war over a border dispute.

Jesus.

This makes not one lick of sense.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 15, 2022, 12:24:58 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 11:25:26 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 14, 2022, 10:04:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)

It's good to see this excerpt getting some exposure on a popular website. I followed this story a few years back when the NYT Sunday Magazine did a long feature story on this sordid business. Corporate capitalism has rarely worked harder at gaslighting the nation than it did with climate denial. Truly despicable.
Climate Denial?
What exactly does that mean?
No one denies there has been a change in climate as the world accommodates a growing population now topping 7 billion people.
How could it not be changing? When has it never changed?
The question is how do we adapt?
Certainly not by eliminating the energy sources that keep all of us alive and growing economically.
Especially since the Energy Companies are the ones leading us to long term solutions.

What is most ironic is alarmists like AOC who Predict the end of the planet within a few years without the elimination of carbon sources while egging on a nuclear war over a border dispute.

Jesus.

You suck too much juice.

We cannot go on carrying you any more unless you change your life up and cut your consumption, you fat bastard.

If you gaslit less for instance you could help the planet and lower your energy bill.

Jesus says wear a sweater.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 15, 2022, 12:08:28 PM: Neruda ain't a Buddha.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/15/1127988385/pablo-neruda-chile-metoo

But maybe should still be read, his poetry standing on its own merits. That's one side of the debate in Chile.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 15, 2022, 08:31:42 PM: Hahahahaha

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/10/15/herschel-walker-debate-prop-warnock-ctn-williams-vpx.cnn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 15, 2022, 09:05:12 PM: Kid is ready with a brain damaged response to the act of a brain damaged man. Kid remains a paragon of bad choices.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 15, 2022, 09:23:33 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 14, 2022, 07:55:51 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2022, 02:52:25 PM
Of note, I wrote a poetry book a long time ago, it is a fantastic book and I would have been a huge success as a poet a long time ago if I had a rich family and could publish my book. I also wrote a movie script a long time ago, and Hugh Hefner liked my script, it is a great script, if I had a rich family then I would have been wealthy from my movie script a long time ago. I also managed a dog kennel for 6 years, and was a cook at a casino, I could easily manage my own night club, or own my own dog kennel for the stars in Malibu, if I had a rich family and support.

I can still publish my book, and make my movie, and have some success in life. And I hope to find a wife who is smarter and better than me, I want to find a good wife who can help me with Business and with life, we can run a night club in Rome, and we can produce and write movies and television shows, and maybe make wine in Tuscany, etc. I hope to find a wife who will be a good partner in life. After I publish my book, and sell my movie script, then I might go to Italy and find a wife, and maybe I can get a wife with a big Italian family, and my wife can help our family that we can create to do well.

We will see what happens.

If I had a Father who published books like Carly Simon then I could have been rich and famous a long time ago as a poet, and that would have led to other things.

My Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter, Kristen, so you just never know who you can find as a wife. You never know who love will bring into one's life. And my wife can help me with Business, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Everyone here, I think, has heard your Life story several times. No one is saying you
are a bad person, or poet or playwright. I am saying your recommendation to help
the homeless and blaming, in part, the Canadian movie business is just plain unhelpful.
Maybe your time would be better spent away from Elba.
Take 6 months off and come back with a happy ending!

This ass crack asking someone else to depart is comical.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 15, 2022, 09:34:31 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 14, 2022, 09:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 14, 2022, 06:28:09 PM
AOC is heckled for behaving like a NEOCON!
She could find solace in ELBA
She would be welcomed here, I am sure.
Sounds like she ducked the hecklers complaints.

Newsflash: forum members have lives and don't obsessively follow every AOC story that gets spun by the Right Wing outrage factory. So, I have no idea what whatever sounds like because you provided no link to whatever tidbit caused you to tumesce. Of course for you all she has to do is show a bit of leg.
Then you do not watch or read news out of your comfort zone.
But we are always grateful for your reports on dead poets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 15, 2022, 11:16:00 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 14, 2022, 10:04:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 14, 2022, 07:36:36 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial)

It's good to see this excerpt getting some exposure on a popular website. I followed this story a few years back when the NYT Sunday Magazine did a long feature story on this sordid business. Corporate capitalism has rarely worked harder at gaslighting the nation than it did with climate denial. Truly despicable.

I think smoking is the only comparison from corporations.

The Feds, of course, have done it bunches of times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 16, 2022, 07:28:45 AM: Red is that child to insignificant to get chucked out of Wonka Land though he tries to pipe in in places where his betters are having conversations, as evidenced by the prior two posts.

Hat tip to Josh and for pulling double duty, to Bart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 16, 2022, 01:23:06 PM: We have a police problem.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/atlanta-police-stop-lawsuit-reaj/index.html

Race is one part, here. Civil asset forfeiture is another. And the use of the airport's jetways for these stops is a third, IMO.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 16, 2022, 11:24:12 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/politics/herschel-walker-police-badge-georgia-senate-race/index.html

"It's legit" - except not.

The GOP doesn't care.

"law and order" is a sham. No news, just more evidence.
Title: Re: News in General,
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 10:39:41 AM: The Left has a problem with Crime as an election issue.

A Harvard/Harris poll asked if the Crime Spike across the USA is the result of
Woke Politicians
Or
Other Reasons.

64 percent blamed Woke Politicians
( 50 percent dems, 75 per cent GOP, 60 percent IND)

The fact that a majority of Democrats are not just ceding that wokeness is a problem in the abstract, but that it is directly responsible for one of the defining issues of the 2022 election (crime and public safety) is bad news for the Left. It is also yet another indication that the contemporary culture war can and should be a winner for Republicans, if they are willing to run aggressively on them, these are not boutique right wing base issues. They have implications that are felt across the political spectrum.
Title: Re: America needs to get tough on crime
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 11:57:07 AM: The republican approach to elections is a running wave of white on democracy crime. America has not done enough to brutally punish republican criminals enough to disrupt and discourage their continuing evil criminal acts.

There is time remaining to overrun, raise and level republican structures, organizations and figureheads.

The republicans have repeatedly shown that all they do with power is destroy lives, wealth and jobs, along with perverting religion to gratify their sexual hang ups.

When you see a republican, do what you need to to stop the crimes they are in progress of committing even if those crimes are not immediately apparent to the naked eye.
Title: Re: News in General,
Post by: Holly Martins on October 17, 2022, 12:36:57 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 10:39:41 AM
The Left has a problem with Crime as an election issue.

I'm sure Herschel Walker can fix crime with his honorary sheriff's badge and cartel decoder ring he found in a cereal box that fell open when he was beating one of his girlfriends.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 17, 2022, 12:38:36 PM: Please debate, Katie Hobbs. Even David Axelrod thinks you are making a mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 01:34:07 PM: The New York Times/Sienna poll now has the GOP leading dems in the generic vote 49-45.
A month ago the poll had the dems up by one.

I am shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they are more geared towards business, said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer who lives in New Castle, Del., and is planning to vote Republican this fall.

Ms. Ackerman said she disagreed 1,000 percent with the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and erase the national right to an abortion. But that does not really have a lot to do with my decision, she said of her fall vote. I am more focused on other issues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 01:41:26 PM: I watched a show on Public Broadcasting last night about Ecstasy, it was eye opening.

I support the youth being able to dance all night at raves and clubs, I loved clubs when I was young, but the Youth need to be taught to avoid the Ecstasy and other bad drugs. When I was young everyone was doing cocaine, and then later it was meth, and I had to be smart enough to just say NO! and not use the drugs. I partied and I went to the clubs, and I threw parties, but I never let myself get addicted to drugs. I smoked cigarettes for 20 years, but eventually I quit that, but that was it, I never got into the drugs. That is what we need to teach the Youth, we need to teach the Youth to dance and have fun, but just say NO! to the drugs. Pot is legal, and they can never over-dose on pot, pot is safe enough. And they can drink alcohol. But, the pills need to stop.

One thing that we can do, is we can use the arts to stop the drug use. We can use music, movies, poetry, television shows, public service announcements, etc, to teach the Youth to just say NO! to drugs. Recently a little girl died in a restroom from fentanyl, they found her in a restroom at her school on the floor dead, they need to make a television show about that girl, and then put the television show on television for the Youth to watch when they come home from school. We can use television shows to teach the Youth to avoid the drugs. And there can be a huge public movement to get the Youth to avoid drugs.

And the pills are horrible, they never know what is in the pills, and one pill can kill a kid.

The kids think the pills are fun, but it is all BULLSHIT.

There is a club here in Hollywood called the Viper Room and it was owned by Johnny Depp, and River Phoenix over-dosed and died in front of that club. There is nothing cool about drugs. Whenever I go to the Viper Room I see that spot on the sidewalk where River Phoenix died. People need to have fun without the death. You do not have to over-dose to have fun.

In Amsterdam the police are not making much progress, but instead public education programs to teach the Youth are what is making the most progress.

If you can change how people think and feel, then you can change how they behave. We need to teach the Youth the truth about the drugs that they are going to come into contact with at the night clubs and raves, it is fine to go dance and have fun, but we need to teach the Youth to just say NO! to the drugs. The artists can help in the battle against the drugs that are killing our Youth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2022, 02:34:46 PM: Red remains an asshole but he's right, I think. It's going to be a Democratic bloodbath.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 17, 2022, 03:52:59 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/radioactive-school-coldwater-creek/index.html

The school's students are 88% minority, 64% financially economically disadvantaged.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 04:42:06 PM: Quote from: josh on October 17, 2022, 03:52:59 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/radioactive-school-coldwater-creek/index.html

The school's students are 88% minority, 64% financially economically disadvantaged.
So what
So what is your point?
Title: Re: News in General,
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2022, 04:52:43 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 10:39:41 AM
The Left has a problem with Crime as an election issue.

A Harvard/Harris poll asked if the Crime Spike across the USA is the result of
Woke Politicians
Or
Other Reasons.

64 percent blamed Woke Politicians
( 50 percent dems, 75 per cent GOP, 60 percent IND)

The fact that a majority of Democrats are not just ceding that wokeness is a problem in the abstract, but that it is directly responsible for one of the defining issues of the 2022 election (crime and public safety) is bad news for the Left. It is also yet another indication that the contemporary culture war can and should be a winner for Republicans, if they are willing to run aggressively on them, these are not boutique right wing base issues. They have implications that are felt across the political spectrum.

Wow, they used the term "woke politicians". No wonder the results were skewed. Normally a respected poster like Harris would avoid meaningless words designed solely to trigger negative responses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 04:59:00 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129539/-Arizona-s-Kari-Lake-a-hoax-promoter-won-t-say-if-she-ll-accept-results-of-the-November-election (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129539/-Arizona-s-Kari-Lake-a-hoax-promoter-won-t-say-if-she-ll-accept-results-of-the-November-election)

Disarm the spoiled children and end their death race.

Vote Democratic in every contest.
Title: Re: News in General,
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 05:06:09 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2022, 04:52:43 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 10:39:41 AM
The Left has a problem with Crime as an election issue.

A Harvard/Harris poll asked if the Crime Spike across the USA is the result of
Woke Politicians
Or
Other Reasons.

64 percent blamed Woke Politicians
( 50 percent dems, 75 per cent GOP, 60 percent IND)

The fact that a majority of Democrats are not just ceding that wokeness is a problem in the abstract, but that it is directly responsible for one of the defining issues of the 2022 election (crime and public safety) is bad news for the Left. It is also yet another indication that the contemporary culture war can and should be a winner for Republicans, if they are willing to run aggressively on them, these are not boutique right wing base issues. They have implications that are felt across the political spectrum.

Wow, they used the term "woke politicians". No wonder the results were skewed. Normally a respected poster like Harris would avoid meaningless words designed solely to trigger negative responses.
Or the term has relevance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 05:20:29 PM: Speaking of relevance,

http://studentaid.gov (http://studentaid.gov)

It is live.

Good government, free of republican interference, delivers for the voters.

When you squash republican crooks, you can have nice things.

Vote for Democrats.

Keep marching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 05:20:36 PM: Memo to Harry
Probably might want to ignore Obama and his thoughts on Cancel Culture
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2022, 06:56:36 PM: Oh dear, the Australian dollar is tanking against the US dollar.
AUD 1 = USD 0.61.
So, If I were thinking about travelling to the U.S. I would have to basically throw 39 of every 100 of my dollars in the trash bin on the way out.
Expected to be down to somewhere in the 50's cents next week...meaning I would lose 40 dollars or more in every 100 dollars of mine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 07:06:15 PM: As far as redstains last weak fart, wise folk pay attention to proven leaders especially those whose work still sustains us.

Redstain ignores Obama because that President reminds him still of both his treason and his impotence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 07:07:01 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/mississippi-river-shipwreck-louisiana-baton-rouge (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/mississippi-river-shipwreck-louisiana-baton-rouge)

If we keep drilling and pumping, we will probably find more wrecks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2022, 07:13:46 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129519/-Obama-for-the-first-time-signals-support-for-Supreme-Court-reform (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129519/-Obama-for-the-first-time-signals-support-for-Supreme-Court-reform)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 07:42:10 PM: Los Angeles is opening up the Section 8 Lottery after 5 years of neglect... They should have been housing people the whole time, instead of allowing the streets to be full of homeless people.

https://www.hacla.org/en/news/hacla-open-section-8-housing-voucher-waiting-list-lottery

I would also let hostels operate tax free in Los Angeles in order to get the homeless into housing, people can operate hostels where customers can take a shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

And we need to clean things up so that people can sell stuff to the tourists. In Hollywood, and in Anaheim, we depend on tourism, and we need to clean things up and make it nice to attract more tourists and to make our tourists happy. Anaheim receives 50,000 tourists per day, and Disney is charging almost $200 per person per day. This town is making a lot of money from tourism, and we can do even better if we make it nicer here. The tourists do not want to see homeless people all over the sidewalks, we need to at least offer the homeless people cheap hostels. And we can employ the homeless people to do landscaping, etc, etc, etc, to clean it up and to make things nicer for the tourists. And now we have Fullerton Community College training people for jobs at Disney, Disney is doing great. And we can do better if we get rid of the corruption and help the homeless and clean things up and invest in public landscaping, etc.

Getting the homeless into Section 8 Housing is a great step in the right direction. I would combine that with cheap hostels which can run tax free, and then I would create landscaping jobs, etc, and the unions can find work for the people who want jobs, etc. And there will be lots of work building housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 17, 2022, 07:56:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 04:42:06 PM
Quote from: josh on October 17, 2022, 03:52:59 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/radioactive-school-coldwater-creek/index.html

The school's students are 88% minority, 64% financially economically disadvantaged.
So what
So what is your point?

The enemy of fascism is EMPATHY.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 07:58:47 PM: California also needs to spend more money on Mental Health issues, and we need more Wellness Centers, and we need to build more Mental Health Associations. We need to help our mentally ill people, we have a lot of mentally ill people out there on the streets. We also need to train more psychiatrists, there is a huge shortage of psychiatrists. San Diego State University trains psychiatrists, and that can be expanded, and other areas can expand the training of psychiatrists as well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 17, 2022, 07:59:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 04:42:06 PM
Quote from: josh on October 17, 2022, 03:52:59 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/radioactive-school-coldwater-creek/index.html

The school's students are 88% minority, 64% financially economically disadvantaged.
So what
So what is your point?

Ward is denser than lead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 17, 2022, 08:49:21 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 01:34:07 PM
The New York Times/Sienna poll now has the GOP leading dems in the generic vote 49-45.
A month ago the poll had the dems up by one.

I am shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they are more geared towards business, said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer who lives in New Castle, Del., and is planning to vote Republican this fall.

Ms. Ackerman said she disagreed 1,000 percent with the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and erase the national right to an abortion. But that does not really have a lot to do with my decision, she said of her fall vote. I am more focused on other issues.

She likes the red cloaks and white bonnets...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 08:58:52 PM: I just saw on the news that the price of butter is rising because of a butter shortage. Everyone can benefit from putting our immigrants to work on farms, and our homeless people, and whoever wants to work, to work with the United Farm Workers to grow food. Everyone needs food, and we can have great, fresh, wonderful food if we put the immigrants and homeless people and whoever wants to work to work growing food.

I had a maid who could butcher cattle, our immigrants have skills.

And our immigrants can grow mustard, and they can grow and raise other food products, in Napa, and in Merced, and in Battle Mountain, etc.

The best way to deal with high food prices is to increase the production of food and thus increase competition and bring down the prices. And we can put great food onto those empty store shelves in Kentucky, etc. We can send them Mexican blankets to keep them warm in the winter, and we can put the refugees to work growing food to send to the store shelves for the poor people of Kentucky, etc. And that is where it matters most, is when the poor people are able to get good deals on wonderful healthy food. When you are putting good food on tables in America that is when it matters. Our immigrants are not a burden, they can be helpers instead and good honest workers who are a good part of our communities. Send the refugees to the United Farm Workers, etc, and they can help to feed America, and the prices will come down.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 08:59:22 PM: Quote from: josh on October 17, 2022, 07:59:53 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/radioactive-school-coldwater-creek/index.html

The school's students are 88% minority, 64% financially economically disadvantaged.
So what
So what is your point?

Quote
Ward is denser than lead.
You have no answer?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 17, 2022, 09:33:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2022, 05:20:36 PM
Memo to Harry
Probably might want to ignore Obama and his thoughts on Cancel Culture

I would think Harry is paying more attention to Meghan and finding alternative sources of income, these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2022, 10:26:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 08:58:52 PM
I just saw on the news that the price of butter is rising because of a butter shortage. Everyone can benefit from putting our immigrants to work on farms, and our homeless people...
You want to milk immigrants and the homeless?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 11:32:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2022, 10:26:42 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 08:58:52 PM
I just saw on the news that the price of butter is rising because of a butter shortage. Everyone can benefit from putting our immigrants to work on farms, and our homeless people...
You want to milk immigrants and the homeless?

We can benefit by giving the immigrants and the homeless farm jobs with the United Farm Workers. And the poor people in Kentucky can benefit as we send them cheap healthy food, and blankets and products from Mexico, etc. Sunkist is world famous, and we have other great products.

I love the Joseph Farms Cheese which is made here in California...

https://josephfarms.com/

We can put the new immigrants to work making cheese, and then we can send the poor people of Kentucky some wonderful cheese at nice low prices. We can also send them tortillas and products from Mexico ( though tortillas are best eaten fresh made ).

Butter, cheese, mustard, etc, beef, pork, strawberries, etc, our immigrants and our homeless people can help if we can get them in the UFW and if they can find joy in their work and be part of the community.

Yes, the immigrants and homeless people can help us to raise cattle and to run dairies to make butter and cheese, etc. And we can send affordable food to the poor people of Kentucky, etc. The people of Kentucky would love the Joseph Farms cheese, etc. We can expand trade with Kentucky as we help our immigrants, Americans can win as we create honest opportunities for the refugees and for the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 10:04:37 AM: Republicans kicking ass in debate season, seems. Even Herschel draws praise from the left.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 18, 2022, 11:26:54 AM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 10:04:37 AM
Republicans kicking ass in debate season, seems. Even Herschel draws praise from the left.

Low expectations.

Herschel did not step on his dick more than five times so that is a win.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 18, 2022, 12:01:58 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 10:04:37 AM
Republicans kicking ass in debate season, seems. Even Herschel draws praise from the left.

Thanks again, Kid!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 18, 2022, 12:05:53 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/18/2127877/-The-Core-Incompetencies-of-the-Republican-Party-GNR-for-Bluesday-October-18th (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/18/2127877/-The-Core-Incompetencies-of-the-Republican-Party-GNR-for-Bluesday-October-18th)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 18, 2022, 12:19:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2022, 10:26:42 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 17, 2022, 08:58:52 PM
I just saw on the news that the price of butter is rising because of a butter shortage. Everyone can benefit from putting our immigrants to work on farms, and our homeless people...
You want to milk immigrants and the homeless?

Another shortage of infant formula could happen at any time. We must prepare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2022, 12:26:46 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 10:04:37 AM
Republicans kicking ass in debate season, seems. Even Herschel draws praise from the left.
Herscel Walker waved a prop Junior Ranger badge, Ron Johnson was booed by the crowd and Vance was forced to spend 10 minutes denying he was an ass kisser.* If you consider that kicking ass.

* Probably apocryphal LBJ story: he once tried to get his campaign to start a rumor that his opponent, a pig farmer by trade, had sex with his pigs. When his campaign manager told LBJ no one would believe the man was a pig fucker, LBJ responded "I know that, but let's make the son of a bitch deny it."

That story is both too good to be true, and too good not to be treated as true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2022, 12:46:09 PM: For another apocryphal story along the same lines look up the U.S. Senate race in 1950 between George Smathers and Claude Pepper where one was condemned by the other (does it matter which) for, among other sins, "masticating in public restaurants"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2022, 01:10:22 PM: Or for an entirely true story, Christine O'Donnell having to deny being a witch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 01:12:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 18, 2022, 12:01:58 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 10:04:37 AM
Republicans kicking ass in debate season, seems. Even Herschel draws praise from the left.

Thanks again, Kid!

I had Warnock in a walk. But seems this year more are paying attention to his trying to run over his wife among or transgressions.

Dems need that one badly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2022, 03:00:41 PM: We know the coal jobs are not coming back to Kentucky, but instead of seeing it as a bad thing then we can use this opportunity to elevate and educate our people and to grow.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of human needs we know that people need to have food, shelter, safety, etc, before they can rise to the highest levels of actualization where they can create and lead. We can send the people of Kentucky food from California grown by immigrants, etc, and we need to build more schools and libraries in Kentucky, and we can send them cheap supplies from Mexico, etc, and we can help the people of Kentucky to rise to the higher levels where they can create, and where they can solve problems, and the people of Kentucky can have better lives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 18, 2022, 03:55:46 PM: At a time of raging inflation, Trusses plan of massive tax cuts (mostly for the rich) plus energy subsidies sent the British pound into a tailspin. She was forced to swap out her initial chancellor of the exchequer for a replacement, who then nixed most of the plan. Interestingly, at the time she introduced her plan, some American conservatives cheered the supply-side attempt to juice the economy. Trusses belly flop does not seem to have dissuaded Republicans from pushing tax cuts for the rich.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/liz-truss-economic-plan-fail-republicans/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 18, 2022, 04:15:05 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 18, 2022, 01:12:28 PM

I had Warnock in a walk. But seems this year more are paying attention to his trying to run over his wife among or transgressions.

His ex wife's foot, as he is leaving an argument. Seems like Boz's LBJ story is applicable. Warnock's opponents love to watch him deny it. Cars weigh something. There would be medical evidence. Warnock could just let people figure that out. Those still capable of rational thought, anyway. The zombie brigade will just believe whatever Fox innuendo is presented until their brains are all Tuckered out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 18, 2022, 04:15:41 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 18, 2022, 03:55:46 PM
At a time of raging inflation, Trusses plan of massive tax cuts (mostly for the rich) plus energy subsidies sent the British pound into a tailspin. She was forced to swap out her initial chancellor of the exchequer for a replacement, who then nixed most of the plan. Interestingly, at the time she introduced her plan, some American conservatives cheered the supply-side attempt to juice the economy. Trusses belly flop does not seem to have dissuaded Republicans from pushing tax cuts for the rich.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/liz-truss-economic-plan-fail-republicans/

It is how republicans usually blow up the strong and growing economies they inherit from Democrats.

The republican party is the party of squandering inheritances. It is their record and their principal purpose.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 18, 2022, 04:17:54 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 18, 2022, 04:15:05 PM
The zombie brigade will just believe whatever Fox innuendo is presented until their brains are all Tuckered out.

They do not actually start believing any fox bullshit until their brains are all Tuckered out. That horrid parasite leaves his little nests between some of the weirdest sets of ears imaginable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 18, 2022, 04:21:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2022, 01:10:22 PM
Or for an entirely true story, Christine O'Donnell having to deny being a witch.

Very much in the Clinton "I tried marijuana but didn't inhale" semantic playbook: dabbled at witchcraft, but wasn't a witch.

I dabbled at pig foreplay...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 18, 2022, 04:27:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 18, 2022, 04:17:54 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 18, 2022, 04:15:05 PM
The zombie brigade will just believe whatever Fox innuendo is presented until their brains are all Tuckered out.

They do not actually start believing any fox bullshit until their brains are all Tuckered out. That horrid parasite leaves his little nests between some of the weirdest sets of ears imaginable.

Would it even matter if Ralph ran over her foot? Pretty common event where someone is badgering someone through the car window and they get some toes squished by ignoring the driver's warning of "I'm leaving now!"

The low quality of the story underscores the desperation to find dirt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2022, 04:58:38 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 18, 2022, 04:27:01 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 18, 2022, 04:17:54 PM
Quote from: Bart on October 18, 2022, 04:15:05 PM
The zombie brigade will just believe whatever Fox innuendo is presented until their brains are all Tuckered out.

They do not actually start believing any fox bullshit until their brains are all Tuckered out. That horrid parasite leaves his little nests between some of the weirdest sets of ears imaginable.

Would it even matter if Ralph ran over her foot? Pretty common event where someone is badgering someone through the car window and they get some toes squished by ignoring the driver's warning of "I'm leaving now!"

The low quality of the story underscores the desperation to find dirt.
Considering Warnock's opponent allegedly pointed a gun at his ex wife and repeatedly threatened to kill her it would be surprising if running over her foot whe backing out moved the needle all that much.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 18, 2022, 06:33:35 PM: 2019: Here comes Durham!

2022: There goes Durham... 0-2 at trial with one plea.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sean-spicer-rages-john-durham-loses
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 18, 2022, 10:52:22 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 18, 2022, 06:33:35 PM
2019: Here comes Durham!

2022: There goes Durham... 0-2 at trial with one plea.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sean-spicer-rages-john-durham-loses

*gasp!*

Who could have guessed?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 19, 2022, 09:34:43 AM: http://www.salon.com/2022/10/19/kanye-west-is-the-latest--and-most-famous--example-of-the-misogyny-to-fascism-pipeline/ (http://www.salon.com/2022/10/19/kanye-west-is-the-latest--and-most-famous--example-of-the-misogyny-to-fascism-pipeline/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 19, 2022, 11:12:12 AM: Would it even matter if Ralph ran over her foot? Pretty common event where someone is badgering someone through the car window and they get some toes squished by ignoring the drivers warning of I am leaving now!

heh...

Sad.

In Amity and other like communities - maybe its in fact common. Let's elect more of these fine citizens with such background.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 19, 2022, 11:13:44 AM: They like to swing hammers too, I hear.

Cowards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 19, 2022, 11:16:39 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2022, 04:58:38 PM
Considering Warnocks opponent allegedly pointed a gun at his ex wife and repeatedly threatened to kill her it would be surprising if running over her foot while backing out moved the needle all that much.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 19, 2022, 01:21:13 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/tampa-police-body-cam-video-voter-fraud-arrest-florida-desantis/index.html

It looks like the violation of law was on the part of the state, for failing to tell the local voting registrars who was not able to legally vote.

A whopping 20 people were arrested, Gov. DeSantis announced proudly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 02:44:38 PM: Protecting the children...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-gop-candidate-arrested-allegedly-masturbating-truck_n_635007e2e4b03e8038da457f
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2022, 03:23:13 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 02:44:38 PM
Protecting the children...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-gop-candidate-arrested-allegedly-masturbating-truck_n_635007e2e4b03e8038da457f
"In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted 'our children protected [from] the progressive left.'"

So I assume he was right handed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 03:33:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2022, 03:23:13 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 02:44:38 PM
Protecting the children...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-gop-candidate-arrested-allegedly-masturbating-truck_n_635007e2e4b03e8038da457f
"In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted 'our children protected [from] the progressive left.'"

So I assume he was right handed.

😎

He was just relieving stress.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 04:22:45 PM: Homelessness is on the ballot in LA.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168077/homelessness-los-angeles-measure-ula?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1666196066
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 19, 2022, 06:16:10 PM: https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-says-trump-knowingly-pressed-inaccurate-voter-fraud-claims-court-2022-10-19/

Quote
A California federal judge on Wednesday said then-U.S. President Donald Trump had signed a sworn statement asserting that voter fraud numbers included in a 2020 election lawsuit were accurate, despite being told the numbers were not correct.

This is the first time a judge has declared that Trump broke federal law.

In addition, the Eastman emails are being passed along, as a result.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 19, 2022, 06:19:26 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/19/2130001/-Rep-Katie-Porter-pulls-out-white-board-to-show-how-current-inflation-is-simply-corporate-greed (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/19/2130001/-Rep-Katie-Porter-pulls-out-white-board-to-show-how-current-inflation-is-simply-corporate-greed)

Nationalize the lot of them and sell them off to any Union that wants to manage them for a dollar a corporation.

That is maximizing return on investor value for each and every tax payer underwriting these crooks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 12:27:35 AM: Makes me wanna holler! Throw up both my hands!

https://www.today.com/parents/family/texas-parents-schools-dna-kits-identify-kids-bodies-rcna52769
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 12:38:55 AM: Trump has his nuts in a vise and a tit in the wringer...

So attack black women as racist for giving their opinion of the world as seen through their eyes and aim the mob toward MSNBC.

https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1582928370035138560?s=21

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.

Edit: after seeing Truss called the shortest serving PM in British history I looked a bit beyond looking at a Wikipedia list. It appears the Iron Dukes second PM stint was as a place holder for three weeks while the person appointed returned from abroad. That person was Robert Peel who was the PM when the potato famine hit, which has always kind of amused me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 10:46:16 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 09:55:04 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.

Edit: after seeing Truss called the shortest serving PM in British history I looked a bit beyond looking at a Wikipedia list. It appears the Iron Dukes second PM stint was as a place holder for three weeks while the person appointed returned from abroad. That person was Robert Peel who was the PM when the potato famine hit, which has always kind of amused me.

Do not think the People of Ireland found it amusing. See Charles Trevelyan.
No, the famine was not only a heartbreaking tragedy exacerbated by Britains bigoted and hateful response that not only made mass starvation inevitable but drove families from their land. But Robert PEEL. POTATO famine. POTATO. PEEL. I am easily amused.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 20, 2022, 11:12:11 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 20, 2022, 11:49:04 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2022, 03:23:13 PM
Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 19, 2022, 02:44:38 PM
Protecting the children...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-gop-candidate-arrested-allegedly-masturbating-truck_n_635007e2e4b03e8038da457f
"In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted 'our children protected [from] the progressive left.'"

So I assume he was right handed.

I was going to say "thumbs up" but somehow that didn't sound quite right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 20, 2022, 12:00:04 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 12:27:35 AM
Makes me wanna holler! Throw up both my hands!

https://www.today.com/parents/family/texas-parents-schools-dna-kits-identify-kids-bodies-rcna52769

If you look at the number of mass shootings in 2022, so far, it seems possible that needle is going to shift on gun control legislation. This kind of stunt will help.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 20, 2022, 12:12:05 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 09:55:04 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.

Edit: after seeing Truss called the shortest serving PM in British history I looked a bit beyond looking at a Wikipedia list. It appears the Iron Dukes second PM stint was as a place holder for three weeks while the person appointed returned from abroad. That person was Robert Peel who was the PM when the potato famine hit, which has always kind of amused me.

Do not think the People of Ireland found it amusing. See Charles Trevelyan.

Thomas Malthus also played some role in the thinking of various politicians who espoused compassion-free positions on Ireland. Some of my ancestors fled before they starved - they had already fled Yorkshire, for reasons unknown, so that branch of the family were seasoned flee-ers. (it also calls into question any self-identification as being truly Irish, but I kept that on the DL when we lived in Boston)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 20, 2022, 12:13:33 PM: I like the process. Too bad in the US you get your full 4 years. She very happily stepped aside for the good of the nation. See that, Joe?

KAMALA Harris - 47th US President, 2022-2024. Let it be so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 20, 2022, 01:00:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 10:46:16 AM
...But Robert PEEL. POTATO famine. POTATO. PEEL. I am easily amused.

I have a similar affliction. As do copy editors, apparently, when it comes to Liz Truss. I saw too many headline in the past six weeks with "Truss loses support...." or "collapse imminent of Truss coalition..." or, today, "Truss Falls..."

We can be grateful, maybe, that there was no failure of olive or prune harvests during the tenure of William Pitt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 20, 2022, 01:17:42 PM: I like the process. Too bad in the US you get your full 4 years. She very happily stepped aside for the good of the nation. See that, Joe?

Our favorite intellect strikes again. Thanks, Kid!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 20, 2022, 01:34:45 PM: The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2022, 02:19:57 PM: And now...there's
"Charger rage"! LOL

..at the electric vehicle charging stations.

People "camping" ...hooking up their vehicle to the charger then going shopping or having a meal.
And my guess would be...given my many decades using petrol/service stations, "servos" in bambuworld speak (gas stations)...where the "I'm more important than you" lot get very annoyed with you if you're not super fast filling the car, paying, and moving off so they have a good experience...that the same thing woukd be happing at EV charging stations.
I would imagine you'd need Heaven to help you if you were new to the process and were trying to figure out what to do...
...help save you from the 'important' people in a hurry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 20, 2022, 03:04:39 PM: We need to stop teaching the youth that fast food jobs are bad jobs, any honest job is a good job, and the lady who owns In N Out Burger in California is a BILLIONAIRE, and she pays her managers $120,000 per year. And my Grandmother worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino and she loved it, and McDonald's is world-wide now. Fast food jobs are good jobs. And you can make a fortune by selling hamburgers to the tourists here.

And I had a maid in Malibu who was a butcher back home in El Salvador, she knew how to butcher cattle, people here can raise their own cattle and they can butcher their own beef and then they can sell their own beef at their own restaurants. I could have raised cattle and had my maid, Consuela, butcher the cattle, and I could have turned the cattle into hamburgers to sell to the tourists and I could have made a fortune.

Jody Maroni makes his own sausage, and he sells sausage sandwiches to tourists in Venice Beach and at Universal Studios, and he makes a fortune.

And Carl Karcher made a fortune from Carl's Jr.

Fast food jobs are good jobs, and there is a lot of money to be made from selling hamburgers, especially if you raise your own beef.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:32:47 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2022, 11:12:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:35:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 20, 2022, 01:34:45 PM
The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

Tony V.

When was the last time you were personally in any part of Florida, Tony?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 20, 2022, 04:04:26 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:35:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 20, 2022, 01:34:45 PM
The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

Tony V.

When was the last time you were personally in any part of Florida, Tony?

That is true, maybe our whole country has been in decline, maybe Florida declined too, I do not know, it has been a long time since I have been to Florida.

I lived in Florida in the summer of 1979 when I was 12 years old, it was a great summer, we lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great, and the women were beautiful. It was awesome. I had to leave when Hurricane David hit, that is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. It was a great summer.

Then, as an adult I tried to move back to Florida, I traveled on New Year's Eve on a Greyhound Bus, I left Nevada in 1990 and I arrived in Florida in 1991, and I tried to get a job at Walt Disney World. I was 23 years old. I did not have very much money and I needed to find a job and go to work quickly in order to survive. I applied for jobs all over Orlando, including at a Roy Rogers Restaurant, and no one would hire me, the economy was bad and it was hard to get a job. Then I went to Cocoa Beach to apply for work. The coolest part was when I went to a night club on the beach in Cocoa Beach to apply for a job, I had a cappuccino with the last of my money and I filled out a job application. While I was filling out my job application Jimmy Page from the band Led Zeppelin walked in with his guitar in a case, and he pulled out his guitar and he plugged in and he played with the band, The Groove Monsters, all night long, it was great. Then, I slept on the beach, and the next day I got on a Greyhound Bus and I went back to Nevada where I had a job waiting at a casino.

So 1991 was the last time I was in Florida, and as I went across the country on the Greyhound Bus I saw all of the closed factories, etc. The United States was in a depression then. And I met a guy who I think was Bruce Willis on my way to Florida, we had Big Macs at the McDonald's at the Greyhound Bus station by the Arch in Saint Louis in the middle of the night, and after we were done eating he told me not to leave the Greyhound station, he told me that Saint Louis was dangerous. So, Saint Louis was already in decline then. It was already dangerous in Saint Louis.

I am getting old now, I am 54, and as far as I can remember the USA has been in decline. So, maybe Florida declined too, maybe Florida is bad now. I do not know.

I am thinking about retiring and moving to Rome, or to Greece, and just selling stuff to tourists for the rest of my life. I am tired of being poor and alone while the USA just continues to decline.

Meanwhile, I need to smarten up, we receive 50,000 new tourists here in Anaheim everyday, so every new day is a chance to sell stuff to the tourists. And then, when you are really smart, you hire beautiful young women to work for you.

One bright spot here too, is the film school, eventually I need to go visit there, it is just too far, I have to take a bus. California has great schools, we are lucky in that regard. That is where our hope is for the future is in our schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 04:29:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:32:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2022, 11:12:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.

She did inspire some terrific music across the spectrum from Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg to The Specials.

My favorite though was the English Beat and Stand Down Margaret!

RIP Ranking Roger
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 04:35:17 PM: Holy shit!

https://www.rawstory.com/trove-of-kelly-loeffler-s-j6-text-messages-obtained-by-atlanta-journal-constitution/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 04:40:21 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 04:29:09 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:32:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2022, 11:12:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.

She did inspire some terrific music across the spectrum from Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg to The Specials.

My favorite though was the English Beat and Stand Down Margaret!

RIP Ranking Roger

Maggie was like old mother ray gun in that respect.

Tony, I have been to Florida more than twenty years more recently than you have. While republican influence has instigated a big decline all across the country, not to mention much of the world, Florida and Texas, and many states in their corridor have fallen farther and faster than the rest. This both makes all aspects of life more terrible there while eroding whatever intrinsic good these places had before republican takeover, while muting the influence of republicans in other places that loser republicans leave to move to Florida where they can freely fuck each other up without restraint.

Food, services, traffic, roads, and power are all fucked in states under republican control as crime and disease run rampant and unchecked within them.

This is why republicans only win when they get away with their cheating and why they no longer have the capacity to do anybody any good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 08:06:45 PM: When was the last time Steve Moore was right about ANYTHING?

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/nicolle-wallace-mocks-former-trump-adviser-for-praising-liz-truss-last-month-did-they-think-we-wouldnt-find-that/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 20, 2022, 08:18:19 PM: And yet another GOP effort to avoid a subpoena to testify is stopped in court:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-subpoena/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 10:12:22 PM: Quote from: josh on October 20, 2022, 08:18:19 PM
And yet another GOP effort to avoid a subpoena to testify is stopped in court:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-subpoena/index.html

Well I declare!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 10:17:36 PM: A busy day in the courts.

http://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/gop-biden-student-debt-relief-00062858 (http://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/gop-biden-student-debt-relief-00062858)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 20, 2022, 11:09:23 PM: A level trolling...

https://twitter.com/adamparkhomenko/status/1583288760560914433?s=21
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 21, 2022, 12:12:59 AM: My new helper in my neighborhood is Natalie Rubalcava.

https://natalierubalcava.com/

And we can bring a new movie studio to Anaheim, maybe, you never know what you can achieve.

And a new Barnes and Noble Book Store, and a community theatre, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 21, 2022, 02:42:49 PM: Reason enough to vote for the Dems in both House and Senate races? Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America:

(https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/312240110_10228176537454653_784169520116796728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=6LSJY6fVoRIAX9oWCWU&_nc_oc=AQnpXnzx7SNgMSzEHWEc9Y0FgNi32Jbco-DPA17tao-p0YQtXlsvqWPss1y1nWMKsGI&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT-QJboahi6HrrTLfq-vuqq8ZDDAzzmowx8DXrx90_Skxw&oe=635765C5)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2022, 02:56:14 PM: It is the same old contract on America. The republicans just cycle through the hitmen they send to try and finish off their targets, the people and the constitution of the United States.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 21, 2022, 03:12:36 PM: Feminists Rejoice As All-Time Record For Shortest Term As Prime Minister
Now Held By A Woman
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 21, 2022, 03:21:54 PM: Quote from: josh on October 21, 2022, 02:42:49 PM
Reason enough to vote for the Dems in both House and Senate races? Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America:

(https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/312240110_10228176537454653_784169520116796728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=6LSJY6fVoRIAX9oWCWU&_nc_oc=AQnpXnzx7SNgMSzEHWEc9Y0FgNi32Jbco-DPA17tao-p0YQtXlsvqWPss1y1nWMKsGI&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AT-QJboahi6HrrTLfq-vuqq8ZDDAzzmowx8DXrx90_Skxw&oe=635765C5)

Psych!

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/21/instagram-posts/debunking-fake-claim-about-cuts-social-security-if/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 21, 2022, 03:47:49 PM: Quote from: josh on October 21, 2022, 02:42:49 PM
Reason enough to vote for the Dems in both House and Senate races? Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America:

Josh specializes in reposting misinformation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 21, 2022, 04:39:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 21, 2022, 03:47:49 PM
Quote from: josh on October 21, 2022, 02:42:49 PM
Reason enough to vote for the Dems in both House and Senate races? Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America:

Josh specializes in reposting misinformation.

Shaddap Mr. Kettle...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 21, 2022, 04:41:56 PM: A Reuters investigative report in July documented children, including a 12-year-old, working at a Hyundai-controlled metal stamping plant in rural Luverne, Alabama, called SMART Alabama, LLC.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 21, 2022, 06:24:22 PM: Graham really doesn't want to testify under oath.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/lindsey-graham-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

I suspect he is going to have to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 21, 2022, 08:02:47 PM: Many of the new immigrants are entering the USA from Camp Pendleton, they go to Camp Pendleton and then they choose where they want to live from there. Many people from Vietnam chose Westminster.

I recommend Battle Mountain, Nevada.

San Diego is beautiful and that is their first experience of the USA. I would not send them to some bad neighborhood. Battle Mountain, Nevada, has zero crime.

And Napa is nice, and Merced.

We can send the immigrants to nice safe places.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 22, 2022, 02:18:50 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 20, 2022, 03:32:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2022, 11:12:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on October 20, 2022, 08:52:20 AM
Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.

More like Labour govts allowed the EU to rule Britain from Europe, running its immigration policy, basically "open borders"...with so many people now on the terror watch lists they can't all be watched.
Former PM Cameron said that multiculturalism in Britain had been a failure.
Finally Brits woke from their slumber and took back their nation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 22, 2022, 02:46:47 PM: That was pure jibber jabber. Thank you for your fart, Bambu. Keep doing what you are doing.

Rejoin and Labour are going to force a general election ahead of schedule. They will win and put England on the right track again. Brexit and the Tories have proven useless, dishonest and incompetent at every turn. They offer no hope and no future.

England will not be taking many more steps to join you in the third world. Your sainted rightwing PMs got dumped like so many fetid chamber pots. Did chamber pot technology reach Australia yet, or is that metaphor also lost on you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 22, 2022, 03:29:29 PM: The only way to bring down the price of food is to grow and raise more food. And doing Farm Work can create opportunities for the refugees, and for our homeless people, and for our new immigrants, etc. The Farm Life is a good life for the people, and we need to increase the production of food.

When I was a kid we had cattle, in Nevada we had a ranch with cattle, though my Mother said we made more money from the pigs. Then in Oregon in Albany we had some cattle, and I had to do chores to feed the cattle before I went to school, etc. And my Grandfather owned cattle in Battle Mountain, they used to name the cattle after food so you were reminded it was food and not to treat the animals like a pet, my Grandfather would not let you pet the cattle, the cattle were not pets they were food, their last bull was named "Sir Loin." My Uncle Budge worked on a ranch in Nevada which was huge, by Elko. And many of my ancestors were Cowboys who earned a living from Cattle.

And the lady who owns In N Out Burger in California is a billionaire. People can get rich while they feed people, and she pays her managers $120,000 per year.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 22, 2022, 04:07:15 PM: The stars can help to create jobs for the homeless and for the refugees, etc, while helping to put food in the stores, while raising money for charity. Paul Newman set up a company before he died to make and sell food products in grocery stores with all of the money going to charity.

Newman's Own

https://www.newmansown.com

The stars can open farms where the homeless people can live and work, and where the refugees, and others, can live and work, and they can help to put good healthy food into our grocery stores, while helping to bring down the price of food, and they can donate the money to charity like Paul Newman did, and the charity can be all about creating nice safe housing for the homeless people and for the refugees, etc, while feeding people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 22, 2022, 08:24:03 PM: I loved the Long John Silver Restaurant in Cocoa Beach, Florida...

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g34145-d4515766-Reviews-Long_John_Silver_s-Cocoa_Beach_Brevard_County_Florida.html

Here in California we have the Pacific Ocean, we have seafood just like Florida does.

We can put the homeless people to work in the Seafood Industry, and we all love Seafood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 22, 2022, 09:24:14 PM: Can we open a new Forum thread for reviews of chain fast-food restaurants?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 12:31:55 AM: The restaurants can help to feed neighborhoods, and many feed the homeless, etc, as well as creating jobs and opportunities for the homeless.

And we can also send Guadalajara Restaurants to Kentucky...

https://www.taqueriasguadalajara.com/

McDonald's started in San Bernardino and my Grandmother worked there, now McDonald's is world-wide.

And for the ranchers, and for everyone down the line, the restaurants feed people and create jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 01:17:48 AM: I am making it through the inflation with Spaghetti Salad.

Spaghetti is one dollar per pack, then you buy an onion, celery, some ham, olives, and Italian salad dressing, and you make spaghetti salad. You can make enough from one pack of spaghetti to last a couple of days. I also add parmasan cheese.

We need to send the grocery supplies to the poor people of Kentucky as well, we need for everyone to have food. Pasta is cheap.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2022, 01:21:41 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 22, 2022, 02:46:47 PM
That was pure jibber jabber. Thank you for your fart, Bambu. Keep doing what you are doing.

Rejoin and Labour are going to force a general election ahead of schedule. They will win and put England on the right track again. Brexit and the Tories have proven useless, dishonest and incompetent at every turn. They offer no hope and no future.

England will not be taking many more steps to join you in the third world. Your sainted rightwing PMs got dumped like so many fetid chamber pots. Did chamber pot technology reach Australia yet, or is that metaphor also lost on you?

Brexit was great for Britain...it now governs itself.
Given the makeup of the population today it's no wonder Britain is leaning Left.

In leftist woke-ist *everywhere* bambuworld today it's proposed to be ...no more "boys" and "girls", no more "mother" and "father"...replaced by "primary care-giver" and "secondary care giver"...and who knows what for "boys" and "girls". lol
bambu-ilk are "pushing back".

We'll see how long the leftist and 'climate change' dreams last in Britain...especially with Scotland ready to leave.

***

Trump took America back from the grasp of the leftist, PC, green/climate change/multicultural activists and their 'open borders' etc...he just wasn't good enough at it and didn't have enough time...having to deal with the race [and some say political] riots and takeovers of cities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 01:28:05 AM: Our next Mayor in Anaheim is a hot young Blonde woman...

https://www.ashleighaitken.com/

I hope that she is honest.

And then locally it is Natalie Rubalcava for my district.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 01:29:53 AM: The people of Anaheim have a lot of assets, and we need to have an honest government.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 23, 2022, 10:20:55 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 22, 2022, 09:24:14 PM
Can we open a new Forum thread for reviews of chain fast-food restaurants?

🤣
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2022, 11:48:23 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 22, 2022, 09:24:14 PM
Can we open a new Forum thread for reviews of chain fast-food restaurants?

The first thing I would write in such a forum would be:
"In more than one such 'American' chain fast food restaurant in bambuworld, in my experience, the burgers I bought didn't quite match the ones in the tv adverts, for look and taste.
...so I stopped buying them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2022, 12:06:32 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 01:28:05 AM
Our next Mayor in Anaheim is a hot young Blonde woman...

https://www.ashleighaitken.com/

I hope that she is honest.

And then locally it is Natalie Rubalcava for my district.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, hot young blonde women sure seem to be treasured in western society more than hot young brunettes.
Mrs bambu was extremely happy when the "take a number and wait your turn" system was introduced into supermarket deli's and elsewhere.
An attractive, not so tall brunette, she says she's always been 'invisible' when the 'hot blondes' have appeared.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 03:30:56 PM: One time when I was a hot young aspiring actor in Hollywood, I was applying for my job that I got as a limousine driver in Malibu, and I needed to get my driving record from the Department of Motor Vehicles in order to show that I had a clean driving record. I walked into the DMV in Hollywood and it was full of people, it was completely crowded, and as soon as I walked in a lady who worked there grabbed me and helped me, I did not have to wait, she kept telling me how handsome I was, and she helped me to get my printout and I was on my way. It pays to be handsome. I had fun being young and handsome in Hollywood, I just wish I could have gotten more acting jobs.

On the issue of acting, a lady on Facebook keeps saying that Roy Rogers and John Wayne and others in Hollywood were involved with the Masons and with the Shriners. Are the Masons and Shriners good groups? Roy was a 33rd degree Mason. I know the Shriners have hospitals for children. They are saying that a lot of people in Hollywood are involved with the Shriners and with the Masons.

For me, I was in Kiwanis International with a lady who was Mayor of Anaheim on 9/11 as Mayor Pro Tem, and the Police Chief of Anaheim was in Kiwanis, we had members of City Hall in Kiwanis, it was a good group, and we just worked to help our neighborhoods and to help the children and to raise money to send the Key Club kids to College, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 04:33:57 PM: The Saint Jude Children's Hospital is great. The stars support Saint Jude and it is a great place.

Elizabeth Taylor said that the best use of fame is to help other people, and she spent her whole life helping others, she helped people with AIDS, and she did a lot of good deeds.

And of course Paul Newman with Newman's Own, helping the children. He left behind a great legacy that was made possible by his good looks and fame. That is the best use of being handsome and being a star is to help other people.

I have done service to help other people all of my life, and if I would have succeeded as an actor then I would have been helping the homeless, etc, and I would be helping the orphans, etc.

Here is my student film from USC, I was handsome like Michael Landon and like James Garner...

https://youtu.be/GJ2wBMgs-lQ

I could have helped a lot of people if I succeeded. And that is what success in the Entertainment Industry is all about is helping other people.

The stars can help the poor, and the needy, and the homeless, and the orphans, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 23, 2022, 07:17:33 PM: Buttermilk Junction

1 day

Today in History, On todays date 125 years ago, Friday, October 22, 1897, famous Italian-American chef Ettore Boiardi (1897 to 1985), better known by the Anglicized version of his name, Hector Boyardee, who was famous for his namesake brand of food products, Chef Boyardee, was born at the city of Piacenza, Italy.

Boiardi was working as an apprentice chef by the age of 11. He later learned more restaurant skills as an immigrant to Paris and London. On May 9, 1914, at the age of 16, he arrived at Ellis Island aboard La Lorraine, a ship of French registration.

Boiardi followed his brother Paolo to the kitchen of the Plaza Hotel in New York City, working his way up to head chef. He supervised the preparation of the homecoming meal served by Woodrow Wilson at the White House for 2,000 returning World War I soldiers. In 1926, he opened his first restaurant, Il Giardino dItalia, The Garden of Italy, in Cleveland, Ohio.

By the late 1920s, the Boiardi brothers had expanded into production of Italian foods that were distributed to grocery stores nation wide. For producing rations supplying Allied troops during World War II, Boiardi was awarded a Gold Star order of excellence from the United States War Department.

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Chef Boyardee is the best canned goods to send to the refugees and to the homeless, along with Campbell Soup, and canned sardines. And it is also good food to send to the grocery stores for the poor people in Kentucky.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 01:22:34 PM: The students have declined in achievement big time with remote learning...

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-10-24/pandemic-prompts-historic-decline-in-student-achievement-on-nations-report-card

The students need to be in school in person, with real teachers, and there is also the social aspects, the kids make friends at school. And beyond that, I also support after school activities and sports for the kids.

While remote learning may be cheap and easy, it is not the best way to go for the children, the children need to be in real schools with real teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 02:17:06 PM: UCI Health

20 minutes

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We have great schools here in California, and UCI is a great Medical School.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 24, 2022, 04:12:04 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 01:22:34 PM
The students have declined in achievement big time with remote learning...

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-10-24/pandemic-prompts-historic-decline-in-student-achievement-on-nations-report-card

The students need to be in school in person, with real teachers, and there is also the social aspects, the kids make friends at school. And beyond that, I also support after school activities and sports for the kids.

While remote learning may be cheap and easy, it is not the best way to go for the children, the children need to be in real schools with real teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Remote learning is not easy or cheap but it was necessary at the time.

Kids are like Petri dishes and while their youth and immune systems may offer more protection what about those who live in multigenerational housing?

People seem to forget over a million people died.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 24, 2022, 04:41:05 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 01:22:34 PM
The students have declined in achievement big time with remote learning...

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-10-24/pandemic-prompts-historic-decline-in-student-achievement-on-nations-report-card

The students need to be in school in person, with real teachers, and there is also the social aspects, the kids make friends at school. And beyond that, I also support after school activities and sports for the kids.

While remote learning may be cheap and easy, it is not the best way to go for the children, the children need to be in real schools with real teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.

This is not year over year. We won't have a real sense of the cost until 2 and 3 years from now.

The results on that test have been declining for years. And another report just out gives a far more mixed result.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 04:47:34 PM: Quote from: LarryBnDC on October 24, 2022, 04:12:04 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2022, 01:22:34 PM
The students have declined in achievement big time with remote learning...

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-10-24/pandemic-prompts-historic-decline-in-student-achievement-on-nations-report-card

The students need to be in school in person, with real teachers, and there is also the social aspects, the kids make friends at school. And beyond that, I also support after school activities and sports for the kids.

While remote learning may be cheap and easy, it is not the best way to go for the children, the children need to be in real schools with real teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Remote learning is not easy or cheap but it was necessary at the time.

Kids are like Petri dishes and while their youth and immune systems may offer more protection what about those who live in multigenerational housing?

People seem to forget over a million people died.

True. You are right. It was a crisis, and a lot of people died. We had to do remote learning at the time. But, as we advance and leave the crisis behind in history, we need to get our children back into real schools with real teachers. Our children are falling way behind, and they have mental health issues, and there is the issue of socializing and having friends, etc. And as we leave the crisis behind we need to expand after school activities for the children, etc, including sports, drama classes, and music lessons.

We had to do what we had to do during the crisis, but we need to move ahead as quickly as possible to get the kids back in school and we need to expand after school programs, etc. We have a lot of kids who are still not going back to school and they are missing out, we need to encourage the children to go to real schools.

Some people are also doing remote learning because of the school shootings, and they do not feel like the schools are safe, we need to expand armed security at the schools and make the schools safe so that the parents feel comfortable sending their children to real schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 24, 2022, 06:52:25 PM: Gonna buy an electric car?
Watcha gonna do when you're parked on the 4th floor of the hospital carpark and you are bamboozled by the tight twists and turns in it and you hit the corner and punch two holes in the tyre sidewall?
There's no spare tyre in most of them.
Roadside assistance?
Can't get a tow truck up 4 floors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 24, 2022, 07:58:38 PM: Many newer car have TPMS, and don't supply spares. The system gives you time to get a repair before it's undrivable and if it doesn't then makers like Tesla provide a 24 hour roadside service with the warranty. And those vehicles can ascend a parking garage just fine. Stop getting your news from Rupert Murdoch's used toilet paper.

And in the US, all the major EV makers offer a spare tire option, which is used by many people living in remote geography.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 24, 2022, 10:02:30 PM: Never, ever argue with anyone who spells it "tyre".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2022, 10:48:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2022, 07:58:38 PM
Many newer car have TPMS,
A total waste of money and unreliable, to boot
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 24, 2022, 11:37:47 PM: That describes all of your favorite things, Red. Fits them all to a T.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 25, 2022, 10:10:37 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2022, 10:48:07 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2022, 07:58:38 PM
Many newer car have TPMS,
A total waste of money and unreliable, to boot

Yeah, who needs new technology that's being refined and improved over time? We should have stuck with telegrams, buggies and rug beaters. Hope your PMS is better this morning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 10:27:41 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 25, 2022, 10:10:37 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2022, 10:48:07 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2022, 07:58:38 PM
Many newer car have TPMS,
A total waste of money and unreliable, to boot

Yeah, who needs new technology that's being refined and improved over time?
I prefer the expertise of the makers of the cars I buy.TPMS technology is highly inconsistent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 01:01:13 PM: News Item

The New York State Supreme Court reinstated all employees who were fired for not being vaccinated on Monday, ordering backpay and saying their rights had been violated.

The court found that being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19. New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

NYC alone fired roughly 1,400 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Many of those fired were police officers and firefighters.

(Filed under Do The Right Thing)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryBnDC on October 25, 2022, 01:55:57 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 01:01:13 PM
News Item

The New York State Supreme Court reinstated all employees who were fired for not being vaccinated on Monday, ordering backpay and saying their rights had been violated.

The court found that being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19. New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

NYC alone fired roughly 1,400 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Many of those fired were police officers and firefighters.

(Filed under Do The Right Thing)
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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 02:29:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 01:01:13 PM
News Item

The New York State Supreme Court reinstated all employees who were fired for not being vaccinated on Monday, ordering backpay and saying their rights had been violated.

The court found that being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19. New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

NYC alone fired roughly 1,400 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Many of those fired were police officers and firefighters.

(Filed under Do The Right Thing)

Back pay. And make sure to get the interest on that.

Idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2022, 03:45:23 PM: Today is a brand new day here in Anaheim, with 50,000 new tourists to sell stuff to. There is no need for crime in Anaheim, people can simply sell stuff to the tourists. They are not going to take everything away from you and lock you in prison for selling hamburgers to tourists, like they will for dealing illegal drugs. Anaheim is blessed with the tourism, and there is no need for crime. And there is no need for bitter poverty and suffering if you can learn how to sell hamburgers to the tourists. Anaheim is blessed.

And of note, Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs with Disney, when you graduate then you go right to work for Disney. And you can work an honest job and you can have an honest life, there is no need for crime in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 04:21:33 PM: Tony

Is there an Anaheim tourism site looking for members? Might wanna check that out
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2022, 05:02:17 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 04:21:33 PM
Tony

Is there an Anaheim tourism site looking for members? Might wanna check that out

I have been sending ideas to my representative at City Hall. Our City Hall has a tourism department, and our City spends money to advertise for tourism, etc. We mostly advertise in English speaking countries, such as the UK, etc.

We also have SOAR, which is a coalition of local businesses which benefit from tourism and which promote tourism. They are a great resource when it comes to getting the statistics in regard to the wonderful benefits of tourism in Anaheim.

Thanks, I will help Anaheim as much as I can, and I will continue to send them ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2022, 05:35:51 PM: Bambu, are there commercials advertising tourism in Anaheim and at Disneyland on your television there in Australia? I think we advertise in Australia to promote tourism here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:46:08 PM: Joe....................trippin...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/transgender-biden-interviewer-called-normalize-trans-women-having-visible-bulge

The absence of reporters asking for clarifications is just startling. I think they can at times just be dumbfounded.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:53:23 PM: We are at 40 year high inflation, record 21st century crime, our Southern border has never been less secure, our kids lost decades of learning because Democrats shut down schools, and Joe Bidens closing midterm message is chicks have dikks too

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 25, 2022, 05:55:17 PM: Republican sexual hang ups, kinks and insecurities are a big part of what makes them so widely and generally repulsive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 25, 2022, 06:14:07 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 02:29:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 01:01:13 PM
News Item

The New York State Supreme Court reinstated all employees who were fired for not being vaccinated on Monday, ordering backpay and saying their rights had been violated.

The court found that being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19. New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

NYC alone fired roughly 1,400 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Many of those fired were police officers and firefighters.

(Filed under Do The Right Thing)

Back pay. And make sure to get the interest on that.

Idiots.

Given that vax makes you ten times less likely to transmit viral particles, it would seem vital for those in public service to vax up.

Time for some candid mirror time before calling anyone idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Holly Martins on October 25, 2022, 06:15:13 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:46:08 PM
Joe....................trippin...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/transgender-biden-interviewer-called-normalize-trans-women-having-visible-bulge

The absence of reporters asking for clarifications is just startling. I think they can at times just be dumbfounded.

I was able to figure it out from the URL. What's to clarify?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 06:17:59 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:53:23 PM
We are at 40 year high inflation, record 21st century crime, our Southern border has never been less secure, our kids lost decades of learning because Democrats shut down schools, and Joe Bidens closing midterm message is chicks have dikks too

heh
So dems who caused inflation are now left with scare tactics.
GOP will destroy Medicare and SS!
Throw grandma from the cliff!( in her wheel chair)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 25, 2022, 06:20:40 PM: Quote from: Bart on October 25, 2022, 06:15:13 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:46:08 PM
Joe....................trippin...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/transgender-biden-interviewer-called-normalize-trans-women-having-visible-bulge

The absence of reporters asking for clarifications is just startling. I think they can at times just be dumbfounded.

I was able to figure it out from the URL. What's to clarify?
Nothing. You are as dense as Biden.
See James Carville for a wake up call you missed two years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2022, 06:54:25 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 05:53:23 PM
We are at 40 year high inflation, record 21st century crime, our Southern border has never been less secure, our kids lost decades of learning because Democrats shut down schools, and Joe Bidens closing midterm message is chicks have dikks too

heh

It's what Americans wanted and voted for, unfortunately.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2022, 06:58:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2022, 05:35:51 PM
Bambu, are there commercials advertising tourism in Anaheim and at Disneyland on your television there in Australia? I think we advertise in Australia to promote tourism here.

Salute,

Tony V.

I haven't seen any on tv.
They're probably more likely to be in the windows of travel agents.
Or they could be on cable tv on stations I don't watch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2022, 07:01:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2022, 07:58:38 PM
Many newer car have TPMS, and don't supply spares. The system gives you time to get a repair before it's undrivable and if it doesn't then makers like Tesla provide a 24 hour roadside service with the warranty. And those vehicles can ascend a parking garage just fine. Stop getting your news from Rupert Murdoch's used toilet paper.

And in the US, all the major EV makers offer a spare tire option, which is used by many people living in remote geography.

from autoexpert.com.au actually.
his YouTube videos.
he knows all about physics...and motor vehicles.
he actually encountered a woman with the flat tyre, no spare on the 4th fl of the hospital carpark.
tyre flat as a pancake, two holes in the sidewall.
roadside assist would have to bring a wheel and tyre.
maybe it's better in America, but in bambuworld you would be stranded there for a very long time.
John Cadogan (autoexpert.com.au "I get new cars cheap" ) ...said he could've had the lady on her way in 10 mins if she'd had a spare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 07:52:18 PM: Given that vax makes you ten times less likely to transmit viral particles, it would seem vital for those in public service to vax up.

oh yeah - those facts

Like all the ones spouted by Fauci.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 25, 2022, 09:46:04 PM: You are a poxy bastard, Kid. It is a very good thing no one ever listens to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 25, 2022, 10:37:08 PM: Good God! choke job by Whitmer

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-dem-gov-gretchen-whitmer-says-gop-enflaming-issue-of-explicit-material-in-public-schools
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 26, 2022, 01:55:39 PM: Democracy is very fragile.

Biden has this warning.
Criticizing runaway inflation?
Shame on you.
It is your patriotic duty to pay more for everything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 26, 2022, 02:28:50 PM: I miss bantering with Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2022, 04:06:20 PM: Maybe Rick Caruso can help to save Hollywood. And maybe he can help to bring back the California Dream, and the American Dream, to Hollywood. Right now there are 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles and it is a nightmare instead of a dream for many people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 26, 2022, 04:28:56 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 26, 2022, 02:28:50 PM
I miss bantering with Red.
Ionly banter by myself since there is no one else here.
Elba living up to its namesake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 26, 2022, 04:45:24 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 26, 2022, 02:28:50 PM
I miss bantering with Red.

That guy who was always lost and lying about it?

Nah. Fuck him and his whole twisted way of life. The only thing interesting about him was deciding if he was a cancer on a canker or a canker on a cancer. I never could tell for sure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 26, 2022, 04:59:43 PM: http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/gas-prices-biden-midterms-democrats.html (http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/gas-prices-biden-midterms-democrats.html)

Keep kicking republicans till they stop squirming or renounce their fascist ways.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 27, 2022, 10:03:25 AM: heh

Break in at office of Katie Hobbs

A likely hoax.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 27, 2022, 10:29:40 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 27, 2022, 10:03:25 AM
heh

Break in at office of Katie Hobbs

A likely hoax.
Kari Lake now up by 11
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 27, 2022, 01:24:56 PM: They usually give creeps like her 5-10 for seditious conspiracy. Is she getting extra time because she is so stupid or so ugly or so wrong?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 27, 2022, 05:04:11 PM: Our representative at City Hall, Dr Jose F. Moreno, put forth the idea that we charge a two dollar gate fee at Disneyland and at Angel Stadium, and at all venues in Anaheim which have large numbers of attendees, to go into the general fund of the City of Anaheim to be spent however the people want to spend the money. The money could go to social programs such as helping the homeless, and helping the abused women, and helping the foster children, etc. Unfortunately the other City officials rejected the idea. But it is an idea to consider, and the sports franchises themselves, and the arenas, etc, can decide to have a two dollar gate fee to help the homeless, etc.

Chicago can charge a two dollar gate fee at all sporting events and concerts, etc, and they can use the money to build libraries in the bad neighborhoods, and they can help the abused women, and the foster children, etc, and they can use the money to help Chicago. And Detroit, and Saint Louis, and others, can do the same, and America can become a better place.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 27, 2022, 08:08:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 25, 2022, 06:58:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2022, 05:35:51 PM
Bambu, are there commercials advertising tourism in Anaheim and at Disneyland on your television there in Australia? I think we advertise in Australia to promote tourism here.

Salute,

Tony V.

I haven't seen any on tv.
They're probably more likely to be in the windows of travel agents.
Or they could be on cable tv on stations I don't watch.

Thanks.

We receive a lot of tourists here from Australia, and they like to explore and do walk abouts. The Australians ride around on the public transportation, etc, and they explore.

Lots of good people come here from Australia.

If I was in charge of the marketing campaign to bring tourists from Australia to Anaheim; I would have " Come explore Anaheim " as the theme, because that is what the Australians love to do here, they love to explore Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 27, 2022, 09:22:33 PM: They overstay their visas, take bartending jobs in LA, sleep in dumpsters, and generally lower the quality of the blondes in that fair city.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 27, 2022, 10:52:15 PM: Musk reduces Twitter work force to 280 characters
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: josh on October 27, 2022, 11:24:07 PM: https://foreignpress.org/news/the-growing-threat-of-news-silos
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 28, 2022, 04:12:31 PM: 6 people shot outside Pittsburgh church during funeral, officials say
Uvalde families make last push for shakeup on Election Day
Assailant tried to tie up Paul Pelosi in home attack and shouted,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 28, 2022, 04:30:49 PM: It's crime - there wont be any comments here
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 28, 2022, 04:42:17 PM: Thoughts and prayers go out to the
Pelosis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 28, 2022, 06:51:32 PM: There are not enough good republicans left to allow any of them to stick around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 28, 2022, 07:50:54 PM: Interesting to note
dems wanted to defund the police.
Paul Pelosi had his life saved by the police.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 28, 2022, 11:12:20 PM: I really should be back here on a regular basis. Red's is the kind of brilliant analysis you get nowhere else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 29, 2022, 01:59:59 AM: Democrats fund the police.

Republicans beat police with flags because they love breaking the law much more than they love America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 29, 2022, 01:20:52 PM: Sorry left out forum does have tech issues. Connection between crime rates and open borders. How ironic that Mr. Pelosi was assailed by an illegal entrant. Not much in the press.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 29, 2022, 01:50:38 PM: Slap yourself, Luee, you unrelenting piece of shit. Use a tire iron, a frying pan, or a rusty hatchet until you stop having such broken thoughts.

If you make it that far, vote a day late and vote in person. Your vote will count more if you cast it on the tenth of November.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on October 29, 2022, 02:12:35 PM: Quote from: luee on October 29, 2022, 01:20:52 PM
Sorry left out forum does have tech issues. Connection between crime rates and open borders. How ironic that Mr. Pelosi was assailed by an illegal entrant. Not much in the press.

That
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 29, 2022, 03:01:20 PM: Influx has caused a shortage of police, shortage of teachers, psychiatrists, social workers etc.. No shortage of the homeless though. That is 3.5 million mostly lost and demented souls since sleepy Joe took office.
https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/9/opini
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 29, 2022, 03:25:12 PM: You are a gullible wannabe domestic terrorist, Luee. How far you have fallen. It must be all that shit they feed you shut ins in Florida.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 29, 2022, 03:50:54 PM: Many of our new immigrants work to help our homeless and our mentally ill, etc, for instance my dearly departed friend Lisa came to the USA from the Philippines and she was very wealthy, and Lisa spent her whole life helping the homeless people here in the USA along with her friend Rose who was a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was President of the Philippines. Lisa and Rose helped the homeless their whole lives right up until they died. So, we have good immigrants who are helping the homeless.

And my Doctor was from the Philippines, he retired, but he was a great Doctor, and he used to help people for free, and he was a member of Doctors Without Borders, and his wife was also a Doctor from the Philippines.

At the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana they had a Psychiatrist who was from Vietnam, and her family came to the USA at the end of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese were brought to Camp Pendleton and they were given a choice of where they wanted to live, and they chose Westminster here in the OC, my friend went to college to become a Psychiatrist to help the people here in the OC and to give back. Her husband was an actor, he was in "The Lion King" on Broadway. She was a great Psychiatrist, and she helped a lot of people.

Investing in education and training for our immigrants is the smartest thing we can do, and we need to have libraries for the Farm Workers, and schools for the children, and we need to teach the immigrants how to speak English, etc.

And there are rich immigrants who are good Catholics who are helping the poor in the USA, etc. And for a while I had a Jewish Psychiatrist who was from Israel, that was at the MHA in Lancaster, California. The immigrants can help the poor if given the support and the opportunities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on October 29, 2022, 04:09:42 PM: The Dominican Republic GETS IT.

https://share.newsbreak.com/25856bx0
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 29, 2022, 05:26:01 PM: You are a truly ignorant bastard when it comes to history, Kid. Though if you are suggesting that we in the United States treat our out of control white population the way Dominicans treated and still treat Haitians to this day, you might be on to something there.

How do you say parsley, Kid?

A lot may be riding on how it comes off your lips.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 29, 2022, 08:42:20 PM: DEATH, please.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/de-man-guilty-luring-ex-girlfriend-17-woods-beating-death-baseball-bat?dicbo=v2-6a0cf5464b6983e979e25586c260ed1a
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on October 29, 2022, 09:07:25 PM: Summering in NYC area. Sad to see how far this sanctuary area has fallen. Homeless everywhere including the wealthy NJ burbs. Crime in the subways worst than even during the Bernie Getz years. Please Mr. President do something to curb the tide of broken humanity snaking their way in. Recently saw the movie "rebel without a cause" a simpler time when the big issue was, oh no, juvenile delinquency.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 29, 2022, 10:20:31 PM: Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo

1 hour

I am proud to present the $17.2M state investment for the Romero Clinic, which will assist the development of a social services & health center to address the needs of the community it serves, largely Salvadoran, Central American, Indigenous, Latino mixed status and undocumented families.

The continued distress of instability for immigrants and war refugees plays a role in generational trauma, amplified by stigma surrounding mental health treatment. Through this funding, Central American communities will have access to care in a safe space.

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We are wise to invest in Mental Health Associations and in Wellness Centers, etc, including in Wendy's area which includes the area around Lafayette Park in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2022, 11:25:53 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on October 29, 2022, 08:42:20 PM
DEATH, please.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/de-man-guilty-luring-ex-girlfriend-17-woods-beating-death-baseball-bat?dicbo=v2-6a0cf5464b6983e979e25586c260ed1a

Yes, like I've been warning...the bad people are after your daughters...and if you don't *lock them up*/ protect them 24/7, this is what *will* happen to them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 30, 2022, 11:52:16 AM: (Refreshing) News Item

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to crack down on woke policing, pushing authorities to be fighting actual crime in neighbourhoods, and not policing bad jokes on Twitter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2022, 12:01:10 PM: Meanwhile, in bambuworld, .....

"EV prices, already much higher than comparable petrol and diesel vehicles, have spiked in the past 12 months due to supply constraints, battery shortages and the rising cost of raw materials such as lithium."

#####

Well there you go.
Average Joe can't afford them...and with interest rates about to be increased again by the Reserve (central) Bank is more concerned with other things...like affording housing and food, energy, etc etc etc.

Article today says people are moving out of Sydney at express pace, moving to other cities and towns with more affordable housing, and lower costs of living.
The pandemic has reportedly changed people's housing desire...free-standing homes, not high rise apartments. Exodus from high density suburbs to suburbs with 'cottages'.

World's two largest car manufacturers, VW and Toyota, don't sell any EVs in Australia, yet.
Ford is advertising it will be importing the new F150 (not electric) to bambuland.
"BIG, STRONG, great for towing" the ads basically say.

Gonna be a long time before downunder goes electric cars, methinks.
Hybrid first, then fully electric, is the way to go, but like with most other things the politicians and activists are out of touch.
They should look at the new Prius in America as an example of "sensible transition".
New Prius...better looking, bigger battery, longer 'electric' range, takes 5 hrs to charge at home.
Fuel cap one side, plug in charger cable for domestic use the other. Easy to use.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2022, 01:26:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 30, 2022, 11:52:16 AM
(Refreshing) News Item

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to crack down on woke policing, pushing authorities to be fighting actual crime in neighbourhoods, and not policing bad jokes on Twitter.

Rishi is also gonna "tow back the boats"...have fast smaller navy boats to stop "asylum-seekers/economic immigrants" call them what you like (who were safe in France) from crossing the Channel and waltzing into Britain.
Also going to tighten the qualifications regarding asylum.
Rishi has been paying attention.
Yes, border security is paramount today...it's lunacy just letting anyone and everyone enter one's country uninvited.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2022, 03:16:43 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi is in Italy.

4 minutes

Repost from Vogue Italia. In unprecetance Vogue Italia, the women of Iran are leading the fight for change against the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is at times like this that they need our utmost support to continue their social and political movement. Though we all cannot be there with them, in the front line of the protests, we can spread the word and use our voices.

Thank you Vogue Italia for highlighting the cause and speakinVogue Italiastruggles of the brave Iranian people fighting for their basic human rights.

#Iran #Vogue #mahsaamini #woman_life_freedom #iranrevolution #iranrevolution2022 #Opiran #freeiran

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Mahlagha Jaberi is a beautiful and brave Persian woman from Iran who is using her beauty and fame to help to advance human rights for the women of Iran, and she did an interview with Vogue in Italy to help the women of Iran. I support Mahlagha, she is one of my favorite Persian women. Mahlagha is great.

Maybe Mahlagha can talk with the Pope while she is in Italy about improving human rights for the women of Iran.

And I would put Mahlagha on Good Morning America when she comes back to the USA on the issue of improving human rights for the women of Iran. Mahlagha can be a leader for improving the human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2022, 04:13:36 PM: O, and Rishi says, that basically any country that won't take back failed asylum seekers won't be receiving any more grants from Britain's generous foreign aid budget.
Britain tried sending some back to Rwanda or elsewhere in Africa but that was blocked by the UN or some body.
Looks like he'll have to do what Australia did...draw a line in the sand, and declare to the world that anyone who tries to enter Britain by people smuggling boat will never be settled in Britain but held in an offshore detention centre somewhere else...maybe Nauru might be interested.
Or maybe guide the boats to the NYC ferry wharf....past the Statue of Liberty.
It'd be interesting to see what would happen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 30, 2022, 06:11:48 PM: Excellent - get the fok out!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/entertainment/hollywood-hits-delete-elon-musk-twitter-takeover-sends-celebrities-different-social-media-platforms
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 30, 2022, 07:03:15 PM: Brazil denazifies itself as record number of anti-fascists continue to cast their votes across the United States.

Dumb, ugly and white is no longer the winning combination it was for Reagan and Bush.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 30, 2022, 07:27:52 PM: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/oz-abortion-debate-pennsylvania-senate/?dicbo=v2-e745e67e55f938a1aa1a67a5a1a5a0e7&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

But its often NOT between a woman and her doctor. Nor is the father always consulted.

Its a woman's body and her choice. So when discussing, stay consistent. Leave doctor and daad out of it

Woman's choice - and often a cruel and selfish one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2022, 10:25:28 PM: "Poverty is the father of revolution and crime." - Aristotle

"A wise man has a light in his head, while a fool walks in the darkness." The Bible

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2022, 12:18:00 AM: Reagan made all of our immigrants legal so that they could join labor unions and so that they could call the police in the case of an emergency. We need to make our immigrants legal right now like Reagan did, and we need to write a new immigration law that has a GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY to make it easy for our good Christian neighbors to become legal citizens in the USA and to be able to live and work here.

And George W. Bush was a great friend to Mexico when he was President, and he was a good friend to all of Latin America. W's first trip as President was to Mexico, and he was the first President to visit some Latin American nations. W wanted to bring us together from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Chile, to do trade and to help each other. We are all Democracies in the Western Hemisphere except for Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and we need to work together to advance and improve conditions and relations and trade here in the Western Hemisphere.

Of note, that was the advice that I sent to the new leader in Italy, I told her to expand trade with Mexico and with all of Latin America, and including expanding trade with Colombia and importing Colombian coffee, etc, and Italy can expand exports to Colombia and to Latin America, etc. And the Pope is from Argentina, so the Pope can help to improve relations between Italy and Latin America, etc, and trade can be expanded.

And as we bring in refugees from war zones, we need to have Mental Health services available for them. Such as the new Clinic Wendy Carrillo is building in her district for the refugees and immigrants in her area. And San Diego State University is the best at training Psychologists and Psychiatrists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 02:35:16 AM: Hooray...
...my tv news just announced that:

"US to station long range nuclear armed B52 bombers in numbers in the Nortern Territory, Australia."

bambu now has nukes!

O what a great day it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 11:11:10 AM: Thank your left wing government. Admit that Scummo and the right wing failsons like your terrible radio host could never get it done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:23:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 11:11:10 AM
Thank your left wing government. Admit that Scummo and the right wing failsons like your terrible radio host could never get it done.

ScoMo and co were instrumental in getting it done...when now Opposition leader Peter Dutton was Home Affairs and Defence Minister.
It's the product now of AUKUS.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:27:54 PM: "Why can't we make computers?
Why can't we make cell phones?
Why can't we make the iPhone...
... in this country?
We should be doing it here."

Donald Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 12:51:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:23:09 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 11:11:10 AM
Thank your left wing government. Admit that Scummo and the right wing failsons like your terrible radio host could never get it done.

ScoMo and co were instrumental in getting it done...when now Opposition leader Peter Dutton was Home Affairs and Defence Minister.
It's the product now of AUKUS.

You are a parking lot for our toys, Bambi. It is a good strategic move on our part since if those systems are targeted there is nothing of value in the vicinity that will be put at risk.

So still, as always

No nukes for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 12:53:21 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:27:54 PM
"Why can't we make computers?
Why can't we make cell phones?
Why can't we make the iPhone...
... in this country?
We should be doing it here."

Donald Trump.

Not our most quotable criminal, but likely our most deranged.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:59:14 PM: More great news...
"Former US naval chiefs have reportedly been paid up to $9,000 a day to help Australia develop its new fleet of submarines and ships, documents reveal."

#####

Money well spent.

_______________

"In all, the ADF has had six US former admirals, three US Navy civilian chiefs and three ship building executives on its books since 2015 worth a combined $15.5 million.

Former US Navy Secretary Donald Winter was, as at September 2021, purportedly paid $9,000 a day plus expenses by Australia, specifically as special adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in his AUKUS talks."

#####

More money well spent.
I feel safer already.
I do like to feel safe, and comfortable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 01:07:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 12:53:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 31, 2022, 12:27:54 PM
"Why can't we make computers?
Why can't we make cell phones?
Why can't we make the iPhone...
... in this country?
We should be doing it here."

Donald Trump.

Not our most quotable criminal, but likely our most deranged.

He's 100% correct on this one.
The folly of having *everything* made in China/overseas was shown very clearly by the pandemic.
"Buy American (Toyotas are made in America)...buy your kids a job".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 31, 2022, 01:30:30 PM: That must be why Trump has a Chinese bank account and so much invested in Chinese businesses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 01:44:01 PM: He has to keep something from the clutches of the American people from which it was stolen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 01:44:50 PM: Klepper on Joe

http://youtu.be/TYhdLyK2uoA (http://youtu.be/TYhdLyK2uoA)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2022, 02:15:32 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/31/2132547/-Republicans-are-dodging-so-hard-now-because-they-did-so-much-to-inspire-an-attack-on-Nancy-Pelosi (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/31/2132547/-Republicans-are-dodging-so-hard-now-because-they-did-so-much-to-inspire-an-attack-on-Nancy-Pelosi)

It seems like conspiracy to commit murder and home invasion with terrorism enhancements. We will need to see the texts and emails, which may lead to some fundraising propaganda and further broaden the chain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2022, 03:03:17 PM: Yes Bambu, we need to educate and train our people here in the USA to make Apple Laptops here in America and the phones and everything. The reason why we do not have the jobs here is because of neglect, and greed, and maybe corruption. And the assholes at the top want to build prisons and hire cops and prison guards instead of building schools and hiring teachers. We need schools instead of prisons.

And for the people of Kentucky, I would build a giant college right in the middle of the poorest part of Kentucky to educate and train the poor people of Kentucky.

As we train and educate our people, then so too must we give our people business loans so that they can follow their dreams and so that they can create jobs and opportunities here in the USA.

We need to build new colleges and libraries all over the USA in the poorest areas, and we need to train our poorest people for the jobs of the future.

( Off topic, for the people here in Hollywood, Tony Danza is doing a show from November 1st to the 5th at a Jazz club on Sunset Blvd. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2022, 05:19:50 PM: Instead of glorifying gangsters with gangster rap, and instead of glorifying drug dealers like in the movie "White Boy Rick" and other movies, we need to glorify college professors and teachers like in the movie "Dead Poets Society" and movies like that.

The USA was built on the foundation provided by Athens, and Rome, and Athens was an educated society, and they had libraries and they studied and they loved poetry, etc. If we want to be like Greece then we need to teach our people the value of a good school and a good library. Instead of doing illegal drugs and killing each other, they need to learn the joy of reading and studying and being a healthy part of society like the Greeks.

Allowing our youth to decline is pure neglect, and allowing Americans to suffer in bitter poverty without hope is pure neglect.

We are training the future of the Entertainment Industry here in California, we have USC which is the number 1 film school in the world, and we have Chapman which is the number 4 rated film school in the world, we are training the future in the Entertainment Industry, and we have the AADA in Hollywood which is training the actors of the future. We need for the new people to help to guide the USA in the right direction with their craft as Frank Capra did. We need movies and television shows that help to guide people in the right direction.

And our stars can help to set an example for people the way that Paul Newman did when he started Newman's Own to donate the money to charity to help children.

We need to build more schools, and we need to glorify great teachers. And we need to train a whole new generation of filmmakers who will be responsible with their craft.

And we need to build schools and libraries in our poorest areas, and we need to glorify the best in humanity.

With my movie script that I wrote, it is a Tragedy, and it is showing what a sad life the main character had, and she commits suicide, and the hope with my script is that it will motivate the good people to help the foster children and the homeless teens on the streets of Hollywood, and that orphans should not have to become porn stars in order to survive, my movie script seeks to motivate people to support groups such as Children of the Night which helps the homeless teens in Hollywood, etc. My art is all about making the world a better place, and not just producing garbage.

I would love to own a studio like Universal Studios, and I would change the whole scenario, I would make stuff that is good for the world along with being good art. We need for the studio bosses to care about society and to be responsible in regard to the content they make.

My movie script and my poetry book are both creations which desire to make the world a better place, and which seek to get people to care about our society.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2022, 05:52:42 PM: Here is a link for Children of the Night...

https://www.childrenofthenight.org

There has to be good people out on the streets of Hollywood who help the homeless teens on the streets of Hollywood so that the teens do not become victims of the evil scumbags that prey on our youth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2022, 01:29:47 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2022, 05:19:50 PM
Instead of glorifying gangsters with gangster rap, and instead of glorifying drug dealers like in the movie "White Boy Rick" and other movies, we need to glorify college professors and teachers like in the movie "Dead Poets Society" and movies like that.

The USA was built on the foundation provided by Athens, and Rome, and Athens was an educated society, and they had libraries and they studied and they loved poetry, etc. If we want to be like Greece then we need to teach our people the value of a good school and a good library. Instead of doing illegal drugs and killing each other, they need to learn the joy of reading and studying and being a healthy part of society like the Greeks.

Allowing our youth to decline is pure neglect, and allowing Americans to suffer in bitter poverty without hope is pure neglect.

We are training the future of the Entertainment Industry here in California, we have USC which is the number 1 film school in the world, and we have Chapman which is the number 4 rated film school in the world, we are training the future in the Entertainment Industry, and we have the AADA in Hollywood which is training the actors of the future. We need for the new people to help to guide the USA in the right direction with their craft as Frank Capra did. We need movies and television shows that help to guide people in the right direction.

And our stars can help to set an example for people the way that Paul Newman did when he started Newman's Own to donate the money to charity to help children.

We need to build more schools, and we need to glorify great teachers. And we need to train a whole new generation of filmmakers who will be responsible with their craft.

And we need to build schools and libraries in our poorest areas, and we need to glorify the best in humanity.

With my movie script that I wrote, it is a Tragedy, and it is showing what a sad life the main character had, and she commits suicide, and the hope with my script is that it will motivate the good people to help the foster children and the homeless teens on the streets of Hollywood, and that orphans should not have to become porn stars in order to survive, my movie script seeks to motivate people to support groups such as Children of the Night which helps the homeless teens in Hollywood, etc. My art is all about making the world a better place, and not just producing garbage.

I would love to own a studio like Universal Studios, and I would change the whole scenario, I would make stuff that is good for the world along with being good art. We need for the studio bosses to care about society and to be responsible in regard to the content they make.

My movie script and my poetry book are both creations which desire to make the world a better place, and which seek to get people to care about our society.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony, I hope you get to own a studio soon so you can make movies where the hero, main character good guys and gals and their pets don't get killed.
I'm sick of Hollywood movies where fhe good guys and gals and their pets end up dead.
Some parts of Hollywood seem to have weird deas of what viewers want.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 01, 2022, 07:14:40 AM: Mike Brezhinski says there was total unity when Steve Scalise was shot. No barbs tossed, no jokes from the Democrts

Right

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mandela-barnes-wont-apologize-for-mocking-gop-congressman-who-was-shot-and-almost-killed/

MSNBC and others politicizing the Pelosi matter with help from main stream media's digging for comments

Not "go get the story on Paul Pelosi's condition" but sweep all sources for comments from the right regarding the hammer attack, so that we can use this against them.

Sad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 01, 2022, 12:34:55 PM: What is sad is that you are exactly the murderous fucking worm you are being made out to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 01, 2022, 02:21:11 PM: #protectmysocialsecurity
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 01, 2022, 03:48:22 PM: Thanks Bambu, I worked for 1 year at Universal Studios in between attending AVC and the AADA, in 1995, and back then the Japanese owned Universal and my fellow employees kept telling me to buy the studio so that it would be American owned again. Lew Wasserman was our boss, and we had good filmmakers like Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg at Universal, when I was there I watched Ron Howard make the movie "Apollo 13" which he made with the help of NASA, it is a great movie. Universal is American owned now, and the headquarters is in New York City, and I hope that they make better films.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 01, 2022, 06:30:18 PM: News Item ( State of the Mid Terms )

Voters are giving Republicans a late boost in support just ahead of the midterm elections, as pessimism about the economy and the direction of the country jump to their highest levels of the year, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds.

The survey, conducted about two weeks before Election Day, suggests that abortion rights are less important in voting decisions than voters indicated in the summer, after the Supreme Court in June ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. Republicans have regained momentum since then and now hold a slight edge over Democrats, 46% to 44%, when voters are asked which party they would support in their congressional district if the election were held today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 01, 2022, 07:29:11 PM: That's because Republicans are being fair about it. Many Democrats are fine with the post 15 week ban. And realize that most Republicans running for office are not extreme when it comes to limiting abortion. Cool heads prevailing (though the rallies were actually pretty cool as well)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 01, 2022, 10:34:57 PM: We are looking at an 8 to 10 million vote spread against the republicans.

Rass has Biden with 46 percent approval. Gas prices and inflation keep falling, as does the deficit while jobs continue to grow.

The right wing terrorist of the republican party are still too cowardly and incompetent to propose either a platform or a plan.

Americans want more support for what they are finding to be the best presidency in many of their lifetimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 01, 2022, 10:51:41 PM: Gas prices are actually up

Do you ride a scooter?

Wont hear KJP mention it this week in her briefings
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 02, 2022, 12:46:28 AM: "Under Bush...Russia invaded Georgia.
Under Obama...Russia took Crimea.
Under Biden...Russia invaded Ukraine.
I stand as the only President of the 21st Century on whose watch Russia did not invade another country."

- Donald Trump.

Elect Donald Trump President in 2024...to save the world from invasionl by Russia and its allies!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 03:40:08 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 01, 2022, 10:51:41 PM
Gas prices are actually up

Do you ride a scooter?

Down more than a buck off their peak.

Not so low as when the republicans had killed the economy, everyone was out of work and corpses were festering unprocessed in morgue trucks behind every hospital in a sea of spreading right wing crime, but low and getting lower.

When it suits me I take my Honda Ruckus out for a spin. It is a great way to get around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 02, 2022, 05:03:50 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 03:40:08 AM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 01, 2022, 10:51:41 PM
Gas prices are actually up

Do you ride a scooter?

Down more than a buck off their peak.

Not so low as when the republicans had killed the economy, everyone was out of work and corpses were festering unprocessed in morgue trucks behind every hospital in a sea of spreading right wing crime, but low and getting lower.

When it suits me I take my Honda Ruckus out for a spin. It is a great way to get around.

Sounds like "the pandemic was all ScoMo's fault".
Yes, Albo, and President Joe didn't have to fight the pandemic battle...just rode in on their white horses after all the hard work had been done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 02, 2022, 03:50:47 PM: Damn! Surprised at Herschell

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/republicans_kemp_walker_lead_in_key_georgia_races
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 05:13:05 PM: Walker is still holding strong with 48 percent of republican voters. Will it be enough?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 05:20:17 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/jair-bolsonaro-reportedly-accepts-defeat-brazil-election (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/jair-bolsonaro-reportedly-accepts-defeat-brazil-election)

All fascists gonna lose.

All fascists must go down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on November 02, 2022, 05:37:26 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 05:13:05 PM
Walker is still holding strong with 48 percent of republican voters. Will it be enough?

77 per cent

But independents pitting him in position to win.

Total of course is 48 per cent in the one poll. Putting him up 5.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 02, 2022, 08:05:39 PM: Stay home this time. You must think you crackers have it in the bag anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 02, 2022, 08:10:15 PM: It sure would be a surprise.

I also see that a majority of Georgians dont believe there will be a fair accounting of the election (or that there was in 2020). This includes a good number of Democrats.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2022, 02:50:05 PM: Gov Newsom wants California to improve the way that our homeless people are being helped, he said the money is being wasted and he wants California to improve the way that the money is being spent to help the homeless.

My advice is to build more Wellness Centers like in Orange where the people can get help, people can get help for any issue at the Wellness Center.

We can also build more Mental Health Associations like in Santa Ana, also with MHA Thrift Stores, etc.

We also need to help the Foster Youth, with programs like CASA, and we also need to send the Foster Youth to college for free.

Also,we have the issue of Abused Women, and we need moving companies such as Meat Head Movers which moves abused women out of abusive situations, a bunch of big strong men show up to move the women to a safe home. We also need secret safe homes for the women, etc.

Then we also have the issue of Drug and Alcohol Addiction, so we need to have Treatment Camps like we had in Acton to help people to get clean and to get them into the 12 Step Program, etc. We can also learn from the example set by Carl Rogers and others at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs.

Also, just for the poor people, we need to have Hostels like in Rome, Italy, where people can take a nice hot shower and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night. We have a lot of people who have jobs for minimum wage and they are homeless, but if there was a Hostel then they could shower and sleep at the Hostel. The Hostels can run TAX FREE in order to inspire people to open Hostels.

Those are a few ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 03, 2022, 04:18:17 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 02, 2022, 08:10:15 PM
It sure would be a surprise.

I also see that a majority of Georgians dont believe there will be a fair accounting of the election (or that there was in 2020). This includes a good number of Democrats.

The criminal element that dominates the GOP is openly trying to steal this election. Since republicans have no morals and no bottom people are right to be concerned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 03, 2022, 05:23:36 PM: Joe warns half of America they are still deplorable.
Joe must think repeating Hillary s failed strategy will work this time.
Joe is wrong
Joe is stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 03, 2022, 05:47:13 PM: Following Through On Commitment To Address Twitter Disinformation, Elon Suspends New York Times!

ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 03, 2022, 06:23:47 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 03, 2022, 05:23:36 PM
Joe warns half of America they are still deplorable.
Joe must think repeating Hillary s failed strategy will work this time.
Joe is wrong
Joe is stupid.

You are disgusting dangerous and despised, decrepit and deteriorating, dense and deluded and delusional.

Deplore it all you want. It will not make it any less true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 03, 2022, 06:26:43 PM: Maureed Dowd is 70.
Recently she wrote in the NYT:
"Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I loved putting up twinkling bats and watching midnight monster-chiller-horror movies.
Not this year.
The world is too scary. Politics is too creepy. Horror is too real."

#####

The world has always been too scary. Politics has always been too creepy. Horror has always been too real.
Lovely Maureen is very lucky to have lived so long before the horror of the creepy, scary world caught up with her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 03, 2022, 06:49:03 PM: What was American basketball star Brittney Griner even doing in Russia...let alone in Russia with cannabis-infused vape cartridges.
...sentenced to 9 years in prison in August.
Another Westerner (African-American) 'banged up abroad'.
She must be terrified.
Russia in not America, someone should've told her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 04, 2022, 02:07:52 PM: Here in California we need to unite our people to all work together as a team for the betterment of all of us, and we need to honor our Civil Rights Act of 1964, and of 1968, which are our Equal Opportunity Act, and our Fair Housing Act, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL and we all have the same shot for work and for housing.

I also support charities which are all inclusive such as Kiwanis International and Habitat For Humanity, I support the charities which are all inclusive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 04, 2022, 02:56:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 03, 2022, 06:26:43 PM
The world has always been too scary. Politics has always been too creepy. Horror has always been too real.

Yet here you are, Bambu

Now what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2022, 06:17:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 04, 2022, 02:56:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 03, 2022, 06:26:43 PM
The world has always been too scary. Politics has always been too creepy. Horror has always been too real.

Yet here you are, Bambu

Now what?

I somehow managed to avoid the horror of the scary world, except for in the workforce, where I had to stay.
Now what?
I no longer have to suffer the workforce, so I spend my days travelling the world thru the adventures of others, on YouTube.
All thru America, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, ME etc.
Vloggers are very clever and interesting. The way they film with drones is truly amazing.
Just like being there, without all the hassles.
No long flights on cramped planes. No lost luggage, or cabin bags stolen on the plane.
No tourist crowds. No flight delays. No arguing with people wanting to take advantage.
And there's absolutely no way I can be 'banged up/bashed up/stitched up abroad'.
It's the only way to travel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 04, 2022, 10:28:06 PM: Bambu, when you visit Anaheim then be sure to eat at Ruby's.

https://www.rubys.com/locations/anaheim/

My Mother loves Ruby's.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2022, 05:39:29 AM: Tony, sometimes you make me so happy I cry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2022, 02:01:27 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi will be at Beverly Hills City Hall today for a meeting to improve the human rights for the women of Iran, they will be at City Hall from 1 pm to 4 pm.

We want for healthy evolution to happen in Iran, we want for the good people to take control of Iran, and Mahlagha Jaberi represents the new generation of Persians who want freedom, and good human rights. Mahlagha came from Iran to live in California, but she still marches for the women of Iran.

Maybe Mahlagha Jaberi can go on Good Morning America to talk about improving human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2022, 02:56:55 PM: http://www.thebulwark.com/want-to-reduce-deaths-of-despair-try-antitrust-enforcement/ (http://www.thebulwark.com/want-to-reduce-deaths-of-despair-try-antitrust-enforcement/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 05, 2022, 03:16:56 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 05, 2022, 02:56:55 PM
http://www.thebulwark.com/want-to-reduce-deaths-of-despair-try-antitrust-enforcement/ (http://www.thebulwark.com/want-to-reduce-deaths-of-despair-try-antitrust-enforcement/)

Yes, just as I thought..."no 4 yr degree, no job, no hope."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2022, 03:46:00 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-how-business-accounting-works (http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-how-business-accounting-works)

This is a testament to the quality of republican luminaries these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 05, 2022, 07:37:20 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-about- anything-and-is,-if possible,- even-dumber- than-his-father (http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-about- anything-and-is,-if possible,- even-dumber- than-his-father)

Hyperlink fixed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2022, 08:42:49 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 05, 2022, 07:37:20 PM

http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-about- anything-and-is,-if possible,- even-dumber- than-his-father (http://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax5pm/don-jr-testified-he-has-no-idea-about- anything-and-is,-if possible,- even-dumber- than-his-father)

Hyperlink fixed

He is only a bit brighter than his siblings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 05, 2022, 08:44:04 PM: Kind of like Moe was the brightest of the Three Stooges. The brains of the outfit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 06, 2022, 02:39:13 PM: Today Dr Charles Stanley talked about how we always have a friend in Jesus, and about how we need to love other people the way that Jesus loves us.

I rode a Greyhound Bus across the USA and back by myself, and I went to France by myself and I went to Italy by myself, and I always feel like God is watching over me when I travel. And so too do I try to be a good citizen when I travel.

And as we work to love our neighbors, I am reminded of the song "In The Ghetto" by Elvis, the song always made me cry as a kid, but now the USA is rich and we do not need to allow bitter suffering and poverty in our ghettos, we need to spend some money to clean up our ghettos and to help the people and to build schools, and parks, and libraries, and we can send them good food from California and we can send them cheap supplies from Mexico, etc. We in the USA need to spend some money to make it nicer in our ghettos.

One thing that the sports teams can do, and the stadium owners, etc, is that they can have a $2 gate fee to go to charity work in each city, in Chicago, and Saint Louis, and in Detroit, etc. They can spend the money to help Foster Children, and Abused Women, and to build libraries in poor neighborhoods, etc.

And as we do trade with Mexico then it really helps the poor Mexicans. As we send Mexican goods to the Ghettos then it will help everyone, along with food from California, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 07, 2022, 01:19:00 PM: Right now is a great time for the producers of content who make the Entertainment in today's climate. Jobs are picking up here in Hollywood, and I have a friend who is working at a studio on a movie set right now. And as long as we continue to have the best schools then we will always have great people. Now someone needs to build a movie studio in Anaheim that is close enough for me to walk to, my neighborhood has an industrial zone, and we could have a studio like the Occidental Studio in East Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 07, 2022, 01:49:02 PM: Sometimes I see stars in our neighborhood, including Hugh Laury from the television show "House." And we certainly have beautiful women here in Anaheim. That is a fun thing about going to the market here is that you never know who you will meet that day. And even the bodega around the corner has stars visit, some stars like the little unknown bodegas, and it is a great spot for tacos and beer.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2022, 10:31:04 AM: 30% of our people here in California are immigrants who were born in other nations.

So, that means that we get to teach them what it means to be an American.

When I was young I was taught to be honest, and to work hard for my money. I was taught that if you are honest then people will love you, but if you steal or deal drugs then people will hate you. And if you are honest then you will not waste time in prison, etc.

So, that is what we need to teach our new immigrants. We need to teach our immigrants to work hard, and to always be honest. For our Farm Workers we have the United Farm Workers which is a wonderful organization, and we can work together with the UFW to teach and educate our immigrants, and they learn to do honest work with the UFW.

At Pepperdine people are taught Business, and they learn about manufacturing, distribution, marketing, etc, etc, etc. We need to make sure that the Business students are able to get Business loans when they graduate, and we need for the graduates to create jobs here in California, and in Kentucky, etc.

In San Bernardino the beautiful malls are gone, and San Bernardino has the worst crime in the state of California. We need to teach the people of San Bernardino how to behave in the USA, 30% of the people in San Bernardino are from other nations, we need to teach the new immigrants how to behave in the USA. We need to teach them how to do honest Business, and how to make honest money. California is rich and there is no need for bitter poverty and suffering in California, and there is no reason for crime in California. We need to teach the new people how to behave in a wealthy and classy state like California. We are the 5th leading economy in the world just by ourselves here in California, there is no need for crime and poverty. The first McDonald's was in San Bernardino, and now McDonald's is global, the people of San Bernardino need to be taught how to do honest Business, they can prosper.

Here in Anaheim we have Disneyland, and we receive 50,000 new tourists every day to sell stuff to, there is no need for crime here. We have great schools, students from Fullerton Community College can go right to work for Disney, and we have Chapman film school, and other great schools. There is no reason for crime here. We need to teach the new people how to sell stuff to the tourists here. You can get rich as easily as selling hamburgers to tourists, there is no need for poverty nor crime.

Las Vegas is booming right now, the economy in Vegas is great, and we can expand on the success of Vegas by building a high speed train between Las Vegas and Disneyland in Anaheim. And many honest opportunities are being created, anyone could go to a casino in Nevada to get a job, I was a cook at a casino in Battle Mountain for 2 years, and those opportunities are beneficial.

If people can make honest money then there is no reason for crime. And we need to build schools instead of prisons so that we can teach people how to make honest money. There is no reason for the crime here, and we need to teach our new immigrants who make up 30% of our society that the California Dream is real and that you can get rich while being honest, and there is no reason for crime here. California is very wealthy, and the USA is rich now, we need to behave like the educated rich people behave.

And we need for all of our poor people to read "On Becoming A Person" by Carl Rogers, and we need to all value ourselves as people, we are beautiful people in a wealthy country and there is no reason for extreme poverty and suffering here in California nor in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2022, 11:51:13 AM: Habitat for Humanity
20 minutes

When a family slides that key into the lock of a house they have helped build, they are unlocking more than just the physical front door to their new home. They are unlocking their fullest potential. And where does that lead? Health. Education. Opportunity. Community.

Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International.

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Land in Battle Mountain, Nevada only costs $1,000 per acre, Habitat For Humanity can build nice high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, complete with swimming pools and tennis courts, for very cheap. They can do trade with San Francisco to create jobs. And the economy in Nevada is booming.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2022, 05:50:13 PM: Japanese culture has a lot of expectations, and when you can't meet these expectations you become a failure.
So these people just end up locking themselves in their rooms for weeks.
Called "HIKIKOMORI".
All men, seemingly.
Very common in Japan.

Yuichi Ishii, an actor, decided to do something about it.
He started a company, hired women, and trained them to just talk to the Hikikomori.
He gave the lonely people "sisters to rent".
Talk, walk around in society.
This way he got over 300 people to come out of their rooms, feel better.
Cool.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 08, 2022, 06:15:13 PM: This way he got over 300 people to come out of their rooms,

Bambu has no sense of irony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2022, 06:30:52 PM: I worked for the Japanese when they owned Universal Studios, part of my job description was to escort Very Important Persons around the studio, I had a phone with a direct line to the studio and I could get the VIPs whatever they needed, I escorted a lot of Japanese people who I have no idea who they were, I escorted a lot of rich and famous Japanese people who I had no idea who they were.

The Japanese work hard for low pay, and they will work themselves to death, and if they are dishonored then they commit suicide, they are very hard on themselves.

I think that the Italians are better to work for, they are more generous, they work in moderation, they take long lunch breaks, and they do not work themselves to death like the Japanese, and yet the Italians still manufacture great things such as the Lamborghini automobiles, and they make great clothes and great shoes, etc, and the Italian movies are great.

It was hard to work for the Japanese, and they never paid me over the bare minimum.

The Japanese need to relax, and not be so hard on themselves. It is good that an actor is helping them, the artists can help society. And for sure the workers in Japan need labor unions to support them and the Japanese need to have forced breaks from work, and they need to have a limit on the number of hours that they are allowed to work per day. The unions need to help the workers in Japan to have better lives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2022, 07:33:35 PM: I went to Italy in 2003 and I tried to get a job at the Cinecitta movie studio in Rome. Scorsese had just been there making "The Gangs of New York" and the studio was booming. I sent a headshot and resume to all of the production companies around Cinecitta, and I tried to get work there. I would have loved to have been able to make movies with the Italians, and I have a lot of good ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2022, 12:29:46 PM: Today is my Birthday, I am 55 years old today. It is hard because we have the idea in our head how we want life to be, and then we have the reality of how life actually is, and it is hard when the life that we want to have does not match up with our life that we are living. And we have these ideas that we can achieve our Dreams here in the USA and in California, and it is hard when we are not living our Dream life. I count my blessings, but there was so much more that I wanted to do with my life.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2022, 01:18:23 PM: As I grow older it is hard here in Hollywood where people value youth and attractiveness, so instead I need to look at the cultures which value their elders, like the Native American Indians. The Native American Indians put their elders on their Councils to run their Tribes. And even in Hollywood, we all loved Lew Wasserman no matter how old he got, and in Los Angeles everyone loved Vin Scully and Tommy Lasorda.

I am trying to keep growing and learning as I grow older, and I will keep imagining fun dreams, and we will see what happens. Sometimes I am able to do great things, I lived in Malibu on the beach for 1 year and it was cool that I was able to achieve that Dream. And I traveled to France to the Cannes Film Festival, and I spent 6 weeks in Rome, and I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ, and I plan to travel more in the future. And it would be nice to see more of the USA, I have not been to New York yet, and I also want to visit New Orleans, and I want to go to the Kentucky Derby, etc.

Dr Charles Stanley says that our lives can be inspirational to help other people if we keep a good attitude and rise above the hard times, but he said that once we start complaining then we ruin it, he wants us to always look to God and never complain. But, I have a nurse who told me that I need to complain, she said that the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and that you will not get help if you do not complain, she wanted me to speak up. You have to speak up so that you can get help, but at the same time you need to try to be strong and to rise above the struggles. I can help others if I keep a good attitude, and it is good to complain but only when it is a necessity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2022, 10:28:30 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2022, 12:29:46 PM
Today is my Birthday, I am 55 years old today. It is hard because we have the idea in our head how we want life to be, and then we have the reality of how life actually is, and it is hard when the life that we want to have does not match up with our life that we are living. And we have these ideas that we can achieve our Dreams here in the USA and in California, and it is hard when we are not living our Dream life. I count my blessings, but there was so much more that I wanted to do with my life.

Salute,

Tony V.

Happy birthday Tony!
Yes, life doesn't always work out how we planned, desired, thought it would.

Think you have to be born rich to have a magical life, able to make all your dreams come true.
Everyone else seems to struggle...have crosses to bear.
Some people in first world countries have absolutely horrible lives.
Many people in second and third world countries have unbearably miserable lives from cradle to grave.
One positive for you is that you are not living on the streets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2022, 11:22:05 PM: Had a medical assessment today.
The young nurse didn't seem to understand that staying home and travelling the world every day via YouTube etc is a thing....hobby, past-time, relaxing way to spend one's retirement years.
From Birmingham Alabama to Birmingham England.
From New York USA to York UK.
From Uluru to Uruguay...
...and all places in between.
Greek Islands tours.
Cruises...sailing the seven seas without getting seasick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 09, 2022, 11:38:59 PM: Did you get your bed sores treated?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 12:18:24 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 09, 2022, 11:38:59 PM
Did you get your bed sores treated?

LOL

No bed sores, I get off the bed every hour...wouldn't want to get DVT either.
The 'Men's Shed', lawn bowls, swimming pool, bus tours etc are not to my liking.
Covid, ...too hot in summer, and sawing and hammering things ... dust and noise are not for me.
I don't want to commit my time to anything, I want to be able to 'sleep til noon' if I so choose.
In between cruises, tours, van life following, auto reviews, there are chores to do.

It's great not having to commute and suffer the workforce...every day is the 'weekend'.
Trump is reportedly now shouting at anyone and everyone.
I'm the same age as Trump, and can't think of anything worse than putting myself through all that.
It's the quiet life for me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 10, 2022, 09:48:50 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 09, 2022, 11:38:59 PM
Did you get your bed sores treated?
No, but his brain scan revealed nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2022, 12:01:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2022, 10:28:30 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2022, 12:29:46 PM
Today is my Birthday, I am 55 years old today. It is hard because we have the idea in our head how we want life to be, and then we have the reality of how life actually is, and it is hard when the life that we want to have does not match up with our life that we are living. And we have these ideas that we can achieve our Dreams here in the USA and in California, and it is hard when we are not living our Dream life. I count my blessings, but there was so much more that I wanted to do with my life.

Salute,

Tony V.

Happy birthday Tony!
Yes, life doesn't always work out how we planned, desired, thought it would.

Think you have to be born rich to have a magical life, able to make all your dreams come true.
Everyone else seems to struggle...have crosses to bear.
Some people in first world countries have absolutely horrible lives.
Many people in second and third world countries have unbearably miserable lives from cradle to grave.
One positive for you is that you are not living on the streets.

Thanks Bambu.

Yes, I am blessed to live in a rich city in a rich state in a rich country. I live about 5 miles from Disneyland, so I am really blessed. And I have a nice apartment with good neighbors, I am lucky.

And I have been lucky to meet a lot of movie stars, which is cool, and when I worked at Universal I used to eat lunch with Lew Wasserman in the cafeteria, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, and I drove a limousine in Malibu, I had some good times.

I have been lucky to have had dreams and I tried to be an actor and filmmaker, which is a hard route. Hollywood is a hard town to succeed in. But, I learned a lot of things that I can use to help the homeless people in Hollywood, etc.

I have eaten with Mayors and I gave them all of my ideas on helping the homeless. And I sent people my ideas on the world wide web on how to help people.

Thanks again Bambu.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2022, 01:06:14 PM: Some people do not understand how lucky we are to live in California, and especially to be here in Anaheim. Even Lancaster is great, where I was born and raised, the desert was great back then.

Some people think this place is a ghetto, there are people who think every area is a ghetto, they moved to Lancaster and they call it a ghetto, and they come to this apartment complex and they call it a ghetto. There are people who think it is a ghetto no matter where they go, and they ruin neighborhoods instead of having a nice community and taking pride in your neighborhood.

Lancaster was like a resort when I was a kid, like Palm Springs, and the community built the Space Shuttles, etc, and there were people living there from the Entertainment Industry, etc. Now people are moving there from Compton, Watts, South Central, etc, and they are calling the desert a ghetto now. The desert is NOT a ghetto, it is a nice area, with a great community college. When I managed a dog kennel in Lancaster I used to have movie stars come in as customers. The desert can be a resort, like Palm Springs.

And Anaheim has Disneyland, this is a resort. This is not a ghetto. Our apartment complex has a swimming pool, and there is a park down the street that has tennis courts, this is not a ghetto. Anaheim is rich. And we have great schools in the area.

On the issue of Compton, Watts, South Central, and Inglewood, etc, they have the Rams now, and the Chargers, along with the Lakers and Clippers, etc, they can sell stuff to the tourists who come to the sporting events. If you can sell hamburgers to tourists then you can make honest money. There is no reason to be poor and to have a poor area if you can make money from the tourists.

And San Bernardino has the highest crime in California, and there is no reason for it, San Bernardino is wealthy, and the first McDonald's was in San Bernardino. We need to stop the crime and we need to teach the people how lucky they are to live in San Bernardino, San Bernardino is a resort town with golf courses, and they have a university in San Bernardino, etc.

California is rich, and we need to be a nice resort like Florida, and we have great schools, and we have Hollywood, we need to be grateful and we need to take pride in California, it is not a ghetto here, and we need to behave like good people who live in a good area.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 10, 2022, 02:26:58 PM: Tony, get it through your head that Florida is a rapidly collapsing hell hole, a trap for feckless boomers who would otherwise be a blight on productive areas of the country like Anehiem or Lancaster.

What was immediately apparent to me when I came to California after extensive travels in the east and the heartland is that ghettos in California have better accommodations, more resources and better community feeling than middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods in most of the rest of the country. And those are the worst neighborhoods, the slightly better and even middle class neighborhoods are as nice as anyone could want while our extravagant opulence is as extreme as anywhere else while also benefiting from perfect settings. Many of our structures and much of our infrastructure is due for a rebuild, but fortunately in this state we have the cash on hand to do it and at the moment will see support rather than resistance from the Feds.

Florida is a state of sweat and anxiety, spiraling expense and deteriorating income, both driven by republican stupidity and boomer avarice.

You are gen x, Tony. At 55 it is high time you go back to school and learn from gen Z. Seek your answers in the students as well as the professors.

Choose yourself a completely new Associates Degree or Commercial Liscence. It is free to you in California in a way that just aint there for those poor fucks in Florida.

Remember education is Antifa and all fascists must go down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 03:24:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 10, 2022, 09:48:50 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 09, 2022, 11:38:59 PM
Did you get your bed sores treated?
No, but his brain scan revealed nothing.

No brain scan...replaced by a questionnaire 'brain scan'....questionnaire on general health.
"Had any falls recently"?
Long list of questions.
Eyesight test.
Height measurement.
"Here are pen and paper, please close your eyes and write a sentence."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 03:44:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 10, 2022, 02:26:58 PM
Tony, get it through your head that Florida is a rapidly collapsing hell hole, a trap for feckless boomers who would otherwise be a blight on productive areas of the country like Anehiem or Lancaster.

What was immediately apparent to me when I came to California after extensive travels in the east and the heartland is that ghettos in California have better accommodations, more resources and better community feeling than middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods in most of the rest of the country. And those are the worst neighborhoods, the slightly better and even middle class neighborhoods are as nice as anyone could want while our extravagant opulence is as extreme as anywhere else while also benefiting from perfect settings. Many of our structures and much of our infrastructure is due for a rebuild, but fortunately in this state we have the cash on hand to do it and at the moment will see support rather than resistance from the Feds.

Florida is a state of sweat and anxiety, spiraling expense and deteriorating income, both driven by republican stupidity and boomer avarice.

You are gen x, Tony. At 55 it is high time you go back to school and learn from gen Z. Seek your answers in the students as well as the professors.

Choose yourself a completely new Associates Degree or Commercial Liscence. It is free to you in California in a way that just aint there for those poor fucks in Florida.

Remember education is Antifa and all fascists must go down.

Learn from Gen Z?
What?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 10, 2022, 03:50:16 PM: More than you can possibly imagine. Because your mini-sized brain can't imagine anything. And you don't need a Harvard education to know that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 04:10:29 PM: What I learnt from YouTube, TV news, and movies yesterday:

. Read and understand every word of the fine print in every contract/agreement you sign...never trust anyone...the written word trumps the verbal/implied word.

. People are having their bank accounts emptied by hackers...bypassing passwords and other security measures.
One woman in my world had $10,000, all her savings, milked from her bank account...no way anyone could've discovered her password, she said.
The bank said it was her fault and it won't be reimbursing her the money.
The bank (not one of the 'big 4') was named on 'the 6 o'clock news'...it is now reassessing its position.
The woman, on maternity leave, is taking her case to the consumer/banking ombudsman or somewhere.
She might get lucky.
If I were that bank I'd reimburse her the money immediately and review my security systems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 04:12:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 10, 2022, 03:50:16 PM
More than you can possibly imagine. Because your mini-sized brain can't imagine anything. And you don't need a Harvard education to know that.

I might understand better if you give me a few examples.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2022, 04:13:21 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 10, 2022, 02:26:58 PM
Tony, get it through your head that Florida is a rapidly collapsing hell hole, a trap for feckless boomers who would otherwise be a blight on productive areas of the country like Anehiem or Lancaster.

What was immediately apparent to me when I came to California after extensive travels in the east and the heartland is that ghettos in California have better accommodations, more resources and better community feeling than middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods in most of the rest of the country. And those are the worst neighborhoods, the slightly better and even middle class neighborhoods are as nice as anyone could want while our extravagant opulence is as extreme as anywhere else while also benefiting from perfect settings. Many of our structures and much of our infrastructure is due for a rebuild, but fortunately in this state we have the cash on hand to do it and at the moment will see support rather than resistance from the Feds.

Florida is a state of sweat and anxiety, spiraling expense and deteriorating income, both driven by republican stupidity and boomer avarice.

You are gen x, Tony. At 55 it is high time you go back to school and learn from gen Z. Seek your answers in the students as well as the professors.

Choose yourself a completely new Associates Degree or Commercial Liscence. It is free to you in California in a way that just aint there for those poor fucks in Florida.

Remember education is Antifa and all fascists must go down.

I have always been proud to live by Hollywood, and I always enjoyed serving the stars at various jobs, I always thought it was cool to be able to meet the stars. As a child I washed dogs for my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer, and we used to groom dogs for stars sometimes, I washed Victoria Principal's dog when I was a kid, and she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. And I managed a dog kennel with many famous customers, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, and I drove a limousine in Malibu, etc. I always enjoyed serving the stars and being around the stars. I always wanted to work in the Entertainment Industry, and I wanted to live in Malibu. I almost made it, I lived on the beach in Malibu for one year in a beautiful home, but I could not get any work in the Entertainment Industry, I spent a fortune on headshots to send with my resume, but it is a hard industry and I could not even get an agent. But, I had to try, and I am glad I tried.

At this point I am focusing more on the behind the camera stuff, and the writing, etc, and I would like to produce, etc. A couple of my heroes were Lew Wasserman, and Aaron Spelling, who proved that one is never too old to be a producer or to run a studio. I can also direct, I could direct Shakespeare, etc. Cecil B. DeMille went to the same acting school that I attended.

And yes, I can learn from the younger people, and I hope to find a smart wife who can teach me, we can teach each other, and it would be cool to find a wife to write and produce with, etc. And it all begins with going to the Chapman film school and meeting new people and getting involved with their activities and workshops, etc, and I can get a tutor to teach me how to use this Apple Laptop and to put the programs on it that I need. I can meet a whole new group of people by going to the film school. And I can act in student films for free for the students, I would enjoy that. I would like to find a wife who is about 30 years old who wants to write and produce, and maybe live in Italy someday and own a winery, etc, and maybe open a night club in Rome and shoot movies and television shows at Cinecitta.

On the issue of other jobs, I had a professor who worked at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, and he taught me how they do their program, they helped Elizabeth Taylor overcome her drug addiction, and they helped Ozzy Osbourne, and a lot of other people. I thought about going to San Diego State University and becoming a Psychologist and then moving to Palm Springs and working at the Betty Ford Center. But, instead I decided to go to acting school.

The film school is too far to go a bicycle, and so I need to ride the bus, I have not been there yet, but it is somewhere over by Angel Stadium. I know how to get to Angel Stadium. I need to get involved with activities and workshops at the film school, and I need to hire a tutor and helpers. And maybe somewhere along the line I can find a great woman who wants the same dreams that I want, and maybe I can work as a team with a great woman and maybe together we can do great things, and it would be great to have a baby.

And I will always do charity work to help the Foster Children, and the Homeless, etc.

I need to find a wife, and together we can work together as a team to chase dreams and goals. And right now everyone wants to help and support women, I can love and support a wife and help her to live her dreams.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 10, 2022, 04:29:03 PM: Keep track of what your company's automatic software is up to.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

😂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 04:52:02 PM: https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/23/genz-vs-millenials/]]https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/23/genz-vs-millenials/ (http://)

1. On the one hand, Gen Zs seem to be experts in technology to the point they need minimal management. However, on the other hand, their generation is characterized by a lack of concentration, which is deeply affected by smartphones and social media trends.

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Well there you go.

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2. While Generation Z is slightly more diverse, they are far more passionate about diversity and speaking up about it. Racism is the most common cause among Gen Zs.

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Seems to be.
Racism is nothing new...bambu-ilk had anti-racism laws introduced....[and had corporal punishment banned in schools, and capital punishment banned in my society.]

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3. Growing up in digital dominance, social unrest, and through a global pandemic, Gen Zs are socially confused.

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Gen Z can teach me nothing. ...but I can teach Gen Z a few things
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2022, 05:32:33 PM: My new representative at City Hall is Natalie Rubalcava, and she is going to have community meetings for our area, and I am going to go to the meetings and I want to be active in helping my community. And it is a good way to make friends and to meet women, but the main thing is to help our community.

I was in Kiwanis with the Chief of Police and with a lady who was Mayor Pro Tem on 9/11 and who was on the City Council. We went door knocking in the worst neighborhood and we brought the community together to reduce crime and to make it nice and safe for the children, and that area is still nice, we cleaned it up and it stayed nice. And it was all volunteers from our community helping our neighborhood.

I am going to go to the community meetings, that will be good.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 10, 2022, 06:16:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2022, 05:32:33 PM
.... and I want to be active in helping my community. And it is a good way to make friends and to meet women, but the main thing is to help our community.

That's a good impulse, Tony. But if you are serious in wanting to be active this way, it may be less helpful to keep saying that over and over here in this forum. Too much online talk can weaken your ability to get out there and take action. Just sitting there and signaling (every day) how good you want to be can undermine your power to act on your intentions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 06:56:42 PM: Tony, one way you can help your community is to become a keyboard warrior, fighting the good fight from the comfort of your apartment.
Sending texts to radio stations using a screen name, same texts to social media/media.
Etc.
Every little bit helps.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 11, 2022, 01:14:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 06:56:42 PM
Tony, one way you can help your community is to become a keyboard warrior, fighting the good fight from the comfort of your apartment.
Sending texts to radio stations using a screen name, same texts to social media/media.
Etc.
Every little bit helps.

Thanks Bambu.

I use this computer to the best of my ability to help people, I have been involved with many things on the computer over the years, and more recently I have been involved with the World Bank sending them ideas on an Economic Forum to help the world economy, and I have been telling them little ideas like investing in the ports in Mexico, and expanding the Modeling Industry to include Bogota, Colombia (There can be Paris, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, and Bogota, as some key areas on Fashion and Modeling, and they can also expand the Entertainment Industry in Colombia). And I taught Turkey how to lower inflation, and how to make it better in Turkey. I try to use this computer to help however I can.

Thanks again.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 11, 2022, 02:12:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 06:56:42 PM
Tony, one way you can help your community is to become a keyboard warrior, fighting the good fight from the comfort of your apartment.
Sending texts to radio stations using a screen name, same texts to social media/media.
Etc.
Every little bit helps.

Nothing you do helps anyone, Bambi. You suck and suck and suck, just never in a good way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 11, 2022, 02:51:59 PM: One observation that I was able to share with the World Bank on their Economic Development Forum on the issue of educating and training the people in the developing nations is that people are more willing to accept Tariffs on Imports as a means to fund education and training for their people, but they do not want for the hard working construction workers and truck drivers to pay taxes to fund the education for other people. If the money comes from the local workers then the workers do not want to fund the education programs, but if you use Tariffs on Imports to fund the education and training then the people will support the plan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2022, 06:15:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 11, 2022, 02:12:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 10, 2022, 06:56:42 PM
Tony, one way you can help your community is to become a keyboard warrior, fighting the good fight from the comfort of your apartment.
Sending texts to radio stations using a screen name, same texts to social media/media.
Etc.
Every little bit helps.

Nothing you do helps anyone, Bambi. You suck and suck and suck, just never in a good way.

I disagree.
It worked getting rid of corporal punishment in schools, and ridding my landscape of death chambers.
Hanging people then putting their heads on display...is no more.
They put Ned Kelly's decapitated head on display, someone stole it.

Letters to the media gave/give the activists ammunition.
As do calls and emails/texts to radio stations today.
Sit back and do nothing, the politicians/govts will just walk all over you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 12, 2022, 04:41:25 AM: Went to my mall yesterday...small by mall standards...and there it was, as I walked thru...a smallish but still big enough to definitely be noticed...a nice Nativity scene.
Still some Christians left.
All is not lost yet.
There's still some hope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 12, 2022, 01:43:03 PM: On the issue of helping the homeless people, it is hard to own and operate homeless shelters and the owners need to obtain a special license and training. My dearly departed friends who owned shelters attended UCLA and they trained to be Social Workers. My dearly departed Buddy who managed shelters was a former Combat Medic for the Marines and he served in the Persian Gulf, and he also worked as a doctor for the Navy in Pennsylvania. The people who were running the homeless shelters here in the OC were well trained and they were the best. It is not easy to run a homeless shelter, one has to deal with mentally ill people, and criminals who are coming straight out of prison, and drug addicts, and alcoholics, and some are suffering from depression, and there are many issues, it is hard to be homeless and the people who run the homeless shelters have a hard job and they need special training. And the people who run the Mental Health Association are Psychiatrists and other professionals working together as a team. The Social Workers and the people who run the homeless shelters need a lot of training, and it is a hard job. I have a lot of respect for the people who help the homeless people who are out there on the front lines bringing the people off the streets and into housing and helping the people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 01:18:02 AM: "Wings over Dallas" Air Show disaster, two planes crashed, people dead.

Air shows should be banned.
Old planes should be in museums.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 13, 2022, 12:08:19 PM: With the recent hate speech of Kanye West, a lady was on the news just now teaching people that we must teach our children very young about EMPATHY, COMPASSION, and to care about how others feel, and to be polite and to be civilized, we need to begin teaching our children very young on how to be good people, and how to be leaders. We in the USA are blessed to be rich and powerful, and we have the power to help other people, we need to teach our children to use their power wisely and to help other people. With power comes responsibility.

I have always had a strong sense of empathy and I have always stopped bullies, etc, and I have never supported hate speech, and part of how I learned that I have the power to be a helper instead of being a poor victim was when I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ as a teen, we went to help poor people who lived in a garbage dump in Mexico and we also went to some orphanages, and I learned what it is like to help poor and desperate people. I am blessed with a good soul and a smart mind and I was blessed to be born in a wealthy nation, and I have the power to help other people. And if I was wealthy like Bezos and Musk then I would be helping other people with my wealth, I would be helping the homeless, and helping the Foster Children, etc, and I would be helping the poor people in Mexico, etc, and I would build libraries in the ghettos of the world, etc, and I would help people. That is what we need to teach our children is empathy and compassion and the joy of service.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 13, 2022, 12:46:59 PM: Today is World Kindness Day, that is what our world needs is more kindness.

In Anaheim our City motto is "City of Kindness" and the Plaza at City Hall is "Friendship Plaza." And of course we have Disney which is the Happiest Place on Earth. And we have the Angels baseball team which is a great name for our team. Anaheim is all about kindness, and happiness, and we believe in Angels, including believing in living Angels who are kind and who help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 13, 2022, 01:16:25 PM: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-georgia-93f3ee7ff34e5d6aa2bd96d048832a8e?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_03

GOTMFV
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 02:29:43 PM: Shit. I just got back from Nevada. Let a boy catch his breath.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 13, 2022, 03:55:17 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi

Posted Yesterday

Change.org

Please sign. STOP execution of Iranian protesters.

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Mahlagha Jaberi is putting her life on the line to help the people of Iran, Mahlagha is in danger now because she supports good human rights for the women of Iran. Mahlagha is very brave and she needs our support. Mahlagha can go on Good Morning America and beg Americans to care about good human rights in Iran, and she can explain how we are all connected, as we support good human rights for others then we help to support our own human rights. We need to have good human rights for all human beings.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 13, 2022, 05:10:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 02:29:43 PM
Shit. I just got back from Nevada. Let a boy catch his breath.

No worries, as a member of the Democrat Hegemon of Pure Evil, I am registered to vote in all the swing states.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 05:29:04 PM: What to teach the children, [16 and 17 year olds are still children]:

. Be well-mannered, polite.
. Be kind.
. The world can be nice, and cruel at the same time.
. Never trust anyone....as the world is of full of liars, cheats, thugs, scammers, kidnappers, rapists, killers and all other forms of evil.
. Never lend anyone money, you might never see it again. Anyone asks to borrow money from you just tell them "I'd like to be able to lend you some money, but I don't have it to lend you, I'm struggling myself". That includes people on the internet [scammers] spinning you love sob stories. "I love you, my mom is sick and needs $20,000 for an operation to save her life".
. Never lend anyone anything you value, they could likely break/ruin it and not be able to return it to you in the same condition as when you lent it. Also, most people are not big on returning borrowed things to you in a timely manner or at all. You have to go chase them for the items.
. Always wear a life jacket around water.
. Never let anyone use your phone.
. Learn to swim.
. Be careful hiking...bears and big cats could rip you apart. Also, make sure you take enough life-sustaining food and shelter for a week in case you get lost, many hikers get lost. A satellite phone, compass, and emergency beacon are must-carry on your person items, a bear could run away with your bag.
Also, when you're old enough, carry guns...the bad people lurk in the shadows...waiting to pounce, the moment you get security-careless.
. Never drive in rural areas in vehicles that are not reliable...same deal as hiking, take food, water, compass, emergency beacon, satellite phone.
When the women in Hallmark movies break down in the middle of nowhere when going home for Christmas or going from the big city to small town USA to save the family farm...a handsome stranger always appears out of nowhere to save them. In real life the chance of that happening is very remote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 05:43:57 PM: If that is all you know at seventeen,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 10:59:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 05:43:57 PM
If that is all you know at seventeen,

The teaching starts in infancy...and continues to children at 17.
At 18 the children then become adults in name...and teaching changes, additions are activated.
Additions like;

. Obey all road rules.
. Verbally and/or physically abusing police officers will be to your disadvantage.
. 'Always blame the other guy'. 'Always have an excuse'. 'Always blame someone/something else'.
etc etc etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 11:26:13 PM: American man is brutally trolled after saying it is too dangerous to swim in Australia

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He was talking in particular about Sydney Harbour and a female about to dive in.
Everything he said is 100% correct.
It's alive with sharks, ocean waves roll in, the water is murky [not a hotel swimming pool] and no way known to mankind I'd ever be swimming in it.
He's very correct. Bull sharks abound and they'll attack anyone and any thing.
Sharks of all kinds along the coastline.

Go to the top half of the country, crocodiles abound, in the sea and rivers.

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JC Dombrowski labelled the country a 'hotspot' for shark attacks before listing several more reasons people should avoid the water.

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Mr Dombrowski is very wise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2022, 02:55:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 05:43:57 PM
If that is all you know at seventeen,

The teaching starts in infancy...and continues to children at 17.
At 18 the children then become adults in name...and teaching changes, additions are activated.
Additions like;

. Obey all road rules.
. Verbally and/or physically abusing police officers will be to your disadvantage.
. 'Always blame the other guy'. 'Always have an excuse'. 'Always blame someone/something else'.
etc etc etc.

I can see why you constantly shit the bed. Bad parenting combined with a failson education system designed to fail all sons and daughters.

Maybe China will buy you up on the cheap and do a much better job on your next generation.

We will have to pull our nukes out when the deal goes down, but it will be good to see you finally in better hands. The British clearly did a half assed job with you useless convicts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 14, 2022, 03:34:32 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 14, 2022, 02:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 05:43:57 PM
If that is all you know at seventeen,

The teaching starts in infancy...and continues to children at 17.
At 18 the children then become adults in name...and teaching changes, additions are activated.
Additions like;

. Obey all road rules.
. Verbally and/or physically abusing police officers will be to your disadvantage.
. 'Always blame the other guy'. 'Always have an excuse'. 'Always blame someone/something else'.
etc etc etc.

I can see why you constantly shit the bed. Bad parenting combined with a failson education system designed to fail all sons and daughters.

Maybe China will buy you up on the cheap and do a much better job on your next generation.

We will have to pull our nukes out when the deal goes down, but it will be good to see you finally in better hands. The British clearly did a half assed job with you useless convicts.

Many people in bambuworld now wear their convict ancestry like a badge of honour. ;D

Japan is willing to park our nuclear ships/subs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530533/Family-British-diving-instructor-killed-13ft-great-white-shark-Sydney-pay-tribute.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530533/Family-British-diving-instructor-killed-13ft-great-white-shark-Sydney-pay-tribute.html)

Feb 2022

Family of UK diving instructor killed by a great white in fatal shark attack in Sydney have paid tribute to him
Cornish-born Simon Nellist died just 500ft from horrified beachgoers off Little Bay on Wednesday
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 14, 2022, 03:55:00 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 14, 2022, 02:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2022, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 13, 2022, 05:43:57 PM
If that is all you know at seventeen,

The teaching starts in infancy...and continues to children at 17.
At 18 the children then become adults in name...and teaching changes, additions are activated.
Additions like;

. Obey all road rules.
. Verbally and/or physically abusing police officers will be to your disadvantage.
. 'Always blame the other guy'. 'Always have an excuse'. 'Always blame someone/something else'.
etc etc etc.

I can see why you constantly shit the bed. Bad parenting combined with a failson education system designed to fail all sons and daughters.

Maybe China will buy you up on the cheap and do a much better job on your next generation.

We will have to pull our nukes out when the deal goes down, but it will be good to see you finally in better hands. The British clearly did a half assed job with you useless convicts.

China will have to invade to rule...ScoMo made laws preventing a sellout to China. ;)

Ireland;
The Fields of Athenry [pron "At n rye"]

They sing it at the footy, everywhere;

Youtube; The Fields of Athenry - Paddy Reilly

*
........
For you stole Trevelyn's corn
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.

......

By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last star falling
As that prison ship sailed out against the sky
Sure she'll wait and hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 14, 2022, 09:59:10 AM: I will defend Oz to this extent: by far the majority of "convicts" transported were the poor who were thrown into debtors prison for trying to eat and sleep under a roof. Also worth noting:

Adult Literacy Rate

Australia. 99%

United States. 86%
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 14, 2022, 12:55:04 PM: Bambu, my advice for the youth is to find true love, LOVE is what this life is all about. And I have written a lot of poetry, and a movie, to try to teach the youth. Scorsese says that you should continue to make movies as long as you have something to say, and I have a lot to say.

Here is a poem that I wrote a long time ago to teach the youth to find true love...

Atherosclesosis
by T.L. Verley

The true love of which all seek
but seldom grab onto
The real stuff of which all speak
but seldom ever do
Above riches, reputation, and all of self
We need it like air
Yet it sits on the shelf
Our tender souls we won't share
Afraid to be hurt and won't take the time
It won't be your's this way
Nor will it be mine
Tis a futile game we play
We fake it with imposters in the beginning
In between what we convince ourselves counts
And we make believe we are living
While we are dying in large amounts

Learn young, hold out, and when it comes hold on
Make love the roots of all you do
Your tree of life will be beautiful and strong
And every phony that did not will wish they were you.

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Poetry, movies, television shows, etc, can help to teach the youth. I want to teach the youth to find true love.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 14, 2022, 01:23:12 PM: Bezos just announced that he is going to donate his money to charity before he dies, and I recommended that he learn from Matthew 25; 31-46 in the Bible, and that he help the Foster Children and the Homeless People, and he can donate schools and libraries in the poor areas of the world and in the ghettos of the world.

And maybe Bezos can help inspire other business leaders to be more altruistic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2022, 01:52:23 PM: With what you have become she does not miss you anymore. She has found a nice Estonian boy instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 14, 2022, 02:10:49 PM: News From Arizona Election Central

Warren Harding has won the three electoral votes in Arizona
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 14, 2022, 05:36:15 PM: China's carbon emissions since 2013 are greater that the total of Britain's carbon emissions since 1780, according to my no 1 morning radio host just now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 06:19:46 PM: For what it is worth, Arizona allows voters to drop off their completed mail in ballots at any polling place on the day of the election. These ballots all need to have their signatures matched with the voting roles, which is a labor intensive task. Something over half a million votes are dropped off. They can verify about 50,000 to 75,000 a day. So about 7 to 10 days to count them. The Republicans put this in place, by the way, for reasons that are clear if you realize how bast and empty the state is outside of two metro areas and where some huge Repo majorities are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 14, 2022, 07:51:14 PM: Bezos gave one hundred million dollars to Dolly Parton for her to donate to charity however she wants, that is awesome, the one hundred million dollars is a lot of money for the poor people of Tennessee and the money will go a long way in Tennessee.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-11-14/dolly-parton-courage-civility-award-jeff-bezos

He should help Crystal Gayle to do charity work in Kentucky, they can build a giant school and library and park right in the middle of the poorest part of coal country in Kentucky. Crystal Gayle is the sister of the late Loretta Lynn who the movie "Coal Miner"s Daughter" was about.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 14, 2022, 08:16:04 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 06:19:46 PM
For what it is worth, Arizona allows voters to drop off their completed mail in ballots at any polling place on the day of the election. These ballots all need to have their signatures matched with the voting roles, which is a labor intensive task. Something over half a million votes are dropped off. They can verify about 50,000 to 75,000 a day. So about 7 to 10 days to count them. The Republicans put this in place, by the way, for reasons that are clear if you realize how bast and empty the state is outside of two metro areas and where some huge Repo majorities are.

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 14, 2022, 08:43:01 PM: The Loretta Lynn Kentucky State University can be built in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, it can be a giant wonderful school with a giant library and with a giant park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcher_Hollow,_Kentucky

We need to invest in building schools and libraries and parks in our poor areas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 09:16:27 PM: Katie Hobbs to the state house; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short Kari Lake to her own OAN show.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 14, 2022, 09:54:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 09:16:27 PM
Katie Hobbs to the state house; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short Kari Lake to her own OAN show.
Hobbs got 11 per cent of GOP vote in a race decided by 1 point.
Lake another casualty of sucking up to Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2022, 10:13:19 PM: To quote the astute political analysis of another person here:

DUH.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 10:49:35 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2022, 10:13:19 PM
To quote the astute political analysis of another person here:

DUH.
e at night and revolution in the air...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2022, 10:55:18 PM: Republicans point fingers. Democrats cure ballots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 15, 2022, 03:46:42 AM: http://www.kcur.org/news/2022-11-14/new-indictment-charges-ex-kansas-city-kansas-cop-golubski-with-sex-trafficking-charges (http://www.kcur.org/news/2022-11-14/new-indictment-charges-ex-kansas-city-kansas-cop-golubski-with-sex-trafficking-charges)

The cops in this country are fine. There is no need for police reform.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 15, 2022, 04:21:16 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw (http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw)

Totally random event.

Bad luck and stuff.

That is all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 15, 2022, 09:40:51 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2022, 09:16:27 PM
Katie Hobbs to the state house; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short Kari Lake to her own OAN show.

Hobbs/Hobbes joke in there, nice. I think the Arizona GOP could enter that Hobbesian phase of bellum omnia contra omnes. They will start eating their own young, at the very least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 15, 2022, 09:45:49 AM: Tangled up in blue?

Tangled up in blooper.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 09:54:22 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 15, 2022, 04:21:16 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw (http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw)

Totally random event.

Bad luck and stuff.

That is all.

Much the same as in the 1950s.
The rivers are the life blood of rural towns and farms.
Some say the dam/river flow wasn't managed well...but so much rain in so little time...always spells disaster somewhere.

This time La Nina weather pattern, and some "negative Indian Ocean Dipole".
"A negative IOD results in cooler water near Africa and warmer water collecting near Australia, and clouds follow. This often occurs during La Nina, and pushes rain to Australia.
If both the IOD and La Nina are strong, Australia can experience heavy rainfall and consequently widespread flooding.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 15, 2022, 10:02:15 AM: CNN Town Hall with Mike Pence.

Network begins the "anyone but Trump" work.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 10:27:21 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 15, 2022, 04:21:16 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw (http://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpndg/a-tidal-wave-of-rising-flood-water-has-forced-evacuations-in-central-nsw)

Totally random event.

Bad luck and stuff.

That is all.

Build homes and businesses in low--lying areas, one day in the course of history, they will get flooded..."as sure as duck eggs".
This time they were also washed away, or badly smashed up/destroyed.
Sad for the victims, most people in my rural towns are 'battlers".
'Katrina', and floods in Texas, hurricanes in Florida, towns destroyed in 'twister alley'...natural disasters and loss of life.
All nothing new.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 12:30:25 PM: That is a great thing about Battle Mountain, Nevada, is that there are no natural disasters there, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, and the land is only $1,000 per acre. The only thing, Battle Mountain is cold in the winter and it snows in the winter. And gambling is legal in Nevada, so they can have fun and gamble, etc, Nevada is a fun state.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 02:37:31 PM: The Native American Indian Tribe in Battle Mountain, Nevada, is the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone...

https://www.temoaktribe.com

As people decide to do Business in Battle Mountain then they can do trade with the Shoshone Tribe, and they can have the Shoshone Tribe as a connection in Battle Mountain.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:44:53 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 12:30:25 PM
That is a great thing about Battle Mountain, Nevada, is that there are no natural disasters there, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, and the land is only $1,000 per acre. The only thing, Battle Mountain is cold in the winter and it snows in the winter. And gambling is legal in Nevada, so they can have fun and gamble, etc, Nevada is a fun state.

Salute,

Tony V.

I only like looking at snow...'winter wonderlands' in movies, in Youtube videos.
Beautiful to look at. Also wonderful in America are the beautiful autumn leaves as the trees turn a rainbow of colours.
There sure are some pretty towns.

Living in snow is not for me. You shovel all the snow off your driveway, go to bed, wake in the morning and there's 3ft of snow back on the driveway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:50:56 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 15, 2022, 10:02:15 AM
CNN Town Hall with Mike Pence.

Network begins the "anyone but Trump" work.

He didn't miss Trump.
It should be very clear now to the Republican Party that they need a new Presidential candidate for 2024...and new policies.
I'd be going with "Free healthcare for all American citizens".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2022, 03:29:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:50:56 PM
I'd be going with "Free healthcare for all American citizens".
Then you would be a Democrat. And have zero, no, less than zero chance of being nominated for anything as a Republican.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2022, 04:10:00 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2022, 03:29:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:50:56 PM
I'd be going with "Free healthcare for all American citizens".
Then you would be a Democrat. And have zero, no, less than zero chance of being nominated for anything as a Republican.
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You could not get elected proposing such a thing. No matter what party you belonged to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 15, 2022, 04:56:12 PM: We will have universal healthcare within five years. It will be our reward for forcing the fascists out of their nests within the republican party into the ocean to be chummed by the rocks and waves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 09:51:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:44:53 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 12:30:25 PM
That is a great thing about Battle Mountain, Nevada, is that there are no natural disasters there, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, and the land is only $1,000 per acre. The only thing, Battle Mountain is cold in the winter and it snows in the winter. And gambling is legal in Nevada, so they can have fun and gamble, etc, Nevada is a fun state.

Salute,

Tony V.

I only like looking at snow...'winter wonderlands' in movies, in Youtube videos.
Beautiful to look at. Also wonderful in America are the beautiful autumn leaves as the trees turn a rainbow of colours.
There sure are some pretty towns.

Living in snow is not for me. You shovel all the snow off your driveway, go to bed, wake in the morning and there's 3ft of snow back on the driveway.

The USA is nice if you have good schools and trade.

We need to make our people wise, and then give them trade.

Like the Business School at Pepperdine.

And the coal miners in Kentucky need great schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on November 16, 2022, 12:06:48 PM: The schools are diseased, T.

Might take a while to change that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 16, 2022, 05:34:32 PM: Dems stealing another one

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lauren-boebert-live-republican-under-fire-for-embarrassing-tweet-as-she-leads-race-by-just-1-200-votes/ar-AA147fQU?ocid=wispr&pc=u477&cvid=adddc4162ace4993b444fe57122e10d5

Meanwhile BBC reports 128 "election deniers" won their Congressional seats while 46 lost. The real truth has to be given by a foreign network - so funny,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 16, 2022, 05:40:42 PM: I don't know who's dumber: kidcarter8 or kiidcarter8. It probably merits discussion. Or maybe not. Let's just call them both stupid and be done with it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 16, 2022, 06:01:28 PM: That is how that kind of worm acknowledges defeat. All of anything his kind has is stolen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 16, 2022, 10:23:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 09:51:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2022, 02:44:53 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2022, 12:30:25 PM
That is a great thing about Battle Mountain, Nevada, is that there are no natural disasters there, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, and the land is only $1,000 per acre. The only thing, Battle Mountain is cold in the winter and it snows in the winter. And gambling is legal in Nevada, so they can have fun and gamble, etc, Nevada is a fun state.

Salute,

Tony V.

I only like looking at snow...'winter wonderlands' in movies, in Youtube videos.
Beautiful to look at. Also wonderful in America are the beautiful autumn leaves as the trees turn a rainbow of colours.
There sure are some pretty towns.

Living in snow is not for me. You shovel all the snow off your driveway, go to bed, wake in the morning and there's 3ft of snow back on the driveway.

The USA is nice if you have good schools and trade.

We need to make our people wise, and then give them trade.

Like the Business School at Pepperdine.

And the coal miners in Kentucky need great schools.

Salute,

Tony V.

Rick Caruso outspent Karen Bass 11-1
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 17, 2022, 04:33:13 PM: Rick Caruso can still serve the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass can make him her assistant on the issue of housing for the homeless, while Mayor Bass works on all of the other issues pertaining to running the City then she can sign on Rick Caruso to deal solely with the issue of building housing for the homeless. Rick Caruso can be the Chief of Housing for the Homeless for Mayor Bass. She can sign Rick Caruso on and she can make him her assistant.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 17, 2022, 04:39:44 PM: He could donate a couple hundred million to city projects and walk away. He will not because in his heart he loves his money more than he loves LA. The voters saw that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 17, 2022, 08:55:30 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 17, 2022, 04:33:13 PM
Rick Caruso can still serve the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass can make him her assistant on the issue of housing for the homeless, while Mayor Bass works on all of the other issues pertaining to running the City then she can sign on Rick Caruso to deal solely with the issue of building housing for the homeless. Rick Caruso can be the Chief of Housing for the Homeless for Mayor Bass. She can sign Rick Caruso on and she can make him her assistant.

Salute,

Tony V.

He did not spend ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to be an assistant.

He could have spent that money on the homeless
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 17, 2022, 11:23:29 PM: This is a big fucking deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/arizona-voter-id-ballot-measure/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 18, 2022, 09:55:12 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 17, 2022, 11:23:29 PM
This is a big fucking deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/arizona-voter-id-ballot-measure/
But not a surprise. A state where the majority of people vote using mail in ballots is a poor bet to make that process harder. Well, the Repo candidate for Secretary of State campaigned against the process, even after it was revealed he voted by mail in something like 14 of the last 15 elections, so there are hypocrites out there who think OTHER PEOPLE and we know who the others are voting by mail is an issue but their doing so is not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 18, 2022, 10:26:56 AM: I live in Indian country, so I hear a lot of voting horror stories. But Arizona often wins the giant hurdle award. In 2016 and 2018, members of the Paiute nation in Arizona had to travel 280 miles to vote. One way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 18, 2022, 11:27:02 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 18, 2022, 09:55:12 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 17, 2022, 11:23:29 PM
This is a big fucking deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/arizona-voter-id-ballot-measure/
But not a surprise. A state where the majority of people vote using mail in ballots is a poor bet to make that process harder. Well, the Repo candidate for Secretary of State campaigned against the process, even after it was revealed he voted by mail in something like 14 of the last 15 elections, so there are hypocrites out there who think OTHER PEOPLE and we know who the others are voting by mail is an issue but their doing so is not.

The article concludes the election was Historical?
Hysterical.
It was a statistical tie proving only that it is folly to try and gild a lily.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2022, 01:05:58 PM: One hundred million dollars will not go very far towards building housing for the homeless in Los Angeles where a 3 bedroom house costs a million dollars by itself. Santorini, Greece style high density apartments are the way to go, with swimming pools and tennis courts, and you can paint the housing bright cheerful colors like they do in Greece, etc. Then you can add public libraries, etc.

And remember that Battle Mountain, Nevada, has land for $1,000 per acre, for one hundred million dollars you could buy one hundred thousand acres. You could build a lot of housing on one hundred thousand acres. Compared to only one hundred 3 bedroom houses in California. Battle Mountain, Nevada, is a great value for the money.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 18, 2022, 01:12:46 PM: Would you please stop posting the same thing over and over, like some strobing giant billboard for Battle Mountain, NV?

WE GET IT. BATTLE MOUNTAIN.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 18, 2022, 01:26:26 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2022, 01:05:58 PM
One hundred million dollars will not go very far towards building housing for the homeless in Los Angeles where a 3 bedroom house costs a million dollars by itself. Santorini, Greece style high density apartments are the way to go, with swimming pools and tennis courts, and you can paint the housing bright cheerful colors like they do in Greece, etc. Then you can add public libraries, etc.

And remember that Battle Mountain, Nevada, has land for $1,000 per acre, for one hundred million dollars you could buy one hundred thousand acres. You could build a lot of housing on one hundred thousand acres. Compared to only one hundred 3 bedroom houses in California. Battle Mountain, Nevada, is a great value for the money.

Salute,

Tony V.

$100,000,000 will not go far
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 18, 2022, 01:26:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 18, 2022, 01:12:46 PM
Would you please stop posting the same thing over and over, like some strobing giant billboard for Battle Mountain, NV?

WE GET IT. BATTLE MOUNTAIN.
Battle Mountain is to Tony what Charles I's head was to Mr. Dick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2022, 01:27:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 18, 2022, 01:12:46 PM
Would you please stop posting the same thing over and over, like some strobing giant billboard for Battle Mountain, NV?

WE GET IT. BATTLE MOUNTAIN.

If only the people at the top and developers like Rick Caruso would discover Battle Mountain, Nevada, as people work to create housing for the homeless and for the refugees, etc. You get it, but we need for the people at the top to get it. The homeless can have housing like in Santorini, Greece, for cheap. Bambu thought the housing in Greece was for the rich people, the homeless can live in beautiful housing like the rich people. The housing can be great for a low price. As people choose to care about the homeless, and as people look for solutions to help the homeless, then they need to look at options such as cheap land in Battle Mountain.

You get it, we need for the people at the top to understand.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 18, 2022, 01:31:31 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2022, 01:27:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 18, 2022, 01:12:46 PM
Would you please stop posting the same thing over and over, like some strobing giant billboard for Battle Mountain, NV?

WE GET IT. BATTLE MOUNTAIN.

If only the people at the top and developers like Rick Caruso would discover Battle Mountain, Nevada, as people work to create housing for the homeless and for the refugees, etc. You get it, but we need for the people at the top to get it. The homeless can have housing like in Santorini, Greece, for cheap. Bambu thought the housing in Greece was for the rich people, the homeless can live in beautiful housing like the rich people. The housing can be great for a low price. As people choose to care about the homeless, and as people look for solutions to help the homeless, then they need to look at options such as cheap land in Battle Mountain.

You get it, we need for the people at the top to understand.

Salute,

Tony V.

Caruso made a bonfire of cash to buy a job,

Sucker
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 18, 2022, 07:45:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 18, 2022, 01:26:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 18, 2022, 01:12:46 PM
Would you please stop posting the same thing over and over, like some strobing giant billboard for Battle Mountain, NV?

WE GET IT. BATTLE MOUNTAIN.
Battle Mountain is to Tony what Charles I's head was to Mr. Dick.

Perhaps we can provide him with a kite?

Hugh Laurie has now displaced any previous mental images of Mr Dick I may have held.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 19, 2022, 02:52:37 AM: My electricity is off...blackout...my evening meal half cooked.
Don't have to have too many guesses whose fault it is.
Luckily it's not dark yet and I have devices charged.
Hope those who voted a certain way at the last election are totally inconvenienced, and are very unhappy.
Hope their evening meals are spoilt, they can't get their groceries, can't get beer, and their Sat nights are ruined.
Serves them right.

That is the callous side of my nature.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 19, 2022, 08:52:10 AM: One third of the homeless people are over the age of 55, so by building retirement housing then we can get one third of the homeless people off of the street and into housing.

Then, half of the homeless people were Foster Youth as children, so by helping the Foster Youth we can reduce the number of homeless people by half. My advice is to send the Foster Youth to college for free. And then give them Business Loans with zero interest, with free Business Consulting if they need it.

Then we can get a huge percentage of the young and healthy homeless people working with Habitat for Humanity to build housing, etc. The young healthy people can build the housing. There are also unions for the construction trades that the people can join.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 19, 2022, 11:19:31 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 19, 2022, 02:52:37 AM
My electricity is off...blackout...my evening meal half cooked.
Don't have to have too many guesses whose fault it is.
Luckily it's not dark yet and I have devices charged.
Hope those who voted a certain way at the last election are totally inconvenienced, and are very unhappy.
Hope their evening meals are spoilt, they can't get their groceries, can't get beer, and their Sat nights are ruined.
Serves them right.

That is the callous side of my nature.

Last time my neighborhood had a black out it was because a drunk drive crashed into a utility pole and murdered a electric transformer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 19, 2022, 11:22:06 AM: Speaking of electricity I just signed up for Solar panels on my roof.

The cool thing is i am getting a new roof in the deal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 19, 2022, 11:31:51 AM: Prices on 55+ communities in Florida now through the roof. Jump made in past three years. Tampa from 450 to 750 a mo. and climbing. Hurricanes and open immigration the cause.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 19, 2022, 12:33:25 PM: Corporate vampires and their republican cronies are the cause. Hurricanes and immigration are the excuses they used to keep vacant idiots like you docile and in chains. Enjoy it as they suck the very last drop from you and remember that you chose them for your leaders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 19, 2022, 06:51:17 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 19, 2022, 11:22:06 AM
Speaking of electricity I just signed up for Solar panels on my roof.

The cool thing is i am getting a new roof in the deal.

Is battery storage part of that deal?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 20, 2022, 09:41:45 AM: Jack Daniels hopes to get a leg up with SCOTUS...

https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-business-trademarks-toys-69b5609e6d1ddcf80d1b5b168c390653
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 20, 2022, 09:45:44 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 19, 2022, 06:51:17 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 19, 2022, 11:22:06 AM
Speaking of electricity I just signed up for Solar panels on my roof.

The cool thing is i am getting a new roof in the deal.

Is battery storage part of that deal?

Handy feature if grid power goes out.

Way to go, LB.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 20, 2022, 10:44:46 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 19, 2022, 06:51:17 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 19, 2022, 11:22:06 AM
Speaking of electricity I just signed up for Solar panels on my roof.

The cool thing is i am getting a new roof in the deal.

Is battery storage part of that deal?

Nope!

Battery is expensive, panels are basically free and I get the difference in generation and usage at the end of the year.

Blackouts in my area are very rare even in storms. Last major outage was in 2012 as result of a Derecho
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 20, 2022, 01:57:54 PM: King Charles bans foie gras in all royal residences.

Go King Charles!
Ever the activist.

Foie gras is banned in New York City and California but remains legal all over the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 20, 2022, 04:50:24 PM: On the issue of the Native American Indians, I worked on a movie once with a bunch of Native American Indians from South Dakota, they were wealthy from oil, they had oil on their reservation, and they spent their time working on movie sets because they loved show business. They worked because they chose to, they were already rich from the oil so they worked because they loved movie making.

On the movie I worked with the Indians on, the film was a German independent film, the film was sponsored by a German beer company and so they had all the free German beer that they wanted while they were filming, and the beer had product placement in the movie, it was a dark comedy named "Short Cut to Hollywood" and we worked in Agua Dulce, California, we showed up and they served us Starbucks coffee while they told us what the plan was for the day, then we shot for one hour, then they served us awesome lasagna and while we were eating they made up our paychecks and they paid us $300 for one hour worth of work. It was the best job I ever had. Everyone was just having fun, and a wealthy German beer company was paying for everything.

I also met wealthy Native American Indians in Beverly Hills, they were wealthy from the seafood industry.

And the San Manuel Tribe is successful, and so is the Seminole Tribe, and other tribes as rising.

Also Robert Redford helped to build the new movie studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Camel Rock Studio, which is the first studio owned by the Native American Indians. Maybe other tribes will join studios too, a lot of people love to make movies and they have a message that they want to get out to the world, they have stories to tell. I tried to get the San Manuel Tribe to open a new studio in Anaheim, but they were not interested then, but maybe in the future they will be interested in the movie industry. As Camel Rock is successful then it will inspire other tribes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 20, 2022, 07:32:51 PM: Foie gras...

https://www.peta.org.au/news/foie-gras-delicacy-despair/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAveebBhD_ARIsAFaAvrG2oEvAbF5B1U26_-d2Lzouly-UF4ziyWLIubVhEAqqtq7DkJJ-aSgaAhJMEALw_wcB (https://www.peta.org.au/news/foie-gras-delicacy-despair/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAveebBhD_ARIsAFaAvrG2oEvAbF5B1U26_-d2Lzouly-UF4ziyWLIubVhEAqqtq7DkJJ-aSgaAhJMEALw_wcB)

Because male ducks' livers grow larger than those of females, only males are used for the foie gras industry. Female hatchlings are commonly thrown alive into electric mincers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 21, 2022, 11:00:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 20, 2022, 07:32:51 PM

Because male ducks' livers grow larger than those of females, only males are used...

I found giving up foie gras effortless. I don't eat veal or pork, either, due to the cruelty of the confinement. Five days of the week are vegetarian in the Can household, the other two days fish or chicken.

When I was a teen, I tried my hand at writing, and one story featured a rich heiress I named Patti DeFoygrass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 21, 2022, 12:42:57 PM: I have never eaten foie gras.

Our family had a ranch when I was a kid and we raised our own food, and we used to hunt rabbits to eat, etc, so I have always been a meat eater, but I have always been poor for the most part and cannot afford to eat the more expensive types of meat on a regular basis. Hamburger here is very expensive right now, so I buy the chicken which is far cheaper, the chicken is only ninety nine cents per pound. On the issue of fish, swordfish is pretty cheap here because we are right by the ocean, and I can make fish tacos for pretty cheap with the swordfish. But, mostly I have been eating pasta lately, I have been having pasta 3 or 4 times a week now. And I like the canned food sometimes like Chef Boyardee, and Campbell Soup. And I eat cheese everyday, I love cheese. My doctor told me to avoid pork, so I never eat pork, except for bacon occasionally.

On the issue of world leaders, I like Giorgia Meloni, she is the new leader of Italy, and she has the support of Berlusconi. She strongly disapproves of people smuggling and illegal immigration, so she seeks to stop the inflow of immigrants into Italy. The USA is huge and the USA can handle the immigrants, but Italy is small, and Italy is already full of Italians. The USA has the Statue of Liberty, and immigrants are welcome, but in Italy it is a small nation which is already full of people. Send the immigrants to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can do trade with San Francisco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 21, 2022, 12:48:06 PM: Stop rooting for the fascists, Tony. The poverty they cause is both mental and physical.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 21, 2022, 12:48:29 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/21/2137572/-Hatred-greed-and-injustice-have-surged-Downunder-But-hopes-for-a-dramatic-turnaround-are-rising (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/21/2137572/-Hatred-greed-and-injustice-have-surged-Downunder-But-hopes-for-a-dramatic-turnaround-are-rising)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 21, 2022, 02:56:33 PM: Americans have always been good people who helped each other, and in my hometown of Lancaster, California, the people used to get together and they would have a big rabbit hunt and they would have a party and a dance, and then they would send all of the rabbit meat to the orphanages in Los Angeles to feed to the orphans. The people of the Antelope Valley made sure that the orphans in Los Angeles had food to eat.

https://www.lancastermoah.org/single-post/rabbit-drives

When I was a kid in Battle Mountain, Nevada, we used to hunt the rabbits and eat them, rabbit meat is good. And you can roast the rabbit over an open camp fire like the Cowboys, that was how my people did it. But, also the French have great recipes for rabbits, etc, and the orphans in Los Angeles were lucky to have rabbit meat.

Americans are good people who have always helped the orphans and the needy, and the orphans were lucky to get the rabbit meat.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 21, 2022, 03:03:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 21, 2022, 11:00:08 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 20, 2022, 07:32:51 PM

Because male ducks' livers grow larger than those of females, only males are used...

I found giving up foie gras effortless. I don't eat veal or pork, either, due to the cruelty of the confinement. Five days of the week are vegetarian in the Can household, the other two days fish or chicken.

When I was a teen, I tried my hand at writing, and one story featured a rich heiress I named Patti DeFoygrass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 21, 2022, 03:04:33 PM: Meet the Colorado shooter grandpa!

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/01/12/after-calling-us-capitol-insurrection-first-shots-against-tyranny-california-lawmaker-backtracks/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 21, 2022, 05:59:31 PM: Gay niteclub mass shooting, guy just walked in...then started shooting patrons.
Where was the absolute security?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 21, 2022, 06:25:54 PM: So.
The Railroad strike Biden says he averted( convenient election ploy) is still very much in play.
What a shock!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 21, 2022, 07:42:33 PM: It is said by many that leftist govts love mass legal, and illegal, and people smuggling immigration because said immigrants mostly vote for the left.

Italy finally woke up that open borders is a failed policy.
Other European countries have already closed their borders to the waves of asylum-seeking immigrants.It was failed policy in them too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 21, 2022, 07:47:24 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 21, 2022, 06:25:54 PM
So.
The Railroad strike Biden says he averted( convenient election ploy) is still very much in play.
What a shock!

Why do you hate America?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 21, 2022, 07:54:37 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 21, 2022, 07:47:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 21, 2022, 06:25:54 PM
So.
The Railroad strike Biden says he averted( convenient election ploy) is still very much in play.
What a shock!

Why do you hate America?

It is where ward failed at everything all through his life. It is easy for sad old losers to hate the things that moved past them and left them in the dust.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 21, 2022, 07:57:15 PM: Bambu, you sad leach, if it were up to you you still would not have indoor plumbing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 10:37:34 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 21, 2022, 07:57:15 PM
Bambu, you sad leach, if it were up to you you still would not have indoor plumbing.

At all airport, and road entry crossings into America, the security is tight.
Finger printing and face scanning of tourists etc, searching of cars, luggage etc.
Why?
"Border security"/ "border integrity".
The way a country should be run...with not just any "Tom, Dick, Harry or Mary" allowed to wander into the nation, set up house and do as they please, no identification, no valid documentation, no background checks, no approval from the federal govt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 22, 2022, 11:38:25 AM: The USA is special and is the only nation with a Statue of Liberty welcoming the poor and the homeless from around the world. The USA is all of the people of the world all living in the USA in peace and prosperity as equals. In the USA all people are welcome, and all people are equal.

And we need to make our immigrants legal in the USA right now like Reagan did, so that the immigrants can join labor unions, and so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency. And we need to write a new immigration law which includes a good neighbor policy.

The USA is huge, we have plenty of wide open land, and the immigrants are welcome in the USA.

Of note as well, it that it sort of justifies the troubles that the Native American Indians experienced if we make all men equal and if all men are welcome in the USA, and now we are making the Native American Indians wealthy with casinos and movie studios, etc. The Native American Indians believe that the Earth belongs to all of the people who live on the Earth, they do not believe that any one person can own the Earth, which goes along with the idea that the USA should belong to all of the people of the Earth.

The USA is the only nation with a Statue of Liberty where all men are equal and all men are welcome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 22, 2022, 03:49:13 PM: I am shocked, shocked to find that....

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-files-complaint-challenge-election-results-2022-11-22/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 22, 2022, 07:42:05 PM: Trump had a very bad no good day in the courts today
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 09:46:53 PM: CBS News
October 28 2022

"At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the last 12 months --- a record high.

Rose Lee said her nephew left his native Peru and journeyed to the US-Mexico border in search of his "American dream". But she said she did not think the quest would cost him his life.

Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande in early September alongside nearly a dozen other migrants whose bodies were found in the river by US Border Patrol agents, his family said."

######

On whose hands is their blood?
Yes, exactly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on November 22, 2022, 10:00:55 PM: Just their own.

Imagine - drowning in a dangerous river. How does that happen?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM: It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 23, 2022, 10:34:11 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 09:46:53 PM
CBS News
October 28 2022

"At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the last 12 months --- a record high.

Rose Lee said her nephew left his native Peru and journeyed to the US-Mexico border in search of his "American dream". But she said she did not think the quest would cost him his life.

Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande in early September alongside nearly a dozen other migrants whose bodies were found in the river by US Border Patrol agents, his family said."

######

On whose hands is their blood?
Yes, exactly.
People like you, who have pushed economic migrants to more and more dangerous crossings instead of looking for an informed, reasonable and compassionate immigration policy. Asshole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:06:53 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM
It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.

My priests are allowed to marry and have children...and do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 02:19:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 09:46:53 PM
CBS News
October 28 2022

"At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the last 12 months --- a record high.

Rose Lee said her nephew left his native Peru and journeyed to the US-Mexico border in search of his "American dream". But she said she did not think the quest would cost him his life.

Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande in early September alongside nearly a dozen other migrants whose bodies were found in the river by US Border Patrol agents, his family said."

######

On whose hands is their blood?
Yes, exactly.

Imagine if they made travelers from New Zealand illegal for traveling to Australia for a job, or a migrant from France who moved to Italy for a job. Mexico is our NEIGHBOR, and Mexico is a good, Christian, Democratic, nation with beautiful people. We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did, and we need to write a new immigration law which has a Good Neighbor Policy.

The Mexicans need to travel safely and legally into the USA on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains, etc, just like traveling from France to Italy.

And we need for our immigrants to be legal so they can call the police in the case of emergency, and so they can join labor unions. And the United Farm Workers can tell the new immigrants where the farm jobs are, etc, so the people can travel straight to where the jobs are, on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains, etc.

Trump is racist, and what is bad is that all of Trump's wives have been foreigners, Trump likes the women from Eastern Europe but he does not like the Mexicans. If Trump lived in the West down here by the Southern Border with us, then he would love the Mexicans, and he would have Mexicans in his family. Jeb Bush met his wife in Mexico while helping to build an orphanage. People in the West love the Mexicans.

Joe Biden claims to support the immigrants, we need for the good Democrats to join together with the good Reagan minded Republicans in order to make our immigrants legal and to write a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy, and freedom to travel safely on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:49:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 23, 2022, 10:34:11 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 09:46:53 PM
CBS News
October 28 2022

"At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the last 12 months --- a record high.

Rose Lee said her nephew left his native Peru and journeyed to the US-Mexico border in search of his "American dream". But she said she did not think the quest would cost him his life.

Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande in early September alongside nearly a dozen other migrants whose bodies were found in the river by US Border Patrol agents, his family said."

######

On whose hands is their blood?
Yes, exactly.
People like you, who have pushed economic migrants to more and more dangerous crossings instead of looking for an informed, reasonable and compassionate immigration policy. Asshole.

America already has such an immigration policy.
It resettles a large number of refugees every year.

What is your "informed, reasonable, and compassionate immigration policy"?

I very much look forward to your reply.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 04:25:35 PM: Mexico is a sleeping giant, we are so blessed to have Mexico as our neighbor, Mexico has beautiful, hard working people, the majority of the people in Mexico are Christians, and Mexico is blessed with beautiful resorts, and also Mexico has Gold, and other resources, and we can also invest in the ports in Mexico as the ports in California are becoming congested. And we can send food and supplies up from Mexico to the poor people in Kentucky, etc.

My Grandmother worked for the Gold Mines in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and the mining company sent my Grandmother to Mexico to open Gold Mines in Mexico, and she loved the experience. Mexico is great if you are rich and powerful like my Grandmother was, she helped to bring paved roads, telephones, radio, television, electricity, running water, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico, she helped to bring the poor people into modern luxury and they loved her for it. She loved Mexico.

Mexico is beautiful, with beautiful people, and Mexico has Gold and other resources, including good hard working labor.

Trump wants to build a wall, Trump is an idiot. Trump is blind and racist.

We need to work together as a team with Mexico. The Bush family can help with relations with Mexico. And we need to donate schools and libraries, etc, to the poor people in Mexico, etc, that is the best thing we can do. And we can teach the people how to speak English to open up the USA to them.

And Gold is easy now, the hard part is the politics. NASA and Sverdrup, etc, can tell you where the Gold is with satellites, they can tell us where the Gold is here on Earth just as easily as they can tell you the make-up of the soil on Mars, etc. I personally saw a satellite that was being built to tell us where the Gold is here on Earth, etc. NASA can tell us where the Gold is in Mexico, and we can bring prosperity and education to the poor people in Mexico. The money from the Gold can help to build colleges, and libraries, and to help to bring the people into modern luxury, with telephones and Apple computers, and with new hospitals, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 05:37:50 PM: There are legal immigrants coming to America all the time, from Mexico, Central America, South America and all over the world.

There are also illegal immigrants ... people entering the country illegally, bypassing the legal and proven-to-be-the-best system for America...'queue-jumpers' some say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 05:49:00 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 02:19:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2022, 09:46:53 PM
CBS News
October 28 2022

"At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the last 12 months --- a record high.

Rose Lee said her nephew left his native Peru and journeyed to the US-Mexico border in search of his "American dream". But she said she did not think the quest would cost him his life.

Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande in early September alongside nearly a dozen other migrants whose bodies were found in the river by US Border Patrol agents, his family said."

######

On whose hands is their blood?
Yes, exactly.

Imagine if they made travelers from New Zealand illegal for traveling to Australia for a job, or a migrant from France who moved to Italy for a job. Mexico is our NEIGHBOR, and Mexico is a good, Christian, Democratic, nation with beautiful people. We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did, and we need to write a new immigration law which has a Good Neighbor Policy.

The Mexicans need to travel safely and legally into the USA on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains, etc, just like traveling from France to Italy.

And we need for our immigrants to be legal so they can call the police in the case of emergency, and so they can join labor unions. And the United Farm Workers can tell the new immigrants where the farm jobs are, etc, so the people can travel straight to where the jobs are, on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains, etc.

Trump is racist, and what is bad is that all of Trump's wives have been foreigners, Trump likes the women from Eastern Europe but he does not like the Mexicans. If Trump lived in the West down here by the Southern Border with us, then he would love the Mexicans, and he would have Mexicans in his family. Jeb Bush met his wife in Mexico while helping to build an orphanage. People in the West love the Mexicans.

Joe Biden claims to support the immigrants, we need for the good Democrats to join together with the good Reagan minded Republicans in order to make our immigrants legal and to write a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy, and freedom to travel safely on Greyhound Buses, and Amtrak Trains.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Good Neighbour Policy" is basically "open borders"...anyone and everyone just entering on foot, on buses, trains, boats etc.

A guest worker program, like Australia has, with mostly South Pacific nations is the best idea.
People from Mexico could apply for the US program...they'd be legal, identified, background checked.

Open borders has never worked anywhere in the world in modern times, including Europe. Some Europeans think it has, but they are misguided. Britain saw the light and Brexited.
Italy is the latest to see the light.

Kiwis from New Zealand wanting to migrate to Australia have to apply like everyone else.
Arrive illegally, bye bye, back to the land of the long white cloud you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 06:20:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:06:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM
It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.

My priests are allowed to marry and have children...and do.

And Ratzinger covers it up. Yes. We know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 23, 2022, 06:25:52 PM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 23, 2022, 06:47:35 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 06:20:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:06:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM
It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.

My priests are allowed to marry and have children...and do.

And Ratzinger covers it up. Yes. We know.
Ratzinger? What is this, 2012?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 07:14:58 PM: Mexico can be rich, and the Mexican people can be well educated, with great schools and great libraries, and the Mexicans can have full use of the USA as a neighbor.

One of the issues of satellites to find Gold in Mexico is that you can simply take pictures from space of known Gold Mines, and then you match the pictures of known Gold Mines with photos of land where other Gold Mines can be made, the same way that we know the make-up of the soil on Mars. Then with the money from the Gold mines we can build libraries and schools in Mexico, and we can help to bring the Mexicans into the modern time of luxury and with modern hospital care.

And we need to have a new Good Neighbor Policy in our Immigration Law.

The Mexicans can ride Greyhound Buses and Amtrak Trains and there is no need to drown in a river or to die crossing a desert.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 08:56:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 06:20:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:06:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM
It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.

My priests are allowed to marry and have children...and do.

And Ratzinger covers it up. Yes. We know.

Well they're not "priests" actually, but Anglican "ministers"...protestants...you know King Charles 111 is the Head of the Church.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 09:06:59 PM: So Charlie is doing the coverups for your nasty ministers. Gotcha. Thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 09:08:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 23, 2022, 06:47:35 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 23, 2022, 06:20:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 02:06:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2022, 10:20:35 PM
It is on the close and militarize the borders crowd.

You priest will forgive you, Bambu, especially if you can point him to some sweet cherubic children.

My priests are allowed to marry and have children...and do.

And Ratzinger covers it up. Yes. We know.
Ratzinger? What is this, 2012?

Engaging with Bambu always requires backtracking to some degree. At this point it would be silly to expect him to catch up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2022, 09:09:17 PM: Not every Mexican is a lovely person...some Mexicans are horribly evil, no limit to the evil bad Mexicans inflict on others.
Why would Americans want the criminal scum of Mexico allowed to migrate to their country.
Murdering rapists of women and girls, criminal gang members, criminal drug barons and their criminal staff...etc.

Good Mexicans only should be allowed to migrate to America. Bad Mexicans should be banned from doing so.

How can you tell a good Mexican from a bad Mexican? (Not a joke).
Answer:
By identification and thorough background checking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 09:55:11 PM: We need to help to educate and train the young Mexicans to be good people.

And the Gold output in Mexico is high...

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/mexico/gold-production

If we use the money from Gold to build schools and libraries in Mexico, then we can make huge strides on the issue of making the humans comfortable in Mexico, and on the issue of helping the Mexicans to be better world citizens.

And we have Kiwanis International to help, and the Key Club, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 10:39:55 PM: I took a Small Business Management Consulting Class in community college, and I was assigned a swimming pool store as my client. My ideas were that the company should be altruistic, and they could sponsor a Little League Baseball Team, and they could do other good things to make a good name for themselves in the area where they cleaned pools, etc. The company went bankrupt before I could give them my ideas.

But, then Honda has the Helpful Honda Salesmen who go around doing good deeds, that is a great ad campaign.

The companies need to be altruistic, and after all, what is life about? We are not here just to make money for heartless corporations. And this life is about love, and bringing love to the world.

People can start business ventures with the profits being allocated to helping charities, like Paul Newman did with Newman's Own Salad Dressing, etc. And we can have Gold Mines in Mexico with all of the money going to schools and libraries, etc.

And instead of trying to make life hard on the Mexicans, we need to show some love.

The world needs to be a more loving place. That is my purpose in life.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2022, 07:51:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 23, 2022, 10:39:55 PM
I took a Small Business Management Consulting Class in community college, and I was assigned a swimming pool store as my client. My ideas were that the company should be altruistic, and they could sponsor a Little League Baseball Team, and they could do other good things to make a good name for themselves in the area where they cleaned pools, etc. The company went bankrupt before I could give them my ideas.

But, then Honda has the Helpful Honda Salesmen who go around doing good deeds, that is a great ad campaign.

The companies need to be altruistic, and after all, what is life about? We are not here just to make money for heartless corporations. And this life is about love, and bringing love to the world.

People can start business ventures with the profits being allocated to helping charities, like Paul Newman did with Newman's Own Salad Dressing, etc. And we can have Gold Mines in Mexico with all of the money going to schools and libraries, etc.

And instead of trying to make life hard on the Mexicans, we need to show some love.

The world needs to be a more loving place. That is my purpose in life.

Salute,

Tony V.

You do show love to the Mexicans...California seems to be fast becoming all-Mexican.
"Speak Spanish or be sacked" one lady on the old NYT forums said her sister was told.
Feel the looove.

Yes, more love in the world is ideal.
Starting on dating sites would be good...where 'short and broke men' are mostly cast aside, and Heaven help them if they're also fat.
More love in the world for men, instead of the current war on them [especially White heterosexual ones, and worse if they're Christians as well] in society, would be good..

The latest feminists' offering is that "it's all the men's fault if women get pregnant".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 28, 2022, 11:00:51 AM: People shocked Trump had Thanksgiving dinner with anti semites and racists.

Nothing new under the sun

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2019/08/08/trump-cant-and-wont-change-his-white-supremacist-fans/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 28, 2022, 11:11:27 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 28, 2022, 11:00:51 AM
People shocked Trump had Thanksgiving dinner with anti semites and racists
Well, everyone gets to spend holidays with family.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 28, 2022, 11:59:19 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 28, 2022, 11:11:27 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 28, 2022, 11:00:51 AM
People shocked Trump had Thanksgiving dinner with anti semites and racists
Well, everyone gets to spend holidays with family.

Yep!

I was trying to post an article from three years ago. Took three tries!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 28, 2022, 12:30:06 PM: Bambu, where are you living these days now Australia is completely overrun by snakes and rats?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 28, 2022, 01:01:12 PM: This may sound anti-(Yo)semite, but no one goes to Yosemite anymore - it's too crowded.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2022, 01:52:29 PM: Condoleezza Rice might make a good President in 2024, and she understands Russia. She is still young enough to run for President.

And Dr Charles Stanley would make a great White House Chaplin.

And of note on world leaders, Pope Francis is a great man of peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 28, 2022, 02:26:09 PM: (https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Charlie-Chaplin.jpg?w=1000)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 28, 2022, 05:25:40 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2022, 01:52:29 PM
Condoleezza Rice might make a good President in 2024, and she understands Russia. She is still young enough to run for President.

And Dr Charles Stanley would make a great White House Chaplin.

And of note on world leaders, Pope Francis is a great man of peace.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ms Rice is smart as a whip - but stained by time in US higher education.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 28, 2022, 07:33:26 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/california-suspect-virginia-officer-met-teen-online-before-killing-family-members (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/california-suspect-virginia-officer-met-teen-online-before-killing-family-members)

Holy shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2022, 08:07:20 PM: Sorry about that, it is spelled Chaplain, my error, but the Charlie Chaplin thing was cool, his name being Charles and the Chaplain thing is ironic.

On the issue of Charlie Chaplin, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is at the old Charlie Chaplin Studio in Hollywood, it is a great place to go to watch the student plays to watch the stars of the future, the students of today at the AADA are the stars of the future. The AADA also has a campus in New York City.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 28, 2022, 08:28:32 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 28, 2022, 05:25:40 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2022, 01:52:29 PM
Condoleezza Rice might make a good President in 2024, and she understands Russia. She is still young enough to run for President.

And Dr Charles Stanley would make a great White House Chaplin.

And of note on world leaders, Pope Francis is a great man of peace.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ms Rice is smart as a whip - but stained by time in US higher education.

STAINED?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 28, 2022, 08:39:14 PM: That was a peculiar take from Kiid, given that she is director of a conservative think tank. You would think he'd define her as anointed, not stained.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 28, 2022, 11:35:52 PM: Kid can no longer parse compound sentences. Fox diet commonly leads to this disability along with a profound anti-academic bias.

How this plays into his West Wing obsession is curious though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 29, 2022, 12:06:01 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 28, 2022, 07:33:26 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/california-suspect-virginia-officer-met-teen-online-before-killing-family-members (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/california-suspect-virginia-officer-met-teen-online-before-killing-family-members)

Holy shit.

Yes, as I always say:
"Never trust anyone".
"The bad people lurk in the shadows, waiting to pounce."
"Stranger danger is very, very real".

"Not everyone online is who they say they are" - top bambuword detective.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 29, 2022, 02:52:42 PM: The Family of a dead police officer is suing Gascon for 75 million dollars, I am friends with their Lawyer, I met him at a Ted Nugent concert, and he lives here in Orange County, and he is on Facebook, Mark Peacock, Mark is a great Lawyer.

The best way to fight crime in Los Angeles is to hold Gascon accountable.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/officers-widow-to-sue-d-a-gascon-over-june-shooting-death/

We need to hold the people in high office accountable, we need to make them accountable to the people whom they serve. Lawsuits are a way for the people to fight to hold the office holders accountable. And Mark Peacock is a great lawyer, he always wins.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 29, 2022, 04:38:23 PM: No great lawyer always wins. And he will not win that one, either.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 29, 2022, 05:27:50 PM: Still just the tip of the iceberg..

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 29, 2022, 05:42:01 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 29, 2022, 05:27:50 PM
Still just the tip of the iceberg..

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html

It establishes the conspiracy the vast bulk of the serving GOzp can be tied to. Lots of cuffs. I hope the domestic industry can handle the demand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 29, 2022, 05:47:24 PM: China Taps Governor Gretchen Whitmer
To Lead Lockdown Enforcement
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 29, 2022, 05:55:25 PM: Meanwhile, in the "renewables-now" fantasy world of bambu's homeland [seems to only be a 'transit lounge' these days]...

Have the candles ready if 'net-zero leader Origin sticks with its new plan for closing Eraring --- in the view of its main coal provider --- because renewables won't be able to keep the lights on.

#####

One didn't have to be 'Einstein'.
No 1 morning radio host...2gb.com...has been telling them for months...now the People and politicians seem to be waking up.
Eventually renewables will power everything, but it's not going to be possible to close all the coal-fired and gas-fired power stations for a very long time.

Naked flame has been banned in bambu-home since mrs bambu nearly set the kitchen in previous home on fire by moving a candle from the edge of the kitchen bench to back under the overhead cupboards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 29, 2022, 05:59:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 29, 2022, 05:47:24 PM
China Taps Governor Gretchen Whitmer
To Lead Lockdown Enforcement
Given the mandate she received in the last election, she did a great job at managing Michigans COVID response and would be an excellent choice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 29, 2022, 06:03:16 PM: Heh - Whitmer....

Oh well, at least Mich has Harbaugh......
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 29, 2022, 06:05:05 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 29, 2022, 06:03:16 PM
Heh - Whitmer....

Oh well, at least Mich has Harbaugh......
That they do. Beating Ohio State at its own game.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on November 29, 2022, 06:07:50 PM: Careful where you send your kids......

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-college-grad-slams-cult-like-college-education-unlearn-four-years-wokeism
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 29, 2022, 06:51:03 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 29, 2022, 06:07:50 PM
Careful where you send your kids......

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-college-grad-slams-cult-like-college-education-unlearn-four-years-wokeism

Yeah they might learn something.

Woke = empathy

Empathy pluse education = Justice
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 29, 2022, 08:52:52 PM: Hope those empathic learners remember that 36 GOP Senators just told gay people to go back to the closet.

And VOTE.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 29, 2022, 09:03:36 PM: Maybe one day Kid will go to college.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 29, 2022, 09:05:29 PM: Step by step

Inch by inch

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 29, 2022, 09:54:12 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 29, 2022, 08:52:52 PM
Hope those empathic learners remember that 36 GOP Senators just told gay people to go back to the closet.

Really?
How?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 01:23:55 AM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on November 29, 2022, 06:07:50 PM
Careful where you send your kids......

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-college-grad-slams-cult-like-college-education-unlearn-four-years-wokeism

Sounds about correct.
No way I would've been shaving my head to suit the weird ideas.
Yes, lots of people seemingly *brainwashed* left/woke in schools and colleges today could do with a good deprogramming.
Also church white people in congregations made to apologise to Black people in congregations for being racist, even if they hadn't been.
Ditto apologise to neighbours even if they hadn't been racist to anyone.
I wouldn't be doing that wokeism either.
Or apologise to gay people or anyone else for something I didn't do.
On my Sky News...one host's program motto is:
"Woke is a joke and Conservative is cool".

Young schoolgirls in bambuworld seen at climate change rallies crying and very upset because the 'climate emergency' is leaving them with no future ... should be deprogrammed before they harm themselves.
Those whippng them into the frenzy should be spoken to severely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:03:16 AM: Jesus disavows every flavor of conservative that exists in the world.

He is with the earth girls who want to live.

It is right there in the scriptures.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:18:40 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission (http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission)

This will make it much more difficult for conservatives to set up and run their operations. Without corruption there is no conservative politics to multiply violence and racism in society, even a backwards place like Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 12:39:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:18:40 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission (http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission)

This will make it much more difficult for conservatives to set up and run their operations. Without corruption there is no conservative politics to multiply violence and racism in society, even a backwards place like Australia.

What a load if hogwash.
Conservatives don't have a mortgage on corruption.
Leftists, including their union buddies, aren't all squeaky clean.

Btw, ScoMo let em have it the parliament yesterday as the censure motion against him was debated.
He did the wrong thing, when Prime Minister he secretly appointed himself to 5 Ministerial portfolios.
Well someone had to take charge of the Covid riddled country and navigate the horror.
You'd think he'd raided the national treasury and stolen half the money the way the politicians were carrying on, some with pure hate in their tirades.
Some from within his own party.
Wouldn't want them "in the trenches" with me.
They all should've been kneeling before him, thanking him...and Treasurer Josh, for
the great work they did.
Should've given ScoMo medals, not nasty words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 30, 2022, 02:17:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 12:39:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:18:40 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission (http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission)

This will make it much more difficult for conservatives to set up and run their operations. Without corruption there is no conservative politics to multiply violence and racism in society, even a backwards place like Australia.

What a load if hogwash.
Conservatives don't have a mortgage on corruption.
Correct. They own it outright.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 06:51:07 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 30, 2022, 02:17:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 12:39:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:18:40 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission (http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission)

This will make it much more difficult for conservatives to set up and run their operations. Without corruption there is no conservative politics to multiply violence and racism in society, even a backwards place like Australia.

What a load if hogwash.
Conservatives don't have a mortgage on corruption.
Correct. They own it outright.

Poor attempt at humour. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 07:25:40 PM: Scummo corruptly suckled the coal teat as you gamely fronted turning a blind eye. We see you Bambi, you nasty old fart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 30, 2022, 08:17:40 PM: https://clickhole.com/fall-from-grace-the-dalai-lama-has-broken-his-vow-of-c-1825120500/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 01, 2022, 06:03:28 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 07:25:40 PM
Scummo corruptly suckled the coal teat as you gamely fronted turning a blind eye. We see you Bambi, you nasty old fart.

Coal...the govt needs the revenue from coal exports to fund its operations, including the welfare system...and power the nation...keep the lights on and allow businesses/ industry to function.
Something the leftist govt is slowly beginning to understand.
Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

For the second time in my life I now have to live very frugally.
At the beginning (at age 18)...and now nearly 60 years later.
The ride in between was comfortable...I basically worked 9 to 5 for 5 days a week...for wages.
As luck would have it I wasn't born in USA, where life is tough if you don't graduate college.
Washing dishes for a job my whole life would've been likely...although my Prussian ancestors would likely have settled in German American and I could well have been raised on a farm.
Drafted into the Vietnam war I would most likely have spent the duration in mititary prison or tortured to death by 'code red' supposed buddies.

...or India or some other harsh place.
Luck's a fortune.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 01, 2022, 08:26:21 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 30, 2022, 02:17:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 30, 2022, 12:39:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 30, 2022, 05:18:40 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission (http://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8a5/australia-will-actually-get-an-anti-corruption-commission)

This will make it much more difficult for conservatives to set up and run their operations. Without corruption there is no conservative politics to multiply violence and racism in society, even a backwards place like Australia.

What a load if hogwash.
Conservatives don't have a mortgage on corruption.
Correct. They own it outright.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 01, 2022, 10:07:01 AM: Why shrimp moss banana peel is a protest phrase in China....

https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-hong-kong-shanghai-covid-5452012336b1f8bbbd8b4658e87be453

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 30, 2022, 02:17:48 PM

Correct. They own it outright.

Bambi likes to lob softballs right over the plate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on December 01, 2022, 11:43:45 AM: Ahhhh....San Fran...

https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/megyn-kelly-on-paul-pelosi-investigation-in-podcast/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 01, 2022, 12:32:38 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on December 01, 2022, 11:43:45 AM
Ahhhh....San Fran...

https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/megyn-kelly-on-paul-pelosi-investigation-in-podcast/

Bruh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 01, 2022, 06:13:57 PM: Judge Aileen Cannon gets a face full of poo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/01/trump-cannon-special-master-rejected/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 01, 2022, 07:02:58 PM: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-phoenix-government-and-politics-938a920c848d28ca23435a6d2cb61f98

Puerile twits in Arizona get court order. Another hissy fit in the culture war concludes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 01, 2022, 07:07:45 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 01, 2022, 06:13:57 PM
Judge Aileen Cannon gets a face full of poo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/01/trump-cannon-special-master-rejected/

Judges still can weed out bogus actions. Cool.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 01, 2022, 10:04:52 PM: I went to the supermarket today.
I tried being very frugal...it didn't work out so well.
Mmm, maybe next time.

***

The 2020 decline in US college enrolment was 7 times greater for males than it was for women.
Looks like the boys will be living with their parents for much longer now...if not staying forever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 02, 2022, 12:49:34 PM: Residents at the Cali Lake RV Park are facing eviction...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp-BL2wMVes

We need to keep the people in their homes, and RV parks are a great idea in Santa Clarita, and in Acton, etc. Also, as we build RV parks, then we need to have pharmacies, and doctors, etc, by the RV parks, and libraries, and grocery stores, etc, and 7 Eleven convenience stores, etc.

We can also build Santorini, Greece, style apartments, with swimming pools and tennis courts, etc.

As Christmas approaches let us strive to get the homeless people into housing as soon as possible.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 02, 2022, 06:00:37 PM: Yes, more people are living in mobile homes, caravans ( a travel trailer is still a caravan and all the pros and cons that come with them), vans, cars than ever before.

Govt owned and run RV parks would be a good idea.

Having 'lived' 'van life' for 2 years now on Youtube thru the eyes and lives of those doing it...some for fun, others out of necessity...I believe one problem the van lifers have is the cost of staying in said parks to get access to water, electricity, showers, toilets...in safety.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 02, 2022, 06:09:39 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/2/2139645/-The-renewable-transition-could-change-the-way-the-country-handles-contaminated-Superfund-sites (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/2/2139645/-The-renewable-transition-could-change-the-way-the-country-handles-contaminated-Superfund-sites)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 02, 2022, 09:02:23 PM: GOP coalesces behind nameless, faceless Thing that is not McCarthy

Alexandra Petri

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-house-alternative-satire/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 02, 2022, 10:01:18 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 02, 2022, 09:02:23 PM
GOP coalesces behind nameless, faceless Thing that is not McCarthy

Alexandra Petri

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-house-alternative-satire/

Alex is amazing. She was whip smart and brilliant as a high schooler.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2022, 02:44:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 02, 2022, 06:00:37 PM
Yes, more people are living in mobile homes, caravans ( a travel trailer is still a caravan and all the pros and cons that come with them), vans, cars than ever before.

Govt owned and run RV parks would be a good idea.

Having 'lived' 'van life' for 2 years now on Youtube thru the eyes and lives of those doing it...some for fun, others out of necessity...I believe one problem the van lifers have is the cost of staying in said parks to get access to water, electricity, showers, toilets...in safety.

California is very wealthy with a huge tax surplus, the surplus needs to go towards helping the homeless people in California, it is a crisis right now with over 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone. RV parks are a great idea to help the homeless, and Santa Clarita, and Acton, etc, have some very nice locations for RV and travel trailer parks.

And because California is wealthy, and because the USA is wealthy, the people in the RV parks can have doctors, and pharmacies, etc, and swimming pools, and tennis courts, etc. And they can have stores to buy groceries, and they can have 7 Eleven convenience stores, etc.

It is also good to have activities for the people, so they can socialize and so that they can have a sense of community, and so that they can have a higher quality of life. When I lived in an RV park I used to cook for everyone, and I had a blender and I made margaritas for the people, etc. I had 3 barbecue grills and I made tacos and burritos, and chicken, etc, for the people. The people said that hanging out with me at my RV space was like living in Malibu. We can elevate the whole experience by having social activities for the people, such as having cook outs when the people can all eat together, and they can drink beer and margaritas, etc. During the Great Depression they used to have dances for the people in the tent cities, and that kind of stuff is good.

Also, many of the homeless people are mentally ill and have other medical issues, so the people need doctors and psychiatrists and pharmacies, etc. We are wealthy, and we can provide services for the people here. By having mental health services and other medical services for the people then we can make it much nicer for the people.

There can be workers to keep the landscaping nice, etc. The RV parks can be nice.

Then, for the alcoholics and drug addicts we can have drug treatment camps in Acton, and in Lake Hughes, where they can get help and where they can get started on the 12 step program, etc.

Then of course we can build the Santorini, Greece, style apartments with swimming pools and tennis courts, we can make it very high density like in Greece, so many apartments can fit into a small amount of land, while at the same time they can be beautiful with charm like in Greece.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 03, 2022, 03:33:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2022, 02:44:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 02, 2022, 06:00:37 PM
Yes, more people are living in mobile homes, caravans ( a travel trailer is still a caravan and all the pros and cons that come with them), vans, cars than ever before.

Govt owned and run RV parks would be a good idea.

Having 'lived' 'van life' for 2 years now on Youtube thru the eyes and lives of those doing it...some for fun, others out of necessity...I believe one problem the van lifers have is the cost of staying in said parks to get access to water, electricity, showers, toilets...in safety.

California is very wealthy with a huge tax surplus, the surplus needs to go towards helping the homeless people in California, it is a crisis right now with over 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone. RV parks are a great idea to help the homeless, and Santa Clarita, and Acton, etc, have some very nice locations for RV and travel trailer parks.

And because California is wealthy, and because the USA is wealthy, the people in the RV parks can have doctors, and pharmacies, etc, and swimming pools, and tennis courts, etc. And they can have stores to buy groceries, and they can have 7 Eleven convenience stores, etc.

It is also good to have activities for the people, so they can socialize and so that they can have a sense of community, and so that they can have a higher quality of life. When I lived in an RV park I used to cook for everyone, and I had a blender and I made margaritas for the people, etc. I had 3 barbecue grills and I made tacos and burritos, and chicken, etc, for the people. The people said that hanging out with me at my RV space was like living in Malibu. We can elevate the whole experience by having social activities for the people, such as having cook outs when the people can all eat together, and they can drink beer and margaritas, etc. During the Great Depression they used to have dances for the people in the tent cities, and that kind of stuff is good.

Also, many of the homeless people are mentally ill and have other medical issues, so the people need doctors and psychiatrists and pharmacies, etc. We are wealthy, and we can provide services for the people here. By having mental health services and other medical services for the people then we can make it much nicer for the people.

There can be workers to keep the landscaping nice, etc. The RV parks can be nice.

Then, for the alcoholics and drug addicts we can have drug treatment camps in Acton, and in Lake Hughes, where they can get help and where they can get started on the 12 step program, etc.

Then of course we can build the Santorini, Greece, style apartments with swimming pools and tennis courts, we can make it very high density like in Greece, so many apartments can fit into a small amount of land, while at the same time they can be beautiful with charm like in Greece.

Salute,

Tony V.

So, California is a wealthy state with a large tax surplus.
Then the question I must ask is:
Why...are those in power in that state allowing 1 person let alone 60,000 people to be homeless and living and dying in squalor on the streets of LA?
The buck stops at City Hall and at the door of the Governor's mansion.
Title: Re: big SCOTUS case coming
Post by: Oiled on December 04, 2022, 10:00:57 AM: ...The most robust ruling for North Carolina Republicans could undermine more than 170 state constitutional provisions, over 650 state laws delegating authority to make election policies to state and local officials, and thousands of regulations down to the location of polling places, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-north-carolina-legislature-50f99679939b5d69d321858066a94639

Luttig, who advised former Vice President Mike Pence that he had no authority to reject electoral votes following the 2020 election, is among several prominent conservatives and Republicans who have lined up against the broad assertion that legislatures cant be challenged in state courts when they make decisions about federal elections, including congressional redistricting.

That group includes former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, law professor Steven Calabresi, a founder of the conservative Federalist Society and Benjamin Ginsberg, a longtime lawyer for Republican candidates and the party...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 04, 2022, 01:17:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 03, 2022, 03:33:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2022, 02:44:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 02, 2022, 06:00:37 PM
Yes, more people are living in mobile homes, caravans ( a travel trailer is still a caravan and all the pros and cons that come with them), vans, cars than ever before.

Govt owned and run RV parks would be a good idea.

Having 'lived' 'van life' for 2 years now on Youtube thru the eyes and lives of those doing it...some for fun, others out of necessity...I believe one problem the van lifers have is the cost of staying in said parks to get access to water, electricity, showers, toilets...in safety.

California is very wealthy with a huge tax surplus, the surplus needs to go towards helping the homeless people in California, it is a crisis right now with over 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone. RV parks are a great idea to help the homeless, and Santa Clarita, and Acton, etc, have some very nice locations for RV and travel trailer parks.

And because California is wealthy, and because the USA is wealthy, the people in the RV parks can have doctors, and pharmacies, etc, and swimming pools, and tennis courts, etc. And they can have stores to buy groceries, and they can have 7 Eleven convenience stores, etc.

It is also good to have activities for the people, so they can socialize and so that they can have a sense of community, and so that they can have a higher quality of life. When I lived in an RV park I used to cook for everyone, and I had a blender and I made margaritas for the people, etc. I had 3 barbecue grills and I made tacos and burritos, and chicken, etc, for the people. The people said that hanging out with me at my RV space was like living in Malibu. We can elevate the whole experience by having social activities for the people, such as having cook outs when the people can all eat together, and they can drink beer and margaritas, etc. During the Great Depression they used to have dances for the people in the tent cities, and that kind of stuff is good.

Also, many of the homeless people are mentally ill and have other medical issues, so the people need doctors and psychiatrists and pharmacies, etc. We are wealthy, and we can provide services for the people here. By having mental health services and other medical services for the people then we can make it much nicer for the people.

There can be workers to keep the landscaping nice, etc. The RV parks can be nice.

Then, for the alcoholics and drug addicts we can have drug treatment camps in Acton, and in Lake Hughes, where they can get help and where they can get started on the 12 step program, etc.

Then of course we can build the Santorini, Greece, style apartments with swimming pools and tennis courts, we can make it very high density like in Greece, so many apartments can fit into a small amount of land, while at the same time they can be beautiful with charm like in Greece.

Salute,

Tony V.

So, California is a wealthy state with a large tax surplus.
Then the question I must ask is:
Why...are those in power in that state allowing 1 person let alone 60,000 people to be homeless and living and dying in squalor on the streets of LA?
The buck stops at City Hall and at the door of the Governor's mansion.

I agree Bambu, the people at the top have been looking the other way as the jobs have left our state and as the numbers of homeless people grow and grow. I do not know if it is corruption, or the leaders not being qualified, but enough is enough, we need to fight to keep our jobs here in California, and we need to create many more jobs here, and we must help our homeless people.

And we can learn from Italy, where they have cheap hostels where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Yes, we must help our homeless people, and the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Governor of California need to wake up.

And people need to stop with the racism and the sexism, ALL of the homeless people need to be helped regardless of sex or race. We need to help everyone.

Of note too, we need more Mental Health Associations, and Wellness Centers, to help our people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 04, 2022, 01:33:03 PM: San Bernardino now has the highest crime rate in California, and all of the malls have shut down, San Bernardino is turning into a poor ghetto with high crime. And there is no reason for it, California is rich, and San Bernardino was nice from the 1950s to the 1980s, then they let San Bernardino go down. The first McDonald's was in San Bernardino, San Bernardino used to be great.

We have Sabrina Cervantes who can help in the San Bernardino area. And we need for people to care about San Bernardino.

And the Mexicans can invest in opening malls and shopping centers in San Bernardino, there were some Mexicans who tried to buy Bloomingdales and they can bring back the Broadway Department Store and they can open a Broadway in San Bernardino and in other areas, and the Mexicans can open shopping centers in Kentucky, etc. The Mexicans are welcome to open shopping centers in the USA, including in San Bernardino.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 04, 2022, 02:10:48 PM: There is going to be a new shipping hub in Barstow, California, instead of storing shipping containers in Los Angeles they are going to ship the goods to Barstow, and they are going to build a huge storage and shipping hub in Barstow, then the goods will go from Barstow to the rest of the USA.

Also, goods from the ports in Mexico can go to the transportation hub in Barstow, and then from there to the rest of the USA. Etc.

The congestion in Los Angeles has to be eased, and there is plenty of wide open land in Barstow, so there is going to be a huge hub in Barstow.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2022, 02:48:19 PM: The pony rides for the children are being stopped at Griffith Park by a few animal rights activists who do not know anything about the West, and about our relationship in the West with horses and ponies. When I was a kid I wanted to be a cowboy, like my ancestors, and I used to dress up like a cowboy with my cowboy hat and toy gun and cowboy boots and I used to ride my pony. My pony was part of our family, and that was how it was for the cowboys, the cowboys all loved their horses. And it is important for the kids in the City to be able to ride ponies and to be exposed to the culture here in the West. The animal rights activists are WRONG and they do not understand the relationship that people in the West have with horses and ponies.

The operators of the pony rides at Griffith Park need to be allowed to continue to provide pony rides for the children in the City.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:02:23 PM: Ah yes, cowboys, horses, ponies, six guns and the West.
Yound mrs bambu was a cowgirl, raised on a cattle, sheep, wheat and other crops farm.
She was 16 when she moved to the big city to find work/career as her father, brother and his family friend could run the farm/ranch by themselves.
At 17 and 20 she and I would go *riding* on the farm when on vacation.
She rode her 'paint' pony and I rode the "feminist' white mare.
One day said mare bolted (didn't like the pony ever getting in front of it), bambu...whose riding skills were basically non-existent, the jockey.
Past the farm house bolting horse went, taking absolutely no notice of my instructions, to the amusement of the gathered family.
Down the slight hill she ran, 100metres away a fence and closed gate.
I thought to myself:
"Horse baulks at gate, over the gate I get thrown, broken neck, dead.
Horse crashes into gate, goes down, my leg gets crushed.
What to do."
I decided I was not getting thrown off under any circumstances, so I dug my legs and heels in, put my head at the side of its neck, my arms around it neck.
The gated loomed, I waited then yanked hard on left rein, horse ran left along the fence, then stopped.
Horse was then happy to walk very slowly back to the farm house.
Cured bambu of horse riding forever.
Quad bikes have replaced horses on the farm.

Learnt to shoot on said farm.
Spotlighting at night, shooting foxes, rabbits, roos, wild pigs
Don't kill them, the foxes eat the tongues out of lambs, torturing them to death.
Crows peck out the eyes of lambs.
Roos, rabbits and pigs eat the crops and wreck the soil in paddocks.
Farmer goes broke...no income, no hope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:57:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2022, 02:48:19 PM
The pony rides for the children are being stopped at Griffith Park by a few animal rights activists who do not know anything about the West, and about our relationship in the West with horses and ponies. When I was a kid I wanted to be a cowboy, like my ancestors, and I used to dress up like a cowboy with my cowboy hat and toy gun and cowboy boots and I used to ride my pony. My pony was part of our family, and that was how it was for the cowboys, the cowboys all loved their horses. And it is important for the kids in the City to be able to ride ponies and to be exposed to the culture here in the West. The animal rights activists are WRONG and they do not understand the relationship that people in the West have with horses and ponies.

The operators of the pony rides at Griffith Park need to be allowed to continue to provide pony rides for the children in the City.

Salute,

Tony V.

Pony rides at Griffith Park are hardly 'wild in the head' bolting mares...I would imagine.
A child riding/walking around on a pony is hardly an 'animal rights' concern, in my eyes...but bullfights [and some rodeo events] are a totally different matter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM: We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 10:17:18 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2022, 10:21:36 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 10:17:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend

They have all crawled out from under their rocks. And carry weapons because they are essentially cowards who are afraid of counterprotestors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 12:19:44 PM: Step by step. Inch by inch.

Before all is said and done those who sought preemptive pardons are gonna get swept up with the rest of trash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/us/politics/jan-6-committee-doj-criminal-referrals.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2022, 01:01:37 PM: The war is accelerating the shift to renewables.

Quote
Renewable energy will surpass coal as a source of global electricity generation by 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projected in a report Tuesday.

In its annual renewables report, the IEA said the Russian invasion of Ukraine has accelerated the transition and will contribute to it increasing nearly twofold in the next five years. Between now and 2027, the IEA projects, global renewable energy capacity will increase by about 2,400 gigawatts, equivalent to China s current capacity.

Although nations were already trending toward renewable adoption, the expected growth is 30 percent above what the IEA was projecting a year ago.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3763689-international-energy-agency-renewables-will-surpass-coal-by-2025/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 01:06:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 06, 2022, 10:21:36 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 10:17:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend

They have all crawled out from under their rocks. And carry weapons because they are essentially cowards who are afraid of counterprotestors.
They should ditch the Hitler salutes...but White Lives Matter is a legitimate thing.
"All Lives Matter" was deemed racist by the woke brigade...so along came White Lives Matter instead.
See how they like that.

British accent woman on YouTube:
"The entire LGBT community has been hijacked to mean something completely different.
I have plenty of gay friends that do not stand by that rainbow flag anymore...why?
Because when they go to gay parties (and you can see this on tv) there are men there half-naked in bondage slapping each other's bums with children in sight.
It's unbelievable.
It seems that this type of behaviour is protected under the rainbow flag. If a straight man did this, or if a woman even did this, never it would be ok."

#####

Grooming?

Anyway, no wonder there are people protesting about the proliferation of , well, you know.

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war
With the Cross of Jesus going on before."

Men protecting their children and communities from harm?
It's nothing new.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 01:35:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.
Holy Christmas if your source is "one... guy on Youtube" you are dumber than I thought. If such a thing is possible. I mean, "one... guy on Youtube" is arguing Albert Pike is manipating history from beyond the grave to stage a third World War to defeat International Zionism and that 20th century history was a Masonic plot for world domination.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 01:40:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 01:06:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 06, 2022, 10:21:36 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 10:17:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 09:27:55 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
We are in the midst of a right wing white supremacist insurgency.

No surprise to many, I would say.
"Mexican language" is taking over America, according to one American guy on Youtube.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend

They have all crawled out from under their rocks. And carry weapons because they are essentially cowards who are afraid of counterprotestors.
They should ditch the Hitler salutes...but White Lives Matter is a legitimate thing.
"All Lives Matter" was deemed racist by the woke brigade...so along came White Lives Matter instead.
See how they like that.

British accent woman on YouTube:
"The entire LGBT community has been hijacked to mean something completely different.
I have plenty of gay friends that do not stand by that rainbow flag anymore...why?
Because when they go to gay parties (and you can see this on tv) there are men there half-naked in bondage slapping each other's bums with children in sight.
It's unbelievable.
It seems that this type of behaviour is protected under the rainbow flag. If a straight man did this, or if a woman even did this, never it would be ok."

#####

Grooming?

Anyway, no wonder there are people protesting about the proliferation of , well, you know.

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war
With the Cross of Jesus going on before."

Men protecting their children and communities from harm?
It's nothing new.
What is not new is stereotypical homophobia blood labels being vented by someone quoting a friend of a friend, and having it swallowed by gullible idiots like you. The only difference is now they do it on line where the maximum number of fearful haters can access it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 06, 2022, 01:58:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:02:23 PM
Ah yes, cowboys, horses, ponies, six guns and the West.
Yound mrs bambu was a cowgirl, raised on a cattle, sheep, wheat and other crops farm.
She was 16 when she moved to the big city to find work/career as her father, brother and his family friend could run the farm/ranch by themselves.
At 17 and 20 she and I would go *riding* on the farm when on vacation.
She rode her 'paint' pony and I rode the "feminist' white mare.
One day said mare bolted (didn't like the pony ever getting in front of it), bambu...whose riding skills were basically non-existent, the jockey.
Past the farm house bolting horse went, taking absolutely no notice of my instructions, to the amusement of the gathered family.
Down the slight hill she ran, 100metres away a fence and closed gate.
I thought to myself:
"Horse baulks at gate, over the gate I get thrown, broken neck, dead.
Horse crashes into gate, goes down, my leg gets crushed.
What to do."
I decided I was not getting thrown off under any circumstances, so I dug my legs and heels in, put my head at the side of its neck, my arms around it neck.
The gated loomed, I waited then yanked hard on left rein, horse ran left along the fence, then stopped.
Horse was then happy to walk very slowly back to the farm house.
Cured bambu of horse riding forever.
Quad bikes have replaced horses on the farm.

Learnt to shoot on said farm.
Spotlighting at night, shooting foxes, rabbits, roos, wild pigs
Don't kill them, the foxes eat the tongues out of lambs, torturing them to death.
Crows peck out the eyes of lambs.
Roos, rabbits and pigs eat the crops and wreck the soil in paddocks.
Farmer goes broke...no income, no hope.

Ranching and farming is a good life, and we need the food that they grow and raise. Many of my ancestors farmed and ranched here in America. And my family owned a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, but we made more money from the pigs than we did from the cattle, people love bacon, we made a lot of money from bacon.

And we need to support programs to teach the youth how to farm and ranch, such as programs such as 4-H. In Lancaster the 4-H people provide meat for Grace Resources to feed the homeless people. So no one complains because the meat is going to feed the homeless people. The animal rights people do not complain when you are feeding the homeless people.

And we need to expand the Future Farmers of America program.

Also did you know that we are getting a lot of our mustard from Montana? Montana is growing mustard now. I bet Battle Mountain, Nevada, could grow mustard too if they wanted. They could make the good stone ground mustard.

And I just paid one dollar for one onion, it is crazy. In the Antelope Valley in California there are farmers who grow onions, and they are making a fortune right now if they are still growing onions.

My Grandma and Grandpa had a garden in Battle Mountain, Nevada, so I know stuff will grow in Battle Mountain, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

We need to teach our youth how to farm and how to ranch.

Also, the hippies can have communes where they grow food to sell to San Francisco, etc. And the refugees, and homeless people, etc, can live with the hippies on the communes and they can help to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 02:10:23 PM: I see the Moors have conquered Spain again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 06, 2022, 03:24:02 PM: The Bambu contingent in Florida is having a little trouble with its laundry,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140292/-FL-Man-75-kills-neighbors-81-in-laundry-dispute-Call-the-police-I-just-shot-Henry-and-Ginger (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140292/-FL-Man-75-kills-neighbors-81-in-laundry-dispute-Call-the-police-I-just-shot-Henry-and-Ginger)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2022, 03:33:06 PM: Guns are great.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 03:55:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 06, 2022, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:02:23 PM
Ah yes, cowboys, horses, ponies, six guns and the West.
Yound mrs bambu was a cowgirl, raised on a cattle, sheep, wheat and other crops farm.
She was 16 when she moved to the big city to find work/career as her father, brother and his family friend could run the farm/ranch by themselves.
At 17 and 20 she and I would go *riding* on the farm when on vacation.
She rode her 'paint' pony and I rode the "feminist' white mare.
One day said mare bolted (didn't like the pony ever getting in front of it), bambu...whose riding skills were basically non-existent, the jockey.
Past the farm house bolting horse went, taking absolutely no notice of my instructions, to the amusement of the gathered family.
Down the slight hill she ran, 100metres away a fence and closed gate.
I thought to myself:
"Horse baulks at gate, over the gate I get thrown, broken neck, dead.
Horse crashes into gate, goes down, my leg gets crushed.
What to do."
I decided I was not getting thrown off under any circumstances, so I dug my legs and heels in, put my head at the side of its neck, my arms around it neck.
The gated loomed, I waited then yanked hard on left rein, horse ran left along the fence, then stopped.
Horse was then happy to walk very slowly back to the farm house.
Cured bambu of horse riding forever.
Quad bikes have replaced horses on the farm.

Learnt to shoot on said farm.
Spotlighting at night, shooting foxes, rabbits, roos, wild pigs
Don't kill them, the foxes eat the tongues out of lambs, torturing them to death.
Crows peck out the eyes of lambs.
Roos, rabbits and pigs eat the crops and wreck the soil in paddocks.
Farmer goes broke...no income, no hope.

Ranching and farming is a good life, and we need the food that they grow and raise. Many of my ancestors farmed and ranched here in America. And my family owned a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, but we made more money from the pigs than we did from the cattle, people love bacon, we made a lot of money from bacon.

And we need to support programs to teach the youth how to farm and ranch, such as programs such as 4-H. In Lancaster the 4-H people provide meat for Grace Resources to feed the homeless people. So no one complains because the meat is going to feed the homeless people. The animal rights people do not complain when you are feeding the homeless people.

And we need to expand the Future Farmers of America program.

Also did you know that we are getting a lot of our mustard from Montana? Montana is growing mustard now. I bet Battle Mountain, Nevada, could grow mustard too if they wanted. They could make the good stone ground mustard.

And I just paid one dollar for one onion, it is crazy. In the Antelope Valley in California there are farmers who grow onions, and they are making a fortune right now if they are still growing onions.

My Grandma and Grandpa had a garden in Battle Mountain, Nevada, so I know stuff will grow in Battle Mountain, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

We need to teach our youth how to farm and how to ranch.

Also, the hippies can have communes where they grow food to sell to San Francisco, etc. And the refugees, and homeless people, etc, can live with the hippies on the communes and they can help to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Time to make another kite, Mr. Dick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 04:10:57 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/06/trump-organization-guilty-tax-fraud/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 05:21:43 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 06, 2022, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:02:23 PM
Ah yes, cowboys, horses, ponies, six guns and the West.
Yound mrs bambu was a cowgirl, raised on a cattle, sheep, wheat and other crops farm.
She was 16 when she moved to the big city to find work/career as her father, brother and his family friend could run the farm/ranch by themselves.
At 17 and 20 she and I would go *riding* on the farm when on vacation.
She rode her 'paint' pony and I rode the "feminist' white mare.
One day said mare bolted (didn't like the pony ever getting in front of it), bambu...whose riding skills were basically non-existent, the jockey.
Past the farm house bolting horse went, taking absolutely no notice of my instructions, to the amusement of the gathered family.
Down the slight hill she ran, 100metres away a fence and closed gate.
I thought to myself:
"Horse baulks at gate, over the gate I get thrown, broken neck, dead.
Horse crashes into gate, goes down, my leg gets crushed.
What to do."
I decided I was not getting thrown off under any circumstances, so I dug my legs and heels in, put my head at the side of its neck, my arms around it neck.
The gated loomed, I waited then yanked hard on left rein, horse ran left along the fence, then stopped.
Horse was then happy to walk very slowly back to the farm house.
Cured bambu of horse riding forever.
Quad bikes have replaced horses on the farm.

Learnt to shoot on said farm.
Spotlighting at night, shooting foxes, rabbits, roos, wild pigs
Don't kill them, the foxes eat the tongues out of lambs, torturing them to death.
Crows peck out the eyes of lambs.
Roos, rabbits and pigs eat the crops and wreck the soil in paddocks.
Farmer goes broke...no income, no hope.

Ranching and farming is a good life, and we need the food that they grow and raise. Many of my ancestors farmed and ranched here in America. And my family owned a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, but we made more money from the pigs than we did from the cattle, people love bacon, we made a lot of money from bacon.

And we need to support programs to teach the youth how to farm and ranch, such as programs such as 4-H. In Lancaster the 4-H people provide meat for Grace Resources to feed the homeless people. So no one complains because the meat is going to feed the homeless people. The animal rights people do not complain when you are feeding the homeless people.

And we need to expand the Future Farmers of America program.

Also did you know that we are getting a lot of our mustard from Montana? Montana is growing mustard now. I bet Battle Mountain, Nevada, could grow mustard too if they wanted. They could make the good stone ground mustard.

And I just paid one dollar for one onion, it is crazy. In the Antelope Valley in California there are farmers who grow onions, and they are making a fortune right now if they are still growing onions.

My Grandma and Grandpa had a garden in Battle Mountain, Nevada, so I know stuff will grow in Battle Mountain, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

We need to teach our youth how to farm and how to ranch.

Also, the hippies can have communes where they grow food to sell to San Francisco, etc. And the refugees, and homeless people, etc, can live with the hippies on the communes and they can help to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.

Many young Americans are leaving the family farms to go to college and are never returning to the farms to work.
More money in marketing, modelling, lawyering etc...and a more comfortable life, in general, in the big cities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 05:42:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 05:21:43 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 06, 2022, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2022, 08:02:23 PM
Ah yes, cowboys, horses, ponies, six guns and the West.
Yound mrs bambu was a cowgirl, raised on a cattle, sheep, wheat and other crops farm.
She was 16 when she moved to the big city to find work/career as her father, brother and his family friend could run the farm/ranch by themselves.
At 17 and 20 she and I would go *riding* on the farm when on vacation.
She rode her 'paint' pony and I rode the "feminist' white mare.
One day said mare bolted (didn't like the pony ever getting in front of it), bambu...whose riding skills were basically non-existent, the jockey.
Past the farm house bolting horse went, taking absolutely no notice of my instructions, to the amusement of the gathered family.
Down the slight hill she ran, 100metres away a fence and closed gate.
I thought to myself:
"Horse baulks at gate, over the gate I get thrown, broken neck, dead.
Horse crashes into gate, goes down, my leg gets crushed.
What to do."
I decided I was not getting thrown off under any circumstances, so I dug my legs and heels in, put my head at the side of its neck, my arms around it neck.
The gated loomed, I waited then yanked hard on left rein, horse ran left along the fence, then stopped.
Horse was then happy to walk very slowly back to the farm house.
Cured bambu of horse riding forever.
Quad bikes have replaced horses on the farm.

Learnt to shoot on said farm.
Spotlighting at night, shooting foxes, rabbits, roos, wild pigs
Don't kill them, the foxes eat the tongues out of lambs, torturing them to death.
Crows peck out the eyes of lambs.
Roos, rabbits and pigs eat the crops and wreck the soil in paddocks.
Farmer goes broke...no income, no hope.

Ranching and farming is a good life, and we need the food that they grow and raise. Many of my ancestors farmed and ranched here in America. And my family owned a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, but we made more money from the pigs than we did from the cattle, people love bacon, we made a lot of money from bacon.

And we need to support programs to teach the youth how to farm and ranch, such as programs such as 4-H. In Lancaster the 4-H people provide meat for Grace Resources to feed the homeless people. So no one complains because the meat is going to feed the homeless people. The animal rights people do not complain when you are feeding the homeless people.

And we need to expand the Future Farmers of America program.

Also did you know that we are getting a lot of our mustard from Montana? Montana is growing mustard now. I bet Battle Mountain, Nevada, could grow mustard too if they wanted. They could make the good stone ground mustard.

And I just paid one dollar for one onion, it is crazy. In the Antelope Valley in California there are farmers who grow onions, and they are making a fortune right now if they are still growing onions.

My Grandma and Grandpa had a garden in Battle Mountain, Nevada, so I know stuff will grow in Battle Mountain, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

We need to teach our youth how to farm and how to ranch.

Also, the hippies can have communes where they grow food to sell to San Francisco, etc. And the refugees, and homeless people, etc, can live with the hippies on the communes and they can help to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.

Many young Americans are leaving the family farms to go to college and are never returning to the farms to work.
More money in marketing, modelling, lawyering etc...and a more comfortable life, in general, in the big cities.

How ya gonna keep em down on the farm
After theyve seen Paree
How ya gonna keep em away from Broadway
Jazzin around and paintin the town
How ya gonna keep em away from harm, thats a mystery
Theyll never want to see a rake or plow
And who the heck can parleyvous a cow?
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm
After theyve seen Paree?

Just ask Judy Garland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 10:39:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 06, 2022, 03:24:02 PM
The Bambu contingent in Florida is having a little trouble with its laundry,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140292/-FL-Man-75-kills-neighbors-81-in-laundry-dispute-Call-the-police-I-just-shot-Henry-and-Ginger (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140292/-FL-Man-75-kills-neighbors-81-in-laundry-dispute-Call-the-police-I-just-shot-Henry-and-Ginger)

If only Henry Wallace had apologised when he should've.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2022, 10:45:37 PM: Don't ever change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 11:24:57 PM: RE-ELECTED
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:59:18 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2022, 10:45:37 PM
Don't ever change.

Henry Wallace started it, by bullying and verbally assaulting Hugh Hootman's wife at her own residence.
This sends some husbands of the abused wives angry in their minds, to the point of violence if their demands for an apology are not met.
For his anger, yelling verbal abuse, and arrogance...Henry Wallace got himself, and his wife shot dead.

Morals of this story:
"Don't go around antagonising people...looking for trouble...you might just find it."

"Never draw your gun unless in defence of your life".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 01:59:16 AM: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ausmin-details-plans-to-increase-us-military-presence-in-australia/ (https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ausmin-details-plans-to-increase-us-military-presence-in-australia/)

#####

Well there you go.
Hopefully it will all happen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 07, 2022, 02:22:02 AM: It is working out well for Guam so far.

Also, based on you prior post, no guns for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 09:03:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2022, 11:11:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 02:10:23 PM
I see the Moors have conquered Spain again.

PC, "Evergone in the world is a lovely person", "multiculturalism is fantastic" Britain will be next.
The Moors have to get through Portugal, and England has to get through France. But yes, they could meet in the semifinals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 10:16:40 AM: I always get the Moors and the Moops mixed up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 11:33:20 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2022, 03:33:06 PM
Guns are great.

They certainly are.
Great for defence against wild animals and vermin on farms, and against the bad people in all their forms.
The violent, sadistic, sexual and bodily torture-murder of Mrs Virginia Morse on her farm in bambuworld was so horrific and depraved that the details have never been made public.

Anita Cobby.
Janine Balding.
Jill Meagher.
Courtney Herron.
Aiia Maasarwe.
Mersina Halvagis.
Masa Vukotic.
Eurydice Dixon.
Renea Lau
etc
the list is long.
All murdered in public places in bambuland, from streets to parks to cemetery while tending their grandmother's grave alone.

"Sitting ducks".
American women are lucky, they can carry guns with which to defend themselves.

The bad people lurk in the shadows waiting to pounce.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 11:39:40 AM: Maybe you should read the list of kids killed "accidentally" by their parent's guns before pronouncing them "great."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 11:48:59 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 11:39:40 AM
Maybe you should read the list of kids killed "accidentally" by their parent's guns before pronouncing them "great."

Not the guns' fault.
All the parents' fault.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2022, 11:55:58 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 06, 2022, 11:24:57 PM
RE-ELECTED

Happy to think reporters can now stop paying attention to a sooty minor Senator in a miner state. Adios, Joe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2022, 11:59:42 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 06, 2022, 02:10:23 PM
I see the Moors have conquered Spain again.

I can admit it took me a couple beats to figure out what you were referring to. Clearly I haven't been following the world cup.

I guess that plague Mr Camus wrote about didn't set them back too much.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM: "Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2022, 12:08:36 PM: The moral of the story in "The Wizard of Oz" is that there is no place like home, there is no place like life on the farm with your family.

For the 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, then many of them would love to live and work on a farm, and communes are a great idea to help the homeless, they can grow and raise food for San Francisco.

The City is a great idea, until you end up homeless on the street with no help, and one thin dime will not even shine your shoes on Broadway, as the song says.

After they spend some time poor and alone in the City then they will crave life on a farm and a family. Just like in a Hallmark movie, they will fall in love and decide to live in a small town.

A commune in a small town is great for the outcasts who do not have families, they can make their own family, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc. The hippies, and the homeless people, and the refugees, can all have communes that grow food and make cheese for San Francisco, etc.

The dreams of living in the City die fast when you end up cold and alone on the street, and you miss having friends when you are surrounded by people who are just out for themselves, the dreams die, and then you crave the farm life like in Tuscany, Italy, and though Tuscany is far away and more expensive, we have Battle Mountain, Nevada, which is close, and cheap. And there is Merced, California, which is cheap, and where people can make cheese, etc. The homeless people can leave the city and they can jump on a Greyhound Bus and they can go to a commune and they can get a good hot meal, and they can go to work helping the commune to grow food for San Francisco, etc. There has to be communes for the people who do not have families, and who do not have anywhere to go. And they can make wine in Napa, California, etc.

I had a maid from El Salvador who was a butcher in El Salvador, she could work as a butcher for a commune, helping to butcher beef and pork to sell to San Francisco, etc, and she can teach the homeless people how to be butchers.

There has to be places for the outcasts to go to find a place in the world where they are wanted and welcomed. And the dreams in the City die hard, sometimes it is best to save your soul and go live on a farm.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 12:23:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 11:48:59 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 11:39:40 AM
Maybe you should read the list of kids killed "accidentally" by their parent's guns before pronouncing them "great."

Not the guns' fault.
All the parents' fault.
Keep telling yourself that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:32:52 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 12:23:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 11:48:59 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 11:39:40 AM
Maybe you should read the list of kids killed "accidentally" by their parent's guns before pronouncing them "great."

Not the guns' fault.
All the parents' fault.
Keep telling yourself that.

I certainly will, because it's 100% true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2022, 12:48:27 PM: Keep telling yourself that. Fine by me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2022, 02:37:48 PM: Arte Moreno is selling the Angels, which is good, I am happy to hear that he is selling the team, but it is just sad that we do not have anyone cool here in Anaheim like Gene Autry who can afford to buy the team. Our biggest star from Anaheim is Gwen Stefani, and she is one of the few who could afford to buy the Angels.

Roy Rogers had to pay a huge amount of money in taxes when he was alive, so after he died he was not able to leave much to his family, and they are not rich like they should be. They should be rich, but Roy had to pay super high taxes. The family of Gene Autry is probably poor now too. Everyone is poor now, it is not like the old days of Hollywood.

Gwen Stefani is our biggest star, her and Austin Butler who starred in "Elvis." Gwen is one of the few who could afford to buy the Angels, I would love to see her buy the team.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 07, 2022, 02:51:29 PM: It is just one of the ways Bambu disqualifies himself from gun ownership and Australia from self-defense.

He will be back with another any minute now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2022, 03:29:24 PM: Zelensky is Time Magazines Person of the Year.?
No wonder that rag is so yesterday.
But then, if Putin, Stalin, and Hitler won similar recognition who is to argue against another dictator.?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 03:35:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.
Much rather them than people like you. Gay ain't communicable but ignorance and hatred is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2022, 04:25:44 PM: My local Representative came to my neighborhood, and I was happy to see her, and there is a lot that I want to talk with her about, but then she asked if I spoke Spanish and she said that she was here to talk with the Spanish speakers. I was kind of sad about that because I want to talk with her about bringing a movie studio to Anaheim, and about a community theatre, and about a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc. But, I just told her that my neighbors speak Spanish, and let her go talk with the Spanish speakers. I will talk with her in the future. If I am going to live here then I want to be a part of this community. Otherwise I want to move to Italy, and go have a community with the Italians. I want to be a part of the community here if I am going to live here.

And I will tell her that I love the Mexicans, and that my Grandmother opened Gold mines in Mexico for the mining companies and she helped to bring paved roads, running water, telephones, electricity, radio, television, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico. The Mexicans loved my Grandmother in Mexico.

Also, I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ to help the orphans and poor people who lived in a garbage dump in Mexico, I am a Christian and I believe in helping the poor and I believe in helping the orphans in Mexico, and in Colombia, and in the Philippines, etc.

Our neighborhood Representative is going to have meetings, and I want to go to the meetings, and I have ideas for our neighborhood. I already talked with the neighbors years ago at the Bodega and they all said that they want a movie studio and entertainment industry jobs in our neighborhood.

If I am going to live here then I want to be a part of my community, otherwise I want to go live somewhere else where I can be a part of my neighborhood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 04:49:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 03:35:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.
Much rather them than people like you. Gay ain't communicable but ignorance and hatred is.

Gay, gender, and all the rest are *communicable*, by suggestion, brainwashing, etc.

There are gay and lesbian Mardi Gras *everywhere* ...big crowds, celebration...the parade in Sydney led by the "Dykes on Bikes", lesbians on motorcycles. They used to be topless decades ago, but that is no longer a big deal, so now they cover up.
Gay is nothing new...nor are draq queens. Les Girls has been around in my world *forever*.

But today it doesn't stop there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 05:06:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 04:49:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 03:35:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.
Much rather them than people like you. Gay ain't communicable but ignorance and hatred is.

Gay, gender, and all the rest are *communicable*, by suggestion, brainwashing, etc.
You are an idiot. And a bigoted, fearful, hateful cube of wallaby shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2022, 05:29:49 PM: Wombat.

Your anti-wallaby hate speech duly noted. Or dookey noted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 05:36:51 PM: Fuck accuracy. WALLABY is objectively funnier than wombat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2022, 05:39:53 PM: You don't think WOMBAT is funny?? It's got WOMB and BAT both! Wombats pride themselves on their risible names.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2022, 05:41:08 PM: Many sexual practices are culturally transmitted but so what?

The kids are having children's stories read to them. When we reach the point where no one thinks of even labeling it as Drag Story Time, where it just happens that some storytellers at the library or wherever are trans, then this whole ridiculous tempest in a teapot will be done with. Clearly, religious conservatives see something provocative and threatening in the crossdressing being mentioned, which naturally provokes the dragsters to mention it bigtime. It's really harder to imagine a stupider form of culture war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2022, 06:12:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.

Such bullshit.

Why do you think a man in a funny dress reading to kids is so dangerous?

How was Milton Berle and Flip Wilson so popular back in the 50s-60s?

Right wing have no agenda beyond fear and hatred to make poor dumb rednecks vote against their economic self interest on behalf of the billionaire donor class who benefit from Republican policies.

Suckers!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 06:21:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2022, 04:25:44 PM
My local Representative came to my neighborhood, and I was happy to see her, and there is a lot that I want to talk with her about, but then she asked if I spoke Spanish and she said that she was here to talk with the Spanish speakers. I was kind of sad about that because I want to talk with her about bringing a movie studio to Anaheim, and about a community theatre, and about a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc. But, I just told her that my neighbors speak Spanish, and let her go talk with the Spanish speakers. I will talk with her in the future. If I am going to live here then I want to be a part of this community. Otherwise I want to move to Italy, and go have a community with the Italians. I want to be a part of the community here if I am going to live here.

And I will tell her that I love the Mexicans, and that my Grandmother opened Gold mines in Mexico for the mining companies and she helped to bring paved roads, running water, telephones, electricity, radio, television, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico. The Mexicans loved my Grandmother in Mexico.

Also, I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ to help the orphans and poor people who lived in a garbage dump in Mexico, I am a Christian and I believe in helping the poor and I believe in helping the orphans in Mexico, and in Colombia, and in the Philippines, etc.

Our neighborhood Representative is going to have meetings, and I want to go to the meetings, and I have ideas for our neighborhood. I already talked with the neighbors years ago at the Bodega and they all said that they want a movie studio and entertainment industry jobs in our neighborhood.

If I am going to live here then I want to be a part of my community, otherwise I want to go live somewhere else where I can be a part of my neighborhood.

Salute,

Tony V.

As you should be.
Maybe time to move somewhere else.
That guy on You tube claiming "Mexican language is taking over America" could be correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 06:33:41 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 07, 2022, 06:12:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2022, 01:50:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 12:08:24 PM
"Proud Boys Shut Down a Church's Holiday-Themed Drag Storytime for Children

Holi- DRAG
Storytime"
#####

...for the little kiddies!
To use a Donaldism...
"I don't think so"

At a church, in the 'Bible Belt'...and leftists are surprised there was a protest.

LGBTQ
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual, Queer.

Some people believe the kiddies should not have to 'worry' about such things until they are adults at age 18.
Seems the Proud Boys-ilk are such people.
My guess is many people are praising them for shutting down the event with their protest.
Well yes homophobia and transportation are major problems. Frightened confused and bitter balls of hate like you are far too common in this world. But you are a minority, I think, and praise God as your like dies
off they are being replaced by more tolerant, less hateful young people.

Have 'Holi-DRAG Storytime' all you like, in a venue for adults somewhere, knock yourself out.
Not in a church...and not for children.
Children are having a difficult enough time at school trying to decide if they're actually boys or girls
, with all the 'gender' nonsense being foist upon them, teachers wearing high heels, stockings, dresses, and having beards...for example.

Such bullshit.

Why do you think a man in a funny dress reading to kids is so dangerous?

How was Milton Berle and Flip Wilson so popular back in the 50s-60s?

Right wing have no agenda beyond fear and hatred to make poor dumb rednecks vote against their economic self interest on behalf of the billionaire donor class who benefit from Republican policies.

Suckers!

Youtube

"Drag Pushed On Kids From Pizza Hut To Gay Bars"

Dr. Duke Pesta and and Alex Newman discuss the latest fascination with the indoctrination of kids into accepting, supporting, and promoting Drag Queens of all ages

"Worse than the 'Black-face' of years ago".
"The feminisation of boys and men" .

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A male forumite in my world has as his signature:

"Teach your boys to be men,
before their ......... teach them to be women."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 08, 2022, 01:30:17 PM: Delicious irony

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawmaker-floridas-dont-say-gay-law-accused-covid-relief-fraud-rcna60676
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 08, 2022, 02:15:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 07, 2022, 06:33:41 PM

A male forumite in my world has as his signature:

"Teach your boys to be men,
before their ......... teach them to be women."

A world where Bambu is pounded until his ball gag flies out, not that there is anything wrong with that.

I hope he knows your safe word.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 08, 2022, 02:16:59 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 08, 2022, 01:30:17 PM
Delicious irony

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawmaker-floridas-dont-say-gay-law-accused-covid-relief-fraud-rcna60676

Crime is the Florida GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2022, 02:36:09 PM: Bambu, it was great when I first moved into this apartment, and back then I was friends with Cheech Marin's Uncle Ted, Ted was from Ukraine, and he married Cheech's Aunt Maria. Ted helped me to move into this apartment. And my friend Lisa from the Philippines was rich, and she gave me a whole apartment full of furniture for free. Then, I became good friends with the manager who was from Mexico, and I became friends with the owner who was from Taiwan. Then, I hung out at the local Bodega and I ate tacos and I drank beer with my neighbors and I was able to become friends with my neighbors. And right after I moved in on a hot summer evening in 2006 I passed out a truck load of free ice cream to my whole neighborhood, a truck driver asked me if I wanted to pass out free ice cream to my neighbors and I was happy to do it, me and my Uncle Dennis went door to door passing out free ice cream to the whole neighborhood. Then, I threw a party here in my neighborhood with free mahi mahi tacos and a live band by the swimming pool, and the owner bought pizza for everyone.

Here is a video of my friend Jon's band at a mahi mahi taco party that we held here...

http://youtu.be/x4K7dnixw5I

Then, I joined Kiwanis International and I became friends with all of the people at City Hall and with all of the local business owners, etc.

But, as time passes all of my friends are dying, and the people do not remember the good days, and many of the old neighbors moved and new people moved in.

And now a heartless corporation owns the apartment complex, which sucks. I loved to be friends with the owner of the complex, and with the manager, etc.

I have a lot of ideas for this neighborhood. A community theatre, a movie studio, a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc. But, if they do not want me here anymore then maybe it is time to move. I loved living in Malibu, and also there is a condo highrise in Hollywood that is all full of stars, you can make movies with your neighbors, the name of the highrise is "Empire West."

I have been here since 2006 and it has been nice here. I have gotten along well with my neighbors, and I have been grateful for my apartment.

We also have good grocery stores, and nice parks, and good restaurants. Plus we have Disneyland.

Also, somewhere over by Angel Stadium we have the Chapman film school, and they can help me make my movie, and I can meet new people in the Entertainment Industry, and I can volunteer to act in student films, etc. I can also meet people who can help me to publish my poetry book.

I am friends with my neighbors who have been here for a long time. And I will go to the neighborhood meetings. If I am going to live here then I want to be a good part of my community and I want to go to the neighborhood meetings.

And if I want to move then I need money, so I need to publish my poetry book, and make my movie, and do some acting work, and more writing, etc. And I want to find a wife who wants to write and produce with me, that would be great.

I have thought about opening a night club in Rome, and making wine in Tuscany, and making movies at Cinecitta, and finding a beautiful Italian wife, but we will see, I went to Italy in 2003 and the time is flying by. But, I still have my passport, and I am ready to travel when I can. I would love to go open a night club in Rome, we will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 08, 2022, 05:08:50 PM: Oakland police wanted to arm robots with shotguns but backed down in the face of public opposition, instead opting for pepper spray.

https://apnews.com/article/police-san-francisco-a392e5a7c1aaac8f58387dde672a7fd1

When I was reading Asimov's robot stories in my youth, did I really imagine I would actually be reading a line like that in a news story a few decades later? Of course, Asimov's fictional robots were blocked from harming humans by having strict rules baked into their positronic brains, the famous Three Rules.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2022, 07:10:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2022, 02:36:09 PM
Bambu, it was great when I first moved into this apartment, and back then I was friends with Cheech Marin's Uncle Ted, Ted was from Ukraine, and he married Cheech's Aunt Maria. Ted helped me to move into this apartment. And my friend Lisa from the Philippines was rich, and she gave me a whole apartment full of furniture for free. Then, I became good friends with the manager who was from Mexico, and I became friends with the owner who was from Taiwan. Then, I hung out at the local Bodega and I ate tacos and I drank beer with my neighbors and I was able to become friends with my neighbors. And right after I moved in on a hot summer evening in 2006 I passed out a truck load of free ice cream to my whole neighborhood, a truck driver asked me if I wanted to pass out free ice cream to my neighbors and I was happy to do it, me and my Uncle Dennis went door to door passing out free ice cream to the whole neighborhood. Then, I threw a party here in my neighborhood with free mahi mahi tacos and a live band by the swimming pool, and the owner bought pizza for everyone.

Here is a video of my friend Jon's band at a mahi mahi taco party that we held here...

http://youtu.be/x4K7dnixw5I

Then, I joined Kiwanis International and I became friends with all of the people at City Hall and with all of the local business owners, etc.

But, as time passes all of my friends are dying, and the people do not remember the good days, and many of the old neighbors moved and new people moved in.

And now a heartless corporation owns the apartment complex, which sucks. I loved to be friends with the owner of the complex, and with the manager, etc.

I have a lot of ideas for this neighborhood. A community theatre, a movie studio, a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc. But, if they do not want me here anymore then maybe it is time to move. I loved living in Malibu, and also there is a condo highrise in Hollywood that is all full of stars, you can make movies with your neighbors, the name of the highrise is "Empire West."

I have been here since 2006 and it has been nice here. I have gotten along well with my neighbors, and I have been grateful for my apartment.

We also have good grocery stores, and nice parks, and good restaurants. Plus we have Disneyland.

Also, somewhere over by Angel Stadium we have the Chapman film school, and they can help me make my movie, and I can meet new people in the Entertainment Industry, and I can volunteer to act in student films, etc. I can also meet people who can help me to publish my poetry book.

I am friends with my neighbors who have been here for a long time. And I will go to the neighborhood meetings. If I am going to live here then I want to be a good part of my community and I want to go to the neighborhood meetings.

And if I want to move then I need money, so I need to publish my poetry book, and make my movie, and do some acting work, and more writing, etc. And I want to find a wife who wants to write and produce with me, that would be great.

I have thought about opening a night club in Rome, and making wine in Tuscany, and making movies at Cinecitta, and finding a beautiful Italian wife, but we will see, I went to Italy in 2003 and the time is flying by. But, I still have my passport, and I am ready to travel when I can. I would love to go open a night club in Rome, we will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

Seems to be the same the world over...the good old days are gone, and the bad new days are here.
If you like your apartment, you can keep it forever, and it's affordable...you should keep it and stay there...
horror awaits homeless people looking for nice apartments to rent or occupy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 08, 2022, 07:30:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 08, 2022, 07:10:48 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2022, 02:36:09 PM
Bambu, it was great when I first moved into this apartment, and back then I was friends with Cheech Marin's Uncle Ted, Ted was from Ukraine, and he married Cheech's Aunt Maria. Ted helped me to move into this apartment. And my friend Lisa from the Philippines was rich, and she gave me a whole apartment full of furniture for free. Then, I became good friends with the manager who was from Mexico, and I became friends with the owner who was from Taiwan. Then, I hung out at the local Bodega and I ate tacos and I drank beer with my neighbors and I was able to become friends with my neighbors. And right after I moved in on a hot summer evening in 2006 I passed out a truck load of free ice cream to my whole neighborhood, a truck driver asked me if I wanted to pass out free ice cream to my neighbors and I was happy to do it, me and my Uncle Dennis went door to door passing out free ice cream to the whole neighborhood. Then, I threw a party here in my neighborhood with free mahi mahi tacos and a live band by the swimming pool, and the owner bought pizza for everyone.

Here is a video of my friend Jon's band at a mahi mahi taco party that we held here...

http://youtu.be/x4K7dnixw5I

Then, I joined Kiwanis International and I became friends with all of the people at City Hall and with all of the local business owners, etc.

But, as time passes all of my friends are dying, and the people do not remember the good days, and many of the old neighbors moved and new people moved in.

And now a heartless corporation owns the apartment complex, which sucks. I loved to be friends with the owner of the complex, and with the manager, etc.

I have a lot of ideas for this neighborhood. A community theatre, a movie studio, a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc. But, if they do not want me here anymore then maybe it is time to move. I loved living in Malibu, and also there is a condo highrise in Hollywood that is all full of stars, you can make movies with your neighbors, the name of the highrise is "Empire West."

I have been here since 2006 and it has been nice here. I have gotten along well with my neighbors, and I have been grateful for my apartment.

We also have good grocery stores, and nice parks, and good restaurants. Plus we have Disneyland.

Also, somewhere over by Angel Stadium we have the Chapman film school, and they can help me make my movie, and I can meet new people in the Entertainment Industry, and I can volunteer to act in student films, etc. I can also meet people who can help me to publish my poetry book.

I am friends with my neighbors who have been here for a long time. And I will go to the neighborhood meetings. If I am going to live here then I want to be a good part of my community and I want to go to the neighborhood meetings.

And if I want to move then I need money, so I need to publish my poetry book, and make my movie, and do some acting work, and more writing, etc. And I want to find a wife who wants to write and produce with me, that would be great.

I have thought about opening a night club in Rome, and making wine in Tuscany, and making movies at Cinecitta, and finding a beautiful Italian wife, but we will see, I went to Italy in 2003 and the time is flying by. But, I still have my passport, and I am ready to travel when I can. I would love to go open a night club in Rome, we will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

Seems to be the same the world over...the good old days are gone, and the bad new days are here.
If you like your apartment, you can keep it forever, and it's affordable...you should keep it and stay there...
horror awaits homeless people looking for nice apartments to rent or occupy.
Wait... rent or occupy? For a racist bigoted hateful transphobe bambu has unexpected depths.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2022, 12:56:24 PM: Anaheim is nice, and I am blessed. I am so grateful to have food and shelter. For the homeless it is a nightmare every day out there on the streets. I am so lucky not to be homeless.

And I love the Mexicans, and our diversity, that is what America is all about, I just want to be a part of the community with everyone else, I do not want to be an outcast.

I will attend my community meetings with the rest of the community, and I will share my ideas with them.

Someday if I make a lot of money I will move, but for now I am grateful to have a home, and I need to take advantage of the opportunities which exist here in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 09, 2022, 01:04:31 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/09/republicans-biden-gas-prices/

Common sense on what actually determines the ups and down of gas prices. Time for the mendacious partisan rooster vacuumers to pipe down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2022, 02:55:18 PM: Four billion dollars in investment is going to be spent here in Anaheim, it is going to be nice, and more investment will happen as good positive forward momentum happens, we have made progress, and a lot of really good things are going to happen here in the future.

https://shoppingcenterbusiness.com/anaheim-city-council-approves-4-billion-ocvbe-mixed-use-entertainment-district-surrounding-honda-center/

And in my neighborhood we could have a movie studio with film and television equipment rentals, and we could have a community theatre, and we could have a Barnes and Noble bookstore, etc.

Over on Beach Blvd they can build a giant Vans skatepark and music stores and shoe stores and skateshops, etc, money needs to be invested in that area, and they need good healthy activities for the youth. Some money can also go into nice landscaping, like in Saint Augustine, Florida, and in Rome, Italy.

Anaheim also needs a world class Opera House which can be built by master craftsmen.

Also, we need to build a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas for our tourists, and the locals will love the trains too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 09, 2022, 03:21:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 09, 2022, 01:04:31 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/09/republicans-biden-gas-prices/

Common sense on what actually determines the ups and down of gas prices. Time for the mendacious partisan rooster vacuumers to pipe down.

No such luck for me.
I have to pay $7.60 a gallon...but really have to pay $8.17 as my old car doesn't like the cheap stuff...on 98 octane it runs better, has more power...I've considered it's my imagination....but it isn't, it really does run better.
A manual gearbox...on 98 octane it pulls better in 5th, 4th, and 3rd gears...and has better acceleration all the time.
If I stay home a lot, leave it in the garage, it doesn't use much fuel at all. My $8.17 lasts a while.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 09, 2022, 03:24:12 PM: Mrs Sparkle and her husband should have their titles stripped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2022, 07:47:58 PM: We can create a lot of good paying jobs if we would put more people to work building our high speed trains. We already allocated the funding for the California high speed rail project, we need to put more people to work building it, and we can work on several routes at once, and for instance right now as they are building the section between Merced and Bakersfield, they can also be building a section between Lancaster and Los Angeles, and we could be building a section between Anaheim and Las Vegas, etc, and between Anaheim and San Diego, etc.

We need to give those good paying railroad jobs to people as we expedite the building of our high speed trains. We need to speed up the building process, and we need to hire more workers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 09, 2022, 09:58:02 PM: https://youtu.be/CiAaEPcnlOg
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 10, 2022, 02:00:01 PM: KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles is hosting a telethon this evening from 7pm to 9pm to raise money to help the people in the Entertainment Industry...

The name of the event is "Lights, Camera, Take Action."

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/star-studded-telethon-to-benefit-motion-picture-television-fund-set-for-dec-10/

And for the people in the Entertainment Industry who need a good, safe apartment in Anaheim with a swimming pool, I recommend the Villa Platinum Apartments on La Palma Ave, call Chris at (323) 388-6109 for more information, the complex is close to Pearson Park which has free tennis courts for the public, and Disneyland is close, and there is also the Chapman film school which is close, and people are allowed to have pool parties with live bands and barbecues, etc. It is a good location for people in the Entertainment Industry.

It is good that people are raising money to help the homeless actors and others in the Entertainment Industry, and Anaheim is a good safe location for homeless actors. And we can also help the people in the Entertainment Industry by creating local jobs here in Southern California. We have USC film school, we have Chapman film school, we have the AADA at the Charlie Chaplin Studio training actors, we have great schools here, and we need to create local jobs for the talent.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 10, 2022, 06:50:41 PM: In Anaheim the citizens own the electric company, and some of the money goes into a general fund to be spent by the citizens however we want to spend it, and some of the money goes towards helping the homeless people, so every time I pay my electric bill then I am helping the homeless people.

Also, money can be generated to help the homeless people as electricity is generated from the water flowing through the City pipes.

https://youtu.be/vlbp0VxZG28

Money can be made to help the homeless people from the free electricity generated from the water which is flowing through City pipes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 11, 2022, 09:00:01 PM: Lame duck Arizona governor is a fucking moron. Even for transparently performative horseshit, this is pretty stupid. It will stop literally no one and just waste money, including when a functioning adult has to come in and clean up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-gov-ducey-stacks-containers-125704053.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 11, 2022, 10:52:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 11, 2022, 09:00:01 PM
Lame duck Arizona governor is a fucking moron. Even for transparently performative horseshit, this is pretty stupid. It will stop literally no one and just waste money, including when a functioning adult has to come in and clean up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-gov-ducey-stacks-containers-125704053.html
OilCan turns his head when lameduck Biden sends billions of newly printed US dollars for Ukraine
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 11, 2022, 11:27:44 PM: Oilcan has his facts and priorities pretty straight, while you, Red, remain a cancer in a fat suit.

Get ready to spend more in Ukraine next year than we are spending this year. All of it will be well spent and too little and too late and yet hopefully still be enough.

Beating Russia there is as important as beating scum fascist republicans here at home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 12, 2022, 06:45:34 AM: Just been reading about the rich and famous celebrities/Hollywoid types...mostly leftists aren't they?
'"The stars and their cars"...look at their cars...500hp, 750hp etc...how much gas are they chewing thru?
Not an EV in sight...judging by the artucle.
Pierce Brosnan has a hybrid...yes, the man is all class.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 12, 2022, 11:31:13 AM: Whomp whomp
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 12:48:00 PM: It is kind of amazing to see how completely the right wing "news" sources RedDickJimmEspn gets his opinions from have become mouthpieces for Russian propaganda.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 12, 2022, 12:49:03 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 11, 2022, 11:27:44 PM
Oilcan has his facts and priorities pretty straight, while you, Red, remain a cancer in a fat suit.

Get ready to spend more in Ukraine next year than we are spending this year. All of it will be well spent and too little and too late and yet hopefully still be enough.

Beating Russia there is as important as beating scum fascist republicans here at home.

Red likes to wank off to his Far Right fantasies of "denazification" and heavy petting with Putin while the real Ukraine is facing massive deaths from freezing as the Russian attack on utility infrastructure continues. The fact that he can't tell the real genocidal fascists in this picture is all you need to know about his palsied grasp on reality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 12, 2022, 12:51:32 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 12:48:00 PM
It is kind of amazing to see how completely the right wing "news" sources RedDickJimmEspn gets his opinions from have become mouthpieces for Russian propaganda.

Kind of ironic the GOP finally got over its Red Menace obsession with Russia about the time it actually became a Red Menace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 12, 2022, 12:56:46 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/12/2141407/-Australia-s-economy-has-stunning-turnaround-just-months-after-electing-new-centre-left-government (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/12/2141407/-Australia-s-economy-has-stunning-turnaround-just-months-after-electing-new-centre-left-government)

The more conservatives you isolate and deplatform, the better your economy performs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2022, 02:27:30 PM: Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency to combat homelessness, just as she said, and she has the whole Church of Scientology to help her, along with the other resources. She is also close with the Federal Government and is close with Vice President Harris who swore her into office.

It is about time action is being taken to help the homeless.

My advice, is to keep it fun, and as we build then we need to build fun spaces for the people who will be there, if we are going to take the time to build then we must not build slums, but instead we must build nice housing which is appropriate for a wealthy nation, and we need to have swimming pools, and libraries, and tennis courts, etc. And we need to have fun landscaping, etc, and the homeless people can have jobs doing landscaping, etc.

And there can be hippy communes in Merced, California, and in Napa, California, and in Battle Mountain, Nevada, etc, where people can grow and raise food, and they can make cheese, etc, and the homeless and the refugees can live with the hippies on the communes.

We can also have drug and alcohol treatment camps in Acton, California, and in Lake Hughes, California, etc, to help the addicts and to introduce them to the 12 Step program, etc.

Also, there can be RV parks in Santa Clarita, and in Acton, and they can have doctors, this is a wealthy nation and the people will need pharmacies and psychiatrists, etc. And the people will need libraries, and swimming pools, and tennis courts, etc. And they can have 7 Eleven convenience stores, etc.

Mayor Bass said she is going to help the homeless, so now it is time to make it happen. And as we build then let us have fun, and let us build nice spaces for our people.

And instead of gloomy mental hospitals, we need nice spaces for the people to get mental help. And we need Mental Health Associations to support people with mental health issues. We need to have nice gardens at the hospitals, etc.

Los Angeles is wealthy, and so is California, and the USA, we need to build according to our high status, we need to build nice spaces as we build, and we need to have nice landscaping, etc, and we need to have first class doctors and psychiatrists and pharmacies, etc, for our people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2022, 02:54:23 PM: In Los Angeles there is a huge number of young people who come to Hollywood and end up homeless, the solution for them would be to have hostels where they can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night, we need to make it affordable for someone making minimum wage to take a shower and to sleep in a bed. And the hostels can be nice. Mayor Bass could help by letting entrepreneurs operate hostels tax free.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 03:37:46 PM: A public library in the Boston suburb of Dedham decided to bow to progressive employees demands that the library refrain from putting up its traditional Christmas Tree.
It caused quite a stir.
The progressives turned victory into defeat and for good reason.

A member of a Human Rights Commission in Deedham resigned after posting a profanity-laden post to Facebook last week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library Christmas trees.

Really.
Over a Christmas Tree
A secular symbol of a national US holiday.
The tree will again be on display this year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 04:10:26 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 03:37:46 PM
A public library in the Boston suburb of Deedham decided to bow to progressive employees demands that the library refrain from putting up its traditional Christmas Tree.
It caused quite a stir.
The progressives turned victory into defeat and for good reason.

A member of a Human Rights Commission in Deedham resigned after posting a profanity-laden post to Facebook last week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library Christmas trees.

Really.
Over a Christmas Tree
A secular symbol of a national US holiday.
The tree will again be on display this year.
Right wing cancel culture at work again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2022, 05:04:45 PM: I had a friend, Chris Meyer, he died of Cancer in 2006, I miss him, he was a great friend, anyhow, he was retired, and he was a Veteran from the Air Force, and he used to volunteer to drive around in a van with a female social worker picking up the homeless people and giving the homeless people rides to the shelters where the people could get help. He was a volunteer, he did it all for free to help the homeless people, and also a lot of the homeless people are Veterans. He was very good at working with the homeless people, and he had a lot of patience, and he genuinely loved the people. He also managed shelters. He was a cool guy, and it is hard working with the homeless people and he used to do it for free in order to serve God and to be of service to other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 05:26:04 PM: He should have driven them to Battle Mountain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 06:09:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 04:10:26 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 03:37:46 PM
A public library in the Boston suburb of Deedham decided to bow to progressive employees demands that the library refrain from putting up its traditional Christmas Tree.
It caused quite a stir.
The progressives turned victory into defeat and for good reason.

A member of a Human Rights Commission in Deedham resigned after posting a profanity-laden post to Facebook last week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library Christmas trees.

Really.
Over a Christmas Tree
A secular symbol of a national US holiday.
The tree will again be on display this year.
Right wing cancel culture at work again.
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2022, 06:23:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 05:26:04 PM
He should have driven them to Battle Mountain.

True. Battle Mountain can be a safe place for those who feel abandoned. I have been writing to Carlos Santana and to all of the old hippies and I have been telling them to open communes in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the homeless people and for the refugees, etc. There needs to be a safe place where people can just show up on a Greyhound Bus and get a nice hot meal and a job growing food and making cheese, etc, and get a place to live and a community. All of the old hippies need to open communes for the homeless and for the refugees, and Battle Mountain is only $1,000 per acre.

We will see if Carlos Santana and the others read my messages.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 12, 2022, 07:27:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 04:10:26 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 03:37:46 PM
A public library in the Boston suburb of Deedham decided to bow to progressive employees demands that the library refrain from putting up its traditional Christmas Tree.
It caused quite a stir.
The progressives turned victory into defeat and for good reason.

A member of a Human Rights Commission in Deedham resigned after posting a profanity-laden post to Facebook last week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library Christmas trees.

Really.
Over a Christmas Tree
A secular symbol of a national US holiday.
The tree will again be on display this year.
Right wing cancel culture at work again.

Worth noting there is no Boston suburb called Deedham. There is one called Needham, and another called Dedham next door, but AFAIK they haven't merged or had a love child.

If the "news outlet" reporting this can't get the town's name right, makes you wonder what other inaccuracies are in the report.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 12, 2022, 07:48:40 PM: Anything to distract from how corporate profit taking rapes the average worker and consumer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 08:42:18 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 12, 2022, 07:27:03 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 04:10:26 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 12, 2022, 03:37:46 PM
A public library in the Boston suburb of Deedham decided to bow to progressive employees demands that the library refrain from putting up its traditional Christmas Tree.
It caused quite a stir.
The progressives turned victory into defeat and for good reason.

A member of a Human Rights Commission in Deedham resigned after posting a profanity-laden post to Facebook last week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library Christmas trees.

Really.
Over a Christmas Tree
A secular symbol of a national US holiday.
The tree will again be on display this year.
Right wing cancel culture at work again.

Worth noting there is no Boston suburb called Deedham. There is one called Needham, and another called Dedham next door, but AFAIK they haven't merged or had a love child.

If the "news outlet" reporting this can't get the town's name right, makes you wonder what other inaccuracies are in the report.
LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2022, 03:01:53 AM: Christmas tree.
It's a religious tree and a religious event...the birth of Jesus.
That's why many hate it.
They also hate Nativity scenes and are banning them too.
They hate churches.
They hate Hymns.
They hate Jesus.
They hate Christians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2022, 04:57:58 AM: Just because Ms Sparkle and her husband say something...doesn't mean it's true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 13, 2022, 10:04:23 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2022, 04:57:58 AM
Just because ~~Ms Sparkle and her husband~~ racist jackasses on Youtube and the radio say something...doesn't mean it's true.
FIFY
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 13, 2022, 10:04:59 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2022, 06:23:46 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 12, 2022, 05:26:04 PM
He should have driven them to Battle Mountain.

True. Battle Mountain can be a safe place for those who feel abandoned. I have been writing to Carlos Santana and to all of the old hippies and I have been telling them to open communes in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the homeless people and for the refugees, etc. There needs to be a safe place where people can just show up on a Greyhound Bus and get a nice hot meal and a job growing food and making cheese, etc, and get a place to live and a community. All of the old hippies need to open communes for the homeless and for the refugees, and Battle Mountain is only $1,000 per acre.

We will see if Carlos Santana and the others read my messages.

Salute,

Tony V.
Go fly a kite, Mr. Dick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 13, 2022, 12:22:20 PM: Dick = Dickens alter ego. CD had a quality of humorous self deprecation in his writing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 13, 2022, 01:21:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2022, 12:22:20 PM
Dick = Dickens alter ego. CD had a quality of humorous self deprecation in his writing.
Also an alter ego for CD: DC.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 13, 2022, 05:32:34 PM: So Bankman Fried can not testify ( under oath) to Maxine and the gang since the Biden DOJ brought down the hammer of the law.

The dems wallowed in his fraudulent largesse but we will never know the details.

How convenient, er, predictable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 13, 2022, 05:56:19 PM: Republicans wallowed in his largesse. Democrats used it to thwart the forces of evil like the stupidest child your mother ever had for instance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 13, 2022, 06:02:37 PM: (AP) The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles...

The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will come from Pentagon stocks and be moved from another country overseas.

This is good news. Not only in terms of strategic defense of Ukraine but for all of Europe - a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine from the infrastructure bombing means more resulting migrant population crisis in Europe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 13, 2022, 06:47:53 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2022, 06:02:37 PM
(AP) The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles...

The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will come from Pentagon stocks and be moved from another country overseas.

This is good news.

Only if you condone throwing good money after bad.

If Biden and his cheering section led by you and the clickbait main Street media are determined to keep asking Americans to pay for an endless and unwinnable war you should at least be honest about the man who is getting all this money.
Zelensky is a tyrant who has sold out his own country, ended free speech and religion , to sustain an uncontrollable ego.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 13, 2022, 09:13:09 PM: Is that how wingers are projecting their massive sellout to trump and his Muslim ban bullshit?

Good thing you dumb fucks are not in charge.

Patriots are a good start.

Ukraine needs the tools to crush Russians as they freeze in their trenches or work at their railheads and airfields.

Have them kettled or back to their borders before the thaw.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 14, 2022, 07:52:00 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 13, 2022, 05:32:34 PM
So Bankman Fried can not testify ( under oath) to Maxine and the gang since the Biden DOJ brought down the hammer of the law.

The dems wallowed in his fraudulent largesse but we will never know the details.

How convenient, er, predictable.
LOL. I guess you do not follow the news.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 14, 2022, 10:25:29 AM: https://apnews.com/article/science-animals-stockholm-sweden-chimpanzees-e59d3ec9f9cad6959d9b9de571fede2b

You're a tropical animal, and you are a hundred miles north of Stockholm in December, and you want to escape a heated enclosure. Clearly things are not so great for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 14, 2022, 04:47:48 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/13/iran-execute-protesters-repression/

Revolution in the air.

Some are mathematicians, some are carpenter's wives...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 14, 2022, 05:14:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 13, 2022, 06:47:53 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2022, 06:02:37 PM
(AP) The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles...

The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will come from Pentagon stocks and be moved from another country overseas.

This is good news.

Only if you condone throwing good money after bad.

If Biden and his cheering section led by you and the clickbait main Street media are determined to keep asking Americans to pay for an endless and unwinnable war you should at least be honest about the man who is getting all this money.
Zelensky is a tyrant who has sold out his own country, ended free speech and religion , to sustain an uncontrollable ego.

Sure thing, Sergei!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 14, 2022, 07:06:52 PM: I saw a report of the top travel destinations on the news; Paris, France, was number one, while Rome, Italy, was number five, and New York City came in at number ten.

Anaheim was not even on the list. Right now we are spending four billion dollars to make Anaheim nicer, and we will spend more, and soon Anaheim will be a top tourist destination.

Also, Las Vegas, Nevada, needs to be a top tourist destination, and we need to have a high speed train connecting Las Vegas with Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 14, 2022, 08:11:35 PM: Fullerton College

5 hours

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy awarded the Fullerton College French Club second place in the "France on Campus Awards" for the 2023 Fullerton College French Film Festival, which is set to take place March 27-29, 2023.

The award celebrates American student organizations that produce creative projects that introduce new audiences to French culture.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2022, 11:31:44 AM: Paris?
Not like it used to be.
In the early 1960s, in high school, I had a pen friend in Paris.
She was pretty and had 2 poodles.
She would correct my French and I would correct her English.
I continued to correspond with her until age 20.
No expression of love was ever conveyed.
Can't really be dating miss-mrs bambu and be writing letters to another woman...especially when you're playing "last-chance romance".
That was the time to visit Paris...before it became what it is today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 15, 2022, 12:17:16 PM: You also get no love in Antwerp, Milan, or D
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 04:15:11 PM: I have been to Paris, but only to the airport on my way to and from the Cannes film festival. Everyone in Paris was well dressed, and it was like they all went to charm school. The people in Paris were all polite and well mannered. And Cannes was great, I enjoyed my time in Cannes, the food was great, the people were great, I love Cannes. Someday I will go to France and just spend some time in Paris, I will go spend a month in Paris eventually.

And there is Bernard Verley, and Renaud Verley, so my last name is already famous in France. There have been French movie stars with my last name.

For me as a teen there was the movie "Weird Science" with Kelly Le Brock, and she was my idea as a teen of French American women, Kelly Le Brock is a babe in that movie.

I spent 6 weeks in Rome, and that was awesome, I tried to get a job at Cinecitta, I love Rome. Europe is great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 05:36:12 PM: I hope Fullerton Community College shows some films from Bernard Verley at their film festival, and Renaud Verley, there have been Verleys in France who have been making movies for a long time, and I think Bernard Verley dated Brigitte Bardot.

I might go to their French Film Festival at the community college, we will see, I would enjoy it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 09:17:36 PM: Of note, the French are welcome to open a movie and television studio here in Anaheim anytime they want, Anaheim has a lot of trained talent and the French are welcome to open a studio here whenever they want, the French are welcome here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2022, 10:02:25 PM: I've read several stories reporting that the "the French" are looking to open studios in Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 10:29:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2022, 10:02:25 PM
I've read several stories reporting that the "the French" are looking to open studios in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

That would actually be fantastic, but the trained talent is in Southern California for the Entertainment Industry. The French can make cheese in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can mine for Gold, and they can grow and make the good deli stone ground mustard, and they can raise beef for McDonald's, and they can raise pigs and they can sell bacon to San Francisco, there is a lot that can be done in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Battle Mountain has an airport, etc. But, California is the place for film and television production, all of the trained talent is in California.

Anaheim would be the perfect spot for the French to open a movie and television studio, the talent is abundant in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 15, 2022, 11:00:30 PM: Tony V has undeniable super powers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 11:07:07 PM: For the refugees at the border coming to the USA desperate looking for jobs...

Orange Juice prices are spiking as Florida orange growers suffer because of storms.

https://www.investing.com/commodities/orange-juice

Thus, the refugees can come to California and they can plant orange trees, and they can pick oranges, and they can help to make orange juice, etc. The refugees can join the United Farm Workers and they can work for Sunkist, etc.

As the immigrants come to the USA we can put a lot of people to work growing oranges and picking fruit and making orange juice, etc.

I also think that we can get the Chinese to drink MIMOSAS, with orange juice from California and with Andre Cold Duck. Italians and others are drinking mimosas now, and we can get the Chinese to drink mimosas too, and we can sell them orange juice and wine from California.

We can create good jobs for the refugees and for the desperate immigrants.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 16, 2022, 12:13:47 AM: When you put it in all-caps, who can refuse?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 16, 2022, 03:59:22 AM: Massive immigration both legal and illegal in the name of cheap labor is a very bad idea.
Americans seem to be in love with cheap labor and illegal immigration.
Little do they realise that it will be THEIR jobs that go, go to cheap-labor outsourcing companies etc onshore, and offshore.
...just as did mrs bambu's job.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 16, 2022, 10:54:44 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 11:07:07 PM
For the refugees at the border coming to the USA desperate looking for jobs...

Orange Juice prices are spiking as Florida orange growers suffer because of storms.

https://www.investing.com/commodities/orange-juice

Thus, the refugees can come to California and they can plant orange trees, and they can pick oranges, and they can help to make orange juice, etc. The refugees can join the United Farm Workers and they can work for Sunkist, etc.

As the immigrants come to the USA we can put a lot of people to work growing oranges and picking fruit and making orange juice, etc.

I also think that we can get the Chinese to drink MIMOSAS, with orange juice from California and with Andre Cold Duck. Italians and others are drinking mimosas now, and we can get the Chinese to drink mimosas too, and we can sell them orange juice and wine from California.

We can create good jobs for the refugees and for the desperate immigrants.

Salute,

Tony V.
Cold Duck? What, the store was out of MD 20/20?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 16, 2022, 11:39:10 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 16, 2022, 10:54:44 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2022, 11:07:07 PM
For the refugees at the border coming to the USA desperate looking for jobs...

Orange Juice prices are spiking as Florida orange growers suffer because of storms.

https://www.investing.com/commodities/orange-juice

Thus, the refugees can come to California and they can plant orange trees, and they can pick oranges, and they can help to make orange juice, etc. The refugees can join the United Farm Workers and they can work for Sunkist, etc.

As the immigrants come to the USA we can put a lot of people to work growing oranges and picking fruit and making orange juice, etc.

I also think that we can get the Chinese to drink MIMOSAS, with orange juice from California and with Andre Cold Duck. Italians and others are drinking mimosas now, and we can get the Chinese to drink mimosas too, and we can sell them orange juice and wine from California.

We can create good jobs for the refugees and for the desperate immigrants.

Salute,

Tony V.
Cold Duck? What, the store was out of MD 20/20?

Mad Dog does not sparkle but this track does!

https://youtu.be/y8YOLY4Tats
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 16, 2022, 01:00:29 PM: Good sax. One of my first LPs was a compilation from Montreux.

Meanwhile, stupid bottlenecks in all the renewable energy projects waiting to get going. Needed: new power lines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/opinion/solar-wind-electricity.html

Quote
One of America s most successful projects in the 20th century was the construction of the Interstate Highway System. Imagine if President Eisenhower had said: (quote) We will eventually build a transcontinental highway system, but only to the extent that trucking companies can raise the funds among themselves to cover the upfront costs. (end quote) We would still be fighting about it today. Instead, by spreading the costs across society, the Eisenhower administration got it done, to the enormous economic benefit of the entire United States....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 16, 2022, 01:16:08 PM: While I am not a fan of the British by any means, I think that Harry and Meghan could benefit from attending Leadership Training.

Right now Harry and Meghan keep complaining and talking about how bad it is to be in the royal family of England, and they are just smearing mud all over the royal family, instead of using their fame and good fortune to help other people.

The first thing they teach you in Leadership Training is to stop complaining and to take responsibility for the things that we do have control over, and to use our adversities to become stronger, and to do service to help others.

Harry and Meghan need to stop complaining about how bad the royal family is, and about how bad it is to be rich and famous, and they need to gain strength from their adversities, and they need to use their position to help other people, and become leaders.

Harry and Meghan have been living here in California, where we have a huge problem with homelessness, and other problems, including illegal drugs and a fentanyl problem, etc, etc, etc. Instead of complaining about how bad it is to be royals, they can use their fame as royals to help other people.

Instead of being victims, Harry and Meghan need to be leaders.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 16, 2022, 01:54:21 PM: <virtual face palm>
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 16, 2022, 02:00:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 16, 2022, 01:16:08 PM
While I am not a fan of the British by any means, I think that Harry and Meghan could benefit from attending Leadership Training.

Right now Harry and Meghan keep complaining and talking about how bad it is to be in the royal family of England, and they are just smearing mud all over the royal family, instead of using their fame and good fortune to help other people.

The first thing they teach you in Leadership Training is to stop complaining and to take responsibility for the things that we do have control over, and to use our adversities to become stronger, and to do service to help others.

Harry and Meghan need to stop complaining about how bad the royal family is, and about how bad it is to be rich and famous, and they need to gain strength from their adversities, and they need to use their position to help other people, and become leaders.

Harry and Meghan have been living here in California, where we have a huge problem with homelessness, and other problems, including illegal drugs and a fentanyl problem, etc, etc, etc. Instead of complaining about how bad it is to be royals, they can use their fame as royals to help other people.

Instead of being victims, Harry and Meghan need to be leaders.

Salute,

Tony V.
They should move to Battle Mountain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 16, 2022, 09:47:46 PM: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/aaron-rupar-tony-webster-on-elon-musks-twitter-ban.html (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/aaron-rupar-tony-webster-on-elon-musks-twitter-ban.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 17, 2022, 10:43:28 AM: Saw that news, had chuckle at the free speech enthusiast Musk discovering what some free speech entails.

That said, I wouldn't be posting links to a doxxing site even if it's for a celebrity who is presumed to be hardened to public attention. I do believe in a right to privacy and not being tracked wherever you go. For everyone. I don't think Aaron Rupar intended that kind of violation, and could simply agree to vet his reposts a bit more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 17, 2022, 01:12:33 PM: Today is the Birthday of Pope Francis, he is a great man of peace, and he is a wonderful Pope.

When I was in Rome the Pope was Pope John Paul II, and he was great too, but he was sick when I was in Rome so I did not get to meet him.

I have been fortunate that the Catholic Church has had wonderful Popes in my lifetime.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 17, 2022, 08:14:16 PM: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142675809/cleanup-for-keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-kansas

For those who scoffed that the Keystone pipeline could pose any serious risk.

Walk, bike, ride transit, trade for better mpg...take whatever baby steps you can to help say no to liquid bitumen, the worst form of crude.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 17, 2022, 09:57:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 16, 2022, 02:00:42 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 16, 2022, 01:16:08 PM
While I am not a fan of the British by any means, I think that Harry and Meghan could benefit from attending Leadership Training.

Right now Harry and Meghan keep complaining and talking about how bad it is to be in the royal family of England, and they are just smearing mud all over the royal family, instead of using their fame and good fortune to help other people.

The first thing they teach you in Leadership Training is to stop complaining and to take responsibility for the things that we do have control over, and to use our adversities to become stronger, and to do service to help others.

Harry and Meghan need to stop complaining about how bad the royal family is, and about how bad it is to be rich and famous, and they need to gain strength from their adversities, and they need to use their position to help other people, and become leaders.

Harry and Meghan have been living here in California, where we have a huge problem with homelessness, and other problems, including illegal drugs and a fentanyl problem, etc, etc, etc. Instead of complaining about how bad it is to be royals, they can use their fame as royals to help other people.

Instead of being victims, Harry and Meghan need to be leaders.

Salute,

Tony V.
They should move to Battle Mountain.

They should.
That 's exactly where they should go, and stay forever.
They'd likely be much happier there. Plenty of room for theirs kids to run around too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 18, 2022, 02:06:47 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 17, 2022, 08:14:16 PM
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142675809/cleanup-for-keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-kansas

For those who scoffed that the Keystone pipeline could pose any serious risk.

Walk, bike, ride transit, trade for better mpg...take whatever baby steps you can to help say no to liquid bitumen, the worst form of crude.

Waiting to trade in all my clunkers for 2nd generations of the Aptera and the Canoo.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 18, 2022, 11:55:19 AM: It took a while but the Ohio College known for wokeness finally has paid for false racist charges.

Oberlin college paid $36 MILLION dollars to a town bakery it defamed.

The case grew out of a theft of wine from the bakery in 2016 by a black student that led to an altercation.

Oberlin College students protested outside the bakery following the shoplifting incident. During a protest, former Oberlin College vice president and dean of students Meredith Raimondo handed out flyers stating that the bakery was a "RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION," according to court documents

The perpetrators were fined and testified nothing that happened was because of racism.

But the school persisted in charging RACISM! and stopped buying food from the bakery.

So the bakery sued and won, then won on appeal, and the Ohio Supreme Court refused to review the lower courts.

Hallelujah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 18, 2022, 01:40:47 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 18, 2022, 02:06:47 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 17, 2022, 08:14:16 PM
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142675809/cleanup-for-keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-kansas

For those who scoffed that the Keystone pipeline could pose any serious risk.

Walk, bike, ride transit, trade for better mpg...take whatever baby steps you can to help say no to liquid bitumen, the worst form of crude.

Waiting to trade in all my clunkers for 2nd generations of the Aptera and the Canoo.

The Aptera surprises me - it looks very high-end with its aviation design features, but the starting price for the most basic version is around 26K. I like the solar option, where it will give you around 40 mile per day from self charging.
People in the Sunbelt would go for that. The range from a wall socket charge is also eyebrow raising.

Ward is oddly quiet about the Keystone spill.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 18, 2022, 01:54:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 17, 2022, 09:57:42 PM

They should.
That 's exactly where they should go, and stay forever.
They'd likely be much happier there. Plenty of room for theirs kids to run around too.

All ye who are posting, either ironically or in earnest, about Battle Mountain should read the memoir, The Glass Castle. A big portion of the author's childhood was spent in BM. (Will skip past the potential problems in promoting a remote mining town in arid country during a western drought decades-long...)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2022, 03:09:04 PM: Today Dr Charles Stanley was talking about who Jesus is, and about the wisdom of God to wait until the Romans were in power to send Jesus.

There is a book that I read a long time ago before I went to Rome as I was reading about Rome, the name of the book is "Caesar and Christ" by Will Durant, and the book is about how Caesar and Christ contributed to the birth of modern civilization. It is a big book but it is a fast read if you are hungry for that type of reading.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2022, 03:10:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 18, 2022, 01:54:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 17, 2022, 09:57:42 PM

They should.
That 's exactly where they should go, and stay forever.
They'd likely be much happier there. Plenty of room for theirs kids to run around too.

All ye who are posting, either ironically or in earnest, about Battle Mountain should read the memoir, The Glass Castle. A big portion of the author's childhood was spent in BM. (Will skip past the potential problems in promoting a remote mining town in arid country during a western drought decades-long...)

Woody Harrelson is in the movie, I want to see it, maybe I will watch it with my Mother over the Christmas holiday.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 18, 2022, 06:26:55 PM: And now in bambuworld, what else but a "fat santa" ban.
"Fat santas will make children eat too much, and get fat".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2022, 08:52:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 18, 2022, 06:26:55 PM
And now in bambuworld, what else but a "fat santa" ban.
"Fat santas will make children eat too much, and get fat".
Santa Claus is a right wing elitist construct and should be banned everywhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2022, 10:44:18 AM: Pity there aren't more Santas in the world...spreading peace, love, and happiness around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 19, 2022, 10:50:08 AM: Maybe you should apply for the job.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2022, 11:55:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 19, 2022, 10:44:18 AM
Pity there aren't more Santas in the world...spreading peace, love, and happiness around.
To rich people. Biggest asshole kids in the world get PlayStation and drones and shit regardless of how much they are pricks to their fellow man. You can be the best behaved, most genial and kind poor kid, and what do you get? Mittens. Because for Santa "good" = rich. "Bad" = poor. Fuck his fat money worshipping ass.

Also, the historical Santa Claus was (allegedly) briefly jailed by Constantine the Great during the Council of Nicea in 325 for punching Arias in the face during a debate over whether Christ was made or begotten. My current favorite Christmas trivia question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2022, 12:48:48 PM: It is important for people to make sure that the poor orphans, and refugee children, etc, receive gifts.

I tried to start a program to take the orphans to Disneyland for Christmas, I sent the idea to the then Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, and he wrote me back and he wanted me to be in charge of the program, he said it was a great idea and he told me to do it. It is easier to send ideas than it is to actually go out and make it happen. Maybe someday I will create the program, if someone else does not already do it.

Out in the desert my Mother used to cut the hair for the orphans, they had ranches out in the desert for the foster boys who did not have anywhere else to go, they had like 20 boys at each ranch, and my Mother used to cut the hair for the boys, and she used to take me with her while she cut the hair for the boys. I watched the movie "Rocky" with the foster boys one time, the boys all had nick-names like "Spider" and "Shadow" and names like that. They all smoked cigarettes even though none of them were old enough to smoke, they let the boys smoke. And I went to school with the foster boys, I used to see them at school.

There is a program in the OC called CASA and I can work with them to make sure that all of the foster youth get to go to Disneyland. I will work on it in the future.

I am going to see my Nephew at Christmas, and I am going to take my Apple and my movie script, and my poetry book, and tell my Nephew what I am trying to do, I need to be able to share the movie script, and I need to be able to publish my poetry book with Barnes and Noble. They say that the young people know the most about computers, I hope my Nephew can help me. If I can make my movie, and publish my poetry book, then hopefully that will be enough to open a night club in Rome, and buy a house in Malibu, and maybe buy a winery in Tuscany. Then, I will have money to help to make my ideas a reality, I can start a 501 c charitable company to help the orphans, and the homeless, etc. And maybe I will open some hostels where people can take a shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night. We will see what happens. And I need to find a smart wife who can be my team-mate.

Anyhow, I support toy drives to give toys to the orphans and to the poor children. And the businesses need to be altruistic and they need to make sure that the poor children get toys at Christmas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2022, 03:36:48 PM: Machiavelli wrote that leaders whom are loved are the best leaders.

The way to get the love of the desperate refugees and immigrants who come to us is by making them legal, and creating jobs for them and putting them to honest work.

We need to make our immigrants legal, like Reagan did, and we need to re-write our immigration law to include a Good Neighbor policy. And we need to bring the poor immigrants and refugees out of the shadows and we need to make them legal so that they are protected by our laws, and so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so that they can join labor unions and so that they are protected by OSHA, etc.

If we make the immigrants legal, and if we put them to work at good union jobs, then we will gain the love of the immigrants.

I had a maid from El Salvador, and she loved us for giving her an honest job. And we had gardeners from Brazil. We need to make the people legal and we need to give the people jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 19, 2022, 04:07:09 PM: MainStreet media Call For Some Sort Of Constitutional Amendment
That Would Protect Free Speech
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 19, 2022, 04:17:21 PM: Whoever dreamed that up found someone dumb enough to repeat it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2022, 05:12:08 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 19, 2022, 04:17:21 PM
Whoever dreamed that up found someone dumb enough to repeat it.
Yeah, it is so stupid and pointless I just sort of assumed he garbled it somehow in the cut and past.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 19, 2022, 09:59:16 PM: As predicted, the January 6 Committee wound up with a nothingburger.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2022, 11:20:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 19, 2022, 09:59:16 PM
As predicted, the January 6 Committee wound up with a nothingburger.
Awful big graveyard for you and your right wing web masters to be whistling past. But behave as expected.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 20, 2022, 02:34:43 AM: Republicans have been trading politics and governance for crime and coverups for fifty years now. Red is just nose blind to it and too permanently flaccid to care.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2022, 04:40:38 PM: "The truth will set you free" (if you're lucky)...but lies will land you right in the soup.

Someone should tell Ms Sparkle and her man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 20, 2022, 06:24:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2022, 04:40:38 PM
"The truth will set you free" (if you're lucky)...but lies will land you right in the soup.

Someone should tell Ms Sparkle and her man.

Tell that to Jeremy Clarkson
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 20, 2022, 07:40:48 PM: Bam

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/20/us/trump-taxes-news/a-committee-will-decide-whether-the-former-presidents-returns-are-released-publicly?smid=url-share
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:03:43 PM: Zelensky coming to Congress with his hand out for more charity.
How many $ billions this time?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:07:02 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:03:43 PM
Zelensky coming to Congress with his hand out for more charity.
How many $ billions this time?
What do the modern Pravdae you immerse yourself in tell you, Boris?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 21, 2022, 01:02:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.

More opinion from the RT network.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 01:11:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.
ROFL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 01:25:28 PM: Today is another new day with 50,000 new tourists here in Anaheim to sell stuff to, with every new day we receive 50,000 new tourists, that is our blessing here in Anaheim. We advertise all around the world for Tourism here, and for Disneyland, and it pays off, the tourists show up with every new day. People come here from all over the world and they spend money here. Even by just selling hamburgers to tourists you can buy a home and raise a family. We need to teach the young people of Anaheim how to sell stuff to tourists, that is the legacy that Anaheim can pass down to the youth, there is no reason for bitter poverty if you can sell stuff to tourists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2022, 01:40:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:03:43 PM
Zelensky coming to Congress with his hand out for more charity.
How many $ billions this time?

What's being done now is not working, his country and his people are slowly but surely being removed from existence by Russia.
He's begging for help.
Maybe a cheaper tactic could be to starve the people of Iran so they rise up and overthrow the govt and then drones being supplied to Russia could cease.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 01:58:54 PM: One of my best friends put together a crew to sell hot dogs and beer to the fans at Angel Stadium, he died a while back, it is sad, I miss him, he was a great guy, and he helped a lot of people. He hired the homeless from homeless shelters, and he hired the people from N/A and they sold hot dogs and beer at Angel Stadium, and they raised over one million dollars for charity to feed the hungry people, they raised money for Canning Hunger. He was a great person. And he was a retired doctor, so he was smart, he was a doctor for the Navy in Pennsylvania, and he was a Combat Medic for the Marine Corps, he was a smart guy. He helped a lot of people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 21, 2022, 03:19:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:07:02 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:03:43 PM
Zelensky coming to Congress with his hand out for more charity.
How many $ billions this time?
What do the modern Pravdae you immerse yourself in tell you, Boris?

I am sure Wagner Red will tell us when the Ukrainian aid package finally exceeds what we routinely give to the Saudis to support their enlightened government that always works to support our interests.

The BS does help him distract himself from the growing likelihood that republicans will not have the votes for any speaker of the house. Word is they are getting ready to make a good will gesture and leave the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 04:13:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 21, 2022, 01:40:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:03:43 PM
Zelensky coming to Congress with his hand out for more charity.
How many $ billions this time?

What's being done now is not working, his country and his people are slowly but surely being removed from existence by Russia.
He's begging for help.
Maybe a cheaper tactic could be to starve the people of Iran so they rise up and overthrow the govt and then drones being supplied to Russia could cease.
We tried that to force them to get rid of nukes. Did not work then will not work now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 04:35:50 PM: The lady who owns In N Out Burger is a BILLIONAIRE from selling hamburgers, and she pays her managers $120,000 per year to run her restaurants for her.

And every new day we get 50,000 more hungry tourists to feed here in Anaheim.

But, it is harder than it seems to even do a little thing like selling food to hungry tourists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 21, 2022, 04:54:08 PM: Their entry wage is what? What kind of rental does that get you if you are trying to live indoors through that work?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 05:24:59 PM: At the casino where I worked in Battle Mountain, we had Bally slot machines, and it was easy money for the casino, and the casino made money from selling the people food and drinks while the people gambled. It was a good place to work, I enjoyed it, and our head chef was a retired chef from Beverly Hills, California, we had great food. It was a good job, but they need to pay the cooks higher wages. I support fair pay for the chefs.

Bally's is a good company to remember if you ever want to open your own casino...

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 05:30:03 PM: The entry pay at In N Out Burger is good, and I have extended family who he is the assistant manager at an In N Out Burger and he owns his own mobile home, in a mobile home park in Southern California, and he owns a new pick-up truck. In N Out is a great place to work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2022, 05:54:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.

Thanks. In spite of a pragmatic parsimony of punctuation, your points were perfectly pellucid.

Also somewhat a conundrum how something can be paywall blocked and clickbait ATST. Here is a screenshot:

https://archive.ph/vFwBE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2022, 05:57:09 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 21, 2022, 01:40:49 PM

Maybe a cheaper tactic could be to starve the people of Iran so they rise up and overthrow the govt...

Does not work for same reason it does not work in Russia or North Korea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2022, 06:05:53 PM: It is 12 below zero, Fahrenheit here. That's the temperature at which nostril hairs freeze and give an odd crackling sensation as you breathe.

Tonight minus 20 predicted with a windchill possibly reaching minus 40. Anyone know what's a special feature of minus 40? ( This will help you at trivia contests )
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 06:19:04 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2022, 05:54:03 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.

Thanks. In spite of a pragmatic parsimony of punctuation, your points were perfectly pellucid.

Also somewhat a conundrum how something can be paywall blocked and clickbait ATST. Here is a screenshot:

https://archive.ph/vFwBE
If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
As for a Frum paywall it is a blessing to not have to read his partisan prattling.
Your insistence in republishing his stupidness reaffirms my initial reaction.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 06:28:36 PM: The Persian Revolution has already started. The Persians have been marching all around the world in support of improved human rights for the women and people of Iran.

One of our allies in the Persian Revolution is Mahlagha Jaberi, who is a Persian influencer on the world wide web. Mahlagha Jaberi came here to California from Iran. Many Persians live in California. We need to turn up the voices of the good Persians such as Mahlagha Jaberi and we need to put her in Playboy, and on Good Morning America, and on every local morning news show in the USA, and we need to make the beautiful Persians who want freedom heard in their struggle for freedom and for improved women's rights, and for improved human rights for all in Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 21, 2022, 06:47:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 06:19:04 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2022, 05:54:03 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.

Thanks. In spite of a pragmatic parsimony of punctuation, your points were perfectly pellucid.

Also somewhat a conundrum how something can be paywall blocked and clickbait ATST. Here is a screenshot:

https://archive.ph/vFwBE
If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
As for a Frum paywall it is a blessing to not have to read his partisan prattling.
Your insistence in republishing his stupidness reaffirms my initial reaction.

As concerned citizens and public officials they have the obligation to report criminal organizations and their ongoing heinous acts of subversion to the proper authorities, which they did.

If more citizens were helpful that way there would be no republican party.

The committee has set us a very good example. It is an important step on the path to getting over conservative politics and giving conservative leaders the incarceration that so many so richly deserve.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 06:19:04 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2022, 05:54:03 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 12:16:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 20, 2022, 08:17:44 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Thankfully a paywall prevents reading another Frum clickbait.

But, to set the record straight:

Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority.( which is to legislate)
And, A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder.
Yes they do no it is not and no it does not.

Thanks. In spite of a pragmatic parsimony of punctuation, your points were perfectly pellucid.

Also somewhat a conundrum how something can be paywall blocked and clickbait ATST. Here is a screenshot:

https://archive.ph/vFwBE
If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 09:10:34 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
LOL. Never change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 09:13:30 PM: I have a friend in Texas who is a retired jet plane mechanic from the Navy, he worked on an aircraft carrier, and now he owns a big beautiful house in Texas. But, today he had a problem, he went to the grocery store and the shelves were empty at his local market.

We need to make sure that Americans have food on the shelves of our stores.

And we can ship stuff up from the ports in Mexico to Americans in Texas and all over the USA.

I just went shopping at my local Vons, they have good prices, but you need to have a Vons Club card, the card will save you a lot of money, if you ever go to Vons be sure to get a Vons Club card. They had corn dogs on sale for half price, and cheese is on sale, and I bought a frozen pizza, and a box of wine, all good prices. The store has a lot of food, and good prices. Of note too, Vons has had Yuban coffee for half price.

The Mexican Market also has good prices on lots of good food, that is the best place to buy chicken. We can send Mexican imports to Texas, and to Kentucky, and to whomever needs food for the shelves of their stores. Here the Mexican Market is the Northgate Gonzalez Market. It is a great Mexican Market with lots of good food at good low prices.

We need to make sure that all of the stores have goods on their shelves.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2022, 09:13:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 06:19:04 PM

As for a Frum paywall it is a blessing to not have to read his partisan prattling.
Your insistence in republishing his stupidness reaffirms my initial reaction.

What you cannot rebut, you can refuse to read. But please, continue your fascinating argument with a URL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 21, 2022, 09:56:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 09:13:30 PM
I have a friend in Texas who is a retired jet plane mechanic from the Navy, he worked on an aircraft carrier, and now he owns a big beautiful house in Texas. But, today he had a problem, he went to the grocery store and the shelves were empty at his local market.

We need to make sure that Americans have food on the shelves of our stores.

And we can ship stuff up from the ports in Mexico to Americans in Texas and all over the USA.

I just went shopping at my local Vons, they have good prices, but you need to have a Vons Club card, the card will save you a lot of money, if you ever go to Vons be sure to get a Vons Club card. They had corn dogs on sale for half price, and cheese is on sale, and I bought a frozen pizza, and a box of wine, all good prices. The store has a lot of food, and good prices. Of note too, Vons has had Yuban coffee for half price.

The Mexican Market also has good prices on lots of good food, that is the best place to buy chicken. We can send Mexican imports to Texas, and to Kentucky, and to whomever needs food for the shelves of their stores. Here the Mexican Market is the Northgate Gonzalez Market. It is a great Mexican Market with lots of good food at good low prices.

We need to make sure that all of the stores have goods on their shelves.

Salute,

Tony V.

Forecast calls for a bomb cyclone this weekend including Texas and Florida,
Shelves are empty because folks are getting prepped
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 10:10:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 09:10:34 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
LOL. Never change.
I deal in facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2022, 10:27:57 PM: It is important to keep goods on the shelves of American stores.

And in Nashville, Tennessee, they have a store for charity where the poor people can shop.

The Store, Love at the Core

https://www.thestore.org

We need to make sure that the Americans have goods on the shelves of American stores, and we can send goods up from the ports in Mexico to the poor people in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 11:41:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 10:10:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 09:10:34 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
LOL. Never change.
I deal in facts.
Except you are a PROVEN LIAR and when not deliberately lying too stupid to recognize you were wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 22, 2022, 02:26:36 AM: Taliban to female uni students in Afghanistan:

"Go home...your university education is over.
Women are now banned from universities."

just shown on my tv.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 22, 2022, 02:40:51 AM: Great news:

Just saw on my tv a new rocket launching system in Qld state..."fits on the back of a ute (pick up truck)... good for wars like in Ukraine".
Good for use on invading troops and tanks etc.
Cool.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 22, 2022, 09:07:10 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 11:41:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 10:10:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 09:10:34 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
LOL. Never change.
I deal in facts.
Except you are a PROVEN LIAR and when not deliberately lying too stupid to recognize you were wrong.
Except I am not wrong. The Constitution is clear.
And you know it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 22, 2022, 10:16:33 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 22, 2022, 09:07:10 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 11:41:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 10:10:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 09:10:34 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2022, 08:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 21, 2022, 07:42:57 PM

If you failed to understand the lack of constitutional authority Congress has been given in this matter then you simply underscore your ignorance.
]There is no Constitutional bar to congress referring possible crimes to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Just ask Steve Bannon. Your insistence to the contrary simply underscores your ignorance.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress(interfering with its legislative duties)
Apples and oranges.
LOL. Never change.
I deal in facts.
Except you are a PROVEN LIAR and when not deliberately lying too stupid to recognize you were wrong.
Except I am not wrong. The Constitution is clear.
And you know it.
Yes you are yes it is yes I do and you do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2022, 12:19:52 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi

4 hours

Tonight is the night of Yalda. Yalda night is the longest night of the year that has been celebrated by Persians around the world for many centuries. A night of love, light and poetry.

To this day Yalda remains as one of the most ancient festive ceremonies that has been celebrated in Iran for centuries since the time of the Persian Empire.

Yalda means rebirth (of the sun), and it is celebrated for the triumph of light over darkness.

For centuries (502 BC the time of Darius), during this night everyone gathered with family and friends, ate delicious food, drank, and sang happy songs all night and listened to stories about old times.

Sadly, Shabe Yalda looks very different this year. We lost so many Iranian people including children who were killed by the Islamic regime in the ongoing revolution in Iran. With freedom fighters being arrested, killed, raped and executed, we take this moment to recognize the lives lost in Iran, the people fighting for freedom and how they need us to be their voice. This is a photo of some of our beloved brothers and sisters ..We will never forget the heroes of our country....

On this special night, let us remember that light ALWAYS overcomes darkness and be hopeful that Iran will soon go back to the amazing country it always was.

May the darkest night of the year lead the way to a bright day, remove oppression and injustice and may all those sacrificed souls blossom again in a new Iran.

#MahsaAmini #YaldaNight
#IranRevolution #WomenLifeFreedom

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We need to support the good people from Iran such as Mahlagha Jaberi in their struggle to improve human rights for the people of Iran, and we need for Mahlagha's voice to be heard.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2022, 02:56:02 PM: World Bank

1 hour

The Health Enhancement and Life-saving (HEAL) #Ukraine Project, with an initial $100 million in new financing guaranteed by Ministerio de Asuntos Economicos y Transformacion Digital & $10 million from the Global Financing Facility (GFF), will to help the country restore access to essential health services, including mental health care.

Learn more: http://wrld.bg/kiv450M8Lrv

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The world has a huge shortage of psychiatrists right now, we need to train new psychiatrists to the best of our ability. San Diego State University is the best when it comes to teaching new psychiatrists, and we need to expand from there. Graduates from San Diego State University can go teach new psychiatrists in Las Vegas, and in Denver, etc, etc, etc, and in Ukraine, etc. We need to train new psychiatrists.

Department of Psychology - San Diego State University

https://psychology.sdsu.edu

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 22, 2022, 10:07:29 PM: So, women in Afghanistan, when they had the chance, didn't arm themselves, form a militia and fight and die to defeat the Taliban...
...but they expect others to go to Afghanistan to fight and die for them?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 26, 2022, 04:35:47 PM: Well, well, well...3 holes in the ground....Youtubians have finally discovered Australia.
Where it is, what it is, how it is.
Couldn't remain a secret forever. lol
This generation of Americans has also discovered the Seekers.
Some tearing up as they react to the Seekers' "I'll Never Find Another You", "World of Our Own"...and "The Carnival is Over"...and are amazed at the beautiful voice of Judith Durham.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 26, 2022, 04:43:19 PM: She had perfect pitch
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 26, 2022, 05:00:37 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 26, 2022, 04:43:19 PM
She had perfect pitch

She certainly did.
She has gone, but her voice lives on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 27, 2022, 10:24:10 PM: The power of organized labor raises all of our standards of living,

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/university-of-california-strike-settlement (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/university-of-california-strike-settlement)

Another sterling example of why anti labor republicans should be pushed off a cliff.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 27, 2022, 11:28:14 PM: Congressman-Elect Santos

I didn not say I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2022, 11:46:35 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 27, 2022, 10:24:10 PM
The power of organized labor raises all of our standards of living,

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/university-of-california-strike-settlement (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/university-of-california-strike-settlement)

Another sterling example of why anti labor republicans should be pushed off a cliff.

Organised labour, like energy, has to be:

1. Available
2. Reliable
3. Affordable

or else it's a menace.

Organised labour and the employers should be ruled by a Fair Work Commission...which considers all applications for wage increases etc by unions and submissions by employers.

Aside:
GM and Ford and Toyota used to make cars in Australia.
Union strikes and wage and conditions granted claims, and the withdrawal of unaffordable govt subsidies eventually saw GM and Ford, and Toyota pack up and leave.

Yes, gotta be careful what one wishes for with union strikes etc...employers can only pay wages etc out of profits- no1 radio host.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 28, 2022, 12:27:34 AM: One never finds you off your back without your belly raised, Bambu. You have managed consistency at least. Participation award for that might be the pinnacle of your achievements.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 28, 2022, 07:31:04 PM: Dum de Dum Dum

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nassau-county-prosecutors-open-investigation-into-rep-elect-george-santos/4018125/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 28, 2022, 09:40:46 PM: Oregon black ice sliding truck...
Yes, buy a nice truck in Oregon, next minute it'll be crashed into and *wrecked* by runaway vehicles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 28, 2022, 10:14:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 28, 2022, 09:40:46 PM
Oregon black ice sliding truck...
Yes, buy a nice truck in Oregon, next minute it'll be crashed into and *wrecked* by runaway vehicles.

Quote from: facilitatorn on December 28, 2022, 12:27:34 AM
One never finds you off your back without your belly raised, Bambu. You have managed consistency at least. Participation award for that might be the pinnacle of your achievements.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 29, 2022, 12:44:41 AM: Another unarmed woman becomes a victim.
The bad people lurking in the shadows got her.
...last light at 11.30pm, as she walked alone on Hunter St in Sydney CBD (central business district), stock exchange etc.
Grabbed by two men and dragged into an alley, sexually assaulted...her horror unimaginable, her life *ruined*, but she's still alive.
No gun, no chance of escape...no hope against two men.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 30, 2022, 10:14:30 AM: Another postcard from late-stage capitalism

https://archive.ph/fX88g
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 10:38:54 AM: About that goal of Net Zero by 2050, the holy grail of John Kerry and the Climate freaks.

A couple of recent reports from the utility industry are, to say the least, extremely skeptical.

In September, the Electric Power Research Institute, the research arm of the U.S. electric utility industry, released a report titled Net-Zero 2050 U.S. Economy Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis.

The EPRI report concludes that the utility industry cannot attain net zero. This study shows that clean electricity plus direct electrification and efficiency . . . are not sufficient by themselves to achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions.
In other words, no amount of wind turbines, solar panels, hydropower, nuclear power, battery power, electrification of fossil fuel technologies or energy efficiency technologies will get us to net zero by 2050.

The other recent report is 2022 Long-Term Reliability Assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a government certified grid reliability and standard-setting group. NERC concluded that fossil-fuel plants are being removed from the grid too fast to meet continuing electricity demand, and that is putting most of the country at risk of grid failure and blackouts during extreme weather.

The U.S. just got another taste of this during the Christmas electric-grid emergency.

So there you have it: We are dangerously dismantling our electric grid while burdening it with more demand in hope of attaining the goal of net zero by 2050, which the utility industry has admitted is a fantasy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 30, 2022, 12:59:43 PM: The Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles by MacArthur Park would be a great place to house the homeless. I took a tour of the Hotel, and it is a cool place. And they have a swimming pool, and a bowling alley, and a dining hall, etc, it is a fantastic old hotel. The hotel has 169 rooms, and you can put 2 beds in each room for the homeless people.

https://tinyurl.com/mvs8wshv

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 01:07:35 PM: News Item
Indianapolis

Adults and children filled the Indianapolis Public Library main branch on Thursday to hear actor, writer, and film producer Kirk Cameron read his recently published children s book, As You Grow.

The library organization initially denied Cameron the opportunity to read the book for its story hour but later allowed the event to happen

A video recording shows a long line of people walking into the building, and photos capture families sitting on the floor and standing against the wall.

This was the largest event held at the library in its 137 years of existence, Zac Bell with BRAVE Books, who is with the book publisher, commented. The turnout was phenomenal! We were blown away.

The Cameron book centers around a tree s growth and teaches children about family, faith, and biblical wisdom.
Cameron and his publisher recently criticized libraries that will not allow a public reading of his book but offer drag queen story hours for children.

However, No more will the family of faith be shut out from the public square!

God bless you and Happy New Year, he said.
The author is scheduled to read his book at Scarsdale New York Library today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on December 30, 2022, 01:56:33 PM: AWESOME. Thanks for the report. Cameron doing great work.
SUPPORT BRAVE BOOKS!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 04:44:28 PM: You seem impressed. That sort of thing has always had a loud, loyal and limited audience. There is a reason Kirk Cameron movies get made. And a reason they have limited boutique releases. Almost the literal definition of preaching to the choir.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 05:17:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 04:44:28 PM
You seem impressed. That sort of thing has always had a loud, loyal and limited audience. There is a reason Kirk Cameron movies get made. And a reason they have limited boutique releases. Almost the literal definition of preaching to the choir.
Then why would a public supported Library refuse to let him have a public reading?

Judging from the overflow packed house that resulted when the Library changed its mind I would say the Choir just got a lot of bigger. 2500 people showed up at the Indianapolis Library.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 30, 2022, 06:25:15 PM: What I wonder about the Left Behind series, in which Cameron starred, is when do they get to the other cheek? Surely the right behind also deserves our consideration.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 06:53:54 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 30, 2022, 06:25:15 PM
What I wonder about the Left Behind series, in which Cameron starred, is when do they get to the other cheek? Surely the right behind also deserves our consideration.
On the other hand no PR is ever more powerful than banning a book or performance.

The know it all Christians of my high school days tried it with Winesburg, Ohio.
The school library ordered 25 more copies of the Sherwood Anderson classic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 30, 2022, 08:29:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 05:17:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 04:44:28 PM
You seem impressed. That sort of thing has always had a loud, loyal and limited audience. There is a reason Kirk Cameron movies get made. And a reason they have limited boutique releases. Almost the literal definition of preaching to the choir.
Then why would a public supported Library refuse to let him have a public reading?

Judging from the overflow packed house that resulted when the Library changed its mind I would say the Choir just got a lot of bigger. 2500 people showed up at the Indianapolis Library.

Shit, those people elected Mike Pence
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 30, 2022, 09:14:37 PM: Happy 76th birthday to Ester Cordet!

https://youtu.be/rIjRDKUw6sU
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 11:09:29 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 06:53:54 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 30, 2022, 06:25:15 PM
What I wonder about the Left Behind series, in which Cameron starred, is when do they get to the other cheek? Surely the right behind also deserves our consideration.
On the other hand no PR is ever more powerful than banning a book or performance.
A tremendous lesson for the right to learn everytime they and you get incensed over trans reading performances or books the discuss sexuality and gender identity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 31, 2022, 12:01:37 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 11:09:29 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 06:53:54 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 30, 2022, 06:25:15 PM
What I wonder about the Left Behind series, in which Cameron starred, is when do they get to the other cheek? Surely the right behind also deserves our consideration.
On the other hand no PR is ever more powerful than banning a book or performance.
A tremendous lesson for the right to learn everytime they and you get incensed over trans reading performances or books the discuss sexuality and gender identity.
2500 hundred people show up to listen to a banned Christian author and you want to lecture them?

Medice, cura te ipsum,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 01:38:42 AM: Mike Pence...very wise man...makes sure he's never alone in the company of a woman who is not his wife.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 07:39:31 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 31, 2022, 12:01:37 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 11:09:29 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 06:53:54 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 30, 2022, 06:25:15 PM
What I wonder about the Left Behind series, in which Cameron starred, is when do they get to the other cheek? Surely the right behind also deserves our consideration.
On the other hand no PR is ever more powerful than banning a book or performance.
A tremendous lesson for the right to learn everytime they and you get incensed over trans reading performances or books the discuss sexuality and gender identity.
2500 hundred people show up to listen to a banned Christian author and you want to lecture them?

Medice, cura te ipsum,
No. And you should learn English before trying Latin. Also, math.

According to the Indianapolis library the number of people attending Camerons homophobic pity party was not.2500 hundred, or.even 2500, but 750. Big enough a crowd you wonder at his need to lie about it. But then, it is the era of Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 07:41:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 01:38:42 AM
Mike Pence...very wise man...makes sure he's never alone in the company of a woman who is not his wife.
But he will meet alone with similarly situated men. I am going to guess you do not comprehend why this is a serious equality issue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 31, 2022, 11:18:32 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 30, 2022, 05:17:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 30, 2022, 04:44:28 PM
You seem impressed. That sort of thing has always had a loud, loyal and limited audience. There is a reason Kirk Cameron movies get made. And a reason they have limited boutique releases. Almost the literal definition of preaching to the choir.
Then why would a public supported Library refuse to let him have a public reading?

Judging from the overflow packed house that resulted when the Library changed its mind I would say the Choir just got a lot of bigger. 2500 people showed up at the Indianapolis Library.

Hold on thar, Tex! Not so fast!

https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/kirk-cameron-exaggerated-record-turnout-at-book-reading-library/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 01:29:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 07:41:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 01:38:42 AM
Mike Pence...very wise man...makes sure he's never alone in the company of a woman who is not his wife.
But he will meet alone with similarly situated men. I am going to guess you do not comprehend why this is a serious equality issue.

Me, I wouldn't be allowing myself to be alone in the company of a man either.
Not a man, not a woman (they seem to be the ones making the most false allegations), and not children of any age.
100% protection.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM: I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 31, 2022, 01:44:10 PM: ...Katrina Spade, the founder of Recompose, a full service green funeral home in Seattle that offers human composting, said it offers an alternative for people wanting to align the disposition of their remains with how they lived their lives...

No more perfect surname was there for a funeral director.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-business-washington-vermont-funerals-and-memorial-services-c4b392bc9433505808c73367b2a2ea9e
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2022, 02:37:46 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 30, 2022, 12:59:43 PM
The Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles by MacArthur Park would be a great place to house the homeless. I took a tour of the Hotel, and it is a cool place. And they have a swimming pool, and a bowling alley, and a dining hall, etc, it is a fantastic old hotel. The hotel has 169 rooms, and you can put 2 beds in each room for the homeless people.

https://tinyurl.com/mvs8wshv

Salute,

Tony V.

I spent some time in that part of Los Angeles, I volunteered to help to pick up trash at MacArthur Park, and I took a tour of the Park Plaza Hotel, it is a good place for the homeless people. They can have concerts with food trucks at MacArthur Park, and the Park Plaza Hotel is fantastic. Right now the Park Plaza Hotel is just sitting empty, they might as well clean the hotel up and make it available for the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 04:02:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
For which human beings are forever thankful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2022, 04:02:44 PM: People will volunteer for free to help the homeless people, there is Kiwanis International which will help the homeless children, etc, and guys like my late friend Chris who used to drive around in a van with a female social worker picking up the homeless people and taking them to shelters where they could get help. And many Christians will help the homeless for free. The same as I volunteered to clean up trash at MacArthur Park for free there are people who will fix up the old hotels and who will help the homeless if given the chance. And many people who are helped can go on to help other people. You do not need to pay people to clean up their community and to help their neighbors, many people will do it for free if given the chance.

And we need to train many new Psychiatrists, San Diego State University is the best at training Psychiatrists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 07:05:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
For which human beings are forever thankful.

You need to be very careful...some human beings are good...but others are pure evil and there's nothing they won't do to get what they want.
Nothing.
They'll lie, even in court.
They'll say you did things to them you didn't do...so they can sue you.
They'll steal everything you have, including all your money...even if it's only $50.
Trust all human beings unconditionally at your own peril.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 31, 2022, 07:38:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.
Apparently they were front and center on Australian tv celebration of the New Year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 09:05:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
For which human beings are forever thankful.

Human beings are out to get you...embrace them all unconditionally at your own peril.

Youtube video:
4 yrs ago (it's much worse today). Today there's a hacker behind *every tree*.

"Celebrity chef homeless after hackers steal $250,000. I A Current Affair Australia"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 10:28:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
For which human beings are forever thankful.

Yours could be the next head on the chopping block of lies:
Youtube videoes

. "Man wrongly accused of rape speaks out one year later."
Denver7- The Denver Channel
. "Exonerated After False Rape Accusation" I Innocence Ignored
VICE
. "Apologies for falsely accusing state trooer of rape"
FOX4 Dallas-Forth Worth
. "Man wrongfully convicted of rape suing state of Michigan".
WXYZ-TV Detroit I Channel 7
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 01, 2023, 10:08:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 10:28:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 2022, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 31, 2022, 02:01:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 31, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
I would sure hate to add hermaphrodites and non-binaries to Bambi's list of phobias.

Mmm, I should amend my "never alone in the company of" list to read "any human beings".
For which human beings are forever thankful.

Yours could be the next head on the chopping block of lies:
Youtube videoes

. "Man wrongly accused of rape speaks out one year later."
Denver7- The Denver Channel
. "Exonerated After False Rape Accusation" I Innocence Ignored
VICE
. "Apologies for falsely accusing state trooer of rape"
FOX4 Dallas-Forth Worth
. "Man wrongfully convicted of rape suing state of Michigan".
WXYZ-TV Detroit I Channel 7

https://youtu.be/bigZ1fmwD-Q

You said rape
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 01, 2023, 12:41:55 PM: I was worried you were linking to something from Yellow Beard.

Happy 2023.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 01, 2023, 03:14:44 PM: Happy New Year everyone, I hope it is a good one.

My wish for California is that we bring back the California Dream.

And for the USA that we bring back the American Dream.

We also have great schools, and we need to do our best to educate our youth.

We also need to make our immigrants legal and we need to write a new immigration law which has a Good Neighbor policy, and our immigrants can help to grow food, and they can help to build housing, etc. We need to create honest jobs for our immigrants such as good jobs at Sunkist, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 01, 2023, 03:27:43 PM: We need to build nice fun housing for our farm workers, with nice services for laundry, etc. With swimming pools, and tennis courts, and with bowling alleys, etc. With 24 hour convenience stores, etc. And with libraries, etc. We also need to teach the farm workers how to speak English, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 01, 2023, 04:48:19 PM: Napa has new housing for farm workers, but much more housing needs to be built...

https://www.countyofnapa.org/467/Housing-Authority

And we need to remember to keep the housing fun, and with swimming pools, and tennis courts, and bowling alleys, etc. And with libraries, and with classes to teach the farm workers how to speak English, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 01, 2023, 05:13:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2022, 02:37:46 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 30, 2022, 12:59:43 PM
The Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles by MacArthur Park would be a great place to house the homeless. I took a tour of the Hotel, and it is a cool place. And they have a swimming pool, and a bowling alley, and a dining hall, etc, it is a fantastic old hotel. The hotel has 169 rooms, and you can put 2 beds in each room for the homeless people.

https://tinyurl.com/mvs8wshv

Salute,

Tony V.

I spent some time in that part of Los Angeles, I volunteered to help to pick up trash at MacArthur Park, and I took a tour of the Park Plaza Hotel, it is a good place for the homeless people. They can have concerts with food trucks at MacArthur Park, and the Park Plaza Hotel is fantastic. Right now the Park Plaza Hotel is just sitting empty, they might as well clean the hotel up and make it available for the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sounds like a great idea.
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Losing 100million of the nation's population, by natural attrition would also be a good idea, by natural attrition, would also be a good idea.

Canada is also flooding itself with immigrants 'for a better life'...in one case a disabled man who's homeless...his 2 children arriving soon, from Poland.
Canadian officials are not good at maths...5 immigrants let in, only 3 houses, 2 more added to the homeless population.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 01, 2023, 05:38:55 PM: People are gathered in Mexico waiting to enter the USA, and many new immigrants will follow. We need to create honest jobs for the immigrants, and we need to build housing. We have the United Farm Workers and other unions for the workers, which can tell the workers where the jobs are, so the workers can just ride a Greyhound bus to where the job is.

The USA has our Statue of Liberty, and we will always have new immigrants arriving, the best that we can do is try to create good new jobs and housing for our new immigrants.

When Hollywood was growing during the Golden years of Hollywood, the people brought the best architects from around the world to build housing in Hollywood. Even the public housing for welfare was designed by a world renowned architect, Hollywood had the best of everything.

Some of the old hotels in Hollywood are fantastic old hotels, and the Park Plaza Hotel is a beautiful old hotel which will be perfect for the homeless people, and they have MacArthur Park, it is a great spot to help the homeless.

Canada needs to remember the movie "Field of Dreams" when it is said "If You Build It Then They Will Come" the immigrants will come, but you need to bring in the great architects and designers and builders to build it, like we did in Hollywood.

We still need to do a lot of building here in the USA and in California, and we need to keep it fun, with the best architects, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 01, 2023, 11:23:05 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 01, 2023, 06:49:45 PM
Tony, You need to get that utopian head of yours out of your ass and get real.

Your advise is stupid, childish and not of any help to anyone, anywhere!

Given what most Americans seem to want today, massive immigration both legal, and illegal (sorry "refugees" and "asylum seekers"/"huddled masses" as per the Statue of Liberty), open borders...Tony's advice and solutions are
quite reasonable...gotta house all the immigrants somewhere, they have to work somewhere or be a burden on taxpayers.

Got any better ideas? because what there are now are not working.
Advice at this site is that anyone who arrives at the border seeking asylum must be let in and their claim assessed, according to the Constitution.
IMO that needs amending.
The majority of Americans voted against Trump's wall, any wall.
So now people are crossing the Mexican border in record numbers.
Tony is putting forward his ideas of practical solutions to deal with homelessness and massive immigration.
IMO his ideas are not childish, not stupid, and would help many people if adopted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 02, 2023, 02:12:30 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 01, 2023, 05:13:59 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2022, 02:37:46 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 30, 2022, 12:59:43 PM
The Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles by MacArthur Park would be a great place to house the homeless. I took a tour of the Hotel, and it is a cool place. And they have a swimming pool, and a bowling alley, and a dining hall, etc, it is a fantastic old hotel. The hotel has 169 rooms, and you can put 2 beds in each room for the homeless people.

https://tinyurl.com/mvs8wshv

Salute,

Tony V.

I spent some time in that part of Los Angeles, I volunteered to help to pick up trash at MacArthur Park, and I took a tour of the Park Plaza Hotel, it is a good place for the homeless people. They can have concerts with food trucks at MacArthur Park, and the Park Plaza Hotel is fantastic. Right now the Park Plaza Hotel is just sitting empty, they might as well clean the hotel up and make it available for the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sounds like a great idea.
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Losing 100million of the nation's population, by natural attrition would also be a good idea, by natural attrition, would also be a good idea.

That is why we give old white men guns and fentanyl. They are always the least missed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 02, 2023, 01:25:38 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/01/02/what-i-learned-from-years-in-the-internets-dark-corners-we-need-real-connections_partner/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/01/02/what-i-learned-from-years-in-the-internets-dark-corners-we-need-real-connections_partner/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 02, 2023, 01:36:52 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kyrsten-sinema-senate-independent-party-switch/672583/

More independents needed? Makes a case for it.

Tutu optional.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 02, 2023, 02:53:14 PM: Thanks Bambu, you are a good man.

And I am trying my best to give ideas from the perspective of an American who has been here from the beginning, my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians. And I lived at the top here in California in Malibu for one year, it was great, I lived with all of the rich and famous people, and I even had Sammy Hagar in my living room one night, Sammy was friends with the lady who owned the beach house where I rented a room.

Right now my favorite acting teacher is in New York City, and she just watched a former student of hers perform on Broadway in "Some Like it Hot." It is awesome that students who trained here in Southern California get to perform on Broadway, And it is so nice for my teacher that everywhere she goes she sees plays and movies with her former students. She taught at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at California State University Fullerton.

Thanks for your good words Bambu, and I will keep sharing my ideas, and I will keep trying to help people however I can.

And I still plan to get my movie script made, and my poetry book published, and I will write more.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 02, 2023, 03:53:22 PM: I had ancestors in Kentucky over 200 years ago, those people are my people. My ancestors lived in Carrollton, Kentucky. So when we talk about the poor people in Kentucky, those are my people, just my family kept moving West to California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 02, 2023, 04:17:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 02, 2023, 01:36:52 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kyrsten-sinema-senate-independent-party-switch/672583/

More independents needed? Makes a case for it.

Tutu optional.

Sure. Just buy more Senators with the same money from the billionaire donor class. Independents goes to the highest bidders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 02, 2023, 09:19:50 PM: DK what would happen. But weakening the present partisan system could weaken or diffuse the power of the megadonors. What if more Independents meant more Bernies? (We'd need campaign finance reform, for starters)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 02, 2023, 09:23:16 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 02, 2023, 02:53:14 PM
Thanks Bambu, you are a good man.

And I am trying my best to give ideas from the perspective of an American who has been here from the beginning, my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians....

Now you're saying you have Native American ancestry? Which ancestors and how did they inform your perspective? What was their tribal affiliation?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2023, 10:13:28 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 02, 2023, 02:53:14 PM
Thanks Bambu, you are a good man.

And I am trying my best to give ideas from the perspective of an American who has been here from the beginning, my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians. And I lived at the top here in California in Malibu for one year, it was great, I lived with all of the rich and famous people, and I even had Sammy Hagar in my living room one night, Sammy was friends with the lady who owned the beach house where I rented a room.

Right now my favorite acting teacher is in New York City, and she just watched a former student of hers perform on Broadway in "Some Like it Hot." It is awesome that students who trained here in Southern California get to perform on Broadway, And it is so nice for my teacher that everywhere she goes she sees plays and movies with her former students. She taught at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at California State University Fullerton.

Thanks for your good words Bambu, and I will keep sharing my ideas, and I will keep trying to help people however I can.

And I still plan to get my movie script made, and my poetry book published, and I will write more.

Salute,

Tony V.

I don't always agree with all of your ideas, but you are working for good, not evil.
Trying to help the poor, homeless, disabled, disadvantaged, discriminated against is a noble pursuit.
You deserve a medal, not abuse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2023, 10:32:14 PM: Hitler wore a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Hitler.

Putin wears a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Putin.

Ban neck ties!

At least men [and women] should stop wearing them.

Neck ties are the most useless pieces of *clothing* every invented.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 02, 2023, 11:18:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2023, 10:32:14 PM
Hitler wore a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Hitler.

Putin wears a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Putin.

Ban neck ties!

At least men [and women] should stop wearing them.

Neck ties are the most useless pieces of *clothing* every invented.

The Power Tie as phallic enhancement symbol

(https://www.chicagotribune.com/resizer/_7jy56zKDvIEPmss6niQs-D35Ew=/800x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/H7DS2RZSFRDIDB5Q7QE6TURHCM.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 03, 2023, 06:49:41 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 02, 2023, 11:18:17 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2023, 10:32:14 PM
Hitler wore a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Hitler.

Putin wears a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Putin.

Ban neck ties!

At least men [and women] should stop wearing them.

Neck ties are the most useless pieces of *clothing* every invented.

The Power Tie as phallic enhancement symbol

(https://www.chicagotribune.com/resizer/_7jy56zKDvIEPmss6niQs-D35Ew=/800x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/H7DS2RZSFRDIDB5Q7QE6TURHCM.jpg)

Take a look at the three of them, and how ridiculous the three pieces of material tied around their necks and hanging down look.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 03, 2023, 01:01:32 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 02, 2023, 09:23:16 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 02, 2023, 02:53:14 PM
Thanks Bambu, you are a good man.

And I am trying my best to give ideas from the perspective of an American who has been here from the beginning, my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians....

Now you're saying you have Native American ancestry? Which ancestors and how did they inform your perspective? What was their tribal affiliation?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 03, 2023, 02:13:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 03, 2023, 06:49:41 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 02, 2023, 11:18:17 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2023, 10:32:14 PM
Hitler wore a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Hitler.

Putin wears a neck tie.
Who wants to be like Putin.

Ban neck ties!

At least men [and women] should stop wearing them.

Neck ties are the most useless pieces of *clothing* every invented.

The Power Tie as phallic enhancement symbol

(https://www.chicagotribune.com/resizer/_7jy56zKDvIEPmss6niQs-D35Ew=/800x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/H7DS2RZSFRDIDB5Q7QE6TURHCM.jpg)

Take a look at the three of them, and how ridiculous the three pieces of material tied around their necks and hanging down look.

They are soulless morons. It shows on their ridiculous faces and primitive predatory postures. It does not matter what they wear. The only way to improve those pigs with lipstick is to drown them in it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 02:26:37 PM: I am part Cherokee, and part Choctaw, according to my Mother, my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians, I am very much American, including having Native American Indian ancestors. Eventually I will do the DNA test with Ancestry.com.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 02:28:19 PM: With this new year I want to find a girlfriend and I want to make some money. I do not want to grow old poor and alone. I want to find a good woman, and I want to make some good money.

I want to publish my poetry book, and I want to get my movie script made into a movie, and I want to find a good girlfriend who shares my same interests and who wants to do the same things that I want to do.

The best place to meet new people is at Chapman film school, I need to go there and check the place out, and I need to get involved with activities at the film school. And I can find a good woman who wants to write and produce television shows and movies with me. It would also be good to find a woman who wants to own and operate a night club in Rome with me, etc, and maybe buy a winery in Tuscany, etc. And I can act in student films at the film school, etc, and we will see if I am able to do any acting.

Also, we have Fullerton community college close to where I live, and the community college is going to have a French film festival in March, so I will go to the French film festival and I can meet new people there who are into cinema.

We have great schools here, and the schools are a great place to meet new people. That is my best chance to meet new people this new year is to go to Chapman film school to activities there, and also to the Fullerton community college to activities there.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 02:54:50 PM: In the USA we believe that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

No man is any more of a man than any other man, all men are created equal.

No man is entitled to special benefits based on race in my opinion, every race needs to be equal in America.

So, if I do a dna test, then it does not matter what the results are, I will still be the same man, and I will still have equal rights just like everyone else.

It will not change who I am when I do my dna test and when my test proves that I have Native American Indian ancestors in my family tree, I will still be the same man who I am now, and I will still have equal human rights with all Americans.

And you do not have to be Indigenous to open a casino, in Nevada we can all open casinos, anyone could open a casino in Nevada, it is just all about money and connections. The White men can open casinos in Nevada, just as easily as anyone else.

My human rights will not change when I do my dna test for Ancestry.com.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 03:22:59 PM: I have always felt that I have the same good human rights as all other men in the USA, no one has better human rights than any other man, we are all equal.

When I worked at Universal Studios some of the people who I worked with wanted for me to buy the studio someday, and I felt like they were training me to be a future owner of Universal Studios, I ate lunch with Lew Wasserman, etc, and I felt like they were teaching me the whole time that I worked at Universal.

I feel like I have the same right to own a movie studio here in the USA as anyone else. So, when my fellow employees were telling me to own the studio someday, I actually considered the idea. And you never know, I might buy Universal someday.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 03, 2023, 05:28:24 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 02:28:19 PM
With this new year I want to find a girlfriend and I want to make some money. I do not want to grow old poor and alone. I want to find a good woman, and I want to make some good money.

I want to publish my poetry book, and I want to get my movie script made into a movie, and I want to find a good girlfriend who shares my same interests and who wants to do the same things that I want to do.

The best place to meet new people is at Chapman film school, I need to go there and check the place out, and I need to get involved with activities at the film school. And I can find a good woman who wants to write and produce television shows and movies with me. It would also be good to find a woman who wants to own and operate a night club in Rome with me, etc, and maybe buy a winery in Tuscany, etc. And I can act in student films at the film school, etc, and we will see if I am able to do any acting.

Also, we have Fullerton community college close to where I live, and the community college is going to have a French film festival in March, so I will go to the French film festival and I can meet new people there who are into cinema.

We have great schools here, and the schools are a great place to meet new people. That is my best chance to meet new people this new year is to go to Chapman film school to activities there, and also to the Fullerton community college to activities there.

Salute,

Tony V.

Haven't been able to find love yet?
Re-invent yourself, *everybody* else is.
Circulate...
Mingle more...
Poetry club?
Social clubs?
Climate change protest groups?

Be charming, polite always, well-groomed always, happy always, a perfect gentleman always.
There will always be women looking for a "nice man".
A non-smoking, non-drinking(or not drinking much) man.

Not rich?
Don't drive a Ferrari?
No worries, 'gold-diggers' are not genuine.
Online dating is popular...post an up to date, genuine photo of yourself.
Not too much info, just the basics.
"Good man seeks relationship with nice woman".
"Likes movies, walks on beach, cooking (can't cook, learn how), music, etc.
Nothing weird.
Only meet for coffee on first date.
Some young women on Youtube say they go on dates "for free food".
Don't talk too much, let the woman do the talking..and listen intently....women like to talk.
Put your phone way.
If the woman leaves after a short time, or goes to the bathroom and disappears, no worries...you're only out a cup of coffee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 03, 2023, 05:33:56 PM: REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY,

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 03, 2023, 06:35:57 PM: It is because they so badly misuse and misunderstand neck ties.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 09:57:28 PM: The story of Universal is a great American success story, Carl Laemmle came from Bavaria, Germany, to the USA, and he first started with a five and dime in Chicago, which became successful with nickelodian movies, so Laemmle came to Hollywood to make movies for his nickelodian movie machines. Universal became a huge success story. And they made a lot of money from monster movies, and from westerns.

When I worked at Universal, we had Lew Wasserman as our boss, and we had Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg who were there making movies. I watched Ron Howard as he made "Apollo 13" on the Universal lot.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 10:02:21 PM: Thanks Bambu, I will find a wife, I just need to get out and meet her. Beautiful women come to Hollywood from all over the world to make movies, I just need to go meet the women, the film school, and the community college, are both good places to meet women. The schools are great places to meet the women. And for sure I will meet women at the French film festival, etc. I just need to get out of my apartment and I need to go to where the women are at. The women are at the schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2023, 11:33:05 PM: If Universal wants to make some money quickly, on a low budget, then they can do the Slocum Westerns...

https://tinyurl.com/bp8k7vvt

And they can make a mini series of "The Count of Monte Cristo."

And they can do some Shakespeare, including making "King Lear" with Robert DeNiro.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on January 04, 2023, 01:59:36 PM: TRUMP IS BACK! Making calls on behalf of McCarthy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on January 04, 2023, 02:05:29 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 03, 2023, 05:33:56 PM
REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY,

heh

Looking for fisticuffs, like in Parliament.

Uppercut by Mace!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 05:17:56 PM: I just watched a news segment on television about a new program in Long Beach that brings in little girls from the Girl Scouts to read books to the stray dogs and cats at the animal shelter. It was a very cool news segment which shows the good side of humanity, where we love even the stray animals in the shelters.

Children are natural at loving, and that is the side of humanity which we need to nurture. And the Cub Scouts, and the Girl Scouts, and Youth For Christ, etc, and other groups which get the children to do service out of love for other people, are very important. We need to have a warm and loving society where we care about each other and where we love each other. And if we love each other, then the whole world will get better.

We are not going to win the hearts and minds of people with just soldiers and police and prison guards, etc, but a child reading a book to a little old lady at a nursing home WILL win the hearts and minds of people. Being civilized is about loving each other and about helping each other, and about having a community.

And you can win the hearts and minds of people with loving movies like "It's A Wonderful Life" and other good movies like that. Frank Capra was an expert at winning the hearts and minds of the American public.

We need to stop the gang violence, and the illegal drug dealing, and we also need to help the homeless, etc, and we need for people to be more loving and caring, instead of promoting the violence.

And we lost in Afghanistan because we failed to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, you cannot win the hearts and minds of people with guns and soldiers. The teachers, and the poets, and the filmmakers, and the clubs such as the Cub Scouts, can win the hearts and minds of the people, along with the Christians and the missionaries, etc.

Of note, rich guys like Rick Caruso can help the homeless without being in politics, he can help communities to improve with his vast resources.

And Churches such as the 7th Day Adventists, and Mormons, and Catholics, and Jews, and Baptists, etc, etc, etc, can win the hearts and minds of people by helping the poor and the needy and the homeless and by helping the senior citizens, etc. You can win the hearts and minds of people by helping to house the homeless, and by feeding the poor, and by children reading books to the senior citizens in the nursing homes, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 06:06:13 PM: Here is a video of Sammy Hagar doing a song with some girls from Afghanistan...

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sammy-hagar-fly-like-an-eagle/

That is how one can win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan. Sammy is winning hearts and minds with his guitar and a song.

Dolly Parton can win hearts and minds, the world loves Dolly Parton. What if Dolly did a song of hope and freedom for the people of Afghanistan? Dolly can win the hearts and minds more than a soldier and a gun could ever do.

Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley, they were great at winning hearts and minds. American music helped to win the Cold War, and American music can still serve the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 04, 2023, 06:55:51 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 05:17:56 PM
I just watched a news segment on television about a new program in Long Beach that brings in little girls from the Girl Scouts to read books to the stray dogs and cats at the animal shelter. It was a very cool news segment which shows the good side of humanity, where we love even the stray animals in the shelters.

Children are natural at loving, and that is the side of humanity which we need to nurture. And the Cub Scouts, and the Girl Scouts, and Youth For Christ, etc, and other groups which get the children to do service out of love for other people, are very important. We need to have a warm and loving society where we care about each other and where we love each other. And if we love each other, then the whole world will get better.

We are not going to win the hearts and minds of people with just soldiers and police and prison guards, etc, but a child reading a book to a little old lady at a nursing home WILL win the hearts and minds of people. Being civilized is about loving each other and about helping each other, and about having a community.

And you can win the hearts and minds of people with loving movies like "It's A Wonderful Life" and other good movies like that. Frank Capra was an expert at winning the hearts and minds of the American public.

We need to stop the gang violence, and the illegal drug dealing, and we also need to help the homeless, etc, and we need for people to be more loving and caring, instead of promoting the violence.

And we lost in Afghanistan because we failed to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, you cannot win the hearts and minds of people with guns and soldiers. The teachers, and the poets, and the filmmakers, and the clubs such as the Cub Scouts, can win the hearts and minds of the people, along with the Christians and the missionaries, etc.

Of note, rich guys like Rick Caruso can help the homeless without being in politics, he can help communities to improve with his vast resources.

And Churches such as the 7th Day Adventists, and Mormons, and Catholics, and Jews, and Baptists, etc, etc, etc, can win the hearts and minds of people by helping the poor and the needy and the homeless and by helping the senior citizens, etc. You can win the hearts and minds of people by helping to house the homeless, and by feeding the poor, and by children reading books to the senior citizens in the nursing homes, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

No one can beat the the Afghans...all shown in Rambo 3.
Not Gengis Khan, not Britain, not Russia, not US-led Coalition Of the Willing.
US/COW kinda won, got bin Laden and all his computers and files.
Aussie troops were sent to Afghanistan to fight and kill the enemy. They did so, now some in high places wanna charge some of them with war crimes and want to strip *all* of them of their Service medals.
Good luck trying to get anyone to go next time.

Some were sent on a night raid. They copped serious fire from a house. They fired back very seriously, killed *all* inside...including women and children, from memory.
Some boss in Army back home intended to charge them with murder.
No 1 radio host found out and went off his brain about it. His vast Conservative audience did the same.
No charges were laid. And rightly so.

Sad that No 1 radio host has retired...things are very different now without him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 04, 2023, 08:58:12 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on January 04, 2023, 01:59:36 PM
TRUMP IS BACK! Making calls on behalf of McCarthy.

Great results, huh?

Trump is over
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 09:00:22 PM: Yes, Bambu, it was important to remove the bad guys and to kill Bin Laden and to kill Saddam Hussein, we succeeded with that. But, we should have sent in missionaries and teachers to help to transform Afghanistan, and Iraq. And along with soldiers, Australia should have sent Olivia Newton John and Abba, and other beautiful performers to sing songs of freedom and hope and love and charity to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. And we should have sent Dolly Parton to sing, and Garth Brooks, and Sammy Hagar, and other great stars, to sing songs of freedom and hope to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The soldiers can remove the bad guys but they cannot sing songs of love and freedom to the people like Dolly Parton can.

We can still win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, and of Iraq, and also we can win over the hearts and minds of the people of Iran.

The revolution has already started in Iran, and Mahlagha Jaberi and others are leading the way to a free Iran with good human rights.

I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese general, and I did not win her over as my friend by being mean to her, I was open and honest with her, and we treated each other with respect, and we were roommates for a whole year in Malibu. I won her heart and mind by just being open and honest with her, and she loves Malibu.

We can still send stars to help to win hearts and minds. And we need to be open and honest with the people, and we need mutual respect.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 09:27:20 PM: Right now the Arabs are all star-struck, they have wealthy places such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and the stars are doing concerts, and they are playing Golf, etc, in those places and the Arabs are spending huge amounts of money to bring the stars to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. We need to use this turn of events to our favor to win the hearts and minds of the Arabs, and to also win the hearts and minds of the Afghans, Persians, and also the people of Iraq. And it would be great if we could be involved with their entertainment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 04, 2023, 09:47:35 PM: Is there any way to staunch the flow of explosive diarrhea? Asking for a friend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 10:44:12 PM: Here is my student film from USC, I made it with a film student from Turkey, Bekir Serdar Cakir. I thought that I was working for free, but he sent me a check with my copy of our film. So, this was my first paid acting job. They say that you are not really an actor until you are paid to act, and this was the first time that I was paid to act. We had a lot of fun. He entered our film in a contest, and the winner got to be an assistant for Spielberg, but our film did not win the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2wBMgs-lQ

Bekir was from Turkey, and he wanted to open a movie studio in Turkey to make movies and television shows for the Arabs, and Bekir wanted to let me help to create movies for the Arabs. And Bekir was all about PEACE and he wanted to make movies with Spielberg.

If we have the opportunity to be involved with the growth of the entertainment industry for the Arabs then we can do great things, the opportunity to use the arts as a tool of peace never ends. We can enlighten, and we can lead people towards our own perceived meaning of life, and for me the meaning of life is love, so that is what I convey with my art, love. Love is what it is all about, so if you put me in charge of the entertainment industry then everything is going to be about love.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM: On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 05, 2023, 02:21:25 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 04, 2023, 09:47:35 PM
Is there any way to staunch the flow of explosive diarrhea? Asking for a friend.

I wonder if it is not better out than in. I try to look past it mostly without stepping too much in it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:21:53 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 04, 2023, 09:00:22 PM
Yes, Bambu, it was important to remove the bad guys and to kill Bin Laden and to kill Saddam Hussein, we succeeded with that. But, we should have sent in missionaries and teachers to help to transform Afghanistan, and Iraq. And along with soldiers, Australia should have sent Olivia Newton John and Abba, and other beautiful performers to sing songs of freedom and hope and love and charity to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. And we should have sent Dolly Parton to sing, and Garth Brooks, and Sammy Hagar, and other great stars, to sing songs of freedom and hope to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The soldiers can remove the bad guys but they cannot sing songs of love and freedom to the people like Dolly Parton can.

We can still win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, and of Iraq, and also we can win over the hearts and minds of the people of Iran.

The revolution has already started in Iran, and Mahlagha Jaberi and others are leading the way to a free Iran with good human rights.

I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese general, and I did not win her over as my friend by being mean to her, I was open and honest with her, and we treated each other with respect, and we were roommates for a whole year in Malibu. I won her heart and mind by just being open and honest with her, and she loves Malibu.

We can still send stars to help to win hearts and minds. And we need to be open and honest with the people, and we need mutual respect.

Salute,

Tony V.

Don't think the Taliban do songs of freedom.
The only music they seem to like is the sound of exploding IEDs.
Trouble in Afghanistan was/is that 85% of the place was Taliban-held.
One Afghan guy said: "The People (majority) ARE the Taliban!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 05, 2023, 01:32:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Australian dollars are worthless. You are effectively getting your chicken for free, you shameless mooch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:52:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 05, 2023, 01:32:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Australian dollars are worthless. You are effectively getting your chicken for free, you shameless mooch.

The fed govt pays me the age pension in the "worthless dollars" you speak of.
They're only 'worthless' if I leave the country.

The homeless, if over 65, can get the age oension, plus rent assistance etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 05:01:24 PM: For $6.99 per pound I can get beef Ribeye steaks at Stater Brothers, which are great to barbecue with friends, Stater Brothers has the best deals around on beef. They also have New York strip steaks, and T Bone steaks, etc, with the Ribeye steaks, but I like the Ribeye steaks the best.

Bambu, you are paying way too much for chicken, Australia needs to allow in some immigrants from the Philippines and let the Filipinos help Australia to grow and raise food. You need for food to be cheap and abundant, like here in California. Our secret is that the immigrants come here from all over the world, including from the Philippines, and the immigrants help to grow and raise food here.

We also have lots of stores, and the stores compete against each other so that helps to bring the prices down. And the stores and restaurants send us coupons to attract us to their stores and restaurants. If you shop for bargains, and if you use coupons, then you can save money.

Also, maybe you can lower food prices in Australia by expanding trade with Colombia and with the rest of South America, and Colombia is where the best coffee comes from.

I hope your food prices come down, it is important to have good food to eat. The prices rose here, but then the prices came back down because of competition, etc, and thanks to products from Mexico, etc. We also produce local food, we have avocados and oranges and grapes and onions, and garlic, and everything else growing in California, and California makes cheese, etc. And Nevada raises lots of beef. We also have the Pacific Ocean for seafood.

Of note, Gordon Smith of Oregon is a billionaire from selling frozen vegetables, people from all over the world picked vegetables for Gordon Smith and they made him rich, while he provided frozen vegetables for people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 05, 2023, 05:09:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Buy a whole chicken and cut your own filets
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2023, 05:19:56 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 05, 2023, 05:09:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Buy a whole chicken and cut your own filets
Or better yet, thighs. Much better taste, and cheaper.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 05:51:11 PM: I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2023, 05:56:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 05:51:11 PM
I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
Why do I envision bambu wearing nothing but a red silk bathrobe yelling "Ma! Meatloaf!"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 05, 2023, 06:20:23 PM: "Funerals are nature's greatest aphrodisiac."

I see single Bambu buying precooked pasta spooning sauce onto it then puzzling why the parmesan cheese won't come out of the canister.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 05, 2023, 07:01:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2023, 05:19:56 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 05, 2023, 05:09:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 01:34:53 AM
On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Buy a whole chicken and cut your own filets
Or better yet, thighs. Much better taste, and cheaper.

But he wanted breasts, right?

Thighs are better (I personally prefer them)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 07:18:05 PM: My Mother forced me to learn to cook at a young age, she was a single widow after my father died, and she used to work all of the time to pay the bills on our house and to buy food, so I had to cook. We ate lots of easy to cook stuff like potatoes, and eggs, and pancakes, and sandwiches, and tacos, and burritos, and spaghetti, etc, etc. And of course I cooked chicken in a variety of ways. Then, I worked in the kitchen at a YMCA summer camp, and I started as a dishwasher and I helped to cook, etc. Then, I ended up as a cook at a casino in Nevada, for 2 years I was a great cook and people paid a lot of money to eat food that I cooked. So my Mother made sure that I can cook, and then I ended up supporting myself with a job as a cook.

And someday if I want to open a night club in Rome, then I can cook for my customers, we can serve food at my club.

Meanwhile I am grateful to be able to cook and to be able to eat cheaply.

For Bambu there is always canned soup.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 07:58:37 PM: Here in Anaheim sometimes some communities have free cooking classes at their community clubhouses. Some apartment complexes here have community centers and club houses where they have free cooking classes for the people of the community. I support free cooking classes here in Anaheim, it is a great idea to help the people. And they can do French cooking one week, and Italian cooking another week, and Mexican food another week, etc.

As a child I even learned how to cook wild rabbit over a camp fire like the Cowboys. We ate lots of wild rabbit and beans at that time. Now you could make a fortune selling wild rabbit and beans to people at the casinos in Nevada, they love that kind of food now at the casinos, and they like buffalo meat, and venison, and wild trout, etc, etc, etc. And every restaurant wants to serve something great that the other casinos do not serve.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2023, 09:41:14 PM: During the Great Depression many people suffered from vitamin and mineral deficiencies, so the United States Food and Drug Administration made the bread companies put the necessary vitamins and minerals into the bread.

If all that you had for lunch was an Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich made with Wonder Bread, then you were guaranteed to receive enough vitamins and minerals to survive.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/vitamin-b3-niacin/why-flour-products-enriched-niacin

We need to remember our lessons, and we need to make sure that the food that we eat will sustain us in a healthy way. We need to add vitamins and minerals to frozen pizza, etc. And we need to continue to make sure that a sandwich is healthy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM: Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 03:25:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM
Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:01:49 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 03:25:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM
Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 06, 2023, 06:19:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:01:49 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 03:25:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM
Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
Who cares? On the evidence of this forum no one from Australia is literate. No need for paper.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:36:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2023, 05:56:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2023, 05:51:11 PM
I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
Why do I envision bambu wearing nothing but a red silk bathrobe yelling "Ma! Meatloaf!"?

Red silk bathrobe lol.
Wife makes a mean meatloaf. :)

Born a year after WW2, I've always had a mother or wife who does the cooking.
In high school they taught girls to cook and boys to do woodwork and metalwork instead.
Bad idea, boys left school not knowing how to cook.
I moved from family home to marital home (via a small granny flat in family home's backyard for several years. Rent free was a blessing, able to make extra repayments on the marital home block of land.
Very small galley kitchen...just big enough for a camping stove, electric kettle and sink.
We mostly lived on "chops, chips and peas' at home...lunches from sandwich shops near workplaces.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:42:30 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 06, 2023, 06:19:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:01:49 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 03:25:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM
Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
Who cares? On the evidence of this forum no one from Australia is literate. No need for paper.

lol
If you can read the newspaper you're literate.
You're getting confused with 'tertiary education'.

America was supposed to become self-sufficient too, according to the politicians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:55:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 05, 2023, 06:20:23 PM
"Funerals are nature's greatest aphrodisiac."

I see single Bambu buying precooked pasta spooning sauce onto it then puzzling why the parmesan cheese won't come out of the canister.

lol
Don't like pasta, parmesan cheese, or any other Italian food except pizza.
Don't like noodles, spicy food of any type, coffee, tea...there's a long list of foods I don't like.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 08:07:14 PM: Bambu, when you come to California then you will be on the border with Mexico, so I recommend eating tacos and burritos and drinking margaritas at the local Bodegas.

And our local Guadalajara Restaurant is wonderful.

And when you teach your poor people how to cook, then be sure to teach them Mexican Food.

In the heat of the summer, with Frank Sinatra music playing at night, with a margarita, and tacos, you are living California style. And then we have women who come to Hollywood from all over the world to be stars.

In my neighborhood Bambu, you can eat tacos and drink margaritas with the neighborhood.

My Grandfather did not know how to cook, my Grandmother cooked for my Grandfather and he never learned how to cook. A lot of Cowboys never learn how to cook.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 06, 2023, 08:08:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 06:55:07 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 05, 2023, 06:20:23 PM
"Funerals are nature's greatest aphrodisiac."

I see single Bambu buying precooked pasta spooning sauce onto it then puzzling why the parmesan cheese won't come out of the canister.

lol
Don't like pasta, parmesan cheese, or any other Italian food except pizza.
Don't like noodles, spicy food of any type, coffee, tea...there's a long list of foods I don't like.

How did I just know this?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 06, 2023, 09:45:08 PM: Hahaha!

Pasta, al dente, EV olive oil, mushrooms, grated parmesan, Newman's Own, a few chickpeas and a shot of wine and a thimble of clarified butter = heaven.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2023, 10:18:49 PM: Frozen crumbed chicken breast pieces, ...by the best chicken co, in packet from supermarket, ...cooked in air fryer, gravy or ketchup, plus can of 'Coke No Sugar'...heaven.

Frozen battered or crumbed fish fillets...ditto....lemon instead of gravy.
Frozen beef meat pies, defrosted in microwave, then 'cooked' in air fryer...tomato sauce (ketchup), can of coke, yum.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 12:16:23 PM: What I learnt from YouTube today:

Brazil is a massive country.
It's population is 6th largest in the world, larger than Russia and Nigeria.....at 215 million.
It's land area is comparable to the size of mainland USA.
It takes up almost half of the entire South American continent.
It's northern most point is closer to Canada than it is to Brazil's southern most point.
It's Eastern most point is closer to the African continent than it is to its western most point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 02:21:52 PM: I have a friend on Facebook who I met way back on the New York Times forums who is a doctor in Brazil, when I met her she was a student, and we hung out on the South America forum on the New York Times. Now she has been a doctor for 20 years in Brazil. Covid scared her bad, she was an emergency room doctor during Covid, she was right on the front lines, she was so scared, she thought she was going to die. The whole Corona crisis scared her bad. She has had a hard life, they made her a doctor who has to deal with people with Cancer, and AIDS, and then she had to deal with the Corona crisis. Fortunately she has seen improvements in medicine and more Cancer patients are surviving, and we have come a long way on the treatment of AIDS and the AIDS patients can survive now. And thanks to Dolly Parton and others we have made progress in the battle against the Corona crisis. And my friend in Brazil goes into the ghettos and she treats the poor people in Brazil.

On the New York Times forums I spent a lot of time trying to improve relations between Latin America and the USA. And President George W. Bush wanted to expand trade from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Chile. W. noted that we have some of the poorest people in the world right here in our own back yard in Latin America. W. traveled all over Latin America and tried to expand trade between the USA and Latin America.

We need to make our immigrants legal, we need to create a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor policy, and we need to expand trade between the USA and Latin America. We can also invest in the ports in Mexico, and we can send cheap goods from Mexico to the poor people of Kentucky, etc, using Mexican truck drivers, etc. And while we build schools in Kentucky, and while we educate and train the people of Kentucky for the jobs of the future, we can send the poor people of Kentucky cheap food and cheap goods from Mexico with Mexican truck drivers. We also need to build more trains, etc, to transport goods, etc.

I also support the United Farm Workers, and workers from Latin America are welcome to work in California with the United Farm Workers to help to grow and raise food, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 03:34:55 PM: Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is a good safe place for refugees to go live...

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

And also Acapulco, in Mexico, is a good safe place for the refugees.

Rio, and Acapulco, are both Christian cities, with charitable services to help the refugees.

We have a record number of world-wide refugees right now, from Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iran, and from other areas, and Rio and Acapulco can be on the list of good safe cities for the refugees to go live. We also have the people such as the people from the Philippines and from China who come to the West to do business and to work and for honest opportunities. One third of our population here in California are immigrants who were born in other nations. The people cannot all come to California, New York, Nevada, and to Florida, there has to be other places for the people to go, such as to Rio, and to Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 07, 2023, 03:49:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 12:16:23 PM
What I learnt ... todau.
Thaat your taste in food is worse than your politics. If such a thing is possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 06:49:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 03:34:55 PM
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is a good safe place for refugees to go live...

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

And also Acapulco, in Mexico, is a good safe place for the refugees.

Rio, and Acapulco, are both Christian cities, with charitable services to help the refugees.

We have a record number of world-wide refugees right now, from Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iran, and from other areas, and Rio and Acapulco can be on the list of good safe cities for the refugees to go live. We also have the people such as the people from the Philippines and from China who come to the West to do business and to work and for honest opportunities. One third of our population here in California are immigrants who were born in other nations. The people cannot all come to California, New York, Nevada, and to Florida, there has to be other places for the people to go, such as to Rio, and to Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, everyone in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, South America etc can't just up and move to America as refugees, immigrants.
Only people who would make America greater should be allowed in.
Things to be wary of with "refugees/immigrants" these days are that you don't allow your country to be turned into some of the basket case countries said "refugees/immigrants" originate from...you don't import "culture change", you don't import terrorists or their sympathisers, and you don't import people who would be a long term drain on the welfare system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 06:51:22 PM: Bambu, the best British style Fish and Chips that I ever had was at Long John Silver's in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

https://www.ljsilvers.com/

They use locally caught seafood at all of their restaurants, and they serve their Fish and Chips with vinegar and tarter sauce and with ketchup for the fries ( Chips ).

Long John Silver's would be a huge success in Australia, just copy the Long John Silver's restaurant in Cocoa Beach, Florida, the same way that they copied the McDonald's from San Bernardino, California, McDonald's is all around the world now, I ate at a McDonald's in Rome, Italy. Australia could have Long John Silver's restaurants. My Grandmother worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino, and other successful restaurants can be copied the same way that they copied McDonald's.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 06:59:07 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 06:49:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 03:34:55 PM
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is a good safe place for refugees to go live...

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

And also Acapulco, in Mexico, is a good safe place for the refugees.

Rio, and Acapulco, are both Christian cities, with charitable services to help the refugees.

We have a record number of world-wide refugees right now, from Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iran, and from other areas, and Rio and Acapulco can be on the list of good safe cities for the refugees to go live. We also have the people such as the people from the Philippines and from China who come to the West to do business and to work and for honest opportunities. One third of our population here in California are immigrants who were born in other nations. The people cannot all come to California, New York, Nevada, and to Florida, there has to be other places for the people to go, such as to Rio, and to Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, everyone in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, South America etc can't just up and move to America as refugees, immigrants.
Only people who would make America greater should be allowed in.
Things to be wary of with "refugees/immigrants" these days are that you don't allow your country to be turned into some of the basket case countries said "refugees/immigrants" originate from...you don't import "culture change", you don't import terrorists or their sympathisers, and you don't import people who would be a long term drain on the welfare system.

What we need to teach the immigrants in the USA is that ALL men are created with equal rights, everyone is equal and the same when it comes to human rights. And no one single group of immigrants is any more American than any other group, everyone is equal. And we need to feed and house everyone equally, and we need to educate the children equally, and we all need jobs, etc. We need to teach our new immigrants about the Civil Rights movement in the USA, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We all have rights. Everyone is equal, and we all need food, and housing, and we all need access to a good job, etc.

And the churches help the homeless, like it says in Matthew 25; 31-46.

In Santa Clarita the 7th Day Adventists will help the homeless people.

In Rome the Catholics help the people.

In Utah the Mormons help you.

In Rio, and in Acapulco, the churches help the people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 07:06:36 PM: The United Nations and the World Bank also help the refugees, along with the International Monetary Fund, etc. The refugees from Ukraine can get Business Loans, and Home Loans, etc, to get started in a new life in the place they choose.

I am sure they can get loans where they choose to live, such as in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, or wherever. And there are programs to help the refugees.

Plus the churches help the refugees, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 07:31:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 06:59:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 06:49:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 03:34:55 PM
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is a good safe place for refugees to go live...

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

And also Acapulco, in Mexico, is a good safe place for the refugees.

Rio, and Acapulco, are both Christian cities, with charitable services to help the refugees.

We have a record number of world-wide refugees right now, from Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iran, and from other areas, and Rio and Acapulco can be on the list of good safe cities for the refugees to go live. We also have the people such as the people from the Philippines and from China who come to the West to do business and to work and for honest opportunities. One third of our population here in California are immigrants who were born in other nations. The people cannot all come to California, New York, Nevada, and to Florida, there has to be other places for the people to go, such as to Rio, and to Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, everyone in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, South America etc can't just up and move to America as refugees, immigrants.
Only people who would make America greater should be allowed in.
Things to be wary of with "refugees/immigrants" these days are that you don't allow your country to be turned into some of the basket case countries said "refugees/immigrants" originate from...you don't import "culture change", you don't import terrorists or their sympathisers, and you don't import people who would be a long term drain on the welfare system.

What we need to teach the immigrants in the USA is that ALL men are created with equal rights, everyone is equal and the same when it comes to human rights. And no one single group of immigrants is any more American than any other group, everyone is equal. And we need to feed and house everyone equally, and we need to educate the children equally, and we all need jobs, etc. We need to teach our new immigrants about the Civil Rights movement in the USA, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and about the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We all have rights. Everyone is equal, and we all need food, and housing, and we all need access to a good job, etc.

And the churches help the homeless, like it says in Matthew 25; 31-46.

In Santa Clarita the 7th Day Adventists will help the homeless people.

In Rome the Catholics help the people.

In Utah the Mormons help you.

In Rio, and in Acapulco, the churches help the people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Britain tried all that "Peace, love, harmony, tolerance, everyone in the world is a lovely person, ...come in come in, all welcome" multicultural nonsense.
The result, terror attacks in London...women and men hacked to death/run down on London bridges and hacked to death in the streets by one particular kind of terrorists.
There are so many people on the terror watch list in Britain now that there's no way they can all be watched.
Enter Brexit, taking the place back from the control of others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 07, 2023, 08:50:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 07, 2023, 12:16:23 PM
What I learnt from YouTube today:

Brazil is a massive country.
It's population is 6th largest in the world, larger than Russia and Nigeria.....at 215 million.
It's land area is comparable to the size of mainland USA.
It takes up almost half of the entire South American continent.
It's northern most point is closer to Canada than it is to Brazil's southern most point.
It's Eastern most point is closer to the African continent than it is to its western most point.

That fourth fact is just barely true, if you count Middle Island, in Lake Erie just north of Sandusky, Ohio, as part of Canada. It still feels wrong, but the math doesn't lie.

The sixth fact, omitted by you, is that Brazil nuts are not called Brazil nuts in Brazil. Castanhas do para.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 09:17:41 PM: Someone needs to make a movie about Eugene V. Debs, from back when you worked another day to get older and deeper in debt to the Pullman railroad car company, and for the coal miners, and for other jobs. For here locally then Cesar Chavez was a hero. Guys like Eugene V. Debs, and Cesar Chavez, and Jimmy Hoffa, and the Kennedy family, helped to make America what it is today. Even Bugsy contributed and Vegas is a major world city. Anyhow, the story of America would not be complete without telling about Eugene V. Debs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 07, 2023, 09:22:59 PM: Jimmy Hoffa was a criminal. The Union guy who deserves your celebration is Walter Reuther. Look him up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 10:09:57 PM: Lech Walesa is a hero who proved that the Labor Movement is about good human rights, and not about communism.

Lech Walesa is a living hero. And Lech is always a man worthy of making movies about.

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 10:39:40 PM: Las Vegas is full of new immigrants right now who all know who Lech Walesa is. The immigrants from Poland, and from Russia, and from Ukraine, etc, they all know about Lech Walesa. Now that they are in the USA they need to learn who Eugene V. Debs was.

Maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie about Eugene V. Debs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2023, 01:50:29 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 10:39:40 PM
Las Vegas is full of new immigrants right now who all know who Lech Walesa is. The immigrants from Poland, and from Russia, and from Ukraine, etc, they all know about Lech Walesa. Now that they are in the USA they need to learn who Eugene V. Debs was.

Maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie about Eugene V. Debs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully they'll all thrive, integrate and become Americans in their new homeland...Uncle Sam their new 'King'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 08, 2023, 03:36:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2023, 01:50:29 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2023, 10:39:40 PM
Las Vegas is full of new immigrants right now who all know who Lech Walesa is. The immigrants from Poland, and from Russia, and from Ukraine, etc, they all know about Lech Walesa. Now that they are in the USA they need to learn who Eugene V. Debs was.

Maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie about Eugene V. Debs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully they'll all thrive, integrate and become Americans in their new homeland...Uncle Sam their new 'King'.

There is no king in America but Jesus, the people in America have the power and we elect our representatives. Our politicians are public servants.

And yes, I hope they all integrate and thrive, and I hope they are proud to be Americans and that they see all of the good about America. And I hope they will help the homeless like my friends from the Philippines did, my friends from the Philippines spent their whole lives doing charity work here to help our homeless people. Instead of tearing down statues, they need to be serving the people and they need to be helping the homeless, etc. And they need to work and build great things. Like Carl Laemmle who came to America from Bavaria.

I was born out in the desert of Southern California, and I was always proud to be an American, and we had NASA out in the desert, and Edwards Air Force Base, and we had all of the best plane companies all making top secret planes, and we made the Space Shuttles, etc. And we had Hollywood close by and a lot of stars from Hollywood spent time in the desert. And Malibu is only an hour and half drive from Lancaster.

There are people now who call the desert a "ghetto" and they say bad things about the desert, but it is all bullshit. The desert was a great place to grow up. And people say bad things about Hollywood, but I have always been proud of Hollywood, I love movies, and I loved to be able to meet the stars here in California, and I am a writer, etc, and an actor, I love Hollywood. And I love Malibu. California is great. And I am grateful to live in Anaheim now. California is great.

And Vegas is one of the fastest growing places in the world, and it is easy to get a job in Vegas. I hope the new immigrants will love Las Vegas. And we need a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas. I hope our new immigrants want to help to build high speed trains here, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 03:37:23 PM: Jesus?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 08, 2023, 03:43:18 PM: A very big celebrity in parts of the deserts of Southern California.

I heard he turned water into grape koolaid at a shotgun wedding near Lancaster. Oh yeah!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2023, 06:40:13 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 03:37:23 PM
Jesus?

The majority of Americans are Christians...at this point in time.
Majority rules.
Jesus is still 'King' of America.

You'll have to wait until about 2070 for Christians in America not to be the majority.

My guess is that you might not like it when America eventually becomes a Muslim country...and the culture and systems change.
...or becomes part of communist China.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 06:47:07 PM: Rules what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2023, 06:51:24 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 06:47:07 PM
Rules what?

The landscape.
You know..."Guns and God"..."In God We Trust" [the God referred to being 'Jesus'].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 06:52:54 PM: You know nothing about the United States.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 08, 2023, 08:04:07 PM: RIP Russell Banks, who did know something about the United States. Author of some fine novels, like The Sweet Hereafter and Continental Drift. Born in one of my childhood homes, Newton, Massachusetts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 08:19:02 PM: Books seemed ready made for movies. I liked Affliction.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 08, 2023, 08:33:29 PM: Bravo to those who stand up for Free Speech

Kirsten Hening, former Virginia Tech soccer player who accused her coach of benching her because of her political opinions will reportedly receive at least $100,000 as part of an agreement to dismiss a federal lawsuit.
Hening refused to kneel during a reading of a unity statement before a game against UVA on Sept. 12, 2020. She said her coach verbally attacked her at halftime, claiming she was bitching and moaning while putting his finger in her face.

Hening explained in her lawsuit that while she supports social justice and believes that black lives matter, she does not support BLM the organization, citing its tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.
The coach continued to berate Hening until he benched her and ultimately made things so intolerable that she felt she had no choice but to quit the team, according to the suit.

On Dec. 2, federal Judge Thomas Cullen denied a motion by the coach to dismiss the lawsuit, noting that Hening time on the field dropped off following the kneeling incident.

The three-day trial slated to start later this month was canceled last Tuesday in a court filing that noted the case had been settled.

On Jan. 4, the Coach released a statement on Twitter, saying in part, I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrong doing.It is unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed," said the Coach , ( who made no mention of the settlement.)

Hening Attorney Adam Mortara tweeted in reply to the coach statement: If by clarity you mean you are paying my client six figures in a settlement then you then you mean you are paying my client six figures then you are right p, that it is pretty clear.
Honestly, Coach, read the Court opinion.
You are paying.
Defendants do not pay in cases that have no standing.

As always,
TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 08, 2023, 09:37:50 PM: Another novel innovation in the world of pigsty inconsistency. Red proves again it takes severe brain damage to stay in the right wing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 08, 2023, 09:48:38 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/8/2146099/-North-Carolina-Open-Thread-Duke-Energy-s-Christmas-Fail (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/8/2146099/-North-Carolina-Open-Thread-Duke-Energy-s-Christmas-Fail)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 02:28:38 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 08, 2023, 06:52:54 PM
You know nothing about the United States.

Dr Google does.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 09, 2023, 11:05:04 AM: https://apnews.com/article/obesity-kids-drugs-surgery-new-guidance-c48d5896114beea7eda31d7b8b25461d

Or, how about doing your fucking job as a parent and turn off the spigot of junk food and sugary drinks and sending them outside to play and run around after you've set strict limits on electronic devices?

Sorry, I go Full Curmudgeon on this one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM: Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 03:54:55 PM: "Three protesters sentenced to death in Iran,, amid international criticism".

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Well that's one way of dealing with protesters.
The Islamic republic way.

People in America will have to choose one day...especially atheists...Christian republic, Islamic republic, something else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:04:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM
Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, very noble efforts helping orphans, the homeless, the poor living on garbage dumps.
Americans should be very careful seemingly being happy turning California etc into "Mexico"... that the American Mexico doesn't become the same as the Mexican Mexico, complete with people living on garbage dumps.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 04:16:39 PM: We need to make sure that the victims of the Islamic Republic of Iran become martyrs.

The revolution has already started in Iran, and young people such as Mahlagha Jaberi will lead Iran to a new future without leadership by the Islamic Republic.

And for Christians it is not about punishment but instead is where we get our freedom from and our freedom was given to all men by God. God created all men equal with good human rights.

There are some things in Iran, such as by covering their faces then people will do things that normally they would not do if their faces were made known. If your face is made known and if you are held accountable for your actions, then that affects behavior. Also, they want to punish people quickly so that they can stop other people from protesting, they want to punish the people quickly and in public so that they can show the masses what happens if you go against their bullshit Islamic Republic. But if the people would stand up then they can stop the Islamic Republic, and the victims can be martyrs, they can use the blood of the victims as fuel for the revolution to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

We need to support Mahlagha Jaberi and other brave Persians as they rise up against the Islamic Republic. The victims are all martyrs at this point, adding more victims is just throwing more gasoline on the fire.

Meanwhile the Christians are about love, and freedom, and we have a wonderful Pope, Pope Francis is a great man of peace. And Christians need to help the homeless, and the Christians need to minister to the people in prison, and the Christians need to help the orphans, etc.

And we need to change the way that the Arabs think, and we need to see if we can create their entertainment for them, and write their movies and television shows, etc. Maybe we can change how the Persians and others think if we can control their entertainment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 04:17:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:04:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM
Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, very noble efforts helping orphans, the homeless, the poor living on garbage dumps.
Americans should be very careful seemingly being happy turning California etc into "Mexico"... that the American Mexico doesn't become the same as the Mexican Mexico, complete with people living on garbage dumps.
I wonder if Bambu considers himself to be a decent human being.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:42:05 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 04:17:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:04:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM
Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, very noble efforts helping orphans, the homeless, the poor living on garbage dumps.
Americans should be very careful seemingly being happy turning California etc into "Mexico"... that the American Mexico doesn't become the same as the Mexican Mexico, complete with people living on garbage dumps.
I wonder if Bambu considers himself to be a decent human being.

What's not decent is people being born on, living their whole lives on, and dying on, garbage dumps in, Mexico, Philippines etc.
There is great wealth in Mexico...and great poverty.
A good advertisement for re-distributing the wealth by force, or at least having better social programs, better tax system.

You're happy for Santa Monica et al to be turned into 'Juarez'?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2023, 04:44:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 03:54:55 PM
"Three protesters sentenced to death in Iran,, amid international criticism".

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Well that's one way of dealing with protesters.
The Islamic republic way.

People in America will have to choose one day...especially atheists...Christian republic, Islamic republic, something else.
As for the last 230 or so years, something else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:50:34 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2023, 04:44:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 03:54:55 PM
"Three protesters sentenced to death in Iran,, amid international criticism".

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Well that's one way of dealing with protesters.
The Islamic republic way.

People in America will have to choose one day...especially atheists...Christian republic, Islamic republic, something else.
As for the last 230 or so years, something else.

I had more in mind a province of communist China, who's buying up America/the world at express pace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:57:40 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 04:17:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:04:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM
Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, very noble efforts helping orphans, the homeless, the poor living on garbage dumps.
Americans should be very careful seemingly being happy turning California etc into "Mexico"... that the American Mexico doesn't become the same as the Mexican Mexico, complete with people living on garbage dumps.
I wonder if Bambu considers himself to be a decent human being.

focus on a recent report that rated California last in terms of quality of life among the 50 US states.

"How do you take a place that was as world famous as Eden and in 50 years, make it the worst place in America?"

https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3 (https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3)

Tucker Carlson suggests California is turning into a third world country because of poor Latin American Immigrants
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 05:08:35 PM: Well, I've got my answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2023, 05:13:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:50:34 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2023, 04:44:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 03:54:55 PM
"Three protesters sentenced to death in Iran,, amid international criticism".

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Well that's one way of dealing with protesters.
The Islamic republic way.

People in America will have to choose one day...especially atheists...Christian republic, Islamic republic, something else.
As for the last 230 or so years, something else.

I had more in mind a province of communist China, who's buying up America/the world at express pace.
Yes, you are ignorant so nothing in your mind counts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2023, 05:15:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 04:17:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 04:04:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 02:56:03 PM
Bambu, faith in America in Jesus will grow if we would start helping each other and if we had brotherly love, like the hippies tried to do in the 1960s.

We have some good preachers like Dr Charles Stanley, and in Italy we have Pope Francis who is great, but sadly a lot of the greats such as Reverend Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral are dying. Schuller used to send care packages to the people in prison. We need for the new preachers to help the homeless, and to minister to the people in prison, and to do all of the things God asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Joel Osteen is just greedy, and he does not help the homeless, and he does not minister to the people in prison, and he does not help the orphans, etc, Joel is just greedy and he uses God to make his own money and that is all he cares about. Joel Osteen worships money.

When I was in Youth For Christ we went to Mexico to help the orphans, and to help the poor people living in a garbage dump, and that is what it means to be a Christian. Christians need to help the poor, and the needy, and the orphans.

Christians need to reach out and help the homeless and the poor and the orphans and the needy. And by helping the poor then we can bring more people into the loving family of Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, very noble efforts helping orphans, the homeless, the poor living on garbage dumps.
Americans should be very careful seemingly being happy turning California etc into "Mexico"... that the American Mexico doesn't become the same as the Mexican Mexico, complete with people living on garbage dumps.
I wonder if Bambu considers himself to be a decent human being.

focus on a recent report that rated California last in terms of quality of life among the 50 US states.

"How do you take a place that was as world famous as Eden and in 50 years, make it the worst place in America?"

https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3 (https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3)

Tucker Carlson suggests California is turning into a third world country because of poor Latin American Immigrants
Tucker Carlson? Res ipsa loquitor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2023, 05:17:23 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 09, 2023, 05:08:35 PM
Well, I've got my answer.

Do you really want America turning into a third world country because of misguided immigration policy?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 05:22:20 PM: Bambu, when you help others, then God blesses you. The USA is wealthy because we all read the Bible and we know what it says in Matthew 25; 31-46. We are a shining city on a hill because we obey the word of God and we love our neighbors. That is what made us rich. Some people can never create anything because they are always fighting among themselves, while the Christians have been able to have a community, with the Jews, etc, and here in the USA we are all equal and we have peace, and with peace we can create wealth and we can improve our standard of living. And when we help other people, then God blesses us.

And here is something to think about... Suppose your wealthy village in Australia donated a nice library to a poor coffee growing village in Colombia, then all of a sudden your village in Australia is getting the best deals on the best coffee in Australia. You will be blessed when you help other people.

And if we work together with Mexico then we can work together as a team on the issues on our border. Instead of fences we need team-work. And if we help the poor people in Mexico, then they will love us and they will be on our team. We need team-work to solve our mutual problems. We need team-work and communication. And may God bless the good honest journalists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 08:32:09 PM: Biden is in Mexico right now...

https://apnews.com/article/biden-north-america-summit-mexico-updates-871328ff21fc6a87b698742f6e9ed3d4

We need to improve relations with Mexico, and we can ship goods up from Mexican ports to the poor people in Kentucky with Mexican truck drivers, to feed and clothe and supply the people of Kentucky while we build schools in Kentucky and while we send the people of Kentucky to school to learn the jobs of the future. And we need for the people of Kentucky to know how to build the top of the line Apple Laptops, etc, it would be great if Apple could do manufacturing in Kentucky. We can send cheap food and clothes and supplies to the people of Kentucky from Mexico and from Latin America while we send the people of Kentucky to school.

And we need to tear down the border fences and we need to work together as a team.

We also need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so that they can join labor unions, and so that they do not have to hide in the shadows. We need to make everyone legal like Reagan did, and we need to write a new law which has a Good Neighbor policy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 09:10:01 PM: I am also concerned about immigrants who die as they ride in the backs of trucks and as they die crossing the desert, etc. We need for our immigrants to simply ride Greyhound buses like everyone else, Greyhound buses, and Amtrak trains, and the Metrolink trains, etc. We need for our immigrants to be able to ride safely on public transportation. And the United Farm Workers and other unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are and they can just ride a Greyhound bus to go to work at a vineyard in Napa, or whatever. The unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are, and the Greyhound buses can get the people to work safely.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2023, 03:08:11 PM: The drought is over now in the West, apparently, but we need to build more dams and lakes to save more water when it rains, our population is increasing, and we also have more farmers and wineries.

https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2022/does-drought-prone-california-need-another-reservoir/

We need to store and save more water in the West when it rains to provide plenty of water to our people who want lush lawns and also to farmers and wineries.

We can also put water sprinkler systems in areas which are prone to forest fires, as we also work to remove dead trees, etc, and as we manage our forests in a responsible way.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 10, 2023, 03:24:17 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2023, 03:08:11 PM
The drought is over now in the West, apparently, but we need to build more dams and lakes to save more water when it rains, our population is increasing, and we also have more farmers and wineries.

https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2022/does-drought-prone-california-need-another-reservoir/

We need to store and save more water in the West when it rains to provide plenty of water to our people who want lush lawns and also to farmers and wineries.

We can also put water sprinkler systems in areas which are prone to forest fires, as we also work to remove dead trees, etc, and as we manage our forests in a responsible way.

Salute,

Tony V.

Straight out of my No1 radio host's [now retired] policy 'handbook' "Watering Australia". Sadly the politicians were too dumb to adopt it.
After the BIG drought, the BIG fires, the BIG mouse plague, the BIG floods...and the poor cell reception nationwide once you leave the big cities, and the poor communication systems to warn citizens of the pending dangers...the politicians have awakened slightly.
Some people learnt that "you can't fight a fire storm with a garden hose"...and that "leave early, before you hear the "it's too late to leave" message from the authorities".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 10, 2023, 03:30:53 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2023, 03:08:11 PM
The drought is over now in the West...
No it is not. It is not even over in the areas of California currently awash. Drought is a long term situation not remedied by a brief period of heavy precipitation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 10, 2023, 05:25:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 09:10:01 PM
I am also concerned about immigrants who die as they ride in the backs of trucks and as they die crossing the desert, etc. We need for our immigrants to simply ride Greyhound buses like everyone else, Greyhound buses, and Amtrak trains, and the Metrolink trains, etc. We need for our immigrants to be able to ride safely on public transportation. And the United Farm Workers and other unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are and they can just ride a Greyhound bus to go to work at a vineyard in Napa, or whatever. The unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are, and the Greyhound buses can get the people to work safely.

Salute,

Tony V.

They wouldn't be dying if they weren't trying to enter the country without going thru the proper processes....using people-smugglers or not.
...like background checks, ID checks, health checks.
Finger printing, face scanning, documents checking...like mrs bambu was subjected to at the US-Canadian border as a tourist..."to keep America/Americans safe".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 10, 2023, 05:47:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 10, 2023, 05:25:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 09:10:01 PM
I am also concerned about immigrants who die as they ride in the backs of trucks and as they die crossing the desert, etc. We need for our immigrants to simply ride Greyhound buses like everyone else, Greyhound buses, and Amtrak trains, and the Metrolink trains, etc. We need for our immigrants to be able to ride safely on public transportation. And the United Farm Workers and other unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are and they can just ride a Greyhound bus to go to work at a vineyard in Napa, or whatever. The unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are, and the Greyhound buses can get the people to work safely.

Salute,

Tony V.

They wouldn't be dying if they weren't trying to enter the country without going thru the proper processes....using people-smugglers or not.
...like background checks, ID checks, health checks.
Finger printing, face scanning, documents checking...like mrs bambu was subjected to at the US-Canadian border as a tourist..."to keep America/Americans safe".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2eO65BqxBE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 10, 2023, 07:29:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 10, 2023, 05:47:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 10, 2023, 05:25:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2023, 09:10:01 PM
I am also concerned about immigrants who die as they ride in the backs of trucks and as they die crossing the desert, etc. We need for our immigrants to simply ride Greyhound buses like everyone else, Greyhound buses, and Amtrak trains, and the Metrolink trains, etc. We need for our immigrants to be able to ride safely on public transportation. And the United Farm Workers and other unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are and they can just ride a Greyhound bus to go to work at a vineyard in Napa, or whatever. The unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are, and the Greyhound buses can get the people to work safely.

Salute,

Tony V.

They wouldn't be dying if they weren't trying to enter the country without going thru the proper processes....using people-smugglers or not.
...like background checks, ID checks, health checks.
Finger printing, face scanning, documents checking...like mrs bambu was subjected to at the US-Canadian border as a tourist..."to keep America/Americans safe".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2eO65BqxBE

The answer is a guest worker program.
People apply, are checked out, then allowed in to work for a limited time or extended time, or permanently if needed.
Can't be having people waltzing into one's country uninvited, just because they think it's a good idea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 11, 2023, 10:49:45 AM: "Guns are great"!!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/11/elementary-students-guns-fired-school/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/11/elementary-students-guns-fired-school/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2023, 10:58:06 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 11, 2023, 10:49:45 AM
"Guns are great"!!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/11/elementary-students-guns-fired-school/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/11/elementary-students-guns-fired-school/)

Prosecute the dimwit who allowed the kid to have a loaded gun.
Then, and only then, will things change.

Armed home invaders kill residents.
The bad people have guns, knives etc...if the good people don't have guns ready to fire then they will likely be society's next dead or maimed for life victims.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2023, 11:43:44 AM: Anyway, whilever the majority of voting Americans basically want "open borders" and anyone and everyone just allowed into the country as refugees/economic immigrants without any ID, background checks, health checks, limits as to numbers, etc, what's happening now will never change, and only become worse.
Think Joe's border walk was just for show.
More people will try to get in by any means possible, and more people will die trying.
The 'honey' is so inviting that millions are *stampeding* to get at it.
It's obviously what the majority of voting Americans want...no walls, no fences, just walk/swim etc over the open border, where 'cheap' is *king*.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2023, 11:56:21 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2023, 11:43:44 AM
Anyway, whilever the majority of voting Americans basically want "open borders" and anyone and everyone just allowed into the country as refugees/economic immigrants without any ID, background checks, health checks, limits as to numbers, etc, what's happening now will never change, and only become worse.
Think Joe's border walk was just for show.
More people will try to get in by any means possible, and more people will die trying.
The 'honey' is so inviting that millions are *stampeding* to get at it.
It's obviously what the majority of voting Americans want...no walls, no fences, just walk/swim etc over the open border, where 'cheap' is *king*.
The number of politicians in the US who want Open Borders is vanishingly small. But then you have shown that you willingly and unqueztioningly ingest any chewed up rght wing fantasy Fox News and that mother bird of a radio host you listen to regurgitate down your throat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 11, 2023, 02:15:02 PM: California has 1,500 dams now, according to Stanford, so we have changed our environment, we are living better now because we have more water than we otherwise would have, our ancestors made life better in California by building the dams and the new lakes, etc. And my Grandfather helped to build the California aquaduct that runs through the Antelope Valley. We are smart to build new dams, and new lakes, and new aquaducts. Like the Romans. We can live better by using our brains and by building dams, and lakes, and aquaducts. We are not at the mercy of mother nature, or of our environment.

We have people living in the desert of California now, and in Nevada, and in Arizona, and in New Mexico and in Texas, we need to put our new immigrants to work building dams, and making new lakes, and building new aquaducts, etc.

And in California we need water for farming, and for making wine, we turn water into money in California by farming. If you drive down the state of California you will see that California is growing food from the top of the state to the bottom of the state, the whole state of California is growing food, and we need water for the farmers. We need to keep building new dams, and new lakes, and new aquaducts, etc.

We have 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles who need JOBS, put them to work building dams, and building aquaducts, and making new lakes, etc. And they can put sprinkler systems in the forests to prevent forest fires, and they can remove dead trees, etc. We can put the homeless people to work, and the immigrants and refugees, we can put them all to work building dams, and lakes, and aquaducts.

And we can also build high speed trains, etc.

The homeless people, and the refugees, and the immigrants, etc, can also work planting trees for Sunkist, and they can work picking oranges and making orange juice. In California we use water to grow trees to create jobs and to make money. We turn water into money in California. The whole state of California is growing food. And we need water to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 03:00:37 PM: Galatians 5:22 - 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

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If we all obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, then we would have zero crime. In Rome, Italy, it is the Christian capital of the world, there are churches all over Rome, and they have zero crime in Rome. Rome is the safest big city to open a night club in. I love Rome. And they have the largest movie studio in Europe, Cinecitta.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 04:10:22 PM: As we build schools and libraries for the poor and as we educate the poor, then we can also teach them the building construction trades and they can become master craftsmen and architects and designers who can build great spaces for people, and they can become great at the Culinary Arts and people can cook great food, and there can be great restaurants. The whole standard of living can improve as we teach the poor.

And NASA can tell us where the Gold is in Mexico, and we can use the money from the Gold to pave roads, and to build bridges, and to bring in telephones, and electricity, and running water, and radio, and television, and computers, and schools and libraries, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico.

We can also ship cheap goods up to Kentucky from Mexico with Mexican truck drivers, while we build schools in Kentucky and while we teach the people of Kentucky how to do the jobs of the future.

Also, much of the coffee for the USA is coming from Colombia to New Orleans, Louisiana, and that is the entry point for much of the coffee in the USA. Kentucky is getting Colombian coffee via New Orleans, Louisiana. The ports in New Orleans are important ports. We can ship stuff to Kentucky from New Orleans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2023, 04:14:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 03:00:37 PM
Galatians 5:22 - 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

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If we all obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, then we would have zero crime. In Rome, Italy, it is the Christian capital of the world, there are churches all over Rome, and they have zero crime in Rome. Rome is the safest big city to open a night club in. I love Rome. And they have the largest movie studio in Europe, Cinecitta.

Salute,

Tony V.

Unless you are a brown skinned, immigrant, Roma or LBGTQ
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 05:08:20 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 12, 2023, 04:14:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 03:00:37 PM
Galatians 5:22 - 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

--------

If we all obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, then we would have zero crime. In Rome, Italy, it is the Christian capital of the world, there are churches all over Rome, and they have zero crime in Rome. Rome is the safest big city to open a night club in. I love Rome. And they have the largest movie studio in Europe, Cinecitta.

Salute,

Tony V.

Unless you are a brown skinned, immigrant, Roma or LBGTQ

The Christians have more freedom than everyone else. You can drink wine in Italy, they love wine, and they love music, and food, they love life in Italy, and they love each other. The Italians are very romantic people. And the Fashion Industry is in Milan, and Paris, and the Fashion Industry has a lot of Gay people working in the Industry. And I could have full freedom making movies at Cinecitta without censorship. I could also have a night club and I could pick the bands that play myself and I can make my own rules for my own club. Italy is great. And all of the rich Black men in California are wearing Italian clothes and they are driving Italian cars, as soon as they get rich they start buying Italian stuff.

The first person who I drove in a limousine was Herbie Hancock, and Herbie has a great car collection. Herbie loves the Italians, and Herbie is good friends with Jay Leno, the company that I worked for was the official limousine service for the Jay Leno show.

The Italians are great, it is a good place for me to open a night club, eventually I will do it, and I need to find a good woman who wants to live in Italy with me. We can write and produce movies at Cinecitta while we run a night club in Rome that will serve food, and maybe I can buy a winery in Tuscany, etc.

And the Gypsies are welcome at my club any time. We have Gypsies here in Anaheim, they are masters at profiting from the Tourism, and they are great with circuses, the circus people here are all Gypsies. Disneyland is full of Gypsies, always has been, Walt Disney loved the Gypsies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 12, 2023, 06:20:07 PM: If you love them you should probably NOT use an ethnic slur to describe them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2023, 06:21:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 12, 2023, 06:20:07 PM
If you love them you should probably NOT use an ethnic slur to describe them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2023, 03:45:49 AM: A new planet has been discovered...almost the size of earth.
Plenty of room for immigrants.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2023, 04:04:18 AM: I know about 'rogue waves'...saw some on Youtube.
Youtube is very educational.
Always being comfortable is my dream.
As such I hate 'rogue waves'.

Extreme 'Rogue Wave' in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme On Record.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 13, 2023, 09:47:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 13, 2023, 03:45:49 AM
A new planet has been discovered...almost the size of earth.
It is just like earth except the eat corn on the cob vertically.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 13, 2023, 11:15:48 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2023, 05:08:20 PM

The Christians have more freedom than everyone else.

Countries that rank highest for atheism/agnosticism are Sweden and Denmark. They also are top ranking for freedom and general happinesss with their lives.

Also advise checking levels of freedom for locals in nations that were subjugated by "Christian" colonial powers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 13, 2023, 01:50:04 PM: Pepperdine University in Malibu is a Christian university.

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

There is student housing at Latigo Beach for Pepperdine students, and it is a great beach where a lot of stars go, also of note is that the beach has 24 hour security.

Of note, hopefully the Christian students will be altruistic after they graduate and become successful in Business, or whatever career they choose, hopefully they will help their communities. ( Of note, one sad story is Paramount Studios in Hollywood, they just built a fence around their studio and they completely ignore their neighborhood while the neighborhood is a slum with poverty and crime. Paramount needs to be altruistic and they need to hire the people from their neighborhood, the people from the neighborhood need to be able to go to film school and the locals need to be able to get jobs working at the studio. Paramount needs to be altruistic and they need to have a good neighborhood with their community instead of just building a fence and letting the area be a slum. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2023, 11:35:49 PM: Atheists/agnostics...an easy life.
Say anything, do anything, no conscience needed, no filters needed, no 10 Commandments to try to obey/live by.
No Heaven or Hell to think about.
*
Christianity is the predominant religion of Denmark, with three quarters of the Danish population estimated as adherents of the " Folkekirken" ("People's Church"], Denmark's national Lutheran church.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 14, 2023, 08:29:15 AM: "Atheists don't have a conscience" another of Bambu's greatest hits!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 14, 2023, 11:23:57 AM: Ask yourself if, on encountering a person who says the things you read in forum posts, you would engage with them in the RW and for how long.

Saves a lot of pointless typing, posting citations to social science research or popular surveys, or being encumbered with the futile mission of opening a closed mind.

I made a half-assed NY resolution, but today am going full-assed on it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 14, 2023, 01:24:19 PM: More Classified documents at Joe s Place. ????
The gift that keeps giving to the GOP AND democrats.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 15, 2023, 12:13:56 AM: Repeal and replace, huh?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/obamacare-aca-miami-fl.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 07:21:08 AM: So sad about Lisa Marie Presley, we were close to the same age, her and me and Julia Roberts were all about the same age. And the Oscars are coming up, so sad that Lisa Marie did not get to go to the Oscars with the movie about her Father. It is so sad, life is so short.

If I am going to be a writer, then I need to be writing. I need to learn how to use my Apple Laptop. My Nephew's Girlfriend put my script onto the Cloud for me, that was very nice of her. I need to learn how to write and share on my Apple, and I need to add Final Draft to it. I need to go to the film school to find helpers, and to meet people. And I need to get busy writing, I have lots of ideas, and I can find cool people to write with, I work well in teams. Also, maybe I can act in some student films. And with the success of "Walker: Independence" it looks like Westerns are making a comeback, and I have an idea about a Western television series, I wrote a short story that can be a Western television series. Anyhow, life is short, and I need to get busy writing if I am going to be a writer. I need to learn how to use the Apple Laptop and I need to write. Life is too short to just waste it. And the richest woman in England is the woman who wrote "Harry Potter" and many writers are billionaires now. I can at least earn enough to open my own night club in Rome, Italy. And Rome has Cinecitta.

So sad about Lisa Marie, and it really shows us how short life is. We cannot waste life.

Maybe next week I will go to the film school and check the place out, eventually I will go there and at least have lunch, and check out the library.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 01:20:58 PM: In Anaheim our City is owned by we the citizens and we own assets here, and some of the money goes into a General Fund to be spent however the people want. And right now a huge amount of new building is happening.

One of my heroes here is a guy who owns an Italian restaurant, he feeds 5,000 children a pasta dinner every night. He has been feeding the children here for a long time. All of the stars eat at his restaurant, he is a hero here, and he does a lot to help the children. He started out as a waiter in Italy, and he learned the restaurant business, now he owns the best restaurant in Anaheim and he feeds the children.

Anaheim is a good City, and we have good schools. Lots of good things are happening in Anaheim. I just need to keep a good attitude and I need to look at the bright side.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 15, 2023, 02:50:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 07:21:08 AM
So sad about Lisa Marie Presley, we were close to the same age, her and me and Julia Roberts were all about the same age. And the Oscars are coming up, so sad that Lisa Marie did not get to go to the Oscars with the movie about her Father. It is so sad, life is so short.

If I am going to be a writer, then I need to be writing. I need to learn how to use my Apple Laptop. My Nephew's Girlfriend put my script onto the Cloud for me, that was very nice of her. I need to learn how to write and share on my Apple, and I need to add Final Draft to it. I need to go to the film school to find helpers, and to meet people. And I need to get busy writing, I have lots of ideas, and I can find cool people to write with, I work well in teams. Also, maybe I can act in some student films. And with the success of "Walker: Independence" it looks like Westerns are making a comeback, and I have an idea about a Western television series, I wrote a short story that can be a Western television series. Anyhow, life is short, and I need to get busy writing if I am going to be a writer. I need to learn how to use the Apple Laptop and I need to write. Life is too short to just waste it. And the richest woman in England is the woman who wrote "Harry Potter" and many writers are billionaires now. I can at least earn enough to open my own night club in Rome, Italy. And Rome has Cinecitta.

So sad about Lisa Marie, and it really shows us how short life is. We cannot waste life.

Maybe next week I will go to the film school and check the place out, eventually I will go there and at least have lunch, and check out the library.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good plan....just be careful the cool people in the team don't steal your ideas...and write them as their own.
Maybe there is a community college or other place/program where you can learn how to use your computer.
If Hallmark movies are any guide, every *second* person in America is, or is trying to be, a writer...so it appears you'll be facing much competition.
A writer, or a marketing guru...or cookie-baker with their own store.
Marketing is the 'sexiest' job, survey says...in bambuworld.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 03:35:24 PM: The first person who I took my movie script to in order to try to get the money, was to Hugh Hefner, it was in the old days when we had fax machines, and I just faxed my script to Hef, he liked my script, and he wanted someone he knew and trusted to direct it, so based on his work on "The Doors" starring Val Kilmer I suggested Oliver Stone, and Hef agreed that if Oliver would direct my movie that he would put up the money, but unfortunately Oliver turned me down, and so Hef backed out and I lost the money. But, I still have the script.

And I have some ideas for some other movies, and television shows.

And yes, we have a Community College in one direction, and then in the other direction there is a Film School. I plan on going to the French Film Festival at the Community College in March, and I can meet people there who are into Cinema. I took an Italian class at the Community College and it is a cool place. I have not been to the Film School yet, I have been wanting to go see it for a long time, and I am sure I can find helpers at the Film School. I rode the train once with a Film Student from Sweden, she was a beautiful woman with long blonde hair, and she was excited to be in Hollywood and to be attending Chapman film school, and she promised to hire me as an actor to work on her films when she is successful. I do not know her name, I hope she succeeded, this was a number of years ago.

My movie script is registered with the Library of Congress, and also with the Screen Actors Guild so that I can use SAG actors, so one would hope that no one tries to steal it. And yes, as I write television shows then I need to get the copyright, etc.

And one would hope that the film students are honest, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 04:43:46 PM: We have had some sad news next-door in Riverside County, two police officers have been shot and killed recently.

And San Bernardino now has the highest crime-rate in California.

McDonald's started in San Bernardino, and San Bernardino was nice from the 1950s-1980s.

The way to save San Bernardino is by improving schools, and by expanding honest opportunities.

In Europe they are educating the young people about the danger of illegal drugs and they are making progress with education. Education is the key to everything. At the Samuel French Theatre Bookstore on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood the doorway is shaped like a key-hole as books are the key to the theatre. We can build schools instead of building prisons, and we can hire teachers instead of hiring cops and prison guards.

And the same in Kentucky, the coal jobs are gone and the coal jobs are not coming back, instead of just letting the society crumble while the people suffer in poverty and resort to whatever they can do to survive, we need to build schools and libraries and we need to educate the people.

Also, we need trained psychiatrists working with the police departments and Crisis Intervention Specialists, to defuse situations and to deal with crazy people without shooting them with a gun.

Of note, crime will go down in Los Angeles as Mayor Bass helps the homeless. As the homeless people are helped, then crime will be reduced. And we can help orphans when they are young, and we can send them to college, instead of letting the orphans end up homeless.

The malls are all shutting down in San Bernardino, we can invite the Mexicans to come to San Bernardino and to invest in building new malls, and they can sell products at the malls that are imported from Latin America. When I worked at the Broadway Department Store in Pasadena, California, then we imported a lot of our stuff from Italy, and from France, and we had stuff from New York, etc, and local stuff from Los Angeles. The Mexicans want to invest in the malls in California, and San Bernardino would be a great place for the Mexicans to open new malls.

The main politician in Corona is Sabrina Cervantes, and she is helping.

We need to educate our people, and we need a better economy, and we need to reduce crime.

And we need psychiatrists to work with the police departments, etc, and we need Mental Health Associations to help the people, and we need Wellness Centers. And housing the homeless will help to reduce crime. We also need to build new schools and libraries in Kentucky, etc, we do not want for our people to be poor and desperate, bad things happen when people are poor and desperate. We are a wealthy nation, we help the whole world, and we need to help our own people here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 15, 2023, 05:37:01 PM: Indeed.
Charity begins at home.
Any spare money should go to Americans first.
Then, when every American is happy and comfortable, with a roof over their head and enough food to eat...sending money overseas can be entertained.
Seems to me that post-pandemic most people in the west don't have much spare cash to be spending in malls...some places a lot worse than others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 09:00:07 PM: The money is good out in the desert with aerospace and defense and satellites, and they have a lot of great stores, and they have a great mall...

Antelope Valley Mall

https://www.av-mall.com

I went to the mall in the desert with my Mother and we had ice cream cones, it was very nice.

The desert is doing great. They have Lockheed, and Northrop, and NASA out at Edwards Air Force Base, etc. My hometown in the desert built the B2 Stealth Bombers that we the USA sent to help to protect Australia. We built the Space Shuttles, and we built a lot of stuff out in the desert, and Edwards is famous for testing, be sure to watch the movie "The Right Stuff."

And Mexico wants to start investing in California, and they want to invest in malls here, and they want to sell products from Latin America in the USA, so we need to invite the Mexicans to open new malls in San Bernardino and they can sell goods from Latin America in San Bernardino. Then, as they expand, then the Mexicans can sell goods to the poor people in Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2023, 10:58:22 PM: The wife of the President of Colombia recently met with Pope Francis, Colombia is a huge success story, and is an example of how if we help poor and desperate people that we can stop the terrorism and reduce the crime. If we give the kids an education, and honest opportunities, then they do not need to become child soldiers or drug dealers, etc. By helping the kids then we take the kids away from crime and we make the kids honest. And the children can learn to be grateful for things such as a good meal, and a good book, and a clear night with a telescope, and they can ponder the questions of the universe, like the Greeks.

By investing in education in Colombia we have ended the terrorism, and Colombia now has one of the best performing economies in Latin America, and the President of Colombia attended Harvard. And Colombian coffee is very successful globally.

Bogota, Colombia, can also be a Fashion Center for Latin America, like other cities like Milan and Paris and New York. And the cinema can be supported in Colombia.

Education is making a huge difference in Colombia, and we need to continue to make advancements in the region.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2023, 10:02:15 AM: https://apnews.com/article/technology-pennsylvania-world-economic-forum-business-0193732c04074e595852c160d7ca1c86

A look at conspiracy theories that swirl around the Davos meets. Some of it consumed by members indigenous to EFE, then regurgitated...like a dinner of insects.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2023, 03:35:44 PM: We have a huge egg shortage here in Anaheim, and it is a crisis here because the people here all eat eggs for breakfast, the Mexicans here eat scrambled eggs with cactus with salsa and tortillas for breakfast, with Colombian coffee. Eggs are important here, the same way that potatoes are important to the Irish.

It is all about supply and demand, and there are plenty of people who want to make money who will enter the egg business, and also we can bring eggs up from Mexico to San Diego, etc. We need for new people to enter the egg business in order to increase supply so that we can bring down the price of eggs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 16, 2023, 03:38:49 PM: Come up with a cure for avian flu, Tony. That could really help the price of eggs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2023, 03:48:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 16, 2023, 03:38:49 PM
Come up with a cure for avian flu, Tony. That could really help the price of eggs.

We can do that, whatever it takes.

When I managed a dog kennel we had a cure for the canine flu that we gave the dogs up their nose. For the kennel we made sure that all of the dogs were vaccinated, and we kept it clean and well ventilated, and we kept the diseases out. And because we worked with live animals we were inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture just like an egg farm. We can give the chickens a nose dose of vaccine to prevent the avian flu, just like we gave the dogs a nose dose of vaccine to prevent the canine flu.

We can get the scientists at Vanderbilt University, and at other universities, to create a nose dose vaccine for the chickens for the avian flu.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2023, 05:43:12 PM: My Boss from when I managed a dog kennel wanted to cure diseases in animals and he wanted to manufacture vaccines for animals and sell the vaccines. His hero was Jonas Salk, and he wanted to be like Jonas Salk only for animals instead of people. He was in school and they were teaching him how to make vaccines for animals when World War II broke out, and he had to drop out of school to join the Marine Corps to go fight against the Japanese. The Marine Corps put my former Boss in charge of a dog kennel, breeding and raising and training Dobermans for the Marine Corps, and then he had to go to combat in Okinawa with his Doberman named Duke. So, my Boss learned the kennel business in the Marine Corps during World War II, and he learned how to breed, raise, and how to train Dobermans. But, he had a little knowledge of how to cure diseases and he taught me a lot. He thought that I might want to be a research scientist to cure diseases for animals, so he taught me a lot, I was young and curious so I was open to learning everything about everything.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2023, 06:43:53 PM: https://archive.ph/00BpD

Six things people believe about politics that are totally wrong.

This should be required reading for every American student.

And everyone else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2023, 07:13:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 16, 2023, 06:43:53 PM
https://archive.ph/00BpD

Six things people believe about politics that are totally wrong.

This should be required reading for every American student.

And everyone else.

All very nice, but...US debt clock just keeps rising.
One day, as with household budgets, the debt clock will hit the wall...and then there'll be trouble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 17, 2023, 11:45:31 AM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/12/21/monty-python-silly-walk-exercise/

British Journal of Medicine publishes study of normal walking compared to silly walking.

Link for paywall blocked:

https://archive.ph/1fB9H
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 18, 2023, 11:27:08 AM: Onward. Hristian soldiers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/18/brazil-insurrection-evangelical-christianity/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2023, 01:54:08 PM: I sent the idea to Carlos Santana, and to other old hippies, we need for the wealthy old hippies to organize and to create communes to help the homeless outcasts who do not have anywhere to go.

We need to have hippy communes where the homeless people who do not have anyone can go on a Greyhound bus and get a job working growing food with the commune and where they can get a place to live, and where the people in the commune are like one big family.

And like with the military, a lot of people are disabled and are not able to join the military, there needs to be a place where the homeless outcasts can go who are not able to join the military, where they can get a job and a place to live and where they can make friends with the people they work with and where they can be like one big family.

Instead of being homeless and just living on the streets, there needs to be communes where the people can get a job and a place to live, and where they can help to grow food, and where they can have a community.

We have 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone, there needs to be farms where they can go live with a commune and where they can work helping to grow food and where they can have a community, instead of just living like bums on the street.

The hippies can be all about peace, and love, and they can help to grow food on their communes. It would be way better than being homeless and living in a tent on the sidewalk with only negativity. They can have peace and love and they can help to grow food on a commune instead of being homeless and it can be a positive experience.

The hippies can form communes in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and in Merced, California, and in Napa, etc, and they can grow food and they can make cheese, etc, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2023, 03:25:51 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 18, 2023, 11:27:08 AM
Onward. Hristian soldiers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/18/brazil-insurrection-evangelical-christianity/

The alternative is the Left/Far Left...aka China, Russia, NK, open borders, and 'Karl Marx'.
Obviously bambu needs to be running Protestant Brazil and Protestant America.
Protestant nationalism and Conservative nationalism are all fine.
Invading, terrorising and smashing up Capitols etc is not.
Violent insurrection is so uncool, dumb, and foolish...not to mention illegal.
'Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the Cross of Jesus
going on before"...is what's needed today as society deteriorates into a non-Christian...well, you know.
Christians should 'Keep marching', peacefully of course....the ballot box is where the *war* must be fought.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2023, 04:12:27 PM: Here is some crazy shit...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-16/six-people-including-mother-and-baby-killed-in-tulare-county

The bad guys shot a little baby in the head, as they also shot and killed everyone in the house, they killed everyone and they even shot the little baby.

We live in a crazy world with a lot of evil. We need to catch the bad guys, and we need justice for the little baby. We need to catch and punish the bad guys, and we need to teach them that we are a civilized Christian society and we will not accept evil happening in our communities.

We must catch and punish the bad guys.

And also crime will go down as we help the homeless people. As we help the poor and as we help the homeless people then we can keep them honest and they can become good people instead of just being abandoned to become criminals. And there needs to be hippy communes growing food, and there needs to be cheap hostels in the cities, etc. We need to create a kinder culture, with less crime, and with more of a sense of community.

And we will not allow the bad guys to win, we will not let them murder babies. We need to be a loving society which demands justice for the little baby. We will not allow such behavior to happen here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2023, 04:31:04 PM: In my neighborhood there was a criminal murdering homeless people, he was stabbing homeless people at night, and the criminal went after a homeless guy in my neighborhood by Carl's Jr and the homeless guy cried out for help. My neighbors defended the homeless guy, and they beat up the criminal and they held the criminal for the police. My neighbors made a citizen's arrest.

The same thing in Los Angeles, there was a murderer and the citizens caught him and beat him up and held him until the police got there. They made a citizen's arrest.

With whoever shot the little baby, they will be captured, and justice will happen. We are a strong civilization.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2023, 04:42:32 PM: The Christians need to take control of Mexico from the cartels.

And NASA can tell us where the Gold is in Mexico and we can use the money for all kinds of good things. We can build paved roads, and bridges, and we can bring in telephones, and electricity, and running water, and television, and radio, etc, etc, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico. And we can build schools and libraries.

And the Mexicans can invest in Malls in California, and in Kentucky, etc, and they can sell products from Latin America at the new malls.

We can also get eggs from Mexico, etc. There are a lot of ways we can expand trade with Mexico. And we can invest in the ports in Mexico, etc.

The Christians need to take control of Mexico. Youth For Christ and Kiwanis International and other groups can work together to help the orphans in Mexico, and to make things better. Along with help from NASA, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2023, 06:29:27 PM: Having just watched a video "Los Angeles, city of homeless" ( 60 Minutes) I've come to the conclusion that a wall/fence should be built around LA...to stop other states from entering and dropping off their homeless people in LA's 'skid row'/anywhere else in LA...like they were/have been doing from the 1990s on. Greyhound buses the transport.

From what I saw in the video LA is just one big skid row.
Experts, politicians etc, speak in the video.
The solution is ...a "pineapple".

One homeless lady showed the scar on her neck where she was stabbed.
A gun could've helped her defend herself.

People want to save the homeless, but don't want them moved to anywhere near them...video participant said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 02:07:08 AM: Homeless video showed that a large number of the homeless are People of Color, that racism and discrimination in society are much of the cause.
So much for equality.

Large number of the female homeless are victims of domestic violence.
It's horrific what people with a disability there are suffering.
So much for equality.

Older people are also in numbers...are as veterans.

No wonder Americans are working 70 hrs a week, late nights, long hrs, little time with families, to try to avoid having to live in skid row.
One minute people have a good job and are living well enough.
Next minute they are sacked, didn't do anything wrong, it's just that the Co preferred to keep someone else on the payroll.
No job, no income, slowly assets are sold off...until the house goes, then the last of the savings... and off to skid row the family goes.
No more nice clothes, rags replace them. No cell phones, no dentist visits, no hope.
Once you get there, there's little hope of ever getting out, thousands are dying on the streets. The war on poverty and homelessness has been lost.
Good people are doing their best to help, but it's a lost cause.

No wonder young women especially are signing up to Fans Only online and making videos, earning them tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Also selling their feet online (photos, maybe videos)...earning $200,000 in their twenties.
Reality tv, anything to make money to avoid poverty/homelessness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 11:02:37 AM: YouTube...

Portland Oregon's homeless camps making businesses close forever, Jan 1st 2023

"January 1st 2023, start of the new year, the homeless are ruining all the businesses in south East Portland. The Chair Outlet has shut down, they even tore down the fence last night".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 12:41:18 PM: The alternative is the Left/Far Left...aka China, Russia, NK, open borders, and Karl Marx.

China, Russia and NK are totalitarian states. Authoritarian and Fascist. Stop being so willfully dumb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 12:53:56 PM: It is horrible here in the USA Bambu, I was homeless for 2 years out there on the streets, clean and sober with a college degree and years of work experience out there begging for a job and no one would hire me, I was homeless in my home country. My family has been in the USA for hundreds of years and I had to be homeless here.

And many of the homeless people are foster children, they are homeless because they do not have parents to help them, and people are so greedy and selfish that they do not help the foster children. We should be helping the children who do not have parents and we should be sending the foster children to college for free, and we should also give them business loans.

My Father died when I was 9 years old, and I did not have anyone to help me, my Mother did her best but she was a poor widow with 3 children to raise on her own. So, I know what it is like to be homeless out there on the street and to not have a Dad to help me. That is why I work so hard to help the orphans and the homeless.

And many of the homeless people are abused women. We need to help the abused women here in the USA.

We need to stop being greedy and selfish and we need to help each other here in the USA.

And here in Hollywood we have Tourism and Show Business, we have 50,000 new tourists everyday here in Anaheim, if you can sell hamburgers to tourists then you can buy a home. It does not have to be so damn hard. But, people make it hard, especially if you do not have a Dad to help you and to teach you.

We need to help the homeless, and we need to have cheap hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night, and we need to have communes where the homeless people can have a community and where the homeless can grow food and where they can have a home.

The USA is a sad place, I am growing old poor and alone here and I am being told to just be grateful that I have food and shelter. I have never been married, I have never owned a home, I have never had children, and it is sad because I was a good man with a lot of potential and I was honest and I worked hard and I studied hard. I tried to move to go live in Italy in 2003, but I could not get a job, if I could have gotten a job in Rome in 2003 then I would have stayed in Italy.

I still have my movie script, and my poetry book, that I wrote, and I hope to be able to make money from my writing to go open a night club in Rome, Italy. And I can make movies and television shows at Cinecitta. We will see what happens. I would have stayed in Italy in 2003 when I was there if I could have gotten a job.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 02:26:17 PM: My Great Grandmother, Thelma, worked hard and opened her own restaurant in San Bernardino, and she became very successful. I wish she would have kept her restaurant in the family and I wish she would have passed it down, but back then she did not have anyone to pass the restaurant down to I guess. That is what I plan to do if I ever have a family and own a business, I want to pass my business down to the family so that no one in my family is ever poor and homeless, I would want to make sure that my descendants always have a source of income.

The lady who owns In N Out Burger is a billionaire because they kept their restaurant in their family and they passed it down.

For me, I would buy a night club in Rome, and maybe a winery in Tuscany, and I would pass it down to my descendants so that they will always have a home and a source of income. They will not have to be poor slave labor for ungrateful greedy people, and they will not have to be homeless, and they will not have to do unsavory things to survive, they will always have a source of income.

If I can sell my movie script, and if I can publish my poetry book, then I will buy a night club in Rome, and maybe a winery in Tuscany, and I will pass it down to my family, if I ever have a family. I do not know, I am getting old, maybe I will never have a family. We will see what happens. My only chance is to get wise and learn how to make money, then maybe I can find a wife, etc, and if I am lucky I can start a family, and then I can pass down businesses to my family.

I like it when we can be prosperous, and generous, and when we can have a good sense of family, and of community. I hate it when everyone is poor and when everyone is only out for themselves, and when people stab each other in the back instead of helping each other.

I would rather have good Christian civilization where we all are prosperous and where we all help each other, instead of poverty and loneliness and crime and hate.

And I should never have been poor and homeless on the streets here, that was all bullshit. And while I am grateful for food and shelter, I wish I had money and a wife and financial freedom. I could be on welfare in Russia, there is nothing to be grateful for if you have to be on welfare. And Disneyland is worthless if I can never afford to go there.

I hope I can publish my poetry book, and I hope I can sell my movie script, and I hope it all succeeds, then I will create a permanent income for my future family descendants and they will have great lives and they will never know what it is like to be homeless and hungry in a world of abundance. California is rich, and the USA is rich, there was no reason for me to be poor and homeless, and there is no reason for me to be growing old poor and alone right now. I have the same right to the wealth of America as any other American. And I am tired of growing old poor and alone, I want to go create a family in Italy and make new friends and have a community. And my family can be wealthy and can be respected in the community.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 19, 2023, 04:25:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 12:53:56 PM
It is horrible here in the USA Bambu, I was homeless for 2 years out there on the streets, clean and sober with a college degree and years of work experience out there begging for a job and no one would hire me, I was homeless in my home country. My family has been in the USA for hundreds of years and I had to be homeless here.

I hear Battle Mountain is a literal paradise on earth. You should have moved there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 05:13:04 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 12:41:18 PM
The alternative is the Left/Far Left...aka China, Russia, NK, open borders, and Karl Marx.

China, Russia and NK are totalitarian states. Authoritarian and Fascist. Stop being so willfully dumb.

You missed the other two...the leftist /far leftist brigades of political correctness, multiculturalism, open borders, 'everyone in the world is a lovely person' massive legal and illegal immigration...the things Trump stood against.
Also Marx...the left's communist hero.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 19, 2023, 05:31:35 PM: No one of any political persuasion thinks you are a lovely person, Bambi. In that at least there is room for all sides to agree.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 06:33:08 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 19, 2023, 04:25:48 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 12:53:56 PM
It is horrible here in the USA Bambu, I was homeless for 2 years out there on the streets, clean and sober with a college degree and years of work experience out there begging for a job and no one would hire me, I was homeless in my home country. My family has been in the USA for hundreds of years and I had to be homeless here.

I hear Battle Mountain is a literal paradise on earth. You should have moved there.

It is all about the people you have in your life, if you have a nice wife, and a family, then Battle Mountain, Nevada, is great, if you just want a nice safe place to love your wife and to raise your family, then Battle Mountain is great. And I would have rather been living in Battle Mountain instead of being homeless here in California, if I have to be a bum here then I will have no problem moving away. I would rather have a business and a home and a family in Battle Mountain, instead of being a bum here.

The only saving grace here is that we have good schools, and I can go to the schools to get help and to meet new people. Battle Mountain does not have a film school.

But, if I had a wife and family and if my wife wanted to live in Battle Mountain, then I would gladly live in Battle Mountain. And I lived in Battle Mountain for 2 years and worked as a cook at a casino, I was grateful to be able to get an honest job.

Also, if I could open a commune in Battle Mountain to help the homeless and the outcasts and the refugees, etc, then I would do it. The same ideas that I am sending to Carlos Santana I would do myself if I was rich and famous. I would be creating farms where the homeless people can work and where they can have a home and where they can be like a family with the other people on the commune. If I was Jeff Bezos then I would open communes for the outcasts where they can work on the farm and where they can have a home.

For the families coming from Ukraine, etc, it is better to buy cheap land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and to have a home, instead of being homeless or on welfare in California. If they can have a farm in Nevada then that is what I would do instead of being homeless in California. Or if they can create a huge community of refugees from the Ukraine who all help each other, then they can do great things in Battle Mountain, and they can sell food to San Francisco, etc.

There is also Kiwanis International in Battle Mountain, Kiwanis is global, and that is always a good place to make new friends when you first move to an area. Here in Anaheim I met the people from City Hall, and I met the Chief Of Police, and lots of business owners here, at Kiwanis International, I was in Kiwanis for 2 years, and we helped the orphans in Mexico, etc, we raised money for new beds for an orphanage in Mexico. You can meet new people at Kiwanis anywhere in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 06:40:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 05:13:04 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 12:41:18 PM
The alternative is the Left/Far Left...aka China, Russia, NK, open borders, and Karl Marx.

China, Russia and NK are totalitarian states. Authoritarian and Fascist. Stop being so willfully dumb.

You missed the other two...the leftist /far leftist brigades of political correctness, multiculturalism, open borders, 'everyone in the world is a lovely person' massive legal and illegal immigration...the things Trump stood against.
Also Marx...the left's communist hero.

Most folks on the left value the work of Groucho more so than Karl.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 19, 2023, 06:47:54 PM: Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments dont. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the suckers and the mugs - its the same thing. They have their five year plans, so have I.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 06:48:25 PM: Bambu, to Donald Trump and their whole Trump family then guys like us are just losers. Trump would never allow me near him or any of his clubs or homes, and certainly the Trump family would never be out there helping the homeless, they do not understand what it is like to be poor and homeless, and they would just look down on me. Trump only likes the rich people. George W. Bush is a much better man than Trump is, and George W. Bush is a good Christian who I could be friends with. And Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico. The Bush family is much better than the Trump family. To Trump we are all just losers, but to George W. Bush then we are all God's children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 06:54:23 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 06:40:20 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 05:13:04 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 19, 2023, 12:41:18 PM
The alternative is the Left/Far Left...aka China, Russia, NK, open borders, and Karl Marx.

China, Russia and NK are totalitarian states. Authoritarian and Fascist. Stop being so willfully dumb.

You missed the other two...the leftist /far leftist brigades of political correctness, multiculturalism, open borders, 'everyone in the world is a lovely person' massive legal and illegal immigration...the things Trump stood against.
Also Marx...the left's communist hero.

Most folks on the left value the work of Groucho more so than Karl.

lol
Well that's something I guess. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 07:03:59 PM: On my tv just now:

"Microsoft to shed 10,000 jobs".

Horrible. Hope those workers don't finish up homeless.
Yes, one day you're fine, good job, paying the bills, enough food to eat, a nice bed to sleep in, warm home...life is comfortable.
Next day your job is gone, your income has ceased, and your life is in turmoil.
Ok if you have plenty of money in the bank, but most peope don't.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 07:18:19 PM: In Battle Mountain, land is cheap, so the poor people can at least own their own land. It is a lot easier for people when their home is paid off.

And there needs to be communes where the homeless people can go live and work and where they are one big family. They can raise food and they can make cheese, etc.

When I was homeless I would have loved to have had a farm to go work on, and new friends at a commune.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 07:31:00 PM: When I was a kid there were ranches in the desert for the orphans, they had like 14 boys on each ranch, and my Mother used to cut their hair for the boys, and I used to go with her, and I used to watch movies with the orphans, etc, and also I was friends with the orphans at school. The thing is, they all smoked cigarettes, and they all got into smoking pot and doing drugs, and they just all had horrible lives. They did time in juvenile hall for crimes, and they ended up homeless when they left the ranches, or they ended up in prison, they had horrible lives. It would have been better to make the ranches into real working ranches where the kids learn how to make cheese, etc, and where they have to work and where they learn responsibility. The orphans need to be prepared for life, instead of just letting them all smoke cigarettes and smoke pot and be stupid. They should be prepared for work, or college, or the military, etc, instead of being allowed to be stupid where nothing is expected of them. Those orphans never had a chance, they were not being raised right. They were just a bunch of juvenile delinquents with no parents to guide them.

We need to send the orphans to college for free, and we need groups such as CASA, and Big Brothers, to help the youth. There is also the Key Club for the youth, etc. And there is Youth For Christ for the young people.

Right now a lot of orphans are just being neglected, and their lives are just being wasted. We need to send the orphans to college, etc, instead of neglecting them.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 07:40:49 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 07:18:19 PM
In Battle Mountain, land is cheap, so the poor people can at least own their own land. It is a lot easier for people when their home is paid off.

And there needs to be communes where the homeless people can go live and work and where they are one big family. They can raise food and they can make cheese, etc.

When I was homeless I would have loved to have had a farm to go work on, and new friends at a commune.

Salute,

Tony V.

A great place to build a tent city for all the homeless in LA and San Francisco
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 08:03:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 07:40:49 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 07:18:19 PM
In Battle Mountain, land is cheap, so the poor people can at least own their own land. It is a lot easier for people when their home is paid off.

And there needs to be communes where the homeless people can go live and work and where they are one big family. They can raise food and they can make cheese, etc.

When I was homeless I would have loved to have had a farm to go work on, and new friends at a commune.

Salute,

Tony V.

A great place to build a tent city for all the homeless in LA and San Francisco

People could build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, for the homeless to live in, and they can have tennis courts, and swimming pools, and libraries, etc. And they can grow and sell food to San Francisco, etc. I sent the idea to Carlos Santana, and to Goldie Hawn, and to some other people, maybe someone will start building communes for the homeless where the homeless can live and work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 08:21:49 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 19, 2023, 05:31:35 PM
No one of any political persuasion thinks you are a lovely person, Bambi. In that at least there is room for all sides to agree.

Oh yes they do. :)

Maybe not at this site, but this site is not the world. lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 09:01:22 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 08:03:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 07:40:49 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2023, 07:18:19 PM
In Battle Mountain, land is cheap, so the poor people can at least own their own land. It is a lot easier for people when their home is paid off.

And there needs to be communes where the homeless people can go live and work and where they are one big family. They can raise food and they can make cheese, etc.

When I was homeless I would have loved to have had a farm to go work on, and new friends at a commune.

Salute,

Tony V.

A great place to build a tent city for all the homeless in LA and San Francisco

People could build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, for the homeless to live in, and they can have tennis courts, and swimming pools, and libraries, etc. And they can grow and sell food to San Francisco, etc. I sent the idea to Carlos Santana, and to Goldie Hawn, and to some other people, maybe someone will start building communes for the homeless where the homeless can live and work.

Salute,

Tony V.

They're building brightly-colored 'shed homes' for the homeless in LA. They're nice, small but nice.
They're building $600,000 and $800,000 cost to build apartments...but they can't build them fast enough.

Many of the homeless refuse govt etc help if it comes with rules, regulations, curfews etc. Say they want to be able to "come and go as I please".

My no 1 radio host used to say: "If you stand on the corner giving away free pies, everyone will take one".
If the govt starts giving away free luxury apartments, everyone will demand one.
Tricky is the solution to homelessness.

My idea is the best.
. Outlaw camping, living, on city or suburban streets, in parks, under bridges, under raised freeways, raised train lines, ...anywhere except in approved camp grounds etc.
. Remove anyone doing so from where they are to tent camps outside the cities/suburbs. From there the people can choose to leave the state or move elsewhere in it...or stay in the tent camps. [heating/cooling/food/medical/counseling/ beds, showers etc provided].
. The city/suburban streets then cleaned...no more sewer-streets...welcome back tourists...welcome back tourist dollars...welcome back businesses to SE Portland etc.

Everybody happy once again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 19, 2023, 09:05:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 08:21:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 19, 2023, 05:31:35 PM
No one of any political persuasion thinks you are a lovely person, Bambi. In that at least there is room for all sides to agree.

Oh yes they do. :)

Maybe not at this site, but this site is not the world. lol
You clearly do not know what they say about you when your back is turned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 03:01:28 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 19, 2023, 09:05:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 19, 2023, 08:21:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 19, 2023, 05:31:35 PM
No one of any political persuasion thinks you are a lovely person, Bambi. In that at least there is room for all sides to agree.

Oh yes they do. :)

Maybe not at this site, but this site is not the world. lol
You clearly do not know what they say about you when your back is turned.

True...but nobody does, you included...lol
Anyway, team bambu is not out to win any popularity contest these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 07:41:48 AM: They
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2023, 01:08:35 PM: The solution to improving our society is that we need to put people first, instead of everyone being greedy and putting money ahead of people.

I have seen how people can successfully help the homeless, but they did it to help the homeless, and it was not about making a profit.

A lady from here in the OC went to Washington DC and she got sixty million dollars to open the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana in order to help the homeless and the mentally ill. She then brought in psychiatrists and councilors and she went to work helping the homeless. They signed the homeless up for all of the government programs to help them, and they got the homeless medical insurance and a doctor and a psychiatrist and got the people on medication if needed, etc. For housing, people such as my friend Lisa bought houses, and she filled the houses full of beds, and she put the homeless people in the houses, and the people lived in Lisa's houses while they waited to get public housing with HUD, etc.

My friends who were helping the homeless were good Christian people who helped the homeless without any concern about making a profit, they did not help people because of the money, they helped people because they were serving God and they were helping God's children.

And they used every piece of aid available from the Federal Government, the State Government, the County Government, and the City Government, as well as money from charities, etc.

People need to have a community here, and people need to care about the community, and people need to nurture the community, and the USA is not just about making money.

And the rich people can help the homeless if they want, guys like Rick Caruso could build housing for the homeless and they can create easy farm jobs for the homeless to do for a living, etc. The homeless can plant orange trees, and they can pick oranges, and they can make orange juice, and they can make cheese, etc. Farm jobs are great for the homeless, and the homeless can live on the farms.

Here in Anaheim the original settlers came from Germany and they came to Anaheim to grow grapes and they wanted to make wine, and they were going to sell wine and have a utopia. They worked together as a team and they wanted to have a community. The grapes were killed by a root disease, and so the settlers started growing oranges, and strawberries, etc, and they succeeded, and now Anaheim and the OC is rich. We need to keep up the same teamwork that the original settlers had when they came here, they worked together as a team.

And no one enjoys being lonely and homeless, everyone would rather have a community and a team. We are tribal creatures, we are not meant to be poor and alone and homeless. We need to help each other like the tribes do.

If I could go get funding to build housing for the homeless and to create farm jobs for the homeless then I would do it for free, my only aim would be to help the people. That is the type of thinking that will save the homeless, people need to help the people without worrying about making a profit, it is not about the money, it needs to be completely about helping the people.

Another way to get money to help the orphans and to help the homeless, etc, would be to get NASA to tell us where the Gold is in Mexico, and use the money from the Gold mines to help the orphans and to help the homeless.

The Franciscan Monks and others can help to teach the homeless how to grow food, etc. And there is the Future Farmers of America, and other groups that can help to teach the homeless how to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 20, 2023, 01:11:32 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 07:41:48 AM
They

You gave Bambu's posts the wordcount they deserve. Well done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 02:23:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 20, 2023, 01:11:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 07:41:48 AM
They

You gave Bambu's posts the wordcount they deserve. Well done.

Oh dear, someone's not happy.
I do so like everyone to be happy...except of course the bad people.
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2023, 02:36:06 PM: I had a roommate here in Anaheim who was a Franciscan Monk, he helped the homeless, that was his mission. He said the Franciscan Monks own a house by Dick Van Dyke in Malibu that someone donated to the Monks, and he lived in Malibu for a while, and then his mission brought him to Anaheim.

I am sure that the Franciscan Monks will help to teach the homeless how to do farming, and the Future Farmers of America can also help to teach the homeless how to grow food.

Rich guys like Rick Caruso need to open farms for the homeless where the homeless people can live and where they can grow food and where the homeless people can make cheese, etc. And the Franciscan Monks will help, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 20, 2023, 02:43:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 02:23:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 20, 2023, 01:11:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 07:41:48 AM
They

You gave Bambu's posts the wordcount they deserve. Well done.

Oh dear, someone's not happy.
I do so like everyone to be happy...except of course the bad people.
.

Since you are never happy, you must be some really bad people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 03:39:55 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 20, 2023, 02:43:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 02:23:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 20, 2023, 01:11:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 07:41:48 AM
They

You gave Bambu's posts the wordcount they deserve. Well done.

Oh dear, someone's not happy.
I do so like everyone to be happy...except of course the bad people.
.

Since you are never happy, you must be some really bad people.

Team bambu is always happy, with itself.
Not always happy with what's going on around us and globally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 03:48:23 PM: On my tv new just now:

"Google's parent co Alphabet Inc is to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide."

Jobs are fast disappearing...but the birthrate isn't.
Oh where are people going to work...not everyone can be on 'Fans Only', sell their *feet* online, or have a Youtube video.
Soon people won't even be able to get jobs 'digging ditches', robots will be doing that too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 04:03:00 PM: Speaking of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness. there is a man...
a Black man ...single father, adorable 4yr old twin boys, trying to raise them himself.
He has a Youtube channel:
The Hurtt Twins

He's surviving on whatever he can make from his Youtube channel.
The more people who watch the twins in action, click 'like', the more money he'll get from Youtube.
If he makes it, that might inspire other single parents to make it too.

If he gets enough views he might be able to attract a sponsor, which would be even better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 20, 2023, 04:32:26 PM: Jeez, get outside. Take a walk!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2023, 06:18:21 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 03:48:23 PM
On my tv new just now:

"Google's parent co Alphabet Inc is to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide."

Jobs are fast disappearing...but the birthrate isn't.
Oh where are people going to work...not everyone can be on 'Fans Only', sell their *feet* online, or have a Youtube video.
Soon people won't even be able to get jobs 'digging ditches', robots will be doing that too.

If everyone was a Christian then everyone could give 10% of their income to the church, and then the church is supposed to help the poor and the homeless and the orphans, etc. But, sadly most people are not Christians, and most people do not give money towards helping the poor.

The answer is to become a more loving society where people help each other.

And rich people like Rick Caruso need to care about our community and they need to use their vast resources to help our society.

The movie studios here in Hollywood need to do more, Paramount needs to hire local people from the community in their area, and they need to invest in the area, etc. The studios can all do more to help.

Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs at Disney now, and that helps.

And people can work from home with home offices, etc.

There will also always be a need for food, housing, and healthcare.

Meanwhile the Wellness Center in Orange is helping people, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana is helping people, and people can copy and expand those programs.

People will also learn how to live with less, like the Greeks, people can learn to be happy with a good meal, and a good book, and a telescope to see the sky at night, and with going to see community theatre, etc.

And we need hostels where people can take a shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night, and we need communes where people can live and work, etc.

We also have good groups such as Kiwanis International to help the people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 20, 2023, 07:16:40 PM: McCarthy appears to have become Santos little helper.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/george-santos-lies-summary-house-republicans/

https://archive.ph/rVvhu

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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 21, 2023, 12:22:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2023, 06:18:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2023, 03:48:23 PM
On my tv new just now:

"Google's parent co Alphabet Inc is to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide."

Jobs are fast disappearing...but the birthrate isn't.
Oh where are people going to work...not everyone can be on 'Fans Only', sell their *feet* online, or have a Youtube video.
Soon people won't even be able to get jobs 'digging ditches', robots will be doing that too.

If everyone was a Christian then everyone could give 10% of their income to the church, and then the church is supposed to help the poor and the homeless and the orphans, etc. But, sadly most people are not Christians, and most people do not give money towards helping the poor.

The answer is to become a more loving society where people help each other.

And rich people like Rick Caruso need to care about our community and they need to use their vast resources to help our society.

The movie studios here in Hollywood need to do more, Paramount needs to hire local people from the community in their area, and they need to invest in the area, etc. The studios can all do more to help.

Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs at Disney now, and that helps.

And people can work from home with home offices, etc.

There will also always be a need for food, housing, and healthcare.

Meanwhile the Wellness Center in Orange is helping people, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana is helping people, and people can copy and expand those programs.

People will also learn how to live with less, like the Greeks, people can learn to be happy with a good meal, and a good book, and a telescope to see the sky at night, and with going to see community theatre, etc.

And we need hostels where people can take a shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night, and we need communes where people can live and work, etc.

We also have good groups such as Kiwanis International to help the people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Rick Caruso lit $100 million dollars on fire 8n an effort to elect Karen Bass as Mayor..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2023, 01:09:51 PM: Mayor Karen Bass is off to a slow start, she said she wanted to be prepared so that she could help the homeless on day 1, but then she had to organize, and she is still organizing, slowly she is helping the homeless, including recently helping the homeless in Santa Monica, but she is off to a slow start. Mayor Bass has my support in helping the homeless, and I will happily send her my ideas. And I can send ideas to Rick Caruso as well. And I sent ideas to Carlos Santana and to Goldie Hawn on Facebook, etc. And I send ideas to Vice President Harris on Facebook.

I want to see Mayor Bass succeed in helping the homeless, and I will help however I can.

I also suggest that people open hostels in Hollywood where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 21, 2023, 02:17:51 PM: Ok, can a lawyer explain this?

A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing an elected state prosecutor, but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him.
(AP News)

My question: why do the federal courts need to? If Warrens removal was illegal, and so the petitioners claim of illegality was ruled correct by the Court, then wouldnt reinstatement be automatic? It would seem to me Warren has won the substance of his case and should return to his office in Hillsborough county. Sigh. I guess the law is too complicated for that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 21, 2023, 02:40:37 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 21, 2023, 02:17:51 PM
Ok, can a lawyer explain this?

A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing an elected state prosecutor, but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him.
(AP News)

My question: why do the federal courts need to? If Warrens removal was illegal, and so the petitioners claim of illegality was ruled correct by the Court, then wouldnt reinstatement be automatic? It would seem to me Warren has won the substance of his case and should return to his office in Hillsborough county. Sigh. I guess the law is too complicated for that.
No. It is pretty straight forward as the Trial Judge noted in his opinion, had you read it.

The Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits a federal court from awarding relief of the kind at issue against a state official based only on a violation of state law. And the suspension would have occurred even had there been no First Amendment violation, the First Amendment violation was not essential to the outcome.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2023, 05:14:28 PM: shouldn't be very long before all women in the West are covered in tattoos and/or have their lips puffed up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 21, 2023, 05:16:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2023, 01:09:51 PM
Mayor Karen Bass is off to a slow start, she said she wanted to be prepared so that she could help the homeless on day 1, but then she had to organize, and she is still organizing, slowly she is helping the homeless, including recently helping the homeless in Santa Monica, but she is off to a slow start. Mayor Bass has my support in helping the homeless, and I will happily send her my ideas. And I can send ideas to Rick Caruso as well. And I sent ideas to Carlos Santana and to Goldie Hawn on Facebook, etc. And I send ideas to Vice President Harris on Facebook.

I want to see Mayor Bass succeed in helping the homeless, and I will help however I can.

I also suggest that people open hostels in Hollywood where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.

Caruso could have opened a ton of $15 a night hostels with $100 million dollars
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 21, 2023, 05:56:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2023, 01:09:51 PM
Mayor Karen Bass is off to a slow start, she said she wanted to be prepared so that she could help the homeless on day 1, but then she had to organize, and she is still organizing, slowly she is helping the homeless, including recently helping the homeless in Santa Monica, but she is off to a slow start. Mayor Bass has my support in helping the homeless, and I will happily send her my ideas. And I can send ideas to Rick Caruso as well. And I sent ideas to Carlos Santana and to Goldie Hawn on Facebook, etc. And I send ideas to Vice President Harris on Facebook.

I want to see Mayor Bass succeed in helping the homeless, and I will help however I can.

I also suggest that people open hostels in Hollywood where people can shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
The King of Spain and the spawn of the Shah shod help move all the homeless move to Battle Mountain and produce their screenplays.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2023, 07:37:37 PM: Then there are the smart-asses physically and verbally abusing malnourished, physically and mentally weak homeless people.
These young morons don't realise that one day they could be living on the streets homeless themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2023, 08:38:21 PM: We can have the music of the future, and the music of peace and of justice, etc.

https://youtu.be/XAj82yZMJ-4

And we can have hippies with egg farms, and hippies making cheese, etc.

And they can all sell food to San Francisco, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 22, 2023, 10:21:35 AM: Happy Year of the Cat, y'all. (Rabbit, in China, but I am going with the Southeast Asian lunar new year which goes with the cat)

A greeting already tinged with a bitter note thanks to the sicko in Monterey Park last night.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 02:01:59 PM: The Vietnamese Americans are celebrating in Westminster, the police here in the OC will keep them safe, and they have SWAT snipers on the roof tops helping to provide security for their parade.

My Mother lived in Westminster when she was a child, and she loved it.

After the end of the Vietnam War the people from Vietnam were brought to Camp Pendleton and from there they were allowed to choose where in the USA they wanted to live, and they picked Westminster, California, so Westminster is now home to many people from Vietnam.

I talked with some people about what it was like when Vietnam fell to communism and when they escaped to America, and they said the communists in Vietnam were dangerous, and they were like savages, and they would kill anyone who did not go along with their bullshit. They said the communists were dangerous in Vietnam. They were grateful to escape to the USA. Also, many people from Vietnam escaped to France, and there are a lot of people from Vietnam living in France.

Right now we are bringing people from Ukraine to the USA, and I suggest they look at Battle Mountain, Nevada, as they are searching for a home, the same way that the people from Vietnam picked Westminster, California. Also, Napa, and Merced, are nice areas for the refugees from Ukraine, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 22, 2023, 02:12:54 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 22, 2023, 10:21:35 AM
Happy Year of the Cat, y'all. (Rabbit, in China, but I am going with the Southeast Asian lunar new year which goes with the cat)

A greeting already tinged with a bitter note thanks to the sicko in Monterey Park last night.

Time to introduce absolute security in places and at times like that.
Shooter reported as an "Asian male" in a "largely Asian city".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 02:35:35 PM: There are still some of the old hippies alive, we have Carlos Santana here in Los Angeles, and he is all about peace and love, and Carlos is great, and he wants to get together with people to help to make society better. There is also Goldie Hawn, and she wants to help people. And Cher is an old hippie. There are still some old hippies alive. Meryl Streep is also an old hippy. The hippies can help society, and they can help to guide the homeless people, and they can help to teach the homeless people about communes and about farming and about how to make cheese, etc. The old hippies can help to guide the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 22, 2023, 02:37:44 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/17/2147701/-Restaurant-lobby-group-has-siphoned-off-25-million-from-workers-to-support-its-anti-worker-efforts (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/17/2147701/-Restaurant-lobby-group-has-siphoned-off-25-million-from-workers-to-support-its-anti-worker-efforts)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 04:33:26 PM: The police caught the bad guy, they found him dead in a van from a self inflicted gunshot wound. So sad about the victims.

It is good that the people in Westminster had their party in spite of the killer, they did not let the killer spoil their parade and celebration.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 06:07:45 PM: With the hard times, a lot of people will learn to quit smoking cigarettes, smoking is a very expensive habit which the poor people can no longer afford, and after they quit they will be healthier and they will live longer.

The poor people will also have to give up their cars. Cars are too expensive, and with registration and gasoline and insurance and with tires and upkeep, it is just not worth it to own a car. It is better to give up your car, and you can use the money on more important things like food and shelter.

And people will not be able to afford to be obese in the future. People will have a limited budget and they will not be able to afford to eat enough to be fat. When I was a kid I was poor and skinny and I could not afford to eat enough to get fat, and my Mother was a single widow with 3 children to raise, none of us could afford to be fat. People in the future will be eating cheap and abundant apples and oranges, and vegetables, and they will not be able to eat the junk food, and the people in the future with be thinner and healthier. We need to teach the poor how to cook, and how to eat healthy. And we can put the homeless people to work growing apples and oranges, etc.

We are heading into another recession, and people are getting laid off. Along with the 60,000 homeless people that we already have in Los Angeles.

And we need more Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, and cheap hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night. ( And if people will quit smoking, then they can sleep in a bed at a hostel for the price of a pack of cigarettes. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 06:50:33 PM: In the future the people in America are going to be like the French, they will live with their parents until they are 40 years old, when they live on their own then they live in a tiny apartment, no one owns a car and they walk everywhere and ride bicycles, etc, and public transportation, etc. They are all thin because they cannot afford to eat enough to be fat. Plus there is the benefit of the Mediterranean Diet. And they grow grapes and they make their own wine so they always have cheap and abundant wine. And the French eat healthy and they grow their own food. The French just need to quit smoking cigarettes.

And Americans will be like the Greeks, who are happy with good food, and good wine, and a good book, and with community theatre, and with a telescope the see the sky at night, etc.

We are also like the Romans, and our battles here are at Angel Stadium during the baseball games. And we have the Ducks hockey team.

Right now not very many Americans are out walking to the store, and to the post office, etc, but soon we will see a lot more people out walking, like the French, and like the Romans, and like the Greeks. Soon many Americans will be out walking.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 22, 2023, 08:11:23 PM: If only the Romans had the Mighty Ducks. Their empire could have extended to the very poles of this earth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 22, 2023, 10:22:31 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2023, 06:50:33 PM
In the future the people in America are going to be like the French, they will live with their parents until they are 40 years old, when they live on their own then they live in a tiny apartment, no one owns a car and they walk everywhere and ride bicycles, etc, and public transportation, etc. They are all thin because they cannot afford to eat enough to be fat. Plus there is the benefit of the Mediterranean Diet. And they grow grapes and they make their own wine so they always have cheap and abundant wine. And the French eat healthy and they grow their own food. The French just need to quit smoking cigarettes.

And Americans will be like the Greeks, who are happy with good food, and good wine, and a good book, and with community theatre, and with a telescope the see the sky at night, etc.

We are also like the Romans, and our battles here are at Angel Stadium during the baseball games. And we have the Ducks hockey team.

Right now not very many Americans are out walking to the store, and to the post office, etc, but soon we will see a lot more people out walking, like the French, and like the Romans, and like the Greeks. Soon many Americans will be out walking.

Salute,

Tony V.

Is it safe to walk to the store? safe to walk to the post office? in daylight...I wouldn't be doing it anywhere after dark.
America is "Guns and God", whereas France and Italy are just "God".

A 17-year-old girl, Lisa McVey, was kidnapped at night as she rode her bicycle home after her shift at the diner.
Serial killer Bobby Joe Long [raped and murdered ten women in Tampa Bay in 1984]...got her [she lived, cunning girl].
"The bad people lurk in the shadows waiting to pounce, the moment you get security careless" - bambu

It's safer driving 'door to door'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 22, 2023, 11:42:21 PM: Davos Highlight

Al Gore warns, again, the Earth will not survive past 2012.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 23, 2023, 12:17:40 AM: One third of Australians aged 15-24 identify as LGBTQIA+.
More males than females in the age group say they want to marry.

---Latest national survey says.

#####

And in America, is the trend the same?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 23, 2023, 05:13:29 PM: Yes bambu, it is safe to walk in Anaheim, and we have a great bus system, and we have trains that go to Los Angeles, etc. And it is safe to walk in Hollywood. Just be careful when riding the trains and the subways, and you may have to get up and walk to a different car to get away from bad people. For instance, there may be a bunch of bad guys sitting there on the train talking about prison experiences, and for me in an experience like that I will get up and change cars and go sit with nicer people. The trains and subways and buses need to have security guards.

But yes, it is safe to walk in Anaheim. And City planners need to make cities walkable, cities need to be planned with everything that the people need right there within walking distance in their community. I can walk to the pharmacy, and to the grocery store, and to anywhere I need to go, and then for longer trips I have the buses and trains, and the trains also take me to the Los Angeles International Airport so I can go anywhere in the world from here without a car.

And Fac, the Mighty Ducks are expanding and they are investing, two billion dollars is going to be spent in the neighborhood around the area where the Ducks play. It is going to be nice. And they are building a bunch of retirement housing in that area, it is going to be a great area for retired people. And the area is also close to UCI medical school, and Chapman film school. And right now the Angels baseball team is up for sale, and we need for good new owners to buy the Angels, we need for someone cool like Gwen Stefani to buy the Angels, Gwen can get her buddies in Las Vegas to team up with her to buy the Angels baseball team. And Anaheim needs to keep investing, and we need to make this place nice like Saint Augustine, Florida, and like Rome, Italy. And we need to bring in the best master craftsmen as we build, and the best designers, and the best architects, and the best landscapers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 02:05:08 PM: Four billion dollars is going to be invested in Anaheim by where the Mighty Ducks play...

https://ktla.com/news/4-billion-anaheim-entertainment-district-to-transform-honda-center-area/

We need to bring in the best master craftsmen, and the best architects, and the best designers, and the best landscapers, etc, etc, etc, and we need to make Anaheim nice like Saint Augustine, Florida, and like Rome, Italy.

And as we get going with the improvement of Anaheim, then we need to keep going, and we need to make Anaheim as nice as we can. And there is also the work being done on Beach Blvd, etc. And we need to bring in a Barnes and Noble Bookstore, etc, I want for the Barnes and Noble to be Downtown by City Hall. There is a lot we can do here to make it nicer, and to make more money from tourism.

We also need to find a good new owner for the Angels, such as Gwen Stefani.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 02:47:12 PM: With the Angels baseball team, I wish they would show the games on Channel 5, KTLA, like in the old days when Gene Autry owned the team, Gene owned the Angels and he owned Channel 5, so Gene showed all of the Angel games on Channel 5.

And with Arte, he just needs to be honest with the people of the City of Anaheim instead of trying to pull a scam on the people. He needs to have some honor. After what he did I would like for him to sell the team, and I would like to see someone like Gwen Stefani buy the Angels, and she can get her friends in Las Vegas to invest in the Angels with her, and they can make money from sports betting in Vegas, etc. There are some very wealthy people in Vegas who could team up with Gwen Stefani to buy the Angels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 24, 2023, 03:06:17 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 02:47:12 PM
With the Angels baseball team, I wish they would show the games on Channel 5, KTLA, like in the old days when Gene Autry owned the team, Gene owned the Angels and he owned Channel 5, so Gene showed all of the Angel games on Channel 5.

And with Arte, he just needs to be honest with the people of the City of Anaheim instead of trying to pull a scam on the people. He needs to have some honor. After what he did I would like for him to sell the team, and I would like to see someone like Gwen Stefani buy the Angels, and she can get her friends in Las Vegas to invest in the Angels with her, and they can make money from sports betting in Vegas, etc. There are some very wealthy people in Vegas who could team up with Gwen Stefani to buy the Angels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Maybe she should move the team to Battle Mountain.

Though "Gwen Stefani should purchase the LA Angels" is the single most random thing I have seen all day. Good job.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 06:19:28 PM: As Mayor Bass helps the homeless people in Los Angeles then as the people are helped then some of the people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people, some of the homeless people can become managers of homeless shelters, and they can become councilors, etc. The homeless people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people.

And the homeless people all need to be helped the same, regardless of race, or sex, etc, everyone needs to helped equally, and the homeless, and the refugees, and the immigrants, can all live in the same housing and they can go to the same doctors and they can shop at the same grocery stores, etc, everyone needs to be helped equally, and then as they are helped they can be taught how to help other people.

We can build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, for the homeless, and they can have swimming pools and tennis courts, and they can work growing food, and making cheese, etc. Some good areas to put the homeless would be Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Napa, California, and Merced, California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 24, 2023, 06:44:56 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 06:19:28 PM
As Mayor Bass helps the homeless people in Los Angeles then as the people are helped then some of the people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people, some of the homeless people can become managers of homeless shelters, and they can become councilors, etc. The homeless people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people.

And the homeless people all need to be helped the same, regardless of race, or sex, etc, everyone needs to helped equally, and the homeless, and the refugees, and the immigrants, can all live in the same housing and they can go to the same doctors and they can shop at the same grocery stores, etc, everyone needs to be helped equally, and then as they are helped they can be taught how to help other people.

We can build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, for the homeless, and they can have swimming pools and tennis courts, and they can work growing food, and making cheese, etc. Some good areas to put the homeless would be Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Napa, California, and Merced, California.

Salute,

Tony V.

The homeless, really should be moved to somewhere outside the major cities, ecause what there are now, 'sewer' streets where homeless camps have taken over the landscape, even at city hall, and *thousands* of people on the streets dying from hunger/disease etc....if allowed to continue will eventually bury the city.
The streets of the cities should be taken back, and made pristeen again.
Why is it not done?...maybe it's a race/racism thing.
Maybe the sight of People of Color etc [who wouldn't relocate voluntarily, to the govt's army tent cities with food, heating/cooling, showers, doctors etc] being "tossed into the backs of trucks" is too much for the politicians to bear.
Time for every American person out of work to get $700per FN cash paid into their bank account..."unemployment benefit".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 24, 2023, 07:02:23 PM: The problem in America is much greater;

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/they-should-be-gone-police-government-plan-to-dismantle-martin-place-camp-20170803-gxow4l.html (https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/they-should-be-gone-police-government-plan-to-dismantle-martin-place-camp-20170803-gxow4l.html)

The state government is planning to dismantle a homeless camp at Martin Place for a second time, and police threaten to throw anyone who resists "in the back of a truck".

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sydneys-tent-city-one-year-on-where-are-they-now/iscyxbr0v (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sydneys-tent-city-one-year-on-where-are-they-now/iscyxbr0v)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 07:09:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 24, 2023, 06:44:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 06:19:28 PM
As Mayor Bass helps the homeless people in Los Angeles then as the people are helped then some of the people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people, some of the homeless people can become managers of homeless shelters, and they can become councilors, etc. The homeless people can be trained so that they can help other homeless people.

And the homeless people all need to be helped the same, regardless of race, or sex, etc, everyone needs to helped equally, and the homeless, and the refugees, and the immigrants, can all live in the same housing and they can go to the same doctors and they can shop at the same grocery stores, etc, everyone needs to be helped equally, and then as they are helped they can be taught how to help other people.

We can build high density apartments like in Santorini, Greece, for the homeless, and they can have swimming pools and tennis courts, and they can work growing food, and making cheese, etc. Some good areas to put the homeless would be Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Napa, California, and Merced, California.

Salute,

Tony V.

The homeless, really should be moved to somewhere outside the major cities, ecause what there are now, 'sewer' streets where homeless camps have taken over the landscape, even at city hall, and *thousands* of people on the streets dying from hunger/disease etc....if allowed to continue will eventually bury the city.
The streets of the cities should be taken back, and made pristeen again.
Why is it not done?...maybe it's a race/racism thing.
Maybe the sight of People of Color etc [who wouldn't relocate voluntarily, to the govt's army tent cities with food, heating/cooling, showers, doctors etc] being "tossed into the backs of trucks" is too much for the politicians to bear.
Time for every American person out of work to get $700per FN cash paid into their bank account..."unemployment benefit".

We have some areas where we can have drug treatment camps, such as in Acton, and in Santa Clarita, and in Lake Hughes.

We also have some really nice old hotels such as the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles that are sitting empty and we can put the homeless people in the great old hotels.

And can build housing in other areas such as Battle Mountain, Nevada, and such as Napa, and Merced, in California.

Maybe racism plays into the situation Bambu, the rich people in Beverly Hills are the Jews and Persians, and some of them help each other in their community but they do not help people outside of their community. For instance, maybe the Jews do not feel any obligation to feed the Mexicans, etc. We need to start viewing all Americans as being equal, and helping all Americans equal. Maybe racism is to blame in part for the problem of some people being outcast from society and left homeless on the streets alone and hungry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 07:15:37 PM: And a simple little thing like a cheap shower and bed for the night would solve most of the problem, if people could go to a hostel and shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night then that would solve a huge part of the problem of homelessness. If you can make enough money working at McDonald's to be able to afford a bed and a shower then people would be sleeping in a bed instead of being homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 07:24:23 PM: Yes Bambu, after people are given help then they must not rebuild the tent cities.

We need to keep the streets clean once the people are removed.

But, it is important that the people have help available, and opportunities available.

The mentally ill can get help, and the elderly, and the disabled, and then the able bodied people need to be able to grow food and to make cheese, etc, they need honest opportunities such as planting orange trees and picking oranges and making orange juice.

We can help the orphans when they are young to make sure that they go to college and to make sure that the orphans do not end up homeless.

And we can train the homeless to help other homeless people, we can get them trained to manage homeless shelters, and to be councilors, and they can run cheap hostels, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 07:54:13 PM: Some people here in America think that we should have equity in America from the work that our ancestors did building this nation. I agree that there is equity, but some of us just view the rewards of the equity differently.

Some people want welfare and free housing.

But not me, I want for the rewards of the hard work of my ancestors to create opportunities and blessings for all men, for instance our ancestors built 1,500 dams in California to help to support our agriculture and our population with water. I want for all Californians to benefit and to have plentiful water to grow food and to water our lawns and to have swimming pools in the desert, etc. That is equity right there, being able to grow food thanks to the water our ancestors provided is equity, and I support that. And working hard for generations to increase tourism is equity when the people can sell stuff to the tourists in order to survive. When we receive 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim then that is equity as we sell stuff to the tourists and as we entertain and feed the tourists. And now that Las Vegas is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with a great economy, which it went to from just being wide open desert, that is equity, they turned the desert out in the middle of nowhere into a great successful city, that is equity.

The new generation of Americans can build high speed trains to build equity in America for future generations. Etc.

And may God bless all of the people who choose to help the homeless people. Having a community like the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana is equity, they built that up to help all of the people here. Having a safety net to catch you when you need help is equity.

There are many ways we have equity here from our ancestors.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2023, 11:25:41 PM: Queen Elizabeth used to make all of the stars in England "Sirs" and "Dames" because she knew the power of the stars to help to guide society.

If I was Biden I would be using all of the stars to help me. And the same with Mayor Bass, she needs to use the stars to help her.

I would have all of the peaceful old hippies helping me, I would have Carlos Santana, and Goldie Hawn, and Cher, and Meryl Streep, helping to guide the homeless people in Los Angeles and helping to guide the homeless toward farming and making cheese and living on communes, etc.

And for the war in Ukraine, I would go to George Lucas for help, and to Francis Ford Coppola, and to other geniuses.

Marlon Brando marched with Martin Luther King and Brando's star power helped to shine a light on King's mission.

The stars can help to make the world a better place, and many stars feel alone and crave attention and they would love to help to make the world a better place. And the stars were honored when Queen Elizabeth made them Sirs and Dames. The stars want to help to make the world a better place.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2023, 01:18:54 AM: H.G. Wells knew that the artists and the writers can help to lead society and that the artists need to be a part of our desire to improve society. I may not agree with all of the political ideas of H.G. Wells but I agree that the artists can help to improve society.

And there was Woodstock, and there was Willie Nelson doing Farm Aid, etc. The artists play a role in society. And Michigan loves Ted Nugent, when Ted talks the people in Michigan pay attention, and while Ted might not support Biden, Ted does support America and freedom and good human rights, and all that America stands for, and Ted also supports hunters donating meat to feed the needy at soup kitchens for the homeless, etc.

The stars and the artists can help to lead society.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 25, 2023, 03:32:25 AM: I think we can improve ourselves without the assistance of the likes of Ted Nugent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 25, 2023, 03:42:36 AM: That guy very famously cannot even drive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2023, 03:46:00 PM: This morning on the television news they had a lady who was talking about how we can manifest our realities, and she was talking about how we can have a vision of how we want to live, and then about how we can work to manifest the reality that we want to live. Manifesting our realities is great in a lot of ways, and as leaders we have our vision of the reality that we want and our leadership ability is all about enrolling other people in our vision to help to manifest our vision to become our reality. Leadership is all about having a good vision, and then enrolling other people to manifest your vision into becoming your reality.

If we have a vision of gardens in Napa where the homeless people can live and work on the farm and grow food, and make cheese, etc, then we simply enroll other people in our vision and make it happen.

The best leaders are the ones who have the best visions and who go out and enroll other people in their vision to help to manifest their vision into becoming their reality.

And it is the same with making movies, you have to enroll other people in your vision and then work together as a team to make your vision into a reality.

With Ukraine, we need to have a vision of peace and prosperity in Ukraine and then we can enroll people in that vision to manifest that reality.

The leaders who have the best visions and who are good at enrolling other people in their visions to make the visions a reality are the best leaders.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 25, 2023, 06:57:59 PM: Looks like the lunatic fringe of the GOP is sending a gift to Democrats - a tax reform proposal so idiotic that even Grover Norquist hates it.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3821761-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-gop-bill-to-abolish-the-tax-code/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 25, 2023, 09:53:56 PM: Florida, Florida, Florida

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/01/11/manatee-county-confederate-monument-bradenton
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 25, 2023, 10:47:24 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 25, 2023, 06:57:59 PM
Looks like the lunatic fringe of the GOP is sending a gift to Democrats - a tax reform proposal so idiotic that even Grover Norquist hates it.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3821761-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-gop-bill-to-abolish-the-tax-code/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 26, 2023, 12:12:30 AM: Even Red cannot defend the hike taxes and kill grandma agenda of the republican party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 26, 2023, 04:21:31 PM: 5 Memphis cops fired, arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder.

No administrative leave

No ongoing investigation

This video must be heinous.

Fuck Tim Scott
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 26, 2023, 05:19:22 PM: Durham

Four years

Millions of dolllars

Thank God there is now a Select Sub-Committee on the Weaponization of Federal Government to look into this scandal.

heh

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

On one of Mr. Barr and Mr. Durhams trips to Europe, according to people familiar with the matter, Italian officials - while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation - unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 12:04:57 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 26, 2023, 04:21:31 PM
5 Memphis cops fired, arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder.

No administrative leave

No ongoing investigation

This video must be heinous.

Fuck Tim Scott

Heinous it is, released now.
So much for the 'brotherhood'.
So much for "Black lives matter".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 07:48:43 AM: The slow and horrific beating to death of Tyre Nichols clearly demonstrates that some cops, no matter their color, will "bash the tripe out of you"/ "do you in", with batons, fists, boots etc, when you're unarmed and helpless.
It's not all cops, most cops seem to be good, honest and true, protecting and serving the best they can "24/7/365".
Heaven help you if you meet up with the other kind though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 28, 2023, 09:27:10 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 07:48:43 AM
The slow and horrific beating to death of Tyre Nichols clearly demonstrates that some cops, no matter their color, will "bash the tripe out of you"/ "do you in", with batons, fists, boots etc, when you're unarmed and helpless.
It's not all cops, most cops seem to be good, honest and true, protecting and serving the best they can "24/7/365".
Heaven help you if you meet up with the other kind though.

It is the culturof law enforcement. The US. vs THEM.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 28, 2023, 12:46:46 PM: The community residency requirement, if that is made standard, could help with the problem. It's both the culture and the difficulty of filtering out crypto-sociopaths or just standard bullies who want to pass along what Dad did to them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 03:43:14 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 28, 2023, 09:27:10 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 07:48:43 AM
The slow and horrific beating to death of Tyre Nichols clearly demonstrates that some cops, no matter their color, will "bash the tripe out of you"/ "do you in", with batons, fists, boots etc, when you're unarmed and helpless.
It's not all cops, most cops seem to be good, honest and true, protecting and serving the best they can "24/7/365".
Heaven help you if you meet up with the other kind though.

It is the culturof law enforcement. The US. vs THEM.

Maybe, but most cops are not like that. They might get a bit rough ("reasonable force") when arresting offenders, but they don't bash them senseless or to death...or do they in America as a general 'rule'/occurrence/culture?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 03:52:12 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2023, 12:46:46 PM
The community residency requirement, if that is made standard, could help with the problem. It's both the culture and the difficulty of filtering out crypto-sociopaths or just standard bullies who want to pass along what Dad did to them.

In America, are parents still allowed to discipline their children with beatings/bashings?
Beatings with leather belts, canes, lumps of wood, garden hoses, fists etc?

Do American schools discipline students with corporal punishment, belting them with canes etc?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 28, 2023, 04:14:34 PM: I do not understand the culture of violence, and I do not understand why someone would want to beat someone to death. I have seen people with bad tempers, and I do not like to be around those kind of people. Violent people with bad tempers suck.

I do not like the violence when the cops do it, and I do not like violence period.

I have seen movies where all that they do is fight for 2 hours, and I hate those kind of movies. I find no joy in watching people fight. I like Boxing, and I have a friend who owns a gym for professional Boxers, but Boxing is a sport and the Boxers are athletes with a lot of dedication, these young people really train hard to Box. But, when it comes to movies, I want a story, and I want love, and beautiful women, etc. My movies and poetry are all about love.

And for the police, they are supposed to be out there to Serve and Protect. The children are taught to look up to Police and to look up to Fire Fighters, and they need to be men of respect and honor.

I almost moved to Memphis, I rode a Greyhound bus across the country from Nevada to Florida, and then back from Florida to Nevada, and the buses zig zagged across the nation and so I was able to see a lot of the USA, and I loved Memphis, I ate lunch at a McDonald's in Memphis and the people were very nice, I liked Memphis. And then the book "The Firm" is set in Memphis, the book is better than the movie which starred Tom Cruise. Memphis is a cool place. Memphis is one of my favorite cities in the USA. It is sad that the cops committed this crime in Memphis.

And yes Bambu, people are allowed to spank their kids in the USA, but in Psychology class in college they teach people not to spank the kids. So the poor uneducated people beat their kids, but the educated people are more civilized. But, the sad thing when baby-sitting kids who are used to being spanked, then you need to spank them. But, like with my Father before he died, he never beat me, he would talk with me, and he would teach me to understand, and I would cry if I disappointed him, I loved him and I wanted him to be proud of me and so I never wanted to disappoint him. My Dad never had to beat me.

One thing too that I noticed, is that there are ignorant evil people and that is all that they have is being tough and violent, without that then they have nothing. So, if the little guy has a gun then that big violent asshole has no power over him. Guns stop bullies. It does not matter how big or evil the bad guy is if the good guy has a gun. The same with women who live alone, they are safe if they have a gun, the bad guy has no power over a gun. All of the rich single women in Beverly Hills have guns, you can bet on it.

Anyhow, I hate bullies, and I hate violence, and I hate that these cops beat this young man to death in Memphis. Memphis needs to clean house on their whole police department and they need to retrain and educate their force. And we need for the cops to be a good part of the community instead of being bullies and murderers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 28, 2023, 05:03:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 03:52:12 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2023, 12:46:46 PM
The community residency requirement, if that is made standard, could help with the problem. It's both the culture and the difficulty of filtering out crypto-sociopaths or just standard bullies who want to pass along what Dad did to them.

In America, are parents still allowed to discipline their children with beatings/bashings?
Beatings with leather belts, canes, lumps of wood, garden hoses, fists etc?

Not a matter of allowed. Child abuse still happens because the law cannot be everywhere. It is not legal, but it happens. Not every situation of abuse is detected by an alert schoolteacher or social worker or caring relative. And family members may not contact police because of fears of retribution or being "Stockholm syndromed" by a dominant parent. So many social ills start with broken homes and lack of a supporting community to turn to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 06:01:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2023, 05:03:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 03:52:12 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2023, 12:46:46 PM
The community residency requirement, if that is made standard, could help with the problem. It's both the culture and the difficulty of filtering out crypto-sociopaths or just standard bullies who want to pass along what Dad did to them.

In America, are parents still allowed to discipline their children with beatings/bashings?
Beatings with leather belts, canes, lumps of wood, garden hoses, fists etc?

Not a matter of allowed. Child abuse still happens because the law cannot be everywhere. It is not legal, but it happens. Not every situation of abuse is detected by an alert schoolteacher or social worker or caring relative. And family members may not contact police because of fears of retribution or being "Stockholm syndromed" by a dominant parent. So many social ills start with broken homes and lack of a supporting community to turn to.

Thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 06:39:00 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 28, 2023, 04:14:34 PM

One thing too that I noticed, is that there are ignorant evil people and that is all that they have is being tough and violent, without that then they have nothing. So, if the little guy has a gun then that big violent asshole has no power over him. Guns stop bullies. It does not matter how big or evil the bad guy is if the good guy has a gun. The same with women who live alone, they are safe if they have a gun, the bad guy has no power over a gun. All of the rich single women in Beverly Hills have guns, you can bet on it.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
I totally agree.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on January 28, 2023, 09:31:37 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-police-chief-issues-warning-criminals-homeowner-shoots-burglars-most-people-armed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2023, 09:48:47 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on January 28, 2023, 09:31:37 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-police-chief-issues-warning-criminals-homeowner-shoots-burglars-most-people-armed

Yes, people have had enough of their homes being invaded...and had enough of their loved ones being bashed, raped, and murdered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 29, 2023, 01:47:08 AM: Nothing is insurable in Florida, not your house, not even your life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 29, 2023, 02:54:30 PM: For the children in America it is important to pay attention to violence in our public schools. We need to keep it safe for our children, and we need to end the culture of violence.

My favorite school growing up was a Christian school that I attended for a short time, we made model rockets and launched them, and we made paper airplanes, it was in the 5th Grade, it was a great school with zero fights.

At the public schools I always had to fight against the bullies, especially in Oregon where they hated Californians, but I never had to fight at the Christian school.

We need for the children in the public schools to have the same safe conditions as the Christian schools, and we need for the children in the public schools to be taught empathy for others and peace and they need to have brotherhood with their fellow students. And the poor people need to be taught good manners and good behavior just like the rich people are taught.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 29, 2023, 03:02:55 PM: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34az8/missing-tiny-deadly-radioactive-capsule-spurs-nationwide-search-in-australia

Stay in the basement, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 29, 2023, 04:00:09 PM: In the schools here in California a lot of school teachers are actors and actresses. One of my high school teachers was an actor who was friends with Ricardo Montalban, and with Michael Landon, and he taught the class how to behave at Hollywood parties when meeting the rich and famous people, he told us to be good listeners, and said that the stars will always love you if you are a good listener. He used to come teach the class as different characters, one day he would be Mark Twain, and another time he would be Edgar Allan Poe, etc. He brought a camera to class and he let us do stuff in front of the camera to get some experience being in front of the camera. It was the first time that I seriously considered having a life in show business.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2023, 08:42:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2023, 03:02:55 PM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34az8/missing-tiny-deadly-radioactive-capsule-spurs-nationwide-search-in-australia

Stay in the basement, Bambu.

We don't have basements, as a general *rule*.
That nuke capsule "fell off the back of a truck", supposedly...the transporter said it was in a crate that was securely tied down, so who knows.
The said capsule is about 1/2inch square or the like.
A lot harder to lose nuke missiles. Hopefully they'll be arriving soon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 30, 2023, 01:38:36 PM: At mach 12, one hopes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 30, 2023, 01:40:17 PM: Could not resist.

Meanwhile, Wednesday has passed.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1152472309/lisa-loring-wednesday-addams

Another doll decapitated by drugs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 01:45:11 PM: The school teachers here need to teach the children that they are going to inherit Hollywood when they grow up, the children here need to be taught how to work in show business and how to run the movie studios and how to write and produce and star in television shows and movies.

And the studios here need to hire the local people after we study and train to work in show business.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 02:43:12 PM: Our ancestors worked hard to build up the movie studios and the Entertainment Industry here in Hollywood, and we need for the local people here to be able to get the jobs at the studios that our ancestors built. And instead of the children being little gang members and covering themselves with tattoos then they need to learn about Hollywood. Hollywood is our gift from our ancestors. We are lucky to have Hollywood, and we need to be able to get jobs working in Hollywood. And I am a writer too. We need for our children to be blessed with opportunities here in Hollywood. Our ancestors worked hard to build up Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 30, 2023, 05:11:21 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 30, 2023, 01:40:17 PM
Could not resist.

Meanwhile, Wednesday has passed.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1152472309/lisa-loring-wednesday-addams

Another doll decapitated by drugs.

We were the same age
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 30, 2023, 05:12:34 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 02:43:12 PM
Our ancestors worked hard to build up the movie studios and the Entertainment Industry here in Hollywood, and we need for the local people here to be able to get the jobs at the studios that our ancestors built. And instead of the children being little gang members and covering themselves with tattoos then they need to learn about Hollywood. Hollywood is our gift from our ancestors. We are lucky to have Hollywood, and we need to be able to get jobs working in Hollywood. And I am a writer too. We need for our children to be blessed with opportunities here in Hollywood. Our ancestors worked hard to build up Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.

Atlanta is the new Hollywood.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 07:03:41 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 30, 2023, 05:12:34 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 02:43:12 PM
Our ancestors worked hard to build up the movie studios and the Entertainment Industry here in Hollywood, and we need for the local people here to be able to get the jobs at the studios that our ancestors built. And instead of the children being little gang members and covering themselves with tattoos then they need to learn about Hollywood. Hollywood is our gift from our ancestors. We are lucky to have Hollywood, and we need to be able to get jobs working in Hollywood. And I am a writer too. We need for our children to be blessed with opportunities here in Hollywood. Our ancestors worked hard to build up Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.

Atlanta is the new Hollywood.

Back when I was in acting school at the AADA we were getting a lot of people from Georgia from Julia Roberts parents' acting school. Julia Roberts is the same age as me, and Julia Roberts was a huge star when I was in acting school. So way back in 1996-1997 Georgia was getting attention. Georgia is a great place.

And we can still film our own stuff here in Hollywood, there is enough work for everyone, everywhere.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 30, 2023, 07:16:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 07:03:41 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 30, 2023, 05:12:34 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2023, 02:43:12 PM
Our ancestors worked hard to build up the movie studios and the Entertainment Industry here in Hollywood, and we need for the local people here to be able to get the jobs at the studios that our ancestors built. And instead of the children being little gang members and covering themselves with tattoos then they need to learn about Hollywood. Hollywood is our gift from our ancestors. We are lucky to have Hollywood, and we need to be able to get jobs working in Hollywood. And I am a writer too. We need for our children to be blessed with opportunities here in Hollywood. Our ancestors worked hard to build up Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.

Atlanta is the new Hollywood.

Back when I was in acting school at the AADA we were getting a lot of people from Georgia from Julia Roberts parents' acting school. Julia Roberts is the same age as me, and Julia Roberts was a huge star when I was in acting school. So way back in 1996-1997 Georgia was getting attention. Georgia is a great place.

And we can still film our own stuff here in Hollywood, there is enough work for everyone, everywhere.

Salute,

Tony V.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/why-marvel-studios-films-in-georgia.html

Speaking of Julia Roberts

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133121228/julia-roberts-mlk-birth
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM: Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 05:59:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM
Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.

You are an inane drone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 09:24:45 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 05:59:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM
Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.

You are an inane drone.

People were being shot dead in churches back then...and are still being shot dead in churches today.
If you're going to church, you might want to check the security, and take your gun with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on January 31, 2023, 10:36:12 PM: Lets go!!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-bill-ban-transgender-athletes-womens-sports
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 10:46:54 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on January 31, 2023, 10:36:12 PM
Lets go!!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-bill-ban-transgender-athletes-womens-sports

What is that smell?

Oh, yeah this bill dying and rotting away in the Senate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2023, 11:04:10 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 09:24:45 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 05:59:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM
Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.

You are an inane drone.

People were being shot dead in churches back then...and are still being shot dead in churches today.
If you're going to church, you might want to check the security, and take your gun with you.

Sounds very much not what Jesus would do or preach.

You convicts may follow a different gospel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2023, 11:07:00 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/31/omaha-shooting-target-store-nebraska (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/31/omaha-shooting-target-store-nebraska)

It cannot be easier to shoot up a Target than it is to drive
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 11:35:10 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on January 31, 2023, 10:36:12 PM
Lets go!!!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-bill-ban-transgender-athletes-womens-sports

The tide could be turning.
If it does, more than a few people could be elated, one would be entitled to think, given the media reports.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 01, 2023, 12:04:26 AM: People who have spent their lives upset because they are certain that they have been getting their asses kicked by girls the whole time on the sly will be elated at the thought of their improved chances against watered down competition. Athletes, fans and parents do not care, setting aside a few imbeciles with emotionally crippling kinks to work out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2023, 12:15:25 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2023, 11:04:10 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 09:24:45 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 05:59:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM
Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.

You are an inane drone.

People were being shot dead in churches back then...and are still being shot dead in churches today.
If you're going to church, you might want to check the security, and take your gun with you.

Sounds very much not what Jesus would do or preach.

You convicts may follow a different gospel.

We follow the "love thy neighbour as thyself" gospel.
Part of that love is teaching them right from wrong.
Shooting people in church is wrong, they need to be taught that.
While they're learning, people in churches need to be kept safe.
Same applies to schools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 01, 2023, 12:25:46 AM: That must explain your sane and reasonable gun laws. We should try that here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 01, 2023, 02:26:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2023, 12:15:25 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2023, 11:04:10 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 09:24:45 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2023, 05:59:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2023, 04:54:27 PM
Speaking of MLK...
His mother, and MLK Snr's wife , Alberta, was murdered by Marcus Wayne Chenault on Sunday June 30, 1974, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday services.
Chenault was a 23 yr old black man from Ohio who stood up and yelled "You are serving a false god", and fired his gun while Alberta was playing "The Lord's Prayer" on the church organ.
Chenault stated that he was driven to murder after concluding that " black ministers were a menace to black people" and that "all Christians are his enemies".

The bad people have guns, and use them to murder the good people in Christian churches.
All Christian churches now should be protected by guns and absolute security.

General Patton wore a Colt 45 on his hip, he knew the value of always having a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice.

You are an inane drone.

People were being shot dead in churches back then...and are still being shot dead in churches today.
If you're going to church, you might want to check the security, and take your gun with you.

Sounds very much not what Jesus would do or preach.

You convicts may follow a different gospel.

We follow the "love thy neighbour as thyself" gospel.
Then you exhibit a unhealthy amount of.self loathing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2023, 03:52:39 PM: Here's an idea:
What about 'Cinco d'America' on May 5th.

The Statue of Liberty is 'French'.
French ships that arrived at Yorktown to save America from Britain in the War of Independence.
Not good to celebrate Spain's victory over France on Cinco de Mayo in America.
Cinco de Mayo belongs in Spain/Mexico, surely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 01, 2023, 04:08:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2023, 03:52:39 PM
Here's an idea:
What about 'Cinco d'America' on May 5th.

I live 100 miles from the border with Mexico, the Mexicans are in the majority here, and we have people in power here who are Mexican-American, my apartment manager is Mexican, my Pharmacist is a Mexican, etc, we have Mexican-Americans in positions of power here, and ALL people in the USA must be treated equally. It is very important that we teach Americans that ALL people are created equal.

The assholes like Trump are bad-mouthing the Mexicans, so then I do not get my Medication filled at the Pharmacist because the Pharmacist hates Trump and is making me wait until they help all of the other people first and they make me wait until last, because Trump is racist and Trump is making the Mexicans hate us, and if I end up homeless again because the Mexican apartment manager is racist against White people then it would make me very angry. Trump would talk differently if he had a Mexican boss, and a Mexican doctor, and a Mexican apartment manager, etc. Trump is pissing off the Mexicans, and I am being punished because I am a poor White man in a Mexican neighborhood. Trump makes them angry, and then I get punished for being White because of Trump.

I am not rich and powerful like Trump, and I have to live with Mexicans in Mexican neighborhoods with Mexican apartment managers, etc.

I was homeless here for 2 years, and I do not want to be homeless again. I am not rich like Trump, and the Mexicans are in power here.

It is important to teach Americans that ALL men are created equal, and that we all have a right to housing and to jobs, and to benefits, etc.

Trump has never been homeless, Trump had a rich Dad, my Dad died when I was a little kid and I am poor and I do not have the luxury of spewing hate speech from a high tower while I have body guards and money, when Trump pisses off the Mexicans then I get punished for it, because I am poor and the Mexicans are in the majority here. I do not have a White gang to back me up, I do not have anyone, I am all alone in a Mexican neighborhood, and Trump needs to just stop pissing everyone off. I am being punished for what Trump does.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 01, 2023, 04:11:05 PM: Red and Kid are also part of your problem, Tony. Like trump they also need to stop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2023, 05:39:51 PM: The very tiny nuke capsule that "fell off the back of a truck" in Western Australia has been found, lying by the side of the road.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 02, 2023, 01:20:45 AM: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

4 hours ago

Big news!!

The Protestant congregation cordially invites you to attend their FIRST worship service in the new Multi-Purpose Religious Facility on Sunday, Feb. 5th, 2023. 10:45AM - 11:45AM.

For any additional questions, please contact the Religious Ministry Team (760) 939-3506.

Open to all with base access at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.

--------------

Bambu, the Christians at China Lake have lots of weapons.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 02, 2023, 01:15:29 PM: What the 1619 project, and Hulu series derived from it, is really about. It will be unsurprising who here actually reads this and considers its information with an open mind.

https://archive.is/0CMYb

Paywall free WaPo story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 02, 2023, 02:38:47 PM: San Bernardino has declared a state of emergency to help the homeless in San Bernardino...

https://www.sbsun.com/2023/02/02/san-bernardino-declares-homelessness-a-local-emergency/

San Bernardino is in bad shape, San Bernardino has the highest crime rate in California.

My Mother was born in San Bernardino, My Great Grandmother owned a restaurant in San Bernardino, and my Mother has a cousin who owns a Pharmacy in Fontana.

One thing that would help San Bernardino is if a high speed train between Las Vegas and Anaheim had stops in San Bernardino, if they go one way they go to Vegas and if they go the other way they go to Disneyland.

And San Bernardino needs to bring in Mexican companies to build new shopping malls in San Bernardino, etc, and San Bernardino can expand trade with Mexico, etc.

San Bernardino also needs hostels for the homeless where they can take a nice hot shower, and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed, for $15 per night.

The top politician in the San Bernardino area is Sabrina Cervantes in Corona.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 02, 2023, 03:22:17 PM: When you are helping the homeless, instead of having to go out and hunt for the homeless to help them, you can simply feed the homeless, and the homeless people will all come to you so that they can eat, and then you can help the homeless when they come to you to eat, you can get them mental health treatment and medical care and housing and therapy, etc.

Also, there can be Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, where people can go for help.

You can still have vans driving around picking up the homeless, etc, and buses, etc, but if you feed the homeless then many homeless will come to you to eat and you can get them help while they are there to eat.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2023, 08:50:52 PM: Daily Telegraph today:

Prof Young made headlines last year when she made bizarre comments, also on The Drum, attacking then-prime minister Scott Morrison for eating white bread.

"Who eats white bread in this country? Anglo men," she said.

#####

What are bambu-ilk supposed to eat, black bread?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 02, 2023, 09:40:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2023, 08:50:52 PM
Daily Telegraph today:

Prof Young made headlines last year when she made bizarre comments, also on The Drum, attacking then-prime minister Scott Morrison for eating white bread.

"Who eats white bread in this country? Anglo men," she said.

#####

What are bambu-ilk supposed to eat, black bread?

Whole wheat, whole grain, rye, pumpernickel (my fave) which is similar in taste and texture as Russian black
bread
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2023, 09:40:47 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2023, 08:50:52 PM
Daily Telegraph today:

Prof Young made headlines last year when she made bizarre comments, also on The Drum, attacking then-prime minister Scott Morrison for eating white bread.

"Who eats white bread in this country? Anglo men," she said.

#####

What are bambu-ilk supposed to eat, black bread?
Tortillas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 11:46:05 AM: The Alex Murdaugh trial...
...details/allegations have appeared in my Daily Telegraph newspaper today.
If the allegations are proven at trial to be true...this would be about the clearest example of "never trust anyone" I've ever seen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 03, 2023, 12:09:13 PM: Floating over the central continental USA

https://youtu.be/k8qjxT1iIAM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 03, 2023, 01:22:25 PM: Bambu, the Linaza bread is made with Flaxseed and it helps to fight against cancer, it is much healthier than white bread. Also, since the Great Depression here in the USA they add essential nutrients to the bread to make sure that people get essential nutrients.

Crazy about the Chinese balloon flying over the USA, they did not even try to hide it. At least when we fly spy planes such as the SR 71 Black Bird over China we fly it high and fast, they do not even know we are there taking pictures. And now we have satellites and we can see everything from space, we know everything about China from space, we know how much natural resources they have, we know where their Gold is, etc. And now we can do facial recognition from space with satellites, and we can read a license plate on a car from space. It is interesting that we did not shoot the spy balloon down, we just let them take their pictures.

Also in the news there was an idiot, crazy asshole in Hollywood who had a bunch of guns, and he was asking people if they needed people killed, etc, he thought he was a hit man, so they raided his apartment and found a bunch of guns, and now they are trying to use this asshole as an excuse to take gun rights away from the good people. They cannot take my guns away because this guy in Hollywood is a mentally ill asshole who acted like an idiot. And the honest people need to be able to own guns so we can protect ourselves from the mentally ill assholes like the guy in Hollywood, he is a reason why the good people need to be able to own arms to protect ourselves. And for Hollywood, there has always been undercover cops mixed in with the people on the streets and at the parks, Hollywood has a lot of security, Hollywood needs to continue to employ undercover cops, etc. ( Hollywood has undercover cops in the public high schools pretending to be students, Hollywood has a lot of security, and Hollywood needs to continue to employ the undercover cops, they have undercover cops all over Hollywood. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 03, 2023, 03:36:00 PM: Orlando, Florida, generates seventy five billion dollars per year from Tourism.

https://www.visitorlando.com/about-us/power-of-tourism/

Here in Anaheim we are investing four billion dollars by where the Ducks play into making that area nicer, and we are also doing work on Beach Blvd, etc. Anaheim is working hard to make Anaheim nicer for tourists.

We also need to bring in a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum like in Saint Augustine. And a giant Vans skate park can be built on Beach Blvd, etc.

The best way to help tourism in Anaheim would be to build a high speed train between Las Vegas and Anaheim. Tourism in Las Vegas is doing great.

California also needs to work to stop the gang violence and to create jobs for the people, and to help the homeless and create jobs that the homeless can do, the homeless can lay cobblestones, and the homeless can do public landscaping, and the homeless can work in the forests, and the homeless can plant orange trees and they can pick oranges and they can make orange juice, etc.

And we need to have more drug treatment camps to help the homeless, and after the people get clean and after they learn the 12 Step Program then they need to be able to get jobs working in the forest, etc.

I also recommend HUD and others giving grants for people to build communes where people can live and where they can grow their own food and where they can make their own clothes, and where they can grow food for San Francisco, etc.

California will receive more tourism as we clean up California, and as we invest in nice public landscaping etc, and as we build high speed trains and as we improve public transportation, and as we stop the gang violence and as we teach people that all men are created equal and that we are all equal under the law in the USA, we all have the same rights. We need to work together in California for the benefit of all of the people in California, and the businesses can benefit from being altruistic. And we need to have communities instead of all hiding behind locked doors.

We can also benefit from having Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, etc. And programs such as Homeboy Industries can help the former gang members, etc.

And we need to teach the people here that we all benefit from the tourism, and we can all sell hamburgers to tourists, etc, we can all benefit from tourism. Instead of being an asshole gang member selling heroin then the people can instead learn young that they can be a billionaire from selling hamburgers to tourists, the lady who owns In N Out Burger is a billionaire, there is no reason to be an asshole, people can be polite ladies and gentlemen and they can sell stuff to the tourists. Orlando is making seventy five billion per year from tourism because they do not have gang violence and stupid shit and homeless people all over and bullshit petty crimes. We need to clean things up and teach the children young to have good manners and good behavior and the young people need to be taught young how to do honest business and how to make money honestly.

The movie studios can also help here in California by investing in their neighborhoods and by hiring the local people for jobs working at the studios.

Our communities need to work on self improvement here in California. And right now Mayor Bass has declared a state of emergency on homelessness, as has San Bernardino, and so work is being done. We have a lot of hard work to do here in California in order to improve as a destination for Tourism.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 03, 2023, 03:39:52 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on February 03, 2023, 03:37:01 PM
WIP

Dead Speaker Walking
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 08:49:10 PM: Women in America/West should take note:

Youtube video " 'Lefover' Women":

"In China, if you're a woman, single and over 30, you're called "leftover woman" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you're called..."orange at the bottom of the basket", "the sugar cane that didn't get sold", and "the thing used for filling the gap of the stove".

If you're a man, single and over 30, you are called "a diamond bachelor" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you are called "quality real estate".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 03, 2023, 11:08:53 PM: Turn off Youtube and get outside for a stroll.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 01:23:35 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 03, 2023, 11:08:53 PM
Turn off Youtube and get outside for a stroll.

Too hot, would "burn your face off" today.

"2nd Chinese spy balloon discovered over Latin America" - my 5pm tv news just stated.
US' top diplomat Antony Blinken (he's sharp) has cancelled his trip to China...good news, Washington is slowly getting the message about China.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 04, 2023, 10:13:50 AM: Would a small hole bring it down slowly enough to retrieve the electronics intact? Perhaps the Air Force could use a BB gun.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-antony-blinken-china-b1b03193b7abeb7bbeca169bbc7c2c53

I live near a "sensitive" installation, so it could be passing overhead as I type this.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 04, 2023, 11:14:46 AM: They spy on us we spy on them. That is all a part of the information game. Actually keeps the world safer.
The balloon is a provocation by the PLA designed to cause division in our politics and society.
Mission accomplished.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 12:39:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 08:49:10 PM
Women in America/West should take note:

Youtube video " 'Lefover' Women":

"In China, if you're a woman, single and over 30, you're called "leftover woman" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you're called..."orange at the bottom of the basket", "the sugar cane that didn't get sold", and "the thing used for filling the gap of the stove".

If you're a man, single and over 30, you are called "a diamond bachelor" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you are called "quality real estate".

In the USA the women want money, so the men with the money get the best women, regardless of age. In the poor neighborhoods the areas are full of single young poor men and zero women, while the women are living in the nice neighborhoods with the men who have money. Areas such as Malibu have lots of beautiful women, while areas like South Central Los Angeles have zero women. And guys like the late Hugh Hefner have many women no matter how old they get because of money, Hef had a great life.

Meanwhile, poor women from Russia are pouring into the USA right now, and from Ukraine, and they want men with money. The men with money in the USA can have as many women as they want, while the poor men in the USA do not get any women.

In the USA it is all about money.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 03:11:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 12:39:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 08:49:10 PM
Women in America/West should take note:

Youtube video " 'Lefover' Women":

"In China, if you're a woman, single and over 30, you're called "leftover woman" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you're called..."orange at the bottom of the basket", "the sugar cane that didn't get sold", and "the thing used for filling the gap of the stove".

If you're a man, single and over 30, you are called "a diamond bachelor" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you are called "quality real estate".

In the USA the women want money, so the men with the money get the best women, regardless of age. In the poor neighborhoods the areas are full of single young poor men and zero women, while the women are living in the nice neighborhoods with the men who have money. Areas such as Malibu have lots of beautiful women, while areas like South Central Los Angeles have zero women. And guys like the late Hugh Hefner have many women no matter how old they get because of money, Hef had a great life.

Meanwhile, poor women from Russia are pouring into the USA right now, and from Ukraine, and they want men with money. The men with money in the USA can have as many women as they want, while the poor men in the USA do not get any women.

In the USA it is all about money.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
"Money, money, money...in a rich man's world" - ABBA
Rich people live the best lives, in general.
Poor people live the worst lives, in general.
Then there are the people in the middle...not rich, not poor.
They are going backwards at express pace, seems to me...interest rates rising, prices of everything out of control, wages etc not keeping up.
In my world a box of breakfast cereal that was $7 in 2022 is now $9.
Supermarket customers are outraged, to no avail, the price is still $9.
Best idea, don't buy that product, leave it on the shelf in protest.
Protest with your wallet.

Women...some are not worth getting...especially if they're 'gold diggers'.
(some)Women from overseas (Putinland included) were migrating to bambuworld, marrying older men, waiting 2 years then alleging false domestic violence, the men were removed from their homes and the wives were sitting pretty in the nice houses and driving nice cars.
It was all exposed on tv, men woke up, and it stopped.
Think sometime along the way the laws were changed too.

There are genuine women, and genuine men...the trick is finding them.
Mostly it seems the best option these days for happiness is to get a job, work hard, buy or rent an apartment/house and get a dog.
Dog will love you unconditionally, and won't rip you off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 04, 2023, 03:17:13 PM: Have you always hated women?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 03:54:18 PM: Bambu, I rented a room from a wealthy ex-wife of a famous Malibu Doctor. The rich ex-wives are a lot of fun, they are normally very cool people. The man dumps her for a younger more beautiful woman, but the ex-wife gets half of his money. Malibu is full of rich ex-wives.

And Louisiana was built by convicts just like Australia, France released the men from prison and then they chained the convict to a female prostitute and then they sent the convicts with their prostitute brides to Louisiana. That was how New Orleans was built. And they used to bring ships full of freed women to help to populate New Orleans, there was a shortage of women in the New World so France sent women. New Orleans has the French Quarter, etc, it was all built by freed convicts and prostitutes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2023, 05:24:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 04, 2023, 03:17:13 PM
Have you always hated women?
He strikes me as one of the rare married incels.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 04, 2023, 06:03:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 01:23:35 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 03, 2023, 11:08:53 PM
Turn off Youtube and get outside for a stroll.

Too hot, would "burn your face off" today.

This hot there yet?

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/4/2151032/-Horrifying-news-out-of-Chili-as-heatwave-sparks-extreme-wildfires-incinerating-entire-villages (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/4/2151032/-Horrifying-news-out-of-Chili-as-heatwave-sparks-extreme-wildfires-incinerating-entire-villages)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 06:44:08 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 04, 2023, 06:03:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 01:23:35 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 03, 2023, 11:08:53 PM
Turn off Youtube and get outside for a stroll.

Too hot, would "burn your face off" today.

This hot there yet?

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/4/2151032/-Horrifying-news-out-of-Chili-as-heatwave-sparks-extreme-wildfires-incinerating-entire-villages (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/4/2151032/-Horrifying-news-out-of-Chili-as-heatwave-sparks-extreme-wildfires-incinerating-entire-villages)

Not yet, and won't be this summer. La Nina instead of El Nino.
Had those terrible fires several years ago.
Chile fires are just as bad if not worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 06:58:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 03:54:18 PM
Bambu, I rented a room from a wealthy ex-wife of a famous Malibu Doctor. The rich ex-wives are a lot of fun, they are normally very cool people. The man dumps her for a younger more beautiful woman, but the ex-wife gets half of his money. Malibu is full of rich ex-wives.

And Louisiana was built by convicts just like Australia, France released the men from prison and then they chained the convict to a female prostitute and then they sent the convicts with their prostitute brides to Louisiana. That was how New Orleans was built. And they used to bring ships full of freed women to help to populate New Orleans, there was a shortage of women in the New World so France sent women. New Orleans has the French Quarter, etc, it was all built by freed convicts and prostitutes.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, "say goodbye to half your stuff". :)

The early colony in Sydney was struggling...shortage of women.
So Britain emptied its prisons of child-bearing age women, and sent them to the colony on the Lady Juliana ship...via many fun-loving re supplying ports.
Eventually the ship arrived and the colony was saved.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 07:32:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 06:58:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 03:54:18 PM
Bambu, I rented a room from a wealthy ex-wife of a famous Malibu Doctor. The rich ex-wives are a lot of fun, they are normally very cool people. The man dumps her for a younger more beautiful woman, but the ex-wife gets half of his money. Malibu is full of rich ex-wives.

And Louisiana was built by convicts just like Australia, France released the men from prison and then they chained the convict to a female prostitute and then they sent the convicts with their prostitute brides to Louisiana. That was how New Orleans was built. And they used to bring ships full of freed women to help to populate New Orleans, there was a shortage of women in the New World so France sent women. New Orleans has the French Quarter, etc, it was all built by freed convicts and prostitutes.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, "say goodbye to half your stuff". :)

The early colony in Sydney was struggling...shortage of women.
So Britain emptied its prisons of child-bearing age women, and sent them to the colony on the Lady Juliana ship...via many fun-loving re supplying ports.
Eventually the ship arrived and the colony was saved.

Julianna is my neighborhood, and we have the Julianna Warehouse, etc.

https://www.anaheim.net/facilities/facility/details/Julianna-Park-80

You can drink beer and you can eat tacos at the bodega at Julianna Park. The whole neighborhood goes there to talk about news in the neighborhood and to drink beer and to eat tacos.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 04, 2023, 08:56:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 12:39:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 08:49:10 PM
Women in America/West should take note:

Youtube video " 'Lefover' Women":

"In China, if you're a woman, single and over 30, you're called "leftover woman" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you're called..."orange at the bottom of the basket", "the sugar cane that didn't get sold", and "the thing used for filling the gap of the stove".

If you're a man, single and over 30, you are called "a diamond bachelor" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you are called "quality real estate".

In the USA the women want money, so the men with the money get the best women, regardless of age. In the poor neighborhoods the areas are full of single young poor men and zero women, while the women are living in the nice neighborhoods with the men who have money. Areas such as Malibu have lots of beautiful women, while areas like South Central Los Angeles have zero women. And guys like the late Hugh Hefner have many women no matter how old they get because of money, Hef had a great life.

Meanwhile, poor women from Russia are pouring into the USA right now, and from Ukraine, and they want men with money. The men with money in the USA can have as many women as they want, while the poor men in the USA do not get any women.

In the USA it is all about money.

Salute,

Tony V.

Are you saying all women are whores?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 04, 2023, 09:02:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 06:58:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 03:54:18 PM
Bambu, I rented a room from a wealthy ex-wife of a famous Malibu Doctor. The rich ex-wives are a lot of fun, they are normally very cool people. The man dumps her for a younger more beautiful woman, but the ex-wife gets half of his money. Malibu is full of rich ex-wives.

And Louisiana was built by convicts just like Australia, France released the men from prison and then they chained the convict to a female prostitute and then they sent the convicts with their prostitute brides to Louisiana. That was how New Orleans was built. And they used to bring ships full of freed women to help to populate New Orleans, there was a shortage of women in the New World so France sent women. New Orleans has the French Quarter, etc, it was all built by freed convicts and prostitutes.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, "say goodbye to half your stuff". :)

The early colony in Sydney was struggling...shortage of women.
So Britain emptied its prisons of child-bearing age women, and sent them to the colony on the Lady Juliana ship...via many fun-loving re supplying ports.
Eventually the ship arrived and the colony was saved.

https://youtu.be/ZNmwwz07ftA
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2023, 02:04:50 AM: Surely it doesn't surprise anyone that young White people in America are carrying handguns.
Every woman in America should carry a gun or two as soon as they are old enough.
They should wear them and have them ready to fire at the first sign of trouble.
Every man too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2023, 12:00:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 04, 2023, 01:23:35 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 03, 2023, 11:08:53 PM
Turn off Youtube and get outside for a stroll.

Too hot, would "burn your face off" today.

Wimp.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2023, 12:05:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2023, 02:04:50 AM
Surely it doesn't surpruse anyone that young White people in America are carrying handguns.
Every woman in America should carry a gun or two as soon as they are old enough.
They should wear them and have them ready to fire at the first sign of trouble.
Every man too.
God what a horrifying place the inside of your head must be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 05, 2023, 12:31:12 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 04, 2023, 08:56:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 04, 2023, 12:39:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 03, 2023, 08:49:10 PM
Women in America/West should take note:

Youtube video " 'Lefover' Women":

"In China, if you're a woman, single and over 30, you're called "leftover woman" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you're called..."orange at the bottom of the basket", "the sugar cane that didn't get sold", and "the thing used for filling the gap of the stove".

If you're a man, single and over 30, you are called "a diamond bachelor" in Mandarin.
In Cantonese you are called "quality real estate".

In the USA the women want money, so the men with the money get the best women, regardless of age. In the poor neighborhoods the areas are full of single young poor men and zero women, while the women are living in the nice neighborhoods with the men who have money. Areas such as Malibu have lots of beautiful women, while areas like South Central Los Angeles have zero women. And guys like the late Hugh Hefner have many women no matter how old they get because of money, Hef had a great life.

Meanwhile, poor women from Russia are pouring into the USA right now, and from Ukraine, and they want men with money. The men with money in the USA can have as many women as they want, while the poor men in the USA do not get any women.

In the USA it is all about money.

Salute,

Tony V.

Are you saying all women are whores?

No, of course not, but when women are seeking husbands they do consider money and living a good life with money. Being a good protector and being a good provider is part of being a good husband, the women want men who are good providers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 05:38:55 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2023, 12:05:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2023, 02:04:50 AM
Surely it doesn't surpruse anyone that young White people in America are carrying handguns.
Every woman in America should carry a gun or two as soon as they are old enough.
They should wear them and have them ready to fire at the first sign of trouble.
Every man too.
God what a horrifying place the inside of your head must be.

As well as wearing handguns, they should always have a loaded high power rifle with them at home...so when a mountain lion comes into their yard and grabs their dog ( Jack Russell like mine, in the Youtube video) they can save it by filling the mountain lion full of lead.

Throwing things at the mountain lion doesn't work.
Guns are great for protecting the family from killer intruders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 05:54:17 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2023, 12:05:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2023, 02:04:50 AM
Surely it doesn't surpruse anyone that young White people in America are carrying handguns.
Every woman in America should carry a gun or two as soon as they are old enough.
They should wear them and have them ready to fire at the first sign of trouble.
Every man too.
God what a horrifying place the inside of your head must be.

. Every 68 seconds an American is sexually assaulted.
There are 463.000 rape victims in America every year.
. 90% of victims are women.
Women should be carrying guns, and be fully trained in how to use them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2023, 08:52:01 AM: Guns are great for protecting the family from killer intruders.

They're even better for killing family members!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2023, 01:05:13 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi is at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

Last Night

Congratulations @shervinine !!! From being the theme song of the Iranian Revolution to now a Grammy Special Merit award winner for Best Song for Social Change. We are so very proud of you.

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First Lady Dr Jill Biden presented the award to Shervinine for his theme song for the Iranian Revolution. The Iranian Revolution is already happening, and Shervinine and Mahlagha Jaberi are leading the way.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 04:57:25 PM: Present Iranian culture...
If you're not wearing your headscarf properly, you will be arrested and taken to headquarters for re education and punishment.
You could end up dead as a result.

American culture...you can wear your headscarf, hat, cap any way you like.

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"If you're drunk and seeing double...shoot in the middle" - Bubba J
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 06, 2023, 08:17:11 PM: The accelerationists are at it again

Helper Skelter redux through the lens of the Turner Diaries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/06/maryland-power-grid-neonazi-brandon-russell/

RAHOWA Bitches.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2023, 09:05:37 PM: I went to Chapman film school today finally in order to check the place out.

It looks like a good film school with plenty of studio space, and the atmosphere is nice and the people were all friendly.

In the main lobby of the film school the lobby is named after Cecil B. Demille who attended the AADA, so that is cool.

The Chapman film school looks like a cool place to make student films, etc, and it would be a good place for the students from the AADA to come to get experience making student films, and they can share their student films on You Tube.

I did not see anything interesting on the bulletin boards, they have some free workshops coming up for casting directors and that is open to the public, but I did not see anything for auditions for student films or anything.

It looks like a good film school, I just walked around a little and did not explore much, but it looks okay from what I saw. I will watch on their Facebook page to see if they have good upcoming workshops, and I will keep an eye out for auditions for student films.

I did not see any posting on the bulletin board for a tutor to teach me how to use this Apple Laptop to put Final Draft on it, etc, so I will have to keep wishing on that one.

I had lunch at Philly's Best, which was great, I had just a regular Philly Cheesesteak sandwich with grilled onions. Funny thing, somehow the lady knew my name, and I am sure I never told her my name. The last time I had a Cheesesteak sandwich was with my buddy Tom before he moved away and died, Tom loved Philly's Best.

Anyhow, I know where the Chapman film school is now, and I explored a little, and I am open to acting in student films there, and I am open to finding helpers there, and I am open to going to workshops there, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 10:10:40 PM: Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2023, 01:47:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 10:10:40 PM
Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.

$40,000 is about what a Catholic school teacher makes in Anaheim, but the students are nice and polite and respectful.

A public school teacher in Anaheim makes about $70,000 per year.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/teacher-elementary-school-salary/anaheim-ca

The Community College professors make a lot more, and the professors at our Universities make more.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2023, 02:13:02 PM: Professors at Chapman film school are getting about $97,000 per year.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Chapman-University-Film-Professor-Salaries-E23974_D_KO19,33.htm

But if they know how to make movies then they can make extra money from making movies during their time off in the summer, etc. And they can write books, one of my film professors at AVC wrote books on film and so he made extra money from his books.

( For acting school, I had teachers who acted, and one teacher used to act on "The Young and the Restless" and I would watch her on television in the morning and then I would see her in the afternoon at the AADA and she was one of my teachers. The pay on "The Young and the Restless" back then started out at $30,000 per week and it went up from there. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2023, 05:29:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2023, 01:47:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2023, 10:10:40 PM
Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.

$40,000 is about what a Catholic school teacher makes in Anaheim, but the students are nice and polite and respectful.

A public school teacher in Anaheim makes about $70,000 per year.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/teacher-elementary-school-salary/anaheim-ca

The Community College professors make a lot more, and the professors at our Universities make more.

Salute,

Tony V.

The Vatican is rolling in it (money)?
Catholic school teachers are accepting $40,000pa?
Why? is a legitimate question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2023, 06:39:34 PM: Headline in bambuworld today:
"(National, personal etc) Security concerns around Chinese cars".

No way I was going to buy one anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2023, 07:00:38 PM: No. Not with what money your wisdom and professional acumen have left you with you are not.

They will look cool driving by you and cause you to feel more inferiority, paranoia and resentment.

If there is one thing about Chinese cars in Australia that I would bank on, it would be that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2023, 02:43:31 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 07, 2023, 07:00:38 PM
No. Not with what money your wisdom and professional acumen have left you with you are not.

They will look cool driving by you and cause you to feel more inferiority, paranoia and resentment.

If there is one thing about Chinese cars in Australia that I would bank on, it would be that.

LOL

I was always 'low level'..."anti-social" they said, "doesn't join us at the pub or on weekend staff social days".
"Does no more than he has to"...correct, took a while for me to realise that was my wisest policy.
Finish your work by "lunch time", they only give you 'half' of someone else's work to do, and you eventually get stuck with doing it permanently.

"Anti-social"? correct, they tried to rip me off at their daily after work pub visits, always *bullied* me into buying the first round of drinks, 10x $3 =$30. One lemon squash for me...my lemon squash cost me $30. lol
That racket didn't last long, I "kicked the lot of them to the kerb", politely of course, my list of excuses for non attendance was very long.
I never had any 'professional acumen'....and I spent the very least amount of time I could in the office.
Married men are better off being at home after work than stuck at the pub with work colleagues.
Better off spending their weekends with their spouses than at social days with co-workers.

People have crashed into the car we have now 3 times (all the other drivers' fault). Twice they ran into the back of it, and once into the side, young man in a new car...just drove straight out of a mall carpark into it.
The two rear-endings done by young drivers, one male, one female...on phones or playing with dials etc on their new car...seems to me.
Buy a new car? [even if I had the money...Corollas I would want to buy are $40,0000+]...no thank you...if I want to drive out of my non-big-city *town* I rent new cars.
7-12 airbags, all the latest safety and comfort features.

When there are two people in the team, one person doesn't [or shouldn't] get all the say as to how the team's income is spent.
We had fun...now in our 70s it's time to repay the money we spent.
The one who is left will have more than enough life insurance payout to cover any debt.

Mrs bambu went to Vegas, stayed a few nights, saw the bright lights, gambled at a casino, slot machines...lost money...$5.
Not inclined to throw money away is she. :)

Retire at 65?
If you then spend $30,000pa, after 10 years you have spent $300,000 after tax cash dollars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2023, 02:51:48 PM: Mayor Bass was just allocated six hundred million dollars to help the homeless people in Los Angeles.

Some quick things to mention...

We need to help the Foster Youth, many foster youth end up homeless after they age out of the system, we need to help the foster youth and we need for the foster youth to attend college. I support free college for the foster youth.

We also need to help the Abused Women, many of the homeless people on the streets are abused women who escaped abusive situations, we need to have Safe Houses for the abused women and their children, and we need to have moving companies such as "Meathead Movers" who come in and help the abused women and their children to move to a safe house.

We also need Drug Treatment Camps where the Drug Addicts and Alcoholics can go to get help and to learn the 12 Step Program, etc, and they need Sober Living Houses where they can rent a bed in a clean and drug-free environment and where they can get help.

We also need to create easy jobs that the homeless can do, such as washing the side-walks, and doing public landscaping, and laying cobblestones, and working in the forests to help to prevent forest fires, etc, and the homeless can plant orange trees and they can pick oranges and they can help to make orange juice, etc.

For the former gang members and for former criminals, there is Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles which will help them.

We also need more Mental Health Associations where the homeless and the mentally ill can get help, such as the MHA in Santa Ana.

And we need more Wellness Centers like the wellness center in Orange.

We can bring in stars to help to guide the homeless, such as Carlos Santana, Cher, and Meryl Streep. Other stars who help the homeless are Don Johnson, Morgan Fairchild, and Dick Van Dyke. The stars can help to guide the homeless.

And everyone needs to work together to help the homeless, the Federal, State, County, and City, Governments need to work together with charities, and with whoever can help, and there is Kiwanis, etc.

Six hundred million dollars will go a long way towards helping the homeless in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2023, 03:40:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2023, 02:51:48 PM

We also need to create easy jobs that the homeless can do, such as washing the side-walks, and doing public landscaping, and laying cobblestones....

Not certain that there are presently (post-1800) a lot of cobblestones to be laid. Apparently there was some sort of Industrial Revolution that made other paving methods easier and more economical.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2023, 07:54:22 PM: In Rome, Italy, they have hostels where you can take a nice hot shower and where you can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night, we need to have the same thing here. If you have a job at McDonald's then you need to be able to afford a bed and a shower, like in Rome, for $15 per night.

And the cobblestones are beautiful, Saint Augustine, Florida, here in the USA, has cobblestones all over, the cobblestones are beautiful. And we need beautification, it is not just about meeting a purpose, we need to create beauty. We need beautiful landscaping, etc, and we can put the homeless people to work making our cities more beautiful. And the homeless can earn enough to live in a hostel for $15 per night while working on city beautification projects, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2023, 09:44:30 AM: Cobblestones look nice, rustic, ancient, archictectural, pleasant...but they're a nightmare for ladies wearing high heels, men wearing some types of boots, the elderly with and without walking sticks,
etc.
I am an "elderly man', apparently, according to modern speak, and there's nothing I like better to walk on than flat concrete. (40+ is "old", 60+ is "elderly").
So even, no rolling an ankle over the side of a cobblestone. No having the corner of one's walking frame slide over the edge of one, or walking stick slip, causing one to fall.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2023, 10:14:41 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2023, 07:54:22 PM

And the cobblestones are beautiful, Saint Augustine, Florida, here in the USA, has cobblestones all over, the cobblestones are beautiful.

Salute,

Tony V.

Nope they are bricks. My uncle lived there for a while. New World cities did not adopt the European practice of cobblestones, but favored bricks instead. Some people did call them cobbles, which started that myth I guess.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2023, 10:21:33 AM: Atlantic article about why people, driven by economics, are leaving blue cities and moving to redder ones.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/florida-new-york-housing-population-republican-democrat/672994/

Many Americans are being forced to choose between liberal values and financial security. Reversing that dynamic will require blue states to prioritize affordability. But until rent prices near good jobs in New York or Washington or Massachusetts can compete with rent prices near good jobs in the Sun Belt, Clinton s pronouncement will seem more incorrect by the day.

New Yawk needs to get serious about affordable housing. (and global warming may help with the winter factor)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM: So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.

Immediately the Smithsonian put the employees through a retraining .

Is there a political test for hiring at the Smithsonian?
Evidently there was one for visitors.

I can just imagine the ensuing furor had those students been sporting caps with different messages.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 09, 2023, 11:56:07 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.

Immediately the Smithsonian put the employees through a retraining .

Is there a political test for hiring at the Smithsonian?
Evidently there was one for visitors.

I can just imagine the ensuing furor had those students been sporting caps with different messages.

Fucking snowflakes.

LOOK AT ME I AM LOUD AND PROUD!

Take off your hats or leave.

WAAAAHHHHHHH!

WE GOONA BE LIKE NICK SANDMANN!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2023, 12:12:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.
Liar. If the kids were "aware of the Bill of Rights" they would surely know it does not apply to a private organization like the Smithsonian you idiot PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2023, 12:12:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.
Liar. If the kids were "aware of the Bill of Rights" they would surely know it does not apply to a private organization like the Smithsonian you idiot PROVEN LIAR.
Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.
The Institution, established in 1846, is governed by a board of regents which, by law, is composed of the vice president of the United States, the chief justice of the United States, three members of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives and nine citizen members. The chief justice of the United States has traditionally served as chancellor of the Smithsonian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 09, 2023, 01:32:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2023, 12:12:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.
Liar. If the kids were "aware of the Bill of Rights" they would surely know it does not apply to a private organization like the Smithsonian you idiot PROVEN LIAR.
Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.
The Institution, established in 1846, is governed by a board of regents which, by law, is composed of the vice president of the United States, the chief justice of the United States, three members of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives and nine citizen members. The chief justice of the United States has traditionally served as chancellor of the Smithsonian.

Chief Justice?
Now there is a fine upstanding official.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 09, 2023, 01:34:06 PM: Once again the GOP sticks their nose into DC business

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/u-s-house-overturns-two-washington-d-c-bills-including-noncitizen-voting/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2023, 01:58:30 PM: Now that I know where Chapman film school is, I need to go back there and put my own flyers on the bulletin boards, I need to make a flyer for what I need, telling them that I need help to make a movie and that I have a great script, and also put on the flyer that I have a poetry book that I need to publish, and also tell them that I need a tutor to put Final Draft on my Apple Laptop and to teach me how to use it, etc. I can make a flyer and go put it on their message boards at the film school. It could not hurt.

The film students love great movie scripts, and a great script is rare, it is rare to find good writers in Hollywood. One Cinematographer who read my script, Paul Maibaum ( He worked on a lot of television shows, including "Sons Of Anarchy." ) said that he would love to shoot my movie and that it is one of the most original projects that he has seen in years. The students are searching for good scripts the same way that a Gold miner seeks Gold. My script is Gold.

So, I know where the film school is now, and I need to make a flyer and go put it on their bulletin boards. I also need to go to Staples and make some copies of my movie script, and of my poetry book, people need real copies on paper.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2023, 03:10:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 10:26:50 AM

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids, aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.

Immediately the Smithsonian put the employees through a retraining .

Is there a political test for hiring at the Smithsonian?
Evidently there was one for visitors.

I can just imagine the ensuing furor had those students been sporting caps with different messages.

This is what happens when schools/teachers drag students into politics, "politics in public" if you like.
Using students as pawns in political/ideological agendas is very wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2023, 05:52:09 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM

Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.

It's a public/private partnership, cofounded with a large donation from a British scientist and still partly supported by private money. I used to be a member.
As a trust instrumentality, it's not actually a part of any of the three branches of government.

So their facilities do not constitute a venue for public demonstration by political groups. Personally, I would have given the hats a pass if the kids were well behaved, and skipped gassing up the media outrage machine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2023, 06:54:59 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/alleva-dairy-ny-oldest-cheese-shop-close-little-italy

https://youtu.be/Hz1JWzyvv8A
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2023, 07:40:42 PM: There is a movie "Sullivan's Travels" where a rich movie producer goes out to experience what it is like to be homeless, and I had a rich friend like that, she was born rich, and she helped the homeless, and she wanted to go see what it would be like to be homeless and to sleep at a homeless shelter. A movie could be made to show the world what it is like to be homeless. And the movie can have lovable characters like Ratso Rizzo. With hot babes like Veronica Lake, all movies need to have beautiful women.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2023, 08:19:10 PM: I was in an acting class in community college and we were instructed to do a scene of something private. I brought in an old fashioned shaving stand like from the Cowboy days and I shaved. But, there was a Laker Girl in our class, and she changed clothes to the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC, she undressed down to a G-string, and then she dressed up sexy like she was ready to go party at a club in Hollywood, it was very sexy, for the rest of my life when I hear that song I will remember that Laker Girl in acting class.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 09, 2023, 08:28:51 PM: Sometimes I feel we should charge by the hour
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2023, 08:52:05 PM: Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

2 hours

Syria has the highest number of internally displaced people in the world, 2.4 million of whom receive humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing point each month. As the only open humanitarian entry point into northwest Syria, Bab Al-Hawa must remain open in order to keep the flow of aid going and meet the growing needs in the region. For millions of people, this crossing point is crucial, as there is no viable alternative to accessing food, water, or health care.

-----

Nevada is safe and cheap.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 09, 2023, 09:14:01 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2023, 05:52:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM

Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.

It's a public/private partnership, cofounded with a large donation from a British scientist and still partly supported by private money. I used to be a member.
As a trust instrumentality, it's not actually a part of any of the three branches of government.

So their facilities do not constitute a venue for public demonstration by political groups. Personally, I would have given the hats a pass if the kids were well behaved, and skipped gassing up the media outrage machine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 10, 2023, 12:14:33 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2023, 05:52:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM

Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.

It's a public/private partnership, cofounded with a large donation from a British scientist and still partly supported by private money. I used to be a member.
Your membership would have provided perks like a magazine, dining privileges at various locations, etc.
Quote
As a trust instrumentality, it's not actually a part of any of the three branches of government.
The Smithsonian is a federal government entity and a 501c(3) charitable organization. Donations such as memberships can be tax deductible.
Quote

So their facilities do not constitute a venue for public demonstration by political groups.
Wrong Smithsonian facilities belong to all American Citizens who collectively pay over a $Billion dollars a year in taxes to finance over 2/3rds of its budget.
The debate in previous posts concerned free speech within the museums confines, a protection of the US Constitution, and certainly a given in a taxpayer funded building housing a government entity.
Quote
Personally, I would have given the hats a pass if the kids were well behaved, and skipped gassing up the media outrage machine

Fortunately the Founding Fathers relieved you of that responsibility 230 odd years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 05:31:07 AM: Oops...in bambuworld...
"1000 CCP security cameras in govt buildings".
All the said cameras to be replaced, hopefully by American ones.
Take out the Chinese ones and replace them with American ones...best policy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 10, 2023, 11:29:29 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 10, 2023, 12:14:33 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2023, 05:52:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM

Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.

It's a public/private partnership, cofounded with a large donation from a British scientist and still partly supported by private money. I used to be a member.
Your membership would have provided perks like a magazine, dining privileges at various locations, etc.
Quote
As a trust instrumentality, it's not actually a part of any of the three branches of government.
The Smithsonian is a federal government entity and a 501c(3) charitable organization. Donations such as memberships can be tax deductible.
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So their facilities do not constitute a venue for public demonstration by political groups.
Wrong Smithsonian facilities belong to all American Citizens who collectively pay over a $Billion dollars a year in taxes to finance over 2/3rds of its budget.
The debate in previous posts concerned free speech within the museums confines, a protection of the US Constitution, and certainly a given in a taxpayer funded building housing a government entity.
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Personally, I would have given the hats a pass if the kids were well behaved, and skipped gassing up the media outrage machine

Fortunately the Founding Fathers relieved you of that responsibility 230 odd years ago.

Lime was calling it a private organization, and I was simply making the point that he was partially right in that it's a public-private partnership. And you were, also, partially right.

However, the mere fact a building is taxpayer funded does not automatically mean it's going to allow political demonstrations. While I would agree that hats aren't really a demonstration, and that staff overreacted, I am not at all sure an actual demonstration would be allowed in such taxpayer funded buildings as the General Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral or The Library of Congress. Individual buildings have rules as to the scope of public access and activity, without any Constitutional issue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 10, 2023, 12:42:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 10, 2023, 11:29:29 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 10, 2023, 12:14:33 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2023, 05:52:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 09, 2023, 12:37:35 PM

Wrong.
The Smithsonian was created by Act of Congress.

It's a public/private partnership, cofounded with a large donation from a British scientist and still partly supported by private money. I used to be a member.
Your membership would have provided perks like a magazine, dining privileges at various locations, etc.
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As a trust instrumentality, it's not actually a part of any of the three branches of government.
The Smithsonian is a federal government entity and a 501c(3) charitable organization. Donations such as memberships can be tax deductible.
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So their facilities do not constitute a venue for public demonstration by political groups.
Wrong Smithsonian facilities belong to all American Citizens who collectively pay over a $Billion dollars a year in taxes to finance over 2/3rds of its budget.
The debate in previous posts concerned free speech within the museums confines, a protection of the US Constitution, and certainly a given in a taxpayer funded building housing a government entity.
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Personally, I would have given the hats a pass if the kids were well behaved, and skipped gassing up the media outrage machine

Fortunately the Founding Fathers relieved you of that responsibility 230 odd years ago.

Lime was calling it a private organization, and I was simply making the point that he was partially right in that it's a public-private partnership. And you were, also, partially right.
There is no
Partial
Involved.
The Smithsonian belongs to every American. That is whole reason it exists.
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However, the mere fact a building is taxpayer funded does not automatic mean it's going to allow political demonstrations.
The issue is free speech , protected right to express yourself without government reprisal.
The Smithsonian is a public financed Institution and its guards denied the students free speech. The guards have been retrained .
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2023, 04:11:07 PM: California needs to have incentives for people to make movies and television shows here in Hollywood if we employ local workers and if we spend money at local hotels and restaurants, etc. And it takes a huge team to make a movie, and it creates a lot of jobs, and if we hire all local people then we can do a lot to help our community here in Hollywood. I can hire a local Cinematographer, a local Sound Engineer, a local Casting Director, a local Editor, and on and on, local Fashion Designers, it takes a huge team to make a movie, plus all of the talent, etc.

The lady who wrote "Harry Potter" demanded that it be filmed in England with all British workers. She did a lot to help England, and she is the richest woman in England.

I can make my movie here in Hollywood, and in Malibu, with a few scenes in Pasadena, and some shots in the Hollywood Hills, etc, and I can use all local workers, so I think Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and others need to provide incentives to film in Hollywood and to use local workers and to spend money here.

And we could be making a lot of movies and television shows here if we had tax breaks and incentives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 09:43:40 PM: Yes, the folly of exporting *all* one's manufacturing
jobs to China etc, and importing cheap labor, was/is huge.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2023, 02:12:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 09:43:40 PM
Yes, the folly of exporting *all* one's manufacturing
jobs to China etc, and importing cheap labor, was/is huge.

Education is the answer for America, like with Athens, we need to educate our people and we need for our people to own companies all around the world. We also need to teach our people how to get a Copyright and a Patent, etc.

And the same way that "All roads lead to Rome" then all roads need to lead to America.

We need to build new schools in Kentucky, and in Chicago, and all over the USA, we need to make a huge investment in education for our people and for libraries, etc.

We also need for ALL people in the USA to have equal opportunities, which is enforced by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964.

Also of note, is that our ancestors worked hard and they passed down blessings, such as the fact that our ancestors built 1,500 dams here in California to help with the issue of water for farming and for the people. We are blessed from work that our ancestors did.

And some jobs cannot be exported, such as health care, education, building housing, law enforcement, defense, etc, providing food and grocery stores, doing real estate, etc.

On the issue of the Entertainment Industry, guys like Aaron Spelling created a lot of jobs here in Hollywood, and we need to have tax breaks and incentives to bring the Entertainment Industry back to Hollywood. And I could create a lot of jobs here making movies and television shows if the fuckers would let me work, and if I could get the funding.

Anyhow, education is the answer, and teaching our immigrants how to speak English, and opening more libraries, etc.

The jobs in the USA are changing, instead of mining coal, they will be finding cures for diseases while working as Research Scientists for Amgen, etc. We can have libraries, schools, and laboratories in Kentucky where they can work to find a cure for Cancer, etc.

We need to educate our people and we need to rise to a higher level, and an education must be expected for all Americans, they need to obey the law, they need to behave like polite ladies and gentlemen, and we need to teach our people how to become Research Scientists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2023, 03:15:13 PM: A Research Scientist at Amgen earns $140,000 per year, being a Scientist is a good job, and they can work to find a cure for Cancer, etc.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amgen-Scientist-Salaries-E1130_D_KO6,15.htm

We need to educate the people of Kentucky, we need to teach them how to do Research and Development, etc, and we can teach them how to get Copyrights and Patents, etc, and we can have companies such as Amgen open laboratories in Kentucky.

When I was poor there were people who were telling me to AIM HIGH, when I worked at Universal then the people who I worked with wanted for me to buy the studio. People wanted for me to aim high, and I want for the people of Kentucky to AIM HIGH, and for all Americans to AIM HIGH. Instead of mining coal, they can be Scientists.

Education is the answer for Kentucky, and libraries, and laboratories.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 12, 2023, 11:31:02 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2023, 02:12:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 09:43:40 PM
Yes, the folly of exporting *all* one's manufacturing
jobs to China etc, and importing cheap labor, was/is huge.

Education is the answer for America, like with Athens, we need to educate our people and we need for our people to own companies all around the world. We also need to teach our people how to get a Copyright and a Patent, etc.

And the same way that "All roads lead to Rome" then all roads need to lead to America.

We need to build new schools in Kentucky, and in Chicago, and all over the USA, we need to make a huge investment in education for our people and for libraries, etc.

We also need for ALL people in the USA to have equal opportunities, which is enforced by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964.

Also of note, is that our ancestors worked hard and they passed down blessings, such as the fact that our ancestors built 1,500 dams here in California to help with the issue of water for farming and for the people. We are blessed from work that our ancestors did.

And some jobs cannot be exported, such as health care, education, building housing, law enforcement, defense, etc, providing food and grocery stores, doing real estate, etc.

On the issue of the Entertainment Industry, guys like Aaron Spelling created a lot of jobs here in Hollywood, and we need to have tax breaks and incentives to bring the Entertainment Industry back to Hollywood. And I could create a lot of jobs here making movies and television shows if the fuckers would let me work, and if I could get the funding.

Anyhow, education is the answer, and teaching our immigrants how to speak English, and opening more libraries, etc.

The jobs in the USA are changing, instead of mining coal, they will be finding cures for diseases while working as Research Scientists for Amgen, etc. We can have libraries, schools, and laboratories in Kentucky where they can work to find a cure for Cancer, etc.

We need to educate our people and we need to rise to a higher level, and an education must be expected for all Americans, they need to obey the law, they need to behave like polite ladies and gentlemen, and we need to teach our people how to become Research Scientists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Not likely to attract the best and brighest to teaching, educating America's children, if the salary is only $40,000pa in Catholic schools and $60,000 in public schools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 12, 2023, 11:41:17 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2023, 11:31:02 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2023, 02:12:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 09:43:40 PM
Yes, the folly of exporting *all* one's manufacturing
jobs to China etc, and importing cheap labor, was/is huge.

Education is the answer for America, like with Athens, we need to educate our people and we need for our people to own companies all around the world. We also need to teach our people how to get a Copyright and a Patent, etc.

And the same way that "All roads lead to Rome" then all roads need to lead to America.

We need to build new schools in Kentucky, and in Chicago, and all over the USA, we need to make a huge investment in education for our people and for libraries, etc.

We also need for ALL people in the USA to have equal opportunities, which is enforced by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964.

Also of note, is that our ancestors worked hard and they passed down blessings, such as the fact that our ancestors built 1,500 dams here in California to help with the issue of water for farming and for the people. We are blessed from work that our ancestors did.

And some jobs cannot be exported, such as health care, education, building housing, law enforcement, defense, etc, providing food and grocery stores, doing real estate, etc.

On the issue of the Entertainment Industry, guys like Aaron Spelling created a lot of jobs here in Hollywood, and we need to have tax breaks and incentives to bring the Entertainment Industry back to Hollywood. And I could create a lot of jobs here making movies and television shows if the fuckers would let me work, and if I could get the funding.

Anyhow, education is the answer, and teaching our immigrants how to speak English, and opening more libraries, etc.

The jobs in the USA are changing, instead of mining coal, they will be finding cures for diseases while working as Research Scientists for Amgen, etc. We can have libraries, schools, and laboratories in Kentucky where they can work to find a cure for Cancer, etc.

We need to educate our people and we need to rise to a higher level, and an education must be expected for all Americans, they need to obey the law, they need to behave like polite ladies and gentlemen, and we need to teach our people how to become Research Scientists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Not likely to attract the best and brighest to teaching, educating America's children, if the salary is only $40,000pa in Catholic schools and $60,000 in public schools.

We could pay more if GOP stopped siphoning off funds through School Choice scams.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/02/07/ohio-public-schools-under-attack-while-lack-of-accountability-allows-nazi-homeschooling-scandal/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 12, 2023, 12:48:47 PM: Anyone who thinks the Hunter Biden laptop is a huge scandal should google Saudi investment fund Kushner Trump Bin Salman.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2023, 02:50:34 PM: Hopefully we can get Biden and the Government of Kentucky and others to work together to help to build schools and libraries in Kentucky, and to improve education in Kentucky to retrain the society to be Research Scientists instead of Coal Miners.

On the issue of Catholic schools, the Nuns will work for free, they do not have families and they live in a house full of other Nuns, and so they can live on $40,000 per year. $40,000 per year is plenty for a Nun.

Here in Anaheim we have a new program which allows local people to attend Fullerton Community College and to go right to work for Disney when they graduate. The same thing can happen in Kentucky with Amgen, Amgen can help Kentucky to design schools where the students can go right to work for Amgen when they graduate, etc.

Hopefully the USA will help the people of Kentucky, and companies such as Amgen, but we also have Pope Francis and the Catholic Church, Pope Francis can send schools to Kentucky if Kentucky needs schools and if no one else will send schools to Kentucky. And the Nuns will help to educate the poor people of Kentucky if the Nuns are needed.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 12, 2023, 04:09:51 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 12, 2023, 11:41:17 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2023, 11:31:02 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2023, 02:12:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2023, 09:43:40 PM
Yes, the folly of exporting *all* one's manufacturing
jobs to China etc, and importing cheap labor, was/is huge.

Education is the answer for America, like with Athens, we need to educate our people and we need for our people to own companies all around the world. We also need to teach our people how to get a Copyright and a Patent, etc.

And the same way that "All roads lead to Rome" then all roads need to lead to America.

We need to build new schools in Kentucky, and in Chicago, and all over the USA, we need to make a huge investment in education for our people and for libraries, etc.

We also need for ALL people in the USA to have equal opportunities, which is enforced by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964.

Also of note, is that our ancestors worked hard and they passed down blessings, such as the fact that our ancestors built 1,500 dams here in California to help with the issue of water for farming and for the people. We are blessed from work that our ancestors did.

And some jobs cannot be exported, such as health care, education, building housing, law enforcement, defense, etc, providing food and grocery stores, doing real estate, etc.

On the issue of the Entertainment Industry, guys like Aaron Spelling created a lot of jobs here in Hollywood, and we need to have tax breaks and incentives to bring the Entertainment Industry back to Hollywood. And I could create a lot of jobs here making movies and television shows if the fuckers would let me work, and if I could get the funding.

Anyhow, education is the answer, and teaching our immigrants how to speak English, and opening more libraries, etc.

The jobs in the USA are changing, instead of mining coal, they will be finding cures for diseases while working as Research Scientists for Amgen, etc. We can have libraries, schools, and laboratories in Kentucky where they can work to find a cure for Cancer, etc.

We need to educate our people and we need to rise to a higher level, and an education must be expected for all Americans, they need to obey the law, they need to behave like polite ladies and gentlemen, and we need to teach our people how to become Research Scientists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Not likely to attract the best and brighest to teaching, educating America's children, if the salary is only $40,000pa in Catholic schools and $60,000 in public schools.

We could pay more if GOP stopped siphoning off funds through School Choice scams.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/02/07/ohio-public-schools-under-attack-while-lack-of-accountability-allows-nazi-homeschooling-scandal/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 12, 2023, 04:10:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 12, 2023, 12:48:47 PM
Anyone who thinks the Hunter Biden laptop is a huge scandal should google Saudi investment fund Kushner Trump Bin Salman.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2023, 05:18:31 PM: A huge part of my education has been from reading books apart from actual classroom study, I am blessed to love reading, and if we can build nice libraries in our poor areas then the people can read books and they can educate themselves apart from any classroom training. And every school gives you a reading list, so it can be the same thing for poor people who desire to improve their lives through reading books. And the libraries can give the people reading lists if they desire, for whatever they may want to study, etc. And companies such as Amgen can give the people a reading list to prepare to study to be a Research Scientist, etc. Even if an area is too poor to afford teachers, then there can be nice libraries where people can read and where people can enrich their lives by gaining wisdom through reading.

Even if we cannot afford teachers for every poor area, we should at least try to have a nice library.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 12, 2023, 05:49:11 PM: Things are rapidly changing

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/business/electric-vehicles-price-cost.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2023, 08:02:11 PM: In the days of the Roman Empire if you went in and started feeding the hungry people, and if you started educating the poor, then those in power might be afraid that you are trying to steal power away from them and they will view you as a competitor. The people who feed the hungry, and who educate the poor, become very powerful in their community. And leaders who help the poor are always loved by the people.

The best way to help the homeless and to improve our society is by feeding the poor, and by getting them into homes. And even a hostel with a bed and a shower for $15 per night would be far superior to allowing people to sleep on the sidewalk. And we need to make every human being feel like an important part of our community. And you do not go in with cops and arrest everyone, but instead you feed the people and the people will come to you to eat. If you feed them a McDonald's hamburger then they will love you forever. And while the people are eating then you sign them up for all of the programs, and get them into housing, and get them medical care, etc.

And then as people get into housing, then we can train them for the jobs of the future, and can provide books, and an education to the people. I support at least giving free Community College to every American. And I support a good library in every neighborhood.

In the old days in America the men were the masters of industry, while their wives all did charity work, never underestimate the power that the wives had in early America, the wives were helping the poor and they were doing things to help the community, the men made the money and the wives gave the money away to charity. We need for the wives to donate colleges and libraries in the poor parts of Kentucky, etc.

And of course I expect Biden to help the USA and Kentucky on the issue of education and helping the homeless, and so far it looks like Biden supports educating people and getting them into housing. Biden also supports building high speed trains.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2023, 10:38:12 PM: On the issue of Black actors, my friend Brandy cleaned houses with Cuba Gooding Jr when they were both starving in Hollywood, and when Cuba won his Oscar then my friend Brandy said it could not have happened to a nicer guy. She said Cuba Gooding Jr is a really cool guy. And Cuba lived in Apple Valley for a while where Roy Rogers lived. I also liked the movie where he played the deep sea diver.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 13, 2023, 04:04:50 AM: On my tv 'current affairs' program 'The Bolt Report 'on Sky News now:

SuperBowl goes woke with two anthems

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One the "unofficial Black anthem" sung by the lovely Black lady in red.

Native Americans are 'First Peoples', they should get their own anthem and flag, and demand they take pride of place too...well everybody else is doing it!

______________________
**********************

Idris Elba ...para: "I stopped calling myself 'a Black actor' when I realised [by doing so] I was putting myself in a box".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 13, 2023, 10:39:48 AM: Who says guns do not kill people?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/02/12/lawyer-dies-after-shot-by-his-own-concealed-gun-triggered-by-mri-machine/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 13, 2023, 10:54:00 AM: "Have it cocked and ready to fire at all times."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 13, 2023, 02:30:59 PM: You never know who might be lurking in an MRI room.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 13, 2023, 03:16:03 PM: I have a Black friend who worked the sound at Universal Studios for the theme park shows, his name is Keith Evans, and he helped to do the sound on the movie "Jurassic Park" and he worked with Spielberg. When I first started on my project and when it looked like Hugh Hefner was going to put up the money to make my movie, I contacted Keith Evans to see if he would do the Sound on my movie, my movie is a movie with a lot of music and having a great Sound Engineer is very important, and so I contacted Keith Evans. Keith thanked me for remembering him, and he said that he would love to do the Sound on my movie. Unfortunately I could not follow through on getting my movie made, it got stuck trying to get the Director, after Hef was already going to put up the money, then Hef backed out. But, I still have the script.

Anyhow, if you want to support Black people in the movie industry, then hire Keith Evans to do the Sound on your movie, he is a cool guy, and he is a Pro who worked with Spielberg. And he lives local here in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 13, 2023, 05:26:15 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 13, 2023, 10:54:00 AM
"Have it cocked and ready to fire at all times."

One in the chambrr and the safety on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 13, 2023, 06:05:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 13, 2023, 05:26:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 13, 2023, 10:54:00 AM
"Have it cocked and ready to fire at all times."

One in the chambrr and the safety on.

Missing the point here
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 13, 2023, 06:08:18 PM: Norfolk Southern has a history of lobbying against safety regulations. The publicly traded company, which has a market value of $55 billion, fought the Federal Railroad Administrations push to upgrade the Civil War era brake system that remains widely used in American trains, and against stricter rules on the transport of hazardous materials. (Meanwhile, its employees still lack guaranteed sick leave.)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/norfolk-southern-giving-25-000-200000640.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 13, 2023, 09:56:33 PM: Israel threw away democracy a long time ago
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 13, 2023, 11:22:12 PM: Israel is "the Jews' last stand".
After the murderous horrors, barbaric torture etc of Jews in WW2...they've obviously decided to look after themselves first in this world. because nobody else will.
Which is all fair enough.
Israel decided long ago that it would build "fortress Israel".
Good move.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 13, 2023, 11:29:48 PM: Something tells me Jesus would Not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizing 2023 Super Bowl ads from a non profit group called He Gets Us a movement to reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible and his love and forgiveness.
The ads ask

What if we tried to love our enemies the way Jesus loved his? How would it change the tenor of our conflicts and our conversations?

AOC never explains what the link is to fascism(if any).
But she does show total ignorance of Capitalism.
The ad cost $7 million and reached a Super Bowl audience of 113 million.
Ergo the cost per thousand people who saw it was about 62$. Well within the range of any Super Bowl ad.
But.
Thanks to AOC running her mouth the ad will live on via YouTube, Twitter,. et al infinitum making the ad even more economical.

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 13, 2023, 11:40:00 PM: Jesus is tearing down the temple of you white Christian nationalists. That is why he so abundantly blesses President Biden in all his efforts along with democracy, equality and liberation movements both in the United States and around the world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 14, 2023, 01:31:32 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 13, 2023, 11:40:00 PM
Jesus is tearing down the temple of you white Christian nationalists. That is why he so abundantly blesses President Biden in all his efforts along with democracy, equality and liberation movements both in the United States and around the world.

You're welcome to your non White-majority run countries...like in Africa, Middle East, Mexico, Central America, South America, India/Pakistan, Asia etc.
When you rid the world of White people, best of luck with your massively overpopulated etc globe.
Luckily, I won't be around to suffer it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 01:42:06 AM: White is an artificial tool of oppression.

Any religion that puts any people anointed above another is false.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 09:53:23 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 13, 2023, 11:29:48 PM

Something tells me Jesus would Not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizing 2023 Super Bowl ads from a non profit group called He Gets Us a movement to reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible and his love and forgiveness.
Liar. The "movement" is an ad campaign. It is funded by the most reactionary, least loving and least forgiving elements of the Christian right. The "movement" funding the ads is the same "movement" that funds anti-LGBTQ movements.
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The ads ask

What if we tried to love our enemies the way Jesus loved his? How would it change the tenor of our conflicts and our conversations?

AOC never explains what the link is to fascism(if any).
In a tweet. Perhaps she trusted us to be smart enough to figure it out. I mean, not you, but us.
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But she does show total ignorance of Capitalism.
Liar.
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The ad cost $7 million and reached a Super Bowl audience of 113 million.
The ads cost 20 million, but who is counting. I mean, clearly not you, but otherwise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 09:58:29 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 13, 2023, 11:29:48 PM
The ad cost $7 million and reached a Super Bowl audience of 113 million.
Ergo the cost per thousand people who saw it was about 62$. Well within the range of any Super Bowl ad.
But.
The spikenard ointment debate has never been the most persuasive argument in the tool box for mainstream Christianity.
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Thanks to AOC running her mouth the ad will live on via YouTube, Twitter,. et al infinitum making the ad even more economical.

LOL!
Not been on Youtube much in the last eight months, I take it. Those ads are omnipresent already.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 14, 2023, 10:23:00 AM: Woman your fine ointment, brand new and expensive...

Credit Judas for those lines in "Everything's Alright."

Credit Red for countering any opinion not of the conservative canon with a strawman. Credit Red for calling any opinion from a woman, especially a PoC, "running her mouth."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 12:15:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 09:53:23 AM

Something tells me Jesus would Not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizing 2023 Super Bowl ads from a non profit group called He Gets Us
AOC never explains what the link is to fascism(if any).
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In a tweet. Perhaps she trusted us to be smart enough to figure it out. I mean, not you, but us.
You cannot explain it either. Gotcha
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 14, 2023, 12:50:30 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 01:42:06 AM
White is an artificial tool of oppression.

Any religion that puts any people anointed above another is false.

Any oppression in Africa today?
Any oppression in China/Asia today?
Any oppression in Middle East today?
Any oppression in Mexico today?
Any oppression in Central America today?
Any oppression in South America today?

"Oppression"..."prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2023, 01:02:56 PM: How much rent do you charge AOC, Red?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 01:39:03 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/02/14/church-at-the-super-bowl-football-jesus-and-fascism/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/02/14/church-at-the-super-bowl-football-jesus-and-fascism/)

Jesus hates your fat fascist preachers, Bambi. They are all going to Hell along with all of their followers who do not wake up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 02:57:27 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 12:15:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 09:53:23 AM

Something tells me Jesus would Not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizing 2023 Super Bowl ads from a non profit group called He Gets Us
AOC never explains what the link is to fascism(if any).
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In a tweet. Perhaps she trusted us to be smart enough to figure it out. I mean, not you, but us.
You cannot explain it either. Gotcha
Sure i can. But since you are a PROVEN LIAR, a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack and an intellectually dishonest buffoon, doing so to you is pointless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 14, 2023, 03:15:01 PM: There is a new movie with Kelsey Grammer named "Jesus Revolution" which looks really good, it is about a bunch of hippies who move into a preacher's home. I will watch it when I go to visit my Mother, she loves to watch movies when I visit.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10098448/

And Bambu, Costa Rica is every bit as nice as Australia, Costa Rica is beautiful, some Spanish speaking countries are great.

And a lot of progress has been happening in Colombia for the last 30 years. And the President of Colombia attended Harvard here in the USA.

Mexico can be nice, but we are not going to make it nice by building fences, we need to take down the fence and we need to work together as a team with Mexico. And Elvis made a movie in Acapulco, and Hollywood used to love Mexico, we need to bring back the love of Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 03:27:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 02:57:27 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 12:15:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 14, 2023, 09:53:23 AM

Something tells me Jesus would Not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez criticizing 2023 Super Bowl ads from a non profit group called He Gets Us
AOC never explains what the link is to fascism(if any).
Quote
In a tweet. Perhaps she trusted us to be smart enough to figure it out. I mean, not you, but us.
You cannot explain it either. Gotcha
Sure i can. But since you are a PROVEN LIAR, a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack and an intellectually dishonest buffoon, doing so to you is pointless.
LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 03:54:51 PM: Jesus would like us to expand Social Security and Medicare by properly taxing the rich.

Jesus would also like us to wrap up and close down the oil and gas industries as fast as humanly possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 14, 2023, 04:18:39 PM: Here is a way that private people can help to improve our cities, and we can copy the procedure to clean up Mexico, etc.

Chef Bruno owns the best restaurant in Anaheim, and he has the full support of our community, and Chef Bruno feeds the poor children, etc, he feeds 5,000 meals per night to poor children.

So, here in Anaheim we had some bad, dirty, and dangerous areas, where they had cheap motels with gangs selling heroin, and there was prostitution, and human trafficking, and pimping, and domestic violence, and other problems, these were bad areas. So, Chef Bruno went in and cleaned it up, and he helped the children, and the women, and others, here is what he did...

Chef Bruno went into the bad areas, and he fed the Children, and Chef Bruno is friends with City Hall and with the Police Department, and Chef Bruno got the children and their parents out of the bad areas and into good safe housing, while he was feeding everyone. Then, after the children were moved into safe housing then the cheap motels were purchased by the City and were demolished.

So, you feed the children, and you help the families to get into safe housing, and then you buy and destroy the bad housing. And then you redevelop the areas and turn the areas from bad to good.

We all want better neighborhoods, and we want to live in a better world, and Christians believe that we need to help the children and the poor. And Chef Bruno has set a good example here in Anaheim, it has been the whole community working together to help our community, and we are transforming neighborhoods.

We also have Kiwanis International, and Kiwanis will work for free to help the children, and to make our communities better for the children.

You can buy Chef Bruno's book "The Power of Pasta" and all of the money will go towards feeding hungry children and helping communities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 14, 2023, 08:40:08 PM: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156849741/banksy-valentines-day-violence-woman

Happy St Valentine's day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 09:29:09 PM: Numerical economic facts say inflation is coming down.

You are correct that Joe won.

As Joe wins so do we all.

Give up your guns, pollution and tax breaks and we will all win some more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 09:33:04 PM: A day in the abysmal Biden Administration.
Joe says inflation is coming down,
It jumped a half per cent in January while food prices are up nearly 12 per cent since last year.
Joe will not say anything about those four balloons our Air Force has shot down which has unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories.
But Petey-Boy Buttigieg is making jokes about that while playing the race card over the skin color of construction workers in poor neighborhoods.(HUH?)
Meanwhile in the hard luck town of East Palestine, Ohio a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and an ensuing fire sent billowing smoke into the atmosphere. Fish and wildlife are turning up dead and the townspeople are now told they can safely return to their homes, but many are not sure it is safe. .
Joe and Petey are not talking about that, either.

Pathetic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 14, 2023, 10:07:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 14, 2023, 09:33:04 PM
A day in the abysmal Biden Administration.
Joe says inflation is coming down,
It jumped a half per cent in January while food prices are up nearly 12 per cent since last year.
Joe will not say anything about those four balloons our Air Force has shot down which has unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories.
But Petey-Boy Buttigieg is making jokes about that while playing the race card over the skin color of construction workers in poor neighborhoods.(HUH?)
Meanwhile in the hard luck town of East Palestine, Ohio a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and an ensuing fire sent billowing smoke into the atmosphere. Fish and wildlife are turning up dead and the townspeople are now told they can safely return to their homes, but many are not sure it is safe. .
Joe and Petey are not talking about that, either.

Pathetic.

Mayor Pete is surely disturbing the sleep patterns of the GOP..

All you guys are doing is helping him shed his MAYO Pete image among the base of the Democratic Party.

Ya homophobic sumbitch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2023, 11:17:40 PM: Red is realizing the republicans will not have a serious and legitimate nominee in 2024.

His crypto balance no longer supports any kind of life in exile.

Hard times for Red and his codefendants means good times for the U S of A.

We will pass on your good ideas about nationalizing all commercial rail service and inspecting the shit out of all chemical plants, processes and transfers.

We will probably need n extra windfall tax to do it, thank Jesus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM: Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.

The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Some might call it racist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 02:34:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
Liar.
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At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Clearly what your psychiatrist calls proiection.
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Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.
The federal government would offer, and the local government would accept, aid and resources. Which is what is happening now. NTSB, EPA and Transportation have been at the scene assisting local authorities since the accident happened and are staying there indefinitely. You PROVEN LIAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
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The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Liar.
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Some might call it racist.
Only if you are a PROVEN LIAR and a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack. Which you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 02:58:28 PM: At least Red refrained from the "War on White People" idiocy that some of the other august members of his political bent have argued that the train derailment represents.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 15, 2023, 03:21:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.

The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Some might call it racist.

More people note that GOP deregulation frenzies kill off republicans even faster than they kill off sane or patriotic Americans who oppose the republican party at every turn.

The DeWine-Chao Chernobyl in Ohio is another republican cause disaster that Democrats will clean up while republicans resort to gaslighting and distracting the public by kicking trans people and teachers and nurses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 04:10:03 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 02:58:28 PM
At least Red refrained from the "War on White People" idiocy that some of the other august members of his political bent have argued that the train derailment represents.
Like who?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 04:14:26 PM: Like Charlie Kirk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 04:46:38 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 04:14:26 PM
Like Charlie Kirk.
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

The problem for Biden and Buttigieg is that by saying nothing for so long (plus similar laissez-faire attitudes
concerning air traffic problems, truck strikes, shooting down balloon while lamenting the skin color of construction workers) is that now both republican and democrats are wondering what the hell is going on?

This is the inevitable result of hiring someone (Petey-Boy)to do a job he is not qualified for.

And sure enough Buttigieg today partially blamed the East Palestine derailment on Trump.

Pathetic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 04:53:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 04:46:38 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 04:14:26 PM
Like Charlie Kirk.
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?
Liar. That is not what he wrote.
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The problem for Biden and Buttigieg is that by saying nothing for so long
Liar
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(plus similar laissez-faire attitudes
concerning air traffic problems, truck strikes, shooting down balloon while lamenting the skin color of construction workers)
Liar.
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is that now both republican and democrats are wondering what the hell is going on?

This is the inevitable result of hiring someone (Petey-Boy)to do a job he is not qualified for.
Liar.
Quote

And sure enough Buttigieg today partially blamed the East Palestine derailment on Trump.

Pathetic.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 05:35:43 PM: So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

Heh. You are remarkable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2023, 05:39:51 PM: After what happened to the water in Michigan I do not think that a disaster can ever be blamed on race, and all races suffer equally from disasters.

And people need to remember the victories that Marlon Brando helped to get with Martin Luther King and others for Civil Rights for ALL Americans.

We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which is our Equal Opportunity Act which says we all have an equal chance for a job.

And we have our Civil Rights Act of 1968 which is our Fair Housing Act which guarantees that we all have an equal chance for housing.

We all need to support the ACLU which defends the Civil Rights of ALL human beings. We need to support the ACLU now more than ever.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 05:56:43 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 05:35:43 PM
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

Heh. You are remarkable.
How much rent you pay Charlie Kirk?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2023, 06:27:49 PM: On the television news just now they showed a poor widow in Los Angeles who owns a Chinese restaurant, and she has a $14,000 bill for her Natural Gas. It is so sad. We need for the Television News Reporters to dig deeper, and they will find that California produces a lot of Natural Gas, plus as we pumped out oil then we filled the empty oil wells full of Natural Gas. California has enough Natural Gas to last for a LONG time.

So, the lady with the Chinese restaurant can have a keg party to raise money for her Natural Gas bill, she can have a party at her restaurant with beer from a keg and with Chinese food that she can cook, she can charge $5 for a glass of beer and she can sell egg rolls, etc.

California has enough Natural Gas to last forever, we have a LOT of Natural Gas. We need to lower the prices for the restaurants in California, the restaurants need Natural Gas to cook. We can supply them much more cheaply, we have an abundance of Natural Gas in California, the News Reporters need to dig deeper.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 06:43:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2023, 05:39:51 PM
After what happened to the water in Michigan I do not think that a disaster can ever be blamed on race, and all races suffer equally from disasters.
That is provably false.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 06:49:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 05:56:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 05:35:43 PM
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

Heh. You are remarkable.
How much rent you pay Charlie Kirk?
That is a quick rubber/glue turn around, even for you. Even your insults are copy and paste.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 07:56:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 06:49:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 05:56:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 05:35:43 PM
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

Heh. You are remarkable.
How much rent you pay Charlie Kirk?
That is a quick rubber/glue turn around, even for you. Even your insults are copy and paste.
What insults?

Please explain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 09:04:50 PM: And you screwed it up, as well. If you think Charlie Kirk is in my head (like AOC is in yours), he'd be paying me rent.

I might be a "socialist cocksucker" but I'm not going to forego rent rightfully due.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 09:32:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 09:04:50 PM
And you screwed it up, as well. If you think Charlie Kirk is in my head (like AOC is in yours), he'd be paying me rent.

I might be a "socialist cocksucker" but I'm not going to forego rent rightfully due.
Confession is good for the soul.
Oh, wait.
You do not have one.
As you were.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 15, 2023, 09:54:06 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 09:32:57 PM

Confession is good for the soul.
Oh, wait.
You do not have one.

Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 02:34:45 PM
Clearly what your psychiatrist calls projection.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 01:12:18 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 09:32:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 09:04:50 PM
And you screwed it up, as well. If you think Charlie Kirk is in my head (like AOC is in yours), he'd be paying me rent.

I might be a "socialist cocksucker" but I'm not going to forego rent rightfully due.
Confession is good for the soul.
Oh, wait.
You do not have one.
As you were.

This is another example where you show confusion about the nature of the soul.

It goes down with the time you thought you sold your soul but only parted with your worthless virginity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 01:14:55 AM: Another sign of the healthy state of the republican white supremacist soul,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial (http://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 16, 2023, 09:46:00 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 07:56:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 06:49:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 05:56:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 15, 2023, 05:35:43 PM
So Charlie Kirk, to you, personifies a venerable and illustrious spokesman for the right?

Heh. You are remarkable.
How much rent you pay Charlie Kirk?
That is a quick rubber/glue turn around, even for you. Even your insults are copy and paste.
What insults?

Please explain.
No.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 16, 2023, 09:49:14 AM: News Item

Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support For East Palestine After Learning It is In America
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 16, 2023, 11:29:29 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 16, 2023, 09:49:14 AM
News Item

Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support For East Palestine After Learning It is In America
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 16, 2023, 01:06:51 PM: Non-News Item

Babylon Bee, satirical magazine for RW White Christians, searches for humor in attacking Islamic woman for 1,398th time. Massive narcolepsy outbreak ensues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 16, 2023, 01:10:13 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2023, 01:06:51 PM
Non-News Item

Babylon Bee, satirical magazine for RW White Christians, searches for humor in attacking Islamic woman for 1,398th time. Massive narcolepsy outbreak ensues.
Truth is often found in unlikely places.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 02:00:56 PM: Red hates news as much as he hates truth. This is why he clings so tight to his shambolic fantasy world where white make might makes right.

It is past time we drown his dreams in a bathtub.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2023, 02:12:31 PM: As we help the homeless, then we can train the homeless people to go to work helping other homeless people, the homeless people can become Shelter Managers, and Van Drivers, and Crisis Intervention Specialists, etc, and some people can even go to school to become Psychiatrists and Psychologists, etc. San Diego State University trains the best Psychiatrists.

Of note, a lot of homeless guys are Veterans, and the Veterans are really good at managing shelters, etc. My friend Tom was a Combat Medic in the Middle East for the Marine Corps, and he worked as a Doctor for 20 years in Pennsylvania for the Navy, and he was great at managing Homeless Shelters, Tom was like the rock star of shelter managers. And my friend Chris was a Vet from the Air Force and he drove around in a Van at night with a female Mental Health Specialist and they picked up the homeless people and they took the homeless people to shelters to get help, and Chris also managed shelters. The Vets are good at helping the homeless and running shelters.

We can train the people to help other people as we help them, and the Vets are great at managing shelters, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 16, 2023, 04:28:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 02:00:56 PM
Red hates news as much as he hates truth. This is why he clings so tight to his shambolic fantasy world where white make might makes right.

It is past time we drown his dreams in a bathtub.

White might does make right...take a look at "White European Appearance"- majority countries...then have a look at the rest.
Have a look at the racial equality laws, the religious equality laws, and the standards of living in those WEA-M countries, then have a look at the rest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 16, 2023, 04:39:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 16, 2023, 04:28:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 02:00:56 PM
Red hates news as much as he hates truth. This is why he clings so tight to his shambolic fantasy world where white make might makes right.

It is past time we drown his dreams in a bathtub.

White might does make right...take a look at "White European Appearance"- majority countries...then have a look at the rest.
Have a look at the racial equality laws, the religious equality laws, and the standards of living in those WEA-M countries, then have a look at the rest.
Just out of curiosity, do you have an interesting collection of arm bands in a drawer somewhere?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 16, 2023, 05:03:42 PM: Back off. Bambu lost relatives in the concentration camps. Fell off the guard towers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2023, 06:03:55 PM: My ancestors were Cowboys and Indians. Nevada loves the Cowboys and the Cowboys rule in Carson City, and in Battle Mountain, and in Reno, and in Lake Tahoe, and in Virginia City, the Cowboys in Nevada all wear Cowboy hats and they have rifles in the rifle racks in their pick up trucks. The Cowboys are the most free people on Earth. My Father studied Business at Pepperdine and he became a Hay Broker, buying Hay Futures from Hay Growers, and then selling the Hay to the Farmers and Dairies, etc, after the Hay was grown and baled, and my Father used to deliver the Hay to the Buyers right to their Ranch, etc. He died while delivering Hay to a Ranch in Oregon, he was struck by lightening when I was 9 years old, just before Elvis died. My Ancestors were all Cowboys and Indians who were involved with Farming, and with Gold Mining, etc.

I am happy to see the success of the television show Walker; Independence, and hopefully more Westerns will be made.

And someone can produce the Slocum novels as movies.

My people just wanted Freedom in the West, and we raised our own food, and we wore Levis, and we drove the trucks, and we cooked the food, and they got married and had families. For a time when I was a kid my family lived on a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, that my parents owned, and for us our whole world was on the 360 acres that we owned and taking care of the animals, etc.

At the time of Abraham Lincoln I had family in Carrollton, Kentucky, and in Madison, Indiana.

And I support making everyone here in America right now LEGAL so that they can come out of the shadows, and so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they can join the Teamsters and other Labor Unions. And we need EQUAL PAY for EQUAL WORK.

I support the ACLU and I support equality for all under the law.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 16, 2023, 09:41:05 PM: Lauren Boebert (R) Colorado gets it.
She understands...that students in gun-free schools are sitting ducks.
*
Armed good guys should be in schools, all schools, every one.
In addition there should be physical security, fences, walls, locked doors, staged entry systems, metal detectors, electronic cards for entry....etc.

There's no such thing as "too much security".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2023, 12:13:47 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 16, 2023, 04:39:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 16, 2023, 04:28:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 02:00:56 PM
Red hates news as much as he hates truth. This is why he clings so tight to his shambolic fantasy world where white make might makes right.

It is past time we drown his dreams in a bathtub.

White might does make right...take a look at "White European Appearance"- majority countries...then have a look at the rest.
Have a look at the racial equality laws, the religious equality laws, and the standards of living in those WEA-M countries, then have a look at the rest.
Just out of curiosity, do you have an interesting collection of arm bands in a drawer somewhere?

USA is one such WEA-M country, for now.
See its racial equality laws, religious equality laws, and standard of living.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2023, 12:38:10 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 16, 2023, 05:03:42 PM
Back off. Bambu lost relatives in the concentration camps. Fell off the guard towers.

bambu's maternal ancestor left Hamburg in the mid 1800s, along with many other Lutherans ...to
escape Marx-ilk and their "hereditary properties now have to be purchased by the inheritors" nonsense.

Don't know what you were supposed to do if Hitler forced you into his military and you were forced to occupy the guard towers....when refusing would see you shot dead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 12:53:35 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 16, 2023, 05:03:42 PM
Back off. Bambu lost relatives in the concentration camps. Fell off the guard towers.

Yup. He just confirmed it at least two different ways.

Rotten fruit from a poisonous invasive tree is our Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2023, 03:29:40 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 12:53:35 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 16, 2023, 05:03:42 PM
Back off. Bambu lost relatives in the concentration camps. Fell off the guard towers.

Yup. He just confirmed it at least two different ways.

Rotten fruit from a poisonous invasive tree is our Bambu.

LOL
The German/Polish Lutherans who migrated to South Australia in the 1800s have a very proud history.
Farmers, grew food and took it to markets in Adelaide.
Grow the grapes, that make the famous wines in the Barossa Valley S.A.
Team bambu toured The Adelaide Hills ..incl the German Town Harndorf and surrounds, travelled to the
cemetery where first ancestor, his wife, and some descendents are buried.
Thanked them for making mommy-dearest who she was.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2023, 07:05:23 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 16, 2023, 04:39:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 16, 2023, 04:28:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 16, 2023, 02:00:56 PM
Red hates news as much as he hates truth. This is why he clings so tight to his shambolic fantasy world where white make might makes right.

It is past time we drown his dreams in a bathtub.

White might does make right...take a look at "White European Appearance"- majority countries...then have a look at the rest.
Have a look at the racial equality laws, the religious equality laws, and the standards of living in those WEA-M countries, then have a look at the rest.
Just out of curiosity, do you have an interesting collection of arm bands in a drawer somewhere?

Any children as young as 4 in WEA-M USA being forced to slave for 12 hours a day in ' horror mines', extracting cobalt for the manufacture of mobile phones...the children receiving 10cents per day and constantly being threatened?.

There are in Congo, Africa...a non WEA-M country/ continent.
There are in Congo, Africa.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2023, 10:03:23 AM: Hasn't crossed your wee mind that some of your WEAM nations enslaved those countries and exploited them for centuries until colonialism ended, then mired them in debt while killing any local value-added production.

Many WEAM nations, US especially, built their economies with slave labor. Both overseas slavery, and domestic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on February 17, 2023, 10:26:14 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
Liar.
Quote
At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Clearly what your psychiatrist calls proiection.
Quote
Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.
The federal government would offer, and the local government would accept, aid and resources. Which is what is happening now. NTSB, EPA and Transportation have been at the scene assisting local authorities since the accident happened and are staying there indefinitely. You PROVEN LIAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Quote

The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Liar.
Quote
Some might call it racist.
Only if you are a PROVEN LIAR and a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack. Which you are.

Actually the aid is not "there now" in East Palestine.

Imagine - migrants put up in fancy hotels, fed like kings - and our own are treated thusly

Sickens me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 12:30:05 PM: Mayor Bass is helping the homeless, as she promised. I have been sending her advice from what I have learned here in Orange County in regard to helping the homeless.

And Rome is the leader in Europe, and the most powerful man in the world is Pope Francis. And Rome had indoor plumbing, etc, way before everyone else.

The USA was built on the foundation provided by Rome, and Athens.

And not all of the USA was built on slave labor, Henry Ford wanted for his workers to have good lives, and Henry Ford was famous for paying his workers good wages.

Then we had the labor movement here in the USA, and we attained Labor Unions, which is why we have a Middle Class today. Our Unions and Labor Laws are why we have a strong Middle Class. And many of our Labor Leaders have been Italian-American.

And Hollywood was not built on slave labor, the studios used to pay high wages, and Hollywood was rich during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood has big beautiful houses all over because the workers were able to afford nice homes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM: The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.

Hundreds of New York Times contributors and advocacy groups sent two coordinated open letters Wednesday accusing the paper of record of publishing biased articles about trans people.
One of the letters, signed by more than 370 current and former Times contributors, several of them trans and nonbinary, said that
the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.

In a second letter, more than 100 LGBTQ and civil rights groups, including GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and PFLAG, said that they support the letter from contributors and that the Times is platforming
fringe theories and dangerous inaccuracies.
A billboard truck also drove around the Times office in Manhattan with coalition messages, including:
Dear New York Times: Stop questioning trans people right to exist and access medical care.

The Times through Executive Editor Joe Khan responded by informing the letter signers

It is not unusual for outside groups to critique our coverage or to rally supporters to seek to influence our journalism. In this case, however, members of our staff and contributors to The Times joined the effort. Their protest letter included direct attacks on several of our colleagues, singling them out by name.
Participation in such a campaign is against the letter and spirit of our ethics policy. That policy prohibits our journalists from aligning themselves with advocacy groups and joining protest actions on matters of public policy. We also have a clear policy prohibiting Times journalists from attacking one another s journalism publicly or signaling their support for such attacks.
Kahn went on to defend his response to allegedly anti trans reporting on the merits, arguing that our coverage of transgender issues, including the specific pieces singled out for the attack, is important, deeply reported, and sensitively written.
In conclusion, he fired another warning shot: We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation of Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.

Kudos to the Times for standing up for Journalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:48:42 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on February 17, 2023, 10:26:14 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
Liar.
Quote
At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Clearly what your psychiatrist calls proiection.
Quote
Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.
The federal government would offer, and the local government would accept, aid and resources. Which is what is happening now. NTSB, EPA and Transportation have been at the scene assisting local authorities since the accident happened and are staying there indefinitely. You PROVEN LIAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Quote

The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Liar.
Quote
Some might call it racist.
Only if you are a PROVEN LIAR and a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack. Which you are.

Actually the aid is not "there now" in East Palestine.

Imagine - migrants put up in fancy hotels, fed like kings - and our own are treated thusly

Sickens me.
Yes, the DeWine administration and local authorities have a lot to answer for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 01:15:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:48:42 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on February 17, 2023, 10:26:14 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 15, 2023, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 15, 2023, 11:27:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2023, 10:12:51 AM
Red seems unaware the POTUS did, in fact, call Gov. DeWine and say "anything you need" to help. The RW bubble narrative that Biden is somehow ignoring the spill is false and counterproductive to fixing the transport issues. We should question always government assurances, especially where vinyl chloride is concerned, which is why it's good that individual house testing is being done. Bedding towels and clothes can contain residues even after exterior air is okay, and the advice to launder everything is good. People questioning government measurements of toxins is a nonpartisan ongoing thing that always should happen because EPA staff can't be everywhere. We will always need Brockoviches.
ROFL.
Liar.
Quote
At least you are a predictable partisan hack.
Clearly what your psychiatrist calls proiection.
Quote
Imagine a train derailment on a par with the one in East Palestine , (dead animals, bellied up fish, chemical cloud hanging over the town, residents evacuated, afraid of their drinking water and future health) took place in D.C or Chicago, etc. not in a rust belt town of middle class white people who vote republican.
The federal government would offer, and the local government would accept, aid and resources. Which is what is happening now. NTSB, EPA and Transportation have been at the scene assisting local authorities since the accident happened and are staying there indefinitely. You PROVEN LIAR and Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.
Quote

The hypocrisy of a Biden and Buttigieg is palpable.
Liar.
Quote
Some might call it racist.
Only if you are a PROVEN LIAR and a Comically Transparent Partisan Hack. Which you are.

Actually the aid is not "there now" in East Palestine.

Imagine - migrants put up in fancy hotels, fed like kings - and our own are treated thusly

Sickens me.
Yes, the DeWine administration and local authorities have a lot to answer for.

DeWine AWOL as usual.

If it does not involve stripping rights, fleecing rubes, or directly harming children, republicans just cannot be bothered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 01:32:03 PM: We are a rich nation, yet we have old trains that are derailing, and we still do not have high speed trains here even though the voters here approved funding for high speed trains 3 times. The people want the high speed trains. The state of California is doing a horrible job at managing the building of our high speed trains, they are slow and over-budget, they need to hire way more people and they need to work on many sections at once, and let us get our high speed trains built.

And Amtrak is nationally owned, and we still do not have high speed trains here. And Amtrak needs to build a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas. The freeways are crowded with traffic, and the automobile manufacturers and the gasoline industry has such a hold on things that we cannot get our high speed trains built. The people want the high speed trains.

As we improve rail travel for passengers, then we can also improve rail for freight.

We have crowds of people at the Southern Border, let the people come in and give them jobs building our high speed trains, and new rail for freight. Etc. And we have 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, we need to put the people to work who are able to work, we need to create easy jobs that the homeless people can do, such as building high speed trains, and working in the forests to prevent forest fires, etc. The homeless people can also do beautification projects, etc. There are a lot of jobs we can create for the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2023, 01:57:56 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 10:03:23 AM
Hasn't crossed your wee mind that some of your WEAM nations enslaved those countries and exploited them for centuries until colonialism ended, then mired them in debt while killing any local value-added production.

Many WEAM nations, US especially, built their economies with slave labor. Both overseas slavery, and domestic.

Indeed..."guns beat spears".
But today, in 2023?

Google:
10 Facts on Modern Slavery in Mexico and Haiti- The Globalist
...theglobalist.com

Yes, what ...will...be the norm in America when America becomes 'Mexico', as is fast happening.
Criminal cartels, you see.

Not only Mexico, repeat for Central America.
Predatory Central America gangs, you see.

Google 'Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Latin America'.

Yes, when WEA people are abolished in America and it becomes something else, best of luck to y'all and your descendants, because it seems to me that you, and they, are gonna need it.
Oh, and any Black people in America cheering for the demise of WEA-M America thinking they'll get a better deal from their new rulers should read some more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 03:07:35 PM: CNN employees rip Don Lemon for his ageist remarks about Nikki Haley being
past her prime
She is 51.

Lemon apologized today but it only made matters worse.

A CNN insider, after the apology, labeled Lemon
a fucking asshole

This Is CNN
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 17, 2023, 03:20:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 03:07:35 PM
CNN employees rip Don Lemon for his ageist remarks about Nikki Haley being
past her prime
She is 51.

Lemon apologized today but it only made matters worse.

A CNN insider, after the apology, labeled Lemon
a fucking asshole

This Is CNN

STOP THE PRESSES!
Don Lemon is a jerk!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 04:00:41 PM: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/old-batteries-from-electric-vehicles-get-new-life-powering-californias-grid/ (http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/old-batteries-from-electric-vehicles-get-new-life-powering-californias-grid/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 04:13:15 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 17, 2023, 03:20:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 03:07:35 PM
CNN employees rip Don Lemon for his ageist remarks about Nikki Haley being
past her prime
She is 51.

Lemon apologized today but it only made matters worse.

A CNN insider, after the apology, labeled Lemon
a fucking asshole

This Is CNN

STOP THE PRESSES!
Don Lemon is a jerk!
I think it highly amusing that on a day when it has become apparent that Faux News ran with "news" stories that supported the claims of election fraud to stop hemorrhaging viewrs to even further right channels, despite every last one of them knowing the claims of fraud were false and stating so in private, "Don Lemon said something stupid" is the media news story he thinks we should be interested in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Guess you are not keeping up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 04:40:32 PM: Beverly Hills is going to end up like Monaco, with Body Guards all over, there is no crime in Monaco because they have Body Guards all over.

A Jew was shot as he walked out of a temple here in Los Angeles, a man just walked up and shot him, luckily he only was hit in the arm, but still, the battle from the Middle East has come to Los Angeles. The poor man was shot by a stranger for no reason, other than he was a Jew walking out of a temple. Now the temple has guards all over. So now all of the rich Jews in Hollywood are going to have Body Guards. Plus with all of the crime in Beverly Hills, they are rich and they are going to spend money to hire security. And even like when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, she paid me to stand at her front door, and to park the cars, as a security measure at her building, we had zero crime in that building, we kept it very safe. So, all of the stars are going to have Body Guards, and doormen, and valets, etc.

Also, a school in Culver City is having problems with playground violence, etc, and the school needs to have adults on the playground to supervise the youth. We must not tolerate playground violence in our schools. It is pure negligence to allow a bully to beat up a kid on the playground. And the schools need better security anyway. When the parents send their children to school then they need to know that the children will be safe at school, and we are rich if it is a matter of spending the money to hire the playground supervisors and armed security guards for the schools. Right now is not a time to be a cheap-skate when it comes to security for the children. We also have undercover cops mixed in with the high school students and with the college students here in Los Angeles. Also, some of the homeless people are really undercover cops.

The rich people all need to spend some money for security, the Jews need to spend money for security, and everyone in society needs security. I am lucky to live in a fairly safe neighborhood, I live right by City Hall. We have a park with tennis courts. Plus, we have a swimming pool. And we have a gated community with cameras all over. I also have some neighbors who are professional boxers, and we have boxers jogging through our streets. But even so, I am more alert because of the crime.

When I lived in Malibu then people had to go through 2 security gates to get to our house, and I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General. And we had 2 big dogs, with motion detectors with flood lights all over the property, and cameras at the gates, etc. Plus I had a gun, so we were very safe. I rented a room with a lady and her 2 daughters, and she said I made them feel safe, they liked having me there, and we had a lady there who was the daughter of a Chinese General, and then we had another roommate from China who was a Research Scientist, he was American but his parents were both from China. They liked having me there, and they said I made them feel safe.

Anyhow, it is a dangerous world right now, and we need to have security everywhere. It is no time to be cheap when it comes to spending money for security.

I also know how to train Doberman Guard Dogs that people sell to executives for a lot of money. Everyone in Hollywood should have guard dogs. A bad guy is not going to mess around if he sees a Doberman. And the Jews can buy Dobermans, etc, everyone can save the big dogs from the animal shelters, my Grandmother got a great Doberman from the animal shelter.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 05:40:30 PM: This is one year old, but 70% of Americans support a path to citizenship for our immigrants.

https://thehill.com/latino/594625-poll-70-percent-of-americans-support-a-path-to-citizenship/

We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to write a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

And we can put the immigrants to work building our high speed trains and new freight rail, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2023, 05:53:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Guess you are not keeping up.

You suck at guessing. Better stick to copy/pasting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 06:42:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 05:53:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Guess you are not keeping up.

You suck at guessing. Better stick to copy/pasting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 07:37:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 05:53:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Guess you are not keeping up.

You suck at guessing. Better stick to copy/pasting.
Lol
Jesus!

You cannot even read.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 17, 2023, 08:25:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 17, 2023, 04:00:41 PM
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/old-batteries-from-electric-vehicles-get-new-life-powering-californias-grid/ (http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/old-batteries-from-electric-vehicles-get-new-life-powering-californias-grid/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 08:39:37 PM: Bambu, the best choice for President from the Republican Party might be Condoleezza Rice. She could run a great old fashioned Reagan style government, she can make the immigrants all legal like Reagan did, and she can put everyone to work. We need to bring everyone out of the shadows and we need to make everyone legal, and we need to build our high speed trains, and new freight rail, etc. And as the Chinese rise then the workers can become consumers and they can buy orange juice from California, etc, we need to expand trade with China as the workers can afford to buy more goods. And I like the Chinese, and they helped to build our original railroads. Anyhow, the best Republican might be Condoleezza Rice.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2023, 09:08:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 07:37:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 05:53:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Guess you are not keeping up.

You suck at guessing. Better stick to copy/pasting.
Lol
Jesus!

You cannot even read.

The Rowling piece, and the debate as to whether it was "ill-timed," and as to whether or not the Times should compromise basic journalism principles to make certain groups happy, was widely covered. I read the story in NPR, and my spouse saw it here....

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage-response

What's odd to me is that this is a case where you and I might somewhat agree on the relevant principles of journalism and freedom to air controversial views. It's sad, and mystifying, that you choose not to engage with the real substance of this debate, offering your own words. I like what Matt Yglesias said....

Quote
An open letter demanding that you stop covering a subject is pretty anti-persuasive
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 10:42:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 09:08:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 07:37:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 05:53:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2023, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 17, 2023, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 17, 2023, 12:48:32 PM

The New York Times lectures employees on what their jobs are.
An employer setting the rules and ethical responsibilities for employees in the performance of their jobs? Heaven forfend!

AFAICT this whole tempest in a teapot arose from an opinion piece in the grey lady which defended JK Rowling. Who spoke freely on the notion that eliminating biological women as a social class would not be good for feminist goals like women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Calm rational dialog on such topics seem to be impossible now. Biological women will henceforth be called "people who menstruate."
Guess you are not keeping up.

You suck at guessing. Better stick to copy/pasting.
Lol
Jesus!

You cannot even read.

The Rowling piece, and the debate as to whether it was "ill-timed," and as to whether or not the Times should compromise basic journalism principles to make certain groups happy, was widely covered. I read the story in NPR, and my spouse saw it here....

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage-response

What's odd to me is that this is a case where you and I might somewhat agree on the relevant principles of journalism and freedom to air controversial views. It's sad, and mystifying, that you choose not to engage with the real substance of this debate, offering your own words. I like what Matt Yglesias said....

Quote
An open letter demanding that you stop covering a subject is pretty anti-persuasive
The open letters from the whining woke Times staff members was Wednesday.
The JK Rowling editorial was a day later.(Thursday)
Facts.
My post quoted The Times management.
I added
Kudos to the Times for standing up for Journalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2023, 11:16:42 PM: We can put the homeless people to work building dams and aguaducts, etc. We have a lot of people who are migrating to the desert, and we need water for the farmers, and for the people. We can put the homeless people, and the immigrants, etc, to work helping to create water systems to supply our people with plentiful water.

California has 1,500 dams, and we have aguaducts, etc, but we need more, and we can work to help everyone who needs water from the Colorado River. Plus Texas needs more dams, and lakes, and aguaducts. And Arizona needs water, and New Mexico, etc. Along with water issues in Nevada, etc. We need to put people to work to solve our water issues.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 10:17:57 AM: My no1 radio host, now retired, taught his audience how to solve water problems in one's country...
..."pipe water from where it is, to where it is not".
In this case it would be called "Watering America".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 18, 2023, 11:30:44 AM: So, two weeks after the derailment FEMA WILL be at the toxic mess in East Palestine, Ohio.

Biden and PeteyBoy are not coming but guess who is?
Donald Trump is not blind to the political spotlight that will shine on him as he crashes what should have been the first responsibility of a sitting President.

Oh, and those downed balloons?

Biden is done sending out search parties to locate the flimsy debris of toys.

God, what a total clusterfuck this administration has become.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2023, 12:28:44 PM: Red has embraced the common conservative shit the bed and blame your imaginary friend strategy.

It has kept Reds mother from ever getting him to clean his room. Why should it not work in politics?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2023, 12:29:20 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/18/2153431/-Another-shooting-incident-in-Australia-this-time-with-an-extremist-Christian-cult-and-US-roots (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/18/2153431/-Another-shooting-incident-in-Australia-this-time-with-an-extremist-Christian-cult-and-US-roots)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2023, 12:54:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 18, 2023, 11:30:44 AM
So, two weeks after the derailment FEMA WILL be at the toxic mess in East Palestine, Ohio.

Biden and PeteyBoy are not coming but guess who is?
Donald Trump is not blind to the political spotlight that will shine on him as he crashes what should have been the first responsibility of a sitting President.

Oh, and those downed balloons?

Biden is done sending out search parties to locate the flimsy debris of toys.

God, what a total clusterfuck this administration has become.

I give you credit for fully committing to the bit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2023, 02:01:55 PM: It has been interesting reading how dumb and fragile fox hosts consider their viewers to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 18, 2023, 02:59:58 PM: The United States employed the homeless to build Hoover Dam during the Great Depression, it was a project to create jobs for desperate people, and back then there was nothing out there in Nevada, they built Hoover Dam from 1931-1936, but they were planning to have water for a huge city, plus in order to have more water for Los Angeles, etc.

Then in 1946 Bugsy Siegel built the Flamingo casino, which attracted the masses to Las Vegas. The Italians ran gambling ships off of the coast of Santa Monica during the Great Depression, people could go out to sea and they could go to gambling barges and they could party and gamble. So, there was already an attraction for Americans with gambling. And the Cowboys always played poker, and roulette, etc. The casino in Las Vegas was a huge success, and Hoover Dam created Lake Mead to supply everyone with water as Las Vegas grew into a World Class City.

Today Las Vegas is home to 650,000 people, and Vegas is the fastest growing city in America. The dam that the desperate people built during the Great Depression went on to serve America in great ways.

We can plan ahead as we develop America, and we can put the homeless and the desperate people to work building dams, and building aguaducts, and building high speed trains, etc.

And we need to build a high speed train between Anaheim and Las Vegas to connect Vegas with Disney for our tourists. Both Vegas and Anaheim depend on Tourism, and our tourists would love to have a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 05:51:03 PM: Since Trump left office, the price of eggs in America has trebled, according to a Youtube video.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2023, 07:08:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 05:51:03 PM
Since Trump left office, the price of eggs in America has trebled, according to a Youtube video.

Avian flu khans killed millions of egg layers
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 18, 2023, 08:52:49 PM: During the Great Depression when the whole world was suffering, the people of California were partying and gambling on beautiful Italian American owned gambling ships. You can gamble as long as you are three miles out to sea, they were three miles off of the coast of Santa Monica.

http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi06ee.php

The same people who owned the gambling ships helped to build Las Vegas and contributed to the success of Las Vegas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 18, 2023, 09:08:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 05:51:03 PM
Since Trump left office, the price of eggs in America has trebled, according to a Youtube video.

Go outside, get some fresh air.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 18, 2023, 09:10:08 PM: Not usually one to post pics from teeshirt ads but this one got a laugh in the Can house...

(https://img.kwcdn.com/product/Fancyalgo/VirtualModelMatting/f08449cee39007385e0658fbec3fbf56.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 09:59:03 PM: Every man, and especially every woman in America should wear and carry guns with them at all times...especially if they are driving across America alone towing a trailer or not.
Crazy kidnappers/killers/rapists/violent thieves are there waiting to prey on 'sitting duck' victims.
All shown in the movie 'Alone'...and documented in real cases.
An assault rifle and several handguns as the minimum.
Plus enough ammunition, food, water and Sat phone for a long standoff.
Chance favours the well-armed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 18, 2023, 10:22:59 PM: McDonald's vows to keep prices low through inflation.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/falling-costs-may-boost-mcdonalds-other-restaurant-profits-2023-2023-01-30/

This is good news for the Cattle Ranchers who raise Beef for McDonald's, and it is good news for the Hay Growers, etc, and for the Dairies which make the Cheese, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 10:27:09 PM: Talladega National Forest Alabama...2022...hikers Adam Simjee and Mikayla Paulus became victims.
Allegedly kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint by two women, Adam Simjee ending up dead.
Allegedly tricked into stopping to help the two women with 'car trouble'.
Their fatal mistake, trying to help.

Two women on trial for alleged kidnapping and robbery, illegal use of a firearm, and maybe more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 19, 2023, 12:09:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 09:59:03 PM
An assault rifle and several handguns as the minimum.
Plus enough ammunition, food, water and Sat phone for a long standoff.
Chance favours the well-armed.

Are you fixin to shoot up some Oz cops like those other religious freaks?

I worry about you Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 12:18:13 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 09:59:03 PM
Every man, and especially every woman in America should wear and carry guns with them at all times...especially if they are driving across America alone towing a trailer or not.
Crazy kidnappers/killers/rapists/violent thieves are there waiting to prey on 'sitting duck' victims.
All shown in the movie 'Alone'...and documented in real cases.
An assault rifle and several handguns as the minimum.
Plus enough ammunition, food, water and Sat phone for a long standoff.
Chance favours the well-armed.
There is something seriously wrong with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 01:07:18 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 12:18:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2023, 09:59:03 PM
Every man, and especially every woman in America should wear and carry guns with them at all times...especially if they are driving across America alone towing a trailer or not.
Crazy kidnappers/killers/rapists/violent thieves are there waiting to prey on 'sitting duck' victims.
All shown in the movie 'Alone'...and documented in real cases.
An assault rifle and several handguns as the minimum.
Plus enough ammunition, food, water and Sat phone for a long standoff.
Chance favours the well-armed.
There is something seriously wrong with you.

Hiker Adam Simjee is dead...age 22.
He was wary, but his companion age 20, was obviously way too nice, was trying to fix the alleged armed kidnappers'/robbers' car for them, even ringing her father for advice and watching YouTube videos to try to help the two women.

Nothing wrong with me...no way I'm stopping for people with broken down cars, anywhere.
It's the bad people's oldest trap for the kind and helpful.
Tony in this forum warned about rocks etc put on roads by the bad people...so they can bash and rob the kind and helpful who might stop to move the rocks off the road.

Correction:
"Chance favours the wary, cunning, and smart well-armed."

...and "Chance favours the prepared mind" - Under Siege 2
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 19, 2023, 01:14:18 AM: Seek bubble wrap.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 01:25:39 AM: I am pretty sure Bambu is just yanking our chains.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 11:09:40 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 01:25:39 AM
I am pretty sure Bambu is just yanking our chains.

Lucky you weren't 'totally sure' and bet a lot of money on it. lol

You can't make this stuff up...and anyway, don't have to...to demonstrate why I would need to be well-armed and ready wherever I lived/went in America.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout (https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence)

Two women allegedly lured a driver to death. They may be part of a fringe sect

Police said that they disarmed Pinkins' son after the five-year-old approached with a loaded shotgun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 19, 2023, 11:23:18 AM: Misinformation and lies that come from out of state, from people who pretend to care about "our farms."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 11:32:18 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 11:09:40 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 01:25:39 AM
I am pretty sure Bambu is just yanking our chains.

Lucky you weren't 'totally sure' and bet a lot of money on it. lol

You can't make this stuff up...and anyway, don't have to...to demonstrate why I would need to be well-armed and ready wherever I lived/went in America.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout (https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence)

Two women allegedly lured a driver to death. They may be part of a fringe sect

Police said that they disarmed Pinkins' son after the five-year-old approached with a loaded shotgun.
Well then I think that for every "guns are really great and everybody should/must own one or several" article you link to, you should also link to a story about a kiid killing himself, a friend or a sibling "accidentally" with a gun. You know, collateral damage stuff.

And if "[e]very man, and especially every woman in America should wear and carry guns with them at all times" how do we keep those guns out of the hands of the "[c]razy kidnappers/killers/rapists/violent thieves...waiting to prey on 'sitting duck' victims"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 19, 2023, 12:21:56 PM: That goes against bambis ethos as a shill and cancer on society. It is not going to happen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 12:28:59 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 11:23:18 AM
Misinformation and lies that come from out of state, from people who pretend to care about "our farms."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america
Nothing in that report can be construed as lies unless you subscribe to the theory that people who disagree with you are misinforming you.
In Crawford County, Ohio this fall voters, after two and a half years of legal battles, voted down a planned Wind Farm on farmland, 3-1.

The people who care the most about farm land are the farmers who work in them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2023, 01:47:20 PM: Gordon Smith of Oregon is a Republican and former Senator of Oregon who is a Billionaire from frozen vegetables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_H._Smith

Farmers can get rich if they are smart, and then they can help other people and give back as Gordon Smith has done.

Some of the Cattle Ranchers who my Father used to sell Hay to were Billionaires. There are some wealthy Cattle Ranchers.

Farmers and Ranchers can get wealthy, and then they can give back and help others. And hippy communes that do Farming and Ranching can be successful communes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 03:27:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 11:32:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 11:09:40 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 01:25:39 AM
I am pretty sure Bambu is just yanking our chains.

Lucky you weren't 'totally sure' and bet a lot of money on it. lol

You can't make this stuff up...and anyway, don't have to...to demonstrate why I would need to be well-armed and ready wherever I lived/went in America.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout (https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-simjee-shot-to-death-protecting-his-girlfriend-mikayla-paulus-in-alabama-forest-shootout)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/alabama-women-lured-driver-death-university-of-cosmic-intelligence)

Two women allegedly lured a driver to death. They may be part of a fringe sect

Police said that they disarmed Pinkins' son after the five-year-old approached with a loaded shotgun.
Well then I think that for every "guns are really great and everybody should/must own one or several" article you link to, you should also link to a story about a kiid killing himself, a friend or a sibling "accidentally" with a gun. You know, collateral damage stuff.

And if "[e]very man, and especially every woman in America should wear and carry guns with them at all times" how do we keep those guns out of the hands of the "[c]razy kidnappers/killers/rapists/violent thieves...waiting to prey on 'sitting duck' victims"?

You can't...the bad people will always have guns, bought on the black market, stolen etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 04:22:46 PM: Oh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 19, 2023, 06:08:18 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 11:23:18 AM
Misinformation and lies that come from out of state, from people who pretend to care about "our farms."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america
Nothing in that report can be construed as lies unless you subscribe to the theory that people who disagree with you are misinforming you.
In Crawford County, Ohio this fall voters, after two and a half years of legal battles, voted down a planned Wind Farm on farmland, 3-1.

The people who care the most about farm land are the farmers who work in them.

Actually read the article. Outside groups are spreading misinformation on wind and solar power to get people to pressure county boards to reject installations that would HELP farmers and ranchers who are struggling. The article makes clear the misinformation, and outright false statements these groups are promoting. The farmer at the center of the story was underscoring this problem. Please make a good faith attempt to understand articles posted here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2023, 06:11:48 PM: At this time when everyone is changing over to clean energy, it is important for the people to own their own source of electricity. We do not need to be slaves to Thomas Edison anymore. In Anaheim we the citizens of the City of Anaheim own our power company. We also own the water company. And out in the desert my Mother has solar with modern batteries and she loves her system, she has a nice house out in the desert with a swimming pool, and she runs a giant climate control unit for her home and it is all cheap because she has solar panels on her roof. We do not need to pay huge amounts of money to Edison anymore, we can own our own power. Even if it costs an initial investment then it is worth it for the people to take control of their own power companies, and also own their own water companies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 08:08:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 04:22:46 PM
Oh.

If I lived in America I would have to negotiate the system as it is now...which is that the bad people are armed and have no hesitation in attacking the good people using their legal or illegal guns...in home invasions, in national parks, in streets anywhere and everywhere.

They'll dress up in bandages, pretend that they can't get the couch into the back of their van without help.
They will ask you very charmingly if you can help...
..."thank you...you get into the van up the other end, and I'll do the heavy pushing, you just guide it.
["I'll push you up against the front wall, trap you, shut the doors, take you home to my place, put you in the hole, then make a dress out of you"...
"Bill Skins Fifth" - Silence of the Lambs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 08:15:39 PM: Oh.

Just out of curiosity, what's the leading cause of children's death in Australia?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 06:08:18 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 11:23:18 AM
Misinformation and lies that come from out of state, from people who pretend to care about "our farms."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america
Nothing in that report can be construed as lies unless you subscribe to the theory that people who disagree with you are misinforming you.
In Crawford County, Ohio this fall voters, after two and a half years of legal battles, voted down a planned Wind Farm on farmland, 3-1.

The people who care the most about farm land are the farmers who work in them.

Actually read the article.
I did
Quote
Outside groups are spreading misinformation on wind and solar power to get people to pressure county boards to reject installations that would HELP farmers and ranchers who are struggling. The article makes clear the misinformation, and outright false statements these groups are promoting. The farmer at the center of the story was underscoring this problem. Please make a good faith attempt to understand articles posted here.
Misinformation? Not true if YOU read the article.
Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 08:43:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 08:15:39 PM
Oh.

Just out of curiosity, what's the leading cause of children's death in Australia?

Land transport accidents in ages 1-14.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 19, 2023, 08:47:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 08:15:39 PM
Oh.

Just out of curiosity, what's the leading cause of children's death in Australia?

Cirrhosis

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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 08:48:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2023, 08:43:27 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2023, 08:15:39 PM
Oh.

Just out of curiosity, what's the leading cause of children's death in Australia?

Land transport accidents in ages 1-14.
Oh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 19, 2023, 10:17:49 PM: I do not think you can get more than a negligee set out of Bambi. I could not see anyone harvesting enough for a full dress.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 19, 2023, 10:47:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 06:08:18 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 19, 2023, 11:23:18 AM
Misinformation and lies that come from out of state, from people who pretend to care about "our farms."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america
Nothing in that report can be construed as lies unless you subscribe to the theory that people who disagree with you are misinforming you.
In Crawford County, Ohio this fall voters, after two and a half years of legal battles, voted down a planned Wind Farm on farmland, 3-1.

The people who care the most about farm land are the farmers who work in them.

Actually read the article.
I did
Liar.
Quote
Quote
Outside groups are spreading misinformation on wind and solar power to get people to pressure county boards to reject installations that would HELP farmers and ranchers who are struggling. The article makes clear the misinformation, and outright false statements these groups are promoting. The farmer at the center of the story was underscoring this problem. Please make a good faith attempt to understand articles posted here.
Misinformation? Not true if YOU read the article.
Liar
Quote
Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Bizarre fixation pops up anew.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2023, 02:00:25 PM: A Catholic Bishop was murdered in Los Angeles on Saturday.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/arrest-made-in-slaying-of-los-angeles-bishop-david-oconnell-report/

This was a good Bishop who helped refugees and new immigrants to get comfortable and situated here in Los Angeles as they came here from other places.

So sad. Even the Catholics need security now, security cameras, guard dogs, and security guards to protect the churches such as Notre Dame in France, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 20, 2023, 02:19:46 PM: Lock up the gun runners, Tony, and make them close their stores.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2023, 03:23:43 PM: Amgen

1 hour

In 1991, President Jimmy Carter visited Amgen to express his gratitude for the donation Amgen made of 398,000 vials of EPOGEN to China through Global 2000, a branch of the Carter Center, dedicated to improving health and agriculture services in developing nations.

We thank President Carter for his leadership and service to others and we are keeping him and his family in our thoughts.

-------------

Amgen is a good company. When I was a Limousine Driver in Malibu I used to drive for a lot of people from Amgen, I used to pick them up at the airport and bring them home to Malibu, etc. A lot of people from Amgen live in Malibu.

We need to get Amgen to open new Laboratories in the poorest parts of Kentucky, and we need to build new schools and libraries in the poorest parts of Kentucky and we need to train the people to be Research Scientists for Amgen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 20, 2023, 04:29:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 19, 2023, 10:47:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM

Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Bizarre fixation pops up anew.

Heh.

Also, facts are by definition those true statements that are not matters of interpretation. The term means a statement of objective truth.

Saturn is more distant from the Sun than Mercury.

Water boils at 100 Celsius, at sea level.

Redward is a chronic liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2023, 05:02:44 PM: The thieves are getting stupid in West Hollywood.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/video-2-pickpocket-suspects-arrested-in-west-hollywood/

What the thieves do not know is that many of the night clubs in West Hollywood are owned by the Italian mafia, and the thieves are really stupid if they go into a mafia night club and steal from the people at the club.

Some people think that West Hollywood is Gay and weak, and they think the same thing about San Francisco, they think San Francisco is Gay and weak, but the Italians love West Hollywood, and the Italians love San Francisco, and the Italians are NOT weak. West Hollywood and San Francisco have a lot of Italians.

And Beverly Hills is rich and they can afford Body Guards. The crime will stop in Beverly Hills when the people of Beverly Hills decide to spend money on security. Just like Monte Carlo, there is zero crime in Monte Carlo.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2023, 07:08:02 PM: Italian Sons and Daughters of America

1 hour

The end of an era: Lenny's Pizzeria, a Bensonhurst institution made famous in 1977's "Saturday Night Fever," closed its doors this past Sunday after 70 years in business.

https://abc7ny.com/lennys-pizza-saturday-night.../12836869/

--------

I always liked John Travolta, he is one of my favorite actors.

And I look forward to visiting New York, and I am going to go see it all, I want to go to the Metropolitan Opera, and to Broadway, and to Little Italy, and to Bensonhurst, and to Harlem, and I want to go to Central Park, and I want to go have caviar at the Russian Tea House, etc. I would like to go to Tony Danza's cheese store and have a sandwich, in Little Italy.

My favorite acting teacher is from New York, and she studied at NYU, and she studied with Sanford Meisner, and with Uta Hagen, and she attended the AADA in New York, Then she came to California and she spent her life as an acting teacher for the AADA, and for Cal State Fullerton. She is retired now, but she is still available for private coaching.

I have had a lot of friends from New York, and the New Yorkers always love me. I am sure I will enjoy visiting New York City someday. My Uncle and I were going to ride Greyhound buses from Los Angeles to New York City, but he died, and so that plan is over. I will visit New York someday when I find a good woman who wants to travel, and we can go visit New York as tourists. Or who knows? I might meet a nice woman from New York who can take me to New York and take me on a tour of NYC, I have always loved Marisa Tomei, and New York has a lot of beautiful women.

Sonny Barger who was the President of the Hell's Angels used to hang out at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino when my Grandmother worked at McDonald's as a car hop back when McDonald's had beautiful young ladies to bring your food out to your car for you, and Sonny used to call my Grandmother "Miss New York" because she had class, she was actually born in a small town outside of Denver, Colorado, and she came to California with her family during the Great Depression, but she allowed Sonny to call her "Miss New York." Sonny had nick-names for everyone, and that was the nick-name he chose for her. Sonny died this year, and the Motorcycle club will never be the same. Sonny was always nice and polite with my Grandmother, and he made a good impression on her, she liked Sonny.

I will make it to visit New York eventually, it is in my plans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 20, 2023, 07:35:32 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2023, 04:29:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 19, 2023, 10:47:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM

Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Bizarre fixation pops up anew.

Heh.
Okay do not.
Fact is without Hillary lying about Russian COLLUSION the Trump margin of victory would have been much larger in 2016.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 20, 2023, 08:26:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 20, 2023, 07:35:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2023, 04:29:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 19, 2023, 10:47:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM

Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Bizarre fixation pops up anew.

Heh.
Okay do not.
Fact is without Hillary lying about Russian COLLUSION the Trump margin of victory would have been much larger in 2016.

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-clinton-2016
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 20, 2023, 10:03:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 20, 2023, 07:35:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2023, 04:29:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 19, 2023, 10:47:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 19, 2023, 08:38:17 PM

Facts and Misinformation are interpretive by what a person believes.
Ask Hillary.
Bizarre fixation pops up anew.

Heh.
Okay do not.
Fact is without Hillary lying about Russian COLLUSION
Liar.
Quote
the Trump margin of victory would have been much larger in 2016.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 01:47:32 AM: Live your life for...you.
You spend your whole life worrying about what people might think about you...but after your funeral you'll be forgotten at an astonishing pace.
People will forget you so easily.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 21, 2023, 08:44:52 AM: Very Christian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 21, 2023, 09:37:16 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 01:47:32 AM
Live your life for...you.
You spend your whole life worrying about what people might think about you...but after your funeral you'll be forgotten at an astonishing pace.
People will forget you so easily.

No one truly dies until their name is spoken for the last time
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 12:15:04 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 21, 2023, 08:44:52 AM
Very Christian.

I should correct that to read; "Live your life for you, first".
Back to my first boss' words; "Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 21, 2023, 12:45:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 12:15:04 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 21, 2023, 08:44:52 AM
Very Christian.

I should correct that to read; "Live your life for you, first".
Back to my first boss' words; "Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will".
And you call yourself Christian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 21, 2023, 03:55:01 PM: Don Lemon returns to CNN
after his stint in the Dunce Corner
only to realize his co-workers are a
week older.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 21, 2023, 05:00:21 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 21, 2023, 03:55:01 PM
Don Lemon returns to CNN
after his stint in the Dunce Corner
only to realize his co-workers are a
week older.

So is the slow decline of the Haley campaign.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 08:59:55 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 21, 2023, 12:45:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 12:15:04 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 21, 2023, 08:44:52 AM
Very Christian.

I should correct that to read; "Live your life for you, first".
Back to my first boss' words; "Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will".
And you call yourself Christian.

Please don't try and tell me you don't look after yourself first in this world, well 'you and yours'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2023, 09:19:35 PM: It's worse than I thought.
China could attack Taiwan at any time...the doco showed. [Sky News: China spoke, Taiwan spoke, US Leon Panetta, Joe Biden spoke...all was revealed...eventually guerilla warfare in the streets and back alleys of Taiwan.
Taiwan is stockpiling everything, ...food, ammunition, everything.

Worse; It was shown what will happen; Communist China will simply neutralise all US bases in the Indo Pacific [they are not fortified]...US then out of the picture...it taken out of the war/invasion.
China now has 360 satellites in space, they will simply destroy everyone else's and destroy their communications and ability to make war.
Then China will be saying to Taiwan: "Do you really want to fight us"?
Taiwanese teens are saying they will fight [to the death it will be]...oh the ridiculous folly of allowing China to get so powerful, The west was fooled, conned, ...
as it embraced the smiling assassin, Trojan Horse if you like.
The idiocy of sending all those manufacturing jobs to China in the name of 'cheap'.

Oh well, it's too late now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2023, 12:35:59 PM: I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a Chinese General, the Chinese are not our enemies.

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and Japan attacked the Philippines, and we went to full on war against Japan, and now all of a sudden we are supposed to be best friends with the Japanese, and we even allow the Japanese to own the Sony Studios in Culver City and we allow the Japanese to participate in our Entertainment Industry. And I worked for the Japanese when they owned Universal Studios and they paid me the bare minimum, they were paying everyone slave wages, the Japanese do not want to pay fair wages to Americans, and if it was not for Unions then they would never pay fair to Americans. I will never work for the Japanese again. I had years of work experience, and a college degree, and the Japanese paid me minimum wage, I did a good job for the Japanese even though I was literally starving, but I would never do it again.

So, I like the Chinese much more than I like the Japanese. I lived in luxury in Malibu with a high level Chinese roommate.

I love the people from the Philippines, they are all good Christians, and they speak English, and they help Americans. I wish the people from the Philippines owned Universal Studios when I worked there instead of the Japanese. If I was paid fair then I would have stayed there, and I would still be working there. If Universal paid me enough to buy a house and raise a family then I would have stayed at Universal.

The people from Thailand are nice and peaceful. I have met some good people from high level positions in Thailand.

Bing, the Gentleman who owned this apartment complex where I live here in Anaheim, was from Taiwan. The people from Taiwan are rich here in Anaheim.

And Westminster is full of people from Vietnam. When Vietnam fell to communism the people from Vietnam came to Camp Pendleton here in San Diego, and then they were allowed to pick anywhere they wanted to live in the USA, and they picked Westminster, California. Westminster has the highest number of people from Vietnam in the USA. My Mother lived in Westminster back in the 1950s when she was a kid and she loved Westminster.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2023, 12:41:46 PM: The USA should pay me to be the Ambassador to China.

Or for Italy, I actually applied for a job at the United States Embassy in Rome, Italy, when I was there.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 22, 2023, 04:50:17 PM: Stating the obvious...gee that train crash in Ohio is a giant mess.
The system must be changed, because the one in place now is not working?
Looks like a "very slow" speed limit should be introduced.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 22, 2023, 09:24:17 PM: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mocked-boasting-about-bringing-trump-water-east-palestine-1783196

Trump shows up with a product that was discontinued in 2010.
At least he did not throw them like paper towels
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 22, 2023, 11:06:53 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/02/22/the-science-behind-why-conservatives-are-so-easily-triggered/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/02/22/the-science-behind-why-conservatives-are-so-easily-triggered/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2023, 11:25:30 PM: We need to bring back the fun of California.

We need to bring back more Beach Blanket Bingo movies and Jan and Dean songs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 22, 2023, 11:46:49 PM: Jan is long gone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 23, 2023, 01:42:21 PM: Hollywood used to be an easy place to survive for some people, for instance for a beautiful young woman instead of going to the bank to get a Business Loan then she could simply go pose for Hugh Hefner at Playboy and get the money to open her business.

I met the guy who wrote the movie "Amistad" and he made enough money to open 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa, and then he hired his family members to work at his restaurants.

I hope to make enough money from my movie script to at least open a night club in Rome, Italy, and I also have a poetry book that I wrote. And I hope to find a good wife who can be a good teammate for me, I want to find a good smart wife, and it would be cool to find a wife who could write and produce movies and television shows with me, etc.

Anyhow, Hollywood used to be easy, in the 1980s Hollywood was a lot easier than it is now. But, as long as people love movies then Hollywood will still have opportunities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 23, 2023, 01:45:00 PM: We need to send Sony Studios to Canada, and replace it with an American owned Studio.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 23, 2023, 04:59:58 PM: Apple is a California company, the Headquarters are in Cupertino, we need to send Sony Studios to Canada, and we need to have Apple take over the Sony Studios in Culver City.

Apple Computers are Industry Standard for the Entertainment Industry, including using Final Draft for Writing, etc, and it makes sense for Apple to own the movie studio in Culver City where Sony is, and we can send Sony to Canada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 23, 2023, 05:22:05 PM: Apple Studios has been a thing for 4 years already.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 12:07:32 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 23, 2023, 05:22:05 PM
Apple Studios has been a thing for 4 years already.

I did a Google Search and it said that Apple Studios is just a Production Company for Apple, but they do not own a physical studio lot yet. Apple needs to buy the Sony Studio Lot in Culver City, so that Apple will own a physical studio lot.

Here is a link for the Sony Studio Lot, we need for Apple to buy the Sony Studio Lot and we need to send Sony to Canada.

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 12:25:00 PM: We can send the gangs and homelessness to Canada, and we can replace Sony with an altruistic company from California such as Apple.

California is a beautiful state with miles of coast line, and we have everything in California, we have mountains, we have forests, we have deserts, we have the beach, we have it all.

And California has great schools, our universities are World Class.

In the 1950s California was fantastic.

Now we have gangs and gang violence, and we have homeless people all over. Our companies are all foreign owned and they are not altruistic, they are sending the money home to help their people in Japan, they are not helping the homeless here in Los Angeles. We need to replace Sony with an altruistic company that cares about California first, instead of putting Japan first. Apple will put California first, and the people of California will be helped.

We can let Canada have the homelessness and gang violence.

I want to go back to the days of Beach Blanket Bingo movies and Jan and Dean songs. And California can be a surfer's paradise, and Hollywood can be a playground for the artists who make movies, etc.

And we would have more Tourism if we cleaned up California and if we helped the homeless and if we did beautification projects, etc.

California is better than Florida because we do not have hurricanes, and we do not have tornadoes. What is fucking California up is the crime and gang violence and having homeless people all over our sidewalks while the people at the top do not give a shit. We need to have people at the top who care. We need to have companies which are altruistic and which care about the people here in California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 24, 2023, 01:50:04 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/24/florida-dogs-car-windows-proposed-bill

The governor, however, will remain free to stick his head as far out the window as he likes. Or up his backside, as he has already demonstrated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 24, 2023, 03:05:44 PM: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost%252Es3%252Eamazonaws%252Ecom%2Fpublic%2FIJIBVOMJKVELJHSUHIJPZDIDDQ%252Epng&w=1320&h=880)

Just bizarre. It was minus 10 (F.) when we woke up. Up to five above now, which is the warmest temp in three days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 03:45:38 PM: If you can change how people think and feel, then you can change how they behave. And movies and television shows and music, etc, can all change how people think and feel, and thus the Entertainment Industry has the power to change how people behave.

It is important to have locally owned studios here in Hollywood to convey our local message and to employ our local people, and we need altruistic companies which put California first.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 24, 2023, 07:41:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 24, 2023, 03:05:44 PM
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost%252Es3%252Eamazonaws%252Ecom%2Fpublic%2FIJIBVOMJKVELJHSUHIJPZDIDDQ%252Epng&w=1320&h=880)

Just bizarre. It was minus 10 (F.) when we woke up. Up to five above now, which is the warmest temp in three days.
Global warming?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 24, 2023, 08:51:43 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 24, 2023, 07:41:09 PM

Global warming?

Why yes. Greater solar gain in the atmosphere pumps energy into wilder weather, disruptions in the polar jet stream that suddenly drops arctic air into the temperate zone, with more extremes and the amazingly steep temperature gradients over a few hundred miles (as shown in the graphic). All this was predicted by climate scientists as far back as the seventies.

Also worth noting that January and first part of February were well above seasonal norms across the northern tier of states as well as up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And the continued acceleration of glacier and ice cap melting.

Don't give a shit if you believe scientists but I don't plan to let partisan climate denier innuendos pollute even this forum and have gullible lurkers think they have any validity. The evidence for rapid anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming and past predictions are proving to be true (some were in fact overly conservative). Science, unlike lying partisan hacks and fossil fuel shills, doesn't start out with preconceived fantasies and then cherry pick and skew data to fit those fantasies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 09:27:54 PM: This rain and snow here in California and in the West was desperately needed. The states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy. Now we have rain and snow, so we will be okay.

And the USA needs to keep investing in dams and in aguaducts and in creating new man made lakes, etc. And the United States Government can build dams and they can create lakes and then they can sell the water and the electricity from the dams to the people, like with Lake Mead. The United States Government is selling water and electricity from Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. And now Las Vegas has 650,000 people. We need to keep spending money to improve our water system and to better sustain our water supply.

Of note too, is that California needs the water to grow food and to make wine, etc. The problems in Ukraine also mean that California needs to produce more food. California needs the water to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 24, 2023, 10:30:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 24, 2023, 08:51:43 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 24, 2023, 07:41:09 PM

Global warming?

Why yes. Greater solar gain in the atmosphere pumps energy into wilder weather, disruptions in the polar jet stream that suddenly drops arctic air into the temperate zone, with more extremes and the amazingly steep temperature gradients over a few hundred miles (as shown in the graphic). All this was predicted by climate scientists as far back as the seventies.

Also worth noting that January and first part of February were well above seasonal norms across the northern tier of states as well as up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And the continued acceleration of glacier and ice cap melting.

Don't give a shit if you believe scientists but I don't plan to let partisan climate denier innuendos pollute even this forum and have gullible lurkers think they have any validity. The evidence for rapid anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming and past predictions are proving to be true (some were in fact overly conservative). Science, unlike lying partisan hacks and fossil fuel shills, doesn't start out with preconceived fantasies and then cherry pick and skew data to fit those fantasies.

Red will spew anything a tobacco lobbyist stuffs into him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 10:54:52 PM: There was a guy on television who said that America can benefit from expanding cattle ranching in Arkansas. Farming and ranching can be expanded in Arkansas where the weather is good and where the water is plentiful.

Here is a link for the Future Farmers of America in Arkansas which can help to teach the people of Arkansas how to be farmers and ranchers.

Arkansas FFA Association

https://www.arkansasffa.org

And they can make cheese in Arkansas, etc.

The way to bring down the high prices of food is to expand production, and Arkansas can help us to expand food production here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 24, 2023, 11:08:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 24, 2023, 08:51:43 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on February 24, 2023, 07:41:09 PM

Global warming?

Why yes. Greater solar gain in the atmosphere pumps energy into wilder weather, disruptions in the polar jet stream that suddenly drops arctic air into the temperate zone, with more extremes and the amazingly steep temperature gradients over a few hundred miles (as shown in the graphic). All this was predicted by climate scientists as far back as the seventies.

Also worth noting that January and first part of February were well above seasonal norms across the northern tier of states as well as up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And the continued acceleration of glacier and ice cap melting.

Don't give a shit if you believe scientists but I don't plan to let partisan climate denier innuendos pollute even this forum and have gullible lurkers think they have any validity. The evidence for rapid anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming and past predictions are proving to be true (some were in fact overly conservative). Science, unlike lying partisan hacks and fossil fuel shills, doesn't start out with preconceived fantasies and then cherry pick and skew data to fit those fantasies.
Nice fast google on your part.
But
Big tech always defaults to the leftists.
However, ChatGpt is eating crow these days on climate change stats.
Science is hardly ever unanimous
May want to expand your research.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2023, 11:59:15 PM: While it is true that we need to put ourselves first, and while we need to make sure that the needs of our own people are met, here is what the Bible says in regard to helping other people, along with what the Bible says in Mathew 25; 31-46 about helping the poor and the needy.

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Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. - Philippians 2:3-4

--------

Christians are supposed to help each other.

But so too are we supposed to help our 60,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, we need to help others, but so too must we help our own homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 25, 2023, 12:32:32 PM: WHOOPS!

https://www.salon.com/2023/02/24/incredible-negligence-more-classified-docs-found-at-mar-a-lago--months-after-fbi-search/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on February 25, 2023, 12:34:07 PM: Sa-lon!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 25, 2023, 12:48:53 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on February 25, 2023, 12:34:07 PM
Sa-lon!!!!

Communist New Network?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/trump-classified-documents-maralago-eluded-fbi/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 25, 2023, 12:49:45 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on February 25, 2023, 12:34:07 PM
Sa-lon!!!!

Says the guy who posts Rasmussen polls

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM: Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.
Snow on the beach at Santa Cruz.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:21:23 PM: Colombia elected a new President in 2022, and they elected a former rebel guerilla from M-19, and now Colombia is friends with Venezuela again. I do not like the sound of it.

But, he is a Catholic, and his wife recently held a private meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Pope Francis is a man of peace, and generosity.

There was an actor named Paul Robeson, and he was a Communist, he ended up getting black listed along with Uta Hagen. What saved Paul Robeson is that he discovered the Catholic Church, and he saw the Brotherly Love of Christians, and he learned how Christians are supposed to help the poor and the needy and the orphans, etc, and he discovered that the Church met the needs of the people and that there was no need to be Communist. If people love each other, and if people help each other, then there is no need for Communism. Freedom with Christianity and the 10 Commandments and with the Golden Rule to Love Your Neighbor is all we need, there is no need for Communism.

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

So, if the President of Colombia is a Christian, and if he loves and respects Pope Francis, and if he loves his neighbors, then everything will be fine. The Catholic Church needs to embrace and help to guide the President of Colombia and we need to help the Colombian people, we need to continue to support schools for the poor children in Colombia, and we need to donate libraries to the poor villages in Colombia, etc. We need to draw close with our allies in Colombia.

Also, the Fashion Industry can be expanded in Colombia, and the Entertainment Industry, etc, and the World Bank supports such ventures.

We can also continue to support the Colombian Coffee Industry, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:26:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM
Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.

We are so lucky, we need the water, and the Western states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy, people were getting ready to fight over water. California owns the rights to the water for our farmers, and for our people, and so some of the other states were getting ready to rebel against California owning the water rights. The rain and snow came just in time to help us to keep the peace, we have plenty of water for now, so there is no need to fight over water. But, we need to plan for the future, and we need to build more dams, and lakes, and new aguaducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 07:04:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM
Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.

We are so lucky, we need the water, and the Western states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy, people were getting ready to fight over water. California owns the rights to the water for our farmers, and for our people, and so some of the other states were getting ready to rebel against California owning the water rights. The rain and snow came just in time to help us to keep the peace, we have plenty of water for now, so there is no need to fight over water. But, we need to plan for the future, and we need to build more dams, and lakes, and new aguaducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Words straight out of my no1 radio host's [now retired] "Watering Australia" manifesto.
25 years he tried to tell politicians and govts...but they didn't listen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 01:37:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 07:04:47 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM
Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.

We are so lucky, we need the water, and the Western states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy, people were getting ready to fight over water. California owns the rights to the water for our farmers, and for our people, and so some of the other states were getting ready to rebel against California owning the water rights. The rain and snow came just in time to help us to keep the peace, we have plenty of water for now, so there is no need to fight over water. But, we need to plan for the future, and we need to build more dams, and lakes, and new aguaducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Words straight out of my no1 radio host's [now retired] "Watering Australia" manifesto.
25 years he tried to tell politicians and govts...but they didn't listen.

Sounds like he was a wise radio host, too bad that he retired.

Biden and Harris keep saying they want to work on our water system, and they say they want trains, we need to get it all going, we need to put the homeless people to work, and we can put the immigrants on our Southern Border to work, and we can build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, etc, and we can build high speed trains, etc.

There was one project here in Los Angeles, the money was there to get the work done, but the people in office waited too long to do the work and the money was lost. If the Government gives you money to do a project then you need to hurry and hire people and get the job done, otherwise you lose the money and the money goes back to the Government.

If we allocate the money to build high speed trains, and to build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, then we need to hurry and put people to work to get the stuff built that we need.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 07:26:21 PM: A nice and cozy food for the cold weather is Chili Mac, made with Anthony's Rotini pasta, and with Stagg Chili, and with diced tomatoes with green chilies.

And with that you have a nice wine. I am drinking a nice Cabernet Sauvignon from California.

Wine and Chili Mac, that is what I am having as I watch the rain come down.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2023, 07:47:20 PM: Can't you just keep that stuff on your Facebook page?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 07:48:58 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2023, 07:47:20 PM
Can't you just keep that stuff on your Facebook page?

Why?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2023, 08:12:44 PM: Because what you are doing seems best reserved for Facebook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 26, 2023, 08:22:58 PM: Because this is the national news thread. Not the cuisine thread, or My Stream of Consciousness on My Every Random Thought thread.

Sorry. If you really want to be a scriptwriter, then your posts here are a time-wasting exercise. A real writer gets his ass in the chair and gets to work (and it's hard work) on a plot idea, several hours every day. Join an online writer's workshop, where people write and then share their work, giving each other feedback and necessary critique. Carry a tablet or notebook with you everywhere, to jot down ideas, bits of dialog, etc. Stop this lazy sharing of pipe dreams here, and get to work on a script.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 08:55:45 PM: This forum needs to be more open, and I care about the fact that Bambu likes canned soup.

For me, I am having Chili Mac as I watch the rain fall.

And I already wrote one movie script, and a poetry book, and either they have value or they do not. If not, then I am not going to waste time writing more. I have lots of ideas, but I am not going to cast my pearls before swine. I am not going to waste my time. You guys can have Kanye West. You make Kanye West a billionaire while I starve, so you get what you want.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2023, 09:00:11 PM: You're right. That I don't care to read about your love of Chili Mac while the rain falls is really a manifestation of my love of Kanye West.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 10:03:45 PM: I am trying to keep a good attitude, and I am sorry if I am projecting any negativity.

I want to see healthy progress happen here in California, and Nationally, and Globally.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 02:31:59 AM: I like reading the things Tony posts here in this "News In General" thread...about CA, America, and his personal life.

It's not like the forum resembles New York City at rush hour.
I can't see how a forum member's posting what they're eating to keep warm in the freezing cold in America today hurts anything...'caring and sharing'.

I'd be interested to know how all forum members are keeping warm...how they're heating their homes....how they're moving around/commuting on the icy/snow laden roads.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 27, 2023, 09:32:25 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 08:55:45 PM

And I already wrote one movie script, and a poetry book, and either they have value or they do not. If not, then I am not going to waste time writing more. I have lots of ideas, but I am not going to cast my pearls before swine...

This is a narcissistic attitude. Writing is a lifelong vocation and writers have to throw out lots of their work as a normal part of the process. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It is execution, craft - how the idea is developed - that makes the difference between boring garbage and a compelling story. Most writers take years, sending manuscripts to dozens of editors, before they achieve their first published work. The same is true of scriptwriting. If you don't have infinite patience and perseverance, then FFS find some other activity. Work someplace where your idealistic nature is fully engaged - Habitat for Humanity, the homeless shelter, whatever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 10:01:42 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 01:37:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 07:04:47 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM
Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.

We are so lucky, we need the water, and the Western states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy, people were getting ready to fight over water. California owns the rights to the water for our farmers, and for our people, and so some of the other states were getting ready to rebel against California owning the water rights. The rain and snow came just in time to help us to keep the peace, we have plenty of water for now, so there is no need to fight over water. But, we need to plan for the future, and we need to build more dams, and lakes, and new aguaducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Words straight out of my no1 radio host's [now retired] "Watering Australia" manifesto.
25 years he tried to tell politicians and govts...but they didn't listen.

Sounds like he was a wise radio host, too bad that he retired.

Biden and Harris keep saying they want to work on our water system, and they say they want trains, we need to get it all going, we need to put the homeless people to work, and we can put the immigrants on our Southern Border to work, and we can build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, etc, and we can build high speed trains, etc.

There was one project here in Los Angeles, the money was there to get the work done, but the people in office waited too long to do the work and the money was lost. If the Government gives you money to do a project then you need to hurry and hire people and get the job done, otherwise you lose the money and the money goes back to the Government.

If we allocate the money to build high speed trains, and to build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, then we need to hurry and put people to work to get the stuff built that we need.

Salute,

Tony V.

Look up the bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 01:35:14 PM: There will be a 3 day French Film Festival at the end of March at Fullerton Community College, I plan on attending.

https://humanities.fullcoll.edu/foreign-languages/french-film-festival/

Of note, we need to bring back the Anaheim Film Festival, we only had one film festival here in 2010, we need to have more.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 02:13:12 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 10:01:42 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2023, 01:37:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 07:04:47 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2023, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2023, 03:14:28 PM
Blizzards and snow in California
Hollywood got a mention.

Break out the buckets, and save the water for the summer.

We are so lucky, we need the water, and the Western states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy, people were getting ready to fight over water. California owns the rights to the water for our farmers, and for our people, and so some of the other states were getting ready to rebel against California owning the water rights. The rain and snow came just in time to help us to keep the peace, we have plenty of water for now, so there is no need to fight over water. But, we need to plan for the future, and we need to build more dams, and lakes, and new aguaducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Words straight out of my no1 radio host's [now retired] "Watering Australia" manifesto.
25 years he tried to tell politicians and govts...but they didn't listen.

Sounds like he was a wise radio host, too bad that he retired.

Biden and Harris keep saying they want to work on our water system, and they say they want trains, we need to get it all going, we need to put the homeless people to work, and we can put the immigrants on our Southern Border to work, and we can build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, etc, and we can build high speed trains, etc.

There was one project here in Los Angeles, the money was there to get the work done, but the people in office waited too long to do the work and the money was lost. If the Government gives you money to do a project then you need to hurry and hire people and get the job done, otherwise you lose the money and the money goes back to the Government.

If we allocate the money to build high speed trains, and to build more dams, lakes, and acquaducts, then we need to hurry and put people to work to get the stuff built that we need.

Salute,

Tony V.

Look up the bipartisan Infrastructure Law

It is huge, over 20,000 projects are going to happen.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/

A huge portion is going towards roads and bridges, and I think that we need to get away from cars and we need to move towards public transportation, and walking, and bicycles, etc, like the Europeans. For sure in our Cities we need to improve public transportation. And we need more trains, and subways, and we need a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas, and we need the dams, lakes, and acquaducts, etc.

Biden just passed a huge Bill which is going to pump over 3 trillion dollars into our economy and help to build our infrastructure. I hope that the new dams, and lakes, and acquaducts, are in the plans, along with new high speed trains, and a high speed train between Anaheim and Vegas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 02:47:25 PM: When Uta Hagen was black listed, she was not allowed to work as an actress, so instead she worked as an acting teacher, and she wrote books. "Respect For Acting" by Uta Hagen is one of the premier acting books for young acting students to study. She was black listed and she was not allowed to work at her chosen profession, so instead she became a writer and a teacher, and she turned out to be one of the best acting teachers of all time.

My favorite acting teacher, whom I am still friends with, studied with Uta Hagen in New York, along with studying with Sanford Meisner, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 27, 2023, 03:01:54 PM: You lead an interesting life, Tony.

The Infrastructure Act is what can happen in this country when we do not allow republicans enough of a role in our government that they are able to fuck things up with all their grifting, sadism, and other mental illness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 03:17:37 PM: A huge portion is going towards roads and bridges, and I think that we need to get away from cars and we need to move towards public transportation, and walking, and bicycles, etc, like the Europeans.

EVs need roads and bridges especially in rural areas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 04:30:45 PM: We sure needed this rain and snow, it will help to keep the peace over the issue of water, and the 3 trillion dollars that the Infrastructure Act is pumping into our economy will help, along with helping to improve our Infrastructure which we need to do.

And yes, each area has specific needs. We need to make sure that each area gets what they need for their area.

We are getting what we need to keep the peace, and to help our economy, plus help to build our Infrastructure, so some good things are happening.

Of note too, the Unions can help to tell people where the jobs are, people can join the Unions and then get hired through the Unions, and they will be guaranteed fair pay and good treatment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 27, 2023, 04:40:32 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 04:30:45 PM
We sure needed this rain and snow,

Salute,

Tony V.
Yeah, keep your greedy hands off our damn water. We got golf courses in Scottsdale to irrigate!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 05:43:53 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 27, 2023, 04:40:32 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 04:30:45 PM
We sure needed this rain and snow,

Salute,

Tony V.
Yeah, keep your greedy hands off our damn water. We got golf courses in Scottsdale to irrigate!

Arizona has a 25 billion dollar per year Agriculture Industry, Arizona can grow food if the water is provided.

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

And yes, you need to have water for the golf courses. And for swimming pools, and lawns, etc.

I hope some money from the Infrastructure Act is going to build dams, and lakes, and acquaducts, etc, to help to make sure that Arizona has a plentiful water supply well into the future as the farmers grow more food, and as more people move to the desert climate.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 07:08:17 PM: At the local Von's market it costs one dollar for one onion, the farmers are making good money.

In my hometown the farmers grow onions, and they grow watermelons, and they grow alfalfa for the dairies where the cheese is made, etc. And there is a winery in my hometown where they grow grapes and make wine, the Antelope Valley Winery.

The desert will grow food, all that you need is water, the soil is good, rich soil.

And I want to see the money from the groceries go to support local farmers. Plus, the freshness is there if the food is locally produced.

So, we need to build the dams, and make the lakes, and build the acquaducts, etc, to make sure that our farmers have plenty of water to grow food.

Of note, in Italy they used to just eat Spaghetti, without Meatballs, but then when the Italians came to America there was such a huge supply of beef that everyone in New York was having Meatballs with their Spaghetti. The Meatballs with your Spaghetti are a result of the abundance of America and the Cowboys in the West were all selling Beef to the people in New York.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2023, 07:26:09 PM: My hometown used to be the Almond Capital of the World, but the Almond Industry is gone now.

There is still Rancho Raviri which grows and makes and sells Almond Candy, but they are the last of the companies to sell local almonds.

https://www.ranchoraviri.com/

I have known a lot of people over the years who have worked at Rancho Raviri.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 27, 2023, 09:03:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 02:31:59 AM
I like reading the things Tony posts here in this "News In General" thread...about CA, America, and his personal life.

It's not like the forum resembles New York City at rush hour.
I can't see how a forum member's posting what they're eating to keep warm in the freezing cold in America today hurts anything...'caring and sharing'.

I'd be interested to know how all forum members are keeping warm...how they're heating their homes....how they're moving around/commuting on the icy/snow laden roads.

When someone posts 10-20 times a day in one forum, on off topic material, most websites define this as "using the forum for your own personal blog," and invite you to go start a blog somewhere. It's not that blogs can't be interesting, it's that this forum is a DISCUSSION FORUM, rather than Tony's Lifestyle and Hot Takes Magazine. I know at least three former members who participated in this politics thread who left (and who contributed to a real discourse on issues of the day) due to this personal blog problem. They had no interest in a thread dominated by stoner postings that endlessly repeat the same half dozen fact-impaired rants and vineyard pipe dreams and drown out a real conversation. How long do you think political chat would last if everyone here started matching Tony's verbal output with which models they find hot, their favorite canned food, their favorite ethnic stereotype, how their religious beliefs will save the world, five hundred word essays on every celebrity actor who farted within their earshot, and inane Chauncey Gardner truisms on how you need water to grow crops and good soil. FUCKING REALLY?? Water, good soil? Who knew? Fucking genius!! Catch rain IN RESERVOIRS?? Holy fucking shit, call the Nobel committee in Stockholm!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 09:45:40 PM: No one is stopping forum members from posting about politics, the very latest political news, here.
This thread is "News In General"...there is also a Biden Administration thread for serious political fights and discussions.

Don't like Tony's posts?
Solution...just scroll past them.

Maybe Tony believes this forum gives him a political voice...a voice for change.
CA could certainly do with more water storage...drought, fires etc.

Homelessness in CA etc is out of control.
Politicians and officials and not solving the problem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 10:17:15 PM: Don Lemon, black man...giving advice to black people:

"Black people, if you really want to fix the problem...
Here are just 5 things you should think about doing:

No 5: Pull up your pants.
No 4: Stop using the N word.
No 3: Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash/littering in your own community.
No 2: Finish school. Stop telling kids they're 'acting white' because they go to school or speak proper english.
No 1: Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 27, 2023, 10:57:33 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 27, 2023, 09:03:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 02:31:59 AM
I like reading the things Tony posts here in this "News In General" thread...about CA, America, and his personal life.

It's not like the forum resembles New York City at rush hour.
I can't see how a forum member's posting what they're eating to keep warm in the freezing cold in America today hurts anything...'caring and sharing'.

I'd be interested to know how all forum members are keeping warm...how they're heating their homes....how they're moving around/commuting on the icy/snow laden roads.

When someone posts 10-20 times a day in one forum, on off topic material, most websites define this as "using the forum for your own personal blog," and invite you to go start a blog somewhere. It's not that blogs can't be interesting, it's that this forum is a DISCUSSION FORUM, rather than Tony's Lifestyle and Hot Takes Magazine. I know at least three former members who participated in this politics thread who left (and who contributed to a real discourse on issues of the day) due to this personal blog problem. They had no interest in a thread dominated by stoner postings that endlessly repeat the same half dozen fact-impaired rants and vineyard pipe dreams and drown out a real conversation. How long do you think political chat would last if everyone here started matching Tony's verbal output with which models they find hot, their favorite canned food, their favorite ethnic stereotype, how their religious beliefs will save the world, five hundred word essays on every celebrity actor who farted within their earshot, and inane Chauncey Gardner truisms on how you need water to grow crops and good soil. FUCKING REALLY?? Water, good soil? Who knew? Fucking genius!! Catch rain IN RESERVOIRS?? Holy fucking shit, call the Nobel committee in Stockholm!!
I think Oilcan has hit the wall of Biden fatigue.
There is no one left in here to defend his incompetence.
Worse, the left cannot find anyone to replace him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 11:01:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 10:17:15 PM
Don Lemon, black man...giving advice to black people:

"Black people, if you really want to fix the problem...
Here are just 5 things you should think about doing:

No 5: Pull up your pants.
No 4: Stop using the N word.
No 3: Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash/littering in your own community.
No 2: Finish school. Stop telling kids they're 'acting white' because they go to school or speak proper english.
No 1: Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.
N

Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 10:17:15 PM
Don Lemon, black man...giving advice to black people:

"Black people, if you really want to fix the problem...
Here are just 5 things you should think about doing:

No 5: Pull up your pants.
No 4: Stop using the N word.
No 3: Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash/littering in your own community.
No 2: Finish school. Stop telling kids they're 'acting white' because they go to school or speak proper english.
No 1: Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.
N

Wow! That is a sentiment NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT BEFORE!

Groundbreaking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 11:02:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 27, 2023, 10:57:33 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 27, 2023, 09:03:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 02:31:59 AM
I like reading the things Tony posts here in this "News In General" thread...about CA, America, and his personal life.

It's not like the forum resembles New York City at rush hour.
I can't see how a forum member's posting what they're eating to keep warm in the freezing cold in America today hurts anything...'caring and sharing'.

I'd be interested to know how all forum members are keeping warm...how they're heating their homes....how they're moving around/commuting on the icy/snow laden roads.

When someone posts 10-20 times a day in one forum, on off topic material, most websites define this as "using the forum for your own personal blog," and invite you to go start a blog somewhere. It's not that blogs can't be interesting, it's that this forum is a DISCUSSION FORUM, rather than Tony's Lifestyle and Hot Takes Magazine. I know at least three former members who participated in this politics thread who left (and who contributed to a real discourse on issues of the day) due to this personal blog problem. They had no interest in a thread dominated by stoner postings that endlessly repeat the same half dozen fact-impaired rants and vineyard pipe dreams and drown out a real conversation. How long do you think political chat would last if everyone here started matching Tony's verbal output with which models they find hot, their favorite canned food, their favorite ethnic stereotype, how their religious beliefs will save the world, five hundred word essays on every celebrity actor who farted within their earshot, and inane Chauncey Gardner truisms on how you need water to grow crops and good soil. FUCKING REALLY?? Water, good soil? Who knew? Fucking genius!! Catch rain IN RESERVOIRS?? Holy fucking shit, call the Nobel committee in Stockholm!!
I think Oilcan has hit the wall of Biden fatigue.
There is no one left in here to defend his incompetence.
Worse, the left cannot find anyone to replace him.

Replace Biden?
Why?

He is crushing it!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2023, 01:17:21 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 11:01:23 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 10:17:15 PM
Don Lemon, black man...giving advice to black people:

"Black people, if you really want to fix the problem...
Here are just 5 things you should think about doing:

No 5: Pull up your pants.
No 4: Stop using the N word.
No 3: Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash/littering in your own community.
No 2: Finish school. Stop telling kids they're 'acting white' because they go to school or speak proper english.
No 1: Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.

Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 10:17:15 PM
Don Lemon, black man...giving advice to black people:

"Black people, if you really want to fix the problem...
Here are just 5 things you should think about doing:

No 5: Pull up your pants.
No 4: Stop using the N word.
No 3: Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash/littering in your own community.
No 2: Finish school. Stop telling kids they're 'acting white' because they go to school or speak proper english.
No 1: Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.
N

Wow! That is a sentiment NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT BEFORE!

Groundbreaking.

Black comedians are still using the N word, and according to Don Lemon are doing so because they're saying they're reclaiming it.
No one much is doing the 5 things...so nothing much is changing?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2023, 09:50:10 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 27, 2023, 10:57:33 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 27, 2023, 09:03:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2023, 02:31:59 AM
I like reading the things Tony posts here in this "News In General" thread...about CA, America, and his personal life.

It's not like the forum resembles New York City at rush hour.
I can't see how a forum member's posting what they're eating to keep warm in the freezing cold in America today hurts anything...'caring and sharing'.

I'd be interested to know how all forum members are keeping warm...how they're heating their homes....how they're moving around/commuting on the icy/snow laden roads.

When someone posts 10-20 times a day in one forum, on off topic material, most websites define this as "using the forum for your own personal blog," and invite you to go start a blog somewhere. It's not that blogs can't be interesting, it's that this forum is a DISCUSSION FORUM, rather than Tony's Lifestyle and Hot Takes Magazine. I know at least three former members who participated in this politics thread who left (and who contributed to a real discourse on issues of the day) due to this personal blog problem. They had no interest in a thread dominated by stoner postings that endlessly repeat the same half dozen fact-impaired rants and vineyard pipe dreams and drown out a real conversation. How long do you think political chat would last if everyone here started matching Tony's verbal output with which models they find hot, their favorite canned food, their favorite ethnic stereotype, how their religious beliefs will save the world, five hundred word essays on every celebrity actor who farted within their earshot, and inane Chauncey Gardner truisms on how you need water to grow crops and good soil. FUCKING REALLY?? Water, good soil? Who knew? Fucking genius!! Catch rain IN RESERVOIRS?? Holy fucking shit, call the Nobel committee in Stockholm!!
I think Oilcan has hit the wall of Biden fatigue.
Liar.
Quote
There is no one left in here to defend his
Liar.
Quote
incompetence.
Liar.
Quote
Worse, the left cannot find anyone to replace him.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2023, 11:57:21 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 11:01:23 PM

Wow! That is a sentiment NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT BEFORE!

Groundbreaking.

LoL. Tony and Bambi are the world's foremost armchair problem-solvers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2023, 01:49:16 PM: When we have problems in the world, then the problems create the opportunity for good people to solve the problems. I love to help to make the world a better place, and the tools that God gave me to help our planet are this computer, and my brain. And posting ideas here with you guys, and discussing things, helps to filter ideas and helps to strengthen the good ideas.

And the highest level on Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs is when you can solve problems, when you can use your imagination and your vision to solve problems then you are living on the highest level.

And for the Entertainment Industry everything is about imagination and fantasy.

"...And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which before he had only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women." - Sanford Meisner who got it from Freud.

And also with the Entertainment Industry is that we can change how people think and feel, and thus we can change how people behave.

Of note too, is that if I was rich like Rick Caruso then I would be helping people here in Los Angeles and we would not have 60,000 homeless people, and Rick Caruso can still help the homeless if he wants to, even though he did not win as Mayor of Los Angeles. If I was rich then I would be helping the poor and the needy and I would be helping to make the world a kinder and more gentle place. ( And that too is why it is important for the companies here to be locally owned and altruistic, we need for Apple to buy Sony Studios, and we can send Sony to Canada. We need a company that will help the homeless here in Los Angeles and that will help the community and which will create jobs for local workers and which will send a good message out to the world, and which will help us to get our own personal vision out into the world. Apple needs to buy the Sony Studio in Culver City. )

And I send ideas to Mayor Bass. I am trying to help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2023, 02:25:17 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2023, 01:49:16 PM
When we have problems in the world, then the problems create the opportunity for good people to solve the problems. I love to help to make the world a better place, and the tools that God gave me to help our planet are this computer, and my brain. And posting ideas here with you guys, and discussing things, helps to filter ideas and helps to strengthen the good ideas.

And the highest level on Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs is when you can solve problems, when you can use your imagination and your vision to solve problems then you are living on the highest level.

And for the Entertainment Industry everything is about imagination and fantasy.

"...And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which before he had only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women." - Sanford Meisner who got it from Freud.

And also with the Entertainment Industry is that we can change how people think and feel, and thus we can change how people behave.

Of note too, is that if I was rich like Rick Caruso then I would be helping people here in Los Angeles and we would not have 60,000 homeless people, and Rick Caruso can still help the homeless if he wants to, even though he did not win as Mayor of Los Angeles. If I was rich then I would be helping the poor and the needy and I would be helping to make the world a kinder and more gentle place.

And I send ideas to Mayor Bass. I am trying to help.

Salute,

Tony V.
I am reminded of an old Peter Cook / Dudley Moore skit, in which Moore was interviewing Cook, who claimed to have stopped WWII.

PC: I was against it, you know.

DM: Yes, I think we all were.

PC: Yes, but I did something about it. I wrote a letter. "Dear sirs: Stop it."

DM: Thank God you wrote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2023, 02:38:12 PM: I had a wonderful History Professor at AVC who was from Haiti, she was a Black woman from Haiti who taught United States History, and she taught me that the most powerful person in America is Me, our Government is there to serve the People, the People have the power in America.

And part of how we run the USA is with the Arena of Ideas, people put their ideas into the Arena of Ideas, and we mull it over, and the good ideas come into fruition. The ideas come from We the People, and we have a Government of our Representatives.

So, when I write to our politicians, then I am writing to our Public Servants who are servants of We the People.

My History Professor was friends with Rosa Parks, and she brought Rosa Parks to AVC to speak.

We the People have the power, so when I write to Biden and to Harris then I am writing to our Public Servants. That was the message my History Professor most wanted me to learn from her Class.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2023, 03:24:53 PM: So now I am reminded of Hotspur responding to Owen Glendower boasting he could call spirits from the vasty deep: Why, so can I or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2023, 03:26:08 PM: My autocorrect does not like Shakespearean language.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2023, 03:51:11 PM: My History Professor is still alive, she lives and teaches in New York now, she lectures at Columbia University, Dr Marks Ellis.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

She is an expert on the Great Depression, she studied the Causes of the Great Depression, she studied the Great Depression itself, and then she studied what was done to help the USA to come out of the Great Depression, and then she studied steps that were taken to help to make sure that we never have another Great Depression.

My family came to California during the Great Depression, and my History Professor loved to hear my stories that were passed down in my family from people who were here during the Great Depression. FDR was her favorite President, she spent a lot of time studying FDR.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2023, 04:22:10 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2023, 11:57:21 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on February 27, 2023, 11:01:23 PM

Wow! That is a sentiment NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT BEFORE!

Groundbreaking.

LoL. Tony and Bambi are the world's foremost armchair problem-solvers.

Not bambu on Tucker Carlson with his "5 things for change" advice for Black people wanting change/ a better life themselves and their children.
It was learned, wise and handsome Black man Don Lemon.
He was speaking 'perfect'/ 'proper' english...not 'Black' english like "wachoo" etc.

bambu's solution for homelessness in American cities would fix the problem *overnight*...not in 10 years.
The streets of the cities would once again be "clean and pristine".
Permanent and regular patrols would keep them like that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 28, 2023, 06:34:37 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gmnv/smith-and-wesson-proud-boys-perception-brand (http://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gmnv/smith-and-wesson-proud-boys-perception-brand)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 28, 2023, 06:57:56 PM: GOP has another George Santos.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-andy-ogles-changes-tune-controversial-tall-tales-rcna72640
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on February 28, 2023, 07:08:41 PM: UPDATE!

FBI director says COVID pandemic most likely originated from Chinese lab
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 28, 2023, 07:54:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on February 28, 2023, 07:08:41 PM
UPDATE!

FBI director says COVID pandemic most likely originated from Chinese lab
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab)

Yeah, so?

Meanwhile in context:

Trump said that he believed the virus was under control. He also said he had confidence in the Chinese government to be transparent.

We have it under control. It is going to be just fine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2023, 09:02:20 PM: From The Post:

The classified report remains a minority view among the nine intelligence entities probing the pandemic s origin, most of which still favor the theory that the virus naturally spilled over from animals to humans, probably in a Wuhan market near where the first cases of an unusual pneumonia were reported. None of the other agencies have changed their view after seeing the report, officials say, and peer reviewed scientific papers published last year also bolster the spillover explanation.
(...)
Some scientists said Monday that GOP led probes had become counterproductive, calling for lawmakers to instead focus on peer reviewed research suggesting a natural origin for the virus. There is no evidence (covid) was in any laboratory before the outbreak.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2023, 09:06:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2023, 03:26:08 PM
My autocorrect does not like Shakespearean language.

Does it produce a comedy of errors?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 03:20:50 AM: What a giant waste of time at school it was being subjected to learning Shakespeare.
Car maintenance, cooking, and house painting would've been more useful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 07:14:28 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 03:20:50 AM
What a giant waste of time at school it was being subjected to learning Shakespeare.
Car maintenance, cooking, and house painting would've been more useful.
Well, in your case yes. It would be like dumping a 2005 Cotes de Beaune directly into a toilet, or teaching quantum computing to a particularly stupid cat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 07:16:06 AM: I love Shakespeare.

Here is a video of me doing Prologue from Henry V.

https://youtu.be/x3ZMT-G_WHE

And Shakespeare is good as a Producer, if you do not have anything else to produce then you can always produce Shakespeare.

On the issue of House Painting, there is Robert DeNiro who said "House Painting" meant "killing people" in the movie "The Irishman," and Robert DeNiro would be good to cast as King Lear in "King Lear" by Shakespeare. Right now would be the perfect time to produce "King Lear."

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 07:20:44 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 07:16:06 AM
I love Shakespeare.

Here is a video of me doing Prologue from Henry V.

https://youtu.be/x3ZMT-G_WHE

And Shakespeare is good as a Producer, if you do not have anything else to produce then you can always produce Shakespeare.

On the issue of House Painting, there is Robert DeNiro who said "House Painting" meant "killing people" in the movie "The Irishman," and Robert DeNiro would be good to cast as King Lear in "King Lear" by Shakespeare. Right now would be the perfect time to produce "King Lear."

Salute,

Tony V.
You are not wrong. Any time is a perfect time to produce King Lear. Even to this day after over a dozen readings and viewings, Howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stone! still hits me hard. The bleakest, devastating, heart rending moment in all of art, in any medium.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2023, 07:42:35 AM: A disdain of learning Shakespeare shows a rigid and less than supple mind. Fortunately Bambu defies that characterization. Wait
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM: From NBC News on establishing the origin of Covid 19

A spokesperson said in a statement over the weekend that the Energy Department continues to support the thorough, careful, and objective work of our intelligence professionals in investigating the origins of COVID19, as the President directed.

Lawmakers said Tuesday it was important to find out the origins of the virus.

The main reason to understand where this pandemic came from is so that we can prevent a future pandemic from happening. It is not to play gotcha,said Rep. Mike Gallagher, R.Wis., who chairs a select committee on China. But [China] needs to be held accountable for their cover-up.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D.Va., said that China obviously is very threatened by this but that the lab leak story is not anti-Chinese.

It is just you are trying to get to the bottom of it so you can prevent the next one,he said.

Sen. Susan Collins, R. Maine, said confirmation of the lab leak theory would have an impact on U.S. policy.

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 09:33:53 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2023, 07:42:35 AM
A disdain of learning Shakespeare shows a rigid and less than supple mind. Fortunately Bambu defies that characterization. Wait

Shakespeare...not 'plain english'.
A waste of an education trying to understand the hidden meanings of some guy who lived hundreds of years ago in England.
When I left school "The Merchant of Venice" was totally irrelevant.
I would've been much better off being trained in "public speakng".
Never once in my post school life have I ever needed to know when the English kings ruled, and the names of the wives of Henry V111.
I would've been much better off learning about the human body, including in depth sex ed classes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2023, 09:46:44 AM: I am an Australian. Hath not an Australian eyes? hath not an Australian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as an American is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2023, 09:53:39 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.

Lie. No one in science is trying to discredit a theory. At the moment, what slender data there is more supports the spillover theory. To hold one theory stronger than another is not the same as trying to debunk a theory with prejudice towards it. Data is always scarce where an authoritarian dictatorship is in charge of the area under study, and many scientists (widely quoted) have pointed out we may never definitely prove any theory.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 10:09:51 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 09:33:53 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2023, 07:42:35 AM
A disdain of learning Shakespeare shows a rigid and less than supple mind. Fortunately Bambu defies that characterization. Wait

Shakespeare...not 'plain english'.
A waste of an education trying to understand the hidden meanings of some guy who lived hundreds of years ago in England.
When I left school "The Merchant of Venice" was totally irrelevant.
I would've been much better off being trained in "public speakng".
Never once in my post school life have I ever needed to know when the English kings ruled, and the names of the wives of Henry V111.
I would've been much better off learning about the human body, including in depth sex ed classes.
No. You would have been better off if you had been required to learn and memorize the portion of Sir Thomas More scholarship now attributes to Shakespeare.

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs with their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silenced by your brawl,
And you in rough of your opinions clothed;

What had you got? I'll tell you: you had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

O, desperate as you are,
Wash your foul minds with tears, and those same hands,
That you like rebels lift against the peace,
Lift up for peace, and your unreverent knees,
Make them your feet to kneel to be forgiven!

You'll put down strangers,
Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses,
And lead the majesty of law in line,
To slip him like a hound. Say now the king
(As he is clement, if th' offender mourn)
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whether would you go?

What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbor? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,--

Why, you must needs be strangers:would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God

Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.

Pity that you viewed your education as a mere trade school. The world was your oyster, and you'd none of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2023, 02:08:08 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 09:53:39 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.

Lie. No one in science is trying to discredit a theory. At the moment, what slender data there is more supports the spillover theory. To hold one theory stronger than another is not the same as trying to debunk a theory with prejudice towards it. Data is always scarce where an authoritarian dictatorship is in charge of the area under study, and many scientists (widely quoted) have pointed out we may never definitely prove any theory.

For Red science begins and ends with his precious eugenics. Everything in non-debunked Physics, Chemistry, or Biology he takes as politics because of reality has a well know liberal bias.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2023, 02:09:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 09:46:44 AM
I am an Australian. Hath not an Australian eyes? hath not an Australian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as an American is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

A blessing on your heart, for you brew good ale.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 02:46:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 09:53:39 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.

Lie. No one in science is trying to discredit a theory.
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 09:53:39 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.

Lie. No one in science is trying to discredit a theory.
No one, especially Susan Collins, is pointing fingers at Scientists.
Squelching debate is the real issue.
Today the New York Post reported
China is warning Twitter CEO Elon Musk against sharing posts that promote the lab leak theory of the coronavirus, suggesting that such commentary could hurt Tesla s relationship in irs second largest market.
How many other big tech and media companies doing business in China have recieved similar threats?
It took the US Government with a bevy of epidemiologists and micro biologists to finally open up the debate. Why do you argue against seeking the truth?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2023, 03:28:24 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 02:46:50 PM

It took the US Government with a bevy of epidemiologists and micro biologists to finally open up the debate. Why do you argue against seeking the truth?

Bullshit. It wasn't epidemiologists who opened up this faux debate. (see previous posts here)

As NPR reported today....(quotation marks replaced with word quote)

According to the federal government, low confidence means quote the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical conclusions cannot be inferred from the information.unquote

But at the end of the day, the origin of the pandemic is also a scientific question. Virologists who study pandemic origins are much less divided than the U.S. intelligence community. They say there is quote very convincing unquote data and quote overwhelming evidence unquote pointing to an animal origin.

In particular, scientists published two extensive, peer-reviewed papers in Science in July 2022, offering the strongest evidence to date that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in animals at a market in Wuhan, China. Specifically, they conclude that the coronavirus most likely jumped from a caged wild animal into people at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where a huge COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM: REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 09:53:39 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 09:10:43 AM

There has been an attempt to discredit that theory of origin, which I have never understood. To me we should want to know where the origin was. And we should also protest to the country, China in this case, that trying to cover this up, because that delayed our ability to respond to the pandemic, she said.

Lie. No one in science is trying to discredit a theory. At the moment, what slender data there is more supports the spillover theory. To hold one theory stronger than another is not the same as trying to debunk a theory with prejudice towards it. Data is always scarce where an authoritarian dictatorship is in charge of the area under study, and many scientists (widely quoted) have pointed out we may never definitely prove any theory.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2023, 04:21:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden want all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?

So long as we can all agree that trump and his groping treasonous acolytes, many still holding republican seats in Congress or perverting the federal bench, killed grandma, a healthy debate about the origin of the virus republicans first neglected and still actively spread is a potentially useful line of inquiry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 04:46:04 PM: The world was my oyster?
Being fluent in Shakespeare would've made not one iota of difference to my post-school life.

My high school education was a dismal failure.
They had me for 6 years, one year repeated
They taught me nothing useful.
French...long way to Paris.
Latin...only good for doctors.
They should've taught me cooking and self sufficiency.
I was totally unprepared for life after school.

I would've been better off leaving school at 'primary' level, age 12, and being home schooled in basic english, basic maths, geography, basic history, ...latin, french, maths 1, maths 2, chemistry, physics were useless to me in the real world of employment.

Parallel lines, a square, a rectangle, a triangle, a right angle...all I needed to know.
"There is a solar system, stars, planets and meteors...simple science.
This is called a wheel, and is man's greatest invention."
Only 20% of students went to university, they were usually from the "A" class, some from "B" class.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 04:48:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?
Liar. What oil said is perfectly clear, and that aint it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 04:59:45 PM: We need to support Human Rights globally, including in El Salvador.

https://www.hrw.org/americas/el-salvador

When I was homeless here in Los Angeles, I wandered into a neighborhood by Lafayette Park, and I was poor, and hungry. The neighborhood was full of people from El Salvador and I wandered into a restaurant that was owned by a family from El Salvador. I told them that I was hungry but that I did not have any money and I asked if I could wash dishes in exchange for a meal. The family there sat me down at a table, and they started bringing me food, and they brought out photo albums and they showed me photos from El Salvador, and they told me stories about the Civil War in El Salvador, etc. They were very nice, generous people, the food was great, and it was wonderful how they treated me so nice, they fed me and showed me pictures and they told me stories.

Eleanor Roosevelt wanted a Universal Bill of Human Rights for ALL people in the Human Family, and we need to support good human rights for the people of El Salvador.

On the issue of the gangs, Los Angeles is full of gangs, just ask the folks at Homeboy Industries, and the reason why the people from El Salvador formed gangs here was to defend themselves from the Bloods and from the Crips and from other gangs in Los Angeles. The Black gangs in Los Angeles are some of the most violent gangs on Earth, so the people from El Salvador formed gangs in Los Angeles to defend themselves from the other gangs.

We need to support the ACLU locally, and the United Nations and the World Bank and others need to work to preserve Human Dignity and to support good Human Rights for the people in El Salvador.

And we need to support Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles. Father Boyle can teach the people of El Salvador how to restore Human Rights and Dignity to the people of El Salvador. Freedom of Religion is a Human Right, and Father Boyle can teach the people how to save El Salvador.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 05:04:12 PM: The most important thing Bambu is that you actually CARE, and you are genuine, we do not have to guess what you are trying to say. A lot of people in the world do not even care about the suffering of others or the state of affairs. At Kiwanis International we would accept you because you care, and you are real, and those are the kind of people Kiwanis needs.

And you never know, you might have secret fans here on Elba. A lot of people read but never post.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 05:21:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 04:48:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?
Liar. What oil said is perfectly clear, and that aint it.
I will not blame you for his ignorance.
Your judgement is another matter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 05:25:39 PM: I have here now in my hand a book titled:

"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

'Copyright 1974
.......Holloway Rd, London
Great Britain.
Printed in Romania."

Don't know where it came from, think I inherited it.
Looks impressive in the little book case. lol
No good to me, might be able to sell it online..."you send the money, then I'll send the book".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2023, 05:28:43 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 05:21:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 04:48:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?
Liar. What oil said is perfectly clear, and that aint it.
I will not blame you for his ignorance.
Your judgement is another matter.

If it came from a lab you will have eaten just as much horse paste and your brain will still have deteriorated just as unrecoverably, your judgement and competence remain as questionable and negligible as ever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 05:35:50 PM: Kudos all around to the blacks of Chicago who dumped the worst Mayor in its history.
The DEI movement was also exposed as a fraud.
If the voters send the Chicago Teachers Union a similar message and vote for meritocracy in the runoff the city may survive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 05:42:17 PM: Another big waste of time is trying to ascertain how Covid 19 came about...and expecting there to be any benefit in the discovery. China will simply "deny, deny, deny", put an opposing view, and seeing as how China and its best buddy Russia basically run the UN, the whole thing will end in nothing but misery.
Also trade sanctions by China, as ScoMo and co found out in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 05:48:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 05:25:39 PM
I have here now in my hand a book titled:

"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

'Copyright 1974
.......Holloway Rd, London
Great Britain.
Printed in Romania."

Don't know where it came from, think I inherited it.
Looks impressive in the little book case. lol
No good to me, might be able to sell it online..."you send the money, then I'll send the book".

The people in Psychology Class study Shakespeare and they study the characters, and other stuff, there are Mental Illnesses which are named after Greek Plays such as the Oedipus Complex, etc. It was fun to study Psychology with artists. And I used to analyze the characters from the movies in Film Class, etc.

I cannot believe that it has been so long since I attended school, all of a sudden I am getting older and life has passed. But, I am grateful for my education and for having had so many wonderful teachers.

And sometimes I thought it would be fun to move to Santorini, Greece, and live like Aristotle, with a library and a school with people to study with, we could explore the questions of the universe. Just drink wine, eat Mediterranean food, and study and do plays in the amphitheatre, etc. There can be beautiful women there to have sex with, and all of the great books, and great films with a nice theatre. I could marry a local girl from Greece, or from Italy.

But alas, keep the book Bambu, you never know when you might want to read it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 05:57:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 05:21:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 01, 2023, 04:48:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?
Liar. What oil said is perfectly clear, and that aint it.
I will not blame you for his ignorance.
Your judgement is another matter.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 01, 2023, 08:29:04 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 05:35:50 PM

Kudos all around to the blacks of Chicago who dumped the worst Mayor in its history.
The DEI movement was also exposed as a fraud.
If the voters send the Chicago Teachers Union a similar message and vote for meritocracy in the runoff the city may survive.

Translation: vote for the white guy who is backed by the PBA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 08:30:54 PM: El Salvador wants to put 40,000 young men in jail, without any human rights and no judge and no lawyer.

My first advice would be to plead to the United Nations and World Bank and others to stand up for the good human rights of ALL people. As with the ACLU locally, etc.

Then I turn to Pope Francis and men of peace. We should always seek peace first. So, we can invite Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries to help in El Salvador. We can fight for Freedom of Religion and we can bring in Father Boyle to help in El Salvador.

Then, here is another idea, the prisoners can be released to join the Army in the Ukraine to fight against the Russians, 40,000 young strong soldiers for Ukraine from El Salvador could help Ukraine. I would rather go fight against the Russians instead of sitting in prison, and I am sure many young men from El Salvador would rather be mercenaries instead of sitting in prison, they can go fight against the Russians in exchange for their freedom.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2023, 08:57:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?

Stop trolling me. Distorting another's post to falsely portray their views, while not addressing their actual point or factual basis, is trolling. I have explained the scientific perspective here, which is the one that's relevant to scientific conclusions, and have clarified, twice, why politics and political opinions are not relevant to the conclusions of the scientific community. So we're done. And probably done, in the broader sense. I feel it best to let you join the other ignorant and dishonest fuckwits whose minds are stuck in the misinformation bubble, and closed to new facts and ideas. You probably fancy yourself a crusader in some culture war for libertarian values, but you're nothing more than another Scott Adams, imagining your paranoia and prejudice as the wisdom of years. Minus the cartoons that used to be funny takes on office worker anxieties.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2023, 09:33:38 PM: Take pity on Red. Everyone he wants to rape can outrun him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 11:20:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 08:30:54 PM
El Salvador wants to put 40,000 young men in jail, without any human rights and no judge and no lawyer.

My first advice would be to plead to the United Nations and World Bank and others to stand up for the good human rights of ALL people. As with the ACLU locally, etc.

Then I turn to Pope Francis and men of peace. We should always seek peace first. So, we can invite Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries to help in El Salvador. We can fight for Freedom of Religion and we can bring in Father Boyle to help in El Salvador.

Then, here is another idea, the prisoners can be released to join the Army in the Ukraine to fight against the Russians, 40,000 young strong soldiers for Ukraine from El Salvador could help Ukraine. I would rather go fight against the Russians instead of sitting in prison, and I am sure many young men from El Salvador would rather be mercenaries instead of sitting in prison, they can go fight against the Russians in exchange for their freedom.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Dirty Dozen" style.
Good idea.
Ukraine needs big missiles...now...ones it can fire deep into Russia.
Britain was fighting fair...and losing...Hitler was bombing London at will.
So Churchill bombed Dresden...and later US fire bombed Tokyo.
It's the way it has to be...if you want to win.
Japan bombed the North of Australia, Darwin etc, 64 raids in 18 months.
Many innocents dead.
Japan was advancing thru PNG, butchering *everyone* in its wake.
Kokoda Trail, Aussie *kids* were losing every battle...retreating.
A defensive grid was formed across the middle of Australia for a last stand.
There was a poem written:

Up North

Oh, Bill and Joe to the north have gone,
A green shirt on their back;
There are not many ewes and lambs
Along Kokoda Track.

There are not many ewes and lambs,
But men in single file
Like sheep along a mountain pad
Walk mile on sweating mile;

And each half hour they change the lead,
Though I have never read
Where any fat bell-whether was
Shot, in the mountains, dead.

The only sheep they muster there
Leap through the mind at night;
'Twould be as red as marking time
To change green shirt for white.

And though Bill dreams of droving now
On the drought- coloured plain,
There's little need to tap the glass
Or pray for it to rain.

They have no lack of water there
But there is a stinging tail,
For men lie dying in the grass
Along Kokoda trail.

David Campbell

Japan got nuked, not many, if any, were crying in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 11:54:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 01, 2023, 11:20:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2023, 08:30:54 PM
El Salvador wants to put 40,000 young men in jail, without any human rights and no judge and no lawyer.

My first advice would be to plead to the United Nations and World Bank and others to stand up for the good human rights of ALL people. As with the ACLU locally, etc.

Then I turn to Pope Francis and men of peace. We should always seek peace first. So, we can invite Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries to help in El Salvador. We can fight for Freedom of Religion and we can bring in Father Boyle to help in El Salvador.

Then, here is another idea, the prisoners can be released to join the Army in the Ukraine to fight against the Russians, 40,000 young strong soldiers for Ukraine from El Salvador could help Ukraine. I would rather go fight against the Russians instead of sitting in prison, and I am sure many young men from El Salvador would rather be mercenaries instead of sitting in prison, they can go fight against the Russians in exchange for their freedom.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Dirty Dozen" style.
Good idea.
Ukraine needs big missiles...now...ones it can fire deep into Russia.
Britain was fighting fair...and losing...Hitler was bombing London at will.
So Churchill bombed Dresden...and later US fire bombed Tokyo.
It's the way it has to be...if you want to win.
Japan bombed the North of Australia, Darwin etc, 64 raids in 18 months.
Many innocents dead.
Japan was advancing thru PNG, butchering *everyone* in its wake.
Kokoda Track, Aussie *kids* were losing every battle.
There was a poem written:

Japan got nuked, not many, if any, were crying in Australia.

I met Clint Walker from the movie "The Dirty Dozen" and he told me that I looked like a movie star, he told me that I could be the next "Cheyenne." Clint was a cool guy, I wept when he died. His light was so bright, he really was a big star. And he was so gentle and down to Earth.

And yes, I worked for the Japanese at Universal, they paid everyone minimum wage, if it was not for Unions and Labor Laws then they would never pay Americans fair. Call it what you will. But, if the Italians or people from the Philippines owned Universal then I would have earned enough money to buy a house and raise a family. Unions want for the workers to be able to buy houses and to have money to raise families.

I do not think that we should allow Japan to own an American movie studio, and I think that Apple needs to buy the Sony Studio in Culver City, and Apple will help the people here in California first before everyone else. We need companies that put the people of California first.

And we need to keep the peace with China, I like China, I already made my peace with China when I had a Chinese roommate. Next step is that we need to win China over for the Catholic Church.

The people from the Philippines are great too, and they too were attacked bad by Japan, MacArthur spent time in the Philippines. I would rather work for people from the Philippines.

And I want peace and prosperity for everyone. The first choice is always peace, and calling in wise men like Father Boyle of Homeboy Industries, and the Pope, to deal with tough issues like the issues facing the people of El Salvador.

I had a boss who was a soldier in World War II, he was a Marine, and he managed Dog Kennels for the Marine Corps, and he raised and trained Dobermans for the Marines. Then he went into battle with his Doberman named Duke, he went into battle in Okinawa, Japan. My boss hated war, and he had a photo of the United Nations on the wall, and he believed that the United Nations was our biggest hope to avoid war. The people who have seen battle hate war.

Blessed are the peace makers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 02, 2023, 10:02:58 AM: Though surrounded by sweet and idealistic sugar coating, your post failed to conceal its central religious bigotry. China is mainly Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian, and it's not your business how they conduct their spiritual lives. Take your "win China over for the Catholic church" and stuff it. Try to respect that there's more than one path up the mountain. Wouldn't hurt you to read Thomas Merton.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 02, 2023, 02:07:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 02, 2023, 10:02:58 AM
Though surrounded by sweet and idealistic sugar coating, your post failed to conceal its central religious bigotry. China is mainly Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian, and it's not your business how they conduct their spiritual lives. Take your "win China over for the Catholic church" and stuff it. Try to respect that there's more than one path up the mountain. Wouldn't hurt you to read Thomas Merton.

Sorry, but I am a Christian, and I believe in spreading the word of Christ and I support winning people over for Jesus. I would make it no secret that I am a Christian, and that I support winning people over for Jesus.

I support Freedom of Religion in China, and I support the Chinese people being able to receive the word of God and being able to worship freely.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 02, 2023, 02:35:27 PM: I am a Christian, and I spread the word of Christ every chance I get, and a paradise for me would be a place where everyone is Christian and where everyone loves their neighbors, and where everyone obeys the 10 Commandments, that would be great. So far my favorite City is Rome, Italy, I went to the Vatican, and I spent 6 weeks in Rome, there are churches all over Rome, it is great.

It is hard to live in Hollywood where so many people hate Christians. Someone even burned down my Church here in Anaheim. We have to have security cameras and security guards for our Churches because people set the Churches on fire. I tried to leave here, and go live in Rome, Italy, but I could not get a job in Rome so I had to come back to the USA.

I need to wise up and make money so that I have freedom to live wherever I want. Even Danny Trejo is getting rich from acting and from selling tacos at his restaurants, etc. It is not that hard to make money and to have freedom.

I want to go open a night club in Rome for Christians, I know where a Christian music school is in Rome where I could get the Christian bands of the future to play a my club. I want to surround myself with Christians.

The Jews have Israel, and the Christians have Rome, Italy. Rome is the Christian capital of the world. And instead of fighting against each other and tearing each other down, we can love and support each other and we can lift each other up. I want to be in a community where people love each other. It was real hard being homeless here in Hollywood where no one cares about the homeless, it was even against the law to feed the homeless in Hollywood at that time, they figured that if they did not feed you that you would just go away. We need to have more Christians in Hollywood, and guys like Rick Caruso need to help the homeless in Hollywood. Hollywood also needs to have Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night. Hollywood is a hard town. I like Rome better than I like Hollywood, if I had money I would be living in Rome. Meanwhile, I can try to teach Hollywood how to help the homeless, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2023, 02:47:49 PM: Please stop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 02, 2023, 02:53:31 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2023, 02:47:49 PM
Please stop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 02, 2023, 03:42:33 PM: I memorized a quote from Confucius when I was young, and it served me well.

"Do not worry that you do not have love, wealth, honor, and high office, but instead focus on making yourself worthy of love, wealth, honor, and high office."

Instead of complaining about what one does not have, then one should instead focus on making themselves worthy of their desires.

I am sure that many people in China know that quote.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 02, 2023, 04:15:04 PM: Gotta love the headline!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-says-trump-can-sued-police-democrats-injured-jan-6-riot
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 02, 2023, 07:05:39 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 02, 2023, 02:07:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 02, 2023, 10:02:58 AM
Though surrounded by sweet and idealistic sugar coating, your post failed to conceal its central religious bigotry. China is mainly Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian, and it's not your business how they conduct their spiritual lives. Take your "win China over for the Catholic church" and stuff it. Try to respect that there's more than one path up the mountain. Wouldn't hurt you to read Thomas Merton.

Sorry, but I am a Christian, and I believe in spreading the word of Christ and I support winning people over for Jesus. I would make it no secret that I am a Christian, and that I support winning people over for Jesus.

I support Freedom of Religion in China, and I support the Chinese people being able to receive the word of God and being able to worship freely.

Salute,

Tony V.

You have packed receive the word of God and worship freely pretty tightly together there, Tony.

There is more to worshiping freely.

Maybe if you agreed that it would be fine even if they all decided they were shamanistic animists to whom Jesus is a cute myth so long as they were worshiping freely we could concede that when you say worshiping freely that you get it and are onboard with it in its full form.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 02, 2023, 08:51:02 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 02, 2023, 07:05:39 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 02, 2023, 02:07:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 02, 2023, 10:02:58 AM
Though surrounded by sweet and idealistic sugar coating, your post failed to conceal its central religious bigotry. China is mainly Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian, and it's not your business how they conduct their spiritual lives. Take your "win China over for the Catholic church" and stuff it. Try to respect that there's more than one path up the mountain. Wouldn't hurt you to read Thomas Merton.

Sorry, but I am a Christian, and I believe in spreading the word of Christ and I support winning people over for Jesus. I would make it no secret that I am a Christian, and that I support winning people over for Jesus.

I support Freedom of Religion in China, and I support the Chinese people being able to receive the word of God and being able to worship freely.

Salute,

Tony V.

You have packed receive the word of God and worship freely pretty tightly together there, Tony.

There is more to worshiping freely.

Maybe if you agreed that it would be fine even if they all decided they were shamanistic animists to whom Jesus is a cute myth so long as they were worshiping freely we could concede that when you say worshiping freely that you get it and are onboard with it in its full form.

https://youtu.be/5SIp9068vOE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 02, 2023, 10:21:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 08:57:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?

Stop trolling me. Distorting another's post to falsely portray their views, while not addressing their actual point or factual basis, is trolling. I have explained the scientific perspective here, which is the one that's relevant to scientific conclusions, and have clarified, twice, why politics and political opinions are not relevant to the conclusions of the scientific community. So we're done. And probably done, in the broader sense. I feel it best to let you join the other ignorant and dishonest fuckwits whose minds are stuck in the misinformation bubble, and closed to new facts and ideas. You probably fancy yourself a crusader in some culture war for libertarian values, but you're nothing more than another Scott Adams, imagining your paranoia and prejudice as the wisdom of years. Minus the cartoons that used to be funny takes on office worker anxieties.
LOL!
ROFL!
The Scientific Community?
That excludes Government scientists that research these matters for theFBI and the Energy. Department?
And report to Joe Biden who ordered them to conduct further research?
I remind you all theories so far come with low confidence so we need more not less research.
Fact checkers from USA Today, the Washington Post, Snopes, and othershave all backtracked on three year old dismissals of a possible Wuhan Lab leak. Why?
You are the one closed to on going scientific research and you are the one deciding on incomplete information while making a fool of yourself.
You still cannot answer the main point of this discussion:
Why was talk of the possibility of the lab leak suppressed by big tech etc.?
Why is China threatening Elon Musk if he allows Twitter to keep the discussion alive?
And what other firms were told to shut up?

If you ignore all you dislike then you do not understand the challenges of scientific research.
Do not let the door hit your backside on your way out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 03, 2023, 12:39:33 AM: John 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me".

‐----------------------------

Anyway, China persecutes Christians, bigtime.
96.7 million Christians in China, only about 7% of the population.
Best way to persecute China right back is to boycott all things 'China'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 03, 2023, 12:49:47 AM: In bambuworld, gas (hot water and cooking) is being demonised by the Left.
They want to remove it from every home etc.
Cost to fully electrify every home etc where gas is now, ...cooking, hot water, heating etc...$60billion.

And when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow enough?
Yes, mayhem there will be, as happened when Texas basically had all its eggs in one basket.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2023, 01:16:11 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 03, 2023, 12:39:33 AM
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me".

You were born for a life on your knees, Bambu. In your case any story at all would do just as well as the one you are stuck on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 03, 2023, 07:51:53 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 02, 2023, 10:21:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 08:57:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 01, 2023, 04:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2023, 03:31:08 PM
REPOST OF EARLIER COMMENT, FOR CLARIFYING POSITION

Even Joe Biden wants all theories examined.
What are YOU scared of?

Stop trolling me. Distorting another's post to falsely portray their views, while not addressing their actual point or factual basis, is trolling. I have explained the scientific perspective here, which is the one that's relevant to scientific conclusions, and have clarified, twice, why politics and political opinions are not relevant to the conclusions of the scientific community. So we're done. And probably done, in the broader sense. I feel it best to let you join the other ignorant and dishonest fuckwits whose minds are stuck in the misinformation bubble, and closed to new facts and ideas. You probably fancy yourself a crusader in some culture war for libertarian values, but you're nothing more than another Scott Adams, imagining your paranoia and prejudice as the wisdom of years. Minus the cartoons that used to be funny takes on office worker anxieties.
LOL!
ROFL!
The Scientific Community?
That excludes Government scientists that research these matters for theFBI and the Energy. Department?
And report to Joe Biden who ordered them to conduct further research?
I remind you all theories so far come with low confidence so we need more not less research.
Fact checkers from USA Today, the Washington Post, Snopes, and othershave all backtracked on three year old dismissals of a possible Wuhan Lab leak. Why?
You are the one closed to on going scientific research and you are the one deciding on incomplete information while making a fool of yourself.
You still cannot answer the main point of this discussion:
Why was talk of the possibility of the lab leak suppressed by big tech etc.?
Why is China threatening Elon Musk if he allows Twitter to keep the discussion alive?
And what other firms were told to shut up?

If you ignore all you dislike then you do not understand the challenges of scientific research.
Do not let the door hit your backside on your way out.

So what? It might have been a lab leak and it might be an animal human infection.

Low confidence means the results of the analysis is heavily disputed inside the Energy Department.

Reductions at the U.S. agencies sidelined health experts, scientists and other professionals who might have been able to help China mount an earlier response to the novel coronavirus, as well as provide the U.S. government with more information about what was coming, according to the people who spoke with Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21C3N5
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 03, 2023, 09:58:50 AM: Quote
According to the federal government, low confidence means quote the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical conclusions cannot be inferred from the information.unquote

But at the end of the day, the origin of the pandemic is also a scientific question. Virologists who study pandemic origins are much less divided than the U.S. intelligence community. They say there is quote very convincing unquote data and quote overwhelming evidence unquote pointing to an animal origin.

In particular, scientists published two extensive, peer-reviewed papers in Science in July 2022, offering the strongest evidence to date that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in animals at a market in Wuhan, China. Specifically, they conclude that the coronavirus most likely jumped from a caged wild animal into people at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where a huge COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM: News Item

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 03, 2023, 02:54:09 PM: The Las Vegas High Speed Train Project Is Cleared With The Unions

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/brightline-west-announces-agreement-with-labor-coalition/

The high speed train needs to connect Las Vegas with Disneyland here in Anaheim. Anaheim needs to get in on the high speed train discussion to discuss how we can connect Las Vegas with Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:11:00 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 03, 2023, 02:54:09 PM
The Las Vegas High Speed Train Project Is Cleared With The Unions

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/brightline-west-announces-agreement-with-labor-coalition/

The high speed train needs to connect Las Vegas with Disneyland here in Anaheim. Anaheim needs to get in on the high speed train discussion to discuss how we can connect Las Vegas with Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Great idea Drop! Drop the kids off, high speed it to Vegas, lose their college fund, go back, pick them up and auction them off for scientific experiments.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:12:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
News Item
...
Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2023, 03:56:39 PM: He knows his name and that he is trying to be white.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 03, 2023, 05:36:01 PM: Farmer's murder leaves tiny outback town living in fear

#####

When farmers in tiny outback towns in bambuworld are being murdered you know the West has lost the war on the bad people.
Time to arm up!
Maybe if the farmer had been able to wear handguns and be ready for trouble 24/7 he'd still be alive today.
When you're totally unarmed, anyone can just bash you to death with a blunt instrument..as happened in this case.
Americans are lucky, they can wear guns 24/7.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 06:09:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:03:53 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:12:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
News Item
...
Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Nothing in the Breitbart story can be disputed as anything but what the House Committee is doing. Remember it is the direct result of an Biden Administration report that was based on the work of scientists.

Why do you and OilCan recoil at the Government doing its Constitutional duty.?
What are you afraid of?
Why do you continually misrepresent the posts of others, LIAR. Who are you afraid of?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 06:09:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:03:53 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:12:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
News Item
...
Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Nothing in the Breitbart story can be disputed as anything but what the House Committee is doing. Remember it is the direct result of an Biden Administration report that was based on the work of scientists.

Why do you and OilCan recoil at the Government doing its Constitutional duty.?
What are you afraid of?
Why do you continually misrepresent the posts of others, LIAR. Who are you afraid of?
I am not afraid of anything, least of all at a finding of exactly how Covid got out of China.
Biden and I agree on that.
The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
It might be time for you both to move on.
Science does not appear to be on your side.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 03, 2023, 08:36:37 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:11:00 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 03, 2023, 02:54:09 PM
The Las Vegas High Speed Train Project Is Cleared With The Unions

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/brightline-west-announces-agreement-with-labor-coalition/

The high speed train needs to connect Las Vegas with Disneyland here in Anaheim. Anaheim needs to get in on the high speed train discussion to discuss how we can connect Las Vegas with Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Great idea Drop! Drop the kids off, high speed it to Vegas, lose their college fund, go back, pick them up and auction them off for scientific experiments.

Thomas Hardy updated! The Mayor of Casterbridge, CA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 03, 2023, 09:11:03 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM

The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
It might be time for you both to move on.
Science does not appear to be on your side.

Lying spent-condom-choked shitter.

But let my friend, a VIROLOGIST who currently works for the federal government answer your comments:

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I would strongly disagree. The fact that pathogens with the ability to infect humans circulate in zoonotic reservoirs, and spillover events regularly occur means that spillover from a zoonotic reservoir is more likely than escape from a lab in the case of any novel pathogenic strain of a virus.

For example, my lab works on avian influenza, many samples of which came from the wetland down the street. If (well, when) someone in town catches AI, why would its presence in the local wetland increase the likelihood of escape from a PC3 lab vs environmental acquisition from a known pathogen reservoir?

Think of this as your Annie Hall Marshall McCluhan behind you in the queue moment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2023, 09:21:38 PM: The origins of Covid will never be as fully proven as the extent to which the republican party has climbed up the Kremlins ass and become completely enslaved.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 09:39:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 06:09:49 PM
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News Item
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Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Nothing in the Breitbart story can be disputed as anything but what the House Committee is doing. Remember it is the direct result of an Biden Administration report that was based on the work of scientists.

Why do you and OilCan recoil at the Government doing its Constitutional duty.?
What are you afraid of?
Why do you continually misrepresent the posts of others, LIAR. Who are you afraid of?
I am not afraid of anything, least of all at a finding of exactly how Covid got out of China.
Biden and I agree on that.
The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
Liar.

You can count the number of times either of us have said we should not investigate the origins of COVID on your dick and balls and still likely have three left over. It is your insistence that a low confidence opinion of one agency is somehow definitive he has objected to. I noted Breitbart is not a legit purveyor of news, and mocked the right wing conspiracy view that claims the release was intentional despite the absolute absence of evidence. The You PROVEN LIAR.
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It might be time for you both to move on.
Science does not appear to be on your side.
Liar. Actually it is. Because I suspect both of us think that science should be what we rely on to try to figure out how COVID spread to humans. Not a low confidence minority opinion of one governmental agency.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2023, 09:56:57 PM: I am glad John Stewart is here to provide spiritual guidance to America in these difficult times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2023, 10:27:48 PM: The lovely white right wing, fully armed and off their rockers

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas-humber-terrorgram-narrator-mass-shootings_n_64010e78e4b0d14ed6a6a545 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas-humber-terrorgram-narrator-mass-shootings_n_64010e78e4b0d14ed6a6a545)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 12:21:48 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 03, 2023, 09:11:03 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM

The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
It might be time for you both to move on.
Science does not appear to be on your side.

Lying spent-condom-choked shitter.

What science is that?
Please explain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 12:26:58 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 09:39:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 06:09:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:03:53 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 03:12:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
News Item
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Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Nothing in the Breitbart story can be disputed as anything but what the House Committee is doing. Remember it is the direct result of an Biden Administration report that was based on the work of scientists.

Why do you and OilCan recoil at the Government doing its Constitutional duty.?
What are you afraid of?
Why do you continually misrepresent the posts of others, LIAR. Who are you afraid of?
I am not afraid of anything, least of all at a finding of exactly how Covid got out of China.
Biden and I agree on that.
The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
Liar.

You can count the number of times either of us have said we should not investigate the origins of COVID on your dick and balls and still likely have three left over.

How intelligent.
But so predictable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 04, 2023, 01:56:13 AM: Sakespeare was bearable.
All the subjects my father chose for me to study were so that I would be able to have the best chance in life...to go to university and have a good career.

In his haste he overlooked that after 3 years at high school when I sat the 'Intermediate Certificate' exam at age 15 in 1961...even though I passed every subject the average was about 70%...nowhere good enough to attend university.

What was not bearable was how hard the subjects became in the next two years leading up to The Leaving Certificate (Graduation if you like) after 5 years of high school.
No graduation ceremonies, you just did the exams, left school, think they posted you the results in the mail.
If you passed...50%+ they sent you a nice certificate to frame.
I didn't get one.
Oh well, such is life.

As luck for me would have it, in banks, insurance companies, some govt and semi govt jobs, married women were not allowed to work...so there was a turnover of staff as single women left employment.
At the time I left school they were taking young men educated "to Leaving Certificate standard" (even if 50% was attained).
I sat the entrance exam...it was basic maths and basic english...my two specialities.
Passed the entrance exam...and while waiting to start my so called career, I was sent to the Post Office to work for 2 weeks, sorting and delivering mail.
It was horrible. Hot as hell one week, pouring rain the next, hills everywhere.

What was totally unbearable at school and changed me from a "soft, gentle, polite, truthful, respectful, happy young man into a scheming, sly, cunning, wary and sometimes violent-in-defence one was:
the barbaric torture inflicted on my thin fingers/hands by the nasty cane-wielding large principal.
My crime...looking at my watch at assembly, 9am outdoors, large concrete area, 1,100 boys, suits and ties, summer...I getting light-headed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 04, 2023, 07:00:03 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 12:26:58 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 09:39:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:40:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2023, 06:09:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 06:03:53 PM
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Quote from: Espnthree on March 03, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
News Item
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Breitbart News
Oxymoron. Posted by someone who knows a thing or two about morons.

The Republican led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, next week.
According to a press release previewing the event, the hearing, Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, will focus on gathering facts about the origins of the virus. It will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The timing of the hearing follows President Biden s Department of Energy identifying a lab leak as a likely source of the virus.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Department of Energy admitting, albeit with low confidence,that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China, a theory that some officials viewed with mockery throughout the pandemic.
For instance, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former White House medical adviser and exdirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears to present himself as open to the theory now, that was not always the case.

Breitbart News
Nothing in the Breitbart story can be disputed as anything but what the House Committee is doing. Remember it is the direct result of an Biden Administration report that was based on the work of scientists.

Why do you and OilCan recoil at the Government doing its Constitutional duty.?
What are you afraid of?
Why do you continually misrepresent the posts of others, LIAR. Who are you afraid of?
I am not afraid of anything, least of all at a finding of exactly how Covid got out of China.
Biden and I agree on that.
The real objectors to seeking the truth include you and OilCan.
Liar.

You can count the number of times either of us have said we should not investigate the origins of COVID on your dick and balls and still likely have three left over.

How intelligent.
Truth.
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But so predictable.
Yes, my being intelligent IS predictable. As is your deliberately lying about the opinions of others here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:08:29 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 04, 2023, 07:00:03 AM

[Yes, my being intelligent IS predictable. As is your deliberately lying about the opinions of others here.
You flatter yourself even if no one else shares that egotistical opinion.
But opinions are meant to be debatable.
Which gets back to the origin of Covid.
Now after three years we are finally taking seriously the possibility of a lab leak.And the reason?
The Government scientists are leading the way. This theory has the same degree of confidence as all the others and Biden wants to know if the actual cause can be nailed down.
Why would you care what the answer might be?
It helps us all if it can be found.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:35:05 AM: Real Time host Bill Maher took a victory lap on Friday on behalf of all COVID dissenters like himself throughout the course of the pandemic.
Following the revelations that U.S. government agencies like the FBI and the Energy Department are endorsing the COVID lab leak theory and studies that show the effectiveness of natural immunity and the ineffectiveness of mask wearing and lockdowns, Maher suggested a large swath of Americans should feel vindicated.
I feel like the people who were the dissenters are looking pretty good. I was one of them, I remember getting a lot of shit from a lot of places.

Maher scoffed at January 2021 Daily Beast headline that read Bill Maher Pushes Steve Bannon Wuhan Lab COVID Conspiracy.
Yeah, it was just Steve Bannon,Maher sarcastically reiterated. Well, it was, you know, the former head of the CDC, it is the FBI, it is the Energy Department.
We do not know. Like I said, we should not politicize it. But would you agree that the dissenters are looking better these days?
The HBO star went on to complain how tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is still not allowed to enter the U.S. to compete in a tournament because he is unvaccinated despite having gotten COVID. He quoted a tournament official trying to get Djokovic in the country saying there does not seem to be an imminent danger. Imminent danger of a man playing tennis of a man who' has had it twice standing alone, a sport where you are alone in the middle of a stadium outside in a country where everyone's already had it. No imminent danger.
This country is stuck on stupid. It just is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 04, 2023, 10:57:30 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:35:05 AM

Real Time host Bill Maher took a victory lap on Friday on behalf of all COVID dissenters like himself throughout the course of the pandemic.
Following the revelations that U.S. government agencies like the FBI and the Energy Department are endorsing the COVID lab leak theory and studies that show the effectiveness of natural immunity and the ineffectiveness of mask wearing and lockdowns, Maher suggested a large swath of Americans should feel vindicated.
I feel like the people who were the dissenters are looking pretty good. I was one of them, I remember getting a lot of shit from a lot of places.

Maher scoffed at January 2021 Daily Beast headline that read Bill Maher Pushes Steve Bannon Wuhan Lab COVID Conspiracy.
Yeah, it was just Steve Bannon,Maher sarcastically reiterated. Well, it was, you know, the former head of the CDC, it is the FBI, it is the Energy Department.
We do not know. Like I said, we should not politicize it. But would you agree that the dissenters are looking better these days?
The HBO star went on to complain how tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is still not allowed to enter the U.S. to compete in a tournament because he is unvaccinated despite having gotten COVID. He quoted a tournament official trying to get Djokovic in the country saying there does not seem to be an imminent danger. Imminent danger of a man playing tennis of a man who' has had it twice standing alone, a sport where you are alone in the middle of a stadium outside in a country where everyone's already had it. No imminent danger.
This country is stuck on stupid. It just is.

Congratulations!

Could, possibly, might be a lab leak.

That will bring us back to Doh!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 04, 2023, 11:00:12 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:08:29 AM

The Government scientists are leading the way. This theory has the same degree of confidence as all the others

As was posted several times, no it doesn't. Foolish to think having a government virologist weigh in here, as was done in my previous post, would be acknowledged. And now I'm really done. I refer any site visitors to previous posts and links providing information on why zoonotic spillover remains the strongest theory. If Ward wants to interpret my silence as capitulation, just remember that he is as Boz notes a proven chronic liar. And troll.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 11:12:56 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 04, 2023, 11:00:12 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:08:29 AM

The Government scientists are leading the way. This theory has the same degree of confidence as all the others

As was posted several times, no it doesn't.
Oh but it does..
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Foolish to think having a government virologist weigh in here, as was done in my previous post, would be acknowledged. And now I'm really done. I refer any site visitors to previous posts and links providing information on why zoonotic spillover remains the strongest theory.
Only because the lab leak questions were suppressed for three years. Now the Biden Administration is pushing for a much wider investigation and the WetMarket Only proponents are having second thoughts.
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If Ward wants to interpret my silence as capitulation, just remember that he is as Boz notes a proven chronic liar. And troll.
OilCan has hardly been silent but can never explain why it makes any difference HOW the virus was able to spread. He rails against the politics but is a slave to them in reality.
If we can find a definitive answer then do it. Stifling research is stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 02:36:11 PM: Venice Beach has been named the worst beach in the USA. Tourists come here and they see homeless people all over, and they see the crime, it is horrible. And what makes it really hard is that people in Venice depend on tourists for business.

Helping the homeless is not only important because God asks us to help the needy, but it is also important to keep our streets nice and clean for our tourists.

If you go to Rome, Italy, you will see that they have very few homeless people, because they help the homeless, and also because they have Hostels where you can take a nice hot shower and where you can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night. Venice Beach can learn a lot from Rome, and Venice needs to have Hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower.

As Venice Beach helps the homeless and as they clean Venice Beach up then things will get better, and Venice can learn from Rome, Italy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 04, 2023, 02:38:46 PM: What's also stupid is pressing China on the Covid issue.
Wisdom dictates that our time would be better spent working out how to win a war against China, as China is expected to invade Taiwan ( and who knows who else) by 2027, when Chinese President Xi is up for re- election.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 02:50:19 PM: Blessed are the peace makers.

We need to have peace with China. And China wants money and peace, they do not want war, they want to do business.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 04, 2023, 03:48:41 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 02:50:19 PM
Blessed are the peace makers.

We need to have peace with China. And China wants money and peace, they do not want war, they want to do business.

Salute,

Tony V.

Seems to bambuworld politicians on the Right, China has changed its attitude unde Xi, and now says Taiwan belongs to China and China will be taking it back, by force if necessary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 04:01:31 PM: The way I see it, China wants to do Business, and the people of Taiwan are rich and they are smart at Business. Hong Kong is also smart, and they are doing Business. The Chinese want peace, and they want to do Business.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 04, 2023, 04:47:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 10:08:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 04, 2023, 07:00:03 AM

[Yes, my being intelligent IS predictable. As is your deliberately lying about the opinions of others here.
You flatter yourself even if no one else shares that egotistical opinion.
Liar.
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But opinions are meant to be debatable.
Which gets back to the origin of Covid.
Now after three years we are finally taking seriously the possibility of a lab leak.
Liar.
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And the reason?
The Government scientists are leading the way. This theory has the same degree of confidence as all the others
Liar.
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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 05:00:51 PM: Peggy Noonan on the Covid Theory that was ignored.

It will have bothered you that month by month the highest scientific and medical authorities in the U.S. government seemed to be discouraging the conversation, or insistently directing it toward natural transmission.
Anthony Fauci, we later found, dismissed the subject in internal emails a few months into the pandemic as a shiny object that will go away.

That was rather patronizing.

People had a right to wonder and were wise to do so. The disease killed millions. It was a world-wide economic, societal and cultural disaster.
Why it happened matters.
Where and how it started matters.
There could be another pandemic tomorrow. What steps must be taken to see that it does not?

And there was a sense emanating from scientific and medical establishments that people who think it started in a Chinese lab think that only because they are racist, they hate Asians, or because they are conspiracists. At this you would have thought: No, buddy, I think it because I am normal.
Murphy s Law.
You have 1,000 safety protocols and one day you satisfy only 998 of them. That is all you need for an accident.

And you likely thought something else:
This is not politics to me, but I gather it is politics to you.

This began to poison things.

Once lies and finagling walk out of the Lie and Finagle Lab, they contaminate everything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 04, 2023, 05:11:06 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 04:01:31 PM
The way I see it, China wants to do Business, and the people of Taiwan are rich and they are smart at Business. Hong Kong is also smart, and they are doing Business. The Chinese want peace, and they want to do Business.

Salute,

Tony V.

If Chinese want peace they're going about it the wrong way.
They seem to have decided that the South China sea belongs to them, and that Taiwan and everything in it, belongs to them.
Saw in depth interviews with Taiwanese politicians and military leaders in the Sky News Are We Ready For War doco recently.

WW2, Churchill said:
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender".

Taiwan is basically saying the same thing.
Stockpiling missiles, arms and ammunition, fuel, food etc.
They intend for fight to the death rather than surrender to communist China.
Taiwan alone will surely lose to China,
Taiwanese politician said "Australia could be next".

Xi closely resembles "Hitler"?
China's goose-stepping troops resemble those of Nazi Germany?

With Nazi Germany there was no warning.
With China today there is plenty of warning that war is coming.
My Right politicians and other experts are saying that China will invade Taiwan then invade Australia...sooner rather than later.
Why does China want Taiwan?
Computer chips...world's largest chip manufacturer...on which the US is heavily dependent.

Why does China want Australia?

. Tens of thousands of working, great farms...usually a few thousand acres each, growing crops, raising sheep and cattle.
. In 2021 Australia supplied half the world's lithium.
. Australia is one of the world's leading producers of bauxite (aluminium ore), iron ore, lithium, gold, lead, diamond, rare earth elements, uranium, and zinc.
Also has large mineral sand deposits of ilmenite, zircon, and rutile.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 04, 2023, 07:42:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 04, 2023, 11:12:56 AM
OilCan has hardly been silent but can never explain why it makes any difference HOW the virus was able to spread.

What is the point of knowing where it started if not to track how it spread?

How would you expect to improve your response to contagious disease without understanding how the last virus was spread?

Your brain is only capable of sharting. The body count attached to your own personal bullshit is still a part of the whole sad story wether it began in a lab, a wet market, or in a skylarks asshole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 04, 2023, 10:39:34 PM: Dailty Telegraph today

Australia, the US, Japan and India are now in a new counter-terrorism group amid rising threats, while denouncing China
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 05, 2023, 12:29:35 AM: Woke

https://steady.substack.com/p/does-anti-wokeness-resonate?utm_medium=email
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2023, 01:28:47 PM: It is important to have wise old men as leaders, who are peaceful.

There are so many foolish people who benefit from war, they make money from weapons, etc, etc, etc, and the leaders have more power, etc.

We need wise old men who look at the faces of our young Marines, these kids are 18 and 19 years old and they are the ones being sent into battle. Look at the photos of our troops in uniform, they are all just kids. We need wise old men who refuse to send these young kids into battle.

And for instance, with people fighting over water, instead of selling them weapons and trying to start a fight, then we we need to spend money to build dams, and lakes, and acquaducts, so that everyone has plenty of water and so that there is no reason to fight.

A lot of battles are about perceived scarcities, without realizing that the law of the universe is abundance, we can make the peace by coming from a place of abundance. And one person succeeding does not mean that someone else has to be poor. There is room for everyone at the top. When I was clearing my movie with the unions to make my movie, the guy at the Teamsters Motion Picture Division told me that there was plenty of room for everyone to make movies, he told me that I was welcome. There is room for everyone at the top, if I succeed it does not mean that someone else must suffer.

The bad guys come to power by saying there is a scarcity, and that someone else is the reason for their scarcity, and they tell the people to fight, and then they say they can attain abundance. But, the truth is that abundance is a law of the universe and abundance is already ours, we already own abundance.

And with the USA our good human rights are abundant and are there for all men, as ALL men are created equal. There is no reason to fight for good human rights in America, people have already fought the battles and the good human rights in America are there for all people.

And it is bullshit to try to punish me for some perceived suffering from the past that I never had any fucking part of. If they cannot make war against you for something that you have actually done, then they start making up bullshit to go to war against you over, and they bring up history from the past that I had no part of, those battles have already been fought. The Civil War was already fought and the slaves were freed. We do not need to keep fighting the same war. And I refuse to sit here and be punished for shit that I did not have any part of.

Money and power, that is why they start the fucking wars. We need to convince the people that they can make more money during peace time, and that real wealth is the time you get to spend with your family, and it is valuable to live in a nice community. And we need to convince people that ALL men are created equal and that we already have the power. And whenever people start trying to make me fear someone else, or hate someone else, then I need to examine their motives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2023, 02:51:19 PM: One of my favorite plays by Shakespeare is "Othello," the Black and White film version of "Othello" by Orson Welles is the best as the cinematography is amazing. In "Othello" Othello has a great life with his wife Desdemona, but their lives are ruined by an evil man named Iago who told lies to bring them down. In real life there are people like Iago who tell people lies to bring them down.

In Psychology class at AVC our Professor taught us how they train the Prison Wardens and about how they run the prisons, a huge part of how they control the prisoners is psychological. If the prisoners were all united then they are harder to control, so they break everyone up into groups based on race, and then they fight the groups against each other. And they put people in the groups who are controlled by them who do what they tell them to create the problems that the Wardens want for the prisoners to have.

There have been times in life where I have seen people do things that did not make any sense, and that was because they were being controlled by someone else outside of the room.

We cannot let people like Iago make us fight among ourselves. Othello and Desdemona had true love, and a good life, but it was all destroyed because of the lies told by Iago. There are real people like Iago in the world who create problems.

Everyone should study how they run the prisons and about how they control the prisoners, and everyone should watch the movie "Othello" by Orson Welles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 05, 2023, 03:50:13 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2023, 01:28:47 PM
It is important to have wise old men as leaders,

Salute,

Tony V.
Res ipsa loquitor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 05, 2023, 04:27:36 PM: A wise old man is most often a silly old man pulling your leg.

I know because I heard it from a wise old man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 06, 2023, 11:14:48 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 02:36:11 PM
Venice Beach has been named the worst beach in the USA. Tourists come here and they see homeless people all over, and they see the crime, it is horrible. And what makes it really hard is that people in Venice depend on tourists for business.

Helping the homeless is not only important because God asks us to help the needy, but it is also important to keep our streets nice and clean for our tourists.

If you go to Rome, Italy, you will see that they have very few homeless people, because they help the homeless, and also because they have Hostels where you can take a nice hot shower and where you can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night. Venice Beach can learn a lot from Rome, and Venice needs to have Hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower.

As Venice Beach helps the homeless and as they clean Venice Beach up then things will get better, and Venice can learn from Rome, Italy.

Salute,

Tony V.

There's a simple solution, but no one in power in CA seems likely to do it.
So what there is now just gets worse by the day.
Sad really.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 06, 2023, 01:45:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 06, 2023, 11:14:48 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2023, 02:36:11 PM
Venice Beach has been named the worst beach in the USA. Tourists come here and they see homeless people all over, and they see the crime, it is horrible. And what makes it really hard is that people in Venice depend on tourists for business.

Helping the homeless is not only important because God asks us to help the needy, but it is also important to keep our streets nice and clean for our tourists.

If you go to Rome, Italy, you will see that they have very few homeless people, because they help the homeless, and also because they have Hostels where you can take a nice hot shower and where you can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night. Venice Beach can learn a lot from Rome, and Venice needs to have Hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower.

As Venice Beach helps the homeless and as they clean Venice Beach up then things will get better, and Venice can learn from Rome, Italy.

Salute,

Tony V.

There's a simple solution, but no one in power in CA seems likely to do it.
So what there is now just gets worse by the day.
Sad really.

My friend in Culver City wants to bring Apple to Culver City, they want to get Apple to buy the Sony Movie Studio in Culver City. We need wealthy local companies which are altruistic and which help the community.

We also need to allow people to run Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

On the issue of why I said wise old MEN as leaders, is because I do not think China allows women to be President, China only allows MEN to be President. We need wise old peaceful leaders.

And for the USA our best bet for President might be Condoleeza Rice. A wise old peaceful woman.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 06, 2023, 04:06:05 PM: When I worked for Suzanne Pleshette at Empire West there was a man in the building who threw a huge party every year on Oscar Night, Norby Walters was his name, and his historic parties were called "Night of 100 Stars" and it was the best party in Hollywood. It is our most important night here in Hollywood. The Oscars are a huge event here in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 06, 2023, 07:01:43 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on March 06, 2023, 04:19:22 PM
The Network of Lies
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 06, 2023, 07:02:43 PM: Israel going down a dark path.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/06/israel-courts-reform-netanyahu-bias/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 06, 2023, 07:25:46 PM: Sky News

Fears Australian unis are training foreign hackers

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LOL

Well the govts were warned, by some people...but they and 'academia' knew best.
The 'everyone in the world is a lovely person' idea....which of course is absolute lunacy.

There's a simple solution for this too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 02:48:31 PM: With the high cost of living then we need to educate our people on Business, and about how to make money.

When I lived in Malibu there were two girls in our house, one was 15 years old, and one girl was 8, and they knew that Malibu is expensive and they knew that if they wanted to live in Malibu when they grew up that they were going to need to know how to make money. The girls studied hard in school, and they both planned on attending college, because they knew that they were going to need to know how to make money when they grew up.

For me as a kid, my Father died when I was 9 years old, and we were poor, so as a kid I used to work with my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer (My Grandfather died when I was a baby, and my Grandmother was a widow, just like my Mother was a widow) washing dogs for her, at 10 years old I was working 12 hours per day washing dogs in order to help my Grandmother to earn money to pay the rent and to buy food. So I learned very young that it costs money to live and that it takes work to pay the rent and to buy food. I spent a lot of time washing dogs with my Grandmother, and I ended up managing a Dog Kennel when I grew up, but I learned the hard lesson that just because you are honest and just because you work hard does not mean that people are going to pay you fair. I was training to buy the kennel and to own my own dog kennel, but the boss gave the kennel to his step son instead of selling the kennel to me. So, I worked hard for many years to build up a good business for other people, and they received all of the rewards, while I ended up homeless in my home state. I wish the kennel that I worked at was owned by my family instead of being owned by people outside the family, it was a waste of time to build up that business for people who I am not even friends with. The boss was a World War II Veteran, and I learned a lot from him, but I never made any money.

So, I wasted my whole life just trying to make money so that I could afford the cost of living. And I went to school and studied and trained, and tried to make myself more valuable so that I could make money so that I could find a good woman and so that I could get married and buy a home and raise a family, etc.

I was born and raised in Southern California, and we had a lot of stars as customers at the Dog Kennel, and the stars had good lives, they used to drop their dogs off at the kennel and they used to tell me stories about the far away places they traveled to, etc. So, I went to school to try to work in the Entertainment Industry, but I could never get hired.

I was a cook at a casino in Nevada for 2 years, I did not make any money, but I learned how to cook and I learned how to run a casino. Maybe someday I will open my own night club, and I can cook for my customers, maybe in Rome, Italy.

I have a movie script that I wrote, and I have a poetry book that I wrote, both are good, and I should have turned them into money ages ago. Then I could invest the money into a night club in Rome, etc. I met the guy who wrote "Amistad" and he made enough money to open 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants. I have always been a good writer, and my movie script is good, and my poetry book is good, I need to turn them into money.

Anyhow, we need to teach the children young that they need to study hard and that they need to learn how to make honest money because the cost of living is expensive. I am 55 years old now, and I have never owned a home, I have never been married, I do not have any children, and I was never able to make any money. I know how to manage a Dog Kennel and I know how to train dogs, but there are not any kennels around here, I looked, if there was a dog kennel here and if I could make enough money to pay rent and buy food then I would be working at the dog kennel. And I know how to cook and run a restaurant, etc, but that does not pay unless you own your own restaurant. And construction labor was a waste of time for me, I never made any money, you need to join a union if you want to make money in construction and I never joined a union and I never made any money, I was getting paid the same low wages as the illegal immigrants from Mexico, you need to join an honest labor union if you want to make money doing construction labor. I also worked at Universal Studios, but they paid me minimum wage and it was all a waste of time.

Anyhow, I am not complaining, I accept my life for what it is. I will continue to try to get my movie made and to try to publish my book, without complaining, and maybe I can do some acting and filmmaking someday, we will see. I will just quietly continue to try to do my best, and I want to go live in Italy and I want to surround myself with good Christians, we will see what happens.

But, the message that I am trying to convey is that I want for the children of the future to have a better life than I have had. I want for the children of the future to be able to have good lives and to be able to buy homes and raise families without living in bitter poverty. I was homeless out on the streets here in Hollywood for 2 years, and I want for other people to have better lives than I have had.

For me, sometimes I have to work hard to keep a good attitude, and sometimes it feels like it would be better just to die and be done with it, life is too expensive and I am tired of being a bum. I want to have a wife and kids and a home, and to be able to travel and to enjoy life.

Anyhow, the message is that we need to educate the children, and we need to teach them how to make honest money, so that they do not have a life of poverty and suffering. And we especially need to help the Foster Children, and the children without Fathers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 07, 2023, 03:17:07 PM: Keep it on Facebook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 04:08:48 PM: Oscar night is coming up quick.

I would love to produce an Oscar party in Hollywood for the stars like Norby Walters used to do. One spot that would be a good place to host an Oscar party would be at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, the stars can ride in their limousines from Hollywood Blvd to the Park Plaza Hotel to party. I would have to look around at locations to produce the party, but one spot off of the top of my head is the Park Plaza Hotel.

The Oscars are like my Super Bowl, I am not a big football fan, but I used to really love movies and I used to love Hollywood, I remember the 1980s in Hollywood when it was really cool. And I worked jobs where I could meet the stars, I managed a dog kennel, and I drove a limousine, and I watched the door for Suzanne Pleshette, and I worked at Universal, etc, and I was able to meet the stars in Hollywood. And like when Cuba Gooding Jr won his Oscar, my friend Brandy cleaned houses with Cuba when they were both starving in Hollywood, and she said it could not have happened to a nicer guy. The people who are winning awards are our friends and neighbors here in Hollywood. It is great when you see a good person who you know win an award.

The "Night of 100 Stars" is gone now, but Hollywood still needs to party. I bet I could produce a good party, we could do it all for charity, we could raise money for Kiwanis International, and we can get volunteers from Kiwanis to help to work at the party. Someone needs to step up and start doing Oscar parties now that Norby is gone, and also Elton John is going to stop doing his Oscar party as Elton retired, we need for new people to rise up and start throwing new Oscar parties. We need to keep Hollywood alive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 07, 2023, 05:03:12 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 04:08:48 PM
Oscar night is coming up quick.

I would love to produce an Oscar party

Salute,

Tony V.
I recommend serving everything bagels and finger food (keep the donkeys away).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 07, 2023, 06:17:37 PM: Ashli Babbitt was an interesting individual.

https://twitter.com/ericmaclin/status/1633140012530188288?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 08:32:19 PM: Housing is the big issue right now, if you have housing then be grateful. Enjoy your housing and be grateful.

Anaheim is passing out 10,000 housing vouchers currently, which are desperately needed. People can just contact the Anaheim Housing Authority if they need information.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 08:53:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 07, 2023, 05:03:12 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 04:08:48 PM
Oscar night is coming up quick.

I would love to produce an Oscar party

Salute,

Tony V.
I recommend serving everything bagels and finger food (keep the donkeys away).

For sure on the finger food, and I would have to see what the kitchen is like at the Park Plaza Hotel in order to plan the menu, I am sure they have a great kitchen. It would be great fun to actually produce an Oscar party. I love to throw parties.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 07, 2023, 09:36:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 07, 2023, 05:03:12 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 04:08:48 PM
Oscar night is coming up quick.

I would love to produce an Oscar party

Salute,

Tony V.
I recommend serving everything bagels and finger food (keep the donkeys away).

You want burglars to come, however, because they know how to pick the lox.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 07, 2023, 10:20:24 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 07, 2023, 09:36:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 07, 2023, 05:03:12 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 04:08:48 PM
Oscar night is coming up quick.

I would love to produce an Oscar party

Salute,

Tony V.
I recommend serving everything bagels and finger food (keep the donkeys away).

You want burglars to come, however, because they know how to pick the lox.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 07, 2023, 10:21:16 PM: Harrumph

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-lawsuit/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 10:45:27 PM: One of my heroes here in Anaheim is Chef Bruno who feeds thousands of plates of pasta to poor children every night.

https://youtu.be/SzFGPAnZnOA

And as they feed the children, they help the families, and they get the children out of the cheap motels and out of the bad housing and they get the children and their families into nice apartments and they help them, and then the City buys the bad housing and demolishes it so that it can be replaced by nice housing and nice businesses, etc. We are redeveloping the City and we are cleaning up the bad areas and we are trying to make it nice, and Chef Bruno helps by feeding the children and by helping to get the children into nice housing so that the bad housing can be destroyed and the areas can be redeveloped.

Chef Bruno has a book "The Power of Pasta" and the money earned from selling his book goes to help to feed pasta to poor children.

Chef Bruno came here from Italy as a waiter and a dishwasher, now he owns the best restaurant in Anaheim, and he feeds the poor children. Former President George W. Bush has eaten at Bruno's restaurant, and so has Gwen Stefani, along with many other great people. The American Dream is alive and well with Chef Bruno.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2023, 11:20:39 PM: The Metro is adding 300 Ambassadors to help travelers, they will answer questions, and they will help people, and they will help to keep the peace and they will call the police if necessary, etc. They are not replacing police and security guards, they are simply accentuating what already exists.

https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2023/03/06/l-a-metro-launches-new-ambassador-pilot-program-to-help-improve-riders-experience/

The new Ambassadors can help to improve the experience for tourists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 02:54:43 AM: Sky News:

NYC's $4 Billion migrant crisis.

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Wonder if the Democrats in the NY blue state think "open borders" is a good thing now?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 07:41:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 02:54:43 AM
Sky News:

NYC's $4 Billion migrant crisis.

#####

Wonder if the Democrats in the NY blue state think "open borders" is a good thing now?
They never did. You have been lied to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 08, 2023, 11:08:03 AM: How can y'all be concerned over such petty issues while Toblerone is moving its production from Switzerland to Bratislava??

Was one of my few candy based vices in my youth. Removing the "Swissness" seems dangerous and overly focused on the bottom line.

(had to edit. the registered trademark symbol after Swissness chopped itself and the following text off. )
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 11:27:07 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 08, 2023, 11:08:03 AM
How can y'all be concerned over such petty issues while Toblerone is moving its production from Switzerland to Bratislava??

Was one of my few candy based vices in my youth. Removing the "Swissness" seems dangerous and overly focused on the bottom line.

(had to edit. the registered trademark symbol after Swissness chopped itself and the following text off. )
An answer to my prayer: Dear God please do not let me die (of complications from diabetes) at the hands of the Swiss.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 08, 2023, 12:06:09 PM: Heh.

My metabolism occasionally drew thinly veiled hatred when I was young. I would snarf towering cliffs of mashed potatoes drowning in gravy, groaning platters of pasta slick with olive oil and coated with a La Nina snowfall of parmesan cheese, bags of macadamia nuts (still a vice, the queen of nuts), Toblerone, Reese PB cups, oatmeal with huge dollops of peanut butter mixed in, tacos with pints of guacamole, etc. and still be a wiry 145 pounds.

Only years later did a coworker, a PhD in food science, explain to me the paradox of fatty foods - fats create longer-term satiation and reduce craving carbs/sugars. Fats stabilize insulin response, being slow-release in the gut. They transport flavor, which also enhances the feeling you have been well fed.

So die happily at the hands of Slovaks or whoever your lipid supplier may be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 08, 2023, 12:41:21 PM: A lot of bread
And tons of meat
Oodles of butter
And something sweet!

Gallons of coffee
To wash it down
Bicarbonate of soda
By the pound!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 01:07:42 PM: I thought of a new organization called "Trading Places" and it could help Americans who want to go live in Europe, and it can help Europeans who want to come live in America.

For instance, if there was a guy in Rome who wanted to come live in Anaheim by Disneyland then we could trade places, he could come live in my apartment here in Anaheim, and I could go live in his apartment in Rome, we can trade apartments.

It still would not help on the issue of a job and money, but it would help on the issue of housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 01:14:58 PM: Do you think that's a new idea? There was even a dreadful Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz movie that featured it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 01:16:32 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 01:07:42 PM
I thought of a new organization called "Trading Places" and it could help Americans who want to go live in Europe, and it can help Europeans who want to come live in America.

For instance, if there was a guy in Rome who wanted to come live in Anaheim by Disneyland then we could trade places, he could come live in my apartment here in Anaheim, and I could go live in his apartment in Rome, we can trade apartments.

It still would not help on the issue of a job and money, but it would help on the issue of housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
I think I saw that movie. Michael Fassbender played Kate Winslet s brother. Or something like that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 01:24:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 01:14:58 PM
Do you think that's a new idea? There was even a dreadful Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz movie that featured it.

Never saw the movie, and I guess it could very well be an old idea, I just never knew about it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 01:33:10 PM: On the issue of refugees, the people from Ukraine are mostly staying in Europe.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165670/ukraine-refugee-resettlement-us-immigration

I am sure the people of Europe see pictures of the United States with homeless people all over the side-walks, and I doubt the USA looks very attractive to refugees from Ukraine, so they are just staying in Europe.

If it were up to me I would clean the USA up and put everyone to work, and bring back the American Dream, but people want for the American Dream to die, they want for people to just stay in their home nations. They do not want people to be attracted to some fantasy life in the United States that no longer exists.

We do not need homeless people from the Ukraine all over our side-walks with the other homeless people.

The refugees from Ukraine are better off to stay in Europe.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 02:04:47 PM: When the Mexicans come to California then they are coming here to work, and they join the United Farm Workers and they help to grow food and they do extremely hard manual labor, etc, etc, etc. They have hard lives, but they have their families, and they have their communities, and the life they have in California doing hard labor is better than what they left behind.

But, the people from Ukraine are not like the Mexicans, the Mexicans will work 16 hours per day for minimum wage while living on beans and while sharing a 1 bedroom apartment with 10 people.

It is very hard in the USA right now, it is best for the refugees from Ukraine to stay in Europe.

As people gain employment with our new Infrastructure Act then that will help, but the USA is still a very hard nation to work and buy a home in.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 02:24:36 PM: Times have changed, and America has changed, if we were the way we are today back then then we never would have put a man on the moon, and as a nation we were desperate to put a man on the moon before the Russians, not only did we want to put a man on the moon, but we wanted to do it before the Russians. Now, no one would even care. And Elon Musk is not a real American, he is South African. People are not going to rally behind Elon Musk the same way that people rallied behind John F. Kennedy.

Our Space Program was great at one time. I look at pictures of our old astronauts from our space program and it makes me proud, those were good wholesome heroes who the kids could have as role models.

I had a step dad who was a supervisor on the Space Shuttle Program, he was an abusive asshole, but it was great to be around all of the people from the Shuttle Program, and to get to go spend time in Cape Canaveral in Florida, it was great. Our Shuttle program was fun, and it made me proud as an American.

But there is no pride anymore, and no one gives a shit about Elon Musk.

I guess we are entering a world where we can do space projects as an international team of scientists, etc, and it does not need to be a source of National Pride like when we sent men to the moon. We can work together as a team with the Chinese and others to put men on Mars, etc. And I do not like Elon Musk, and he is not an American, but it does not matter anymore, times have changed, and the space program is no longer about being a source of National Pride.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 02:54:52 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 02:24:36 PM
Times have changed, and America has changed, if we were the way we are today back then then we never would have put a man on the moon, and as a nation we were desperate to put a man on the moon before the Russians, not only did we want to put a man on the moon, but we wanted to do it before the Russians. Now, no one would even care. And Elon Musk is not a real American, he is South African. People are not going to rally behind Elon Musk the same way that people rallied behind John F. Kennedy.

Our Space Program was great at one time. I look at pictures of our old astronauts from our space program and it makes me proud, those were good wholesome heroes who the kids could have as role models.

I had a step dad who was a supervisor on the Space Shuttle Program, he was an abusive asshole, but it was great to be around all of the people from the Shuttle Program, and to get to go spend time in Cape Canaveral in Florida, it was great. Our Shuttle program was fun, and it made me proud as an American.

But there is no pride anymore, and no one gives a shit about Elon Musk.

I guess we are entering a world where we can do space projects as an international team of scientists, etc, and it does not need to be a source of National Pride like when we sent men to the moon. We can work together as a team with the Chinese and others to put men on Mars, etc. And I do not like Elon Musk, and he is not an American, but it does not matter anymore, times have changed, and the space program is no longer about being a source of National Pride.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Team Chinese", interesting idea.

Yes, no one seems to care anymore, they shout that the American flag is racist....and that the flags of other nations are better to fly....the nations they came from.
Have a look what happens on Cinco de Mayo...and wear an American flag shirt to school in blue state California and see what happens to you in your own country.

Patriotism in America today is frowned upon, called 'white nationalism', 'white supremacy', 'racism'?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 03:04:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 02:54:52 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 02:24:36 PM
Times have changed, and America has changed, if we were the way we are today back then then we never would have put a man on the moon, and as a nation we were desperate to put a man on the moon before the Russians, not only did we want to put a man on the moon, but we wanted to do it before the Russians. Now, no one would even care. And Elon Musk is not a real American, he is South African. People are not going to rally behind Elon Musk the same way that people rallied behind John F. Kennedy.

Our Space Program was great at one time. I look at pictures of our old astronauts from our space program and it makes me proud, those were good wholesome heroes who the kids could have as role models.

I had a step dad who was a supervisor on the Space Shuttle Program, he was an abusive asshole, but it was great to be around all of the people from the Shuttle Program, and to get to go spend time in Cape Canaveral in Florida, it was great. Our Shuttle program was fun, and it made me proud as an American.

But there is no pride anymore, and no one gives a shit about Elon Musk.

I guess we are entering a world where we can do space projects as an international team of scientists, etc, and it does not need to be a source of National Pride like when we sent men to the moon. We can work together as a team with the Chinese and others to put men on Mars, etc. And I do not like Elon Musk, and he is not an American, but it does not matter anymore, times have changed, and the space program is no longer about being a source of National Pride.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Team Chinese", interesting idea.

I like the Chinese, we need to have peace, and we need to work together on projects of mutual interest such as space exploration, and medical research including searching for a cure for Cancer, etc.

We need global teamwork at this point, and peace, and the days of American Exceptionalism are over. Every nation has the potential to do great things, and we can all work together peacefully for the advancement of all of humanity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 03:12:16 PM: From what I can tell:

Bambu: Dislikes: East Asians, but especially the Chinese, Muslims and runs hot and cold on African-Americans.
Luee: Dislikes: Muslims and all immigrants.
FlyingVProd: Dislikes: non-Christians, except Jewish folks. Likes: the Chinese and the ladies, especially the ladies.

Somebody needs to produce a scorecard around here. It's hard to keep up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 03:23:39 PM: My Prime Minister, Leftist 'Albo', is to visit USA next week, naval base in San Diego, to buy some submarines, Virginia class or buy British ones instead, or some of each.
My Opposition leader Peter Dutton, Conservative, Minister for Defence in ScoMo govt, intelligent, wise, experienced...wants Australia to buy the American subs, tried and true technology...not the British ones yet to be developed.
British PM will also be there.
Joe will be meeting with them...'AUKUS' defence pact.

Peter Dutton wants subs as soon as possible, he sees China very clearly.
Albo and co seem to have blurred vision.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 08, 2023, 03:25:12 PM: Congress approval has jumped up 3 points since the GOP took over the House from Pelosi.
Highest approval in 15 years
Biden is now moving to the center. Sure sign he will be running again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 03:36:20 PM: Pope Francis said that there are depressed people in Sicily, Italy, who feel like they are missing out on fulfilling their dreams, and I reminded him with a post that Frank Capra was from Sicily, and Frank Capra was one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. And Italy has the largest movie studio in Europe, Cinecitta, where the people from Sicily can go to make movies.

For the people in Sicily who dream about making movies, there is Cinecitta in Rome, and they can live their dreams right there in Rome. They need to know the story of Frank Capra, and they have Cinecitta where they can make films in Rome.

I would love to go live in Italy and I would love to help the Italians to make movies at Cinecitta. The Italians are not missing out on anything by staying in Italy, our streets are full of homeless people and they are lucky to have a home in Italy, they can live their dreams right there in Italy.

Meanwhile, we need to make our immigration system easy for the Italians who want to come to America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 04:31:40 PM: The worst thing I hate is ADDICTION and what it does to people, and I hate the drug dealers who get our people addicted to drugs. Once they get you addicted to heroin then they own you. Many beautiful young movie stars in Hollywood have gotten addicted to drugs and then they have sex with the drug dealers for drugs, they will do anything for drugs once they get addicted. Drugs, drug dealers, and addiction, are all things that I hate.

I also hate BULLIES, the big strong men are supposed to protect the women and the children and the weaker men, as the Bible says, the big men are not supposed to bully weaker people. And Putin is a bully, I do hate Putin right now.

And I support our Civil Rights, and I support the ACLU. And for the addicts I support A/A and N/A.

Also, as Christians we need to help the orphans, and the homeless and the widows and the needy, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 04:59:22 PM: That is what my movie is about that I wrote, it is about what addiction does to people, and about what happens when we neglect the Foster Children and let them get trapped by addiction, my movie is a Tragedy, and to a good Christian my movie seems bad but that is because it is supposed to be bad, it is a Tragedy, but in the end the main message is about unconditional love, and what it means to love an addict.

I need to make another trip to Chapman Film School to put a post on their bulletin board to see if I can get helpers to help me make my movie.

Also, maybe I can contact Cuba Gooding Jr, he is an Oscar Winner who is friends with my friend Brandy, Brandy will put in a good word for me, maybe Cuba has connections to help to get my movie made.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 05:12:46 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 03:12:16 PM
From what I can tell:

Bambu: Dislikes: East Asians, but especially the Chinese, Muslims and runs hot and cold on African-Americans.
Luee: Dislikes: Muslims and all immigrants.
FlyingVProd: Dislikes: non-Christians, except Jewish folks. Likes: the Chinese and the ladies, especially the ladies.

Somebody needs to produce a scorecard around here. It's hard to keep up.

According to what I've seen on Youtube, 'the ladies' of today, when given a choice between Instagram and a real life boyfriend/man...choose Instagram.
Tony's best chance is to seek a lady about his age, who's not totally interested in Instagram....seems to me.
Some "the ladies" are "treasures", others are "something else"... best of luck to Tony in his search for a "treasure".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 08, 2023, 05:13:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 01:16:32 PM
Michael Fassbender played Kate Winslet s brother. Or something like that.

Jude Law

But you knew that.

Here's a helpful hint. If it's Fassbender, people are more likely to be murdered or at least traumatized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 05:21:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 05:12:46 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 03:12:16 PM
From what I can tell:

Bambu: Dislikes: East Asians, but especially the Chinese, Muslims and runs hot and cold on African-Americans.
Luee: Dislikes: Muslims and all immigrants.
FlyingVProd: Dislikes: non-Christians, except Jewish folks. Likes: the Chinese and the ladies, especially the ladies.

Somebody needs to produce a scorecard around here. It's hard to keep up.

According to what I've seen on Youtube, 'the ladies' of today, when given a choice between Instagram and a real life boyfriend/man...choose Instagram.
Tony's best chance is to seek a lady about his age, who's not totally interested in Instagram....seems to me.
Some "the ladies" are "treasures", others are "something else"... best of luck to Tony in his search for a "treasure".

Bambu, finding a lady will be easier after I am wealthy, after my movie is a success and after my poetry book is published and is a success, then I will be able to find a good woman. As I have money, and as I gain confidence, and as I travel around and enjoy myself, and as I do charity work, etc, then I will find a good wife. Maybe I will find a wife in Italy. We will see. As a poor man I will probably never find a wife, I will grow old like a Catholic Priest poor and alone. But, if I can make money, then I will go to Italy and find a good wife. I hope to get a young wife who is young enough to have a child, I want to have at least one child.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 05:54:49 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 08, 2023, 05:13:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 01:16:32 PM
Michael Fassbender played Kate Winslet s brother. Or something like that.

Jude Law

But you knew that.

Here's a helpful hint. If it's Fassbender, people are more likely to be murdered or at least traumatized.
If there is ever a movie staring Jude Law/Michael Fassbender and Catherine/Kathryn Hahn/Keener I will lose my mind. Particularly if it also involves one of the three Ryans. (Reynolds, Gosling and Cooper. At least one of whom may not actually be named Ryan).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 05:55:14 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 03:12:16 PM
From what I can tell:

Bambu: Dislikes: East Asians, but especially the Chinese, Muslims and runs hot and cold on African-Americans.
Luee: Dislikes: Muslims and all immigrants.
FlyingVProd: Dislikes: non-Christians, except Jewish folks. Likes: the Chinese and the ladies, especially the ladies.

Somebody needs to produce a scorecard around here. It's hard to keep up.

LOL

Someone here, not mentioning any name, needs to embrace "not everyone in the world is a lovely person".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 06:32:52 PM: Bambu, I read a book over 30 years ago that took place in Australia, the name of the book is "The Thorn Birds" and they also made a mini-series of it which is a good mini-series, anyhow, in "The Thorn Birds" there was a lady who was deeply in love with a man, but he became a Catholic Priest and he gave his life to God, so the woman could never have him, he was the love of her life, but he was a Priest and she could never have him.

I had a roommate who was a Franciscan Monk, and he was on a mission to help the homeless, he was my roommate in a homeless shelter, and he said that someone donated a beautiful house in Malibu by where Dick Van Dyke lives to the Franciscan Monks, and that is always an option, I can just give up on finding a woman and I can give up on making money, I can take a vow of poverty and a vow of abstaining from sex, and I can go live with the Monks in Malibu and I can spend my time helping the homeless and worshiping God. I could just worship God, and help the homeless, and not have to worry about anything.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 06:59:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 08, 2023, 05:55:14 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 08, 2023, 03:12:16 PM
From what I can tell:

Bambu: Dislikes: East Asians, but especially the Chinese, Muslims and runs hot and cold on African-Americans.
Luee: Dislikes: Muslims and all immigrants.
FlyingVProd: Dislikes: non-Christians, except Jewish folks. Likes: the Chinese and the ladies, especially the ladies.

Somebody needs to produce a scorecard around here. It's hard to keep up.

LOL

Someone here, not mentioning any name, needs to embrace "not everyone in the world is a lovely person".
At least I know you are not talking about me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 08:41:57 PM: In Psychology class you learn about things such as Progressive Entrapment, and Justification of Effort, and you learn how they Brain Wash people, and you learn how the Army makes Boot Camp hard in the hopes that you will become a more dedicated soldier because you put so much into it and you want to justify your effort. Cults use Progressive Entrapment and Justification of Effort to get you away from your friends and family and to take over your life, and relationships with abusive people often continue because of Progressive Entrapment and Justification of Effort.

And with my movie, I put so much hard work and time into it, that 20 years later I still want to see my movie get made. So, that means I need to go make paper copies of my script, and then go to Chapman Film School and I need to put a post on their bulletin board and see if I can get some helpers to get my movie made. I want to justify the hard work and time I spent by getting the movie made. If nothing else in life I want to see this movie hit the silver screen.

After I complete the milestone of having made a successful movie and after having proven that I could do it, then I can move off to Italy and open a night club and find a wife, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 08, 2023, 09:55:34 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 05:54:49 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 08, 2023, 05:13:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 08, 2023, 01:16:32 PM
Michael Fassbender played Kate Winslet s brother. Or something like that.

Jude Law

But you knew that.

Here's a helpful hint. If it's Fassbender, people are more likely to be murdered or at least traumatized.
If there is ever a movie staring Jude Law/Michael Fassbender and Catherine/Kathryn Hahn/Keener I will lose my mind. Particularly if it also involves one of the three Ryans. (Reynolds, Gosling and Cooper. At least one of whom may not actually be named Ryan).

If I said I was laughing at your confusion that might make me out to be a mean person, so I will just skip over my reaction, and speculate that the confusion was worsened by two movies, A Dangerous Method, in which Fassbender plays Carl Jung dealing with a profoundly disturbed and sexy patient, and Side Effects, in which Jude Law plays a psychiatrist dealing with a profoundly disturbed and sexy patient. Interestingly, these two movies violate the standard rule (or Law Law, if you will) in which Law plays the nicer role that involves fewer homicides and less bloodshed generally. Though, to be fair, Law is really only putting on the metaphorical brass knuckles to defend himself from a psycho and regain his family.

As for Ryans, or homophones thereof, they seem to be as numerous as stars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 09:58:39 PM: Homelessness is the number one issue right now in Los Angeles, and for the people who choose to help the homeless then many are going to spend their whole lives helping the homeless. A life-time goes by fast, before they know it 30 years will be gone, but helping the homeless is a good way to spend those 30 years, and you will store up treasure in Heaven. I watched some good Christian friends help the homeless right up until they died. To the people who they helped they were heroes, and God sends us to help each other.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 11:01:18 PM: As we address the issue of Homelessness, then the Christians are natural at helping the homeless and the Bible tells us in Matthew 25; 31-46 to help the homeless, and all through the Bible we are told to love our neighbors and to help the homeless.

The classes that the future homeless helpers will want to study are Sociology, Psychology, and Human Communication, the helpers need to learn healthy conflict resolution, and effective communication, and they need to learn how to deal with Mentally Ill people, etc. Some people need to keep going to school to become Psychiatrists, and for them there is San Diego State University.

And Veterans are great at helping the Homeless people. Combat Medics are great at managing homeless shelters, etc.

People also need to be able to cook for the homeless people, etc, so people need to train to learn how to cook for large groups of people.

And there is the physical building of housing and there is Habitat for Humanity, etc. And people need to manage and run the physical housing, etc.

As we address the issue of helping the homeless, then a lot of new jobs will be created for Social Workers, and for Crisis Intervention Specialists, and for Psychiatrists, etc, etc, etc. Our schools need to have programs to teach our people what they need to know to effectively have a fulfilling career helping the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2023, 11:52:34 PM: Ashleigh Aitken

No Orange County city does more to address homelessness than Anaheim with shelter, daily outreach, services and a path to permanent housing.

But, for all we do, we continue to seek out new and inventive ways to get people housed and off our streets - my top priority as mayor.

This week, I visited two tiny home villages in Montebello and Baldwin Park made up of small, portable shelter buildings with cooling, heating, light and electricity.

The communities address a portion of the unhoused who would rather stay on the streets than go into group shelters.

The visits were part of my ongoing work to explore advanced solutions for Anaheim, where we have reduced homelessness by 30 percent since 2019 and are embarking on the next phase of addressing homelessness by tackling mental health, substance abuse and immediate and long-term housing.

#AitkenInAction#Anaheim#WeareAnaheim
#SomosAnaheim

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I reminded her that a huge percentage of our homeless people are Foster Youth who aged out of the system and ended up homeless, and I suggested that we give the Foster Youth a free ride through college. I also reminded her that we have homeless people who are Abused Women and I told her that we need safe houses for the abused women and their children. And I finished off by reminding her that we have Fullerton Community College where we can train people to work jobs to help our homeless people. And I told her that we need Hostels where normal people who are poor can take a nice hot shower and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 09, 2023, 01:18:29 AM: Italian Sons and Daughters of America

40% of Italian resistance members were women (105,000 out of 250,000) in WWII. 4,600 of these heroines were arrested, 2,750 were deported to German concentration camps, and 623 were killed by fascists or Nazis.

#internationalwomensday #wwii

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There is a great movie with Gregory Peck named "The Scarlet and the Black" about the Italian resistance during World War II.

And the Italians killed Mussolini themselves, Italy should have never been allied with Hitler and Japan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 09, 2023, 02:00:20 PM: Rep. Lou Correa
1 hour

Today, my colleagues and I introduced a one-page long bill to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants that call America home - just by changing the registry date.

It is the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929. And we need to pass it.

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We need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so that they can join labor unions, and we need to bring our people out of the shadows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 09, 2023, 02:13:17 PM: Even if they're Muslims?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 09, 2023, 03:08:06 PM: Quote
The decision, which referenced Catholic catechisms and fourth century religious text, stunned legal experts

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/09/1161981923/girls-in-texas-could-get-birth-control-at-federal-clinics-until-a-dad-sued

This is a regressive move towards theocracy. When this kind of access to contraception is blocked, teen pregnancy rates soar, those girls are far less likely to finish high school, and poverty and social outcomes are worse for them and their children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 09, 2023, 04:29:43 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 09, 2023, 03:08:06 PM
Quote
The decision, which referenced Catholic catechisms and fourth century religious text, stunned legal experts

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/09/1161981923/girls-in-texas-could-get-birth-control-at-federal-clinics-until-a-dad-sued

This is a regressive move towards theocracy. When this kind of access to contraception is blocked, teen pregnancy rates soar, those girls are far less likely to finish high school, and poverty and social outcomes are worse for them and their children.

Apropos of something,

Grandma Bobo

https://www.alternet.org/lauren-boebert-roasted-becoming-grandmother/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 09, 2023, 05:26:29 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 09, 2023, 03:08:06 PM
Quote
The decision, which referenced Catholic catechisms and fourth century religious text, stunned legal experts

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/09/1161981923/girls-in-texas-could-get-birth-control-at-federal-clinics-until-a-dad-sued

This is a regressive move towards theocracy. When this kind of access to contraception is blocked, teen pregnancy rates soar, those girls are far less likely to finish high school, and poverty and social outcomes are worse for them and their children.

Feeding the stratification in social hierarchy at the heart of what every conservative believes in and hopes for. Their lives are based on the principle that they eat infinite shit and fuck themselves for the right to kick down, a right nowhere in the constitution but one that lingers in the conservative mindset like the worst kind of venereal disease.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 09, 2023, 05:52:28 PM: Whoops upside the head!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 09, 2023, 06:47:57 PM: This is not good for FOX

https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/former-trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-censured-in-colorado-for-false-election-claims/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 10, 2023, 12:19:51 AM: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/the-ugly-elitism-of-the-american-right/673350/

heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 10, 2023, 09:59:14 AM: Yep. Nothing wrong with elite, in the traditional definition of the word. Some people have expertise and professional skill that makes them better at certain things. But this new form - snide, lying, patronizing - delivered by Fox infotainers and their ilk - is from those who are worse at being human beings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 10, 2023, 05:57:54 PM: E. Jean Carroll just got handed a baseball bat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/access-hollywood-tape-can-used-evidence-civil-case-trump-judge-rules-rcna74370

https://youtu.be/djdzZ76YIQM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 10, 2023, 07:05:45 PM: Leeds said she ran into Trump at some point afterwards in New York, and he told her, I remember you. Youre the cunt from the airplane.

Classy guy.

All these various litigations need to do, AFAIC, is penetrate a sufficient number of voter minds and impress upon said minds the essential unfitness of TFG to hold office.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 10, 2023, 09:00:58 PM: (https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/03/07/120_slide-3c9e7bd0fb48b90ddadd956b40efd85f0fd00e6f-s1300-c85.webp)

White nationalists with a laser projector in Jacksonville, FL.

Any RW folks who would care to condemn this? This is the company you keep.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 11, 2023, 12:39:40 AM: If there was a doubt about censorship of alternative debate over Covid originations and SCIENCE over the last three years check the vote count in Congress this week asking for more investigations.
419-0 in favor of MORE.
Now that is a Scoreboard with a message.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 11, 2023, 02:35:51 AM: Are you still swallowing shit straight from Tuckers rectum?

We are all waiting on you to start making better choices.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 11, 2023, 12:24:23 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 10, 2023, 09:00:58 PM
(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/03/07/120_slide-3c9e7bd0fb48b90ddadd956b40efd85f0fd00e6f-s1300-c85.webp)

White nationalists with a laser projector in Jacksonville, FL.

Any RW folks who would care to condemn this? This is the company you keep.

Nothing wrong with being White.
Nothing wrong with being Right.
Nothing wrong with being a White nationalist...believing that America should be a majority-White country.
Nothing wrong with working to make that so...as long as it's done peacefully and lawfully.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 11, 2023, 01:17:16 PM: So a swastika is fine with you. Nice to know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 11, 2023, 03:09:14 PM: Bambi cannot shake his racism. It is fundamental to his inbreeding.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 11, 2023, 04:18:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 11, 2023, 12:24:23 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 10, 2023, 09:00:58 PM
(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/03/07/120_slide-3c9e7bd0fb48b90ddadd956b40efd85f0fd00e6f-s1300-c85.webp)

White nationalists with a laser projector in Jacksonville, FL.

Any RW folks who would care to condemn this? This is the company you keep.

Nothing wrong with being White.
Nothing wrong with being Right.
Nothing wrong with being a White nationalist...believing that America should be a majority-White country.
Nothing wrong with working to make that so...as long as it's done peacefully and lawfully.

Yeah, sure.

(https://images.wsj.net/im-464870/?width=860&size=1.5&pixel_ratio=1.5)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 11, 2023, 06:36:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 11, 2023, 12:24:23 PM

Nothing wrong with being White.
Nothing wrong with being Right.
Nothing wrong with being a White nationalist...believing that America should be a majority-White country.
Nothing wrong with working to make that so...as long as it's done peacefully and lawfully.

And what peaceful and lawful ways would those be?

(this is weirdly fascinating)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 11, 2023, 06:58:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 11, 2023, 12:39:40 AM
If there was a doubt about censorship of alternative debate over Covid originations and SCIENCE over the last three years check the vote count in Congress this week asking for more investigations.
419-0 in favor of MORE.
Now that is a Scoreboard with a message.

The origin of the COVID pandemic can only be determined with more scientific data. Opinions or congressional vote counts are irrelevant to whatever facts emerge. So far, the data available points to zoonotic spillover to the human population. Every scientist, me included, is open to new data that could point towards a different path of contagion. Just as we are open to zoonotic spillover remaining the most supported theory. The notion of suppression of data or research findings is a political Strawman. The only real bottleneck is with China providing lab records from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And that's likely to remain such, unless China does a very startling pivot towards transparency.

Of course Congress voted for more investigation. No one is going to say they're opposed to investigating how disease outbreaks happen. Calling for more investigation usually plays well to the constituents. The fact that 99 percent of pandemics and epidemics have resulted from human contact with zoonotic reservoirs and that such spillovers are pretty well understood is going to remain as a factual basis for considering that a strong candidate hypothesis to what happened in Wuhan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 11, 2023, 07:16:05 PM: Chekhov's Virus Law. If a virus appears in the first act, eventually someone who looks like Marion Cotillard will die.

Beckett's Law of Data. If data is not released, then you will sit around and wait for it and it may never come. Nothing to be done.

Thoreau s Law of Pandemics. If the pathogen is deadly, go live in a shack in the woods, and brings lots of snacks your mom gave you.

Edward Albee's Law of Pandemics. If a man sits next to you on a park bench and wants to tell you about his recent trip to the zoo, find another bench.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 12, 2023, 01:58:39 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 11, 2023, 01:17:16 PM
So a swastika is fine with you. Nice to know.

Swastikas are illegal in many places, are morally illegal and should be illegal everywhere.
...given what they represent.

If I were to form a pro White-majority nationalist group I certainly wouldn't be having a swastika anywhere near it.
I'd be creating a new logo, something friendly, something cute, that people would fall in love with.
There's "Black power" in America, so "White Power" should be just fine too...equal rights.

America, the Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, etc...all founded by White people.
Just how long do you think they'll last if White people aren't controlling them.
Take a good, long hard look around the world, should give a clue.

New President of El Salvador has the right idea, he's had enough of MS-13 and the other gangs, their murdering and other horrific crimes, drugs etc.
He's building a new mega prison, 40,000 inmates...is rounding up all the gang criminals and will be putting them in it.
On my tv was shown what is happening...hundreds of the gang prisoners, stripped naked (that wasn't shown), then all dressed only in white bloomer type underwear pants, all the tattoos on their chests and backs in view...all had their heads shaved, handcuffed, light shackles, all hunched over and running from the buses to the huge assembly area. They then kneeling and hunched forward on floor one behind the other in rows.

Isn't America being overrun by MS-13 and other gangs?
Maybe time to round up the criminal gangs in America and do an "El Salvador" with them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 12, 2023, 03:01:16 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 11, 2023, 06:36:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 11, 2023, 12:24:23 PM

Nothing wrong with being White.
Nothing wrong with being Right.
Nothing wrong with being a White nationalist...believing that America should be a majority-White country.
Nothing wrong with working to make that so...as long as it's done peacefully and lawfully.

And what peaceful and lawful ways would those be?

(this is weirdly fascinating)

Immigration policy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 12, 2023, 08:31:28 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 12, 2023, 01:58:39 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 11, 2023, 01:17:16 PM
So a swastika is fine with you. Nice to know.

Swastikas are illegal in many places, are morally illegal and should be illegal everywhere.
...given what they represent.

If I were to form a pro White-majority nationalist group I certainly wouldn't be having a swastika anywhere near it.
I'd be creating a new logo, something friendly, something cute, that people would fall in love with.
There's "Black power" in America, so "White Power" should be just fine too...equal rights.

America, the Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, etc...all founded by White people.
Just how long do you think they'll last if White people aren't controlling them.
Take a good, long hard look around the world, should give a clue.

New President of El Salvador has the right idea, he's had enough of MS-13 and the other gangs, their murdering and other horrific crimes, drugs etc.
He's building a new mega prison, 40,000 inmates...is rounding up all the gang criminals and will be putting them in it.
On my tv was shown what is happening...hundreds of the gang prisoners, stripped naked (that wasn't shown), then all dressed only in white bloomer type underwear pants, all the tattoos on their chests and backs in view...all had their heads shaved, handcuffed, light shackles, all hunched over and running from the buses to the huge assembly area. They then kneeling and hunched forward on floor one behind the other in rows.

Isn't America being overrun by MS-13 and other gangs?
Maybe time to round up the criminal gangs in America and do an "El Salvador" with them.

Turn off your TV. Go outside. Stop digging the hole you are in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 12, 2023, 10:53:28 AM: If I were to form a pro White-majority nationalist group I certainly wouldn't be having a swastika anywhere near it.
I'd be creating a new logo, something friendly, something cute, that people would fall in love with.
There's "Black power" in America, so "White Power" should be just fine too...equal rights.[/i]

Not only are you down under you are upside down.

White folks have SUPERIOR rights in the USA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 12, 2023, 01:54:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 12, 2023, 01:58:39 AM

America, the Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, etc...all founded by White people.

So the Iroquois Confederation was white people?

https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution

In any case, your basic logic could be challenged. That Europeans founded something is not a compelling argument for its merits. Euros founded colonial empires that ruined the thriving cultures of other countries and enslaved their populations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 12, 2023, 02:32:02 PM: Bambu, El Salvador had a Civil War from 1980-1992. The USA supported the Government of El Salvador, and the communists supported the communist rebels.

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

Many people from El Salvador came to Los Angeles to escape the Civil War in El Salvador, and the USA supported the good guys so some of the good guys came here to Los Angeles. These were soldiers that the USA trained and supported against the communists. The people from El Salvador who came to Los Angeles were good people who were our allies. The people from El Salvador came to the USA for a peaceful home and to live the American Dream, but they encountered fierce criminal street gangs in Los Angeles, the Black criminal street gangs in Los Angeles are some of the most violent gangs on Earth. The Bloods, and the Crips, and the other criminal street gangs are horrible, so the people from El Salvador started a new gang for protection, MS-13 started as a protection gang, to help the people from El Salvador to protect themselves from the Bloods and Crips and other criminal gangs in Los Angeles.

Also of note, is that is why it is important for people to be legal, so that the legal police can protect them, so that they do not have to go to illegal criminal street gangs for protection.

Please have mercy on the people from El Salvador, they have had a hard history, and they left a bloody civil war in El Salvador only to come to America for the American Dream only to be victimized by the Bloods and the Crips and the other criminal gangs in Los Angeles.

We need to do as we discussed about the "Dirty Dozen" plan, and send the prisoners to Ukraine to fight against the Russians, let them go fight against the Russians and be free instead of rotting in prison.

And we need to work for better Human Rights in the world, and we need for the United Nations to have a Universal Bill of Human Rights.

Poor Nicaragua has also had a hard history, and the USA supported BOTH sides in the civil war in Nicaragua, Carter supported the Sandinistas, and Reagan supported the Contras. We need to have mercy on the people from Nicaragua. They are some of the poorest people in the world and they have had a hard history.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 12, 2023, 02:58:25 PM: Doing an El Salvador, as Bambi names it, to white Christian nationalist terrorist gangs like news corp, CPAC and the federalist society along with all the members and share holders of Mar a Lago would be a positive and useful step for all involved.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 12, 2023, 03:51:30 PM: Latin America needs to learn from Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries on the issue of how to solve the gang problem.

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

Pope Francis can also help, and the King of Spain can help.

And we need to donate libraries to poor villages, and we need to support education for the children, we have made huge advancements in Colombia by supporting schools for the children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kiidcarter8 on March 12, 2023, 04:18:28 PM: Oh those guns....

https://share.newsbreak.com/3akbfbri
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 12, 2023, 04:29:57 PM: Ways you can exercise your patriotism,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/12/2154794/-Things-We-Can-Do-to-Take-Down-FOX-News-Let-s-Go-After-Them-When-They-re-Weak (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/12/2154794/-Things-We-Can-Do-to-Take-Down-FOX-News-Let-s-Go-After-Them-When-They-re-Weak)

Cripple the deceivers!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 12, 2023, 04:35:40 PM: Quote from: kiidcarter8 on March 12, 2023, 04:18:28 PM
Oh those guns....

https://share.newsbreak.com/3akbfbri

If he were in Tampa or Dallas there would be at least twelve dead because he would have had plenty of time to empty two full magazines from one of the family semiautomatics.

That is why, despite its drawbacks, Queens is a far better place to live than towns and cities where republicans have stolen enough power to enact the terrible ideas that fuck things up for everyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 12, 2023, 07:21:10 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/03/12/decided-jesus-needed-a-brand-makeover-jesus-gets-us-and-evangelical-hypocrisy/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/03/12/decided-jesus-needed-a-brand-makeover-jesus-gets-us-and-evangelical-hypocrisy/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 04:22:45 AM: The Oscars was cool, but it needs to be more festive like in the old days, the Oscars needs to be glamorous and festive.

And they fed the stars from an In N Out food truck, and while In N Out burgers are great, it is not what you feed to the stars on Oscar night. The best young chefs in Hollywood come out to cook for the stars on Oscar night, the new chefs all want to be the next chef to the stars.

And yes, good finger food at the parties, we all know the actresses and models love the finger food. But, then there needs to be a feast with great chefs and with champagne. And bands, with live music. I would have the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all of the bands from Venice Beach, I have connections in Venice Beach when it comes to bands. The ball room at the Park Plaza Hotel would be a perfect place for an Oscars after party. There is a nice kitchen there for the chefs, there is room enough for live bands, etc. If you have the whole Park Plaza Hotel then the stars could party and then go sleep in a hotel room there, and there is MacArthur Park for the people who want to party outside, they can smoke pot at MacArthur Park while at the party at the Park Plaza Hotel.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce can help for the next Oscar event next year to be more glamorous and festive, and guys like Rick Caruso can throw Oscar parties for charity, etc. Maybe I will throw a party next year in Hollywood like Norby used to do. Hollywood needs to shine and have fun on Oscar night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 02:45:48 PM: Pope Francis is celebrating 10 years as Pope. He has been a good Pope, and Pope Francis is a great man of Peace. Long may he live.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 06:34:05 PM: I saw on the news on television that we are selling submarines to Australia and to the UK, and also we are going to teach the Australians how to manufacture the subs so that the Aussies can make their own subs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 09:39:08 PM: The cops beat another person to death, he is brain-dead, and people are protesting.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/family-files-suit-accusing-montclair-police-of-beating-man-inside-his-home/

We need to support good human rights in the world, and we need to support the ACLU here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 10:13:26 PM: What is wrong with these cops that they are beating people to death? Why such rage?

I think a lot of cops are doing steroids, and they are all crazy on steroids. We need to test the cops for steroid use.

All lives matter, and we cannot have cops who are beating people to death.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 12:16:31 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 10:13:26 PM
What is wrong with these cops that they are beating people to death? Why such rage?

I think a lot of cops are doing steroids, and they are all crazy on steroids. We need to test the cops for steroid use.

All lives matter, and we cannot have cops who are beating people to death.

Salute,

Tony V.

You're not allowed to say "All lives matter", that sports commentator was sacked from his job for doing so.
Time to take America back, again.

Some people, when they get a gun and a badge, get drunk with power/authority, and go crazy in their minds.
Any number of genuine videos on Youtube of cops in America intimidating, bullying, trying to trick motorists at traffic stops.
My cops can stop you, anywhere, anytime and demand to see your driver's licence...no reason needed.
They can tell if the vehicle is registered or not at the push of a button in ther patrol car.
They can ask you to do a drink and drug test roadside.
Refuse and you're automatically found guilty and lose your licence for 2 years or something and get a large fine.
There's no engaging in a 20 minute debate roadside about rights and liberties lol...like in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 12:28:16 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 06:34:05 PM
I saw on the news on television that we are selling submarines to Australia and to the UK, and also we are going to teach the Australians how to manufacture the subs so that the Aussies can make their own subs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes indeed...Chinese warships are already prowling around our coast, for some reason, ...some believe plotting an invasion.
All Australia needs now...nuclear missiles to fire from the subs into Shanghai, Beijing etc the minute China attacks.
China must be told there'll be millions of its people dead and all trade will cease if it attacks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 01:16:40 AM: "Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans".

By Laura Paddison, CNN
Mar 14 2023

#####

Amazing.
What will they think of next.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 01:22:26 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 12, 2023, 04:35:40 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on March 12, 2023, 04:18:28 PM
Oh those guns....

https://share.newsbreak.com/3akbfbri

If he were in Tampa or Dallas there would be at least twelve dead because he would have had plenty of time to empty two full magazines from one of the family semiautomatics.

That is why, despite its drawbacks, Queens is a far better place to live than towns and cities where republicans have stolen enough power to enact the terrible ideas that fuck things up for everyone.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/13/2157849/-In-gun-nut-America-a-3-year-old-girl-shoots-her-4-year-old-sister-dead (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/13/2157849/-In-gun-nut-America-a-3-year-old-girl-shoots-her-4-year-old-sister-dead)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 06:29:52 AM: How come banks in America can fold, with customers losing money?
The latest one, was that a real bank, or a private investment company?
In bambuworld, if you're a 'bank' you have to have a licence and are regulated by the federal reserve.
You have to lodge reserves with it and also have insurance, as I remember.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2023, 08:45:14 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 12:16:31 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 10:13:26 PM
What is wrong with these cops that they are beating people to death? Why such rage?

I think a lot of cops are doing steroids, and they are all crazy on steroids. We need to test the cops for steroid use.

All lives matter, and we cannot have cops who are beating people to death.

Salute,

Tony V.

You're not allowed to say "All lives matter", that sports commentator was sacked from his job for doing so.
Time to take America back, again.

Some people, when they get a gun and a badge, get drunk with power/authority, and go crazy in their minds.
Any number of genuine videos on Youtube of cops in America intimidating, bullying, trying to trick motorists at traffic stops.
My cops can stop you, anywhere, anytime and demand to see your driver's licence...no reason needed.
They can tell if the vehicle is registered or not at the push of a button in ther patrol car.
They can ask you to do a drink and drug test roadside.
Refuse and you're automatically found guilty and lose your licence for 2 years or something and get a large fine.
There's no engaging in a 20 minute debate roadside about rights and liberties lol...like in America.
Consider the possibility that getting guns, power, and authority are why a not statistically insignificant number of people become cops in the first place.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2023, 08:48:59 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 06:29:52 AM
How come banks in America can fold, with customers losing money?
They do not lose money. Deposits are insured up to $200,000.
Quote
The latest one, was that a real bank, or a private investment company?
In bambuworld, if you're a 'bank' you have to have a licence and are regulated by the federal reserve.
You have to lodge reserves with it and also have insurance, as I remember.
Ask RedDick and the rest of the people who blamed the last near catastrophic collapse of the banking system on poor people wanting houses and better lives and refused to even countenance the possibility of regulating them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 11:18:57 AM: Ask Barney Frank the architect of the 2008 collapse which opened the door for the Fed to bail out banks Frank and Congress green lighted into millions of underwater loans.
Now we defer to the Fed to bail out again turning to morons like Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 01:26:31 PM: Red has nothing but those same itchy parts he loves to show off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 01:27:41 PM: Biden assures everyone their bank deposits are safe in Ukraine. 😂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 01:30:37 PM: Red even plagiarizes "jokes".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 03:27:36 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 01:30:37 PM
Red even plagiarizes "jokes".
I knew if i used a smiley face you would get it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 04:29:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2023, 08:48:59 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 06:29:52 AM
How come banks in America can fold, with customers losing money?
They do not lose money. Deposits are insured up to $200,000.
Quote
The latest one, was that a real bank, or a private investment company?
In bambuworld, if you're a 'bank' you have to have a licence and are regulated by the federal reserve.
You have to lodge reserves with it and also have insurance, as I remember.
Ask RedDick and the rest of the people who blamed the last near catastrophic collapse of the banking system on poor people wanting houses and better lives and refused to even countenance the possibility of regulating them.

My news said that customers lost large sums of money in that latest collapse...like millions it seemed to suggest
Named were O, Mr and Mrs Sparkle etc.
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 06:09:03 PM: Your news lies to you because you have proven to it that you are terminally stupid and will never catch on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 14, 2023, 06:26:48 PM: I guess Playboy is gone now after Hugh Hefner died, that is sad. They should let me run the company, I could keep Playboy going. Just publish stories that college students are interested in, and publish photos of beautiful women. Hugh Hefner had a good life. And Aaron Spelling used to hire the Playboy Playmates to star in his television shows, Barbi Benton was always on Fantasy Island, etc.

Hugh Hefner was a great guy, he was going to put up the money to make the movie that I wrote, Hef liked my movie script, but we could not get the director that we wanted.

Playboy is a huge American success story, and good people need to rise up and save Playboy Magazine. If they are smart they can bring back the Playboy television station, and they can have resorts around the world, and clubs, etc.

Hef was a great man, it is so sad that people get old and die. It would be great if someone could rise up and save Playboy. I hate to see it all collapse when the company could still easily be successful. They could bring in some young Harvard graduates from National Lampoon to save Playboy, or something, someone needs to save the company.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 08:01:14 PM: It would be better to leave that bag behind you should you ever go back to film school, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 08:35:59 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zejn/ebay-finally-has-its-first-worker-union-in-27-years (http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zejn/ebay-finally-has-its-first-worker-union-in-27-years)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 08:37:05 PM: I'm confident that Salute Tony V. is the only person in history who has called the likes of Hugh Hefner "a great man."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 09:21:32 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 08:37:05 PM
I'm confident that Salute Tony V. is the only person in history who has called the likes of Hugh Hefner "a great man."
Then you know nothing of Hugh Hefner.
https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/hugh-hefner (https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/hugh-hefner)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 09:29:26 PM: Where in that biography is he called a great man?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2023, 09:49:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 14, 2023, 06:09:03 PM
Your news lies to you because you have proven to it that you are terminally stupid and will never catch on.

You need to pay more attention:

usatoday dot com

"$117 million gone: Oprah loses more than weight".

elsewhere:
"Harry and Meghan stand to lose millions in collapse of SVB bank."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 10:35:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 09:29:26 PM
Where in that biography is he called a great man?

Well. Where you want to start?

He was an American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognizable American global brands in history.
Hefner received numerous awards for his contributions to society and the publishing industry. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors in 1998. In the new millennium, he received the Henry Johnson Fisher Award and became an honorary member of The Harvard Lampoon.
During the golden age of Playboy Magazine an ever increasing circulation allowed Hefner to build a vast enterprise of private keyclubs that, among other traits, were racially inclusive in a time where segregation was still legally enforced. (A documentary on Hefner that focused on his civil rights activism later received a NAACP Image Award nod.)

Over the years Playboy Enterprises also built hotel resorts, started modeling agencies and operated a number of media endeavors. Hefner hosted two short-run television series, Playboy Penthouse (1959 1960), which featured the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Tony Bennett, and Playboy After Dark (1969 1970), with guests like Milton Berle and James Brown. Both programs were weekly talk shows set in a bachelor pad full of Playboy Playmates, who chatted with Hefner and his special guests about various subjects.

He was great at what he did, maybe you do not like his image.
Others do.
You can disagree but why not tell us where Hefner falls short of greatness instead of attacking other posters who have a different view of the man?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 10:45:01 PM: Yawn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 14, 2023, 10:47:04 PM: In my opinion Hugh Hefner was a great man, and he was well respected in Hollywood, and he helped to rebuild the Hollywood sign when called upon to help. And Playboy is one of the best known brands in history.

I hope that Hef's daughter can revive the company. Maybe she can get Barbi Benton, and some Harvard graduates to help her to save the company.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 10:49:48 PM: Red seems to believe that success of one in a field is sufficient reason to call that one a great man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 14, 2023, 11:04:05 PM: I have seen what it is like when refugees from foreign civil wars come to the USA only to get involved with gang violence and problems here in the USA. I have seen what it is like for the refugees who have come to California from wars in El Salvador, and Nicaragua, seeking the American Dream and the California Dream, only to get caught up in gang warfare on the streets.

The refugees need to come to peaceful places when they come for the American Dream.

The refugees are not going to get killed by gang violence if they come to Battle Mountain, Nevada, where land is only $1,000 per acre, the refugees can have peace in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they can do trade with San Francisco, etc. Battle Mountain has good schools, and zero crime, and the land is cheap. For those who want to study, there is a community college nearby in Elko, Nevada.

Or for the refugees who want peace, there is also Adel, Oregon, where my Grandfather was born. My Grandparents almost bought the town, the town has a store, and a restaurant, and a tavern, and a lake with a bait and tackle shop and with boat rentals, etc, etc, etc, and the town has schools for the children and a church for Sunday. There is zero crime in Adel, Oregon, and the refugees can have peace and they can raise their children in peace.

Here is a link with info on Adel, Oregon, and there is more info on the web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel,_Oregon

America has many wonderful small towns like Battle Mountain, Nevada, and like Adel, Oregon, where there is zero crime, and there is no need for the refugees to live in areas with high crime and with gang violence.

The peaceful hippies and those who want to have their own communes, can also find wonderful peaceful small towns in America where there is zero crime. People need to be willing to take the path less traveled. There are some great little safe towns where the refugees can find the American Dream without the gang violence.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 11:35:26 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 10:49:48 PM
Red seems to believe that success of one in a field is sufficient reason to call that one a great man.
Why would it not be?
Hefner is an American Icon by any measure.
You can disagree.
But others feel differently and you diss them?
What are your qualifications for greatness that Hefner does not possess?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 12:11:38 AM: Do not bad mouth creeps. Red will not stand for it. It insults his lack of integrity and diminished status as a man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 15, 2023, 01:07:11 AM: What do cable tv channels
Lifetime, E!, Big Ten Network, Adult Swim, Reelz, TV Land, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, A&E and ESPN2 have in common?

They all topped CNN in ratings for 25-54 year olds, the demographic most coveted for Ad Sales.

Is CNN past it s Prime?😆
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 01:26:00 AM: It is not the dumpster fire Fox is.

CNN should get a boost from fake news viewership that does not self identify as cousin fucking and thus decides to move away from content tailored for proud cousin fuckers only. That will be from the almost dead demo you inhabit, not the younger solvent desirable demo that ranges more widely for its news than a cable channel.

You will not know anything about it as you will still be sucking down whatever that suckers network you slavishly follow feeds you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 02:18:54 AM: Playboy was Playboy, Hugh was Hugh, the mansion was the mansion...from yesteryear.
Think the internet killed the Playboy dream.
Also something about women, and how they should be treated in today's world.
Magazine sales in general seem to have declined.

The world seems to have moved on from the days of the Playboy mansion, bunny costumes, and bunny key rings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 04:22:37 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 06:34:05 PM
I saw on the news on television that we are selling submarines to Australia and to the UK, and also we are going to teach the Australians how to manufacture the subs so that the Aussies can make their own subs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, 3 US nuke subs arriving in early 2030s, others a decade later.
Lovely.
Only one problem, China is expected to invade Taiwan and maybe then undefended Australia, in the next few years, before 2027.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 15, 2023, 11:00:23 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 14, 2023, 11:35:26 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 14, 2023, 10:49:48 PM
Red seems to believe that success of one in a field is sufficient reason to call that one a great man.
Why would it not be?
Hefner is an American Icon by any measure.

Rating greatness by success - like calling Himmler a great man due to his success in efficient mass murder and corpse processing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 15, 2023, 11:51:49 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 15, 2023, 01:07:11 AM
What do cable tv channels
Lifetime, E!, Big Ten Network, Adult Swim, Reelz, TV Land, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, A&E and ESPN2 have in common?

They all topped CNN in ratings for 25-54 year olds, the demographic most coveted for Ad Sales.

Is CNN past it s Prime?😆

Wow! Young people watch entertainment shows! Shocker!

Who knew media consumers like scripted tv more than 24 hour news and commentary?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 15, 2023, 11:55:10 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 04:22:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 06:34:05 PM
I saw on the news on television that we are selling submarines to Australia and to the UK, and also we are going to teach the Australians how to manufacture the subs so that the Aussies can make their own subs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, 3 US nuke subs arriving in early 2030s, others a decade later.
Lovely.
Only one problem, China is expected to invade Taiwan and maybe then undefended Australia, in the next few years, before 2027.

Crawl under your bed, stick your thumb in your mouth and wait for the invasion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 15, 2023, 11:56:21 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 02:18:54 AM
Playboy was Playboy, Hugh was Hugh, the mansion was the mansion...from yesteryear.
Think the internet killed the Playboy dream.
Also something about women, and how they should be treated in today's world.
Magazine sales in general seem to have declined.

The world seems to have moved on from the days of the Playboy mansion, bunny costumes, and bunny key rings.

Not so fast!

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/playboy-magazine-digital-nudity-onlyfans-no-pornography-1235552261/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 12:50:50 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 15, 2023, 11:55:10 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 15, 2023, 04:22:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2023, 06:34:05 PM
I saw on the news on television that we are selling submarines to Australia and to the UK, and also we are going to teach the Australians how to manufacture the subs so that the Aussies can make their own subs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, 3 US nuke subs arriving in early 2030s, others a decade later.
Lovely.
Only one problem, China is expected to invade Taiwan and maybe then undefended Australia, in the next few years, before 2027.

Crawl under your bed, stick your thumb in your mouth and wait for the invasion.

Nah, that's not how the 'Wild Colonial Boys' do things.
Our ANZAC ancestors who fought to keep us free would be ashamed of us if we did that.
We just need something more than rifles with which to fight.
We have those million rounds a minute machine guns...they'll do for starters.
Seeing we're at a severe disadvantage we should be allowed go use chemical and biological weapons.
Australia v China...hardly a fair fight.

"China opens borders to foreigners for first time in 3 years" or something.
..Sky News reported.
I won't be travelling there...the news keeps showing China's military might and saying we could be invaded anytime.
Imagine getting stuck there when the music stops and the bullets and bombs start flying.
AUKUS is all about arming Australia et al in Indo-Pacific, as Xi said clearly that China ...will...be taking back Taiwan.
Time for people to stop living in denial and start defending against China.
Nice Chinese weather balloons floating over the Americas.
Lucky they weren't nuke carrying drones.
Timely warning for USA, to protect its airspace all the time.

No need for Americans to die defending Australia, just *give* us the weapons
and we'll do the fighting and dying.
WW1 and WW2 revisited.

One or more of those new US "world's strongest laser" that "can destroy everything" I just saw on Youtube would be great.

Pity the Allies saved China only to be in today's situation.

China attacks Australia, Australia should be able to, and be allowed to, fire nukes at China, from subs, from anywhere.
Pity there's no COW base still in Afghanistan, could've easily nuked China from there.
Chinese people in China must be made understand what will be happening to them if their President and their politicians attack Taiwan, Australia, and anyone else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 04:33:15 PM: By your description, Australia badly needs some kind of colonial overlord to keep it in check. Australia, as you lay it out, is due the geopolitical equivalent of 28 day mandatory confinement in a loony bin before it snaps and randomly hurts somebody.

It is good that for the moment you very definitely do not represent Australia, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 15, 2023, 05:24:38 PM: Cool

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-hit-ethics-complaint-trump-super-pac-rcna74977
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2023, 05:43:29 PM: I made my peace with China when I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General, she loved Malibu, and we agreed that we need wise old peaceful leaders who can keep the peace. She wanted to do trade, and she loved money.

And in World War II China was on our team against Japan, and we had the Flying Tigers helping to protect China from the Japanese, etc.

I like the Chinese more than I like the Japanese.

And we have Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, The Philippines, and others in Asia helping to keep the peace in Asia.

Asia wants to do trade, and make money. They love money. They will work hard everyday for money.

We can use money to reward or punish people, we can reward the good people with trade and with business and with money, and we can punish the bad people with sanctions, etc.

China wants to make money, they want to live like the people in Malibu.

We can have peace with China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2023, 05:51:08 PM: China needs labor unions which are independent of their government which can work for fair pay and good treatment for the workers in China. China needs to reward their workers with more wealth, and China needs to expand their middle class.

And California can sell Orange Juice to the Chinese, etc, and we can do honest, peaceful trade.

Certainly we need to be strong, but we need peace.

I also hope that Pope Francis will continue to work to expand freedom of religion in China, and to grow the Catholic Church in China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 06:16:44 PM: http://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-desantis-mini-trump-strategy (http://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-desantis-mini-trump-strategy)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2023, 06:44:34 PM: Poverty is the father of revolution and crime.

It is important for the good people to be able to make honest money.

I had a professor in Small Business Management Consulting Class at AVC who went into poor areas such as Compton, and he taught poor young Black men how to start a business and how to get a loan from the Small Business Administration and how to succeed in business. He went in and held the hand of the poor young Black men and helped to walk them through the process of getting a business loan and starting a successful business. Then, after the Black youth succeeded in business then the Professor took the group of young Black men on a trip to Africa. The young Black men learned how to succeed in Business, and then they enjoyed the rewards of the fruit of their labor by going on a vacation to Africa.

If you teach poor young people how to make honest money then they do not have to be criminals in order to make money.

If we have huge populations of people in Prison then it is because we neglected to teach our youth how to survive honestly.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2023, 07:03:47 PM: If we have huge populations of people in Prison then it is because we neglected to teach our youth how to survive honestly.

And for many wealthy White people they have parents to teach them how to do business, and how to get a Small Business Loan from the SBA, etc. But for the poor Black youth, many of whom do not have fathers, then it is harder, so my Professor used to go to Compton and teach the poor young Black men, who otherwise would never learn, how to get a loan and start a successful business.

I also support helping the Foster Youth who do not have parents to get a business loan and to open their own small business.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 15, 2023, 07:17:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 06:16:44 PM
http://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-desantis-mini-trump-strategy (http://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-desantis-mini-trump-strategy)

Great line: DeSantis entire career might profitably be understood as a ChatGPT response to populist inputs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 16, 2023, 12:03:05 AM: This is about as Republican as one can be.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/lawmaker-says-there-are-no-hungry-minnesotans/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 04:37:18 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 04:33:15 PM
By your description, Australia badly needs some kind of colonial overlord to keep it in check. Australia, as you lay it out, is due the geopolitical equivalent of 28 day mandatory confinement in a loony bin before it snaps and randomly hurts somebody.

It is good that for the moment you very definitely do not represent Australia, Bambi.

9news;
Australia 'facing threat of war with China within three years'

1news co nz
Experts say Australia faces threat of war with China

Sky News
China delivers yet another attack on Australia and AUKUS

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The threat of invasion by China is very real.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 04:15:00 PM: China buying Australia at a significant knock down seems far more likely than an invasion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 04:59:13 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/why-the-is-obsessed-with-woke--but-cant-define-it/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/why-the-is-obsessed-with-woke--but-cant-define-it/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 16, 2023, 05:08:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 04:37:18 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 04:33:15 PM
By your description, Australia badly needs some kind of colonial overlord to keep it in check. Australia, as you lay it out, is due the geopolitical equivalent of 28 day mandatory confinement in a loony bin before it snaps and randomly hurts somebody.

It is good that for the moment you very definitely do not represent Australia, Bambi.

9news;
Australia 'facing threat of war with China within three years'

1news co nz
Experts say Australia faces threat of war with China

Sky News
China delivers yet another attack on Australia and AUKUS

#####

The threat of invasion by China is very real.
I think you underestimate the logistics involved.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 05:33:44 PM: Bambu has already outlined his persistent problems with math.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 05:34:13 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/16/2158614/-Why-is-banking-looking-unstable-Don-t-think-woke-Think-crypto-bros (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/16/2158614/-Why-is-banking-looking-unstable-Don-t-think-woke-Think-crypto-bros)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 05:47:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 16, 2023, 05:08:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 04:37:18 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 04:33:15 PM
By your description, Australia badly needs some kind of colonial overlord to keep it in check. Australia, as you lay it out, is due the geopolitical equivalent of 28 day mandatory confinement in a loony bin before it snaps and randomly hurts somebody.

It is good that for the moment you very definitely do not represent Australia, Bambi.

9news;
Australia 'facing threat of war with China within three years'

1news co nz
Experts say Australia faces threat of war with China

Sky News
China delivers yet another attack on Australia and AUKUS

#####

The threat of invasion by China is very real.
I think you underestimate the logistics involved.

It is said that when they invade Taiwan they'll also launch missile attacks and massive cyber attacks against Australia, knocking out all its ability to do anything.
Knock out all the power grids, kill all the software of ships, planes, industry.
Time now to start fighting back...instead of teaching foreign uni students how to hack the place.
The sooner we get some nuke powered, nuke armed subs that can be stationed at sea away from harm, the better.
US and British nuke subs are to rotate thru Perth Western Australia starting soon, my news said.
Hope they're loaded up with nuke missiles ready to fire at a moment's notice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 16, 2023, 07:00:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 05:47:19 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 16, 2023, 05:08:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 04:37:18 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 15, 2023, 04:33:15 PM
By your description, Australia badly needs some kind of colonial overlord to keep it in check. Australia, as you lay it out, is due the geopolitical equivalent of 28 day mandatory confinement in a loony bin before it snaps and randomly hurts somebody.

It is good that for the moment you very definitely do not represent Australia, Bambi.

9news;
Australia 'facing threat of war with China within three years'

1news co nz
Experts say Australia faces threat of war with China

Sky News
China delivers yet another attack on Australia and AUKUS

#####

The threat of invasion by China is very real.
I think you underestimate the logistics involved.

It is said that when they invade Taiwan they'll also launch missile attacks and massive cyber attacks against Australia, knocking out all its ability to do anything.
Knock out all the power grids, kill all the software of ships, planes, industry.
Time now to start fighting back...instead of teaching foreign uni students how to hack the place.
The sooner we get some nuke powered, nuke armed subs that can be stationed at sea away from harm, the better.
US and British nuke subs are to rotate thru Perth Western Australia starting soon, my news said.
Hope they're loaded up with nuke missiles ready to fire at a moment's notice.

This is why you should really be pulling for Ukraine to kick the Russians out.

The more Ukraine succeeds the less likely China makes a move on Taiwan and by extension Australia.

Do not listen to GOP .talking points. The USA is still the biggest swinging dick on the planet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 16, 2023, 07:08:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 16, 2023, 05:08:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 04:37:18 AM

The threat of invasion by China is very real.
I think you underestimate the logistics involved.

The Chinese are superstitious and won't approach a haunted billabong. A "hungry ghost" swagman is longterm deterrent.

Quote from: LarryB! on March 16, 2023, 07:00:28 PM

This is why you should really be pulling for Ukraine to kick the Russians out.

The more Ukraine succeeds the less likely China makes a move on Taiwan and by extension Australia.

Yep. And Australia is also an island. Of a size that would be geographically daunting to any invading force.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 16, 2023, 07:25:49 PM: I put the over/under at 5 as the number of times per day Bambu advocates nuking or shooting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 08:04:02 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 16, 2023, 07:25:49 PM
I put the over/under at 5 as the number of times per day Bambu advocates nuking or shooting.

Well what do you expect...nukes are the only things capable of saving Australia and its population from becoming Chinese slaves.
Every day we see on our news bulletins that there are Chinese warships within sight of land, Xi shown threatening war, our unis are training foreign students to be hackers...Chinese cameras are being removed from our govt buildings, Tik Tok has been banned from UK govt computers, Chinese balloons are flying over US etc airspace...etc.

In America the bad people have guns...so the good people need to have them too...be trained how to use them and be willing to use them.
Anything else will see them ending up like the Aussie guy married to the American woman...dead in his own home, shot by 3 intruders in Texas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 08:06:12 PM: Who has got the oversized butterfly net?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 16, 2023, 08:26:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 08:04:02 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 16, 2023, 07:25:49 PM
I put the over/under at 5 as the number of times per day Bambu advocates nuking or shooting.

Well what do you expect...nukes are the only things capable of saving Australia and its population from becoming Chinese slaves.
Every day we see on our news bulletins that there are Chinese warships within sight of land, Xi shown threatening war, our unis are training foreign students to be hackers...Chinese cameras are being removed from our govt buildings, Tik Tok has been banned from UK govt computers, Chinese balloons are flying over US etc airspace...etc.

In America the bad people have guns...so the good people need to have them too...be trained how to use them and be willing to use them.
Anything else will see them ending up like the Aussie guy married to the American woman...dead in his own home, shot by 3 intruders in Texas.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.imvdb.com/video/790431091097-men-at-work-who-can-it-be-now_music_video_bv.jpg?v=2)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 11:09:30 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 16, 2023, 07:25:49 PM
I put the over/under at 5 as the number of times per day Bambu advocates nuking or shooting.

Sky News just now;

Australia to purchase 220 Tomahawk missiles from the U.S.

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Obviously I'm not the only one wanting the nation to have something with which to nuke, blow up, shoot any invaders/attackers.
Or go behind them and nuke/blow up their homelands.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2023, 11:22:30 PM: Collective lunacy defines you lot. That and the guy with the most consecutive concussions gets the top radio spot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 16, 2023, 11:33:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2023, 11:09:30 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 16, 2023, 07:25:49 PM
I put the over/under at 5 as the number of times per day Bambu advocates nuking or shooting.

Sky News just now;

Australia to purchase 220 Tomahawk missiles from the U.S.

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Obviously I'm not the only one wanting the nation to have something with which to nuke, blow up, shoot any invaders/attackers.
Or go behind them and nuke/blow up their homelands.

Tomahawks no longer carry nuclear warheads

1,000 lb bomb or cluster munitions.

For the subs you guys are buying.

Raytheon execs popping courts because they look to pull in a cool $900 million.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 17, 2023, 04:01:17 AM: Tomahawks can blow up ships, buildings etc when launched 1,500 km away.
Cool.
220 of them will come in handy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 17, 2023, 07:52:51 AM: That's one.

Betting windows are closed however.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 17, 2023, 03:06:31 PM: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/iron-county-sheriff-two-deputies-charged-in-criminal-street-gang-activity/article_94f34674-f505-5627-8aa2-ba93e4fc54b8.html#tracking-source=home-top-story (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/iron-county-sheriff-two-deputies-charged-in-criminal-street-gang-activity/article_94f34674-f505-5627-8aa2-ba93e4fc54b8.html#tracking-source=home-top-story)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 17, 2023, 04:02:51 PM: Raccacoonie!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 17, 2023, 04:15:30 PM: Red wants to know what woke lab mated the raccoons with the dogs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 17, 2023, 05:22:24 PM: Bambu, on the issue of Missile Defense, I recommend that Australia buy some modified F-104 Starfighters and arm them with Sidewinder Missiles, which can be used to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc. And for instance if North Korea sent a Missile at Australia then Australia could send up some F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles to shoot down the Missiles.

From another post that I made on Meander...

On the issue of our fighter planes...

They can vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighter to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, and they can update the technology on the F-104, and they can continue to use the F-104 to help to protect America. The F-104 is way faster than the F-18, and with some modifications then the F-104 can still be of service.

And NASA continues to use the F-104 Starfighter as a chase plane, it is a fast plane, they just need to make some modifications and the plane can still be of service, along with being a chase plane for NASA.

You can arm the modified F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles and you can use them to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 17, 2023, 07:28:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 17, 2023, 04:02:51 PM
Raccacoonie!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/

One of the less batty theories of zoonotic transmission.

Do they talk like Randy Newman?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 17, 2023, 09:21:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 17, 2023, 04:02:51 PM
Raccacoonie!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
The STRONGEST EVIDENCE TO DATE ?
Written by a staff writer at the Atlantic whose source was a scientist NOT INVOLVED in the research?

Well, suppose it is true.

Then explain how the left has been bellowing for three years that the previous evidence clearly pointed to the wet market?

Never mind.

LOL.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 17, 2023, 10:22:39 PM: We know you spread it here, Red, by being an asshole.

You and trump killed grandma.

There may one day be justice but there will never be forgiveness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 12:19:53 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 17, 2023, 05:22:24 PM
Bambu, on the issue of Missile Defense, I recommend that Australia buy some modified F-104 Starfighters and arm them with Sidewinder Missiles, which can be used to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc. And for instance if North Korea sent a Missile at Australia then Australia could send up some F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles to shoot down the Missiles.

From another post that I made on Meander...

On the issue of our fighter planes...

They can vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighter to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, and they can update the technology on the F-104, and they can continue to use the F-104 to help to protect America. The F-104 is way faster than the F-18, and with some modifications then the F-104 can still be of service.

And NASA continues to use the F-104 Starfighter as a chase plane, it is a fast plane, they just need to make some modifications and the plane can still be of service, along with being a chase plane for NASA.

You can arm the modified F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles and you can use them to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

We should certainly get some of those too.
One can never have too many missiles to fire in attack and defence.

US Congress or Defence Dept or the President has to approve all arms sales abroad, apparently...as the sale of the 220 Tomahawks had to be approved.
Seems one can't just rock up to the US Missile Shop, place an order and have it shipped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 18, 2023, 12:28:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 12:19:53 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 17, 2023, 05:22:24 PM
Bambu, on the issue of Missile Defense, I recommend that Australia buy some modified F-104 Starfighters and arm them with Sidewinder Missiles, which can be used to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc. And for instance if North Korea sent a Missile at Australia then Australia could send up some F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles to shoot down the Missiles.

From another post that I made on Meander...

On the issue of our fighter planes...

They can vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighter to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, and they can update the technology on the F-104, and they can continue to use the F-104 to help to protect America. The F-104 is way faster than the F-18, and with some modifications then the F-104 can still be of service.

And NASA continues to use the F-104 Starfighter as a chase plane, it is a fast plane, they just need to make some modifications and the plane can still be of service, along with being a chase plane for NASA.

You can arm the modified F-104 Starfighters with Sidewinder Missiles and you can use them to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

We should certainly get some of those too.
One can never have too many missiles to fire in attack and defence.

US Congress or Defence Dept or the President has to approve all arms sales abroad, apparently...as the sale of the 220 Tomahawks had to be approved.
Seems one can't just rock up to the US Missile Shop, place an order and have it shipped.

Fellahs, the F-104 was retired from service in 1989. The German Luftwaffe pilots called it the Widowmaker
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 12:30:23 AM: Lauren Opal Boebert is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly.

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Lauren, my new hero, is also very articulate ...a "thinking man's" kind of woman.
A man who thinks one can never have too much security would likely find her appealing.

Pity the staff and customers at the Broad Arrow cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania hadn't been toting guns, then they might not have been massacred by Martin Bryant with his assault rifle/s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 18, 2023, 01:50:49 AM: I have never are a politician more damningly condemned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 10:52:15 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 17, 2023, 09:21:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 17, 2023, 04:02:51 PM
Raccacoonie!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
The STRONGEST EVIDENCE TO DATE ?
Written by a staff writer at the Atlantic whose source was a scientist NOT INVOLVED in the research?

Well, suppose it is true.

Then explain how the left has been bellowing for three years that the previous evidence clearly pointed to the wet market?

These animals are sold in such markets, as the article made clear to those who read it. The racoon dog DNA traces, evidence shared with the larger scientific community, add to the strength of the basic theory that there was an animal intermediary between bats and humans. Epidemiology tends to work on accumulations of evidence from various sources, and often finds more than one intermediary species. Pangolins could be another, as could red foxes, palm civets and mink. This has nothing to do with the "Left" and is about various lines of scientific evidence that point towards the similarity of many many disease outbreaks from places where there is low sanitation, high human proximity, and animal species that carry a virus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:03:42 AM: (https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/00B89191-204F-4542-B11C449A3E26881D_source.jpg?w=390&h=520&9DB2BA55-14BF-4FA6-BDEC097575C3E2A9)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:11:00 AM: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-supports-animal-origin-of-covid-virus-through-raccoon-dogs/

Florence Debarre, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research discovered genetic sequences of the virus that researchers in China, led by George Gao, former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, had uploaded to a public genomic database called GISAID. The sequences were subsequently taken down but not before several other researchers from different countries downloaded and analyzed them. Samples containing viral RNA, which had been collected at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in early 2020, also contained genetic material from raccoon dogs, a foxlike type of canid apparently sold at the market, as well as other animals. The genetic material came from the same areas of the market where COVID was found, suggesting that the raccoon dogs may have been infected with the virus (possibly by other animals) and could have been the first to spread the virus to humans.

Hope that helps.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:13:54 AM: REPOSTED FIRST REPLY POST, DUE TO PAGE BREAK

Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2023, 10:52:15 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 17, 2023, 09:21:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 17, 2023, 04:02:51 PM
Raccacoonie!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
The STRONGEST EVIDENCE TO DATE ?
Written by a staff writer at the Atlantic whose source was a scientist NOT INVOLVED in the research?

Well, suppose it is true.

Then explain how the left has been bellowing for three years that the previous evidence clearly pointed to the wet market?

These animals are sold in such markets, as the article made clear to those who read it. The racoon dog DNA traces, evidence shared with the larger scientific community, add to the strength of the basic theory that there was an animal intermediary between bats and humans. Epidemiology tends to work on accumulations of evidence from various sources, and often finds more than one intermediary species. Pangolins could be another, as could red foxes, palm civets and mink. This has nothing to do with the "Left" and is about various lines of scientific evidence that point towards the similarity of many many disease outbreaks from places where there is low sanitation, high human proximity, and animal species that carry a virus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:15:23 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2023, 11:11:00 AM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-supports-animal-origin-of-covid-virus-through-raccoon-dogs/

Florence Debarre, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research discovered genetic sequences of the virus that researchers in China, led by George Gao, former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, had uploaded to a public genomic database called GISAID. The sequences were subsequently taken down but not before several other researchers from different countries downloaded and analyzed them. Samples containing viral RNA, which had been collected at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in early 2020, also contained genetic material from raccoon dogs, a foxlike type of canid apparently sold at the market, as well as other animals. The genetic material came from the same areas of the market where COVID was found, suggesting that the raccoon dogs may have been infected with the virus (possibly by other animals) and could have been the first to spread the virus to humans.

Hope that helps.
Helps what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:22:59 AM: Your post earlier:

Quote from: Espnthree on March 17, 2023, 09:21:59 PM

Then explain how the left has been bellowing for three years that the previous evidence clearly pointed to the wet market?

So I posted, at some expenditure of time, how this new evidence does in fact lend further support to wet market transmission. Are you really unable to connect your question to the bolded sections of the Scientific American clip?

My clips also clarify how the data was uploaded and shared, another matter on which you seemed concerned. Various sources, thanks to access to the Chinese-collected samples, could analyze the genomes of those samples and find the raccoon dog sequences.

You're welcome.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM: Epidemiology tends to work on accumulations of evidence from various sources, and often finds more than one intermediary species. Pangolins could be another, as could red foxes, palm civets and mink. This has nothing to do with the "Left" and is about various lines of scientific evidence that point towards the similarity of many many disease outbreaks from places where there is low sanitation, high human proximity, and animal species that carry a virus.

Sure, and this type of evidence was ignored by the epidemiologists at the FBI and Department of Energy?

The point you continue to ignore is why you are so bent on blaming Covid on a wet market while ignoring the suppression of equally scientific findings of the Wuhan Lab connections.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:54:30 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM

Sure, and this type of evidence was ignored by the epidemiologists at the FBI and Department of Energy?

No, but it was apparently given lesser weight by intelligence analysts not epidemiologists who were writing their intelligence reports. Pretty much every scientist in relevant fields felt that was a mistake, especially given the new genomic DNA evidence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2023, 11:58:49 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM

The point you continue to ignore is why you are so bent on blaming Covid on a wet market while ignoring the suppression of equally scientific findings of the Wuhan Lab connections.

Not bent on anything but seeing what genomic trace evidence can reveal. The bolded words are incorrect. There is no genomic trace data at all supporting a lab leak, let alone genomic trace data of equal weight to what we now have from the wet market samples. If such data exists, it has not been shared. I would welcome any such data if you have it available. I simply want to know how the pathogen moved from bats to the human population, as do most scientists. Given that 99% of viral infections pass to humans in this way, especially through densely packed Asian and Third World markets where human-animal proximity is high, it would be wise to entertain DNA evidence that supports this as yet another case of such zoonotic transmission.

Actual scientists in those fields, like a friend of mine who works in a microbiology lab in Canada, are not interested in denying or ignoring any valid data sets. Such narratives of denial are concocted in the media to create drama and stir up exciting scenarios of partisan battle. That's why you're likely to find better reporting from journals like Scientific American or Nature. I posted one such report from SciAm for people here to read.

Here it is again.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-supports-animal-origin-of-covid-virus-through-raccoon-dogs/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 12:15:08 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2023, 11:58:49 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM

The point you continue to ignore is why you are so bent on blaming Covid on a wet market while ignoring the suppression of equally scientific findings of the Wuhan Lab connections.

Not bent on anything but seeing what genomic trace evidence can reveal. The bolded words are incorrect.
Says who?
Why are you reluctant to hear all opinions?
And why do you continue to not object to the censorship of scientists with other perspectives?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 18, 2023, 04:36:28 PM: The consensus is that Red and trump killed grandma once the virus got to the United States. The republican party is being decommissioned as a result.

DeMint is quickly dumping his money into real estate before he is chucked in the river with the rest of the trash.

Donald is rehearsing his perp walk.

Get right with your soul, Red, while you still have time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 04:58:30 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2023, 11:54:30 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM

Sure, and this type of evidence was ignored by the epidemiologists at the FBI and Department of Energy?

No, but it was apparently given lesser weight by intelligence analysts not epidemiologists
who were writing their intelligence reports. Pretty much every scientist in relevant fields felt that was a mistake, especially given the new genomic DNA evidence.
Might want to research again. Before you embarrass yourself even further.
Quote
Pretty much every scientist in relevant fields felt that was a mistake, especially given the new genomic DNA evidence.
Except the scientists and epidemiologists who work for the FBI and the Department of Energy. Again, no one knows the origin ( and probably never will).
But we do know for certain that Covid came from China whose communist leaders are purposely lying to prevent the world learning the truth which is unforgivable since we are all at risk in pandemics.
To combat the evils of Communism means ALL theories are worth researching and debating.
Not just the ones you favor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 18, 2023, 05:17:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 12:15:08 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2023, 11:58:49 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 18, 2023, 11:24:27 AM

The point you continue to ignore is why you are so bent on blaming Covid on a wet market while ignoring the suppression of equally scientific findings of the Wuhan Lab connections.

Not bent on anything but seeing what genomic trace evidence can reveal. The bolded words are incorrect.
Says who?
Why are you reluctant to hear all opinions?
And why do you continue to not object to the censorship of scientists with other perspectives?

Just asking questions.

Take that Tucker Carlson bullshit elsewhere
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 18, 2023, 06:41:36 PM: Bambu, we have some F-104 Starfighters in storage in the desert that we can sell to Australia, and we make the Sidewinder Missiles here at China Lake, and so I asked the leaders at Edwards Air Force Base to help to make sure that the people of Australia are protected against rogue enemy missiles. But, the F-104 Starfighters need to be modified, you need to vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighters in order to improve the steering and to help the F-104 to pull out of spins. And then, you also need to update all of the technology on the F-104 Starfighters.

We have a bunch of F-104 Starfighters in storage, but they need to be modified and updated.

And we can make more, Lockheed can manufacture new planes in Mojave, California, etc.

We need to be able to shoot down the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

And the F-104 Starfighter is a good chase plane for NASA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 07:55:06 PM: Not the raccoon dogs' fault.
It's China's fault for allowing what goes on in China.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 18, 2023, 07:56:32 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 18, 2023, 06:41:36 PM
Bambu, we have some F-104 Starfighters in storage in the desert that we can sell to Australia, and we make the Sidewinder Missiles here at China Lake, and so I asked the leaders at Edwards Air Force Base to help to make sure that the people of Australia are protected against rogue enemy missiles. But, the F-104 Starfighters need to be modified, you need to vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighters in order to improve the steering and to help the F-104 to pull out of spins. And then, you also need to update all of the technology on the F-104 Starfighters.

We have a bunch of F-104 Starfighters in storage, but they need to be modified and updated.

And we can make more, Lockheed can manufacture new planes in Mojave, California, etc.

We need to be able to shoot down the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

And the F-104 Starfighter is a good chase plane for NASA.

Salute,

Tony V.

RAF just caught a bunch of F-35s to replace the F-18s
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 08:02:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 18, 2023, 06:41:36 PM
Bambu, we have some F-104 Starfighters in storage in the desert that we can sell to Australia, and we make the Sidewinder Missiles here at China Lake, and so I asked the leaders at Edwards Air Force Base to help to make sure that the people of Australia are protected against rogue enemy missiles. But, the F-104 Starfighters need to be modified, you need to vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighters in order to improve the steering and to help the F-104 to pull out of spins. And then, you also need to update all of the technology on the F-104 Starfighters.

We have a bunch of F-104 Starfighters in storage, but they need to be modified and updated.

And we can make more, Lockheed can manufacture new planes in Mojave, California, etc.

We need to be able to shoot down the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

And the F-104 Starfighter is a good chase plane for NASA.

Salute,

Tony V.

Anything is better than what we have now, which is not much....and certainly nowhere near enough.
"Rocket Man" says he now has a rocket than can reach Australia. There needs to be a way to shoot it down before it blows me up. [being totally selfish]
And of course blows up my neighbours and friends.
My little dog also wouldn't like missiles falling all around.

It would be good if bambuworld had the capacity to fire a missile right back at him, blow up his house, with him in it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 08:16:45 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 18, 2023, 07:56:32 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 18, 2023, 06:41:36 PM
Bambu, we have some F-104 Starfighters in storage in the desert that we can sell to Australia, and we make the Sidewinder Missiles here at China Lake, and so I asked the leaders at Edwards Air Force Base to help to make sure that the people of Australia are protected against rogue enemy missiles. But, the F-104 Starfighters need to be modified, you need to vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighters in order to improve the steering and to help the F-104 to pull out of spins. And then, you also need to update all of the technology on the F-104 Starfighters.

We have a bunch of F-104 Starfighters in storage, but they need to be modified and updated.

And we can make more, Lockheed can manufacture new planes in Mojave, California, etc.

We need to be able to shoot down the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, etc.

And the F-104 Starfighter is a good chase plane for NASA.

Salute,

Tony V.

RAF just caught a bunch of F-35s to replace the F-18s

Indeed, I'd forgotten about them and their capability.

For instance, an F-35 could fire air-to-ground bombs or missiles to explode the ICBM, or even use lasers and electronic warfare to incinerate, jam or disable the flight trajectory of an attacking ICBM.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 18, 2023, 09:20:55 PM: Not only I who should be concerned;

msn: North Korean missile could hit U.S. in 33 mins, says study; find gaps in U.S. missile defence (WION)

#####

Gaps?
That's not good.

Trump said that if NK fired missile at the US, NK would cease to exist.
What does Biden say?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 19, 2023, 12:19:36 AM: We cannot allow a mineshaft gap!

(http://www.grunge.com/img/gallery/peter-sellers-on-set-injury-that-lost-him-a-fourth-role-in-dr-strangelove/intro-1654089854.sm.webp)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 02:38:56 PM: I worked at China Lake when they were working on the Star Wars program for Missile Defense...

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

One advancement that resulted from the research at China Lake was Laser Eye Surgery.

The most obvious advancements in Missile Defense is the Iron Dome in Israel which the USA and Israel worked together to develop.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 02:52:07 PM: A new thing that the scientists are working on is to be able to better see the nuclear weapons, and when combining that research with research on lasers, a scientist told me that they hope to be able to remove Cancer. They want to be able to see and isolate the Cancer and then remove the Cancer with the laser that only removes the Cancer and which leaves all other tissue in tact.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 03:48:53 PM: The F-35 and the F-104 Starfighter are totally different airplanes, and each has their strengths. What makes the F-104 Starfighter better at intercepting Missiles is that the F-104 Starfighter is WAY faster than the F-35 and the F-104 can go to high altitude quickly and can shoot down the ICBM. The F-35 is good to put on an aircraft carrier and to use as a fighter plane, the F-35 handles well and is agile.

If you want a fast plane to go up and shoot down the ICBM, then you want the F-104 Starfighter, but the F-104 needs to be modified, you need to vector the thrust to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, and you need to update all of the technology on it, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 04:22:17 PM: Of note, we need for more women to study to be scientists, at China Lake it was all men. The scientists are cool people, and they study everyday so they are all brilliant. I had the opportunity to have a permanent job at China Lake, but it was all men, there was not any women there. We need for more women to become scientists. I love women, and I did not want to live out in the middle of nowhere where there was not any women.

More women are also becoming pilots, etc, which is good.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 19, 2023, 09:46:41 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/international-churches-of-christ-lawsuits-alleged-sexual-abuse (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/international-churches-of-christ-lawsuits-alleged-sexual-abuse)

No wonder they do not want books on schools.

They do not want people reading about their skeevy deeds in the future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 20, 2023, 10:03:42 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 02:52:07 PM
A new thing that the scientists are working on is to be able to better see the nuclear weapons, and when combining that research with research on lasers, a scientist told me that they hope to be able to remove Cancer. They want to be able to see and isolate the Cancer and then remove the Cancer with the laser that only removes the Cancer and which leaves all other tissue in tact.

Salute...

Who was the scientist? I have seen some of the research, where they induce tumor cells to absorb a dye which will then make the tumor absorb more laser light of a certain frequency , heat up as a result, then die. Was not aware this was connected in any way to weapons research, hence my curiosity as to who this scientist was.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on March 20, 2023, 10:16:11 AM: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1162711459/cut-emissions-quickly-to-save-lives-scientists-warn-in-a-new-u-n-report

The cloud capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 10:48:54 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 20, 2023, 10:03:42 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2023, 02:52:07 PM
A new thing that the scientists are working on is to be able to better see the nuclear weapons, and when combining that research with research on lasers, a scientist told me that they hope to be able to remove Cancer. They want to be able to see and isolate the Cancer and then remove the Cancer with the laser that only removes the Cancer and which leaves all other tissue in tact.

Salute...

Who was the scientist? I have seen some of the research, where they induce tumor cells to absorb a dye which will then make the tumor absorb more laser light of a certain frequency , heat up as a result, then die. Was not aware this was connected in any way to weapons research, hence my curiosity as to who this scientist was.
Sounds like Dr. Merkwuerdigliebe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 10:49:49 AM: Two references on the same page, i see.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 11:04:43 AM: Quote from: calibandwagon on March 20, 2023, 10:16:11 AM
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1162711459/cut-emissions-quickly-to-save-lives-scientists-warn-in-a-new-u-n-report

The cloud capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
I sense a real tempest behind your posts to date.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 12:14:21 PM: Re: Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

Hubris squared.

Once CO2 is introduced to the atmosphere it can stick around from 300 to 1,000 years.

As the Hippy Dippy Weatherman once advised after his radar showed ICBM missies trailing a low front:

Do not sweat the Thunderstorms!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 20, 2023, 02:07:45 PM: Do not worry, Red. No one wants to save your worthless life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 03:06:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 12:14:21 PM
Re: Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

Hubris squared.

Your utter disregard for any science you disagree with politically has previously been noted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2023, 03:26:53 PM: I do not know the name of the scientist, he started out with just an Associate in Arts Degree, and then he had such a sense of curiosity and he had such a desire to learn that he kept studying. He worked at China Lake, and now he is working at the University of California in Irvine as a research scientist.

The new stuff that he is working on has to do with the technology that we use to see the nuclear weapons at our ports and borders, we are improving our ability to see nuclear weapons. We are even working on being able to see nuclear weapons from space. The scientist said that he wants to use the same technology that they are using to see nuclear weapons to see and isolate Cancer and then he wants to use a laser set at the same frequency as the Cancer to go in and remove the Cancer while not doing any harm to the surrounding healthy tissue. He said it had to do with vibration, and everything having its own distinct vibration.

I am sure if he makes any breakthroughs that UCI will publish the findings.

https://uci.edu/research/index.php

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 03:42:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 03:06:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 12:14:21 PM
Re: Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

Hubris squared.

Your utter disregard for any science you disagree with politically has previously been noted.
what science did I disagree with?
And why would it matter?
Scientists challenge other scientists all the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 20, 2023, 04:29:52 PM: Yes they challenge on flawed data collection or experimental setup or other methodological problems. Not on whether or not fossil fuel industry promoters feel threatened.
All moot anyway since anthropegenic global warming and resultant mortality and suffering has now happened, a well documented reality for millions of people. As Caliban's posted UN report makes clear.

May our new member live long and prospero.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2023, 05:28:01 PM: As Biden promises to fund research in order to search for a cure for Cancer, then we need to open new schools and libraries and laboratories all over the USA including in the poorest parts of Kentucky.

And we can teach kids the principles of science when they are young. We can also teach the kids how to make paper airplanes, and they can make and launch model rockets, etc.

As we provide our people with a free Associate in Arts Degree from our community colleges, then some students are going to accelerate in certain fields, and we need to nurture their enthusiasm, they may go on to cure Cancer.

America was built by scientists such as Ben Franklin, and many others, and many Americans will go on to do great things if we can teach them and get them started on their journey to success.

And I love how the scientists of today are incorporating all of the new knowledge to benefit humanity, such as the creation of Laser Eye Surgery while working on research on lasers, and how the technology behind a tool that we use to see nuclear weapons at our ports and at our borders may someday help us to better see and isolate Cancer so that we can remove the Cancer with a special laser.

Biden is spending a lot of money on research to find a cure for Cancer, and we need for some of the money to go to build schools, libraries, and laboratories in our poorest areas, including in Kentucky. And we need to teach the principles of science to the children at a very young age.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 06:01:24 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 03:42:50 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 03:06:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 12:14:21 PM
Re: Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

Hubris squared.

Your utter disregard for any science you disagree with politically has previously been noted.
what science did I disagree with?
Liar. See supra.
Quote
And why would it matter?
True enough, you are a PROVEN LIAR so nothing you post matters.
Quote
Scientists challenge other scientists all the time.
Based on science, not political positions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 20, 2023, 06:12:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 03:42:50 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 03:06:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 12:14:21 PM
Re: Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

Hubris squared.

Your utter disregard for any science you disagree with politically has previously been noted.
what science did I disagree with?
And why would it matter?
Scientists challenge other scientists all the time.

Sure!

Like the ones hired by the tobacco and automobile industries
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 06:19:00 PM: :(
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 06:01:24 PM
Your utter disregard for any science you disagree with politically has previously been noted.
what science did I disagree with?
Quote
Liar. See supra.
That is a challenge for you, not me.
Scientists challenge other scientists all the time.
Quote
Based on science, not political positions.
[/Quote On science
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2023, 07:49:54 PM: Four billion dollars is being pumped into the area by where the Ducks play Hockey, the area is going to be very nice when the work is completed, and Anaheim will receive even more tourists to compliment the 50,000 tourists that we already receive per day here in Anaheim.

We need for a new local owner to buy the Angels, such as Gwen Stefani, but we still have Disney which is expanding and which is doing fantastic, Disney is a great company, plus our local schools are training people for jobs at Disney, etc, we have a lot to be grateful for as we work to make things even better.

We also need to connect Anaheim and Las Vegas with a high speed train.

We are also redeveloping the area on Beach Blvd. Anaheim has a lot of projects going on.

I will keep sending the city my ideas as we work to improve our city.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2023, 08:21:53 PM: I tried to get the San Manuel Native American Indian Tribe of San Bernardino to open a movie studio here in my neighborhood, just a small studio like the Occidental Studio in East Hollywood, but the Tribe was not interested.

Now New Mexico has the Camel Rock Studio which is owned by Indigenous People so maybe later the San Manuel Tribe will become interested in the movie business. And making movies gives them a voice, they can tell their own stories that they want to tell if they own a movie studio.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on March 21, 2023, 11:32:36 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 20, 2023, 03:42:50 PM
what science did I disagree with?
And why would it matter?
Scientists challenge other scientists all the time.

Watch out, he is winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on March 21, 2023, 11:38:37 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2023, 11:04:43 AM
Quote from: calibandwagon on March 20, 2023, 10:16:11 AM
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1162711459/cut-emissions-quickly-to-save-lives-scientists-warn-in-a-new-u-n-report

The cloud capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
I sense a real tempest behind your posts to date.

I remain mum on this matter.

Until someone reads me my...Miranda rights.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 21, 2023, 11:58:05 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 20, 2023, 04:29:52 PM
Yes they challenge on flawed data collection or experimental setup or other methodological problems. Not on whether or not fossil fuel industry promoters feel threatened.
All moot anyway since anthropegenic global warming and resultant mortality and suffering has now happened, a well documented reality for millions of people.
But nowhere close to the predictions of the doomsayers.
Even Greta is backtracking on her calamitous warning in 2018 that said the end of humanity would come in five years without the elimination of fossil fuels.
She can be excused given her youth and innocence even though supposed adults named her a Person of the Year.
As for the rest of the Big Green lobby it is more disingenuous than any fossil fuel enterprise.

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As ~~Caliban~~posted UN report makes clear.
OILCAN
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 21, 2023, 12:01:29 PM: Cut emissions quickly...
for economic ruin, defence disadvantage and a miserable life for the nation's people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2023, 12:51:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 21, 2023, 11:58:05 AM
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As ~~Caliban~~posted UN report makes clear.
OILCAN
O brave new world, that has such people in 't!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 21, 2023, 12:54:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2023, 12:51:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 21, 2023, 11:58:05 AM
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As ~~Caliban~~posted UN report makes clear.
OILCAN
O brave new world, that has such people in 't!
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 21, 2023, 09:59:27 PM: Red is the longest saddest example ever of a critter drowning in its own asshole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 01:07:58 AM: We have some positive things happening here in Anaheim, Disney is doing great, and a lot of money is being invested here in Anaheim.

Las Vegas is also doing great, and a lot of money is being invested in Vegas.

Vegas and Anaheim both depend on Tourism, and we need to have a high speed train that connects Vegas with Anaheim.

And the local Mayors are all working hard to help the homeless people.

As prosperity happens here in Southern California, then we need to share our prosperity with Vegas, and with Mexico, and it can grow, we can send goods from Mexican ports with Mexican Truck Drivers to Kentucky to put goods onto the shelves of stores in the poor towns in Kentucky. We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to have a Good Neighbor Policy with Mexico and we need for Mexican Truck Drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union, etc.

Also, we need to invest in Education here in the USA, and we need to build new Medical Schools, and new Laboratories, in Kentucky, and in Nevada, and all over the USA. Here in Orange County we have the University of California in Irvine Medical School, which is a great Medical School, and UCI is doing a lot of research, etc.

California also needs to give people tax breaks to make movies and television shows here in Southern California. We also need to bring Apple to buy the Sony Studio, and Apple can make movies and television shows here in Culver City, etc.

And the Small Business Administration can give out loans for people to open new farms which can employ the homeless people and the refugees, etc. We need to promote farming for the homeless people and they can live on communes like the hippies and they can grow food and they can make cheese, and they can do trade with San Francisco, etc.

We can also get NASA to tell altruistic Gold Mining Companies where the gold is in Mexico, etc, and the money from the Gold Mines can be used to help the orphans in Mexico, and to build schools and libraries in Mexico, etc. And the Gold Mining Company can help poor areas in Mexico to have clean safe running water, and electricity, and telephones, and radio, and television, etc, etc, etc. NASA can help the poor people of Mexico by telling altruistic companies where the Gold is in Mexico, etc.

I see some positive things happening, and we can work hard to accentuate and expand the positive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 22, 2023, 02:17:15 AM: From my tv news just now:

"In bambuland today the middle class is the new working poor."
"Households struggling to make ends meet".

Sounds about correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 22, 2023, 04:26:48 AM: What I learnt from Youtube today:

In America "Everybody Is A Gangsta Until They Hear Their Sentences".
"Everybody is Acting Tough Till They Hear Their Sentences".

Then they're dragged from the courts crying and screaming as the reality of decades in prison sinks in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 22, 2023, 07:09:19 AM: Turn off the the screens. Go outside.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 22, 2023, 02:10:44 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 22, 2023, 07:09:19 AM
Turn off the the screens. Go outside.

Tried that, but then I was living in "the dark".
It was good in one way, freedom from news, freedom from politics, a peaceful life among the birds, trees, blue sky, flowers, ocean.
But it was not so good in other ways...I almost missed the article informing that when in a vehicle, if the front seat passenger is viewing a screen...phone, tablet etc ...and the screen is visible to the driver, then that is about a $400 fine for the driver....whether or not the driver is watching the screen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 03:24:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 22, 2023, 02:17:15 AM
From my tv news just now:

"In bambuland today the middle class is the new working poor."
"Households struggling to make ends meet".

Sounds about correct.

There is a quote that really made me think, the quote is about having people in your boat who are drilling holes instead of helping to row the boat. Some people who you think are on your team may actually be doing more harm than good.

Australia needs to keep close ties with California.

And Australia needs to build Libraries, and Schools, and Laboratories.

Also, Australia needs to learn from the Ancient Greeks, and from the Romans.

And every nation in the world needs good Labor Unions and good Labor Laws.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 03:31:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 22, 2023, 04:26:48 AM
What I learnt from Youtube today:

In America "Everybody Is A Gangsta Until They Hear Their Sentences".
"Everybody is Acting Tough Till They Hear Their Sentences".

Then they're dragged from the courts crying and screaming as the reality of decades in prison sinks in.

The USA needs to stop making heroes out of the bad people.

And the Gangster Rap is all bullshit, America needs to wake up.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 22, 2023, 03:55:30 PM: You mean musicians who tell people to suck on their machine guns? Like Ted Nugent?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 04:19:33 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 22, 2023, 03:55:30 PM
You mean musicians who tell people to suck on their machine guns? Like Ted Nugent?

There is a Christian music school in Rome, The Saint Louis College of Music, which is training the Christian musicians of the future, and if I had a night club in Rome then I would want for the Christian bands to play at my club, and if I was producing music then I would want to produce the good Christian bands.

I grew up listening to Judas Priest and to Black Sabbath, and to other bands that are all about Satan, and finally I could not listen to it anymore, I hate Satan and I do not enjoy listening to music about Satan anymore. If I was a producer I would be producing Christian bands. I am a Christian.

Ted Nugent is a great guitar player, but I do not agree with everything that Ted says and does. But, Ted does love the USA, no matter what you can know that he truly does love the USA and American Rock and Roll. Ted loved Chuck Berry, and Little Richard, and Bo Didley, Ted loves American Rock and Roll.

If it was up to me I would be producing Christian music, and fun surf music here in California like Jan and Dean, etc.

And Rock and Roll used to be about women, and love, and fun, and cars, etc. There is no reason for music to be about Satan, nor for it to be about Gangs and killing each other and selling drugs, etc.

As our society goes further and further into the toilet, then we need to look at the music that the children are listening to, etc, and we need to look at the entertainment that our kids are internalizing.

If I owned Universal Studios then I would be aware of how the entertainment that we produce effects society.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 04:30:52 PM: Bambu, Australia needs to get closer to California as Australia rises. And we have a lot in common, we have nice beaches, beautiful women, sunshine and nice weather, etc.

England does not want to see the Australians have better lives than the people in England, just as the people in England get jealous and upset about Ireland becoming more wealthy and successful than England. Australia needs to rise anyway, and succeed anyway.

When you become successful then some people become jealous, there are many other states in the USA where the people are jealous of California, I used to get beat up as a kid in Oregon because I was born in California, but we need to rise and succeed anyway. We need to be great, and we need to live our best lives, even if it makes other people jealous. I need to be concerned with living my best life instead of worrying about who I might make jealous. The same thing needs to happen with Australia, Australia needs to rise to become way better than England, and England will be jealous of Australia, but Australia needs to rise regardless.

Australia is nice like California, and Australia and California need to be close allies, and do not worry about who you might make jealous by succeeding.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 22, 2023, 04:36:32 PM: If we can change how people think and feel, then we can change how they behave.

Music, movies, television shows, etc, all have the power to change how people think and feel, and thus the Entertainment Industry has the power to effect how people behave.

If I owned Universal Studios then I would be aware of the fact that the Entertainment that people consume effects how they behave.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 23, 2023, 10:10:03 AM: Surprised this story is not getting more attention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/health/covid-cdc.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 23, 2023, 11:26:30 AM: https://archive.is/tsLQV

paywall free version

The MAGA Right, and its media apparatchiks, will ignore the fact that Trump muzzled government researchers, causing needless thousands of deaths. Former Fearless Leader must never be questioned - he is an instrument of God, above all earthly critique.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 23, 2023, 03:18:07 PM: My radio news just announced that;
" 'Athletics' has decided that Male to Female Transgender people, who have gone thru puberty as Male, will not be allowed to compete in global Athletics competitions as Female".

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 23, 2023, 09:23:36 PM: I prefer you going on about bullshit like this rather than serious topics, Bambi. Your ignorance becomes slightly less offensive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 23, 2023, 09:37:18 PM: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/studies-link-marijuana-legalization-to-all-sorts-of-positive-public-health-outcomes/ (http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/studies-link-marijuana-legalization-to-all-sorts-of-positive-public-health-outcomes/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 23, 2023, 11:51:44 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 23, 2023, 09:23:36 PM
I prefer you going on about bullshit like this rather than serious topics, Bambi. Your ignorance becomes slightly less offensive.

It's very serious to biological female athletes, girls and women worldwide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 24, 2023, 09:48:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 23, 2023, 03:18:07 PM
My radio news just announced that;
" 'Athletics' has decided that Male to Female Transgender people, who have gone thru puberty as Male, will not be allowed to compete in global Athletics competitions as Female".

Well there you go.

The question here is relevant in contact sports, where puberty males might have a body mass and bone structure that could present some hazards to cis-female competitors. This is one of the few issues, amid a vast sea of bogeyman issues, that I can see as worth discussing. Unfortunately instead of focusing on real issues of fair competition and player safety, a lot of the RW seems more interested in exercising their bigotries and leaping to their conclusion that a birth male is inherently a threat after transitioning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 24, 2023, 10:07:56 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 24, 2023, 09:48:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 23, 2023, 03:18:07 PM
My radio news just announced that;
" 'Athletics' has decided that Male to Female Transgender people, who have gone thru puberty as Male, will not be allowed to compete in global Athletics competitions as Female".

Well there you go.

The question here is relevant in contact sports, where puberty males might have a body mass and bone structure that could present some hazards to cis-female competitors. This is one of the few issues, amid a vast sea of bogeyman issues, that I can see as worth discussing. Unfortunately instead of focusing on real issues of fair competition and player safety, a lot of the RW seems more interested in exercising their bigotries and leaping to their conclusion that a birth male is inherently a threat after transitioning.
That is a bunch of sophomoric analyzing .The whole point of mixing transgenders into competition is straight forward, regardless of your bogeyman nonsense. Science long ago settled the debate.
You apparently assume that gay female sports participants meekly accept male to female transgenders and see no disadvantages in competition.
You might want to study the situation from that perspective just a bit more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 24, 2023, 02:12:05 PM: Red is concerned for rapey coaching staff like the Ohio State wrestling program. Think of the poor doctor or coach who grabs a players junk only to find themselves fondling unexpected equipment. It is almost enough to get Red to give up his enthusiasm for athletics in general and to start following the exploits of Russian army conscripts instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 02:56:27 PM: I just saw that Cameron Diaz wants to quit acting, a lot of people are quitting show business, and that is sad. In the old days a lot of people were grateful to be able to work in the Entertainment Industry, and it was a dream job, but now people are quitting.

Maybe Apple can bring back the joy of acting and of working in the Entertainment Industry. Maybe Apple can help to make acting a dream job again.

I hope that Cameron Diaz will consider producing for Apple, and she can help to fix the Entertainment Industry, and to make it a dream job again.

( Of note, Cameron Diaz is a local from here in California, she was born in San Diego. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 05:02:17 PM: Ms Diaz is no longer 21, or 31...and as such, being financially secure, could possibly want to take life a little more slowly, a lot more relaxed.
Sleep in, throw away watches and alarm clocks, smell the roses, drink coffee and watch Youtube videos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM: We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:10:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 05:02:17 PM
Ms Diaz is no longer 21, or 31...and as such, being financially secure, could possibly want to take life a little more slowly, a lot more relaxed.
Sleep in, throw away watches and alarm clocks, smell the roses, drink coffee and watch Youtube videos.

She can use her experience and wisdom to be a Boss for Apple, and she can be treated like a Queen by Apple, while at the same time she can help to save the Entertainment Industry for the next generation. She can help to create dream jobs for the kids who are sacrificing everything to go to acting school and to film school, etc. Apple is rich, and she could be treated like a queen. And Apple is local from California, and also Cameron Diaz is local from California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 24, 2023, 05:35:58 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 02:56:27 PM
I just saw that Cameron Diaz wants to quit acting...

Tony V.
What, again?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:39:32 PM: When I worked at Universal Studios we had our own Police Department, and it was great to have our own Police Force. I recommend that Metrolink and the other transportation companies have their own Transportation Police.

Here in Anaheim I was friends with the City Council and with the Chief of Police at Kiwanis International, and I have always felt like the police in Anaheim try to serve the public in a good way, they know they are there to serve the people and not to be abusive assholes. We need for the cops to be a positive part of the community. I want for my local Police Department to serve me, the same way that our own Police Department served us at Universal Studios when I worked at Universal.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 24, 2023, 05:42:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 24, 2023, 02:12:05 PM
Red is concerned for rapey coaching staff like the Ohio State wrestling program. Think of the poor doctor or coach who grabs a players junk only to find themselves fondling unexpected equipment. It is almost enough to get Red to give up his enthusiasm for athletics in general and to start following the exploits of Russian army conscripts instead.
Red prefers the Ugandan method of dealing with people whose sexual identities confuse, frighten and confusingly and frighteningly arouse, him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 06:54:01 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM
We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes,
"There's no such thing as too much security".

'Dirty Harry' on every bus and train would be a big help.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 24, 2023, 06:57:34 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 24, 2023, 10:07:56 AM

You apparently assume that gay female sports participants meekly accept male to female transgenders and see no disadvantages in competition.

Cannot fathom where you got that from my post. You seem unable to manage reading comprehension - which explains a lot of what I've been seeing here lately. Good luck to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 07:29:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 06:54:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM
We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes,
"There's no such thing as too much security".

'Dirty Harry' on every bus and train would be a big help.
Did you know that Dirty Harry, like Rambo, is a fictional character?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 07:44:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 07:29:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 06:54:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM
We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes,
"There's no such thing as too much security".

'Dirty Harry' on every bus and train would be a big help.
Did you know that Dirty Harry, like Rambo, is a fictional character?

I did, I do.
"Dirty Harry"...a gun toting cop willing to shoot bad guys...can easily be copied.
Would certainly deter people intent on crime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 24, 2023, 07:54:54 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 24, 2023, 06:57:34 PM

You apparently assume that gay female sports participants meekly accept male to female transgenders and see no disadvantage in competition.

Cannot fathom where you got that from my post.
Maybe you should read your posts
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 08:02:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 07:44:29 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 07:29:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 06:54:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM
We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes,
"There's no such thing as too much security".

'Dirty Harry' on every bus and train would be a big help.
Did you know that Dirty Harry, like Rambo, is a fictional character?

I did, I do.
"Dirty Harry"...a gun toting cop willing to shoot bad guys...can easily be copied.
Would certainly deter people intent on crime.
In the realm of non-fiction, this country doesn't seem to lack for "gun toting cops willing to shoot...."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 25, 2023, 03:25:44 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 24, 2023, 07:54:54 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 24, 2023, 06:57:34 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 24, 2023, 10:07:56 AM

You apparently assume that gay female sports participants meekly accept male to female transgenders and see no disadvantages in competition.

Cannot fathom where you got that from my post. [/quote Maybe you should read your posts
Nice retort from the mouth breather who likes to criticize the formatting of posts he cannot possibly comprehend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 25, 2023, 03:27:51 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 08:02:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 07:44:29 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 24, 2023, 07:29:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 24, 2023, 06:54:01 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM
We are having problems with crime on our buses and trains, and along with hiring more security, then they can also let the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members ride the trains and buses for free and then crime will go down.

When I worked at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the owner was too cheap to pay for security at the casino, so instead we gave free food and free coffee, etc, to the local Police Department, and the cops all hung out at our casino, we had zero crime because our casino was the hang out for the Police Department.

If Los Angeles allows the Police and Fire Fighters and Military Members to ride the trains and buses for free then crime will go down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes,
"There's no such thing as too much security".

'Dirty Harry' on every bus and train would be a big help.
Did you know that Dirty Harry, like Rambo, is a fictional character?

I did, I do.
"Dirty Harry"...a gun toting cop willing to shoot bad guys...can easily be copied.
Would certainly deter people intent on crime.
In the realm of non-fiction, this country doesn't seem to lack for "gun toting cops willing to shoot...."

They are all too often found committing crimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 25, 2023, 11:20:29 AM: I was sort of hoping this would prove to be an Onion story, cleverly disguised with a BBC url...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65071989

I am still unsure if I should have posted this in the Arts/comedy section.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 02:05:20 PM: The Los Angeles school district strike ended with help from Mayor Bass, the workers got an immediate $8,000 bonus to be deposited into their bank accounts immediately, plus they received a 33% raise. It pays to have unions, if it was not for the unions then they would still be living in poverty, now they get a bonus and a raise.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 25, 2023, 02:16:16 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 02:05:20 PM
The Los Angeles school district strike ended with help from Mayor Bass, the workers got an immediate $8,000 bonus to be deposited into their bank accounts immediately, plus they received a 33% raise. It pays to have unions, if it was not for the unions then they would still be living in poverty, now they get a bonus and a raise.

Salute,

Tony V.

Right on, Tony!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 25, 2023, 02:17:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 25, 2023, 11:20:29 AM
I was sort of hoping this would prove to be an Onion story, cleverly disguised with a BBC url...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65071989

I am still unsure if I should have posted this in the Arts/comedy section.

It is all part of what makes Florida so special

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/25/2160145/-Florida-s-high-white-death-rate-compared-with-California-s-much-lower-white-death-rate (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/25/2160145/-Florida-s-high-white-death-rate-compared-with-California-s-much-lower-white-death-rate)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 25, 2023, 02:56:35 PM: When the tabloids throw you over the side

(https://i.insider.com/641f033dc60a3d00184ef75a?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:27:07 PM: One of my favorite people in the Entertainment Industry is Sammy Hagar, he grew up locally here in Southern California, in Fontana, and my Mother has a cousin who owns a pharmacy in Fontana and he is probably friends with Sammy Hagar, Sammy probably has been to his pharmacy.

I met Sammy Hagar when I lived in Malibu. I was sleeping and I was awoken by the dogs barking, so I got up and got dressed and I went out to see why the dogs were barking and to make sure everything was cool, and when I walked out into the living room there was Sammy Hagar sitting there talking with the lady who owned the house, Peggy. Peggy was the ex-wife of Sammy Hagar's family doctor in Malibu, Jeff, and so Peggy was friends with Sammy Hagar. Peggy was friends with everyone in Malibu.

Sammy is a cool guy, and he loves Mexico, he would make a good Ambassador to Mexico and he could help to improve relations between the USA and Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:29:09 PM: Trump needs to retire to the Bahamas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in Generjikoik
Post by: LarryB! on March 25, 2023, 04:22:00 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:29:09 PM
Trump needs to retire to the Bahamas.

Salute,

Tony V.

He needs to be retired to FCI- Allenwood
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 04:31:58 PM: Now with the high crime in Hollywood all of the buildings are going to have door men to watch the front door like at Empire West. And all of the clubs in Hollywood are going to have tons of security.

Watching the door for Suzanne Pleshette at Empire West was the easiest job I ever had, it was dangerous I guess, a lot of the guys who I worked with wore bullet proof vests, but I was never afraid, I have never been afraid to live in Hollywood, and watching the front door was easy money for me, there was no fear, and I was able to meet a lot of cool stars, Suzanne Pleshette was a wonderful woman who had a lot of cool friends, and she had cool neighbors.

A lot of people are going to be able to make easy money by watching the door for the rich people, etc, and all of the clubs in Hollywood are going to need security.

If you get a license to carry a gun then you can make a lot of money working as a body guard for the stars. It is easy money.

Making Hollywood safe will create a lot of easy jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in Generjikoik
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2023, 09:06:01 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 25, 2023, 04:22:00 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:29:09 PM
Trump needs to retire to the Bahamas.

Salute,

Tony V.

He needs to be retired to FCI- Allenwood
Title: Re: News in Generjikoik
Post by: Oiled on March 26, 2023, 12:34:45 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 25, 2023, 04:22:00 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:29:09 PM
Trump needs to retire to the Bahamas.

Salute,

Tony V.

He needs to be retired to FCI- Allenwood

BMTI

I was going to say Leavenworth, but I see Allenwood is high security and Leavenworth is only medium, so perhaps that's better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2023, 02:26:55 PM: Before the rains this year we were in a severe drought, and the states which depend on the Colorado River were all getting edgy. California has the rights to the water from the Colorado River, but the other states are not happy with that, and so as the water became scarce then there was some rumbling happening. Thank God for the rain which put an end to the drought, now we have plenty of water, and we have peace, there is no reason to fight over water. But, we need to continue to build new dams, lakes, and acquaducts, in order to make sure that we have plenty of water well into the future.

California will turn all of this rain into food and wine. This water will go to good use, water is a great resource that we do not take for granted.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2023, 02:37:58 PM: We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to put our immigrants to work building high speed trains, and dams, and lakes, and acquaducts, and housing, and they can help to grow food, etc.

We need to make our immigrants legal so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they can join labor unions, etc, and so they can work honest jobs. We need to bring our people out of the shadows and we need to make our immigrants legal, like Reagan did.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 26, 2023, 02:54:04 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2023, 02:37:58 PM
We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to put our immigrants to work building high speed trains, and dams, and lakes, and acquaducts, and housing, and they can help to grow food, etc.

We need to make our immigrants legal so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they can join labor unions, etc, and so they can work honest jobs. We need to bring our people out of the shadows and we need to make our immigrants legal, like Reagan did.

Salute,

Tony V.

Then do not support the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 26, 2023, 02:55:21 PM: Israel descending into the madness of authoritarianism.

Bibi showing Trump how it is done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/world/middleeast/judiciary-overhaul-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-parliament.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2023, 03:50:13 PM: Poverty is the father of revolution and crime.

Conversely, if you live in a wealthy and prosperous nation then there is no reason for crime.

And with our illegal immigrants, then we simply need to make everyone legal, and put them to work honestly.

The issue of the high crime in San Bernardino makes me very angry. My Mother was born in San Bernardino, and my Grandmother worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino, and my Great Grandmother owned her own restaurant in San Bernardino, I have had family members in San Bernardino since the Great Depression. San Bernardino is wealthy, with beautiful weather, and with California State University in San Bernardino, San Bernardino is great.

There is no reason to have high crime in areas which are nice and wealthy.

And for the Mother Fuckers who are giving heroin and crack cocaine and other bullshit drugs to our people, fentanyl, etc, we need to stop the assholes from providing poison to our people. Addiction is a horrible monster. Once they get the kids addicted then they own them, addiction is horrible.

Europe is having success by educating the Youth about the dangers of illegal drugs, we need to invest in teaching the Youth how horrible and dangerous the illegal drugs are.

And I had an Uncle, the fucking drug dealers kept giving him free drugs and they kept him addicted, and I had a hell of a hard time getting him clean from heroin, getting someone clean is so hard, and he was 360 pounds, he was a big man, it was so hard to get him clean from heroin. Then, he finally over-dosed and died, right here in my apartment. He could never get away from illegal drugs and drug addiction, and finally he died from an over-dose. I hate the drug dealers.

I support legal marijuana, but we need to stop the flow of the opioids, etc.

Sabrina Cervantes is the top politician in the San Bernardino area, and she is working hard to improve San Bernardino.

And San Bernardino can expand trade with Mexico, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 26, 2023, 04:06:49 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/26/2160333/-California-looks-to-spend-some-Medicaid-money-on-housing (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/26/2160333/-California-looks-to-spend-some-Medicaid-money-on-housing)

It actually saves us per patient to build the homes and cover the rents. Good economics and also the right thing to do.

With all the terrible things republicans do to this country it is nice to live in a state that puts some focus on becoming more civilized and a better place to live.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2023, 04:21:33 PM: There are very bad people who justify selling illegal drugs by saying "You have to do what you have to do to survive." And that is all bullshit. We live in a wealthy nation, and I do not need to sell illegal drugs in order to survive. If life ever gets so bad that I am homeless and hungry then I can simply go to the Wellness Center in Orange and get help, or to the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, or to the Church, etc. There are places to go where I can get help and where I can stay honest. I do not have to become a criminal in order to survive.

We need to teach the children when they are young how to make honest money. For me as a kid, I washed dogs, and I helped my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer to pay the rent and to buy food. I learned young how to pay the rent and buy food from honest labor. I also washed cars, and I mowed lawns, etc. My favorite job as a teen was working on a Hot Air Balloon Crew which paid $60 per hour which was a lot of money back then, back then minimum wage was only $3.35 per hour.

We need to teach the kids how to earn honest money when they are young, and there is no need to ever justify crime in a nation where we can get help by simply going to the Wellness Center to ask for help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 26, 2023, 04:47:43 PM: Perp walks through boardrooms and C suites will go a long way toward cleaning up crime in this country.

It is important to pick prosecutors who focus on stopping white collar crime while building trust and reducing violence in communities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 02:35:26 AM: Obama is in town.
Doing a speaking gig in Sydney Tues night.
I won't be paying the hundreds of dollars for a ticket.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 27, 2023, 04:36:10 AM: Saves a seat for someone with a future. Good call.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2023, 10:50:58 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 27, 2023, 04:36:10 AM
Saves a seat for someone with a future. Good call.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 27, 2023, 10:56:02 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2023, 03:29:09 PM
Trump needs to retire to the Bahamas.

Salute,

Tony V.
The Maldives would be a better option since it has no extradition treaty with the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2023, 11:00:45 AM: Israeli Right Wing is FINDING OUT what happens when you FUCK AROUND

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/27/israel-judicial-reform-protests-live-updates/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 01:43:15 PM: Israel is different than the USA, the USA is a Democracy and is for everyone and is a land where all men are created equal, but in Israel they are a Tribe and Israel is for the Jews only. Israel is a land for the Jews.

We are not all equal in Israel. And my vote would not mean anything in Israel. Israel is for the Jews.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 03:25:55 PM: No one benefits from our citizens being homeless out on the streets. We benefit from our people being housed and fed, and we need for our people to have access to wonderful libraries, schools, and financial institutions, etc. As our people solve problems, and as our people build and grow, then America becomes successful. Our success is achieved as our people accomplish goals and achieve dreams. No one benefits from having homeless people sleeping on our sidewalks. And our people are us, we are our people, those homeless people are US, those homeless people are American Citizens, America benefits as our people benefit. When I am out there on the street poor and hungry then I am not helping anyone, and it is the same for all of us, we are all equal in America.

We need food, housing, schools, libraries, etc, for our people, and we need equal access to financial institutions, and we need equal access to Business Loans with the Small Business Administration, etc.

( Of note, the Native American Indians are not a defeated people in the USA anymore, the Tribes are wealthy with casinos and businesses, and they all help each other, the Native American Indians are living the American Dream now, and they all help each other. Sometimes I wish I was born into a Tribe, the Native American Indians are blessed now. The White people do not have anyone, they can be poor and homeless now and the other White people are just selfish and do not care. White people are supposed to be Rugged Individualists now, I am supposed to be happy to grow old poor and alone. I would rather have a Tribe and a casino. The Native American Indians are blessed and they are lucky. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 04:26:38 PM: We can at least have Hostels like in Rome, Italy, where people can take a shower and where people can sleep in a bed for $15 per night. People do not have to be so greedy that people are forced to sleep on the sidewalk for lack of enough money for a bed. We need to make a bed and a shower cheap for people. Everyone needs to be able to afford a bed and a shower.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 04:44:29 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 01:43:15 PM
Israel is different than the USA, the USA is a Democracy and is for everyone and is a land where all men are created equal, but in Israel they are a Tribe and Israel is for the Jews only. Israel is a land for the Jews.

We are not all equal in Israel. And my vote would not mean anything in Israel. Israel is for the Jews.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Jews' last stand", one might say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 05:10:28 PM: Another...school shooting...6 dead this time...3 children and 3 adults.
28 yr old female shooter shot dead by police.
Nashville, private Presbyterian school.
Where was the absolute security?
Obviously not in place.
Sad really.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 05:25:23 PM: Bambu is sadly as predictable as school shootings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 05:28:01 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 05:25:23 PM
Bambu is sadly as predictable as school shootings.

Pity absolute security in schools is not as predictable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 05:40:02 PM: Sky News :
"Nashville shooter identied as Transgender".

Here we go, ...Christian churches under attack in America.
Time to turn Christian churches and Christian schools into fortresses.
Guns, auto guns, dogs, fences, electronic staged entry systems, airport style security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 05:55:41 PM: Very Christian!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 06:07:23 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 05:55:41 PM
Very Christian!

True.
Protecting Christian children and adults from being murdered ...is a very Christian thing to do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 27, 2023, 06:20:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 05:40:02 PM
Time to turn Christian churches and Christian schools into fortresses.
Guns, auto guns, dogs, fences, electronic staged entry systems, airport style security.
Thoughts and prayers should be enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 06:29:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 04:44:29 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 01:43:15 PM
Israel is different than the USA, the USA is a Democracy and is for everyone and is a land where all men are created equal, but in Israel they are a Tribe and Israel is for the Jews only. Israel is a land for the Jews.

We are not all equal in Israel. And my vote would not mean anything in Israel. Israel is for the Jews.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Jews' last stand", one might say.

Yes, the poor Jews sure had a hard time, they deserve their own nation. They have my support.

And the Native American Indians have suffered too, it is good that they should own casinos and hotels, etc. They deserve some prosperity and a good life.

As a Christian I feel like we need to help the homeless people of every race equally, in any nation where they need help. Being a Christian crosses borders, and I certainly love the Pope in Rome.

If America is going to claim that we are equal, then we need for all people to have equal benefits, and equal opportunities. And we need to help the Foster Children who do not have parents to help them, we need to send the Foster Children to college for free, they can all be Pharmacists, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2023, 06:33:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2023, 06:07:23 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 05:55:41 PM
Very Christian!

True.
Protecting Christian children and adults from being murdered ...is a very Christian thing to do.

The shooter was a former student at the school.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 27, 2023, 07:36:29 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/27/2160554/-DEI-White-Man-s-Decease (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/27/2160554/-DEI-White-Man-s-Decease)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2023, 08:39:06 PM: Baby steps

https://apnews.com/article/paterson-police-new-jersey-attorney-general-takeover-331860a671700a0625f94c207837427c
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 08:42:20 PM: I sent the idea for a Summer of Love in the Middle East, including in Afghanistan, to all of the old Hippies, including to Goldie Hawn, and Kurt Russell liked my idea.

The police and soldiers can protect the people while they have a Summer of Love, with music, and the people can smoke pot, and they can have a Summer of Love.

If Kurt and Goldie like the idea, then maybe they can tell Cher, and some other old Hippies, and maybe they can start a Revolution of Love in the Middle East. The Middle East needs Love, they have been fighting too long. Look at the mess, and look at all of the people in refugee camps, it is all bullshit. It is time for a Summer of Love in the Middle East.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 27, 2023, 08:56:24 PM: ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 27, 2023, 11:49:03 PM: I find myself just basking in it sometimes, overcome with wonder.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 28, 2023, 10:56:56 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2023, 08:42:20 PM
I sent the idea for a Summer of Love in the Middle East, including in Afghanistan, to all of the old Hippies, including to Goldie Hawn, and Kurt Russell liked my idea.

The police and soldiers can protect the people while they have a Summer of Love, with music, and the people can smoke pot...

The world's entire crop of pot, at the very least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 28, 2023, 02:58:22 PM: We can do things to promote peace and love in the world.

And I view Woodstock as having been one of the greatest events of all time, 500,000 people all gathered for peace and love and music.

Here is a cool example of showing love that I experienced once while living in a cheap motel with the poor people in Pasadena. There was a family there, a husband and his wife, and their 3 children. One of the children was a baby who needed diapers, and the wife bought cigarettes when they needed diapers, and so the husband was screaming at the wife because she spent money on cigarettes when they needed diapers. There was a good Christian staying at the motel, and when he found out what was going on, he went to the store and he bought diapers for the family there and he told them "Jesus Loves You" as he gave them the diapers. That is how we can help people by showing love.

And a lot of our problems are from a lack of communication, so when people party they can communicate. Ben Franklin partied with the French to get money to help America, that was how they did diplomacy back then.

Also, many wars happen because of a perceived scarcity, we need to teach people that we live in a world of abundance. Our most valuable thing is time, our time on earth is short, but if we live right then we can go to Heaven and spend eternity in Heaven. And also people want to behave and obey the laws so that they do not waste valuable time locked up in prison for crimes. Plus, if you love your neighbors then you will not be breaking laws. We can feed the hungry, and we can house the homeless, we live in a world of abundance, and we need to have more peace and love in the world.

I also support building schools for the children in Colombia, and donating schools and libraries for poor children globally.

And along with Kurt, and Goldie, and Cher, there is also Carlos Santana who can help to spread peace and love, and there are other old Hippies who can help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 28, 2023, 04:58:25 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ew8x/want-to-curb-city-crime-evict-fewer-tenants-study-says (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ew8x/want-to-curb-city-crime-evict-fewer-tenants-study-says)

Tenants rights keep landlords from killing cities.

Housing is a human right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2023, 06:30:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 28, 2023, 04:58:25 PM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ew8x/want-to-curb-city-crime-evict-fewer-tenants-study-says (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ew8x/want-to-curb-city-crime-evict-fewer-tenants-study-says)

Tenants rights keep landlords from killing cities.

Housing is a human right.

Landlords are entitled to a fair return on their investment.
Fair return.
Anything less will see landlords sell their rental properties and invest their money elsewhere.
I was once a landlord, 2 bedroom apartment.
I only did it as "forced saving" of the money invested, plus the capital gain, which the fed govt taxes...baaah.
Otherwise it certainly wasn't worth the trouble.
Increase the rent, 'everyone' goes all angry and outraged.
Water rates increase, landlord insurance increases, carpets need replacing, apartment needs painting, taps etc break...plumbers are expensive...and you have to pay the agent 7 1/2% +.
Worth being a landlord?
Depends.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2023, 08:03:01 PM: Seems to be...that in this forum, there are some "just-in-case" atheists.
Christen their children, have a pastor marry them, and on death have a pastor bury them...just in case "Jesus and Heaven" are true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2023, 03:13:24 AM: It is no less plausible than your schemes for total security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 03:31:13 AM: The cabin doors are now locked on planes.
*
El Al airlines had absolute security when others didn't.

You seem happy for anyone and everyone to just be able to waltz into schools anywhere, anytime...whenever they feel like it..."open society"..."we must not live in fear".
Include churches etc.
"Open society" is like "open borders"...a very bad idea.
My ideas would saves lives at schools etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2023, 04:00:15 AM: As long as the missus keeps you under lock and key, I feel reasonably safe everywhere. Thanks for the concern.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 06:41:50 AM: Obama, leftist, seemed not happy with Fox News, Rupert, Sky News ... in his speech in Sydney last night.
lol
No real surprise.

Also:
Daily Telegraph today:

Asked about his greatest regret, Obama raised the lack of action on gun control in the US despite continued mass shootings.

#####

Good Americans know what will happen to them if they give up their guns...they'll be sitting ducks for the bad people and any invading armies.
So there's no way they'll disarm.
Mass shootings can be prevented by absolute security, but nobody much seems willing to make the effort to do it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 06:49:22 AM: Would not one step toward absolute security be keeping weapons out of the hands of lunatics?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 07:15:45 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 06:49:22 AM
Would not one step toward absolute security be keeping weapons out of the hands of lunatics?

Yes.
The NYT reports that the Nashville school shooter was a former student who had maps of the school and details of its security protocols.
Shooter reportedly entered the school by a side door armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesman reportedly said that "The school does not have a police officer guarding it".

President Biden has reportedly said:
"So I call on Congress, again, to pass my assault weapons ban. It's about time that we begin to make some progress."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 07:22:18 AM: Do schools in Australia have armed guards?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 08:03:40 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 07:22:18 AM
Do schools in Australia have armed guards?

No...as far as I know.
Assault rifles are banned in society...handguns are banned in society...bolt action rifles are mostly in rural areas, on farms. Farmers in general are not into massacres in schools.
On the rare occasions there have been rural shootings other than "domestics", the victims have been cops, and govt officials involved in policing land clearing etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2023, 02:54:53 PM: Here is an idea that I just sent to Mayor Bass...

Los Angeles is so beautiful, with so much to offer, it is so sad that we have people who are out there on the streets homeless who do not get to experience the magic of Los Angeles.

As the homeless people are put into housing, then there needs to be day trips for the people, they need buses for the homeless people where they can all take day trips after they get into housing and after they get cleaned up, and the people can go visit the many great destinations in Los Angeles. They can do it every Saturday, or whatever.

The same way that the school kids have field trips, then there needs to be day trips for the formerly homeless people as they are helped, and the people can visit the many great destinations in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2023, 03:30:54 PM: I had a friend who owned and operated a Board and Care Home for formerly homeless people who were mentally ill, Her whole family worked at their Board and Care Home that they owned, and they used to charter a bus and take the people from the Board and Care Home to Las Vegas for a weekend in Vegas. That kind of stuff is great for people.

Los Angeles does not need to do expensive stuff like a trip to Vegas for the weekend, but instead they can just do cool little day trips every Saturday for the formerly homeless people, to Olvera Street, and to museums, etc, etc, etc, to the beach, to the Griffith Park Observatory, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2023, 03:50:38 PM: I would love to own this apartment complex where I live, I would rent out all of the apartments to Film Students from Chapman Film School, and we could shoot films here, and we could write movies and television shows, and we have a swimming pool and barbecue grills, etc. I think we have around 70 apartments here.

There was an apartment complex by Oki Dog in L.A. where a bunch of Punk Rockers lived, and the complex was a famous hangout for Punk Rockers. The same thing could be done here in the OC for Film Makers and for people from the Film Industry.

Where Suzanne Pleshette lived, at Empire West, her whole building was full of people from the Entertainment Industry, and the same thing could happen here in the OC for Film Students, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 03:57:41 PM: Inevitably Whoopi Goldberg would run her mouth and make a bad situation worse.

And so it went today when she called for a ban on the AR-15 rifle after the deadly school shootings in Nashville.

Let us start with this, let us start with this. The AR-15-style rifle needs to go, period. Period, Goldberg said during their discussion following the Nashville shooting.
You cannot hunt with it. There is nothing left after you shot it. We all know what it does. Until that conversation can be had, nothing is going to happen, that is the issue.

[/i] Well.
First, the Nashville shooter did not use an AR 15

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/ (https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/)

Second, a Washington Post survey this week asked AR 15 owners why they bought the popular gun that is owned by 16 million Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/27/ar-15-facts-what-we-learned/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/27/ar-15-facts-what-we-learned/)

A conversation should proceed but dwell on facts, not opinions that were not well researched.

i
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 29, 2023, 04:02:06 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 03:57:41 PM
Inevitably Whoopi Goldberg would run her mouth and make a bad situation worse.

And so it went today when she called for a ban on the AR-15 rifle after the deadly school shootings in Nashville.

Let us start with this, let us start with this. The AR-15-style rifle needs to go, period. Period, Goldberg said during their discussion following the Nashville shooting.
You cannot hunt with it. There is nothing left after you shot it. We all know what it does. Until that conversation can be had, nothing is going to happen, that is the issue.

[/i] Well.
First, the Nashville shooter did not use an AR 15

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/ (https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/)

Second, a Washington Post survey this week asked AR 15 owners why they bought the popular gun that is owned by 16 million Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/27/ar-15-facts-what-we-learned/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/27/ar-15-facts-what-we-learned/)

A conversation should proceed but dwell on facts, not opinions that were not well researched.

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You realize none that means shit, right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 29, 2023, 04:26:16 PM: Mammoth balls.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/28/1166654383/mammoth-meatball-extinct-cultivated-meat
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2023, 04:30:10 PM: I had a friend who gave her son an apartment complex in Hollywood for his 18th Birthday. Her only command to him was that he donate 10% of the money to charity. She spent her whole life helping the homeless and helping people, and she wanted for her son to learn the joy of doing service and of doing charity as well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 29, 2023, 04:45:43 PM: Quote from: EspDickWad

A conversation should proceed but dwell on facts, not opinions that were not well researched.

You mean facts like this, from the WaPo piece you linked (which I actually read)?

The AR15s mechanics, which allow shooters to easily fire bullets at a high velocity in rapid succession, make the weapon lethal and destructive. When the bullets penetrate the body, they create a blast effect that blows up organs and pulverizes bones. The weapon s power magnifies the impact of gun violence, both because of the number of victims and, for survivors, the longlasting effects on physical and mental health. In Sutherland Springs, Tex., where more than two dozen people were killed during an eight minute rampage in 2017, the additional 20 people injured continue to grapple with debilitating, lifelong conditions such as paralysis or infertility...

10 of the 17 deadliest U.S. mass killings since 2012 have involved AR15s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 29, 2023, 04:50:01 PM: This whole bit about waiting for more facts reminds me of a sketch where a doctor is trying to diagnose a patient who is gravely ill.

Doctor: We really don't have enough here to make a diagnosis or suggest a treatment. But we will know more after there is an autopsy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 05:26:32 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 07:22:18 AM
Do schools in Australia have armed guards?

When I once took the wrong exit from a roundabout/traffic circle .....about 25 years ago in Sydney, in my white delivery van with a bull bar on the front, mowers and yard equipment on board, also mrs bambu on her RDO (Rostered Day Off, one day per month you didn't have to go to your job but still got paid) in the van cabin.....mid-morning I arrived at the closed gates entry to a Jewish school.
In front of the closed gates was a man wearing a handgun in a holster "cop style"
He would've had to have had special govt permission to be carrying that gun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2023, 05:47:29 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/29/2160903/-Meanwhile-in-MO-Republicans-Press-to-Eliminate-the-Sales-Tax-on-Guns-and-Ammo-But-Keep-it-On-Food (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/29/2160903/-Meanwhile-in-MO-Republicans-Press-to-Eliminate-the-Sales-Tax-on-Guns-and-Ammo-But-Keep-it-On-Food)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2023, 05:51:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 29, 2023, 05:26:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2023, 07:22:18 AM
Do schools in Australia have armed guards?

When I once took the wrong exit from a roundabout/traffic circle .....about 25 years ago in Sydney, in my white delivery van with a bull bar on the front, mowers and yard equipment on board, also mrs bambu on her RDO (Rostered Day Off, one day per month you didn't have to go to your job but still got paid) in the van cabin.....mid-morning I arrived at the closed gates entry to a Jewish school.
In front of the closed gates was a man wearing a handgun in a holster "cop style"
He would've had to have had special govt permission to be carrying that gun.

If your countrymen are anything like you shooting first in Australia makes a lot of sense. Maybe that had something to do with why you all chose to make it so hard to get a gun down there. Either way, bless your little heart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 08:44:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 29, 2023, 04:45:43 PM
Quote from: EspDickWad

A conversation should proceed but dwell on facts, not opinions that were not well researched.

You mean facts like this, from the WaPo piece you linked (which I actually read)?

The AR15s mechanics, which allow shooters to easily fire bullets at a high velocity in rapid succession, make the weapon lethal and destructive.
As are all guns.
Quote
When the bullets penetrate the body, they create a blast effect that blows up organs and pulverizes bones. The weapon s power magnifies the impact of gun violence, both because of the number of victims and, for survivors, the longlasting effects on physical and mental health. In Sutherland Springs, Tex., where more than two dozen people were killed during an eight minute rampage in 2017, the additional 20 people injured continue to grapple with debilitating, lifelong conditions such as paralysis or infertility
Thousands victims who survived hand gun shootings have similar stories.
FBI statistics show 59% of the gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available involve hand guns. Rifles, the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as assault weapons, were involved in 3% of firearm murders.
So why is Whoopi Goldberg so bent on banning the AR 15 which was not used in the Nashville shootings?
She further muddies her argument by stating that the weapon is useless in hunting because it destroys the animal. Which is absurd. The two and a half million hunters using AR15s do so because it is a superior hunting rifle to a bolt action one.
But the point of my previous point is we cannot have a serious discussion if we do not present facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2023, 09:36:29 PM: Insert entrance and exit wound gallery here. Restricted possession and use under an active insurance policy or not at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on March 29, 2023, 09:39:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 08:44:02 PM

FBI statistics show 59% of the gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available involve hand guns. Rifles, the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as assault weapons, were involved in 3% of firearm murders.

59 plus 3 equals 62. What are the remaining 38 pecent which apparently are neither handguns nor rifles?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 10:04:27 PM: Quote from: calibandwagon on March 29, 2023, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 29, 2023, 08:44:02 PM

FBI statistics show 59% of the gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available involve hand guns. Rifles, the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as assault weapons, were involved in 3% of firearm murders.

59 plus 3 equals 62. What are the remaining 38 pecent which apparently are neither handguns nor rifles?
Shotguns were involved in 1%. The remainder of gun homicides and non-negligent manslaughters (36%) involved other kinds of firearms or those classified as type not stated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:10:48 AM: Your hands are still a little warm and lively but I am willing to trust your progress and be patient, for the children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 30, 2023, 11:54:20 AM: Whether assault type rifles are three or thirty percent of homicides, their impact on the level of public terror is large because their use is seen so often in mass shootings. So why not make them harder for loonies and troubled youth to own, and limit magazine capacity, and bolster background checks, and so on? Usually when something is responsible for three percent of a death rate, society acts on that. We don't say, "oh, only three percent of falls from high rooftops are due to no guardrails. Cool, no need to require them."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 11:54:20 AM
Whether assault type rifles are three or thirty percent of homicides, their impact on the level of public terror is large because their use is seen so often in mass shootings.
ALL types of guns are used in shootings , regardless of the classifications. Handguns, in terms of numbers of people killed are, by far, the weapon of choice. The killer in Nashville used a carbine rifle but immediately the media and the President zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation.
Quote

So why not make them harder for loonies and troubled youth to own, and limit magazine capacity, and bolster background checks, and so on?
How do you do that in a country that protects individual rights? What constitutes a definition of
loonies, troubled youth? In the Nashville case we are told the killer left a detailed account of her motive.
Why is it still not published?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 30, 2023, 01:19:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 11:54:20 AM
Whether assault type rifles are three or thirty percent of homicides, their impact on the level of public terror is large because their use is seen so often in mass shootings.
ALL types of guns are used in shootings , regardless of the classifications. Handguns, in terms of numbers of people killed are, by far, the weapon of choice. The killer in Nashville used a carbine rifle but immediately the media and the President zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation.
Quote

So why not make them harder for loonies and troubled youth to own, and limit magazine capacity, and bolster background checks, and so on?
How do you do that in a country that protects individual rights? What constitutes a definition of
loonies, troubled youth? In the Nashville case we are told the killer left a detailed account of her motive.
Why is it still not published?

Anyone hunting with an AR-15 has no intention of eating their hunt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 30, 2023, 01:20:57 PM: Are there no prisons? No workhouses?

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/03/28/nd-legislature-votes-down-free-school-lunches/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:01:06 PM: The second amendment lays out a collective right granted to states. There is no individual right to bear arms. It is a fiction propagated by murderous bastards and profiteers bent on destroying the United States one school, mall and church at a time.

It is no surprise Red gets that wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 30, 2023, 02:20:55 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:01:06 PM
The second amendment lays out a collective right granted to states. There is no individual right to bear arms. It is a fiction propagated by murderous bastards and profiteers bent on destroying the United States one school, mall and church at a time.

It is no surprise Red gets that wrong.

What if Trump took over by force after the next election and declared himself President with his followers acting as his army, and what if the police and military all supported Trump, even though we know Trump stole the election by force, and what if we had to go to war against Trump and his followers in order to get our nation back?

We need to all be able to own guns, and we all need freedom of speech, and we need freedom to assemble, etc.

The people need to be able to have the power to stop evil people like Trump from trying to take over by force.

And we had a riot here in Anaheim because some asshole cops killed George Floyd on the other side of the nation, I had nothing to do with the killing of George Floyd but I am at risk because I am a White man and they want to punish all White people for what some asshole White cops did on the other side of the nation. When the rioters come to my home to punish me for being White, then I want to be able to own a gun with a lot of rounds of ammunition to fight back against the rioters and to protect myself and my home. If a Civil War breaks out in the USA then I want to be able to fight back and defend myself. I refuse to be punished for what cops did on the other side of the nation, just because I am White does not mean I support what the scumbag asshole cops did on the other side of the nation.

We need to be able to protect ourselves and our families, from guys like Trump, and from racists, and from riots, etc.

On the issue of the schools, the schools need to all have armed security and fences and gates, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 30, 2023, 02:33:50 PM: I also support all people being able to own guns for home protection.

There are a lot of criminals who break the law and who do not care about the cops, and we need to be able to protect our homes and we need to be able to protect our families, etc.

And for women, the women need to be able to own guns to protect themselves, and a single Mom has a right to protect herself and her children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 30, 2023, 02:56:42 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 11:54:20 AM
Whether assault type rifles are three or thirty percent of homicides, their impact on the level of public terror is large because their use is seen so often in mass shootings.
ALL types of guns are used in shootings , regardless of the classifications. Handguns, in terms of numbers of people killed are, by far, the weapon of choice. The killer in Nashville used a carbine rifle but immediately the media and the President zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation.
Quote

So why not make them harder for loonies and troubled youth to own, and limit magazine capacity, and bolster background checks, and so on?
How do you do that in a country that protects individual rights? What constitutes a definition of
loonies, troubled youth? In the Nashville case we are told the killer left a detailed account of her motive.
Why is it still not published?
Because the investigaion is ongoing.

Though I am glad to see you arguing for enacting common sense gun regulations that go beyond assault rifles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 30, 2023, 03:00:03 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:01:06 PM
The second amendment lays out a collective right granted to states. There is no individual right to bear arms. It is a fiction propagated by murderous bastards and profiteers bent on destroying the United States one school, mall and church at a time.

It is no surprise Red gets that wrong.
Well the Supreme Court got it wrong too, then. And that's not likely to be overturned short of repealing the second amendment There's plenty that can be done (even Heller allows for it) and Congress, if it ever found the intestinal fortitude, can do so, but refighting the individual right vs. collective right battle is a colossal waste of time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 30, 2023, 03:05:52 PM: There are scumbag criminals who do not care about anyone, they commit crimes and they go to prison and they lift weights and they have gay sex in prison, they get big and strong and they cover themselves with tattoos, and they pride themselves on being violent. They are sex offenders, and they abuse women, etc, etc, etc, and they do not care. They do not believe in God, they do not have any guiding principle other than just being violent criminal assholes. And we need to be able to own guns to protect ourselves from the criminals and from the criminal gangs.

And in Mexico, the good people need to be able to own and carry guns to protect themselves from the cartels. We should not fear the cartels, but rather the cartels should fear us. A gun turns you from being hunted, into being the hunter, like the Van Halen song says.

We need to be able to protect ourselves and our families from violent criminals and gangs, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 30, 2023, 03:08:45 PM: As long as you're willing to concede that plenty of kids and loved ones are going to "accidentally" get killed as a result of a desire for family "protection", then who am I to tell you not to buy a weapon for such "protection."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 03:30:04 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 30, 2023, 02:56:42 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 11:54:20 AM
Whether assault type rifles are three or thirty percent of homicides, their impact on the level of public terror is large because their use is seen so often in mass shootings.
ALL types of guns are used in shootings , regardless of the classifications. Handguns, in terms of numbers of people killed are, by far, the weapon of choice. The killer in Nashville used a carbine rifle but immediately the media and the President zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation.
Quote

So why not make them harder for loonies and troubled youth to own, and limit magazine capacity, and bolster background checks, and so on?
How do you do that in a country that protects individual rights? What constitutes a definition of
loonies, troubled youth? In the Nashville case we are told the killer left a detailed account of her motive.
Why is it still not published?
Because the investigaion is ongoing.
What investigation? Motive? Why not start by publishing her manifesto police confirm she wrote?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 06:17:55 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 30, 2023, 03:00:03 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:01:06 PM
The second amendment lays out a collective right granted to states. There is no individual right to bear arms. It is a fiction propagated by murderous bastards and profiteers bent on destroying the United States one school, mall and church at a time.

It is no surprise Red gets that wrong.
Well the Supreme Court got it wrong too, then. And that's not likely to be overturned short of repealing the second amendment There's plenty that can be done (even Heller allows for it) and Congress, if it ever found the intestinal fortitude, can do so, but refighting the individual right vs. collective right battle is a colossal waste of time.

However it is framed, personal liability insurance, strict storage and transfer and ammunition accounting laws need to be in place nationally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 30, 2023, 06:26:33 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 06:17:55 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 30, 2023, 03:00:03 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2023, 02:01:06 PM
The second amendment lays out a collective right granted to states. There is no individual right to bear arms. It is a fiction propagated by murderous bastards and profiteers bent on destroying the United States one school, mall and church at a time.

It is no surprise Red gets that wrong.
Well the Supreme Court got it wrong too, then. And that's not likely to be overturned short of repealing the second amendment There's plenty that can be done (even Heller allows for it) and Congress, if it ever found the intestinal fortitude, can do so, but refighting the individual right vs. collective right battle is a colossal waste of time.

However it is framed, personal liability insurance, strict storage and transfer and ammunition accounting laws need to be in place nationally.
Yes. That goes to the intestinal fortitude thing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 30, 2023, 06:28:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 30, 2023, 02:56:42 PM

Though I am glad to see you arguing for enacting common sense gun regulations that go beyond assault rifles.

I'd be the first to admit that regulating a small percentage of guns is a baby step. And that's all we get. As YG notes, it's a waste of time to attempt some large-scale retrofit of individual v collective rights.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 30, 2023, 06:42:09 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
....zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation....

How was Laudanum banned, a tincture of opium that was popular with millions of Americans who used it for sleep aid, intestinal problems, and recreation? How did they ban it without treading on individual rights?

edit: why is Laudanumb so hard for me to spell?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 08:48:56 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 06:42:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
....zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation....

How was Laudanum banned, a tincture of opium that was popular with millions of Americans who used it for sleep aid, intestinal problems, and recreation? How did they ban it without treading on individual rights?

There is no Constitutional protection for narcotics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 30, 2023, 11:46:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 08:48:56 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 06:42:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
....zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation....

How was Laudanum banned, a tincture of opium that was popular with millions of Americans who used it for sleep aid, intestinal problems, and recreation? How did they ban it without treading on individual rights?

There is no Constitutional protection for narcotics.

No constitutional protection for semi automatic weapons.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 30, 2023, 11:48:20 PM: Good guy with a gun, right

Same as it ever was.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/GUN-trudeau-1024x353.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2023, 02:37:32 AM: What are American journalists and American citizens still doing in Russia?
Now look what's happened...American journalist arrested for 'spying', facing 20 years in prison.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 31, 2023, 09:43:03 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 08:48:56 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 06:42:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
....zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation....

How was Laudanum banned, a tincture of opium that was popular with millions of Americans who used it for sleep aid, intestinal problems, and recreation? How did they ban it without treading on individual rights?

There is no Constitutional protection for narcotics.

But it's an individual right. You just told us America prioritizes individual rights. Why would anything be banned? And why, if guns have a blanket protection in the 2nd A, as you keep insisting, can't I own a machine gun or an M16?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 31, 2023, 02:23:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 31, 2023, 02:37:32 AM
What are American journalists and American citizens still doing in Russia?
Now look what's happened...American journalist arrested for 'spying', facing 20 years in prison.

You would have to understand things like courage and integrity, but as a right winger it is clear you do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2023, 03:30:05 PM: If we bring lawsuits against the schools for not keeping the children safe, then I bet the schools would build nice fences and gates and I bet they would hire armed security guards to protect the children. Cameras too.

And when I was a kid in Oregon the bullies used to beat me up on the playground because I was born in California, the people in Oregon do not like Californians, and I always felt like the schools should have kept me safe on the playground, I think the adults were wrong to allow me to be abused on the playgrounds by bullies. The adults need to monitor the children on the playground and the adults need to protect the children from the bullies. I should have filed a lawsuit against the schools for allowing me to get beat up on the playground. That shit needs to stop, the schools need to protect the children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2023, 03:38:18 PM: Yes Bambu, both Stormy and Trump are scumbags. Neither one of them have any class. He was wrong for paying her hush money, and she was wrong to accept it. Both are bad people.

It is sad, good men like Lincoln get assassinated while dirt-bags like Trump drive our nation into the dirt while no one does anything.

Trump needs to sit in a nice quiet prison. What a scumbag he is, Trump is bad for America. He should have retired to the Bahamas when he had the chance.

And now we see what a kind and good and honorable person George W. Bush is. ( And Oliver Stone made a good movie about George W. Bush named "W". )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2023, 04:22:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 31, 2023, 02:23:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 31, 2023, 02:37:32 AM
What are American journalists and American citizens still doing in Russia?
Now look what's happened...American journalist arrested for 'spying', facing 20 years in prison.

You would have to understand things like courage and integrity, but as a right winger it is clear you do not.

Wisdom trumps courage and integrity.
What were Americans even doing in Russia in the first place?
Oh, visiting family.
Fair enough, blood is very thick, family is family.
You'd hope Americans are not going on vacation to Russia as tourists, to see the sights etc.

20 years, in the prime of his life, will be a long time for the journalist to contemplate 'courage and integrity' as he rots in a horrible Russian prison.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 31, 2023, 06:08:48 PM: Donald J. Trump

DEFENDANT
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2023, 07:22:47 PM: They are afraid that Social Security will collapse, the way to save Social Security is to LEGALIZE OUR IMMIGRANTS and as many of your Immigrants are young people then they will pay into Social Security for 20 years before they retire.

And many of our new Immigrants become Doctors and Nurses.

We all win by making our Immigrants legal.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 31, 2023, 08:12:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 31, 2023, 09:43:03 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 08:48:56 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 30, 2023, 06:42:09 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 30, 2023, 01:07:25 PM
....zeroed in on banning the the AR 15, a gun that happens to be very popular with millions of Americans who use it for protection, hunting, and recreation....

How was Laudanum banned, a tincture of opium that was popular with millions of Americans who used it for sleep aid, intestinal problems, and recreation? How did they ban it without treading on individual rights?

There is no Constitutional protection for narcotics.

But it's an individual right.
Uh, no. It may be an individual choice but it is not a protected right.
Did you ever actually read the Constitution?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 31, 2023, 08:40:35 PM: Purposeful out of context quoting will not get a response.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 31, 2023, 08:48:33 PM: Gun ownership, he says, is a protected right. So why can't I own an M16 or a machine gun? That's the question he edited out.

Because he knows the pitfall of answering it honestly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on March 31, 2023, 09:24:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 31, 2023, 08:48:33 PM
Gun ownership, he says, is a protected right. So why can't I own an M16 or a machine gun? That's the question he edited out.

You can own a M16 and/or a Machine Gun
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 01, 2023, 01:51:58 AM: Better send some drones to keep an eye on Red and his deadly arsenal of inadequacy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 01, 2023, 02:07:36 AM: Saw on my tv news that someone has been arrested for killing in a home invasion that Aussie guy/father married to an American woman, in Texas.
Aussie guy went to the home invasion confrontation with words and his bare hands...instead of a ready to fire AR15 set on auto.
Good guys in America need to be armed to the teeth with handguns, and AR15s that can be set on auto...obviously...or like the Aussie guy they could very well end up dead, in their own homes, or mall car parks, anywhere really.

"The bad people lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce...the moment you get security careless" - bambu
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 01, 2023, 10:23:59 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on March 31, 2023, 09:24:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 31, 2023, 08:48:33 PM
Gun ownership, he says, is a protected right. So why can't I own an M16 or a machine gun? That's the question he edited out.

You can own a M16 and/or a Machine Gun

Pretty clear, in this context, the topic was not collectors who own pre-1986 acquired firearms.

Under the NFA, it is illegal for any private civilian to own any fully automatic weapons manufactured after May 19, 1986. Nor can collectors purchase new replacement parts for old weapons, nor can they be manufactured.

So, typical that you can't in an honest way acknowledge the underlying point of the question, or how strict gun regulations have been around since at least 1934, or why these regulations have not been held to be contrary to the spirit of 2nd amendment. So I'm done with the topic, at least at this forum.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 01, 2023, 01:15:10 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 01, 2023, 10:23:59 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on March 31, 2023, 09:24:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 31, 2023, 08:48:33 PM
Gun ownership, he says, is a protected right. So why can't I own an M16 or a machine gun? That's the question he edited out.

You can own a M16 and/or a Machine Gun

Pretty clear, in this context, the topic was not collectors who own pre-1986 acquired firearms.

Under the NFA, it is illegal for any private civilian to own any fully automatic weapons manufactured after May 19, 1986. Nor can collectors purchase new replacement parts for old weapons, nor can they be manufactured.
Federal law prohibits the possession of newly manufactured machine guns, but permits the transfer of machine guns lawfully owned prior to May 19, 1986, if the transfer is approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 01, 2023, 02:04:59 PM: As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.

[/quote]

We need to seize them all and melt them down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 01, 2023, 02:48:36 PM: News Item

A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law that prohibits adults age 18 to 20 from obtaining permits to carry handguns in public.

Based on a careful review of the record, the court finds (the Government has) the failed to identify analogous regulations that show a historical tradition in America of depriving 18 to 20 year olds the right to publicly carry a handgun for self defense. As a result, the age requirement prohibiting persons between the ages of 18 and 20 from obtaining such a permit to carry violates the Second Amendment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 01, 2023, 04:02:50 PM: The other side of that lovely tidbit is that it was brought to you by people like this,

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-donor-anton-lazzaro-convicted_n_6428142ce4b0ba5d603a2bb5 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-donor-anton-lazzaro-convicted_n_6428142ce4b0ba5d603a2bb5)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 11:54:51 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 01, 2023, 02:04:59 PM

As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.

We need to seize them all and melt them down.
[/quote]RedDick being what he is he will never recognize, or at least acknowledge, that his post reinforces Oil's point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 02, 2023, 12:10:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 11:54:51 AM
As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.

We need to seize them all and melt them down.
RedDick being what he is he will never recognize, or at least acknowledge, that his post reinforces Oil's point.
You do not seem to follow the conversation very well, if at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 02, 2023, 01:10:30 PM: "Chinese cities are so broke they're cutting medical benefits for seniors".

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That'd be right...and it's creeping into the West too.
A certain section of society seems to want to get rid of seniors as soon as possible.

If I make it into my 80's I'll have to sit a theory and do a practical driving test...which will include ...reversing into parking spaces.
That is an outrage. I hate reversing...and I hate waiting while people on main roads and in carparks have 6 tries at doing it.

‐----------------------

"School closures spread as Japan struggles with depopulation."

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No surprise...only rich people and young professionals can really afford to have children today (and raise them in a good standard of accommodation, living.)
and, about 1/3 of some young populations identify as LGBTQIA+.
and, the average marriage in some countries only lasts 12 years.
and, more than a few young women in interviews on Youtube, when asked the question:
"Instagram...or...boyfriend?"....replied "Instagram".
and, on internet dating sites men rated 1 2 3 4 5 6 aren't getting any 'swipes', and, the women all want the men rated 8 9 and 10.
Men rated as a 7 are getting minimal reples.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 02:00:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 02, 2023, 12:10:46 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 11:54:51 AM
As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.

We need to seize them all and melt them down.
RedDick being what he is he will never recognize, or at least acknowledge, that his post reinforces Oil's point.
You do not seem to follow the conversation very well, if at all.
Your inability to understand your own posts, or else admit to what they actually say, is astonishing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2023, 02:58:10 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 02, 2023, 01:10:30 PM
"Chinese cities are so broke they're cutting medical benefits for seniors".

#####

That'd be right...and it's creeping into the West too.
A certain section of society seems to want to get rid of seniors as soon as possible.

If I make it into my 80's I'll have to sit a theory and do a practical driving test...which will include ...reversing into parking spaces.
That is an outrage. I hate reversing...and I hate waiting while people on main roads and in carparks have 6 tries at doing it.

‐----------------------

"School closures spread as Japan struggles with depopulation."

#####

No surprise...only rich people and young professionals can really afford to have children today (and raise them in a good standard of accommodation, living.)
and, about 1/3 of some young populations identify as LGBTQIA+.
and, the average marriage in some countries only lasts 12 years.
and, more than a few young women in interviews on Youtube, when asked the question:
"Instagram...or...boyfriend?"....replied "Instagram".
and, on internet dating sites men rated 1 2 3 4 5 6 aren't getting any 'swipes', and, the women all want the men rated 8 9 and 10.
Men rated as a 7 are getting minimal reples.

The Native American Indians value their Elders, the old people in the Tribes are put in positions of power in the Tribe, the Seniors work on the Tribal Business Council, etc, the Elders in the Tribe are the leaders.

I think the Chinese value their Elders as well.

In Hollywood the young beautiful people have the power, but the old wealthy and famous people get their fair share of respect. And the old producers get respect. Aaron Spelling was well loved well into old age.

And in California you need to be rich if you want to get the women here, the women want men with money. The only poor men who get wives are the extremely handsome men who are an 8,9, and 10.

On the issue of the Japanese, they work themselves to death, they work extremely hard, and they are too busy working to get married and to start a family, and plus there is the high cost of a family. If Japan wants their people to have more children, then they need to give the workers more time off from work, the workers need more free time to be spent in a loving relationship in order to make babies. The Japanese need to be paid more money while at the same time they need to get more time off to spend creating a family. The movies, and television shows, and books, and magazines, in Japan can also be of romantic nature. And the Japanese can learn from the Italians and from the French when it comes to romance.

In the USA we are lucky to have Social Security and Medicare for our Seniors. And I love my Mother very much, I hope she lives forever, I talk with her on the phone everyday. And in Kiwanis many people are Seniors and they all volunteer to help to do charity work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2023, 03:06:01 PM: For the rich Seniors in Laguna Beach there is Leisure World, they sit around the swimming pool and they eat strawberries, and they drink champagne, and they ride horses on the beach at night, etc, and they just play and have fun everyday, their Senior years are play-time like when they were children. Leisure World here in Laguna Beach, California, is a good place to spend one's last days.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2023, 03:53:27 PM: California continues to benefit from Tourism, and with the Rams coming back to L.A., and with the Chargers, and with all of the new stadiums and projects in L.A., the economy in California is getting better, and even the worst areas are now getting new opportunities.

Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries can help the troubled youth to learn how to benefit from the Tourism in California, and they can sell hot dogs and beer to tourists at the Football Games, etc, and at the Basketball Games, and the Hockey and Baseball Games, etc.

My friend Tom put together a team of homeless people to sell hot dogs and beer to raise money for charity to feed the hungry people, he hired people from homeless shelters and from N/A Meetings and he raised over one million dollars for charity, he raised money for "Canning Hunger" in order to help to feed the hungry people. They sold hot dogs and beer here at Angel Stadium, plus at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and also in San Diego, he had about 60 people on his team and it was all about helping the homeless people to feel useful, it was about helping people to regain their self esteem by helping others. When you do charity work then it builds your self esteem.

California continues to benefit from Tourism. We need to stop the Gang Violence and we need to nurture our youth so that they lead lives where they feel valuable. Father Boyle and others can help to guide the troubled youth onto a better path.

The Small Business Administration can also give Business Loans to the Troubled Youth, they need to help the troubled youth to open their own hot dog carts, etc.

When life gives you lemons, then you make lemonade, and God has given California the Tourism Industry, and we need to make the most out of what we were given, we need to create a wonderful experience for our tourists, and we can transform the lives of the Young People by teaching them how to benefit from the Tourism Industry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 02, 2023, 04:10:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 02:00:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 02, 2023, 12:10:46 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 02, 2023, 11:54:51 AM
As a result, a substantial number of machine guns are still in circulation. As of 2020, the national registry of machine guns contained registrations for 726,951 machine guns.

We need to seize them all and melt them down.
RedDick being what he is he will never recognize, or at least acknowledge, that his post reinforces Oil's point.
You do not seem to follow the conversation very well, if at all.
Your inability to understand your own posts, or else admit to what they actually say, is astonishing.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 02, 2023, 05:50:23 PM: Republicans

This is a partisan witch hunt! Outrageous!

The sham New York indictment of President Donald Trump is one of the clearest examples of extremist Democrats weaponizing government to attack their political opponents Steve Scalise R-LA

The whole GOP is on board with the witch hunt frame.

https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/west-virginia-politics/gov-justice-calls-trump-indictment-witch-hunt/

Irony.

Oct 7, 2020 Trump demands Barr arrest political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389

More irony

Barr say Trump lacks all self control

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-barr-warns-letting-trump-testify-in-his-own-defense-would-be-a-particularly-bad-idea-because-he-lacks-all-self-control/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 02, 2023, 10:01:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2023, 03:06:01 PM
For the rich Seniors in Laguna Beach there is Leisure World, they sit around the swimming pool and they eat strawberries, and they drink champagne, and they ride horses on the beach at night, etc, and they just play and have fun everyday, their Senior years are play-time like when they were children. Leisure World here in Laguna Beach, California, is a good place to spend one's last days.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sounds great.
Yes, rich people sure do have much better lives than poor people and the middle class that's getting poorer every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2023, 02:19:28 AM: http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/4/2/23591075/oil-gas-petrochemicals-water-contamination-east-palestine (http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/4/2/23591075/oil-gas-petrochemicals-water-contamination-east-palestine)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 07:48:27 AM: In bambuworld, some women have penises these days;

'Some women do have penises': Seafolly's new....

Google it.

#####

Nothing much is shocking anymore in my world.
Adults can please themselves, but children are just that, children...and children need protecting from many things until they are adults.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 08:17:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 07:48:27 AM
In bambuworld, some women have penises these days;

'Some women do have penises': Seafolly's new....

Google it.

#####

Nothing much is shocking anymore in my world.
Adults can please themselves, but children are just that, children...and children need protecting from many things until they are adults.

Usually that is what parents are for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:18:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 07:48:27 AM
In bambuworld, some women have penises these days;

'Some women do have penises': Seafolly's new....

Google it.

#####

Nothing much is shocking anymore in my world.
Adults can please themselves, but children are just that, children...and children need protecting from many things until they are adults.
Like parents and friends with guns "cocked and ready to fire at all times".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 01:14:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 02, 2023, 10:01:27 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2023, 03:06:01 PM
For the rich Seniors in Laguna Beach there is Leisure World, they sit around the swimming pool and they eat strawberries, and they drink champagne, and they ride horses on the beach at night, etc, and they just play and have fun everyday, their Senior years are play-time like when they were children. Leisure World here in Laguna Beach, California, is a good place to spend one's last days.

Salute,

Tony V.
Sounds great.
Yes, rich people sure do have much better lives than poor people and the middle class that's getting poorer every day.

It is nice when rich people are generous, and when the rich people help to make life better for the poor people.

My dearly departed friend Tom used to cook steak and lobster for the homeless people when he was managing homeless shelters.

And my dearly departed friend Lisa was a saint, she put the homeless people in nice expensive homes and she cooked for them.

My dearly departed friend Chris used to drive around in a van with a female social worker and he used to pick up the homeless people and he used to take them to shelters to get help.

If the rich people are nice, then they can help the poor, and the world can be a better place.

Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless people in Los Angeles, it is getting better. The world can get better if the good people take action and if people help the poor.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 01:23:54 PM: We need to bring back the 1960s and peace and love and all of that happy stuff. And Mayor Bass and the people who are helping the homeless need to have joy as they help the homeless. The world needs more joy.

The homelessness, and gang violence, and pain and sorrow and misery in the cities, needs to end.

The people need to show love for their neighbors like the Bible says, and we need to help each other.

Maybe Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell can help, and Cher, and Carlos Santana, and other old hippies.

The world needs love, and peace, we need a new movement to make the world a better place.

Mayor Bass can help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 02:14:07 PM: If we care, and if we take action, while working together as a team, then we can make the world a better place for all of us.

In Kiwanis International we had some cool people in our group, we had City Council members, and we had the Chief of Police, along with business owners, etc. We all volunteered to help to make our world a better place, and so the Chief of Police told us which neighborhood in Anaheim was the worst neighborhood in Anaheim, and then we went into the worst neighborhood in Anaheim and we went knocking on doors. We got the people together and we cleaned up the graffiti, and we gave the people the contact information for all of the owners of the apartment buildings, etc, etc, etc. It did not cost one cent, we were all volunteers, people just need to care enough to take action, we went in and cleaned that neighborhood up and we got the people of the neighborhood together and gave them the contact information for the owners of the complexes, and that neighborhood stayed nice. That was 13 years ago and the neighborhood is still nice. People just need to care enough to take action, and then once people experience a good civilized life then they do not want to go back to having high crime and problems. The people want to have a good safe home, they just need some help, then they will keep it nice.

People just need to care, and they need to take action.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 03, 2023, 02:42:26 PM: For The Record.

Florida has become the 26th US State to allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit and without having to pay a fee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 02:49:27 PM: Yay!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2023, 04:44:16 PM: I have heard of banana republics, but Florida is heading more in the fruitcake direction towards Haitian and Libyan style governance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 05:11:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 03, 2023, 02:42:26 PM
For The Record.

Florida has become the 26th US State to allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit and without having to pay a fee.

Well slap my ass and call me Sally!

YEEE HAAAWWWW!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:08:35 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 03, 2023, 02:42:26 PM
For The Record.

Florida has become the 26th US State to allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit and without having to pay a fee.

Guns for the poor!
Equal rights!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:09:25 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 03, 2023, 04:44:16 PM
I have heard of banana republics, but Florida is heading more in the fruitcake direction towards Haitian and Libyan style governance.

Ahem..."26th state".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:17:09 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:08:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 03, 2023, 02:42:26 PM
For The Record.

Florida has become the 26th US State to allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit and without having to pay a fee.

Guns for the poor!
Equal rights!
I guess it's easy for somebody living in a basement 6,000 miles away to not be more concerned about more "accidental" death and mayhem resulting from more guns. I know, I know: That's just mere collateral damage and the cost of doing business in the fight against "evil people lurking in the shadows."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 08:28:20 PM: I support the all you can eat sushi buffet.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/teppanyaki-grill-supreme-buffet-anaheim

Get stoned, and go eat sushi with all of your best friends. That is what Goldie and Kurt would do. We need to promote peace and love.

Salute.

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:29:42 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:17:09 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:08:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 03, 2023, 02:42:26 PM
For The Record.

Florida has become the 26th US State to allow citizens to carry firearms without a permit and without having to pay a fee.

Guns for the poor!
Equal rights!
I guess it's easy for somebody living in a basement 6,000 miles away to not be more concerned about more "accidental" death and mayhem resulting from more guns. I know, I know: That's just mere collateral damage and the cost of doing business in the fight against "evil people lurking in the shadows.:

Think about it...why has Florida done this, and why have 25 other states done it.
Obviously there's massive evil in those states and the People need to protect themselves.
"Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:34:23 PM: ""Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves."

And? This will somehow go away with the addition of more guns to the mix? Just say "I don't care". It's much easier and more honest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 08:35:41 PM: Bambu, the cowboys in Nevada all carry guns.

You would love Battle Mountain, Nevada, and also Carson City, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:38:49 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:34:23 PM
""Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves."

And? This will somehow go away with the addition of more guns to the mix? Just say "I don't care". It's much easier and more honest.

I do care, but I also care about innocent victims whose horror could be prevented by carrying a gun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:43:50 PM: Well, that's closer at least: A concession that more kids being killed "accidentally" is merely collateral damage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2023, 08:54:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 08:28:20 PM
I support the all you can eat sushi buffet.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/teppanyaki-grill-supreme-buffet-anaheim

Get stoned, and go eat sushi with all of your best friends. That is what Goldie and Kurt would do. We need to promote peace and love.

Salute.

Tony V.

Best. Post. Ever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2023, 08:58:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:29:42 PM
Obviously there's massive evil in those states and the People need to protect themselves.

The massive evil in those states is republican officials. The way people can protect themselves is to vote for Democrats or any other party that can get more votes than the republicans who are a criminal organization and a sadistic death cult.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 03, 2023, 09:13:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:34:23 PM
""Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves."

And? This will somehow go away with the addition of more guns to the mix? Just say "I don't care". It's much easier and more honest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 11:35:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:38:49 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:34:23 PM
""Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves."

And? This will somehow go away with the addition of more guns to the mix? Just say "I don't care". It's much easier and more honest.

I do care, but I also care about innocent victims whose horror could be prevented by carrying a gun.

Thousands of students, parents, caregivers and concerned Tennesseans marched Monday to the state capitol demanding action to gun laws in response to the Covenant School shooting.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/04/03/nashville-shooting-latest-updates-protests-tennessee-gun-law/70073429007/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 11:39:51 PM: The House chamber fell into chaos as Republican Rep. Andrew Farmer, R-Sevierville, introduced the first resolution, which called for Pearson's expulsion. Protestors screamed from the galleries above. Pearson raised his fist in protest, and House Democrats raised their hands to object.

Amid the chaos, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, called for the vote, and the resolution passed with overwhelming support from the Republican supermajority. All three resolutions passed in a party-line vote of 72 to 23. Democrats will have little power to block expulsions on Thursday.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/03/tennessee-republicans-file-resolutions-to-expel-three-democrats-who-led-gun-reform-chants-on-house-f/70078002007/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 01:31:55 AM: Honesty:
US Dept of Justice report:
. 38% of assaults & 60% of rapes occur during home invasions.
. Over 2.000.000 homes will experience a break in or burglary this year.
There are over 4,500 home burglaries a day in the US.
The average number of home invasions per year was 1.030,000 between 1994 and 2010.

_________________

According to the FB1, the US Dept of Justice, and other reputable sources, in the US:
. One property crime happens every 4 seconds.
. One burglary occurs every 20 seconds.
. One violent crime occurs every 25 seconds.
. One aggravated assault occurs every 90 seconds.
. One robbery occurs every 90 seconds.
. One rape or attempted rape occurs every 5 minutes.

#####

I'd say that Americans rushing to buy guns have had enough of being victims of, well, 'the bad people'.
You and yours might not have encountered them, but other Americans sure have/are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 02:24:28 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 11:35:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 03, 2023, 08:38:49 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 03, 2023, 08:34:23 PM
""Accidental death" by guns is the fault of the parents and friends allowing children access to their guns or being careless themselves."

And? This will somehow go away with the addition of more guns to the mix? Just say "I don't care". It's much easier and more honest.

I do care, but I also care about innocent victims whose horror could be prevented by carrying a gun.

Thousands of students, parents, caregivers and concerned Tennesseans marched Monday to the state capitol demanding action to gun laws in response to the Covenant School shooting.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/04/03/nashville-shooting-latest-updates-protests-tennessee-gun-law/70073429007/

From the link:

"Gov Bill Lee said Friday he would propose a measure to increase school security measures statewide....."

It is the answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2023, 08:06:01 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2023, 08:28:20 PM
I support the all you can eat sushi buffet.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/teppanyaki-grill-supreme-buffet-anaheim

Get stoned, and go eat sushi with all of your best friends. That is what Goldie and Kurt would do. We need to promote peace and love.

Salute.

Tony V.
Too bad it is getting shut down due ro all the raccoons.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2023, 08:23:49 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 03, 2023, 11:39:51 PM
The House chamber fell into chaos as Republican Rep. Andrew Farmer, R-Sevierville, introduced the first resolution, which called for Pearson's expulsion. Protestors screamed from the galleries above. Pearson raised his fist in protest, and House Democrats raised their hands to object.

Amid the chaos, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, called for the vote, and the resolution passed with overwhelming support from the Republican supermajority. All three resolutions passed in a party-line vote of 72 to 23. Democrats will have little power to block expulsions on Thursday.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/03/tennessee-republicans-file-resolutions-to-expel-three-democrats-who-led-gun-reform-chants-on-house-f/70078002007/
Right wing cancel culture.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2023, 09:12:33 AM: You and yours might not have encountered them, but other Americans sure have/are.

I suppose that's also easy for an individual living in a basement 6,000 miles away, and without children, to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 04, 2023, 09:44:32 AM: Quote
[Tennessee] House leadership later likened the trio s behavior to an insurrection, a characterization House Democrats decried...

When three legislators leading a gun law reform chant in the gallery is painted as insurrection, you've reached the Orwellian stage of word redefinition. What a sad and desperate lot the GOP has become.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 04, 2023, 11:24:54 AM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/4/2161973/-Fugitive-Politico-On-The-Run-Three-Weeks-Dies-Of-Injuries-Sustained-During-Arrest-By-FBI (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/4/2161973/-Fugitive-Politico-On-The-Run-Three-Weeks-Dies-Of-Injuries-Sustained-During-Arrest-By-FBI)

What a sad and desperate lot the GOP has become.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 04, 2023, 01:35:13 PM: 18 inches of snow up here. What TS Eliot said about April was optimistic.

At least we knew what was coming here - stores and streets were packed yesterday with people (me included) laying in extra supplies and getting errands run before the city shut down.

Kennst du das Land wo die Zitronen bluhen?

Know you the land where the lemon trees bloom?

In the dark foliage the gold oranges glow; the myrtle is still and the laurel stands tall

Do you know it well? There, there, I would go, O my beloved, with thee

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 01:43:04 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2023, 09:12:33 AM
You and yours might not have encountered them, but other Americans sure have/are.

I suppose that's also easy for an individual living in a basement 6,000 miles away, and without children, to say.

Whatever.
Good Americans need guns, because the govt can't protect them from all the things I listed.
Good Americans want guns, to protect themselves...and who can blame them for that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2023, 01:52:03 PM: I'm a Good American and I have no interest in guns. I think Good Americans have a right to own guns, but are mature enough to know that life is not a fictional movie like Rambo or Death Wish. I also believe good (and mature) Americans also acknowledge the fact that owning one means that somebody you know and care about is far more likely to die from the use of that weapon than is a "bad person lurking in the shadows."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 04, 2023, 02:12:22 PM: But are you the kind of American who shows up in Bambis YouTube feed?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 02:28:23 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2023, 01:52:03 PM
I'm a Good American and I have no interest in guns. I think Good Americans have a right to own guns, but are mature enough to know that life is not a fictional movie like Rambo or Death Wish. I also believe good (and mature) Americans also acknowledge the fact that owning one means that somebody you know and care about is far more likely to die from the use of that weapon than is a "bad person lurking in the shadows."

Point taken.
The best route is to ban all guns, except bolt action rifles on farms...said guns required to be kept in gun safes with the ammunition stored separately.
Strict licensing and inspection.

Is that achievable in America?
There'd have to be a workable govt buy-back scheme...would cost a fortune.
Would the People vote for it though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 04, 2023, 03:15:00 PM: The world is crazy right now.

The people in Los Angeles want to free all of the prisoners in the Jail and they want to tear down the Jail. They said that the Prisoners are all there because of Racism, and that they need to be released and that the Los Angeles County Jail needs to be torn down.

Part of our Nation is about "Justice For All" and that means that criminals need to be punished. And Justice wears a blind-fold, we all need to be equal under the law.

And when I was a kid I took care of animals on our farm, then later I picked strawberries, and I pulled weeds in hay fields, etc, and I helped the family however I could. Then later after my Father died I worked 12 hours a day washing dogs for my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer in order to help her to pay the rent and to buy food. I was taught at a very young age to connect food and shelter with working.

So, if the children want to live on farms and help take care of the animals, etc, and if they want to wash dogs to help to pay the rent, then that was how I was raised. They can be equal with what I did as a kid.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 04, 2023, 05:17:35 PM: On the bright side of life, Disney is building Disney themed housing in Riverside County, California.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-28/storyliving-by-disney-master-planned-community-cotino-rancho-mirage-california-the-incredibles

That is fun, and it will be good housing for the children.

Malibu is also great, where the kids can all surf and play on the beach.

We have a lot of blessings here in California.

And Anaheim receives 50,000 tourists per day to sell stuff to. With over four billion dollars being invested in Anaheim right now to make it nicer for the tourists.

Some good things are happening, and the Mayors are all working to help the homeless people, etc, and the economy is improving, if we choose to look for positive things in the world then we can find that some good things are happening.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 07:53:59 PM: Blessings in California?
Go California!

In my paper today:
"Eric erupts as Ivanka and Melania snub Donald."
*
"Trump and US are both on trial."

‐-‐--‐-------------------

Then my blessing, dishwasher tablets are now $72.00 for a 45 pack.
$72.00!
The article showed a photo of the shelf label in the major supermarket chain store.
Well "Trump" suddenly wasn't my 'major' concern as I nearly choked on my fried dim sims from last night that I reheated for my breakfast.
$72.00!
My mind went all fuzzy.
Today is my pay day, pension pay day.
$72.00 to buy dishwasher tablets to 'flush' down the drain?
"Oh what will I do."
"Well I won't buy any dishwasher tablets, and just use hot water and rinse aid". "The swagman camping by the billabong didn't have dishwasher tablets, but just hot water."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 08:29:16 PM: "Eric erupts".....
Yes, don't you just love 'fairweather' family members.
Whatever happened to the wedding vows:
"for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live."
*
There for the money, fame, and benefits in the good times.....but...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 04, 2023, 08:37:40 PM: Eric suffered less rape attempts from donald than the other two you mentioned. As a result his loyalties are less strained.

You will be hearing more about that pattern of behavior in the next trump trial to start in NY.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 04, 2023, 10:45:17 PM: PROGRESSIVES WIN IN WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT AND CHICAGO MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Yeah, bay bee
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2023, 11:11:09 PM: What exactly is a "progressive" in America?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 05, 2023, 12:09:47 AM: Start with Equality, Fairness, Health, and Prosperity as your goals and proceed with care to minimize the impositions forced on individual freedom to achieve them. Do that and you are being progressive in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 05, 2023, 06:08:55 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 04, 2023, 03:15:00 PM
The world is crazy right now.

The people in Los Angeles want to free all of the prisoners in the Jail and they want to tear down the Jail. They said that the Prisoners are all there because of Racism, and that they need to be released and that the Los Angeles County Jail needs to be torn down.

Part of our Nation is about "Justice For All" and that means that criminals need to be punished. And Justice wears a blind-fold, we all need to be equal under the law.

And when I was a kid I took care of animals on our farm, then later I picked strawberries, and I pulled weeds in hay fields, etc, and I helped the family however I could. Then later after my Father died I worked 12 hours a day washing dogs for my Grandmother who was a Dog Groomer in order to help her to pay the rent and to buy food. I was taught at a very young age to connect food and shelter with working.

So, if the children want to live on farms and help take care of the animals, etc, and if they want to wash dogs to help to pay the rent, then that was how I was raised. They can be equal with what I did as a kid.

Salute,

Tony V.

So, the people of LA think that non-white prisoners in LA jail should be released and the jail torn down?
And what then, there be no jail?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 05, 2023, 09:55:51 AM: An exhibit of class and grace.

https://youtu.be/LcKn8Jy6a18
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 05, 2023, 11:06:19 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 05, 2023, 09:55:51 AM
An exhibit of class and grace.

https://youtu.be/LcKn8Jy6a18

Wow.

He left out the part about his opponent eating babies, fellating farm animals, and being the Antichrist. That was gracious of him!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 01:22:33 PM: I went to see "The Jesus Revolution" last night, and I really hope it starts a revolution.

The movie is about the founders of The Calvary Chapel, and Harvest, and it is a great film. I pray it starts a real Jesus Revolution, the world needs Jesus now more than ever.

The most powerful man in the world right now is Pope Francis, and he is a good man of God.

And if I was rich like Rick Caruso I would open hippy communes where the people can grow food and where they can do trade with San Francisco, etc, and they can worship God, and they can all help each other. One could build Santorini, Greece, stye high density apartments out by Battle Mountain, Nevada, for cheap, and the people who live in the apartments can grow food and they can make cheese, etc, and they could do trade with San Francisco, etc, and they can worship God. Merced, California, is also a nice place for hippy communes, and also Napa, California, etc.

The world needs a Jesus Revolution right now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 01:34:25 PM: I wash my dishes by hand. But, it would be nice to have a dishwasher, but yes, Bambu, you are paying way too much money for dishwasher tablets, tell your stores to import cheaper dishwasher detergent, you get canned soup from America, and you can also get cheap dishwashing detergent from America. I am sure Ohio or someplace makes cheap dishwashing detergent that you can import to Australia.

And yes Bambu, they are crazy, they want to release criminals into the neighborhoods and then tear down the jail. A new jail needs to be built, we need to have a justice system and we need to be able to punish the criminals. I do not support releasing the criminals onto our streets.

Also, we need a Jesus Revolution and hippy communes for the homeless people and for the refugees, etc.

California is blessed, but we need to be wise, and we need to make it nicer for the people, like in the 1950s and 1960s. And we need to bring back Jan and Dean songs, and Beach Blanket Bingo movies, etc. And we need a Jesus Revolution.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 02:38:55 PM: Bambu, Australia can order Dishwasher Tablets from Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Link...

https://us.pg.com/

You can tell your local store to import cheaper Dishwasher Tablets from the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 03:42:34 PM: On the issue of the Jesus Revolution...

We have a Calvary Chapel Open Door Church here in Anaheim that is perfect for the artists from Disney, etc, and the Church is just a few miles from Disneyland on Harbor Blvd.

https://ccopendoor.org/

The Door is open and everyone is welcome at Calvary Chapel.

We will see if a Jesus Revolution can happen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 05, 2023, 06:35:42 PM: What flavor is the Kool-Aid?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 05, 2023, 07:00:58 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 02:38:55 PM
Bambu, Australia can order Dishwasher Tablets from Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Link...

https://us.pg.com/

You can tell your local store to import cheaper Dishwasher Tablets from the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.

Thanx.
The $72 is in Brisbane...so it was discovered.
The company excused the price by "increased production costs".
Nah, People are not believing that.
I checked the online supermarket price today..."half price special".
lol $22.00. (45 tablets).
Seems the store was "trying it on"...charge $72 and "see what happens".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 05, 2023, 07:23:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 05, 2023, 03:42:34 PM
On the issue of the Jesus Revolution...

We have a Calvary Chapel Open Door Church here in Anaheim that is perfect for the artists from Disney, etc, and the Church is just a few miles from Disneyland on Harbor Blvd.

https://ccopendoor.org/

The Door is open and everyone is welcome at Calvary Chapel.

We will see if a Jesus Revolution can happen.

Salute,

Tony V.

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-rel-church-abuse-maryland_n_642df743e4b001e12d702df3 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-rel-church-abuse-maryland_n_642df743e4b001e12d702df3)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 03:10:22 AM: What I learnt from Youtube today:

How to start a fire with a battery and a gum wrapper.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 04:48:24 AM: Twister Alley...towns, homes, people smashed...again, and again, and again.
What about some of the billions given away as foreign aid, and on sending space ships to Mars...be used to build twister proof towns and homes in Twister alley instead?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 06, 2023, 09:45:28 AM: I grew up in the heart of Tornado Alley. The odds of a tornado hitting one specific house are miniscule, so economically it makes more sense to provide good insurance coverage. Tornado-proofing every home would likely cost trillions, not billions, because you would basically have to replace every wood-framed structure ("stick-built" is the term here in US) with concrete-block houses or berm houses. Given that hurricanes wreak 10 times the damage of tornadoes, it makes more sense to invest in hurricane-proofing and zoning that prevents residential construction in especially vulnerable coastal areas (or buy out existing properties).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM: Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 06, 2023, 12:59:31 PM: The business records fraud is in furtherance of falsifying tax documents if nothing else.

We are gonna have to chop off his sharpie hand before he crimes again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 01:06:41 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
As I thought.
No response, just insults.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 06, 2023, 02:09:05 PM: That is what it takes historically to win your vote, gull.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 06, 2023, 03:15:26 PM: Mayor Bass is hiring people to help the homeless, many jobs are being created for Social Workers, and Shelter Managers, and for Psychologists, and for Mental Health Workers, and for Van Drivers, etc, etc, etc, and it is wonderful that the homeless people are being helped. The Bible asks us to help the homeless, and as we aid our homeless then we are fulfilling the commandment from God to love and help our neighbors. It is wonderful that Mayor Bass and other Mayors are working diligently to help our homeless people.

I also hope that the Churches will help and welcome the homeless people, there is the Calvary Chapel Open Door and other Churches who are there for the homeless. I once went to a Church where I saw them kick out a homeless friend, and that was a bad church, those people were fake, a lot of people pretend to be Christians but if they reject the poor and the homeless then they are not real Christians. The real Christians embrace and help the homeless. I hope we can have a "Jesus Revolution" as we help the homeless, as we get them into shelters I hope the homeless will choose to attend Church on Sundays, there needs to be Church buses to take the homeless to Church on Sundays, etc. In Oregon there were Church buses that went around picking everyone up for Church on Sunday, and that needs to happen for the homeless people, there needs to be buses to take the homeless people to Church.

And as the homeless people are helped then many can train to work to help other homeless people. And they can raise money for charity by selling hot dogs and beer at basketball games, and at baseball games, and at other sporting events, and at concerts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 06, 2023, 04:08:22 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 06, 2023, 09:45:28 AM
I grew up in the heart of Tornado Alley. The odds of a tornado hitting one specific house are miniscule, so economically it makes more sense to provide good insurance coverage. Tornado-proofing every home would likely cost trillions, not billions, because you would basically have to replace every wood-framed structure ("stick-built" is the term here in US) with concrete-block houses or berm houses. Given that hurricanes wreak 10 times the damage of tornadoes, it makes more sense to invest in hurricane-proofing and zoning that prevents residential construction in especially vulnerable coastal areas (or buy out existing properties).

Climate change is real as evidenced by the number and ferocity of storms slashing across the world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 06, 2023, 04:15:49 PM: Incinerating the First Amendment in slavish devotion for the Second

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expulsion-shooting-gun-control.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Politically, this is one of the most ridiculous acts by the Republican Party

One thing is for sure, the kids are alright.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 06, 2023, 04:48:43 PM: This is not America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 05:03:44 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 06, 2023, 04:48:43 PM
This is not America.

It is though, just like what's going on with Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 05:05:58 PM: Poor guy. My heart breaks for him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 05:09:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 06, 2023, 09:45:28 AM
I grew up in the heart of Tornado Alley. The odds of a tornado hitting one specific house are miniscule, so economically it makes more sense to provide good insurance coverage. Tornado-proofing every home would likely cost trillions, not billions, because you would basically have to replace every wood-framed structure ("stick-built" is the term here in US) with concrete-block houses or berm houses. Given that hurricanes wreak 10 times the damage of tornadoes, it makes more sense to invest in hurricane-proofing and zoning that prevents residential construction in especially vulnerable coastal areas (or buy out existing properties).

What about funding a twister-proof room in homes there, to prevent loss of life?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 06:06:58 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
As I thought.
No response, just insults.
No insults. Just a blunt statement of facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 06, 2023, 07:24:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 05:09:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 06, 2023, 09:45:28 AM
I grew up in the heart of Tornado Alley. The odds of a tornado hitting one specific house are miniscule, so economically it makes more sense to provide good insurance coverage. Tornado-proofing every home would likely cost trillions, not billions, because you would basically have to replace every wood-framed structure ("stick-built" is the term here in US) with concrete-block houses or berm houses. Given that hurricanes wreak 10 times the damage of tornadoes, it makes more sense to invest in hurricane-proofing and zoning that prevents residential construction in especially vulnerable coastal areas (or buy out existing properties).

What about funding a twister-proof room in homes there, to prevent loss of life?

That has some merit, especially for homes built on slab foundations.

And most houses in Tornado Alley do have cellars, so they may need nothing more than enhanced bolting of the house to its foundation. Or a basement section with a reinforced ceiling. Areas where cellars are lacking, primarily trailer parks, are now legally required to build reinforced storm shelters centrally placed in the trailer park. I think government funding is assisting such places, and also helping fund lawsuits against noncompliant real estate companies.

Unfortunately, you have a lot of people, even in places like Moore, Oklahoma (I think it's still ranked as most twister prone city in US) who have homes built and decide they'd rather spring for granite countertops and a jacuzzi, than include tornado shelter in the house. Though twisters are dramatically destructive, the odds of one hitting your house in Tornado Alley is 1 in 5000, so people are willing to roll the dice and spend their budget on frills.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 06, 2023, 08:55:23 PM: Watching the Tennessee Legislature operate is like a primer on CRT
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM: It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 06, 2023, 10:45:15 PM: In the 1920s my Great Grandfather was the Chief of Police of Denver, Colorado. My family had a good life in Colorado in the 1920s, but then everything collapsed in the 1930s with the Great Depression. The family all ended up picking fruit in California, and they were grateful to be able to pick fruit. Watch the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, times were hard during the Great Depression. But, they were strong people and they worked hard and they survived. And then they had to fight World War II in the 1940s. Americans have had to be strong people.

We need peace right now, we need to stop Putin, and we need to have peace.

And we need to help our homeless people and we need to get our homeless people all into shelter. I also support Church buses which can pick up the homeless people and take them to Calvary Chapel and to the other Churches. We need a Jesus Revolution with buses bringing homeless people to the Churches. And then, as we help the homeless, then we can give them the opportunity to live on communes and to work on farms and to make cheese, etc, and to worship God, and they can have tennis courts and swimming pools on their communes, and libraries, etc. People can have communes in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and in Merced, California, and in Napa, California. The first step is to get the homeless people into housing, and to get them Mental Health Treatment, etc, and then we can get them all going to Church every Sunday on Church buses, and then they can get into more permanent housing such as communes, etc. And the communes are going to need pharmacies, etc. And the communes can do trade with San Francisco, etc.

So, at this time we need PEACE, and we need to help our homeless people. We lost a lot of jobs to other nations, and we have a lot of homeless people, right now we just need to help our homeless people. And we need to help them Mind, Body, and Spirit, they need to go to Church on Sunday to go along with getting healthy.

We have come a long way since the 1920s, and right now our crisis is to help our homeless people right here in America. We just need peace, so that we can focus on helping our people here at home.

And Biden has a lot going on with the economy and building, and the local economy is great here in Anaheim, we will be fine.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:19:22 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 06:06:58 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
As I thought.
No response, just insults.
No insults. Just a blunt statement of facts.
I supplied the facts
You countered with insults
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 01:06:51 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 06, 2023, 07:24:00 PM

Unfortunately, you have a lot of people, even in places like Moore, Oklahoma (I think it's still ranked as most twister prone city in US) who have homes built and decide they'd rather spring for granite countertops and a jacuzzi, than include tornado shelter in the house. Though twisters are dramatically destructive, the odds of one hitting your house in Tornado Alley is 1 in 5000, so people are willing to roll the dice and spend their budget on frills.
Frills?
Is building a home you want to enjoy living in a frill?
Of course not.
Moore Oklahoma according to statistics has grown from 42,000 to 63,000 in the last 13 years despite a huge
tornado in 2013.
Growth over the last three has been slowed by Covid and Biden inflation.
It may come as a shock to you but people seek a home they can afford in a community they live in whether by choice or situation.
They know the risks but persist in establishing a home that suits their needs and comfort.
As do all Americans.

If there is one lesson we have learned over the last 50 years of global alarmism it is that the ability of society to adapt to change is eternal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 02:07:03 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.

Happy women are the best kind.
Be kind to respectable, respectful women, and one's rewards will be plentiful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:19:22 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 06:06:58 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
As I thought.
No response, just insults.
No insults. Just a blunt statement of facts.
I supplied the facts
You countered with insults
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

Bragg has no Constitutional duty to provide that information:

A. To the Defendant in an indictment or arraignment, or

B. To a journalist, ever.

Google notice pleading, you vainglorious buffoon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 07, 2023, 11:40:59 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 01:06:51 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 06, 2023, 07:24:00 PM

Unfortunately, you have a lot of people, even in places like Moore, Oklahoma (I think it's still ranked as most twister prone city in US) who have homes built and decide they'd rather spring for granite countertops and a jacuzzi, than include tornado shelter in the house. Though twisters are dramatically destructive, the odds of one hitting your house in Tornado Alley is 1 in 5000, so people are willing to roll the dice and spend their budget on frills.
Frills?
Is building a home you want to enjoy living in a frill?
Of course not.
Moore Oklahoma according to statistics has grown from 42,000 to 63,000 in the last 13 years despite a huge
tornado in 2013.
Growth over the last three has been slowed by Covid and Biden inflation.
It may come as a shock to you but people seek a home they can afford in a community they live in whether by choice or situation.
They know the risks but persist in establishing a home that suits their needs and comfort.
As do all Americans.

If there is one lesson we have learned over the last 50 years of global alarmism it is that the ability of society to adapt to change is eternal.

You seem to have completely missed the point of that post. No one is criticizing building a nice home or living in Tornado Alley. Did you actually follow the whole chat, where I said I grew up in that area? Local government and insurers in that town in Oklahoma urge people to include tornado-proofing in their homes, for their safety and to help the house stay at least partly intact. As has been observed in various towns in Oklahoma, many people opt to spend the money that proofing costs on other home amenities. It's a dice roll I might consider myself, but I was explaining to Bambu that there are consequences of those cumulative individual choices when, say, an F4 tornado strikes, and they are striking with greater frequency now. So it is worthwhile, when you meet with a general contractor, to consider possible benefits of choosing a storm shelter space over marble countertops, when the budget won't encompass both.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 11:48:35 AM: How to react to protests and/or bad behavior in modern day America.
Two cases.

At the State University of New York(SUNY) student protesters
tried to silence conservative pundit Ian Haworth who was hired to conduct a discussion on Free Speech on College Campuses. Haworth belongs to Turning Point USA(TPUSA) a non profit organization promoting campus freedom and his talk was to discuss how just the opposite is happening on many university campuses.

Right on cue some angry students started screaming( in no particular order)
Shut Up Nazi!, Trans Rights are Human Rights! Fuck You TPUSA!

Haworth replied to those shouting , Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the [ b]
Tolerant Left![/b]
Summing up his evening at SUNY Haworth observed
The most socialist thing I have ever seen is a bunch of deranged students screaming no cops! no KKK! no TPUSA! at a Jewish immigrant while also happily shoveling free pizza down their throats paid for by TPUSA!
Jokingly, he added, Sure, they are Nazis, but who does not love a free slice? [/b]

And then you have the 50 something lady school bus driver , Jackie Miller, shuttling a bunch of brats to school last week in Amherst, Ohio.
Miller said the core group of students had acted out
the minute they boarded the bus and one of them sprayed perfume leading to a horrible asthma attack.
She needed an inhaler and the bus windows opened to recover.
It was the proverbial straw and Miller let go.

Her rant lasted minutes and was brutal.
My favorite part:

Goddamn it, how much more do you expect me to fucking take?
I'm sick of all of this shit!
I am done with it.
I am going to start kicking some fucking serious ass!
Do you hear me?
My foot is going to be so far up your goddamn ass it is going to dangle out your goddamn nose..

Well, Miller quit.She said she should not have reacted that way but she MEANT EVERY WORD and was not taking anything back.

Her tongue lashing became the inspiration for a clothing line of shirts, sweaters and hoodies, which sported one of her quotes ( guess which one) around a school bus, with $5 of each sale going to the now-jobless driver.
A GoFundMe was also set up and raised over $60,000 as of Thursday afternoon, so Miller can retire.

.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 07, 2023, 11:55:41 AM: [ author=Hairy Lime link=topic=223.msg226080#msg226080 date=1680880895]

Bragg has no Constitutional duty to provide that information:

A. To the Defendant in an indictment or arraignment, or

B. To a journalist, ever.

Google notice pleading, you vainglorious buffoon.
[/quote]

Both A and B? I would have thought just B? So Bragg just has to state a general cause of action, in an indictment, but specifics aren't needed? So the Constitutional "nature and cause" requirement is very general, I guess. Specifics come out in discovery.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:56:45 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 11:48:35 AM
How to react to protests and/or bad behavior in modern day America.
Expel them from the legislature, but only if they are black?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 12:00:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 07, 2023, 11:55:41 AM
[ author=Hairy Lime link=topic=223.msg226080#msg226080 date=1680880895]

Bragg has no Constitutional duty to provide that information:

A. To the Defendant in an indictment or arraignment, or

B. To a journalist, ever.

Google notice pleading, you vainglorious buffoon.

Both A and B? I would have thought just B? So Bragg just has to state a general cause of action, in an indictment, but specifics aren't needed? So the Constitutional "nature and cause" requirement is very general, I guess. Specifics come out in discovery.
[/quote]Yes, he will need to provide that information eventually, but not in the indictment. There will be a motion to dismiss the indictment, and that will force Bragg's hand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 12:20:59 PM: http://www.thedailybeast.com/sheriff-richard-mack-head-of-anti-vaxx-group-americas-frontline-doctors-accused-of-stealing-donor-money?ref=home (http://www.thedailybeast.com/sheriff-richard-mack-head-of-anti-vaxx-group-americas-frontline-doctors-accused-of-stealing-donor-money?ref=home)

More gulls and gullling.

It is nice to see JimDick-ilk go down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 12:21:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:19:22 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 06:06:58 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 12:32:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 06, 2023, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 06, 2023, 11:15:20 AM
Prepare to be confused

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was asked by a reporter as to what the underlying crime his indictment fails to name is, he replied in New York State, he does not have to.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Does that not include New York?
You clearly are. Or rather, the right wing web site you pulled that argument from wants you to be and is lying to you again. 240 years of litigation as to what constitutes sufficient information ignored by them to be regurgitated by you.
Was that supposed to be a response, or are you just banging the table?
LOL. Just pointing out that you know nothing of the Constitution or criminal procedure, and are being played for thr gull you are.
As I thought.
No response, just insults.
No insults. Just a blunt statement of facts.
I supplied the facts
You countered with insults
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

Bragg has no Constitutional duty to provide that information:

A. To the Defendant in an indictment or arraignment, or

B. To a journalist, ever.

Google notice pleading, you vainglorious buffoon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 01:05:15 PM: The republican plague-star, shonda of Queens NY, has been informed of the nature and cause of the felonies he is charged with and was arrested for.

You might not feel he was informed with sufficient specificity in the indictment document or at the initial hearing. If so, fortunately for you the greasy dilapidated ketchup throwing slimeball pled not guilty instead of no contest as he was probably advised to.

On account of that more specificity will be forthcoming.

I for one have set aside popcorn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 01:08:21 PM: I have a friend who was born and raised in Venice Beach, California, she married and moved to Washington where her Husband worked on aircraft, after her Husband retired they moved to Oklahoma where it is cheap to live, they bought a beautiful home with a nice swimming pool and jacuzzi, and their daughter was able to study Drama in High School, and now her Daughter graduated and got married, time flies so fast. She also has a disabled son who has to be in a special home. They love Oklahoma. They are also involved with Kiwanis International, which is global. They are living well in Oklahoma, they are grateful.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 01:16:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 02:07:03 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.

Happy women are the best kind.
Be kind to respectable, respectful women, and one's rewards will be plentiful.

I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, watching her front door and parking the cars, and she was a wonderful woman. Zsa Zsa Gabor was good friends with Suzanne Pleshette and Zsa Zsa used to come see Suzanne all of the time, and I loved Zsa Zsa.

And my Mother is a wonderful woman, and my Grandmothers on both sides were wonderful women.

I have been lucky to have had good women in my life.

I hope to find a good wife someday. And hopefully I can find a woman who is smarter than I, so that we can live good lives. I need to marry up in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 07, 2023, 02:51:55 PM: "I asked a question".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment. Again, accurately assessing your level of ignorance is not an insult. "Vainglorious Buffoon" was, admitedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 07, 2023, 03:11:57 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 01:16:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 02:07:03 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.

Happy women are the best kind.
Be kind to respectable, respectful women, and one's rewards will be plentiful.

I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, watching her front door and parking the cars, and she was a wonderful woman. Zsa Zsa Gabor was good friends with Suzanne Pleshette and Zsa Zsa used to come see Suzanne all of the time, and I loved Zsa Zsa.

And my Mother is a wonderful woman, and my Grandmothers on both sides were wonderful women.

I have been lucky to have had good women in my life.

I hope to find a good wife someday. And hopefully I can find a woman who is smarter than I, so that we can live good lives. I need to marry up in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.

Marrying up is a good thing. I know I did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 03:16:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 01:16:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 02:07:03 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.

Happy women are the best kind.
Be kind to respectable, respectful women, and one's rewards will be plentiful.

I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, watching her front door and parking the cars, and she was a wonderful woman. Zsa Zsa Gabor was good friends with Suzanne Pleshette and Zsa Zsa used to come see Suzanne all of the time, and I loved Zsa Zsa.

And my Mother is a wonderful woman, and my Grandmothers on both sides were wonderful women.

I have been lucky to have had good women in my life.

I hope to find a good wife someday. And hopefully I can find a woman who is smarter than I, so that we can live good lives. I need to marry up in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.

Rupert Murdoch managed to stay engaged for a couple of weeks at 92 and he is tops of the most disgusting and repulsive human beings on the planet both in body and soul.

Keep hope alive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:16:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
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Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
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Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
Liar.
Quote
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 03:18:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
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Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.

It was answered.

As your brain pan is your butt plug, you may have missed it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:23:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:16:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
Liar.
Quote
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.
Liar.
You mean you did not mean what you wrote?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:44:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:23:16 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:16:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
Liar.
Quote
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.
Liar.
You mean you did not mean what you wrote?
I mean you are a liar. (Putting on my best Charles Laughton voice) You were lying then, you are lying now and you in fact are a chronic and habitual LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:56:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:44:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:23:16 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 03:16:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:56:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 02:16:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 07, 2023, 12:33:54 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 07, 2023, 11:21:35 AM
The only fact you supplied is that you have no knowledge of the Constitution or criminal procedure. Granted the part of you being played for a gull is more an inference and the source you regurgitated may be as ill informed as you, but I think it is more likely they are relying on the ignorance of you and your ilk.

. The source I regurgitated WAS the Constitution and a public response by Bragg to a reporter.

And I asked a question.

You could not answer so you insult to change the subject.
You could not dispute my answer so you pretend it did not exist, and pretend my factually accurate statement about your level of relevant knowledge was an insult. PROVEN LIAR.
I said nothing factually inaccurate. I asked a question.
You could not answer without insulting.
Deal with your anger elsewhere.
No insult, no anger. And your "question" was a rhetorical comment.
No. It was a question.
Liar.
Quote
And you finally admitted that Bragg s answer to the reporter was misleading if not technically incorrect.
Liar.
You mean you did not mean what you wrote?
I mean you are a liar. (Putting on my best Charles Laughton voice) You were lying then, you are lying now and you in fact are a chronic and habitual LIAR.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 07:06:56 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2023, 03:11:57 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 01:16:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2023, 02:07:03 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 06, 2023, 10:49:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 06, 2023, 09:50:29 PM
It was in the Tennessee legislature on 18 August 1920 that young Harry Burn *changed* red rose to yellow after receiving a letter from his mother, and voted 'yes', thereby giving the Suffragist women, the "Iron Jawed Angels", their 19th Amendment right to vote.
A dark for Bambu-ilk residing in the States, I'm certain.

Happy women are the best kind.
Be kind to respectable, respectful women, and one's rewards will be plentiful.

I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, watching her front door and parking the cars, and she was a wonderful woman. Zsa Zsa Gabor was good friends with Suzanne Pleshette and Zsa Zsa used to come see Suzanne all of the time, and I loved Zsa Zsa.

And my Mother is a wonderful woman, and my Grandmothers on both sides were wonderful women.

I have been lucky to have had good women in my life.

I hope to find a good wife someday. And hopefully I can find a woman who is smarter than I, so that we can live good lives. I need to marry up in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.

Marrying up is a good thing. I know I did.

When the 'up' are looking to marry a life partner, what they seek could be 'down'.
How far 'down' the 'up' are willing to go is for each to choose.

Uptown meets downtown, or downtown meets uptown, choose wisely for a mistake could bring misery in more ways than one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 07:29:42 PM: As the homeless are being helped then many are over-dosing and dying in the housing that they are provided with, part of the answer is to take the homeless to Church on Sunday, Christians are less likely to commit suicide.

And as I grow old I want to be cool like Sam Eliott, and Jeff Bridges, and Sylvester Stallone.

On the issue of hot available women, it is all about finding a woman with similar dreams and goals, and who is made happy by the same things that make me happy. I took relationship classes, and parenting classes, and all of that in community college trying to make myself a better catch for the right woman.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 08:29:50 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 07:29:42 PM
Christians are less likely to commit suicide.

I am not holding my breath, but do you have anything like a basis for this?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 09:00:56 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 07, 2023, 08:29:50 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2023, 07:29:42 PM
Christians are less likely to commit suicide.

I am not holding my breath, but do you have anything like a basis for this?

In Psychology class in community college they taught us how to operate a Suicide Prevention Hot-Line, and the first question that you ask the person is if they are a Christian, if they are a Christian then they are less likely to commit suicide.

There are several reasons why the Christians are less likely to commit suicide, including the fact that suicide is a sin, life is sacred, and God is always with us and Christians always believe in a better day and we believe in miracles, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 08, 2023, 12:08:45 PM: And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2023, 02:29:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 08, 2023, 12:08:45 PM
And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter. :)

When I was attending acting school, I had chronic pain from an automobile accident, so I went to a chiropractor, and the chiropractor loved me and she said that she would buy me a Porsche if I married her daughter, she wanted me as a son-in-law. She was joking of course, and I never met her daughter.

For me the challenge has been to make money to buy a home and to take care of a family, a man has to be a good protector and provider, a man has to earn enough money to provide a home for his family. So, I worked hard, and I was trying to earn money and have a career so that I could take care of a family. As a Kid I washed dogs for my Grandmother to help her to earn money to buy food and to pay the rent, and I ended up managing a dog kennel where we worked. I worked hard and built up the kennel, but the owner was a cheap-skate and he was a child of the Great Depression, and he did not share the wealth that I helped to earn. I had movie stars as customers, Daryl Hannah and others, and I could have been dating the women who came into the kennel if I was respectable and if I was paid well. But, I was under-paid, and I just felt like slave labor, and there was no way that I could date any of the classy women who came into the kennel. Then after I quit the kennel it just got worse, I worked harder and harder for less money. So, I went back to school to try to make myself more valuable so that I could make money and have a family. I went and got my Associate in Arts Degree, and I attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the women love actors, and the actresses are beautiful women, and acting pays a lot of money if you get in with the right people. But, I never made it in the Entertainment Industry. So, no money, and no family.

Of note, I am a poet, and a writer, along with being able to act, so my poetry book that I wrote and my movie script might hold the keys to the future. If I can make money from my Poetry Book, and my Movie Script, then maybe I can open a night club in Rome, Italy, and I can cook for my customers, and maybe find a wife in Italy who can help me run the night club. There was a television show named "Northern Exposure" and on the show there was an old man who owned a restaurant and he was married to his young hot waitress, and I could be like that. I can have a club and I can be married to my waitress. And also maybe buy a vineyard and winery in Tuscany to pass down to future generations so that they will always have a home and an income as long as the family owns the winery and sells wine.

We will see what happens. When I went to the Chapman film school to check it out, I saw a beautiful woman as I was walking to the film school from the bus stop, she looked like Veronica Lake, she was beautiful, and I said "Hi" and she was cool and she said "Hi" back. I might meet a woman at the film school who wants to write and produce television shows and movies with me. When I worked at Universal my fellow employees wanted for me to buy the studio someday, maybe I can meet a woman who wants to own a movie studio. I do not know what the future has in store.

I would have had a wife and a family a long time ago if I had money, if my family owned the dog kennel where I worked then I could have dated a movie star who was a customer of the kennel. But, if you are just some poor kid from a poor family then you do not get to date the movie stars. And I had a beautiful friend who I grew up with who I loved, but I could never take care of her, I could never afford to buy her a home and feed her.

And it is bad for ones self esteem to be poor, you feel worthless, and you do not feel like the women even are interested.

But, at least I am not an illegal drug dealer, and I am not involved with the drug addicts, I am a good honest man who tried to do right, and who would have worked any good honest job in order to provide for a family, it just never worked out.

I just have to try to make the most out of however much time I have left.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2023, 03:40:54 PM: I met a lot of cool people when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, and I ended up living in group homes owned by my dearly departed friend Lisa who was friends with Suzanne. Lisa was a very wealthy woman from the Philippines, and she spent her whole life helping the homeless people, she was a good woman. And Lisa and her husband Oscar and her best friend Rose wanted to take me to the Philippines to find me a good wife in the Philippines. Rose was a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was the President of the Philippines at that time. They were going to take me to a Charity Ball in the Philippines to do Ball Room Dancing and to meet the ruling class in the Philippines, they wanted for me to find a wife from among the women who are from the ruling class in the Philippines. But, then sadly Rose started having complications from diabetes and so our trip was canceled.

I have always loved the people of the Philippines, and when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette I had a friend who was a Playboy Playmate from the Philippines, Pia Reyes, she was beautiful, but sadly she married a con-man. And my Mother has many friends from the Philippines. The people from the Philippines have been good to me. And I had a Doctor from the Philippines, he was the best.

My friends from the Philippines wanted to set me up with a rich and powerful woman from the Philippines, they were going to take me to the parties where the rich people went, but sadly Rose fell ill.

Here in California, I will feel better when we start helping the homeless, and as we start taking the homeless people to church, and as we start treating people as equals. If I have to be a poor and homeless outcast here then it is all bullshit, we need to all be equal. I want for Church buses to pick up the homeless people and to take them to church and I want for people to embrace the homeless people as children of God. And once society embraces the homeless as equals, then maybe someday they will embrace me as an equal. I will feel better when I see the homeless people in Church like in "Jesus Revolution." We need for Church buses to drive around and to pick up all of the homeless people to take them to Church on Sundays. And I will feel more comfortable in the Churches here when the homeless people are welcomed.

A lot of poets and writers do not become famous until after they die. That is why you try to attach your projects to stars. And the poets and writers are blessed if they have smart wives to help them. And meanwhile we need to be able to be a part of a vibrant Christian community even if we are homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 08, 2023, 06:47:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 08, 2023, 12:08:45 PM
And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter. :)
No, too easy, even for me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 08, 2023, 09:17:40 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2023, 02:29:51 PM

We will see what happens.

Some thoughts --

Long-winded self-pitying postings, relentlessly zooming in on past experiences (dog washing, Suzanne Pleshette, ancestors of note, childhood poverty, etc) should not be what is happening.

Your writing is mediocre and tedious to read. The reason you are well into middle age and haven't published or sold a script is your natural talents lie elsewhere. (my guess is that you are a people person who would make a good social worker, counselor, paramedic, or a range of other helping occupations)

You aren't going to be present and live fully in the present until you stop spinning endless vineyard dreams in your brain or imagining some unattainable level of wealth and glamorous company. Those are shallow goals anyway, and you can do better living simply and connecting with the struggling people you seem to really care about. You have kindness and compassion and empathy, which are a thousand times more valuable than a fat wallet or making a splash in showbiz.

Salute,

Caliban
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2023, 10:35:17 PM: I had a roommate in one of Lisa's houses who was a Franciscan Monk, his name was Skip, he lived in a house over by Dick Van Dyke in Malibu, and Skip was living with the homeless people so that he could go back to Malibu and teach the other Monks how to help the homeless. He wanted to live with the homeless in order to teach the other Monks how to help the homeless.

I can help other people to benefit from experiences that I have had.

Right now we need for Church buses to take the homeless people to Church on Sundays, to the Calvary Chapel Open Door and to other Churches. The rich companies need to donate Church buses to the Churches in order to foster better communities.

And I write better with a team of writers, when it comes to movies and television shows I need to write with a team. And for making movies, and for anything in the Entertainment Industry, then I need a team, I need to surround myself with smart and talented people.

I also need to find a good smart wife, I will never make it on my own, and I want a family.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 08, 2023, 10:48:38 PM: Quote from: calibandwagon on April 08, 2023, 09:17:40 PM

Salute,

Caliban

At least you can say you tried.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 08, 2023, 11:11:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 08, 2023, 06:47:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 08, 2023, 12:08:45 PM
And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter. :)
No, too easy, even for me.

Indeed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 12:10:13 AM: There have been murders all over Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and San Bernardino has the worst crime in California, and it is only getting worse.

The answer is to get the homeless people into Church and to teach them how God wants for them to live. God wants to bless all of us, and he wants for us to have great communities of Christians. If we want for the crime to go down, then we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays. And we need to teach the homeless people how to be a part of a good community where people help each other, and then we can transform society.

We need schools, libraries, and Churches, in order to help the homeless, and in order to improve society, and there is a lot more to having a community than just having housing. There needs to be housing, but there also needs to be schools, libraries, and Churches. And Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Centers, etc, are needed, etc.

We can make society better but people have to care. And also there is Kiwanis International.

But right now, I do not want to ride the trains and walk the streets. I have my own little neighborhood where they all know me, and I stay mostly in this neighborhood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2023, 03:59:16 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 08, 2023, 03:35:11 PM
Re-runs of As Tony World Turns now streaming non-stop on Elba 2.

😴😴😴😴

I like Tony's stories...and it's not like the forum is 'rush hour central'.

Easy for women to find love, just dress in not much and hit the clubs.
Very, very, difficult for a poor man..."hi, would you like to catch the bus to Maccas (McDonalds) for a small fries and a drink"?
Very difficult for a middle class man too, if he's not a 9 or 10.
Family? Good for about 12 years, until the kids hit high school and the marriage ends.
Then the misery and financial horror start.
One minute the man has a home, then he comes home from work one day to an empty house, the wife gone with the kids and all the furniture...divorce papers on the kitchen bench.
Then the man has to pay alimony and child support, tossed in prison if he doesn't.
Who'd be a young man in the West today, especially in America?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 09, 2023, 11:26:50 AM: What's cute and fluffy and passed out on the lawn?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2023, 02:38:10 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/los-angeles-school-workers-labor-deal (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/los-angeles-school-workers-labor-deal)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 09, 2023, 02:54:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2023, 11:26:50 AM
What's cute and fluffy and passed out on the lawn?
The Ether Bunny!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 03:14:37 PM: When I was a teen back in the 1980s I had a friend who had a poster on his wall of a beautiful red Lamborghini with a beautiful woman in a swimsuit sitting on the hood of the car, and at the bottom of the poster it said "The Benefits of a Higher Education." He was motivated to do well in school and to go to college and to get rich and to get the hot babe and the car.

And for the wonderful Doctors, the Doctors need to be rewarded and they deserve to be rich and they deserve the beautiful women and the nice cars.

When I lived in Malibu I rented a room from the ex-wife of Sammy Hagar's family Doctor, Jeff, Jeff was rich and he was a Doctor to the stars, and he owned a bunch of nice houses in Malibu, he liked to invest in Malibu real estate. Jeff is a wonderful guy, and he deserves to be rich. And his ex-wife Peggy was very nice to me, and she welcomed me into her family and into her family home. I worked as a limousine driver for Gemstar Limousine at that time, we were the official Limousine Service for the Jay Leno Show, mostly I took people to the airport, and I picked people up from the airport and I brought them back to Malibu, while I tried to get work as an actor. Anyhow, I was able to see how the wealthy Doctors live in Malibu, and they are well rewarded.

In the 1980s everyone wanted to make money, and for my group we associated getting an education with being able to earn more money.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 03:21:25 PM: Happy Easter everyone.

He has risen.

Spread the word that we need for Church buses to drive around picking up the homeless people and taking them to Church on Sundays, we need for the rich people, like the guy from "My Pillow" to donate buses to the Churches.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2023, 03:21:36 PM: http://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/08/when-techbros-circle-jerk-becomes-a-circular-firing-squad/ (http://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/08/when-techbros-circle-jerk-becomes-a-circular-firing-squad/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2023, 03:23:35 PM: May all you fields be fertile, Tony, according to the do respect we pay our ancestors and the spirits of the land.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 03:39:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 09, 2023, 03:23:35 PM
May all you fields be fertile, Tony, according to the do respect we pay our ancestors and the spirits of the land.

Thanks!

I wish you the best as well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2023, 04:45:11 PM: Some doctors are arrogant, rude, uncaring, money-worshipping morons.
Others care about their patients and are genuinely lovely people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 09, 2023, 04:46:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 09, 2023, 02:54:26 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2023, 11:26:50 AM
What's cute and fluffy and passed out on the lawn?
The Ether Bunny!

Yes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2023, 06:14:40 PM: So, every African American will be getting a house for $1...reparation for slavery, discrimination etc.
Cool, free stuff is always good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2023, 07:32:52 PM: Not breeding was the best decision you ever made Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 09, 2023, 09:06:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 09, 2023, 06:14:40 PM
So, every African American will be getting a house for $1...reparation for slavery, discrimination etc.
Cool, free stuff is always good.

Free stuff

Cool rightwing talking point.

Slavery, discrimination for free stuff.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM: They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:45:49 PM: Originally the freed slaves were supposed to get 40 Acres and a Mule. We have lots of wide open land if the homeless descendants of freed slaves qualify for 40 Acres and a Mule. Back at the time they considered 40 Acres and a Mule fair.

Meanwhile, we need to strive for equality for all men, and we need to have good human rights, and good civil rights, for all men, and I support the ACLU. I also support the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. I support equal rights for all men.

Beyond that, I am a Christian, and I support the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated ourselves, and I support obeying the 10 Commandments, etc.

No one in my family tree ever owned slaves, and my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians here in the West, at the time of Lincoln I had family in Madison, Indiana, and in Carrollton, Kentucky, before that they lived in New York, etc, my family tree never owned slaves.

Slavery was horrible, and certainly the freed slaves were entitled to something, and 40 Acres and a Mule was one suggestion.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:54:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 09, 2023, 04:45:11 PM
Some doctors are arrogant, rude, uncaring, money-worshipping morons.
Others care about their patients and are genuinely lovely people.

Doctor Jeff was a surfer in Malibu, he surfed everyday, and he was cool and mellow like a surfer, he lived right on the beach at Latigo Beach and he surfed everyday, all of his friends were surfers, and he was a cool part of the community in Malibu.

And my favorite Doctor here in Anaheim was from the Philippines, he was a very humble and great doctor, he retired and I miss him.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:07:37 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM
They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers on trains need guns...as 'Erica Bain' [Jodie Foster] did in "The Brave One".
Two thugs spy you sitting alone at the end of the carriage, approach speaking words of horror, then produce a knife...fearing for your life, you have no alternative but to shoot the one threatening you with the knife.
Gun in your pocket ready to fire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:18:53 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:45:49 PM
Originally the freed slaves were supposed to get 40 Acres and a Mule. We have lots of wide open land if the homeless descendants of freed slaves qualify for 40 Acres and a Mule. Back at the time they considered 40 Acres and a Mule fair.

Meanwhile, we need to strive for equality for all men, and we need to have good human rights, and good civil rights, for all men, and I support the ACLU. I also support the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. I support equal rights for all men.

Beyond that, I am a Christian, and I support the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated ourselves, and I support obeying the 10 Commandments, etc.

No one in my family tree ever owned slaves, and my ancestors were Cowboys and Indians here in the West, at the time of Lincoln I had family in Madison, Indiana, and in Carrollton, Kentucky, before that they lived in New York, etc, my family tree never owned slaves.

Slavery was horrible, and certainly the freed slaves were entitled to something, and 40 Acres and a Mule was one suggestion.

Salute,

Tony V.

mrs bambu just informed me that there was a movie made about '40 acres and a mule'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 10, 2023, 01:24:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:07:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM
They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers on trains need guns...as 'Erica Bain' [Jodie Foster] did in "The Brave One".
Two thugs spy you sitting alone at the end of the carriage, approach speaking words of horror, then produce a knife...fearing for your life, you have no alternative but to shoot the one threatening you with the knife.
Gun in your pocket ready to fire.

You are a stupid twat, Bambu, a danger to yourself and others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 10, 2023, 01:34:25 AM: The answer is to put armed guards on all of the trains and at all of the train stations.

In Los Angeles they hired new guards, but the television news team caught the guards staying in their cars in the parking lots instead of guarding the trains and the stations. The guards need to be brave, and they need to patrol the trains and the stations to prevent crime.

Hollywood needs security guards all over now, Hollywood really needs to invest in security.

And the schools all need security, etc.

And we need Church buses to take the homeless people to Church to teach them the Golden Rule, and the 10 Commandments, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 02:30:49 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 10, 2023, 01:24:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:07:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM
They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers on trains need guns...as 'Erica Bain' [Jodie Foster] did in "The Brave One".
Two thugs spy you sitting alone at the end of the carriage, approach speaking words of horror, then produce a knife...fearing for your life, you have no alternative but to shoot the one threatening you with the knife.
Gun in your pocket ready to fire.

You are a stupid twat, Bambu, a danger to yourself and others.

People are being stabbed on the trains.
What do you suggest the passengers do?
Just allow themselves to be stabbed, and die in the carriages?

Knife -proof clothing and knife proof helmets [including neck guards] would be one alternative. Thugs love stabbing victims in the ears and neck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 03:03:20 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 10, 2023, 01:34:25 AM
The answer is to put armed guards on all of the trains and at all of the train stations.

In Los Angeles they hired new guards, but the television news team caught the guards staying in their cars in the parking lots instead of guarding the trains and the stations. The guards need to be brave, and they need to patrol the trains and the stations to prevent crime.

Hollywood needs security guards all over now, Hollywood really needs to invest in security.

And the schools all need security, etc.

And we need Church buses to take the homeless people to Church to teach them the Golden Rule, and the 10 Commandments, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Guards need to be SWAT-like, 6ft 6in Samoan-like with dogs and guns,
ie: proper, serious guards.
Gotta be able to scare the thugs away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 10, 2023, 05:58:02 AM: My Grandmother carried a gun in her purse, she carried a small pearl handled .32 in her purse. She was robbed once, and after that she carried a gun in her purse.

When I find a good wife, then I want for my wife to carry a gun in her purse.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 10:04:43 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:07:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM
They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers on trains need guns...as 'Erica Bain' [Jodie Foster] did in "The Brave One".
Two thugs spy you sitting alone at the end of the carriage, approach speaking words of horror, then produce a knife...fearing for your life, you have no alternative but to shoot the one threatening you with the knife.
Gun in your pocket ready to fire.

You would love Bernie Goetz
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 10:06:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 02:30:49 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 10, 2023, 01:24:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 01:07:37 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2023, 10:35:19 PM
They are having stabbings on the Hollywood subway now. The trains need to all have lots of security guards to protect the tourists and travelers. And Hollywood depends on Tourism, the trains need to be safe.

And like I have been saying, I am a crusader, and I think we can help to make the world a better place by getting the homeless people into Church on Sundays. We need to teach people the Golden Rule to love our neighbors and to treat other people the way we wish to be treated, and we need to teach people the 10 Commandments, etc. We can help society to become a better place by sending Church buses around to pick the homeless people up to take them to Church on Sundays.

And I do not feel safe riding the trains right now, and the streets of Los Angeles are dangerous, we need to help the homeless, and we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays, and we need security guards on trains, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers on trains need guns...as 'Erica Bain' [Jodie Foster] did in "The Brave One".
Two thugs spy you sitting alone at the end of the carriage, approach speaking words of horror, then produce a knife...fearing for your life, you have no alternative but to shoot the one threatening you with the knife.
Gun in your pocket ready to fire.

You are a stupid twat, Bambu, a danger to yourself and others.

People are being stabbed on the trains.
What do you suggest the passengers do?
Just allow themselves to be stabbed, and die in the carriages?

Knife -proof clothing and knife proof helmets [including neck guards] would be one alternative. Thugs love stabbing victims in the ears and neck.

You yearn for the Australia of Mad Max
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 10, 2023, 03:26:06 PM: https://apnews.com/article/dalai-lama-kiss-boy-video-6fd0635673f6830578b084f550dc69ca

By all means let's take an innocent (albeit senile) attempt to get a child to laugh and turn it into something perverted. Cause there's nothing quite like feeling morally superior to the Dalai Lama!

/sarcasm
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 06:23:17 PM: Mass shooting of bank staff in Louisville.
Very sad.

The bad people strike again.

Wonder how shooter got access to the staff?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 10, 2023, 06:40:07 PM: You have obviously never been inside a bank in your life.

We know why he was able to easily obtain a gun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 06:56:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 10, 2023, 06:40:07 PM
You have obviously never been inside a bank in your life.

We know why he was able to easily obtain a gun.

Please tell me the bank had counter to ceiling bulletproof glass screens and a locked door with keypad to gain access to the "back office", like my banks have.
Please tell me the shooter didn't just walk into the bank, flick a latch on a thigh high gate and walk right in and shoot the victims, or shoot them over the counter.

https://genesisantijumpbarriers.com.au/bank-security-screen/ (https://genesisantijumpbarriers.com.au/bank-security-screen/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:33:41 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 07:18:09 PM
Please tell me that after all the time you have spent on Elba
you know that the right to bear arms in America supersedes all other rights
including the rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness?

And "absolute security" supersedes the right to bear arms.
"You can be armed, but we can make sure you don't slaughter people with those arms."

Bet you can't just waltz into the White House armed with guns, grenades, and bombs on your person or in bags.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 07:37:59 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 06:08:32 PM
End of the Line: ChucKING
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 07:39:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:33:41 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 07:18:09 PM
Please tell me that after all the time you have spent on Elba
you know that the right to bear arms in America supersedes all other rights
including the rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness?

And "absolute security" the right to bear arms.
"You can be armed, but we can make sure you don't slaughter people with that 'armed'"

Bet you can't just waltz into the White House armed with guns, grenades, and bombs on your person or in bags.

Foolish
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:44:30 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 07:39:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:33:41 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 07:18:09 PM
Please tell me that after all the time you have spent on Elba
you know that the right to bear arms in America supersedes all other rights
including the rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness?

And "absolute security" the right to bear arms.
"You can be armed, but we can make sure you don't slaughter people with that 'armed'"

Bet you can't just waltz into the White House armed with guns, grenades, and bombs on your person or in bags.

Foolish

Aren't schools and their children as valuable as the White House and anyone in it?
And banks, clubs, churches, PTA meetings...etc?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 09:15:45 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 07:59:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:44:30 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 10, 2023, 07:39:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 07:33:41 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 07:18:09 PM
Please tell me that after all the time you have spent on Elba
you know that the right to bear arms in America supersedes all other rights
including the rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness?

And "absolute security" the right to bear arms.
"You can be armed, but we can make sure you don't slaughter people with that 'armed'"

Bet you can't just waltz into the White House armed with guns, grenades, and bombs on your person or in bags.

Foolish

Aren't schools and their children as valuable as the White House and anyone in it?
And banks, clubs, churches, PTA meetings...etc?

Again you are ignorant, many states are raising the speed limits on American roads knowing full well that will result in more traffic fatalities.
Life is not sacred in America; speed, money, power and guns are.

Craw back in your hole, you ignorant slob!

I would say that life is very sacred in America, to the parents and relatives of slain school kids, and loved ones of bank staff, church congregations etc.

Higher speed limits on some roads don't necessarily result in higher road tolls.
Many people just ignore whatever the speed limit is. bambuworld has speed cameras everywhere, including mobile ones in pick up trucks and unmarked cars parked by the side of roads.
Motorists get the fines in the mail...including loss of points, 12 points reset every 2 years...drive thru a red traffic light, lose 4 points and pay $400 fine.
"Red light/speed" cameras at many intersections in city, suburbs and regional.
Overhead cameras policing cell phone use. About $500 fine and loss of 3 or 4 points for cell phone use of any kind, incl looking at a screen.

Cops can stop motorists anywhere, anytime night or day, and *make* them submit to a drug and alcohol test...talk into phone size alcohol device, and run swab down tongue for drug test.

Maybe try those for better road safety.

Money/power...most of your officials...Governors, Mayors, Police Chiefs etc are elected?
The People need to protest for change.

Guns.....2nd Amendment rights.
Maybe the People will be disarmed one day, maybe not.
Best to introduce 'absolute security' everywhere in the meantime.

Cabin doors...locked, no more hijackings.
Air marshals on planes...extra security.
What about 'school marshals'? What about scanners in schools etc like in airports?
What about locked doors in schools, like in planes?

Mrs bambu flew on domestic routes in America.
One guy was acting up "carrying on like pork chop"...brought a large bag onto the plane, too large, should never have been allowed to carry it on.
Mrs bambu had put her legal size cabin bag in the overhead locker and was seated.
Rude dude appeared with his large bag, and proceeded to remove mrs bambu's bag [and others] so he could replace them with his bag.
Mrs bambu ['knee-high to a grass hopper'] said "don't touch my bag". Even in a normal voice her sound is very clear, crisp, nice...easily heard within a room.
Rude dude ignored her, she told him again...next second air hostess arrived, told rude dude his bag was too big and it would have to be stored 'in the back'.
He argued with her, she explained about safety if the bag fell out and onto someone's head it could cause serious injury.
He kept arguing..demanding that if his bag were put in the back it would be taken off first so he wouldn"t have to wait.
Hostess told him it would be taken off last.
He was very annoyed, still wanted to argue.
Hostess then told him:
"There are air-marshals on this plane"
Rude dude then let his bag go in the back and sat down and shut up. lol

Gotta love security!
There's no such thing as too much security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 10:14:38 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 09:56:35 PM
Blah, blah, blah says the ignorant slob from his hole in the ground.

All just depends on how much people love their children, husbands, wives, siblings...and how much they value their lives.
And how much Americans value their own lives.
People like teachers, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons,...they too are being gunned down in schools 'every other week, month', or however long it is between massacres.'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2023, 11:51:37 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 11:00:34 PM
Blah, Blah, Blah, just the cost of business in America, you ignoramus.
Collateral damage, well within reasonable cost/benefit models.

Stay put in your secure hole living vicariously on Elba. Pathetic loser, you are.

Time is up. Talk to Tony, you two are perfect for each other!

LOL

I'm about as secure as I can be.
Assault rifles...banned.
Handguns...banned.
Carrying knives...banned
Gated community.

It's YOU and Elba-ites etc I'm worried about.
On my tv I see all the massacres, the grieving families.

You seem upset.
If I'm upsetting you, just put me on ignore and I'll disappear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 12:28:01 AM: If I was a poor homeless Black man who is a decedent of slaves then I would be very happy if I was given 40 Acres of Land and a Business Loan to buy a tractor, etc.

With 40 Acres of Land in Montana you could grow specialty stone ground Mustard.

With 40 Acres of Land in Merced, California, then you could grow strawberries and you could sell the strawberries to San Francisco.

With 40 Acres of Land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, then you could raise pigs and you could sell Pork to San Francisco.

With 40 Acres of Land in Napa, California, then you could have a vineyard and winery making specialty wine.

You could do a lot of things if you had 40 Acres of Land and a Business Loan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 11, 2023, 12:55:27 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 12:28:01 AM
If I was a poor homeless Black man who is a decedent of slaves then I would be very happy if I was given 40 Acres of Land and a Business Loan to buy a tractor, etc.

With 40 Acres of Land in Montana you could grow specialty stone ground Mustard.

With 40 Acres of Land in Merced, California, then you could grow strawberries and you could sell the strawberries to San Francisco.

With 40 Acres of Land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, then you could raise pigs and you could sell Pork to San Francisco.

With 40 Acres of Land in Napa, California, then you could have a vineyard and winery making specialty wine.

You could do a lot of things if you had 40 Acres of Land and a Business Loan.

Salute,

Tony V.

A poor, homeless man could get a business loan?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 11, 2023, 12:25:28 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 10, 2023, 11:00:34 PM
Blah, Blah, Blah, just the cost of business in America, you ignoramus.
Collateral damage, well within reasonable cost/benefit models.

Stay put in your secure hole living vicariously on Elba. Pathetic loser, you are.

Time is up. Talk to Tony, you two are perfect for each other!

Not being an english lit professor I had to look up 'vicariously'.
"Vicariously" - "in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person".
'Double Dutch' to me, like Shakespeare.
But imagine this, the Louisville bank and Nashville school with only one entry point, at which there was a staged entry system, metal detector and "stranger danger" alert system.
Elementary age kids not likely mass murderers...that leaves older kids and adults, especially ones carrying guns, for special scrutiny.
Gee, I can't get into footy matches without my bag being searched and a wand waved over me and I scan an electric pass or ticket.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 11, 2023, 02:18:53 PM: Gee, I can't get into footy matches without my bag being searched and a wand waved over me and I scan an electric pass or ticket.

I haven't been to an athletic event, concert or any other large gathering in years without this being the case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 02:58:41 PM: Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless, and it is way over-due, and meanwhile the Christians should have been helping the homeless this entire time as it says in Matthew 25; 31-46.

If Christians had been behaving as God tells us to in the Bible, then we never would have had homeless people all over the streets to begin with, we would have been helping our homeless people.

We need for Church buses to pick up the homeless people and to take them to Church on Sundays, and we need to teach the homeless people the Golden Rule, and the 10 Commandments, etc, and we need for them to experience the Love of God. Life does not need to be hard and brutal on the streets, the Christians need to have Church buses, and the Churches need to help the homeless people. As we have a "Jesus Revolution" then we need to turn it into action and we need to help our homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 11, 2023, 03:01:24 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 11, 2023, 02:18:53 PM
Gee, I can't get into footy matches without my bag being searched and a wand waved over me and I scan an electric pass or ticket.

I haven't been to an athletic event, concert or any other large gathering in years without this being the case.

If we simply immure a few thousand top republicans like Anchorites for some few decades, we can pass sensible gun laws like they have in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 03:14:45 PM: I had some good Christian friends who were helping the homeless on their own because they wanted to serve God. Lisa, Rose, Chris, Tom, and others, they spent their whole lives serving God. May they rest in peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 03:58:05 PM: If assholes like Louis Farrakhan are successful at starting a race war in the USA, then I am going to Acapulco, Mexico. I do not want to kill the Black people, and I do not want to protect scumbag White people like Donald Trump. Trump can fight against Farrakhan on his own. I do not want any part of it. I will go be a cook in Acapulco, and I will marry a Mexican waitress.

Meanwhile I pray for peace, and I think we need to help the homeless people, and we need to create a culture of peace, and we need to teach the homeless people the Golden Rule, and the 10 Commandments, etc.

And I will do all that I can to keep the peace.

On the issue of riots, the cities need to learn how to do crowd control, like we did at Universal Studios where we had 25,000 tourists per day. The cities need to be able to control the crowds, and the cities need to be able to prevent rioting and burning and looting and killing, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 05:20:47 PM: Rome fell because it was no longer worth protecting, and when the USA falls it will be because it becomes no longer worth protecting.

The burden of constant wars and high taxes to support the wars made Rome no longer worth saving, so they let Rome fall. If Rome was worth saving then they would have saved it.

With bad men like Trump as President, then the USA is not worth protecting. If Trump comes back into power then it would be bad for America.

And with the constant wars, the USA needs to have peace, and we need to help our homeless people.

I was one of the poor homeless people on the street, and I wish a Church bus would have picked me up on Sunday to take me to Church and i wish good people would have helped me. Instead they want for you to be a gay prostitute on the Blvd in order to make money for food. Our people should not have to be prostitutes in order to have food and shelter. We need for good Christians to help the homeless so that the homeless people can retain their dignity and so they can stay honest.

And with Christ we can have LOVE on the streets instead of suffering, we can have Christians feeding the homeless and taking the homeless to Church on Sunday, and helping the homeless people to get into housing, and helping the homeless people to get jobs, etc.

If I have to be poor and homeless here then I am damn sure not going to fight to protect America. If I just feel outcast and hated, then fuck it. And that is why Rome fell, the people no longer wanted to protect Rome. And the fuckers want to play Golf instead of helping the homeless.

I tried to move to live in Rome, Italy, which is the Christian Capital of the world, I went to the Vatican, and I went to Cinecitta, and I spent 6 weeks in Rome trying to get a job there so that I could move to Italy. If I could have gotten a job and an apartment in Rome then I would have stayed there.

If a race war starts in the USA then I am not going to fight to protect Trump.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 11, 2023, 05:47:19 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 05:20:47 PM

If a race war starts in the USA then I am not going to fight to protect Trump.

Salute,

Tony V.

Smartest thing you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 06:02:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 05:20:47 PM

If a race war starts in the USA then I am not going to fight to protect Trump.

Salute,

Tony V.
In Bruges (2008)

Jimmy: There's gonna be a war, man. I can see it. Theres gonna be a war between the blacks and between the whites. You aint even gonna need a uniform no more. This aint gonna be a war where you pick your side. Your side's already picked for you.
...
Ray: So, hang on. Would all of the white midgets in the world be fighting against all the black midgets in the world?

Jimmy: Yeah.

Ray: That would make a good film!

Jimmy: You dont know how much shit I've had to take off of black midgets, man.

Ray: That is... undeniably true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM: The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 07:15:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Too bad banks do not have armed guards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:29:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Too bad banks do not have armed guards.
Gun free Zone
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 11, 2023, 08:32:02 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.

Too bad banks don't have physical barriers preventing people with guns simply waltzing in and killing defenceless employees/customers.
Yes, a 'gun free zone' is useless unless 'Wyatt Earp' is policing it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 11, 2023, 08:56:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:29:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Too bad banks do not have armed guards.
Gun free Zone

Thick as a brick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 11, 2023, 09:00:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 06:02:44 PM

Jimmy: There's gonna be a war, man. I can see it. Theres gonna be a war between the blacks and between the whites. You aint even gonna need a uniform no more. This aint gonna be a war where you pick your side. Your side's already picked for you.
...

Well, who are the half-castes going to fight with?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 11, 2023, 09:15:39 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 11, 2023, 05:47:19 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 05:20:47 PM

If a race war starts in the USA then I am not going to fight to protect Trump.

Salute,

Tony V.

Smartest thing you

Look out!
Helter-skelter
Helter-skelter
Helter-skelter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 11, 2023, 09:19:03 PM: Perhaps Tony can learn about this program in Seattle and draw inspiration from it -

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1168665348/one-camp-at-a-time-a-seattle-group-is-transforming-its-approach-to-homelessness
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 11, 2023, 09:21:23 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 11, 2023, 09:00:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 06:02:44 PM

Jimmy: There's gonna be a war, man. I can see it. Theres gonna be a war between the blacks and between the whites. You aint even gonna need a uniform no more. This aint gonna be a war where you pick your side. Your side's already picked for you.
...

Well, who are the half-castes going to fight with?

The blacks, obviously.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 11, 2023, 10:05:30 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 11, 2023, 08:56:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:29:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Too bad banks do not have armed guards.
Gun free Zone

Thick as a brick.

Red will circle back to blame the bank shooting on lax anti-abortion laws and our sick fixation on prosecuting the perpetrators of white collar crime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 10:17:27 PM: One of the coolest guys I ever met was named Richard, and he had his own charity named "Food Without Borders" and he used to go into areas where it was against the law to feed the homeless, and he would pass out sandwiches and bottles of water to the homeless people, including here in Hollywood where it was illegal to feed the homeless.

I had the privilege of being able to cook a huge feast for a shelter full of homeless people, 14 homeless guys lived in the shelter and I cooked a huge wonderful feast, and Richard was at the feast, and he said that I passed the test. He said it was a wonderful meal and that I am a great cook and that I passed the test. I was a cook at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for 2 years, so I am a great cook ( Our head chef was a retired chef from Beverly Hills, we had great food at the casino ). It was wonderful to cook for a guy who spent his life feeding the homeless, Richard was a cool guy.

And I just want peace. We need for the good people to always speak up to stop the wars. And we need to support the ACLU and equality.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 11:39:50 PM: I have seen successful programs to help the homeless here in Orange County, but the programs were being supported by rich people from the Philippines, they bought houses and they filled the houses with the homeless people and they cooked for the homeless people, etc. And they worked together with the Mental Health Association, etc. The MHA was getting money from every direction, federal money, and money from the state, county, cities, and from charities, etc, and they had thrift stores, etc. And they worked together with N/A and A/A to help the addicts, etc.

I went to a meeting where I sat next to the Mayor of Laguna Beach while everyone discussed how to better help the homeless people. The main first step is to get them into housing, then they can be helped.

And we need Hostels like in Rome, Italy, where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

The Churches can also help. I used to go to a Catholic Church with a priest from Ireland, and they used to feed the homeless people on Sunday after church, they had big wonderful feasts after church. The Church buses can pick up the homeless people to go to Church on Sundays, and the Churches can feed the homeless after Church. And they can help the homeless to get into housing, etc, and they can help the homeless to find jobs, etc. We have the Catholic Churches, and we have the Calvary Chapel Open Door, and we have other churches which can help the homeless. And it is good for the people to go to Church on Sunday and they make good friends in Church, there is brotherly love in Church.

My friend Tom used to have a team of volunteers to raise money to feed the hungry, they sold hot dogs and beer at sporting events, etc, and they raised over one million dollars for charity to feed the hungry people. In Los Angeles and elsewhere the homeless people, and the people from N/A, etc, can volunteer to sell hot dogs and beer to raise money for charity, and it is good for their self esteem to feel useful.

And we have Kiwanis International which is global.

We also have a Wellness Center in Orange which will get the homeless into housing, and they will help the Mentally Ill, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 11, 2023, 11:56:14 PM: My Mother has a cousin who is a Mormon, and he lives in Utah with other Mormons, they have a great support system, and they help each other. He has a big loving community of Mormons. I kind of envy that, he is lucky to have a tight knit community like that. I could never be a Mormon, but I get along good with the Catholics and I like to live with the Catholics. Rome was great, I was surrounded by Catholics.

I tried going to the Calvary Chapel Open Door, but the first thing they asked me was about what I did for a living. I would feel more comfortable if the church was full of homeless people, like in the movie "Jesus Revolution" and if they did not care about what I did for a living. Maybe the Calvary Chapel Open Door will invite the homeless, and maybe they will become less concerned about what people do for a living. They need to have church buses taking the homeless people to the Calvary Chapel Open Door and they need to love people without being concerned about what people do for a living. But, I am going to go give the Calvary Chapel Open Door another chance.

And meanwhile, I watch Dr Charles Stanley on Sundays, he is great, if I was in Georgia then I would go to his church.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 02:27:51 AM: Flagmans Sober Living Homes has both Male and Female beds available.

(714) 745-0948

Housing for the homeless in Orange County, California.

And then Church buses need to pick up the people from the sober living homes to take them to church on Sundays, and also the people from the sober living homes can do charity work selling beer and hot dogs at sporting events, etc, to raise money for charity to feed the hungry and to help other homeless people, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 12, 2023, 02:46:05 AM: Maybe if churches were better churches they would attract parishioners without having to resort to press ganging those least able to escape or resist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 12, 2023, 02:51:13 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7evgw/neo-nazi-fight-clubs-robert-rundo-fat-shaming-white-nationalism (http://www.vice.com/en/article/n7evgw/neo-nazi-fight-clubs-robert-rundo-fat-shaming-white-nationalism)

Fascist Richard Simmons wannabes may be the ultimate expression of the American right wing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 12, 2023, 10:19:45 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:29:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2023, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 11, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
The Old National Bank in Louisville is Gun Free Zone. Employees face severe penalties for violations.
Which leads to the obvious.
A former employee knows those rules.
Is suicidal
Four dead defenseless employees.
Too bad banks do not have armed guards.
Gun free Zone
Armed guards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 03:13:18 PM: Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 03:30:13 PM: Gene Autry owned the Angels baseball team, and KTLA channel 5 here in Los Angeles, from acting and making movies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 03:44:28 PM: If I was rich and powerful like Gene Autry was, then the people would listen to my ideas when it comes to helping the homeless, etc, instead of just ignoring me and treating me like a poor dumb homeless guy.

When you succeed then people listen, Reagan was an actor who became President, and Arnold was Governor of California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 04:08:00 PM: I read that a huge percentage of people do not read books after they finish high school, and those people would never make it as film producers, producers need to read scripts all of the time, and novels, etc, the reading never ends if you want to make movies. You have to love to read if you want to work in Show Business.

And I need to establish a working relationship with Apple when it comes to making movies, and television shows, and to publish my poetry book, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 12, 2023, 04:26:34 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/12/2163535/-Judge-in-Dominion-lawsuit-appoints-special-master-sanctions-Fox-News-for-concealing-evidence (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/12/2163535/-Judge-in-Dominion-lawsuit-appoints-special-master-sanctions-Fox-News-for-concealing-evidence)

There will be room on the dial for better programming. The loser generation will have to get its fake news somewhere else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 04:42:57 PM: I like real news, I do not like it when they have some young girl screaming her opinions at you, I do not consider that to be enjoyable nor informative. I would rather watch real news with older educated and wise people, and I like it when they have retired lawyers who are telling us about the legal cases, etc, I want real experts on the news.

The last time I watched Fox they had young girls screaming their opinions at me, and I had to change the channel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 12, 2023, 05:24:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 04:42:57 PM
I like real news, I do not like it when they have some young girl screaming her opinions at you, I do not consider that to be enjoyable nor informative. I would rather watch real news with older educated and wise people, and I like it when they have retired lawyers who are telling us about the legal cases, etc, I want real experts on the news.

The last time I watched Fox they had young girls screaming their opinions at me, and I had to change the channel.

Salute,

Tony V.

Then Sky News Australia is best for you.
skynews dot com dot au.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 12, 2023, 07:01:36 PM: News Item

WASHINGTON, D.C. Outraged Senate Democrats are calling for the investigation of a local black man who allegedly went on vacation without their permission.

"I say, I say, ain't no black man gonna take no vacation on our watch unless he asks us first!" said Senator Dick "Foghorn" Durban while chewing a sprig of wheat and gripping the lapels on his frock coat. "This young man has gotten a bit too uppity for his own good, yessiree!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 12, 2023, 07:50:47 PM: I had worried that you had finally seen the light and that we were not going to be hearing from you any more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 12, 2023, 09:04:15 PM: Garry Wills never fails to be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 12, 2023, 09:04:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 12, 2023, 07:01:36 PM
News Item

WASHINGTON, D.C. Outraged Senate Democrats are calling for the investigation of a local black man who allegedly went on vacation without their permission.

"I say, I say, ain't no black man gonna take no vacation on our watch unless he asks us first!" said Senator Dick "Foghorn" Durban while chewing a sprig of wheat and gripping the lapels on his frock coat. "This young man has gotten a bit too uppity for his own good, yessiree!"

No no no!

John Kennedy (R-LA) is Foghorn Leghorn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 12, 2023, 09:05:46 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 12, 2023, 09:01:19 PM
Worth a read: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/04/the-court-kills/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 12, 2023, 09:06:01 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 12, 2023, 09:04:15 PM
Garry Wills never fails to be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 09:16:27 PM: The Writers Guild of America might go on strike, if they do then I want to support them, and that would be a great way to meet the writers, and I can meet people who have connections with Apple, etc. I can show up nicely dressed early in the morning with a couple of dozen donuts, people love it when someone brings donuts, and I can spend the day marching with the writers. If they march, then I want to go march with them and meet the writers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 12, 2023, 09:55:21 PM: Meanwhile, across the seas...the mouses are back! [well, if the plural of 'house' is 'houses'...then the plural of 'mouse' should be 'mouses']

Good summer rain, lots of food now, mild Autumn so far...mouse numbers are getting to plague proportions again in some parts.
Feral cats, snakes etc can't eat them fast enough.

Speaking of english grammar and speech...I've finally worked out what the "new American" language is all about.
Hallmark movies, now elsewhere.

In 'new American', the 'a' sound as in apple etc has been replaced with a 'u'...to sound 'upple'.
The 'e' sound as in egg etc has been replaced with a 'u'...to sound 'ugg'.
'Have' becomes 'huv'.
'Get' becomes 'gut'.
It was all confusing at first, but now I'm understanding better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 10:15:21 PM: Bambu, watch the Beach Blanket Bingo movies about the fun surfer parties here in Southern California. They are great movies. And be sure to listen to some Jan and Dean music, those were the fun days here in California.

And California can send all of the cats from the animal shelters in California to Australia and you can set the cats free to eat the mice. Cats are being euthanized here in California, it would be better for them to go hunt mice in Australia.

In Texas the hunters brought Russian boars to hunt and they released them in the wild of Texas, now they have pigs all over Texas, but the pigs provide easy food for hunters, and the hunters donate the meat to feed to the homeless people in Texas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 10:36:37 PM: Malibu has lots of rats and mice, so everyone in Malibu has cats, we had 5 cats at our place in Malibu. The same thing in Beverly Hills, they have lots of mice and rats so they all own lots of cats.

And in Rome, Italy, they have cats all over Rome and people put out food and water for the stray cats, and the cats eat the mice and rats, Rome does not have mice and rats because of the cats.

https://mamalovesrome.com/street-cats-of-rome/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 11:12:48 PM: Bambu, Australia has an embassy here in Los Angeles, Australia works together with California on the issue of film, television, music, fashion, etc, etc, etc, defense, etc, etc, etc.

https://usa.embassy.gov.au/los-angeles

Australia can request the cats from the shelters in California be sent to Australia to hunt the mice, the cats can be saved from being euthanized.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 11:28:05 PM: On the issue of the 40 Acres and a Mule, which today would be 40 Acres and a Business Loan for a tractor, etc, would be good for the Blacks who are the decedents of slaves, and they need to learn how to hire the Mexican Immigrants to work on the land. The Mexicans and the United Farm Workers are a valuable resource here in California, and the Black farmers need to learn how to hire the Mexican workers. We have people begging to come into the USA from Mexico in order to do farm work. The Blacks need to learn how to put the Mexicans to work on the farms.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 12:29:18 AM: I keep expecting to see more people from Ukraine, and from Russia, here in Orange County, but so far it is still mostly Mexicans here and people from Latin America, with some people from the Philippines, and from Vietnam, and we have some Arabs and people from Afghanistan, etc.

I had a friend from Ukraine, Ted, he was Cheech Marin's Uncle, he married Cheech's Aunt Maria. Ted was a great guy who spent his whole life helping the homeless, plus he was a Vietnam Vet.

It is hard right now in California and we have a lot of homeless people, but times are getting better, and California has great schools. I am sure that we have students from Ukraine and from Russia in the schools here in California.

As I give the Calvary Chapel Open Door another chance then I can see if we have people from Ukraine and from Russia at the Church on Sundays.

People from Ukraine and from Russia were coming up into California from Mexico, but I have not been seeing them at the markets or anywhere.

I suggested Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Napa, California, and Merced, California, to the refugees from Ukraine.

It will be interesting to see where the refugees choose to come.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 01:08:14 AM: I had a Communication professor, Dr Debra Tolar, who was teaching us about how different cultures behave differently, for instance she was talking about how in France they have a smaller social bubble than Americans, in America we stand further apart than the French, the French get right up close to you while you talk with them. And She taught me that Australia is the easiest place for a man from America to go meet a woman, She said the women in Australia are very forward, and if a woman in Australia likes you then she will come right out and tell you. You do not have to guess if a woman from Australia likes you, if she likes you then she will let you know.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 01:52:27 AM: I sent a message to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce telling them that we need to start planning now in advance for the Oscar Night Parties for the next year.

Parties can happen at the Roosevelt Hotel, and at other locations, including at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, etc, and there can be an outdoor party with an outdoor bar at MacArthur Park, etc. And the stars can party all night and then they can sleep in the rooms at the Park Plaza Hotel, etc. And the hot new chefs can cook for the stars, etc. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers can play in the Ballroom at the Park Plaza Hotel, etc, and other bands from Venice Beach can play, etc.

The Night of 100 Stars that Norby Walters used to throw is over now, and Elton John is getting old and he is retiring, we need for good new younger people to throw new parties in Hollywood on Oscar Night. And we need to start planning early.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 13, 2023, 09:42:53 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 10:36:37 PM
Malibu has lots of rats and mice, so everyone in Malibu has cats, we had 5 cats at our place in Malibu. The same thing in Beverly Hills, they have lots of mice and rats so they all own lots of cats.

Facebook would be the ideal venue for your many topical meanderings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 13, 2023, 10:10:01 AM: You can keep asking, Oilcan. Maybe you'll have more success than I have.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 02:43:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 13, 2023, 09:42:53 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 10:36:37 PM
Malibu has lots of rats and mice, so everyone in Malibu has cats, we had 5 cats at our place in Malibu. The same thing in Beverly Hills, they have lots of mice and rats so they all own lots of cats.

Facebook would be the ideal venue for your many topical meanderings.

That post about the cats was for Bambu, pertaining to the situation with the mice problem in Australia, which Bambu posted about.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 13, 2023, 02:59:34 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2023, 10:36:37 PM
Malibu has lots of rats and mice, so everyone in Malibu has cats, we had 5 cats at our place in Malibu. The same thing in Beverly Hills, they have lots of mice and rats so they all own lots of cats.

And in Rome, Italy, they have cats all over Rome and people put out food and water for the stray cats, and the cats eat the mice and rats, Rome does not have mice and rats because of the cats.

https://mamalovesrome.com/street-cats-of-rome/

Salute,

Tony V.

Cats in Rome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WPJ0sxBdlo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 13, 2023, 03:28:30 PM: Tony, it's not that you don't occasionally connect with Bambu on some topic, it's that a lot of posts seem to offer unrealistic advice from the perspective of someone who hasn't really succeeded in that area. For example, you keep offering advice on making films....

Quote
Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Who wants advice from someone who hasn't had much success at acting or filmmaking? And obvious platitudes about getting the right training are just tiresome to read over and over. Of freaking course we know that training, experience and connections are important. But what members here are interested in becoming directors or scriptwriters? And if we were, why would we look to you for advice? You are on the wrong end of things - you need to go to a forum with actual film professionals and humbly seek their advice, instead of spouting drivel here. People come here to discuss national news and politics, not the prospects for moving to Italy, growing grapes, and making movies.

And the name-dropping is just mindnumbingly boring. And pathetic. You met Suzanne Pleshette, or washed Greg Kinnear's poodle (or whoever the fuck it was), or David Lee Roth answered an email. Whatever. Find a FB forum for people obsessed with celebrities and celebrity encounters, and wank off with them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 05:07:38 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 13, 2023, 03:28:30 PM
Tony, it's not that you don't occasionally connect with Bambu on some topic, it's that a lot of posts seem to offer unrealistic advice from the perspective of someone who hasn't really succeeded in that area. For example, you keep offering advice on making films....

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Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Who wants advice from someone who hasn't had much success at acting or filmmaking? And obvious platitudes about getting the right training are just tiresome to read over and over. Of freaking course we know that training, experience and connections are important. But what members here are interested in becoming directors or scriptwriters? And if we were, why would we look to you for advice? You are on the wrong end of things - you need to go to a forum with actual film professionals and humbly seek their advice, instead of spouting drivel here. People come here to discuss national news and politics, not the prospects for moving to Italy, growing grapes, and making movies.

And the name-dropping is just mindnumbingly boring. And pathetic. You met Suzanne Pleshette, or washed Greg Kinnear's poodle (or whoever the fuck it was), or David Lee Roth answered an email. Whatever. Find a FB forum for people obsessed with celebrities and celebrity encounters, and wank off with them.

I worked and studied hard, and I am smart, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette for a whole year, it was not just meeting her, and Suzanne Pleshette loved me, and Hal Needham was a neighbor of Suzanne Pleshette and he directed "Smokey and the Bandit" etc, and Hal was my friend, if Hal was alive still then he would help me. I have a lot to contribute to the world, and to this forum.

So far as the Entertainment Industry, it is a hard industry, especially if you do not have family in the industry. But, I am a good smart guy, and when I worked at Universal Studios my fellow employees wanted for me to buy the studio, they wanted for me to rise to the top and to buy Universal Studios. When I was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which is the best acting school in the world, my fellow students wanted for me to "Dream Big" and they wanted for me to rise to the top and to Produce and to help to create honest jobs here in Hollywood. The people who I worked and studied with wanted for me to rise to the top and to help to create jobs here in Hollywood.

Hollywood is my home, and the locals here wanted for me to rise to the top and be a leader here.

So far as my movie script, I did seek help from a professional writer and teacher, I wrote my movie script with the help of a college professor from Texas. And Hugh Hefner read and liked my script, it is a great script.

But I am not going to work for the Japanese again, nor will I go to Canada to work. I want to work in Hollywood with an American company, such as working with Apple, and I want to create local jobs for the people here in Hollywood.

Your insults do not hurt me, life is what it is. I cannot deny that so far I am a failure, but at least I am not a criminal, I am not a drug dealer, and my intentions are good. I am a good honest man with good intentions.

And bashing me, and trying to put me down, does not make you look better, what you write is a reflection of you, and not me.

Of note, I refused to go to Canada to work, I was invited to go make films in Canada and I said "No thanks." I am from Hollywood, and I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood. I do not want to create jobs for Canadians, I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike, then I will go march with the writers, I will get there early, I will bring donuts, and I will march with the writers, and that would be a good way to meet the writers and to make connections. That is a good thing about living here, if the writers go on strike then I can go march with them and I can meet the writers that way.

And we still have a lot of great people here, including Arnold, and Sylvester Stallone, and Jeff Bridges, and Sam Elliott, Hollywood has a lot of great old timers who have stayed here instead of moving to Canada. I can find a lot of helpers here as I get out and meet people. And California has great schools which are training the next generation of actors and filmmakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 13, 2023, 06:31:24 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 05:07:38 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 13, 2023, 03:28:30 PM
Tony, it's not that you don't occasionally connect with Bambu on some topic, it's that a lot of posts seem to offer unrealistic advice from the perspective of someone who hasn't really succeeded in that area. For example, you keep offering advice on making films....

Quote
Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Who wants advice from someone who hasn't had much success at acting or filmmaking? And obvious platitudes about getting the right training are just tiresome to read over and over. Of freaking course we know that training, experience and connections are important. But what members here are interested in becoming directors or scriptwriters? And if we were, why would we look to you for advice? You are on the wrong end of things - you need to go to a forum with actual film professionals and humbly seek their advice, instead of spouting drivel here. People come here to discuss national news and politics, not the prospects for moving to Italy, growing grapes, and making movies.

And the name-dropping is just mindnumbingly boring. And pathetic. You met Suzanne Pleshette, or washed Greg Kinnear's poodle (or whoever the fuck it was), or David Lee Roth answered an email. Whatever. Find a FB forum for people obsessed with celebrities and celebrity encounters, and wank off with them.

I worked and studied hard, and I am smart, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette for a whole year, it was not just meeting her, and Suzanne Pleshette loved me, and Hal Needham was a neighbor of Suzanne Pleshette and he directed "Smokey and the Bandit" etc, and Hal was my friend, if Hal was alive still then he would help me. I have a lot to contribute to the world, and to this forum.

So far as the Entertainment Industry, it is a hard industry, especially if you do not have family in the industry. But, I am a good smart guy, and when I worked at Universal Studios my fellow employees wanted for me to buy the studio, they wanted for me to rise to the top and to buy Universal Studios. When I was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which is the best acting school in the world, my fellow students wanted for me to "Dream Big" and they wanted for me to rise to the top and to Produce and to help to create honest jobs here in Hollywood. The people who I worked and studied with wanted for me to rise to the top and to help to create jobs here in Hollywood.

Hollywood is my home, and the locals here wanted for me to rise to the top and be a leader here.

So far as my movie script, I did seek help from a professional writer and teacher, I wrote my movie script with the help of a college professor from Texas. And Hugh Hefner read and liked my script, it is a great script.

But I am not going to work for the Japanese again, nor will I go to Canada to work. I want to work in Hollywood with an American company, such as working with Apple, and I want to create local jobs for the people here in Hollywood.

Your insults do not hurt me, life is what it is. I cannot deny that so far I am a failure, but at least I am not a criminal, I am not a drug dealer, and my intentions are good. I am a good honest man with good intentions.

And bashing me, and trying to put me down, does not make you look better, what you write is a reflection of you, and not me.

Of note, I refused to go to Canada to work, I was invited to go make films in Canada and I said "No thanks." I am from Hollywood, and I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood. I do not want to create jobs for Canadians, I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike, then I will go march with the writers, I will get there early, I will bring donuts, and I will march with the writers, and that would be a good way to meet the writers and to make connections. That is a good thing about living here, if the writers go on strike then I can go march with them and I can meet the writers that way.

And we still have a lot of great people here, including Arnold, and Sylvester Stallone, and Jeff Bridges, and Sam Elliott, Hollywood has a lot of great old timers who have stayed here instead of moving to Canada. I can find a lot of helpers here as I get out and meet people. And California has great schools which are training the next generation of actors and filmmakers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony,

Write another script. You have done a lot of living since you wrote the one Hef liked.

Take these posts about your hopes and turn them into a story. Drop the names of the stars you worked for and tell your stories about those experiences.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 08:00:06 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 13, 2023, 06:31:24 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 05:07:38 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 13, 2023, 03:28:30 PM
Tony, it's not that you don't occasionally connect with Bambu on some topic, it's that a lot of posts seem to offer unrealistic advice from the perspective of someone who hasn't really succeeded in that area. For example, you keep offering advice on making films....

Quote
Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Who wants advice from someone who hasn't had much success at acting or filmmaking? And obvious platitudes about getting the right training are just tiresome to read over and over. Of freaking course we know that training, experience and connections are important. But what members here are interested in becoming directors or scriptwriters? And if we were, why would we look to you for advice? You are on the wrong end of things - you need to go to a forum with actual film professionals and humbly seek their advice, instead of spouting drivel here. People come here to discuss national news and politics, not the prospects for moving to Italy, growing grapes, and making movies.

And the name-dropping is just mindnumbingly boring. And pathetic. You met Suzanne Pleshette, or washed Greg Kinnear's poodle (or whoever the fuck it was), or David Lee Roth answered an email. Whatever. Find a FB forum for people obsessed with celebrities and celebrity encounters, and wank off with them.

I worked and studied hard, and I am smart, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette for a whole year, it was not just meeting her, and Suzanne Pleshette loved me, and Hal Needham was a neighbor of Suzanne Pleshette and he directed "Smokey and the Bandit" etc, and Hal was my friend, if Hal was alive still then he would help me. I have a lot to contribute to the world, and to this forum.

So far as the Entertainment Industry, it is a hard industry, especially if you do not have family in the industry. But, I am a good smart guy, and when I worked at Universal Studios my fellow employees wanted for me to buy the studio, they wanted for me to rise to the top and to buy Universal Studios. When I was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which is the best acting school in the world, my fellow students wanted for me to "Dream Big" and they wanted for me to rise to the top and to Produce and to help to create honest jobs here in Hollywood. The people who I worked and studied with wanted for me to rise to the top and to help to create jobs here in Hollywood.

Hollywood is my home, and the locals here wanted for me to rise to the top and be a leader here.

So far as my movie script, I did seek help from a professional writer and teacher, I wrote my movie script with the help of a college professor from Texas. And Hugh Hefner read and liked my script, it is a great script.

But I am not going to work for the Japanese again, nor will I go to Canada to work. I want to work in Hollywood with an American company, such as working with Apple, and I want to create local jobs for the people here in Hollywood.

Your insults do not hurt me, life is what it is. I cannot deny that so far I am a failure, but at least I am not a criminal, I am not a drug dealer, and my intentions are good. I am a good honest man with good intentions.

And bashing me, and trying to put me down, does not make you look better, what you write is a reflection of you, and not me.

Of note, I refused to go to Canada to work, I was invited to go make films in Canada and I said "No thanks." I am from Hollywood, and I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood. I do not want to create jobs for Canadians, I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike, then I will go march with the writers, I will get there early, I will bring donuts, and I will march with the writers, and that would be a good way to meet the writers and to make connections. That is a good thing about living here, if the writers go on strike then I can go march with them and I can meet the writers that way.

And we still have a lot of great people here, including Arnold, and Sylvester Stallone, and Jeff Bridges, and Sam Elliott, Hollywood has a lot of great old timers who have stayed here instead of moving to Canada. I can find a lot of helpers here as I get out and meet people. And California has great schools which are training the next generation of actors and filmmakers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony,

Write another script. You have done a lot of living since you wrote the one Hef liked.

Take these posts about your hopes and turn them into a story. Drop the names of the stars you worked for and tell your stories about those experiences.

Thanks Larry. I will do that. I have an idea for a script about a homeless actor who gets a job as a door man who helps to save the famous movie star whom he works for from a gang that is trying to extort money from her, the name of the movie can be "The Door Man." And I have some other ideas.

If it was the old days when I could type a script on a typewriter and take it to Kinko's to make copies and then send it out for consideration, then I would be doing it, but now you have to be an expert with an Apple computer in order to write movies and to share your scripts with the people in the industry. Everything gets so complicated that I get stuck, and I am not accomplishing anything. When I sent my movie script to Hugh Hefner is was back when everyone used fax machines, and it was easy, I just faxed my script to Hugh Hefner. But, they keep coming up with new technology and new industry standards, and so now I would have to go to college to learn how to use an Apple computer before I can write movies and television shows, or find a team to help me with members on the team who are experts with the Apple computer. Everything is done with the Apple computers now. It is like they keep raising the bar, whenever I accomplish one goal then they move the goalpost and I have to accomplish another goal. If it was as easy as just typing a script on a typewriter and sending it to an agent, then I would have been successful a long time ago. Now I need to find a computer expert. But, Apple is the new big player in the Entertainment Industry, so it is good to learn how to use an Apple computer, and maybe I can make movies and television shows with Apple, etc.

On the issue of my poetry book, if poetry is good then it will always be as good as the day you wrote it, as Robert Frost said it is like an ice cube on a hot skillet that rides on its own melting, and that which comes as surprise to the writer will continue to surprise the readers whenever it is read, a good poem will retain its freshness just as metal retains its scent. "If" by Rudyard Kipling is as great now as it was the day he wrote it, and that is the same with my poetry book, it is just as good now as it was when I wrote it.

And although I wrote my movie script a long time ago, it is still a great script, the movie is still worth making.

Thanks again Larry, I will keep writing, and I plan to find other writers to work with and to learn from.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 08:55:23 PM: With technology, I never had anyone to teach me, and so I am like the old guy who comes out of prison who does not know how to use any of the modern technology. And my neighbors all speak Spanish, and I do not have anyone here to teach me. I need to see if there is a class at the community college to learn how to use the Apple computers. The ultimate thing would be to find a beautiful woman who wants to write and produce with me who knows all about the Apple computers and Industry Standards, etc, to teach me and to work with me.

Maybe if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike then I can go march with them and try to find helpers. And there is also the film school, where I can try to meet helpers, etc. And we have a community college in Fullerton.

Once you succeed, then you can live in the areas where all of your neighbors work in the Entertainment Industry and you can help each other, Empire West is full of people from the Entertainment Industry and you can make movies with your neighbors. And Malibu is full of people from the Entertainment Industry.

( Of note, I am not alone in not knowing how to use modern technology, Oliver Stone had to have assistants set up a You Tube page for him, he could not do it on his own, he is one of the most brilliant filmmakers in the world and he does not know how to use the modern technology. And also Dr Charles Stanley has to have helpers when it comes to computers and modern technology, he is brilliant but he still needs help when it comes to the new technology. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 13, 2023, 09:20:49 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 05:07:38 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 13, 2023, 03:28:30 PM
Tony, it's not that you don't occasionally connect with Bambu on some topic, it's that a lot of posts seem to offer unrealistic advice from the perspective of someone who hasn't really succeeded in that area. For example, you keep offering advice on making films....

Quote
Some people think that school is a waste of time, but if you learn how to write, produce, and direct movies, then you can make movies anywhere you want, you can make movies here in Southern California where all of the great schools are, and once you learn how to make movies then you can make movies at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy, or anywhere you want to work. You can write your own ticket to success if you can learn how to make movies. An education is very worthwhile if you can learn how to be a successful filmmaker, and then you also can have your own voice and you can tell the stories that you want to tell.

I do not regret going to school to try to learn to become an actor and filmmaker, I only wish that I would have gotten more training so that I can complete my goal of making movies. And I can create local opportunities for the young film students as they graduate from film school.

I just need to keep moving forward, my movie script is good, and I have some good ideas. And eventually I want to find a wife to help me, I can find a wife who wants to write and produce movies, etc.

Who wants advice from someone who hasn't had much success at acting or filmmaking? And obvious platitudes about getting the right training are just tiresome to read over and over. Of freaking course we know that training, experience and connections are important. But what members here are interested in becoming directors or scriptwriters? And if we were, why would we look to you for advice? You are on the wrong end of things - you need to go to a forum with actual film professionals and humbly seek their advice, instead of spouting drivel here. People come here to discuss national news and politics, not the prospects for moving to Italy, growing grapes, and making movies.

And the name-dropping is just mindnumbingly boring. And pathetic. You met Suzanne Pleshette, or washed Greg Kinnear's poodle (or whoever the fuck it was), or David Lee Roth answered an email. Whatever. Find a FB forum for people obsessed with celebrities and celebrity encounters, and wank off with them.

I worked and studied hard, and I am smart, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette for a whole year, it was not just meeting her, and Suzanne Pleshette loved me, and Hal Needham was a neighbor of Suzanne Pleshette and he directed "Smokey and the Bandit" etc, and Hal was my friend, if Hal was alive still then he would help me. I have a lot to contribute to the world, and to this forum.

So far as the Entertainment Industry, it is a hard industry, especially if you do not have family in the industry. But, I am a good smart guy, and when I worked at Universal Studios my fellow employees wanted for me to buy the studio, they wanted for me to rise to the top and to buy Universal Studios. When I was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which is the best acting school in the world, my fellow students wanted for me to "Dream Big" and they wanted for me to rise to the top and to Produce and to help to create honest jobs here in Hollywood. The people who I worked and studied with wanted for me to rise to the top and to help to create jobs here in Hollywood.

Hollywood is my home, and the locals here wanted for me to rise to the top and be a leader here.

So far as my movie script, I did seek help from a professional writer and teacher, I wrote my movie script with the help of a college professor from Texas. And Hugh Hefner read and liked my script, it is a great script.

But I am not going to work for the Japanese again, nor will I go to Canada to work. I want to work in Hollywood with an American company, such as working with Apple, and I want to create local jobs for the people here in Hollywood.

Your insults do not hurt me, life is what it is. I cannot deny that so far I am a failure, but at least I am not a criminal, I am not a drug dealer, and my intentions are good. I am a good honest man with good intentions.

And bashing me, and trying to put me down, does not make you look better, what you write is a reflection of you, and not me.

Of note, I refused to go to Canada to work, I was invited to go make films in Canada and I said "No thanks." I am from Hollywood, and I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood. I do not want to create jobs for Canadians, I want to create local jobs here in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike, then I will go march with the writers, I will get there early, I will bring donuts, and I will march with the writers, and that would be a good way to meet the writers and to make connections. That is a good thing about living here, if the writers go on strike then I can go march with them and I can meet the writers that way.

And we still have a lot of great people here, including Arnold, and Sylvester Stallone, and Jeff Bridges, and Sam Elliott, Hollywood has a lot of great old timers who have stayed here instead of moving to Canada. I can find a lot of helpers here as I get out and meet people. And California has great schools which are training the next generation of actors and filmmakers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Not bashing you, just pointing out your apparently narcissistic compulsion to talk yourself up while you, in fact, do very little to actually push yourself towards realistic goals. You live in a California culture where people drench each other in praise and vague positivity but apparently have trouble giving constructive criticism.

This is a political forum, not the Tony V Show where it's all about your rather adolescent fantasies and relentless focus on the past. You keep saying all these famous people wanted you to rise to the top, but what I'm hearing is that no one said the necessary thing, which is Forget the damned top. Here's how to get up the next stairstep...

And no one doubts your good intentions. But those alone are not enough, nor does telling us or others how smart you are. I just hate to see someone spinning their wheels, and get all butthurt when someone points out how ineffectual that is.

And look up Dunning Kruger Effect, before you tell us again how smart you are. If you are really smart, you will realize why truly smart people don't talk about their intelligence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 10:09:52 PM: Meanwhile, we have had 5 stabbings on the Metrolink Trains here in Los Angeles in the last 3 days. We need to have local altruistic companies which help our local people instead of sending the money to other places, and we need to clean this place up and take pride in it. We rely on Tourism and it is no good if the tourists are afraid to come here. Our economy is going to continue to slide as long as we have homeless people all over our streets, and high crime, and stabbings on the trains.

And just having police with guns is not going to solve our problems. We need Church buses on Sundays to drive around and pick up the homeless and take them to Church, and to show the homeless people some LOVE, they can feed the homeless people, etc, they can give the people new shoes, etc, and they can teach the homeless people the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments, etc, and instead of being a cold, hard, fucked up world, then we need to show the homeless people some Christian LOVE. That is how we are going to reduce crime in Los Angeles. We need a Jesus Revolution.

On the issue of California, we have great schools, and the people study and train hard, they know that it is expensive to live in California so they work hard so they can be able to afford to live here. And with the Entertainment Industry here in Hollywood, many people come here with very little, and end up homeless, before getting lucky and finding success, it is a hard town. If you succeed in Hollywood then you should be very grateful, and always give back and help other people, and you can do great things with fame as the people begin to listen to you, Arnold was just in the news for fixing a pothole on his street here in Brentwood, Arnold has a lot of power here.

And the guy who wrote "Amistad" came all the way from South Africa to Hollywood and Spielberg made his movie, and his script was worth 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa, that was what he did with his money that he made, he bought 5 McDonald's restaurants and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants. You cannot buy an island with a movie script, but it could be worth 5 McDonald's restaurants. For me, I would just open a night club in Rome, Italy, and write and produce and direct movies and television shows at Cinecitta. If I became wildly successful, maybe I would buy Universal Studios here in Hollywood and I would be altruistic and help the homeless and help the people here in Hollywood. The guy who wrote "Amistad" took his money back to South Africa and he helped his family in South Africa.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 10:11:40 PM: Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 12:04:52 AM: American Academy of Dramatic Arts

TIME has named Jennifer Coolidge (Class of 1982) one of the Most Influential People of 2023!

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I am lucky to have been able to attend the AADA, and I am proud of the alumni, I love to see people from the AADA succeed. And we know how hard we worked.

Congrats to Jennifer Coolidge.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 01:46:47 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 10:11:40 PM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers with guns might drive the stabbers off the trains.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 02:07:34 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 01:46:47 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 10:11:40 PM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers with guns might drive the stabbers off the trains.

There is a Clint Eastwood movie named "Pale Rider" and some bad guys were attacking the good people, so a young girl prayed to God for help and God sent Clint Eastwood as a Preacher to help the good people. Clint Eastwood defeated the bad guys, and saved the good people.

Sometimes God sends us warrior angels.

The warriors can work as cops, and guards, and can help to keep the trains safe for the people.

While at the same time the Christians can help the homeless people and can spread love, and we can create a more loving society.

In Anaheim our City motto is "City of Kindness" and the plaza at City Hall is "Friendship Plaza" and that is what we need in Los Angeles, which is the City of Angels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 02:10:15 AM: Americans need to be armed to the max...so that when the human traffickers come to kidnap their children for sex slaves and to harvest their organs...the Americans can stop them, kill them if necessary.

https://www.easyllama.com/blog/top-10-cities-for-human-trafficking/ (https://www.easyllama.com/blog/top-10-cities-for-human-trafficking/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 02:11:11 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 13, 2023, 09:24:47 PM
Final post to Tony: You will rise to the top again! Everyone on Elba
wants and are encouraging you to buy the island! You are too good, great,
and gracious for this Island in the sky. Elba is the only thing keeping you
from your destiny! With every post you are losing ground, Tony!
You must leave your addiction to Elba behind and only then will your destiny
be fulfilled to your wildest dreams!
Adieu,

Does that mean Tony is banned?
If so, I strenuously object.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 02:18:58 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 02:10:15 AM
Americans need to be armed to the max...so that when the human traffickers come to kidnap their children for sex slaves and to harvest their organs...the Americans can stop them, kill them if necessary.

https://www.easyllama.com/blog/top-10-cities-for-human-trafficking/ (https://www.easyllama.com/blog/top-10-cities-for-human-trafficking/)

The way that they capture people now is by giving them free drugs, heroin, cocaine, whatever, and then getting them addicted, and then they own the people, and they turn them into prostitutes or whatever.

Women who are addicted to drugs who have sex for drugs are called "Strawberries."

Addiction is horrible. That is what my movie is about that I wrote, it is about the horrors of addiction for a foster child without any parents or anyone to save her. Her first love comes back into her life and tries to save her, it is about unconditional love, but sometimes you cannot save people, and my movie is a tragedy, she dies.

They trap people by giving them free drugs and then getting them addicted.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 02:20:28 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 02:11:11 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 13, 2023, 09:24:47 PM
Final post to Tony: You will rise to the top again! Everyone on Elba
wants and are encouraging you to buy the island! You are too good, great,
and gracious for this Island in the sky. Elba is the only thing keeping you
from your destiny! With every post you are losing ground, Tony!
You must leave your addiction to Elba behind and only then will your destiny
be fulfilled to your wildest dreams!
Adieu,

Does that mean Tony is banned?
If so, I strenuously object.

Thanks Bambu, I think he is just frustrated with me right now, I do not think I am banned, I just think he wants to ignore me for a while.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 03:00:00 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 02:20:28 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 02:11:11 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 13, 2023, 09:24:47 PM
Final post to Tony: You will rise to the top again! Everyone on Elba
wants and are encouraging you to buy the island! You are too good, great,
and gracious for this Island in the sky. Elba is the only thing keeping you
from your destiny! With every post you are losing ground, Tony!
You must leave your addiction to Elba behind and only then will your destiny
be fulfilled to your wildest dreams!
Adieu,

Does that mean Tony is banned?
If so, I strenuously object.

Thanks Bambu, I think he is just frustrated with me right now, I do not think I am banned, I just think he wants to ignore me for a while.

Salute,

Tony V.

That's what posters here should do if they are not liking your posts...put you on ignore, then you disappear from their sight.
I put someone on ignore once in the NYT forums...but then I couldn't read what they were writing...lol
All you're doing is trying to improve your locality, improve America, and save the world...all noble pursuits.
You're not abusive, and I like reading your posts.
Mrs bambu says "thanks for offering the American cats to eat the plague mice here, but no thanks, enough feral cats on farms/in rural areas now, they get huge and kill native animals, native birds, and farm animals... chickens, geese, etc." :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 14, 2023, 11:30:57 AM: The point remains that this isn't Facebook and that Salute Tony V should keep his Facebook posts on Facebook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 14, 2023, 12:02:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 01:46:47 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 13, 2023, 10:11:40 PM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Salute,

Tony V.

Passengers with guns might drive the stabbers off the trains.

Passengers with guns might kill bystanders while they settle disputes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 14, 2023, 12:43:52 PM: That's just collateral damage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 03:47:42 PM: Some prisons here in California are bringing dogs into the prisons, and they are teaching the prisoners how to train dogs, and how to groom dogs, and how to run kennels, etc. I fully support such programs.

When the prisoners get out of prison they can groom dogs, they can train dogs, they can run dog kennels, they can run community animal shelters, etc.

If you give someone honest skills that they can use to make an honest living, then everyone wins.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 14, 2023, 03:51:08 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 14, 2023, 03:51:08 PM
http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/)

We need to have lots of adults on playgrounds to monitor the children and to prevent bullies from beating people up on the playgrounds, along with fences, gates, and armed security, along with cameras, etc.

And we need to support after school programs for the youth. Here in Hollywood we can teach the youth about the Movie Industry in after school programs, etc, and they can have Drama classes and they can do plays, etc. Along with music, sports, art, science, etc, auto shop, etc.

I have a friend who has his own company doing Auto Sound Systems, and he does after school programs for free for the community, he goes to the local high school after school and he goes to the auto shop and he teaches the youth how to install sound systems in cars, and he gets their feet wet in case they want to consider a career doing sound systems for cars. My friend has done sound systems in Ferraris and other expensive cars, he is the best auto sound guy in the Antelope Valley. We need for more businessmen like him to volunteer to teach the youth for after school programs.

And we always have Kiwanis International to help with youth programs, and the Cub Scouts, along with little league baseball, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 09:31:25 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 14, 2023, 03:51:08 PM
http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/)

We need to have lots of adults on playgrounds to monitor the children and to prevent bullies from beating people up on the playgrounds, along with fences, gates, and armed security, along with cameras, etc.

Exactly.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Tony V undertands.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 14, 2023, 10:59:20 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z87e/sacramento-homeless-encampment-reaches-historic-lease-agreement-with-city (http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z87e/sacramento-homeless-encampment-reaches-historic-lease-agreement-with-city)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 14, 2023, 11:02:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 14, 2023, 09:31:25 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 14, 2023, 03:51:08 PM
http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/04/14/violence-in-schools-dropped-dramatically-in-california-could-it-be-a-model-for-the-the-country/)

We need to have lots of adults on playgrounds to monitor the children and to prevent bullies from beating people up on the playgrounds, along with fences, gates, and armed security, along with cameras, etc.

Exactly.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Tony V undertands.

China, Russia and Morth Korea has absolute security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 15, 2023, 01:48:00 AM: Reagan believed that by putting Americans on the World Wide Web that we could change the world.

In the old days a teacher could teach 40 children per year, and now a teacher can teach endless people on the World Wide Web.

I have a friend who was Mayor of Anaheim on 9/11 and now she is in a retirement home, and she runs charities from her room at the retirement home from her computer. She is stuck in a room, but she still runs charities.

We are changing the world as we have open discussions on the World Wide Web.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 15, 2023, 03:11:17 AM: There is no indication anywhere that the World Wide Web ever crossed Ronnie Rayguns mind. After 1983 there was not much mind left to cross.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 15, 2023, 06:46:29 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8ze/meet-the-viral-sheriff-who-took-on-florida-nazis (http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8ze/meet-the-viral-sheriff-who-took-on-florida-nazis)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 15, 2023, 10:36:14 AM: (https://thecomicnews.com/images/edtoons/2023/0412/choice/01.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 15, 2023, 10:47:47 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 15, 2023, 06:46:29 AM
http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8ze/meet-the-viral-sheriff-who-took-on-florida-nazis (http://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8ze/meet-the-viral-sheriff-who-took-on-florida-nazis)

As the man says, it's all public record. If they can't stand the light, they can crawl back under the rock. Perhaps he can turn his spotlight on DeSatan.

https://time.com/6266618/ron-desantis-florida-governance-essay/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 15, 2023, 10:53:03 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM

And we need to support after school programs for the youth.

My gosh, what wisdom! What insight!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 15, 2023, 11:02:24 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 15, 2023, 10:53:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM

And we need to support after school programs for the youth.

My gosh, what wisdom! What insight!

Indeed
Are you doing that?
If not, you should be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 15, 2023, 04:52:08 PM: If Americans are allowed to have open communication with the Chinese then it can help to promote peace, Tik Tok can help to promote peace, and world trade is good for everyone.

Putting Americans on the World Wide Web is changing the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 15, 2023, 06:03:44 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 15, 2023, 05:59:39 PM
Affirmative-action?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 15, 2023, 06:47:12 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 15, 2023, 04:52:08 PM
If Americans are allowed to have open communication with the Chinese then it can help to promote peace, Tik Tok can help to promote peace, and world trade is good for everyone.

Putting Americans on the World Wide Web is changing the world.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tik Tok is being banned by western govts *everywhere*...something about "China-spying".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 15, 2023, 09:30:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 15, 2023, 11:02:24 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 15, 2023, 10:53:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM

And we need to support after school programs for the youth.

My gosh, what wisdom! What insight!

Indeed
Are you doing that?
If not, you should be.

I can only hope to dimly reflect Tony's insight and penetrating analysis. He also pointed out that drug addiction is bad. I was gobsmacked, gobsmacked I tell you by this revelation.

I any case, I will endeavor to match every single post from our resident Social Reformer and Vintner In Waiting, with my carefully selected samples of corporate memoranda on the burning issues of our troubled times. Let me humbly offer:

It is useful to have a genetic algorithm create an AI driven curriculum and finance system that incorporates sustainable efficiency optimization using big data ecosystems that drill down toward a holistic education with resilient feedback logistics that minimizes pain points and provides an optimized customer journey that synergizes with hyperlocal strategies, aligns with global retargeting and moves the needle towards fully realized returns on investments.

It is also important to note that it will be efficacious to implement consensus mechanisms that build through multiple iterations of the feedback system as it cycles through each incremental through-line of various pedagogical tiers as they self-actualize and tesselate through a full plenum of profit algorithms and covariant fact valuations.

(when Tony falls silent, and discourse withers in consequence, then so shall my sharing of these memoranda slacken and subside)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 16, 2023, 02:44:02 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 15, 2023, 10:09:11 PM
The idiot DownUnder will be reading his dictionary for a month and still
have not one iota of what you are saying. 👍✌️👌👏🙏

Nothing wrong with looking things up in the dictionary and google to increase one's knowledge.
Knowledge is like security, one can never have too much of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 16, 2023, 02:57:12 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 15, 2023, 09:30:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 15, 2023, 11:02:24 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 15, 2023, 10:53:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2023, 05:09:43 PM

And we need to support after school programs for the youth.

My gosh, what wisdom! What insight!

Indeed
Are you doing that?
If not, you should be.

I can only hope to dimly reflect Tony's insight and penetrating analysis. He also pointed out that drug addiction is bad. I was gobsmacked, gobsmacked I tell you by this revelation.

I any case, I will endeavor to match every single post from our resident Social Reformer and Vintner In Waiting, with my carefully selected samples of corporate memoranda on the burning issues of our troubled times. Let me humbly offer:

It is useful to have a genetic algorithm create an AI driven curriculum and finance system that incorporates sustainable efficiency optimization using big data ecosystems that drill down toward a holistic education with resilient feedback logistics that minimizes pain points and provides an optimized customer journey that synergizes with hyperlocal strategies, aligns with global retargeting and moves the needle towards fully realized returns on investments.

It is also important to note that it will be efficacious to implement consensus mechanisms that build through multiple iterations of the feedback system as it cycles through each incremental through-line of various pedagogical tiers as they self-actualize and tesselate through a full plenum of profit algorithms and covariant fact valuations.

(when Tony falls silent, and discourse withers in consequence, then so shall my sharing of these memoranda slacken and subside)

LOL
Academic/corporate mumbo jumbo is not needed to solve society's current problems.
What's needed is commonsense...the solutions that Tony offers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 16, 2023, 10:27:18 AM: Clearly, in transgressing the boundaries, we move laterally in consensual iterations towards a transformative hermeneutics of monetary exchange, so to speak, between those for whom capitalization ratios are innately determined and those who, to borrow Goethe's simile, "pilot the newly christened dirigible."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 16, 2023, 03:36:31 PM: Indeed....and relocate all the homeless to tent cities (army-style tents) outside the cities and towns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 16, 2023, 03:51:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 16, 2023, 03:36:31 PM
Indeed....and relocate all the homeless to tent cities (army-style tents) outside the cities and towns.

Um....relocate?? Without their consent? Sounds like a concentration camp. Sorry, we have this pesky document called a Constitution that frowns on that sort of thing.

If you mean a voluntary facility, one with walking proximity to places those unhoused people need to go, and proximity to a support network of friends and public assistance, then that might be workable. Several cities are developing such programs. I may have posted a link here, some time ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2023, 03:58:41 PM: Thanks Bambu, you are a good man.

On the issue of the economy here in Orange County; I have a friend who is a Rock star, he played guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and for Suicidal Tendencies, and he produced the band Neighborhood Watch, etc, he has spent his whole life in Show Business here in Southern California, he is friends with Ozzy Osbourne and they hang out at the Rainbow in West Hollywood, anyhow, he is an expert, and he told me that the Entertainment Industry is making the move to Orange County. He told me to stay right where I am, and he said that the Entertainment Industry is going to come to Orange County.

We have Chapman Film School, and we have the California State University in Fullerton, and we have the Fullerton Community College, plus we have a great Medical School at the University of California in Irvine.

As we rise we can help other people and we can teach people, etc. We can be altruistic and we can help the homeless, and we can promote after school programs, etc.

Plus, we have Disneyland here, etc.

Great things are going to happen in Orange County, and as we rise then we can help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2023, 08:27:41 PM: Yes Bambu, we could have tent cities; the Churches can set up Tent Cities and they can have Church Buses and the Church Buses can pick up the homeless people and they can take the homeless people to camps where the people can be fed good food, and where they can shower, and get clean clothes, and where they can get Medical Care and Mental Care, etc.

Then, once the people are stable at the Church Camps then they can be shown videos from towns all over the USA which are dying towns, the towns are dying as the people move away to other places. As Josh pointed out, we have empty houses where the homeless people can live. We can put the homeless people in the empty houses all over the United States, we can let the people choose where they want to live and we can give them a Greyhound Bus Ticket to get to their new Home.

La Junta, Colorado, is a dying town with only 7,000 people. The homeless people can go populate La Junta, Colorado.

There are towns all over the USA where the Homeless People can go populate.

Without going into a gang war-zone, etc. People do not have to live in high crime areas. They can go to La Junta where it is safe, etc.

And they can work in the vineyards in Napa, California, and they can pick strawberries in Merced, California, etc.

The Mayors can donate Church Buses and Tents to the Calvary Chapel Open Door, etc, and the Churches can help to transition the homeless people into empty housing all over the United States that already exists and just needs people to live there.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 17, 2023, 09:46:32 AM: The ideal will reveal itself to be an idol, with varied realization modalities manifesting. Step by step, the ideal is pursued by a devouring doppelganger, tearing apart all transcendence. This de-idealization follows the path of reification, or, to invoke Augustine, the path of carnalization of the spiritual. Rhetorically, this is effected through literalization. And gummi bears.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 17, 2023, 10:02:12 AM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/17/ralph-yarl-shooting-kansas-city/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/17/ralph-yarl-shooting-kansas-city/)

Cocked and ready to fire!!! Bad people lurking everywhere.

Just a mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 11:12:04 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2023, 08:27:41 PM
Yes Bambu, we could have tent cities; the Churches can set up Tent Cities and they can have Church Buses and the Church Buses can pick up the homeless people and they can take the homeless people to camps where the people can be fed good food, and where they can shower, and get clean clothes, and where they can get Medical Care and Mental Care, etc.

Then, once the people are stable at the Church Camps then they can be shown videos from towns all over the USA which are dying towns, the towns are dying as the people move away to other places. As Josh pointed out, we have empty houses where the homeless people can live. We can put the homeless people in the empty houses all over the United States, we can let the people choose where they want to live and we can give them a Greyhound Bus Ticket to get to their new Home.

La Junta, Colorado, is a dying town with only 7,000 people. The homeless people can go populate La Junta, Colorado.

There are towns all over the USA where the Homeless People can go populate.

Without going into a gang war-zone, etc. People do not have to live in high crime areas. They can go to La Junta where it is safe, etc.

And they can work in the vineyards in Napa, California, and they can pick strawberries in Merced, California, etc.

The Mayors can donate Church Buses and Tents to the Calvary Chapel Open Door, etc, and the Churches can help to transition the homeless people into empty housing all over the United States that already exists and just needs people to live there.

Salute,

Tony V.
What do you think the problem is you are trying to solve? That people lack homes, or that we have to see them? Because forced internal deportation seems to be focused more on out of sight, out of mind; more on the problems of everyone else then the issue of the homeless themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 02:15:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 11:12:04 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2023, 08:27:41 PM
Yes Bambu, we could have tent cities; the Churches can set up Tent Cities and they can have Church Buses and the Church Buses can pick up the homeless people and they can take the homeless people to camps where the people can be fed good food, and where they can shower, and get clean clothes, and where they can get Medical Care and Mental Care, etc.

Then, once the people are stable at the Church Camps then they can be shown videos from towns all over the USA which are dying towns, the towns are dying as the people move away to other places. As Josh pointed out, we have empty houses where the homeless people can live. We can put the homeless people in the empty houses all over the United States, we can let the people choose where they want to live and we can give them a Greyhound Bus Ticket to get to their new Home.

La Junta, Colorado, is a dying town with only 7,000 people. The homeless people can go populate La Junta, Colorado.

There are towns all over the USA where the Homeless People can go populate.

Without going into a gang war-zone, etc. People do not have to live in high crime areas. They can go to La Junta where it is safe, etc.

And they can work in the vineyards in Napa, California, and they can pick strawberries in Merced, California, etc.

The Mayors can donate Church Buses and Tents to the Calvary Chapel Open Door, etc, and the Churches can help to transition the homeless people into empty housing all over the United States that already exists and just needs people to live there.

Salute,

Tony V.
What do you think the problem is you are trying to solve? That people lack homes, or that we have to see them? Because forced internal deportation seems to be focused more on out of sight, out of mind; more on the problems of everyone else then the issue of the homeless themselves.

I can understand why you would post that after what DeSantis did in Florida, sending buses full of people to Sanctuary Cities, but my idea is not motivated by stupid reasons as with DeSantis; I was posting an idea based on a post that Josh made here on Elba a long time ago, about how we have empty houses all over the United States and about how we can put the homeless people into housing that is already built. We have shrinking, dying towns that have empty houses, and they already have the infrastructure, they have streets and houses and grocery stores, etc. La Junta, Colorado, is one place where they can go, and La Junta has 7,000 people, it is a nice town with everything the people need to have good lives, and they can build whatever else they need. We have dying towns all over the USA where the people can go, the people can watch videos about each town and then the people can pick where they want to go live.

And the people can get help, they can get a Disability Check if they are disabled, etc. And we need to have Mental Health professionals all over the USA.

It is not about "Out of sight, out of mind" but rather it is about getting them into nice housing, while at the same time we can save dying towns in America, and we can put people into housing that is already built.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 06:38:53 PM: Machiavelli taught that it is better to be loved than feared, we want leaders like John F. Kennedy, and not like Putin, and as we are free to elect our leaders then it would be great if we could elect leaders whom we all love and who fully represent us.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 06:51:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 06:38:53 PM
Machiavelli taught that it is better to be loved than feared, we want leaders like John F. Kennedy, and not like Putin, and as we are free to elect our leaders then it would be great if we could elect leaders whom we all love and who fully represent us.

Salute,

Tony V.
When is the last time you read The Prince?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 08:16:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 06:51:27 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 06:38:53 PM
Machiavelli taught that it is better to be loved than feared, we want leaders like John F. Kennedy, and not like Putin, and as we are free to elect our leaders then it would be great if we could elect leaders whom we all love and who fully represent us.

Salute,

Tony V.
When is the last time you read The Prince?

It has be awhile, but I read it a few times over the years.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 17, 2023, 09:21:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 06:51:27 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 06:38:53 PM
Machiavelli taught that it is better to be loved than feared, we want leaders like John F. Kennedy, and not like Putin, and as we are free to elect our leaders then it would be great if we could elect leaders whom we all love and who fully represent us.

Salute,

Tony V.
When is the last time you read The Prince?

I've given up on trying to clean the Augean stables of horseshit. Best of luck to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 09:44:24 PM: Mayor Bass just made her State of the City speech; she is bringing in a lot of funding to help the homeless, and to help the mentally ill, and to hire more cops, and to hire more social workers, etc. She made a good speech, let us hope it leads to visible action.

Right now Los Angeles is not doing well, the streets are full of homeless people, and people are being stabbed on the Metrolink trains, we had 5 stabbings in 3 days.

Meanwhile there is the hit film "Jesus Revolution" and maybe the Churches will open their doors to the homeless, and will help the homeless, etc, we can have Church buses taking the Homeless People to Church on Sundays, etc, and the Churches can help the people.

And Mayor Bass is going to help people with drug addiction problems, etc. There used to be drug addiction camps in Acton, and in Santa Clarita, maybe they can open the camps back up and they can add more camps, Lake Hughes is also a good place for camps, etc.

I do not care if Mayor Bass is Democrat or Republican, it does not matter, all that matters is that the homeless people get help, and that crime goes down, etc. We want nice safe communities, and we want for the homeless people to have housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 17, 2023, 09:54:13 PM: Another win for the Constitution.
Another embarrassment for Biden.

US Appeals Court keeps natural gas lines open in stoves despite an attempted ban in Berkeley.
The Court:

Federal Law preempts building codes from banning natural gas use by covered products. And by preventing such appliances from using natural gas, the new Berkeley building code does exactly that.
States and localities cannot skirt the text of broad preemption provisions by doing indirectly what Congress says they cannot do directly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 17, 2023, 09:58:43 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 17, 2023, 09:57:27 PM
I guess Biden did a poor job presenting the argument of Berkely.
I guess you can read, but not comprehend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 17, 2023, 09:59:31 PM: Yawn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2023, 02:22:26 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 17, 2023, 10:00:12 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 17, 2023, 09:21:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2023, 06:51:27 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2023, 06:38:53 PM
Machiavelli taught that it is better to be loved than feared, we want leaders like John F. Kennedy, and not like Putin, and as we are free to elect our leaders then it would be great if we could elect leaders whom we all love and who fully represent us.

Salute,

Tony V.
When is the last time you read The Prince?

I've given up on trying to clean the Augean stables of horseshit. Best of luck to you.

No reason to talk to a brink wall. And IIRC Machiavelli wrote the opposite of what
Never NeverLand child posted.

No news there.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." Granted it may not be a statement to be taken at fave value. But it is what it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 18, 2023, 10:12:40 AM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/16/ron-desantis-florida-proposals/

Way past time to fly DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard, give him a leafblower so he can be useful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 18, 2023, 03:27:10 PM: In Touch Ministries

Dear In Touch Family, this morning at the age of 90, God called our beloved pastor, Dr. Charles Frazier Stanley, home to heaven. Dr. Stanley lived a faithful life of obedience, dedicated to teaching others how to have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Now he is receiving the joy of his soul-seeing his Savior face-to-face.

Please join us in praying for the entire Stanley family. Updates regarding memorial arrangements will be posted here, at intouch.org, and at charlesstanley.com.

---------

Dr Charles Stanley was great, may he rest in peace. He had been preaching on KTLA channel 5 in Los Angeles every Sunday morning, and I have no idea who they can get to replace him.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights, I expect Minnie will be gunning for him, too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 03:58:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights,
What is that position?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 18, 2023, 04:26:14 PM: It has been a while since I read the Prince, but the impression that I was left with is that leaders who rise because of LOVE are the best leaders, and an army that serves because of LOVE is the best army, and the ideal leader wants both love and fear.

A leader only chooses to rule with fear when he is not worthy of love, and such a leader is not worth serving.

We are blessed in the United States to be able to elect leaders who we love, and we need for worthy leaders to rise to the top who are worthy of our love.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2023, 04:48:42 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 04:19:31 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights, I expect Minnie will be gunning for him, too.

Minnie will not be assuming the preacher position with that dick!

This rodent on rodent violence is getting very swampy and starting to stink. It must be the result of some republican somewhere trying out another bad idea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 18, 2023, 06:15:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 03:58:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights,
What is that position?

No fish for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 06:59:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 06:15:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 03:58:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights,
What is that position?

No fish for you.
LOL! Gotcha.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2023, 07:13:32 PM: Man, I want that contingent fee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 07:31:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2023, 07:13:32 PM
Man, I want that contingent fee.
I would not use it to buy anything on time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2023, 07:45:15 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 07:31:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2023, 07:13:32 PM
Man, I want that contingent fee.
I would not use it to buy anything on time
Why would I buy anything late?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 18, 2023, 08:13:21 PM: Brits who took in Ukrainian refugees demand tougher background checks after falling victim to fraud and theft- Guardian

#####

Charming.

Exactly why I would never have strangers staying in my home.
And...not even family, except two of them.
Yes, they come for 'two weeks'[hasn't happened to me], and two years later they're still there, living the good life, free. [people are not big on paying their way, seems to me].
Radio station [FM] discussed it all a few years ago.
"How do I tell my relatives it's time for them to leave"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 08:21:49 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 07:56:26 PM
The other company is asking for 2.1 billion, Fox, no doubt, will settle that one as well.
Although a nice 6 week trial would be Must See TV.

If Rubric Murdock had an ounce of integrity several on-air personnel should be
out on their fat asses!

🙏👍👌👏😭😂

Bud Light s parent company has lost more than $6billion in market capitalization since announcing its partnership with a polarizing transgender internet personality

FOX paid 800 million to settle a lawsuit that it would have won but by settling avoided legal fees that makes the case a financial wash.
For perspective via industry sources;

Fox News Digital finished the first quarter of 2023 as the No. 1 news brand in key metrics as Americans flocked to the top performing organization in the competitive set, according to Comscore.

Fox News Digital closed out the quarter with 8.8 billion total multiplatform minutes and 5.2 billion total multiplatform views, topping CNN and The New York Times in both categories.

It was the eighth straight quarter that Fox News Digital finished as the No.1 news brand among multiplatform minutes. It was also the third straight quarter that Fox News Digital finished as the leader with multiplatform views from a group of organizations that includes NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Insider Inc., and USA Today, in addition to CNN and the Times.

Hope this helps understand business decisions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 18, 2023, 08:26:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 18, 2023, 08:13:21 PM
Brits who took in Ukrainian refugees demand tougher background checks after falling victim to fraud and theft- Guardian

#####

Charming.

Exactly why I would never have strangers staying in my home.
And...not even family, except two of them.
Yes, they come for 'two weeks'[hasn't happened to me], and two years later they're still there, living the good life, free. [people are not big on paying their way, seems to me].
Radio station [FM] discussed it all a few years ago.
"How do I tell my relatives it's time for them to leave"?
We get it. You are a miserable human being. You need not keep trying to convince people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2023, 08:57:40 PM: Red likes to think he is being fucked by the biggest dick. That is all Red and the other right wing bitches ever seem to want to talk about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 18, 2023, 09:15:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 06:59:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 06:15:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 03:58:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights,
What is that position?

No fish for you.
LOL! Gotcha.

Nope. And still no fish. Some sea lions, when really desperate, gnaw on plastic six-pack rings.

Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 08:21:49 PM

Hope this helps understand business decisions.

A transformative hermeneutics can help to monetize self-incrementalizing modes of stratification among the various autodefenestrations of equity blobsmogling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 09:18:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 09:15:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 06:59:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 06:15:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 03:58:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 18, 2023, 03:49:01 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 18, 2023, 03:25:21 PM
neon-Dion DeSantis

Given his positions on women's rights,
What is that position?

No fish for you.
LOL! Gotcha.

Nope. And still no fish. Some sea lions, when really desperate, gnaw on plastic six-pack rings.

Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 08:21:49 PM

Hope this helps understand business decisions.

A transformative hermeneutics can help to monetize self-incrementalizing modes of stratification among the various autodefenestrations of equity blobsmogling.
Sorry.
I Tried.
Maybe a remedial course in Economics will help you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 18, 2023, 10:09:08 PM: Stand your ground laws are open season messages
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2023, 10:11:33 PM: Do not be sorry, Red. You have helped make attacking everything tainted by right wing influence the only American thing to do.

If you were any less of a nasty shitty bastard there might be some future to your broken state of mind. Instead you have alienated entire generations so there will be no one to follow you in your quest for dumbass oblivion.

Onward, Christian soldier with your cocaine, child porn, oil and guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 01:14:41 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 18, 2023, 08:26:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 18, 2023, 08:13:21 PM
Brits who took in Ukrainian refugees demand tougher background checks after falling victim to fraud and theft- Guardian

#####

Charming.

Exactly why I would never have strangers staying in my home.
And...not even family, except two of them.
Yes, they come for 'two weeks'[hasn't happened to me], and two years later they're still there, living the good life, free. [people are not big on paying their way, seems to me].
Radio station [FM] discussed it all a few years ago.
"How do I tell my relatives it's time for them to leave"?
We get it. You are a miserable human being. You need not keep trying to convince people.

You think everyone in the world is a lovely person.
They are not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 19, 2023, 01:43:44 AM: No one who has read your babble for five straight minutes thinks everyone in the world is a lovely person. You emphatically prove that is not the case.

The question remains how one can endure being such an unlovely idiot as yourself, so miserable and misinformed. How do you keep it up Bambu? Is it the Vegemite talking?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 04:55:10 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 19, 2023, 01:43:44 AM
No one who has read your babble for five straight minutes thinks everyone in the world is a lovely person. You emphatically prove that is not the case.

The question remains how one can endure being such an unlovely idiot as yourself, so miserable and misinformed. How do you keep it up Bambu? Is it the Vegemite talking?

I'm a saint when compared to many many people.
Would I be kidnapping people in Sydney and cutting off their fingers and toes in ransom demands, like what's happening now?

You're another one who thinks everyone except me is a lovely person.
A failed Iranian asylum seeker in Britain murdered the elderly lady who gave him a place to stay so he could study.
You also need to study the present world a lotter more deeply. Your leftist dream is causing massive harm.
luee understands...you don't.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 19, 2023, 06:09:35 AM: You are incorrect. I think the number of people who are not lovely is substantial and I probably am among them. Though I try not to be. That you seem to be happy and proud to be included among their numbers is perversely admirable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 07:46:56 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 19, 2023, 06:09:35 AM
You are incorrect. I think the number of people who are not lovely is substantial and I probably am among them. Though I try not to be. That you seem to be happy and proud to be included among their numbers is perversely admirable.

Guess it depends on one's idea of "lovely".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 08:38:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 01:14:41 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 18, 2023, 08:26:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 18, 2023, 08:13:21 PM
Brits who took in Ukrainian refugees demand tougher background checks after falling victim to fraud and theft- Guardian

#####

Charming.

Exactly why I would never have strangers staying in my home.
And...not even family, except two of them.
Yes, they come for 'two weeks'[hasn't happened to me], and two years later they're still there, living the good life, free. [people are not big on paying their way, seems to me].
Radio station [FM] discussed it all a few years ago.
"How do I tell my relatives it's time for them to leave"?
We get it. You are a miserable human being. You need not keep trying to convince people.

You think everyone in the world is a lovely person.
They are not.
Everyone here knows thar not everyone in the world is a lovely person. Because we deal with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 08:43:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 04:55:10 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 19, 2023, 01:43:44 AM
No one who has read your babble for five straight minutes thinks everyone in the world is a lovely person. You emphatically prove that is not the case.

The question remains how one can endure being such an unlovely idiot as yourself, so miserable and misinformed. How do you keep it up Bambu? Is it the Vegemite talking?

I'm a saint when compared to many many people.
Would I be kidnapping people in Sydney and cutting off their fingers and toes in ransom demands, like what's happening now?
Only if they were minorities.
Quote

You're another one who thinks everyone except me is a lovely person.
A failed Iranian asylum seeker in Britain murdered the elderly lady who gave him a place to stay so he could study.
You also need to study the present world a lotter more deeply. Your leftist dream is causing massive harm.
luee understands...you don't.
You know who commit far, far more senseless murders, both numerically and proportionately, than immigrants? Cis-gendered white males. Time to deport all of us.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 19, 2023, 09:27:27 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 18, 2023, 10:09:08 PM
Stand your ground laws are open season messages

And two days later....

On Saturday, just two days after Yarl was shot, a woman looking for a friend s house in upstate New York was fatally shot after the car in which she riding mistakenly pulled into the wrong driveway. Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron when homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots, the local sheriffs office said. Monahan has been charged with second-degree murder

NY does not have a SYG law. Which is good, because this psycho dickhead needs to he locked up before he expresses his trigger-happy paranoia on someone else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 19, 2023, 09:37:02 AM: Just a bad break. Remember the bad people are lurking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 11:43:06 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 18, 2023, 08:21:49 PM

FOX paid 800 million to settle a lawsuit that it would have won but by settling avoided legal fees that makes the case a financial wash.
Fox just agreed to the largest cash payout to settle a defamation suit, ever. Wonder what they would have paid if the suit had merit! And - a financial wash? $800,000,000 in legal fees and costs for the trial? I clearly got out of the profession at the wrong time. You intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR and partisan cocksucker.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 11:51:33 AM: The only thing we did not get from the settlement is an on air admission and apology. But not agreeing to that by Faux News was surely Smart... matic. There is an even larger claim pending that admitting the validity or the Dominion suit would probably sink them in. Note the agreed statement where Faux News had to "acknowledge the Court's ruling" that claims they broadcast were false. Language designed to not be an admission that could be used against them in Court.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 12:48:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 19, 2023, 09:37:02 AM
Just a bad break. Remember the bad people are lurking.

But, you can't just go shooting people because they pull into your driveway or knock on your door.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 02:23:40 PM: Mayor Bass is doing a great job, and Los Angeles has come a long ways since I was homeless there for 2 years in 1998-99, back when I was homeless in Los Angeles it was even against the law to feed the homeless, there were times when I went up to 3 days without eating when I was homeless in Los Angeles. Thank God that people care about the homeless now, and thank God that Mayor Bass is helping the homeless. We need to show love for our homeless people, and it could happen to anyone, and also many of our homeless people are foster youth, and abused women. Thank God that views have changed over the last 25 years in regard to helping the homeless. And now we need to go a step further and we need to have a Jesus Revolution and the Churches all need to welcome and help the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 19, 2023, 02:52:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 02:23:40 PM
Mayor Bass is doing a great job, and Los Angeles has come a long ways since I was homeless there for 2 years in 1998-99, back when I was homeless in Los Angeles it was even against the law to feed the homeless, there were times when I went up to 3 days without eating when I was homeless in Los Angeles. Thank God that people care about the homeless now, and thank God that Mayor Bass is helping the homeless. We need to show love for our homeless people, and it could happen to anyone, and also many of our homeless people are foster youth, and abused women. Thank God that views have changed over the last 25 years in regard to helping the homeless. And now we need to go a step further and we need to have a Jesus Revolution and the Churches all need to welcome and help the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.

Are you not happy Bass defeated Caruso?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:20:58 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 19, 2023, 02:52:20 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 02:23:40 PM
Mayor Bass is doing a great job, and Los Angeles has come a long ways since I was homeless there for 2 years in 1998-99, back when I was homeless in Los Angeles it was even against the law to feed the homeless, there were times when I went up to 3 days without eating when I was homeless in Los Angeles. Thank God that people care about the homeless now, and thank God that Mayor Bass is helping the homeless. We need to show love for our homeless people, and it could happen to anyone, and also many of our homeless people are foster youth, and abused women. Thank God that views have changed over the last 25 years in regard to helping the homeless. And now we need to go a step further and we need to have a Jesus Revolution and the Churches all need to welcome and help the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.

Are you not happy Bass defeated Caruso?

Mayor Bass has my support, and whoever runs her Facebook page invited me to continue to share my ideas on their page and they said that they value my ideas. Mayor Bass is cool, I like her.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM: Bambu, I agree with you about having strangers in my home, I do not allow any strangers in my home. Once I let a stranger use my restroom and he stole a bottle of Drakkar Noir worth $80 and so now I will not even allow a stranger to use my restroom.

When I lived in Malibu in a family home on the beach with the ex-wife of a Doctor and their two daughters, and also the daughter of a Chinese general lived there, and a research scientist who worked on artificial joints such as hips and knees, etc, I had a great Character Reference in order to get into the beach house, I had Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as my Character Reference, and the Lady who owned the house was a huge fan of Roy and Dale. Plus, I had a college degree, and I attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so she could tell that I am a good guy.

But, I agree with you when it comes to inviting people into my home, I do not allow strangers in my home.

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 04:41:18 PM: Mayor Bass is bringing in Mental Health Professionals to help the homeless people instead of sending in cops with guns, and it cannot happen soon enough, a homeless man was just killed for sleeping at the mall, a female cop shot him when he began to fight her, it should not have been a lone female with a gun handling that situation, it should have been a trained team of Mental Health Professionals. There was no reason for the mentally ill homeless man to die. Mayor Bass already knows this, and she is bringing in Mental Health Professionals to help the homeless instead of sending in cops with guns.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 05:08:21 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM
Bambu, I agree with you about having strangers in my home, I do not allow any strangers in my home. Once I let a stranger use my restroom and he stole a bottle of Drakkar Noir worth $80 and so now I will not even allow a stranger to use my restroom.

When I lived in Malibu in a family home on the beach with the ex-wife of a Doctor and their two daughters, and also the daughter of a Chinese general lived there, and a research scientist who worked on artificial joints such as hips and knees, etc, I had a great Character Reference in order to get into the beach house, I had Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as my Character Reference, and the Lady who owned the house was a huge fan of Roy and Dale. Plus, I had a college degree, and I attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so she could tell that I am a good guy.

But, I agree with you when it comes to inviting people into my home, I do not allow strangers in my home.

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.

Amen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 07:01:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.

That was misguided...nothing like concentration camps, as is understood by the meaning.
More like 'dorms'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 07:55:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 07:01:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.

That was misguided...nothing like concentration camps, as is understood by the meaning.
More like 'dorms'.
You choose your euphemism for mass forced segregated housing based on ethnicity, with armed guards, and I will choose mine. But I have lived in dorms and what Tony describes aint that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 19, 2023, 08:17:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 07:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 07:01:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.

That was misguided...nothing like concentration camps, as is understood by the meaning.
More like 'dorms'.
You choose your euphemism for mass forced segregated housing based on ethnicity, with armed guards, and I will choose mine. But I have lived in dorms and what Tony describes aint that.

Well, we could call them internment camps which is a nicer way of saying concentration camp.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 19, 2023, 09:47:25 PM: Second time this week Tony has proposed helping a group in need with concentration camps. Can't hardly wait for the third! Who will be in his crosshairs next? Fat people? Heavy gamblers? Agnostics?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 11:51:33 AM
The only thing we did not get from the settlement is an on air admission and apology. But not agreeing to that by Faux News was surely Smart... matic. There is an even larger claim pending that admitting the validity or the Dominion suit would probably sink them in. Note the agreed statement where Faux News had to "acknowledge the Court's ruling" that claims they broadcast were false. Language designed to not be an admission that could be used against them in Court.

From news reports Lime never reads

On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said Dominion On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said the Dominion litigation was a political crusade in search of a financial windfall for its private equity owners, and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 10:36:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.

When I was homeless here in California I was placed in a group home run by an ex-military guy and it was heaven when compared to being homeless and hungry on the street.

I was a clean and sober homeless man with a college degree here in California, and I studied and trained to work in the Entertainment Industry which is a prevailing industry here in California, I should have been able to earn an honest living and I should have been able to have a family and a home. I am not a criminal, even selling hamburgers to the tourists should have been an option, instead of being a homeless bum. And it was against the law to feed me when I was homeless. I am damaged, and I have a bad attitude. I tried to move to Italy, if I could have gotten a job in Italy then I would have stayed in Italy, there is no reason for me to be in the United States anymore, this place no longer represents me. If I have to be homeless here, while I work so hard to have a home and a family to no avail, then fuck it. I used to love America, but America does not love me. When I was homeless and hungry on the streets then it was against the law to feed me.

We have come a long way in the last 25 years, and now Hollywood is allowed to feed and house the homeless people, but for me the damage is done. And I was one of the good people, I cared and I worked and studied hard, there was no reason for me to be homeless and hungry on the streets.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 10:51:16 PM: The Mexicans need to work to make Mexico better than the USA. The USA sucks now.

And I wish I would have used my Stimulus Money to move to Italy.

I am tired of being a bum in my own home while people come here from all over the world to live their dreams.

I am not living my dream, and it is all bullshit.

I would rather be living in Italy.

Meanwhile, I am glad the homeless people in Los Angeles are being fed and are treated like human beings instead of being treated worse than animals. People treat dogs better than how the homeless were treated in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 19, 2023, 11:00:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 11:51:33 AM
The only thing we did not get from the settlement is an on air admission and apology. But not agreeing to that by Faux News was surely Smart... matic. There is an even larger claim pending that admitting the validity or the Dominion suit would probably sink them in. Note the agreed statement where Faux News had to "acknowledge the Court's ruling" that claims they broadcast were false. Language designed to not be an admission that could be used against them in Court.

From news reports Lime never reads

On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said Dominion On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said the Dominion litigation was a political crusade in search of a financial windfall for its private equity owners, and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights

Get better sources and maybe some self worth.

Leave the malice in the toilet where you found it.

Smartmatic then the producer then the shareholders make the Murdochs go away.

Fox was anything but fun while it lasted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 11:19:10 PM: My friend Tom, may he rest in peace, was a former Combat Medic for the Marine Corps, and he was a Doctor for the Navy in Pennsylvania for 20 years, and he was the best at running homeless shelters, he even cooked steak and lobster for the homeless people, Tom was a great guy.

Ex-military members are great at running homeless shelters.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 20, 2023, 12:24:06 AM: Critical Race Theory in the fles.

https://ourtallahassee.com/florida-prosecutors-racism-policy-leaked/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 02:16:01 AM: The USA will get better as Mayor Bass and others help the homeless, and as the homeless people are able to VOTE, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 02:52:13 AM: We need to help our homeless, as it says in the Bible.

My relatives in Oregon said that Portland, Oregon, is full of homeless people now, the streets are full of homeless people.

And Washington state is full of homeless people.

The USA needs to help the homeless, and we need to be like Greece where people can be content with food and shelter and a good library, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 03:33:43 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 19, 2023, 04:39:24 PM
The Sick Man of Europe

Long live King Charles!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 05:24:57 AM: Long enough to get you stupid Ozzies to give up your filthy coal habit at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 05:27:27 AM: Tucker gave a wonderful apology on the Daily Show for his treason, avarice and psychotic disregard for human life and American law and order.

Careful editing can almost make him seem human. Almost.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 20, 2023, 07:46:26 AM: From 2009:

https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/jake-tapper-cant-figure-out-how-fox-news-different-abc-news
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 08:08:07 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 11:51:33 AM
The only thing we did not get from the settlement is an on air admission and apology. But not agreeing to that by Faux News was surely Smart... matic. There is an even larger claim pending that admitting the validity or the Dominion suit would probably sink them in. Note the agreed statement where Faux News had to "acknowledge the Court's ruling" that claims they broadcast were false. Language designed to not be an admission that could be used against them in Court.

From news reports Lime never reads

On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said Dominion On Thursday, the judge made remarks indicating that the two sides should try to resolve their dispute without a trial and said Dominion might face challenges in persuading a jury to award the kind of damages it was seeking, people familiar with the situation said.

Fox News has previously said the Dominion litigation was a political crusade in search of a financial windfall for its private equity owners, and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 20, 2023, 09:30:00 AM: Weapons at the ready, all the time!!! Cocked and ready to fire!! Bad people lurking!!!

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170593395/kaylin-gillis-new-york-driveway-kevin-monahan (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170593395/kaylin-gillis-new-york-driveway-kevin-monahan)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 20, 2023, 10:04:53 AM: Quote from: calibandwagon on April 19, 2023, 09:27:27 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 18, 2023, 10:09:08 PM
Stand your ground laws are open season messages

And two days later....

On Saturday, just two days after Yarl was shot, a woman looking for a friend s house in upstate New York was fatally shot after the car in which she riding mistakenly pulled into the wrong driveway. Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron when homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots, the local sheriffs office said. Monahan has been charged with second-degree murder

NY does not have a SYG law. Which is good, because this psycho dickhead needs to he locked up before he expresses his trigger-happy paranoia on someone else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 20, 2023, 10:12:30 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM
...and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights

So libel is a 1st Am right. I learn so much here, thanks to our Constitutional scholar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 20, 2023, 11:30:26 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 20, 2023, 10:12:30 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM
...and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights

So libel is a 1st Am right. I learn so much here, thanks to our Constitutional scholar.
LOL!
Now I understand why you use so many names on here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 12:23:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 20, 2023, 11:30:26 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 20, 2023, 10:12:30 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 19, 2023, 10:00:26 PM
...and that the real cost of it was to First Amendment rights

So libel is a 1st Am right. I learn so much here, thanks to our Constitutional scholar.
LOL!
Now I understand why you use so many names on here.
Gee, RedStateWardDickVitaleJimmengle, your utter lack of self awareness is fucking hilarious.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 20, 2023, 01:39:58 PM: Speaking of guys from the Midwest who are self-parodying dufuses....

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-lindell-ordered-pay-5-million-debunked-election-claims-1234720333/

I'm sure Lindell has some emergency funds stashed somewhere, maybe in a pillowcase.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 01:46:15 PM: I feel like our Government here in the USA is completely out of touch with the people, and that goes for both Republicans and Democrats.

Finally Mayor Bass is helping the homeless, but the crisis went on for a long time before they started helping people, and for a while it was even against the law to feed the homeless. I went 3 days without eating sometimes when I was homeless in Los Angeles, and of note is that I was born and raised in Los Angeles, so I was homeless in my home town, and it was against the law to feed me so they just let me starve.

And helping the homeless means helping men and women and every race equally.

I think Ron DeSantis is mentally ill, and Trump is mentally ill.

We need for new people to rise up in Government who are in touch with what is happening in America, and things will get better as the homeless people are able to vote.

Instead of having a bad attitude then I need to use my experiences to help others, and I can help Mayor Bass to help the homeless, and I can help other people.

And we need to have a Jesus Revolution here in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 02:19:29 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 01:46:15 PM

I think Ron DeSantis is mentally ill, and Trump is mentally ill.

I think you are right, Tony.

It explains why only the mentally ill and a career criminals give them any support.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 03:45:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 19, 2023, 09:47:25 PM
Second time this week Tony has proposed helping a group in need with concentration camps. Can't hardly wait for the third! Who will be in his crosshairs next? Fat people? Heavy gamblers? Agnostics?
Tony's policy solutions swing wildly from the stupidly naive to the positively horrific. There is no in between.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 07:02:55 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 03:45:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 19, 2023, 09:47:25 PM
Second time this week Tony has proposed helping a group in need with concentration camps. Can't hardly wait for the third! Who will be in his crosshairs next? Fat people? Heavy gamblers? Agnostics?
Tony's policy solutions swing wildly from the stupidly naive to the positively horrific. There is no in between.

Bullshit!

And I never said anything about concentration camps, and I was homeless here in Hollywood, and I lived in homeless shelters, so I know what I am talking about. And you need strong shelter managers who can deal with mentally ill people, and with alcoholics and drug addicts, etc, some of the homeless people are hard to deal with. I had to talk a knife away from a mentally ill person once in a homeless shelter who was going to stab a Black man, the voices in his head were telling him to stab the Black guy, I told him to stop listening to the voices in his head and to listen to my voice and to put the knife down, I am good with people and the guy put the knife down, and I saved that Black man's life. And I studied Psychology and Sociology before I became homeless, and so I knew a little bit about how to deal with the homeless and the mentally ill people and the addicts, etc.

It is important to have strong men at the homeless shelters to break up fights and to stop people from stabbing each other in the shelters.

The best shelter manager I knew was my friend Tom who was a former Combat Medic, and he was a Doctor for the Navy for 20 years in Pennsylvania, he was big enough to break up fights, and he was trained, and he had a kind heart of gold.

And I had a roommate at a homeless shelter who was a Franciscan Monk who was living in the homeless shelter so that he could experience what it is like to live in a shelter so that he could go back to Malibu and teach the other Monks how to help the homeless, the Monks own a house by Dick Van Dyke in Malibu.

I have good ideas. And the bullshit about it being against the law to feed the homeless was a fucked up policy. I met a guy who was involved with a charity named "Food Without Borders" and he went into Hollywood where it was against the law to feed the homeless and he passed out sandwiches and bottled water to the homeless people. That is what we need to do.

And I am a Christian, who believes in helping the homeless as it says in Matthew 25; 31-46.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 20, 2023, 09:34:53 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 07:02:55 PM
...the voices in his head were telling him to stab the Black guy, I told him to stop listening to the voices in his head and to listen to my voice and to put the knife down, I am good with people and the guy put the knife down, and I saved that Black mans life.

Good job. I have no criticism of your abilities with people and situations like you describe here, and I appreciate your on-topic appraisal of DeSantis and Trump. My only issue is with you not fully putting your skill and passion to work helping the homeless, and frittering away your time on pipe dreams. If you post here constantly about helping the homeless, and you have been homeless....just not sure how much clearer a roadmap you will get on what to do with your life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 09:59:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 20, 2023, 09:34:53 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 07:02:55 PM
...the voices in his head were telling him to stab the Black guy, I told him to stop listening to the voices in his head and to listen to my voice and to put the knife down, I am good with people and the guy put the knife down, and I saved that Black mans life.

Good job. I have no criticism of your abilities with people and situations like you describe here, and I appreciate your on-topic appraisal of DeSantis and Trump. My only issue is with you not fully putting your skill and passion to work helping the homeless, and frittering away your time on pipe dreams. If you post here constantly about helping the homeless, and you have been homeless....just not sure how much clearer a roadmap you will get on what to do with your life.

Washington, CA governor, etc could be reading this forum.
Social media is a good tool to use for campaigns....one never knows who's watching, reading.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 10:13:41 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 19, 2023, 08:17:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 07:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2023, 07:01:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 19, 2023, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2023, 03:32:04 PM

The best way to help the refugees from Ukraine is to have group homes full of beds and ran by ex-military guys.

Salute,

Tony V.
We used to call those concentration camps.

That was misguided...nothing like concentration camps, as is understood by the meaning.
More like 'dorms'.
You choose your euphemism for mass forced segregated housing based on ethnicity, with armed guards, and I will choose mine. But I have lived in dorms and what Tony describes aint that.

Well, we could call them internment camps which is a nicer way of saying concentration camp.

If tents are good enough for the troops, then surely they're good enough for the homeless.
Tents for singles, couples, families.

American women, for whatever reason, searching thru trash bins for food...while trying to hold up their pants that are around their knees.
Surely that's not acceptable, not what the troops fought and died for.

It really is time...to remove all the homeless from all the streets...time for cities and towns...to 'take back the streets'.
Make American streets great again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 10:19:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 20, 2023, 09:30:00 AM
Weapons at the ready, all the time!!! Cocked and ready to fire!! Bad people lurking!!!

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170593395/kaylin-gillis-new-york-driveway-kevin-monahan (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170593395/kaylin-gillis-new-york-driveway-kevin-monahan)

Sure, but you can't just go shooting at people/cars that pull into your driveway.
You have to wait until they break into your home and pose a threat to you, then you can shoot them with your AR 15 on 'auto'. Maybe you have to see a weapon first.
Best to identify what you're shooting at before you fire, could be your daughter who's jumped out of the foyer closet to surprise you, having returned early from summer camp [actually happened].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 10:24:30 PM: You can't just shoot cheerleaders who almost enter your car by mistake, either.
...as just happened in Texas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 10:25:11 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2023, 07:02:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 20, 2023, 03:45:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 19, 2023, 09:47:25 PM
Second time this week Tony has proposed helping a group in need with concentration camps. Can't hardly wait for the third! Who will be in his crosshairs next? Fat people? Heavy gamblers? Agnostics?
Tony's policy solutions swing wildly from the stupidly naive to the positively horrific. There is no in between.

Bullshit!

And I never said anything about concentration camps,
That is the best phrase to describe what you described even if you will not admit it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 11:22:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 20, 2023, 10:24:30 PM
You can't just shoot cheerleaders who almost enter your car by mistake, either.
...as just happened in Texas.

You shitfaced shithead cowardly gun nuts are all going to get a ~~bad~~ worse name.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 11:24:49 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-health-lawsuits (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-health-lawsuits)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2023, 12:55:55 AM: My friend Tom was a Doctor and he knew that by getting the homeless people involved doing charity work that they could improve their self esteem by being useful. So, Tom gave them the opportunity to sell hot dogs and beer to raise money to feed the homeless people and the hungry.

People can sell beer and hot dogs to raise money for charities such as "Food Without Borders."

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 21, 2023, 08:42:13 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 20, 2023, 11:24:49 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-health-lawsuits (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-health-lawsuits)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/jun/17/joe-barton-bp-apology-oil-spill-republican
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 04:36:50 PM: Weapons at the ready, all the time!!! Cocked and ready to fire!! Bad people lurking!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-in-custody-after-neighbors-said-he-shot-north-carolina-man-and-6-year-old-over-basketball/ar-AA1a6LOS?bncnt=BroadcastNews_TopStories&ocid=entnewsntp&FORM=BNC001&cvid=a30a831b886d4b9fb218474b7607c5d3&ei=33 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-in-custody-after-neighbors-said-he-shot-north-carolina-man-and-6-year-old-over-basketball/ar-AA1a6LOS?bncnt=BroadcastNews_TopStories&ocid=entnewsntp&FORM=BNC001&cvid=a30a831b886d4b9fb218474b7607c5d3&ei=33)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 21, 2023, 05:20:24 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 04:36:50 PM
Weapons at the ready, all the time!!! Cocked and ready to fire!! Bad people lurking!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-in-custody-after-neighbors-said-he-shot-north-carolina-man-and-6-year-old-over-basketball/ar-AA1a6LOS?bncnt=BroadcastNews_TopStories&ocid=entnewsntp&FORM=BNC001&cvid=a30a831b886d4b9fb218474b7607c5d3&ei=33 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-in-custody-after-neighbors-said-he-shot-north-carolina-man-and-6-year-old-over-basketball/ar-AA1a6LOS?bncnt=BroadcastNews_TopStories&ocid=entnewsntp&FORM=BNC001&cvid=a30a831b886d4b9fb218474b7607c5d3&ei=33)

If only the neighbours had respected the shooter's wishes;

and would complain about toys and balls being on his property.

Obviously his complaints were ignored, they seemingly disrespected him and his property, seemingly just walked all over his mind and soil....and the end result of that was...he seemingly felt violated and abused...and shot them.
Moral of this sad event?
Yes, exactly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 05:30:49 PM: Face palm emoji. Bad people on both sides, right Bambu?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 21, 2023, 05:43:52 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 05:30:49 PM
Face palm emoji. Bad people on both sides, right Bambu?

Indeed.
Best to respect neighbours' complaints, especially in America where people carry guns.
Best not to go around antagonising people anywhere, especially in America.
There are people in American society [as elsewhere] who are not totally in control of their emotions and minds, who in America carry guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 05:47:10 PM: Somebody else needs to take it from here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 21, 2023, 06:04:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 21, 2023, 05:47:10 PM
Somebody else needs to take it from here.
I... can't. I just can't.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 21, 2023, 07:21:50 PM: If Crikey-pants is right he will be thoroughly overrun by China any day now and then re-educated.

I think Yi will do wonders for both his content and his style.

All we have to do is give it time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2023, 11:55:55 PM: Vatican News

Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong concluded a five-day visit to Beijing at the invitation of Archbishop Li Shan. He was thus able to meet the Catholic community of the Chinese capital. The purpose of the visit was to promote communion between the two dioceses.

------------

It is good that the Catholic Church is becoming stronger in China as we all seek better human rights in China and as we seek to promote peace in the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2023, 12:07:08 AM: Oh boy. It will not be long before someone starts trying to push opium there as well.

There may be better ways to export western values.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2023, 05:33:37 PM: The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo need to have peace so that they can all be blessed with the abundant resources of their Birthplace. What the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo need to realize is that everything already belongs to them, and that there is no need to fight over what they already own, and then they can all work together as a Civilized team in order to all benefit from the blessings of their bountiful nation.

And that is also what Russia needs to learn, we can all benefit from the blessings of peace.

While people are busy killing each other, then other people are benefiting from the Legacy that should be theirs that they are losing while they waste time in useless battle. They could be flourishing instead of fighting.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 06:48:48 PM: Rest in Hell
BuzzFeed News.

The click bait embarrassment gave up the ghost yesterday after infamously dragging most of the mainstreet media into public disfavor. The public gives the MSM only 26per cent approval since BuzzFeed was the first news site to publish the Steele Dossier that led to RussiaGate, a hoax.
Without any confirmation of the Dossier BuzzFeed explained the story was going to come out and it might as well come from it.
Bad choice.
We now know the hoax was paid for by the Democrat National Committee in the campaign of 2016 and magnified by Hillary after her humiliating loss to Trump.
BuzzFeed would have been smarter to have heeded the observation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.

In the BuzzFeed epitaph I would add the words Time Wounds All Heels.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 22, 2023, 07:08:21 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 06:48:48 PM
Rest in Hell
BuzzFeed News.

The click bait embarrassment gave up the ghost yesterday after infamously dragging most of the mainstreet media into public disfavor. The public gives the MSM only 26per cent approval since BuzzFeed was the first news site to publish the Steele Dossier that led to RussiaGate, a hoax.
Without any confirmation of the Dossier BuzzFeed explained the story was going to come out and it might as well come from it.
Bad choice.
We now know the hoax was paid for by the Democrat National Committee in the campaign of 2016 and magnified by Hillary after her humiliating loss to Trump.
BuzzFeed would have been smarter to have heeded the observation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.

In the BuzzFeed epitaph I would add the words Time Wounds All Heels.

ROFLMAO!

Russia HOAX!

From the Senate Intel Comte. With a Republican jaority

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-election-security-findings-first-volume-bipartisan-russia-report
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 08:43:51 PM: Fox News Settles Dominion Lawsuit For 787 Million CNN+ s

Babylon Bee at its best
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2023, 09:20:22 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 22, 2023, 07:08:21 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 06:48:48 PM
Rest in Hell
BuzzFeed News.

The click bait embarrassment gave up the ghost yesterday after infamously dragging most of the mainstreet media into public disfavor. The public gives the MSM only 26per cent approval since BuzzFeed was the first news site to publish the Steele Dossier that led to RussiaGate, a hoax.
Without any confirmation of the Dossier BuzzFeed explained the story was going to come out and it might as well come from it.
Bad choice.
We now know the hoax was paid for by the Democrat National Committee in the campaign of 2016 and magnified by Hillary after her humiliating loss to Trump.
BuzzFeed would have been smarter to have heeded the observation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.

In the BuzzFeed epitaph I would add the words Time Wounds All Heels.

ROFLMAO!

Russia HOAX!

From the Senate Intel Comte. With a Republican jaority

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-election-security-findings-first-volume-bipartisan-russia-report

(http://images.dailykos.com/images/1180842/story_image/51zJ7pf7gIS._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg?1682035037)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM: News Item

Both the New York City and Boston Marathons recently added nonbinary divisions to their races. Though, only one, the NYC Marathon, included cash prizes for the nonbinary division. The top performers in Jersey City Marathon & Half-Marathon will each receive a $5,000 and $1,000 prize, respectively.

The marathon decision to include a nonbinary category drew praise from New Jersey leading LGBT advocates.

Ensuring that competition is equitable based on gender identity is an important step toward inclusion, said Christian Fuscarino, executive director of Garden State Equality.

There is no sex definition as NONBINARY.
We have MALE and FEMALE, defined by the gametes OVA and SPERM

Hooray for the Marathons adding SEPARATE divisions on what humans want to be and not including them in what SCIENCE has defined them as what they are.

That is fairness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2023, 10:41:29 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM

Hooray for the Marathons adding SEPARATE divisions on what humans want to be and not including them in what SCIENCE has defined them as what they are.

That is fairness.

Yup. Taking a whole person approach.

If you are not selling and shackling your fellow human beings you are less bound to weights and measures in your assessment of them.

One thing we know about you, Red. You are always trying to revive the middle passage for people who are not you.

I hope the last thing you ever get to think about is how much non-binary people have been kicking your ass, you stupid fat mope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 23, 2023, 01:02:13 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM
News Item

Both the New York City and Boston Marathons recently added nonbinary divisions to their races. Though, only one, the NYC Marathon, included cash prizes for the nonbinary division. The top performers in Jersey City Marathon & Half-Marathon will each receive a $5,000 and $1,000 prize, respectively.

The marathon decision to include a nonbinary category drew praise from New Jersey leading LGBT advocates.

Ensuring that competition is equitable based on gender identity is an important step toward inclusion, said Christian Fuscarino, executive director of Garden State Equality.

There is no sex definition as NONBINARY.
We have MALE and FEMALE, defined by the gametes OVA and SPERM

Hooray for the Marathons adding SEPARATE divisions on what humans want to be and not including them in what SCIENCE has defined them as what they are.

That is fairness.

You folks spend too much time obsessing on who screws who.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 04:29:02 AM: It is because they got it from their parents.

It is standard in the Christian white nationalist package.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 04:49:56 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 22, 2023, 07:08:21 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 06:48:48 PM
Rest in Hell
BuzzFeed News.

The click bait embarrassment gave up the ghost yesterday after infamously dragging most of the mainstreet media into public disfavor. The public gives the MSM only 26per cent approval since BuzzFeed was the first news site to publish the Steele Dossier that led to RussiaGate, a hoax.
Without any confirmation of the Dossier BuzzFeed explained the story was going to come out and it might as well come from it.
Bad choice.
We now know the hoax was paid for by the Democrat National Committee in the campaign of 2016 and magnified by Hillary after her humiliating loss to Trump.
BuzzFeed would have been smarter to have heeded the observation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.

In the BuzzFeed epitaph I would add the words Time Wounds All Heels.

ROFLMAO!

Russia HOAX!

From the Senate Intel Comte. With a Republican jaority

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-election-security-findings-first-volume-bipartisan-russia-report

And also

(http://images.dailykos.com/images/1181497/story_image/cognativedis.jpg?1682218820)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 23, 2023, 12:46:42 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM

There is no sex definition as NONBINARY.
We have MALE and FEMALE, defined by the gametes OVA and SPERM

Biologists may disagree with that.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 01:55:22 PM: Quote from: calibandwagon on April 23, 2023, 12:46:42 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM

There is no sex definition as NONBINARY.
We have MALE and FEMALE, defined by the gametes OVA and SPERM

Biologists may disagree with that.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
And they would be wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 02:23:00 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/23/2164833/-Making-Sure-FOX-Finds-Out-After-the-Dominion-Settlement-Do-Something (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/23/2164833/-Making-Sure-FOX-Finds-Out-After-the-Dominion-Settlement-Do-Something)

Making the right wing media places of business unfit for human occupation would be a good step for concerned citizens.

It would be great for Red as it would slow the deterioration of his failing mind if the lies that are eating him were taken off the air.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 02:36:03 PM: Biologist and Constitutional Scholar. What goes first on the resume?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 03:53:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 02:36:03 PM
Biologist and Constitutional Scholar. What goes first on the resume?
Common sense.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 03:56:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 03:53:27 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 02:36:03 PM
Biologist and Constitutional Scholar. What goes first on the resume?
Common sense.

(http://images.dailykos.com/images/1181497/story_image/cognativedis.jpg?1682218820)

Red is a dipshit and he will die a dipshit. He is still very proud of himself for the dumb he does
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 04:20:34 PM: http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413 (http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413)

The republican roster of crooks and nut jobs makes nothing but terrible policy.

That is one reason why the morgue truck is the new emblem of the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 04:59:33 PM: While this is firewalled for all without NY Times access this column about guns in the house by Nicholas Kristof is an interesting read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html?searchResultPosition=1

Kristof fails to mention bad people lurking in the shadows and thus doesn't seem to be in favor of keeping guns loaded and cocked and ready to fire at all times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 23, 2023, 05:41:58 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 23, 2023, 03:30:10 PM
DeSantis endorses Trump

Il Douchebag!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 23, 2023, 05:44:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 01:55:22 PM
Quote from: calibandwagon on April 23, 2023, 12:46:42 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 22, 2023, 10:15:07 PM

There is no sex definition as NONBINARY.
We have MALE and FEMALE, defined by the gametes OVA and SPERM

Biologists may disagree with that.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
And they would be wrong.

Look up Intersex
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 23, 2023, 07:55:07 PM: Gun violence

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 23, 2023, 08:51:14 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 04:59:33 PM
While this is firewalled for all without NY Times access this column about guns in the house by Nicholas Kristof is an interesting read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html?searchResultPosition=1

Kristof fails to mention bad people lurking in the shadows and thus doesn't seem to be in favor of keeping guns loaded and cocked and ready to fire at all times.

For all readers, a PW free screenshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230423101815/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html

I remember hearing about the Japanese tourist back in the 90s and feeling embarassed about our country's backwardness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 09:06:03 PM: Red has the perpetrators witty retort to accompany any crime. He is as smart as that tic-tack-toe chicken they used to have in China Town back in the 80s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 09:15:35 PM: Progressives nationwide have attacked police and law enforcement, alleging that our legal system is systemically racist and oppressive. They have caused recidivist criminals to haunt our streets and commit more crimes and have refused to deal with homelessness in spite of the mental illness and drug addictions that so often afflict our citiesmost vulnerable. Numerous efforts to reduce the use of drugs have been rebuffed in the name, of course, of racism.

This approach has unleashed a crime wave and diminished our sense of safety on the streets. It is, therefore, unsurprising to see ever more law abiding people seeking to arm themselves. As a result, there will be more guns out there, including in the hands of people who should never be near them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-convinced-us-to-get-a-gun-control-democrats-violent-crime-rates-safety-9d5a51d4 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-convinced-us-to-get-a-gun-control-democrats-violent-crime-rates-safety-9d5a51d4)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 01:07:20 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 23, 2023, 09:15:35 PM

Progressives. . . be near them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-convinced-us-to-get-a-gun-control-democrats-violent-crime-rates-safety-9d5a51d4 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-convinced-us-to-get-a-gun-control-democrats-violent-crime-rates-safety-9d5a51d4)

Quote from: facilitatorn on April 23, 2023, 09:06:03 PM
Red has the perpetrators witty retort to accompany any crime. He is as smart as that tic-tack-toe chicken they used to have in China Town back in the 80s.

And he is behind on his reading, as this has already been posted

http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413 (http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2023, 07:46:51 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2023, 04:59:33 PM
While this is firewalled for all without NY Times access this column about guns in the house by Nicholas Kristof is an interesting read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html?searchResultPosition=1

Kristof fails to mention bad people lurking in the shadows and thus doesn't seem to be in favor of keeping guns loaded and cocked and ready to fire at all times.

Smart guns...only the owner can fire them...no problem to have in the house.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 24, 2023, 07:58:47 AM: Certainly. Best part? You'll still be able to kill somebody if a ball rolls into your yard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2023, 08:07:45 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 24, 2023, 07:58:47 AM
Certainly. Best part? You'll still be able to kill somebody if a ball rolls into your yard.

Balls rolling into my yard would not scare me...just kids having fun, kick the ball back to them.
Gun toting thugs, like the two in a You tube video, *rolling* into my garage like they did to an American man, demanding his truck keys at gunpoint...the sun shining brightly...would scare me.
Gotta have fortress homes these days, so armed robbers can't just walk right on into one's garage.
Homes need to be built like prisons, walls, alarms, lights, outer doors and inner doors that can be opened if no one follows the vehicles thru the outer doors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 11:49:08 AM: Your prison is inescapable, Bambi. No one wants to join you in it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 01:26:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 24, 2023, 08:07:45 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 24, 2023, 07:58:47 AM
Certainly. Best part? You'll still be able to kill somebody if a ball rolls into your yard.

Balls rolling into my yard would not scare me...just kids having fun, kick the ball back to them.
Gun toting thugs, like the two in a You tube video, *rolling* into my garage like they did to an American man, demanding his truck keys at gunpoint...the sun shining brightly...would scare me.
Gotta have fortress homes these days, so armed robbers can't just walk right on into one's garage.
Homes need to be built like prisons, walls, alarms, lights, outer doors and inner doors that can be opened if no one follows the vehicles thru the outer doors.

All of the rich people in Malibu have security. You have to go through a security gate at Latigo Beach where they have armed security guards 24 hours per day. Paradise Cove also has 24 hour security with armed security guards and a security gate.

When I lived in Malibu one had to drive through 2 security gates to get to my home, with security cameras at the gates filming everyone who came in, and then we had 2 big dogs, and we had outdoor spot lights with motion detectors to spot people on our property at night, and plus I had a gun. We were very safe in Malibu.

I love Malibu, and if my movie script and poetry book are wildly successful then I will live in Malibu again, I would love to buy a house in Malibu. I felt very safe in Malibu, it is a nice, calm, mellow place.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 24, 2023, 01:32:10 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 24, 2023, 07:58:47 AM
Certainly. Best part? You'll still be able to kill somebody if a ball rolls into your yard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 02:47:50 PM: When I worked at Universal Studios then my fellow employees wanted for me to rise to the top and buy the studio, if I owned Universal Studios then I would be altruistic, and I would help the people of Hollywood. I would help the children when they are young to train for jobs in the Entertainment Industry instead of being criminals. They can study Drama and Film instead of joining gangs and going to prison.

And like I was saying on After School Programs, we can help the youth by teaching them how to make an honest living, if they become poor and desperate then they need to know how to work and how to make honest money. And with my friend who taught the youth at the High School how to install Sound Systems in cars, that is a great job, if you can install a Sound System in a Ferrari then you can make a good living. Doing Sound Systems in high end automobiles pays very well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 04:23:26 PM: Any thoughts on the current situation in Sudan?

We cannot send religious people into this conflict, Jimmy Carter would have had a lot of good thoughts, maybe we can send Oprah Winfrey to address the United Nations on the issue of Sudan.

We can also seek help from China to bring peace to all of Africa, which China is committed to, China has sent troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to make the peace on United Nations Peace Keeping Missions. China is on our team as we seek peace in the world, and as we seek peace in Africa.

And maybe Dennis Rodman can go to Sudan and plead for peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 04:24:43 PM: My house in Malibu had to be safe and we had to have security because one of my roommates was the daughter of a Chinese general.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 05:08:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 04:23:26 PM

And maybe Dennis Rodman can go to Sudan and plead for peace.

Salute,

Tony V.

You could reach out.

If he were interested would you be willing to help him set it up?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2023, 05:20:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 01:26:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 24, 2023, 08:07:45 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 24, 2023, 07:58:47 AM
Certainly. Best part? You'll still be able to kill somebody if a ball rolls into your yard.

Balls rolling into my yard would not scare me...just kids having fun, kick the ball back to them.
Gun toting thugs, like the two in a You tube video, *rolling* into my garage like they did to an American man, demanding his truck keys at gunpoint...the sun shining brightly...would scare me.
Gotta have fortress homes these days, so armed robbers can't just walk right on into one's garage.
Homes need to be built like prisons, walls, alarms, lights, outer doors and inner doors that can be opened if no one follows the vehicles thru the outer doors.

All of the rich people in Malibu have security. You have to go through a security gate at Latigo Beach where they have armed security guards 24 hours per day. Paradise Cove also has 24 hour security with armed security guards and a security gate.

When I lived in Malibu one had to drive through 2 security gates to get to my home, with security cameras at the gates filming everyone who came in, and then we had 2 big dogs, and we had outdoor spot lights with motion detectors to spot people on our property at night, and plus I had a gun. We were very safe in Malibu.

I love Malibu, and if my movie script and poetry book are wildly successful then I will live in Malibu again, I would love to buy a house in Malibu. I felt very safe in Malibu, it is a nice, calm, mellow place.

Salute,

Tony V.

Exactly.
There's no such thing as "too much security".

Pity schools, churches, hotels etc in America haven't awakened to that fact yet.
I'm sick and tired...very sick and very tired, of seeing the grieving America parents and friends of school etc shooting victims, and then the photos of the dead children/teachers etc....on my tv news screen...in full and living colour.
It's very upsetting.
And I don't even live there!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 24, 2023, 06:34:18 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 24, 2023, 05:24:32 PM
There is good news tonight

It would not surprise me if he decided to jump into the GOP primary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 06:52:49 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 24, 2023, 06:34:18 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 24, 2023, 05:24:32 PM
There is good news tonight

It would not surprise me if he decided to jump into the GOP primary.

Someone is going to a lot of meth collating the mountains of material to use against him in attack adds. Both ron and dons team will be more than happy for the refreshing change of focus and the pillowy soft target.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 24, 2023, 07:04:57 PM: Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opens up on Black on Black crime in the Windy City.
Does anyone on the left care?

I come to this conversation as a former federal prosecutor. I come to this as a former defense attorney, I am the sister of a returning resident,but I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the streets.
That is reality

What do we say to, not only the victims of crime, but the people who are terrified about crimes in their neighborhood, most of whom look like us.
If we say, yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to arrest, put a case on, and the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? We are going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again.

Lightfoot asked if somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person who just shot up their neighborhood, and then sees Pookie walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them?

You are telling them that the criminal justice system does not care about victims and witnesses.
And if we do not call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with these judges, many of whom do not live in our cities and do not care about what is happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and the residents who just want and deserve peace.

We gotta say it, she added. We gotta say it.

To the left Black onBlack crime in Chicago is just collateral damage.
Sadly, Lightfoot came to the truth after it was too late to make a difference.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 24, 2023, 08:18:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 24, 2023, 07:04:57 PM
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opens up on Black on Black crime in the Windy City.
Does anyone on the left care?

I come to this conversation as a former federal prosecutor. I come to this as a former defense attorney, I am the sister of a returning resident,but I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the streets.
That is reality

What do we say to, not only the victims of crime, but the people who are terrified about crimes in their neighborhood, most of whom look like us.
If we say, yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to arrest, put a case on, and the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? We are going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again.

Lightfoot asked if somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person who just shot up their neighborhood, and then sees Pookie walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them?

You are telling them that the criminal justice system does not care about victims and witnesses.
And if we do not call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with these judges, many of whom do not live in our cities and do not care about what is happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and the residents who just want and deserve peace.

We gotta say it, she added. We gotta say it.

To the left Black onBlack crime in Chicago is just collateral damage.
Sadly, Lightfoot came to the truth after it was too late to make a difference.

Lori Lightfoot lost to TWO democratic opponents and no matter how much she kissed Chicago PD ass the cops detested her almost as much as they detest the citizens of Chicago.

You are telling them that the criminal justice system does not care about victims and witnesses.

And that starts with the police

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/11/chicago-police-study-white-cops-more-likely-arrest-use-force/4439259001/

When it comes to cops the fish rots from the head.

Chicago FOP president John Catanzara quickly rebuked cops who knelt in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters, mocking their actions as ridiculous and threatening to expel them from the union. In January, he defended the mob of largely white Trump supporters and white supremacists who stormed the U.S. Capitol, saying they are entitled to voice their frustration.
He apologized later for the fact that his comments brought negative attention to our Lodge.

The police screwed Lighfoot and then backed the losing candidate in the mayoral runoff.
Too many suspects get released because the cops fuck up the arrests.

https://www.injusticewatch.org/news/2021/analysis-heres-how-chicagos-most-powerful-police-union-maintains-tradition-of-problematic-leadership/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 10:33:40 PM: It only took two hours for Red to become spiritually adrift, forlorn and beyond reason.

Amazing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 25, 2023, 08:12:33 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 24, 2023, 07:04:57 PM
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opens up on Black on Black crime in the Windy City.
Does anyone on the left care?
Yes. They all do. Which makes reading the rest of your post unnecessary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 25, 2023, 09:46:26 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 25, 2023, 08:12:33 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 24, 2023, 07:04:57 PM
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opens up on Black on Black crime in the Windy City.
Does anyone on the left care?
Yes. They all do. Which makes reading the rest of your post unnecessary.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 25, 2023, 09:50:44 AM: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-23/commentary-its-not-easy-being-a-green-motorist-in-california

California man discovers new system is taking time to achieve perfection!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 25, 2023, 10:05:11 AM: I chuckle when Red expresses his deep concern about violence in Chicago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 25, 2023, 10:37:27 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 25, 2023, 10:05:11 AM
I chuckle when Red expresses his deep concern about violence in Chicago.
The concern was voiced by Lori Lightfoot.
I also have family and friends in Chicago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 25, 2023, 10:50:51 AM: Point taken. As do I. I withdraw my snark.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 25, 2023, 12:05:21 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 25, 2023, 10:50:51 AM
Point taken. As do I. I withdraw my snark.

My son lives in Chicago and he campaigned for Lightfoot in 2018 and for Brandon Johnson in this election.

The snark applies!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 25, 2023, 12:12:04 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 25, 2023, 10:37:27 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 25, 2023, 10:05:11 AM
I chuckle when Red expresses his deep concern about violence in Chicago.
The concern was voiced by Lori Lightfoot.
I also have family and friends in Chicago.

He is taking about the two guys kissing in the station wagon at the end of the Blues Brothers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2023, 01:46:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2023, 05:08:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2023, 04:23:26 PM

And maybe Dennis Rodman can go to Sudan and plead for peace.

Salute,

Tony V.

You could reach out.

If he were interested would you be willing to help him set it up?

Sure, I would help in any way that I could, and I can help with speech-writing.

My friend Rhonda met Dennis Rodman and she said he is a cool guy. And he was able to help with North Korea.

Maybe Dennis Rodman can help in Sudan. That is the best use of fame, if you can use your fame to help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2023, 02:15:13 PM: I posted a message for Dennis Rodman on Facebook pertaining to the issue of Sudan, but it does not look like he goes on Facebook much.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2023, 04:17:31 PM: In order to prepare Dennis Rodman to go to Sudan then I would have him learn Healthy Conflict Resolution Skills from Dr Debra Tolar. Then, I would have Rodman study the Abolitionist Poets, as well as the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and also the speeches of John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. Rodman can also study the poetry of Maya Angelou. There is also Henry David Thoreau, and Ghandi, and others to study.

And Rodman can work together with Oprah Winfrey, Oprah is well educated and she is a master when it comes to dealing with the public. Oprah can address the United Nations and they will listen to her.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 25, 2023, 04:38:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2023, 04:17:31 PM
In order to prepare Dennis Rodman to go to Sudan then I would have him learn Healthy Conflict Resolution Skills from Dr Debra Tolar. Then, I would have Rodman study the Abolitionist Poets, as well as the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and also the speeches of John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. Rodman can also study the poetry of Maya Angelou. There is also Henry David Thoreau, and Ghandi, and others to study.

And Rodman can work together with Oprah Winfrey, Oprah is well educated and she is a master when it comes to dealing with the public. Oprah can address the United Nations and they will listen to her.

Salute,

Tony V.
Consider the possibility that if Rodman needs to learn all that he might not be the right person to send in the first place.

At least this proposal falls under "foolishly naive" rather than "horrific".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 25, 2023, 11:25:00 PM: Lori Lightfoot fallout?
Kim Foxx is not seeking reelection as Cook County(Chicago) District Attorney.
The George Soros backed lightweight is about the only person on earth to buy Jussie Smollett s faux tale of Maga induced violence against him(to save his fading acting career).
She was an insult to all decent Chicagoans by making sure criminals were treated lightly.
Good Riddance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 26, 2023, 12:06:06 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 25, 2023, 11:25:00 PM
Lori Lightfoot fallout?
Kim Foxx is not seeking reelection as Cook County(Chicago) District Attorney.
The George Soros backed lightweight is about the only person on earth to buy Jussie Smollett s faux tale of Maga induced violence against him(to save his fading acting career).
She was an insult to all decent Chicagoans by making sure criminals were treated lightly.
Good Riddance.

George Soros:

DRINK!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2023, 12:23:03 AM: (http://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/static/illinoisnazicar1.jpg)

Red and his crew, out for a good time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2023, 12:43:25 AM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/25/2165917/-TX-teacher-reprimanded-for-teaching-students-about-their-legal-and-constitutional-rights (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/25/2165917/-TX-teacher-reprimanded-for-teaching-students-about-their-legal-and-constitutional-rights)

It is not enough to get republicans fired or vote them out. You have to kick them hard a lot to stop them from causing shit like this.

Fortunately there are so many more of us than there are of them and our numerical advantage grows every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 26, 2023, 02:51:11 PM: As crime continues to rise in California, then we need to teach people how to form NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH programs in their neighborhoods.

Along with After School programs for the Youth.

We also need altruistic local companies to help our communities such as Apple.

And we need to send the Foster Youth to college for free.

We also need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency and so they can report crimes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 26, 2023, 06:50:48 PM: News Item

Competing under the name, Frank, a 54 year old trans runner finished the LONDON MARATHON in four hours, 11 minutes, and 28 seconds, according to the Daily Telegraph.
That time was good enough to place 6,160th out of the 20,123 women in the female category.
However, as the Telegraph notes, that run time would have placed Frank at the comparatively lowly 15,386th place had he been competing as a man.

Frank has volunteered to give back the medal he won and run next year only for charity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2023, 07:07:25 PM: If only you were worth a sixth of the worst trans person in the world on a bad day it would be such a big step forward for you.

Biden grows younger and more virile on the strength of your tears.

Keep em coming sad boy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 26, 2023, 09:25:08 PM: To me the really impressive part of that story is a 54 year old running 26 miles. When I was 54, I was proud that I could still WALK that distance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 01:16:31 AM: http://grist.org/accountability/supreme-court-unleashed-climate-lawsuits-against-big-oil/ (http://grist.org/accountability/supreme-court-unleashed-climate-lawsuits-against-big-oil/)

There goes Reds portfolio.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 01:41:02 AM: http://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kolfage-sentenced-prison-trump-bannon-wall-scam_n_6449691de4b0d840388c503e (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kolfage-sentenced-prison-trump-bannon-wall-scam_n_6449691de4b0d840388c503e)

More like this. There are at least a million fascists and scammers who mislabel themselves as conservative who also need three squares and a fuckton of supervision.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 02:16:32 AM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/26/2165960/-OutFoxed-Secret-Plot-to-Shut-Up-former-Mouthpiece-Tucker-Carlson-revealed (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/26/2165960/-OutFoxed-Secret-Plot-to-Shut-Up-former-Mouthpiece-Tucker-Carlson-revealed)

So many lawsuits.

Such a target rich environment over at fucked news.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 27, 2023, 04:20:27 PM: As the migrants come to the USA then it is hard, because we already have unemployed homeless people all over the streets. We need to have a plan.

First, we need to make it to where people can come here legally, they need to be legal, and we need to have an easy path to citizenship for our neighbors, etc.

And we need for our migrants to be able to join Labor Unions such as the Teamsters, and the United Farm Workers, etc.

We also need for the migrants to be able to call the police to report crimes.

And everyone can benefit from having Hostels where people can take a nice hot shower and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night like in Rome, Italy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 27, 2023, 04:54:13 PM: GOP cancel culture ascendant in Montana.

The formal punishment decided Wednesday bans Zephyr from attending or speaking during floor sessions. She will only be allowed to vote remotely in the remaining days of the legislative session. - AP
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 27, 2023, 07:37:37 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 27, 2023, 04:54:13 PM
GOP cancel culture ascendant in Montana.

The formal punishment decided Wednesday bans Zephyr from attending or speaking during floor sessions. She will only be allowed to vote remotely in the remaining days of the legislative session. - AP
And?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 09:06:51 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 27, 2023, 07:54:13 PM
Work in progress (I mean the cartoon, not the ShitHead)

The shithead is a work in progress. It is a tear down job like those Atlantic City Boardwalk shitholes once run by that sane mob.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 09:08:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 27, 2023, 07:37:37 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 27, 2023, 04:54:13 PM
GOP cancel culture ascendant in Montana.

The formal punishment decided Wednesday bans Zephyr from attending or speaking during floor sessions. She will only be allowed to vote remotely in the remaining days of the legislative session. - AP
And?

Just another day in your war on freedom.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 10:55:58 PM: I had thought it was the mountain of trump steaks he has shoved up his ass.

Could be the degree though
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 28, 2023, 12:59:19 AM: I have despised this bastard for forty years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-voter-suppression-nyc-mayor_n_644ac114e4b039ec4e83d289
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 28, 2023, 10:51:01 AM: 80 year old conservative Senator, Merv Riepe, from suburban Omaha, takes stand, sort of, for women's reproductive rights.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/south-carolina-nebraska-abortion-bill/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 28, 2023, 10:55:55 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 27, 2023, 01:16:31 AM
http://grist.org/accountability/supreme-court-unleashed-climate-lawsuits-against-big-oil/ (http://grist.org/accountability/supreme-court-unleashed-climate-lawsuits-against-big-oil/)

There goes Reds portfolio.

Alito recused himself. Some tiny shred of decency still remaining there?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 28, 2023, 12:20:06 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/28/2166405/-Why-the-GOP-May-Actually-Want-a-Second-Great-Depression (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/28/2166405/-Why-the-GOP-May-Actually-Want-a-Second-Great-Depression)

Terrorists and thieves run the GOP. They should be walled up in crypts for the public good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 28, 2023, 01:37:53 PM: The same way that the Army does Aptitude Tests to find out who the smart people are, and to find out what the potential of a person is so they know where to place them in the organization, then we need for our schools to identify the smart and talented people and then we need to fast track our smart people to the top so that they can create jobs for the people.

For instance, Tyler Perry rose to the top, and now Paramount Studios wants to sell Black Entertainment Television to Tyler Perry...

https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/tyler-perry-is-in-talks-to-buy-majority-stake-in-bet.html

Tyler Perry is creating a lot of jobs.

The United States needs to do Aptitude Tests on our students in school to find out who the smartest kids are and we need to find out what their skills are so that we can help to fast track our smart people to the top so that they can help other people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM: re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 28, 2023, 05:53:42 PM: Republicans once again demonstrate their disdain for the democratic process

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/us/north-carolina-supreme-court-gerrymander.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 28, 2023, 07:11:03 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 28, 2023, 04:57:50 PM
Update
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 28, 2023, 07:14:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.

I am starting to see a silver lining to Fox after all.

He will lose that money in the wrongful death suits that are the only possible coda to his illustrious career. It will be great not to hear his voice for a while.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 28, 2023, 08:28:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 28, 2023, 12:20:06 PM
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/28/2166405/-Why-the-GOP-May-Actually-Want-a-Second-Great-Depression (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/28/2166405/-Why-the-GOP-May-Actually-Want-a-Second-Great-Depression)

Terrorists and thieves run the GOP. They should be walled up in crypts for the public good.

Hundreds of millions of us are just pixels in a fun video game for rich capitalists.

Remember those ants Harry Lime was looking down on from the Ferris wheel?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 09:57:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Wanna try that one again? It certainly was not a reply to what I posted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:27:31 PM: From a letter to parents of fifth grade students at a school in Essex Junction, Vermont.

it is time for our science and health unit about the human body focused on puberty and the human reproductive systems. This unit will take place during the last few months of school. We will focus on the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty and briefly introduce the basic structure and function of human reproductive systems. Students will be participating in whole group discussions and have private reflection time. There will also be three interview opportunities coming home throughout the unit.

In an effort to align our curriculum with our equity policy, teachers will be using gender inclusive language throughout this unit. With any differences, we strive to use person-first la as best practice. You will see examples of this below.

We will be using the following language with students:

Person who produces sperm in place of boy, male, and assigned male at birth.

Person who produces eggs in place of girl, female and assigned female at birth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:30:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 09:57:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Wanna try that one again? It certainly was not a reply to what I posted.
Sure. Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.

Worked well that time too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:47:30 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:30:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 09:57:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Wanna try that one again? It certainly was not a reply to what I posted.
Sure. Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.

Worked well that time too.
Repeating ignorance never works well.
But suit yourself.
Here is a hint.
Murdochs are gambling on the long game which believes its viewers will stay loyal because they have few alternatives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:58:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:47:30 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:30:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 09:57:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Wanna try that one again? It certainly was not a reply to what I posted.
Sure. Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.

Worked well that time too.
Repeating ignorance never works well.
Repeating intelligent comment does not work for you. But I will try again:

Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Quote
But suit yourself.
Here is a hint.
Murdochs are gambling on the long game which believes its viewers will stay loyal because they have few alternatives.
That explains all that testimony from Faux News execs panicking because their audience was going to OAN and Newsmax.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 28, 2023, 11:02:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:27:31 PM
From a letter to parents of fifth grade students at a school in Essex Junction, Vermont.

it is time for our science and health unit about the human body focused on puberty and the human reproductive systems. This unit will take place during the last few months of school. We will focus on the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty and briefly introduce the basic structure and function of human reproductive systems. Students will be participating in whole group discussions and have private reflection time. There will also be three interview opportunities coming home throughout the unit.

In an effort to align our curriculum with our equity policy, teachers will be using gender inclusive language throughout this unit. With any differences, we strive to use person-first la as best practice. You will see examples of this below.

We will be using the following language with students:

Person who produces sperm in place of boy, male, and assigned male at birth.

Person who produces eggs in place of girl, female and assigned female at birth.

Wow.

All those fifth graders are already better educated than you will ever allow yourself to be.

It is their world. It is good to k ow they are being taught about their bodies correctly.

It may stop them from becoming like you.

If you had those lessons you may have managed to spend less of your life fucked in the head. Maybe you could have held off tuckers lascivious advances.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 11:07:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:58:19 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:47:30 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 10:30:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 09:57:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 28, 2023, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 05:15:21 PM
re: Tucker Carlson

He is still employed under contract to Fox until December of 2024 with a yearly salary of $20 million.
Fox has no thought, at this time, of letting him out of his contract until the 2024 election is over.
For obvious reasons.

After being ousted from his prime-time show at Fox News Channel, commentator Tucker Carlson is more popular than the network that fired him, especially among conservatives and Republican voters,said Rasmussen Reports, who polled 945 likely voters.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Carlson, including 36% who have a Very Favorable opinion of him.
Fox polled ar 52 per cent.
Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Wanna try that one again? It certainly was not a reply to what I posted.
Sure. Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.

Worked well that time too.
Repeating ignorance never works well.
Repeating intelligent comment does not work for you. But I will try again:

Well, of course. That is one of the things the Dominion discovery showed: Fox knows that its viewers are gullible fools who will abandon the network if Fox does not feed them comfortable lies. No wonder its viewers bolt when they axe one of their most watched professional liars.
Quote
But suit yourself.
Here is a hint.
Murdochs are gambling on the long game which believes its viewers will stay loyal because they have few alternatives.
That explains all that testimony from Faux News execs panicking because their audience was going to OAN and Newsmax.
Neither of which have the platforms to match Fox News.
Of course the Murdochs can miscalculate.
But their track record in attracting viewers is the best.
But even if OAN and Newsmax benefit it will be to the advantage of conservatives
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 29, 2023, 12:38:30 AM: "To be able to understand the world...first you have to be able to understand Mississippi".

#####

Seems to be.
Jackson could be made nice, so could the rest of the state...but there are a *million* serious problems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 29, 2023, 03:31:45 AM: The only thing of any advantage to conservatives is getting to serve long periods of incarceration.

Fortunately Fanni Willis will snatch up a few dozen and Jack Smith will snatch up a few hundred more.

It is not enough, but it is a start.

Your movement will benefit more from a total tear down that it will from shambling along as it is.

Just do not wake up to that fact until you have taken enough devastating losses that they prove fatal to everything you stand for, greed, bigotry, entitlement and all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: kidcarter8 on April 29, 2023, 10:43:02 AM: Murdochs are gambling on the long game which believes its viewers will stay loyal because they have few alternatives.

It's the KID that made the Carlson decision (and presumably Lara Trump and Dan Bongino).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 29, 2023, 11:40:43 AM: Looks like somebody had his weapon cocked and ready to fire and went ahead and did so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/)

Just a small price to pay so that everybody can have to access to weapons to kill the bad people lurking in the shadows.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 29, 2023, 02:12:11 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on April 29, 2023, 10:43:02 AM
Murdochs are gambling on the long game which believes its viewers will stay loyal because they have few alternatives.

It's the KID that made the Carlson decision (and presumably Lara Trump and Dan Bongino).

You say Murdoch is aiming to launch a fourth reich. That is good to know. Lets route some cruise missiles his way to cut him off at the pass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on April 29, 2023, 02:43:09 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 29, 2023, 11:40:43 AM
Looks like somebody had his weapon cocked and ready to fire and went ahead and did so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/)

Just a small price to pay so that everybody can have to access to weapons to kill the bad people lurking in the shadows.
A Mexican National, probably here illegally, drunkenly shooting in the darkess of the night with no purpose.
What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 29, 2023, 03:20:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 10:27:31 PM
From a letter to parents of fifth grade students at a school in Essex Junction, Vermont.
....

In an effort to align our curriculum with our equity policy, teachers will be using gender inclusive language throughout this unit....

We will be using the following language with students:

Person who produces sperm in place of boy, male, and assigned male at birth.

Person who produces eggs in place of girl, female and assigned female at birth.

I am the egg man, I am the walrus, goo goo ka-joob!

edited for minor typo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 29, 2023, 03:28:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on April 28, 2023, 11:07:05 PM

But their track record in attracting viewers is the best.
But even if OAN and Newsmax benefit it will be to the advantage of conservatives

Nope, OANUS and Newsmocks are pure spin, worse than Faux and more likely to deepen the ignorance of cons. Faux at least has had some staff who report factual material.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 29, 2023, 07:58:32 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 29, 2023, 11:40:43 AM
Looks like somebody had his weapon cocked and ready to fire and went ahead and did so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/)

Just a small price to pay so that everybody can have to access to weapons to kill the bad people lurking in the shadows.

There's no complaining to neighbours these days...this is what can happen.
There's no telling neighbours "NO".
*Everyone* today has a short fuse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 29, 2023, 08:34:32 PM: Swimmer Riley Gaines attacked, barricades self from transgender rights activists
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 29, 2023, 10:44:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 29, 2023, 07:58:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 29, 2023, 11:40:43 AM
Looks like somebody had his weapon cocked and ready to fire and went ahead and did so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/)

Just a small price to pay so that everybody can have to access to weapons to kill the bad people lurking in the shadows.

There's no complaining to neighbours these days...this is what can happen.
There's no telling neighbours "NO".
*Everyone* today has a short fuse.

It is just the terrorism you have been advocating for for years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 02:30:46 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 29, 2023, 10:44:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 29, 2023, 07:58:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 29, 2023, 11:40:43 AM
Looks like somebody had his weapon cocked and ready to fire and went ahead and did so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/)

Just a small price to pay so that everybody can have to access to weapons to kill the bad people lurking in the shadows.

There's no complaining to neighbours these days...this is what can happen.
There's no telling neighbours "NO".
*Everyone* today has a short fuse.

It is just the terrorism you have been advocating for for years.

Wisdom dictated that the victim family should've stayed right way from the gun-firing 'not normal behaviour, and armed with a gun' neighbour.
Family would've been better off dealing with the woken baby and the noise than complaining.
You should be able to ask your neighbours to please stop with the noise. but the fact is that today you can't, without possible serious consequences.

Neighbours...baaah!
You never know who's living next door...best to avoid neighbours like the plague.
Stay right way from them, pretend they don't exist.

An American couple left their German Shepherd dog Humphrey in their back yard and went out.
While they were away a plumber from Beijing who was staying with their neighbours next door killed and ate Humphrey.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 30, 2023, 12:29:18 PM: My number one radio host just told me puppies are the main ingredient in Australian cuisine.

I am training my beautiful little pit-bull to bite anyone with an Australian accent as preemptive defense.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 30, 2023, 02:08:14 PM: The Bible says to love our neighbors, but it also says to avoid hanging out with evil people, so we are allowed to choose the good people whom we can love. The Bible also says to do good deeds for all people, but especially for other Christians.

When I first moved into my apartment here in Anaheim I was able to pass out a truck load of free ice cream to my neighbors on a hot summer afternoon. A diesel truck pulled up, and the driver asked me if I wanted to pass out free ice cream to my neighbors, and I told him that the children would love it, and me and my Uncle Dennis passed out free ice cream to the whole neighborhood.

Then, later on I threw a party here at my apartment complex with a live band and with free mahi mahi tacos for everyone, and the owner of the complex bought pizza for everyone.

I am trying to love my neighbors. They all speak Spanish where I live, the children know English and they go to school, but the parents all speak Spanish. We need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police to report crimes, I need for my Spanish speaking neighbors to be able to report crimes, I do not want for them to be afraid to call the police if we need help in our neighborhood.

And we need Church buses in every neighborhood to take everyone to Church on Sunday, and we can meet our Christian friends at Church on Sunday. In my neighborhood I can walk to the Calvary Chapel Open Door, which is one of the churches featured in the movie "Jesus Revolution" and I hope the homeless people would start going to Church on Sundays, and I want for the Christians to help our homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 30, 2023, 03:12:21 PM: In the movie "The Godfather" Corleone refused to allow the bad guys to sell heroin in New York City, he told them that if he was cool then everyone would love him, but if he started selling heroin then everyone would hate him, so Corleone refused to allow the bad guys to sell heroin.

We need to teach the good people how to make honest money so that they do not have to be criminals. And we need to teach the children at a very young age that they can work at a career that they choose and that they can have great lives and they do not need to do bad things to make money.

And with Colombia, they are learning that they can sell Coffee and be LOVED around the world for great coffee, instead of being hated for selling cocaine and getting people addicted. If Colombia sells cocaine then it pisses us off, we do not want the cocaine, but if the Colombians sell wonderful coffee then I support them and I buy their coffee. Colombia can sell great coffee to Australia and the Australians will love the Colombians.

We need to teach people that they have a choice in life, and we need to teach them very young that they can work to make honest money and that they do not need to be criminals in order to survive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 30, 2023, 05:02:37 PM: Here is a story that should be taught to all youth...

When I was a teen I painted houses for an old Hippy from Hawaii, and he was always giving me books to read, and he was always trying to teach me good things. Here is a story about how to handle being homeless in Hawaii.

If you are homeless in Hawaii and if you are hungry, do not steal fruit off of people's trees or they will hate you, instead knock on their door and tell them that you are hungry, but you are homeless and do not have any money, and the people in Hawaii will give you free fruit off of their trees, and they will feed you, and they will help you. You never know, the person might own a restaurant where you can get a job, etc.

The moral of the story is that if you need help, then ask for help, do not steal from people. If you steal then they will hate you, but if you ask for help then they will help you and they will bring you into their community.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 07:13:50 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 30, 2023, 09:50:37 AM
Note to self:

So great to see the meaning of neighbor redefined in the dictionary and
reinterpreted in the Bible on Sunday morning.

Such wisdom, such idiocy, such hypocrisy by one who considers himself
a devout Christian. Split personality, dumb and dumber, take your pick.

Go next door and complain to bikies/criminal gangs that they're making too much noise and see what happens to you.
Allow your children to bang, bang, bang a basket ball against the heaboard on your house in the diveway for hours, annoying your neighbour/s, you'll likely get a reaction...maybe in a bad way...especially in America.
If I remember correctly a man in Hawaii shot a neighbour over a continually bouncing ball.
Suburbia is for peace and quiet...but not everyone understands.
If neighbours are obeying noise laws, then people annoyed by bouncing balls, loud parties etc should invest in some good noise-cancelling headphones.
..instead of shooting, stabbing, or fighting with neighbours.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 09:18:14 PM: Lecture?
Never.

3rd party comment?
Yes, given the 174 mass shootings in America this year so far.
All appearing on my tv screen...photos of the victims.
...and this forum being open to the global village.

See, the problem in America is the guns.
But there's that Amendment to get past before assault rifles can be banned.
In NY there seems to be rigid regulation around ownership, registration, and carry/open carry of guns...but not the same in all states.

In my world:

hoops dot com dot au/ forum

'Anonymous':

Agro Neighbours- "Stop Bouncing That Ball"

Recently my grumpy old neighbour has been yelling at me when I've been practicing basketball in the backyard " stop bouncing that bloody ball!"
Surely I have the right to bounce a basketball in my own backyard.
I might point out that I haven't been practicing at night time or early in the morning. He's even got his 3 and 4 year old daughters yelling over the fence whenever they hear bouncing.

#####

No guns...just yelling.
In America...guns, and shooting.
Fact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 30, 2023, 09:32:47 PM: FACT: You keep advocating more and more guns for Americans, cocked and ready to fire for their are bad guys lurking in the shadows.

FACT: It's not the bad guys lurking in the shadows getting shot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 09:38:23 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 30, 2023, 07:58:37 PM
To the little ignorant worm who lives in a hole in the ground.
In America, of which you have no real knowledge, 83% of 330 million
People live in Urban areas. Those who live in a wasteland of a continent,
with what 25 million? , are hardly in a position to lecture Americans about
Good Neighbor policy or anything else for that matter.
Go back into your hole, you worthless worm.

The good neigbours who engaged their neighbour with a noise complaint were shot dead
Had they not done so, they'd still be alive.

My point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 09:47:46 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 30, 2023, 09:32:47 PM
FACT: You keep advocating more and more guns for Americans, cocked and ready to fire for their are bad guys lurking in the shadows.

FACT: It's not the bad guys lurking in the shadows getting shot.

That's because the good guys are not carrying guns, ready to fire if guns are pointed at them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 01:28:31 AM: The amendment does not have to be gotten past. It just has to be read correctly, as it was for our first two hundred years, even by the NRA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:41:36 AM: So, in San Francisco...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...
...Reparations are being considered:
. Payment of $5m to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and homes in San Francisco for just $1 per family.
An estimate from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, has said it would cost each non-Black family in the city at least $600,000.
Allegedly would cost $140 billion...when city's budget is $14 billion.
Wazzat, leftist accounting?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 03:08:00 AM: Posts like that are why you will never break the cycle of poverty contained in your skull.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 03:21:33 AM: What about all the poverty-riddled, homesslessness-riddled, starving, White communities in America?
They never had a chance either.
They weren't/aren't even on the bottom rung of the ladder, they're still on the ground.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 03:34:43 AM: Start your education here , Bambi

http://youtu.be/GrYRPLy6g2g (http://youtu.be/GrYRPLy6g2g)

When you have watched it twice let me know if you still have questions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 04:06:12 AM: A quick defamation suit against Fox, and Lordy there are tapes, will net San Fran all it needs for reparations and clean energy and deescalation services and free health care for several generations. It will even send the next several hundred thousand asylum seekers through local colleges and universities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 05:52:59 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 03:34:43 AM
Start your education here , Bambi

http://youtu.be/GrYRPLy6g2g (http://youtu.be/GrYRPLy6g2g)

When you have watched it twice let me know if you still have questions.

Interesting.
Guns beat spears and the rich and powerful enslaved the poor and powerless.
It has ever been so.

Thomas Jefferson enslaved more than 600 people.
George Washington was an enslaver for 56 years.
American heroes...work that out.

Fast forward to today...Reparations.
"Why should non-Black people in San Francisco today who didn't enslave anyone be paying money to Black people in San Francisco today who were never enslaved"?...is a question being asked.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 01, 2023, 08:35:30 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 30, 2023, 09:47:46 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 30, 2023, 09:32:47 PM
FACT: You keep advocating more and more guns for Americans, cocked and ready to fire for their are bad guys lurking in the shadows.

FACT: It's not the bad guys lurking in the shadows getting shot.

That's because the good guys are not carrying guns, ready to fire if guns are pointed at them.

One doesn't need to have a Harvard degree to shake their heads at this kind of "thought" process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM: A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 11:49:16 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
LOL!
How dare the kid have a point, let alone be scientifically correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:25:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 11:49:16 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
LOL!
How dare the kid have a point, let alone be scientifically correct.
How dare the school have a point, let alone be Constitutionally correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 12:33:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:25:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 11:49:16 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
LOL!
How dare the kid have a point, let alone be scientifically correct.
How dare the school have a point, let alone be Constitutionally correct.
You seem a little confused. In this case the school ignores both the Constitution and Science.
But the student honors both.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:48:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 12:33:19 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:25:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 11:49:16 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
LOL!
How dare the kid have a point, let alone be scientifically correct.
How dare the school have a point, let alone be Constitutionally correct.
You seem a little confused. In this case the school ignores both the Constitution and Science.
But the student honors both.
You are wrong on all three sentences. But no more fish for you today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 01, 2023, 01:25:28 PM: Bambu, where I am at one third of our people are foreign born, and the majority of citizens here are Latino. The best way to help the people to climb the ladder here is to make them legal citizens so that they can own property here, etc. The number one industry here in Anaheim is Tourism, and we receive 50,000 tourists per day, so if the people can become legal, and if they can figure out some way to make money from the Tourism such as from a restaurant or from a hotel, etc, then the people can start climbing the ladder. Restaurants are a popular way for new immigrants to start climbing the ladder.

When my dearly departed friend Lisa first came to America from the Philippines, she opened a night club in Los Angeles named "Manila Gardens" and her club was a huge success. She was very wealthy and she spent her whole life helping the homeless. She was born wealthy, from the Banana Industry. She helped a lot of people, including me. And she was friends with Suzanne Pleshette, which was cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 01:33:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:48:11 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 12:33:19 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 12:25:52 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 11:49:16 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 11:37:41 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 10:37:58 AM

A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from school after he refused to change his T-shirt that said, There are only two genders.

Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, said he was taken out of gym class on March 21 and met with school staff who told him people were complaining about the statement on his shirt and that it made them feel unsafe, They told me that I wasn't in trouble, but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father,

He offered his explanation during a Middleborough School Committee meeting on April 13.

I was told I was targeting a protected class and was a disruption to learning.
Who is this protected class?
Are their feelings more important than my rights?
I do not complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.
I was told that the shirt was a disruption to learning. No one got up and stormed out of class.
No one burst into tears.
I am sure I would have noticed if they had.
I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?
I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view.
I learned that adults do not always do the right thing or make the right decisions.
I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words.Even at 12 years old.
I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.
12 is a little too young to be such a smug, self righteous, solipsistic little prick. But just the right age to have a RedDick level of nuanced understanding of Constitutional law. Which is to say, none whatsoever.
LOL!
How dare the kid have a point, let alone be scientifically correct.
How dare the school have a point, let alone be Constitutionally correct.
You seem a little confused. In this case the school ignores both the Constitution and Science.
But the student honors both.
You are wrong on all three sentences. But no more fish for you today.
Well. Happy fishing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 01:37:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 05:52:59 AM
Fast forward to today...Reparations.
"Why should non-Black people in San Francisco today who didn't enslave anyone be paying money to Black people in San Francisco today who were never enslaved"?...is a question being asked.

That is why San Francisco should take the money from an Australian owned criminal fascist corporation that should not be allowed to exist in any form, namely news corp.

That answers your question.

I am glad you watched the video.

Now you have been to London! Good on ya mate!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 01:39:21 PM: Red needs to stop making that Gollum noise in his throat if he wants people to take him seriously.

Rightwing politics is ugly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM: Rupert Murdoch is American.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:14:29 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 01:39:21 PM
Red needs to stop making that Gollum noise in his throat if he wants people to take him seriously.

Rightwing politics is ugly.

Not as ugly as Leftwing politics...in particular the radical Left and the violent left.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on May 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM
Rupert Murdoch is American.

In the limited sense that he gave up Australian citizenship in the mid-80s to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 03:50:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:14:29 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 01:39:21 PM
Red needs to stop making that Gollum noise in his throat if he wants people to take him seriously.

Rightwing politics is ugly.

Not as ugly as Leftwing politics...in particular the radical Left and the violent left.
You will swallow anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 06:06:55 PM: Quote from: calibandwagon on May 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM
Rupert Murdoch is American.

In the limited sense that he gave up Australian citizenship in the mid-80s to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.
Nothing limited about it. He is an American Citizen and has been for 38 years
ThevFCC rule against foreign ownership of US tV stations was repealed 10 years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 06:38:39 PM: Quote from: calibandwagon on May 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM
Rupert Murdoch is American.

In the limited sense that he gave up Australian citizenship in the mid-80s to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.

Which makes him solely American.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 06:47:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 06:38:39 PM
Quote from: calibandwagon on May 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM
Rupert Murdoch is American.

In the limited sense that he gave up Australian citizenship in the mid-80s to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.

Which makes him solely American.
Which makes him an American citizen. He is still Australian in the same way my wife is still Polish, even if you are embarrassed to claim him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 06:52:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 06:47:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 06:38:39 PM
Quote from: calibandwagon on May 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 02:08:16 PM
Rupert Murdoch is American.

In the limited sense that he gave up Australian citizenship in the mid-80s to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.

Which makes him solely American.
Which makes him an American citizen. He is still Australian in the same way my wife is still Polish, even if you are embarrassed to claim him.
Fish not biting today? Better luck tomorrow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 06:58:32 PM: Red is still processing losing three seats on the Supreme Court at once.

Shonda
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 07:01:41 PM: Political cause T shirts in schools?

Simple solution...school uniforms for all students...kindergarten to high school graduation...as in my world.
Every child wears the uniform.
Poor? Genuinely can't afford the uniform?
No worries...parents can trade in/donate uniforms no longer required, to the uniform pool.
The school/Education Dept makes sure, one way or another, every child has the uniform to wear.
Not a national flag shirt, pride shirt, message shirt etc in sight.
No slippers, no flip flops, only the regulation school uniform including black shoes, and hat (sunburn and skin cancer prevention).
No underwear as outerwear, no tights as pants, only proper dresses or skirts and blouses.
No jewellery, no bling contents.
No revealing attire...and in general girls' skirts and dresses are of a respectable length.
No gender message shirts, no gender wars.
...just peaceful, quiet learning.
Aaaaah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 01, 2023, 07:15:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 07:01:41 PM
Political cause T shirts in schools?

Simple solution...school uniforms for all students...kindergarten to high school graduation...as in my world.

Schools are not like your Bund Meetings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 01, 2023, 07:47:17 PM: Since I give him a hard time for everything he writes, I think it's only fair to note that I agree with Bambu (albeit in a far less harsh and judgmental fashion) with his advocacy of school uniforms.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 01, 2023, 08:17:18 PM: Fox News poll reports 61% of Americans favor ban on AR-style assault weapons. I had expected our members who suckle at the Fox teat to post this last Thursday, but perhaps they were hiding under their desks or beds.

https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-voters-favor-gun-limits-arming-citizens-reduce-gun-violence

School uniforms seem like one of those solutions that would have particular usefulness where you have kids from multiple socioeconomic backgrounds attending a school. Sort of a social equalizer that might reduce distraction and deepening class divides.TBH, an issue where I'd need to know more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 08:40:07 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 01, 2023, 01:25:28 PM
Bambu, where I am at one third of our people are foreign born, and the majority of citizens here are Latino. The best way to help the people to climb the ladder here is to make them legal citizens so that they can own property here, etc. The number one industry here in Anaheim is Tourism, and we receive 50,000 tourists per day, so if the people can become legal, and if they can figure out some way to make money from the Tourism such as from a restaurant or from a hotel, etc, then the people can start climbing the ladder. Restaurants are a popular way for new immigrants to start climbing the ladder.

When my dearly departed friend Lisa first came to America from the Philippines, she opened a night club in Los Angeles named "Manila Gardens" and her club was a huge success. She was very wealthy and she spent her whole life helping the homeless. She was born wealthy, from the Banana Industry. She helped a lot of people, including me. And she was friends with Suzanne Pleshette, which was cool.

Salute,

Tony V.

Restaurants?
*All* I see are restaurants closing in the West.
What I see flourishing are Maccas [McDonalds], KFC, Hungry Jacks, etc drive thrus [full from daylight til late darkness], some 24 hours.
Also home deliveries, everything from fancy food to pizza.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 01, 2023, 08:59:02 PM: Guys, don't forget: Tony knew Suzanne Pleshette.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 01, 2023, 09:43:35 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 01, 2023, 08:59:02 PM
Guys, don't forget: Tony knew Suzanne Pleshette.
Who would not want to know Suzanne Pleshette?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:02:58 PM: Sky News;

"Texas shooting suspect had been deported 4 times".

Just waltzed back in.
Oh wouldn't it be just fabulous if the borders were sealed.
Walls, fences, military patrols, solar lights, razor wire, cameras, deep and wide moats...etc.
Honestly, cheap labor is just not worth it.
Open borders are a major menace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM: Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:30:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.

Instead of arriving on my shores by boats, they're now flying in on student/holiday/work visas etc and claiming asylum.
85% have been rejected, but only a very small number have actually been deported...reportedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:32:16 PM: Donald has just arrived in Scotland [wonder if he's staying permanently?]

Upon arrival he's quoted as saying "It is great to be home".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:37:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 03:21:33 AM
What about all the poverty-riddled, homesslessness-riddled, starving, White communities in America?
They never had a chance either.
They weren't/aren't even on the bottom rung of the ladder, they're still on the ground.

Those assholes voted GOP.

They deserve their fate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:39:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 01, 2023, 08:17:18 PM
Fox News poll reports 61% of Americans favor ban on AR-style assault weapons. I had expected our members who suckle at the Fox teat to post this last Thursday, but perhaps they were hiding under their desks or beds.

https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-voters-favor-gun-limits-arming-citizens-reduce-gun-violence

School uniforms seem like one of those solutions that would have particular usefulness where you have kids from multiple socioeconomic backgrounds attending a school. Sort of a social equalizer that might reduce distraction and deepening class divides.TBH, an issue where I'd need to know more.

In DC uniforms were regulation for elementary and middle schools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:41:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:02:58 PM
Sky News;

"Texas shooting suspect had been deported 4 times".

Just waltzed back in.
Oh wouldn't it be just fabulous if the borders were sealed.
Walls, fences, military patrols, solar lights, razor wire, cameras, deep and wide moats...etc.
Honestly, cheap labor is just not worth it.
Open borders are a major menace.

Woulda been nice if he could not get his hands on multiple firearms.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:42:47 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.

The Texas massacre shooter killed that family, kids.
Fours times he'd reportedly been deported.
Really makes a mockery of the immigration system.
The 'boys and girls' at the US/Canadian border crossings and airports do a great job policing the US immigration rules.
So polite, so efficient, so protective.

At the other end of the country though, the officers try hard too, but are seriously let down by the "open borders" mentality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:43:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:42:47 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.

The Texas massacre shooter killed that family, kids.
Fours times he'd reportedly been deported.
Really makes a mockery of the immigration system.
The 'boys and girls' at the US/Canadian border crossings and airports do a great job policing the US immigration rules.
So polite, so efficient, so protective.

At the other end of the country though, the officers try hard too, but are seriously let down by the "open borders" mentality.

It is the guns
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:46:49 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:41:40 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:02:58 PM
Sky News;

"Texas shooting suspect had been deported 4 times".

Just waltzed back in.
Oh wouldn't it be just fabulous if the borders were sealed.
Walls, fences, military patrols, solar lights, razor wire, cameras, deep and wide moats...etc.
Honestly, cheap labor is just not worth it.
Open borders are a major menace.

Woulda been nice if he could not get his hands on multiple firearms.

Indeed...any firearms.
Texas needs to seriously review its gun laws...but the bad people will always have guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:57:08 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 01, 2023, 10:43:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:42:47 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.

The Texas massacre shooter killed that family, kids.
Fours times he'd reportedly been deported.
Really makes a mockery of the immigration system.
The 'boys and girls' at the US/Canadian border crossings and airports do a great job policing the US immigration rules.
So polite, so efficient, so protective.

At the other end of the country though, the officers try hard too, but are seriously let down by the "open borders" mentality.

It is the guns

No guns...they set your house on fire.
I say...'Gotta watch the neighbors very closely'.

Iowa man sets neighbor's house on fire because they did not mow his lawn.

Investigators said Lee Bowman, 53, of Sioux City, admitted that he was upset because he had asked his neighbors on Saturday to mow his lawn, and on Sunday they still had not cut the grass, KPTH reported.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM: Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 10:58:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM

Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
Getting that is easy peasy. Just rob someone at gun point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 10:59:15 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison
You got in first.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:47:44 AM: The coronation of King Charles is on May 6.
Sat 8pm AEST (Aust Eastern Standard Time).
Perfect time for me to watch live.

Sparlkle won't be attending.
One less problem.

My Constitutional Monarchy...the best system for Australia.
A system that has served Australia well since independence and federation in 1901.

The gold carriage that will take King Charles to his Coronation at Westminster Abbey is superb, made by Jim Frecklington in Australia.
Despite the ornate exterior, the Diamond Jubilee State Coach is based on an aluminium chassis and has electric windows, hot and cold air conditioning, and hydraulic suspension.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 11:49:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?
There you go. Armed robbery. You will get all the security you want. And deserve.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 11:50:18 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:47:44 AM
The coronation of King Charles is on May 6.
Sat 8pm AEST (Aust Eastern Standard Time).
Perfect time for me to watch live.

Sparlkle won't be attending.
One less problem.

My Constitutional Monarchy...the best system for Australia.
A system that has served Australia well since independence and federation in 1901.

The gold carriage that will take King Charles to his Coronation at Westminster Abbey is superb, made by Jim Frecklington in Australia.
Despite the ornate exterior, the Diamond Jubilee State Coach is based on an aluminium chassis and has electric windows, hot and cold air conditioning, and hydraulic suspension.
He does not need a gold carriage. He needs a tumbril.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 12:00:00 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 11:50:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:47:44 AM
The coronation of King Charles is on May 6.
Sat 8pm AEST (Aust Eastern Standard Time).
Perfect time for me to watch live.

Sparlkle won't be attending.
One less problem.

My Constitutional Monarchy...the best system for Australia.
A system that has served Australia well since independence and federation in 1901.

The gold carriage that will take King Charles to his Coronation at Westminster Abbey is superb, made by Jim Frecklington in Australia.
Despite the ornate exterior, the Diamond Jubilee State Coach is based on an aluminium chassis and has electric windows, hot and cold air conditioning, and hydraulic suspension.
He does not need a gold carriage. He needs a tumbril.

lol
Sorry, that would not be comfortable...and remember..."comfortable is *king*".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 12:17:28 PM: Some residents in my retirement village say they feel like they're living in a prison.
I love the gates, fences, and electronic toggles needed to access all areas, including pedestrian entry into the village.
Makes me feel about as safe as possible in my circumstances.
The security is not absolute, but better than nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 02, 2023, 12:46:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 11:50:18 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:47:44 AM
The coronation of King Charles is on May 6.
Sat 8pm AEST (Aust Eastern Standard Time).
Perfect time for me to watch live.

Sparlkle won't be attending.
One less problem.

My Constitutional Monarchy...the best system for Australia.
A system that has served Australia well since independence and federation in 1901.

The gold carriage that will take King Charles to his Coronation at Westminster Abbey is superb, made by Jim Frecklington in Australia.
Despite the ornate exterior, the Diamond Jubilee State Coach is based on an aluminium chassis and has electric windows, hot and cold air conditioning, and hydraulic suspension.
He does not need a gold carriage. He needs a tumbril.

Yup.

http://youtu.be/jHdrtxw-pGQ (http://youtu.be/jHdrtxw-pGQ)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 02, 2023, 12:48:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 12:17:28 PM
Some residents in my retirement village say they feel like they're living in a prison.
I love the gates, fences, and electronic toggles needed to access all areas, including pedestrian entry into the village.
Makes me feel about as safe as possible in my circumstances.
The security is not absolute, but better than nothing.

You should think of it more as an internment camp to contain undesirables.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 02, 2023, 01:03:29 PM: If you are not for summary executions of "illegals" you are for open borders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 02, 2023, 02:13:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 01, 2023, 10:42:47 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
Do it to your house. Tell us how it goes.

The Texas massacre shooter killed that family, kids.
Fours times he'd reportedly been deported.
Really makes a mockery of the immigration system.
The 'boys and girls' at the US/Canadian border crossings and airports do a great job policing the US immigration rules.
So polite, so efficient, so protective.

At the other end of the country though, the officers try hard too, but are seriously let down by the "open borders" mentality.

The United States is a Sanctuary Nation with a Statue of Liberty inviting the refugees from around the world.

And luckily we have the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 so that all people in America have an equal shot for a job and housing. We also have Labor Unions to help the poor people to get paid a fair wage and to have good treatment, a Mexican Immigrant has the same rights as a Canadian Immigrant when it comes to Unions.

I live down here by the border with Mexico, Mexico is only 100 miles away from here, and I have been to Mexico to help orphans with Youth For Christ, and I love Mexico. And Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico.

Just because there are criminals in the world does not mean that Mexico is bad or that Mexicans are bad.

The way to help Mexico is with education, libraries, trade, investments in the ports in Mexico, allowing the Mexican Truckers who drive in the USA to join the Teamsters, and Christians can help in Mexico the way I did as a teen when I was in Youth For Christ, the young Christians can help in Mexico.

And we need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police to report crimes.

Mexico is great and the Mexicans are great, they just need help. And my Grandmother went to Mexico to open Gold Mines and she helped to bring paved roads, running water, telephones, electricity, radio, television, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico, she loved Mexico.

Sad about the Texas shooter, but you cannot blame all Mexicans for what one bad man did.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 02:51:47 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are , a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Please explain what you mean, exactly...as I don't understand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 05:50:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?

Ever wonder why everyone in prison wants out?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 06:49:00 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?

Ever wonder why everyone in prison wants out?

Sure, must be horrible...
...but in my world you have a remote...and at the push of a button the gates open and you just walk or drive out.
You can stay out all night too, there's no roll call.
All week, all month etc...just like living on the outside.
Peace, love, harmony, and friendship are encouraged on 'the inside'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 07:15:47 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 06:49:00 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?

Ever wonder why everyone in prison wants out?

Sure, must be horrible...
...but in my world you have a remote...and at the push of a button the gates open and you just walk or drive out.
You can stay out all night too, there's no roll call.
All week, all month etc...just like living on the outside.
Peace, love, harmony, and friendship are encouraged on 'the inside'.
Oh, I am sure the people on the inside would show you love.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 07:58:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 02, 2023, 07:15:47 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 06:49:00 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 04:26:03 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Defend my family?
Not allowed to have guns, so I got us into a villa in a gated community with security night patrols...'crim safe' locks and metal screens on windows and doors.
The Village owns the villa, we own the money.
Given free rein I would have fences, gates, alarms, bright lights.
In your book my credibility was never way up anyway. lol

Sounds like you wanna live in a prison

Indeed.
Ever tried breaking into a prison and attacking the residents?

Ever wonder why everyone in prison wants out?

Sure, must be horrible...
...but in my world you have a remote...and at the push of a button the gates open and you just walk or drive out.
You can stay out all night too, there's no roll call.
All week, all month etc...just like living on the outside.
Peace, love, harmony, and friendship are encouraged on 'the inside'.
Oh, I am sure the people on the inside would show you love.

Indeed.
Exactly why I'm totally committed to not breaking any laws.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 02, 2023, 08:24:56 PM: We have come a long way since the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894. People used to work hard just to get deeper in debt, guys like Eugene V. Debs helped to make things better. And labor leaders like Jimmy Hoffa, and Cesar Chavez. Then we also had good Presidents like FDR. We have come a long way in the USA. Now we need to teach Mexico and Colombia and El Salvador and the Philippines, and others, what we learned.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 02, 2023, 09:09:04 PM: Beyond the hoodie

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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 10:28:44 PM: More than 11,000 TV and film writers strike over wages in the US

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Often it's the only way to get an increase.
Just gotta be careful not to strike one's way out of a job, though.
It basically has to be 'all in'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 02, 2023, 10:29:10 PM: I went through a dark period for a while where I felt worthless, I could not get a job, and I just felt like a bum, so I joined Kiwanis International, and I was able to meet the City Council and many local business owners, and I was able to meet the Chief of Police, etc, and we all worked to improve our community. The best way to pull out of depression is to join a charity group and get busy helping other people. Kiwanis International is global, and everyone is welcome to join. And right now there is a huge need for help because of the problems in Ukraine.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 02, 2023, 10:32:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 10:28:44 PM
More than 11,000 TV and film writers strike over wages in the US

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Often it's the only way to get an increase.
Just gotta be careful not to strike one's way out of a job, though.
It basically has to be 'all in'.

The writers are the smartest people in Show Business. Right now they cannot even afford a 2 Bedroom house in Burbank for the average writer.

There is a movie "The Last Tycoon" which warns the Producers not to mess with the Writers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 10:41:37 PM: Today marks "World Press Freedom Day" - SkyNews.

Lovely.
I'd be very, very careful from where I tried to exercise this freedom...and what exactly I did, said and wrote.
One can wind up dead or imprisoned for life.

Aussie Julian Assange was just shown in a video clip during the segment about this Day.
He was holding his Gold Medal. Then put it around his neck.

2011
The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its Gold Medal for peace with justice to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.

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There are US politicians who wish to put Julian Assange in one of their chambers of death...walk him in alive, then wheel him out dead.
He should not have messed with US national security, US military classified docs/info....and put lives at risk...that was a very bad thing to do...he should've known better.
The People don't have the right to know everything.
No death chamber for Julian Assange...no death chamber for anyone. Prison sentences should be the only penalty.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 03, 2023, 01:51:56 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 02:51:47 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are , a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Please explain what you mean, exactly...as I don't understand.

You keep saying your nation is weak, undefended and perpetually immanently at risk yet you have not attempted to enlist in your armed services to defend her. For shame!

I now have a hard time believing you are ever sincere about anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 06:10:06 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 03, 2023, 01:51:56 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 02, 2023, 02:51:47 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 01, 2023, 11:05:24 PM
Bambu you are , a lazy hypocrite and a coward. You will not even defend your own family such as it is.

Your credibility is way down in my book. Way down.

Please explain what you mean, exactly...as I don't understand.

You keep saying your nation is weak, undefended and perpetually immanently at risk yet you have not attempted to enlist in your armed services to defend her. For shame!

I now have a hard time believing you are ever sincere about anything.

lol
The country doesn't need me, an elderly man with a bad heart and poor eyesight, in the armed forces...it needs nuclear weapons in the armed forces.
Ready to fire at the first sign of attack ones.

At a conference today a woman shouted at my Defence Minister:
"We don't need nuclear subs, Marles, we want hospitals and public housing."
Yes, the old "chestnuts"..."schools, hospitals, and public housing".
Seems everyone wants a free house these days.

Number of unemployed in bambuworld on the dole 921,000.
Record job vacancies...
. Cleaning
. Cafes
. Farms
etc

The term "job snobs" is being used.
Left seems not big on forcing unemployed folk into work.
Unemployed folk vote.
Seems to be intent on importing migrants to fill the vacant jobs instead.

*

If they get desperate I could work for the armed forces from home...firing missiles.
Punch the codes in and 'fire'...using the computer they would install for me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 03, 2023, 06:14:25 PM: On the issue of making our trains safe, Metrolink needs to hire guards from Homeboy Industries, the guys from Homeboy need the jobs, and when I worked at The Broadway department store in Pasadena we used to hire former gang members to work security for us and they did a great job.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 08:54:14 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 03, 2023, 06:14:25 PM
On the issue of making our trains safe, Metrolink needs to hire guards from Homeboy Industries, the guys from Homeboy need the jobs, and when I worked at The Broadway department store in Pasadena we used to hire former gang members to work security for us and they did a great job.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good idea.
The 'knock em down, drag em out, shoot em if necessary' style tough guys would be best to hire. Shooting as a last resort of course.
There's too much pussy-footing around with violent thugs in the West today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 10:22:14 PM: Mass shooting at medical centre in Atlanta.
Obviously there have to be physical barriers preventing people from just walking into medical centres and killing/severely wounding innocent people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 03, 2023, 10:55:55 PM: Are there such barriers in Australia?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 11:32:59 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 03, 2023, 10:55:55 PM
Are there such barriers in Australia?

No.
But, in general the People in cities are not armed with guns, no handguns or assault rifles legally available to them.
...there isn't a mass shooting in the country nearly every day.

There are such barriers at airports.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 03:33:03 AM: You could have used a school or a mental hospital at some point in your life, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 03:50:21 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 03:33:03 AM
You could have used a school or a mental hospital at some point in your life, Bambi.

There'll continue to be a mass shooting every other day until people start taking security seriously
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 07:16:53 AM: If by "taking security seriously" do you mean things like "physical barriers preventing people from just walking into medical centres and killing/severely wounding innocent people"? Because you conceded that Astralia doesn't have such things and yet mass shootings don't happen. Perhaps there's another element involved in mass shootings here. An element you continually refuse to acknowledge because of your ridiculous desire to see everyone armed lest they encounter bad purple lurking in the shadows or making sure that yards are kept free from stray soccer balls. Don't you think that doing more about the proliferation of weapons should constitute an element of "taking security seriously"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 08:10:50 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 07:16:53 AM
If by "taking security seriously" do you mean things like "physical barriers preventing people from just walking into medical centres and killing/severely wounding innocent people"? Because you conceded that Astralia doesn't have such things and yet mass shootings don't happen. Perhaps there's another element involved in mass shootings here. An element you continually refuse to acknowledge because of your ridiculous desire to see everyone armed lest they encounter bad purple lurking in the shadows or making sure that yards are kept free from stray soccer balls. Don't you think that doing more about the proliferation of weapons should constitute an element of "taking security seriously"?

Guns in America are going nowhere, maybe assault rifles...the Second Amendment isn't going anywhere either.
Maybe stricter licencing, purchasing, and registration of gun owners and the guns might help, but probably not a lot.

Good Americans, male and female, do need guns to protect themselves from the "bad people."

Jan 10 2023 abc news by Emily Shapiro

Mom fatally shoots home invader to protect her 2 kids: Sheriff

The intruder was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench, authorities said.

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51 yr old Robert Rheams allegedly forced his way into a woman's home in Hammond around 5am.
Rheams was on parole at the time of the home invasion after spending about 20 years in prison for armed robbery, according the the sheriff's office.
Rheams also allegedly committed a car-jacking hours before the home invasion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 04, 2023, 08:16:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 11:32:59 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 03, 2023, 10:55:55 PM
Are there such barriers in Australia?

No.
But, in general the People in cities are not armed with guns, no handguns or assault rifles legally available to them.
...there isn't a mass shooting in the country nearly every day.
Why is that?(
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM: "Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 08:44:14 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 04, 2023, 08:16:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 11:32:59 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 03, 2023, 10:55:55 PM
Are there such barriers in Australia?

No.
But, in general the People in cities are not armed with guns, no handguns or assault rifles legally available to them.
...there isn't a mass shooting in the country nearly every day.
Why is that?(

There used to be massacres, crazies with assault rifles..."The Hoddle St Massacre", "The Strathfield Massacre", "The Port Arthur Massacre".
Oct 1996 - Sept 1997 auto/semi auto guns banned...buyback and amnesty saw 650,000 guns confiscated.
New Zealand didn't do the same, ...hence the "Christchurch massacre" was able to happen in recent time.
Then NZ acted.

No 2nd Amendment in my world...the govt makes laws in the parliament, and you do as you're told, or else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 09:08:35 AM: So "dead kids happen" is your mantra. Just say so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 02:11:42 PM: A Korean Couple in New York City received a fond farewell from Broadway as they retired and closed their deli...

https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20230502/4127719/1

Restaurants are one main way that immigrants in America get started and begin to climb the ladder. And then the immigrants use their restaurants to earn money to send their children to college, etc, and they climb the ladder.

Here in Beverly Hills when a new Jewish couple comes to America from Israel, if they are poor then the Jewish community will help them to open a Jewish Deli, or whatever, sandwich shops are an easy way to start climbing the ladder.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 02:15:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 03, 2023, 08:54:14 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 03, 2023, 06:14:25 PM
On the issue of making our trains safe, Metrolink needs to hire guards from Homeboy Industries, the guys from Homeboy need the jobs, and when I worked at The Broadway department store in Pasadena we used to hire former gang members to work security for us and they did a great job.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good idea.
The 'knock em down, drag em out, shoot em if necessary' style tough guys would be best to hire. Shooting as a last resort of course.
There's too much pussy-footing around with violent thugs in the West today.

The Metrolink hired guards who were hiding in their cars instead of guarding the trains, they need to hire guards who will be grateful for the job, and who will not be afraid to guard the trains. The people from Homeboy Industries need the jobs bad, they are desperate, and they are not afraid to guard the trains.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 03:52:29 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/4/2167467/-Kaepernick-Funding-Secondary-Autopsies-For-Families-To-Find-Causes-of-Police-Related-Deaths (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/4/2167467/-Kaepernick-Funding-Secondary-Autopsies-For-Families-To-Find-Causes-of-Police-Related-Deaths)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 04, 2023, 04:27:52 PM: I hate Daily Kos articles. I keeep getting directed to a web site dedicated to ending the hunting of wolves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 04:56:14 PM: Usually an add they run under their banner.

It helps to use reader view.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 06:02:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.

Could stick your ass any higher in the air for the fascists?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 06:39:47 PM: From the Kap article,

CBS News recently reported that Kaepernick launched an initiative in 2022 to help families with free, secondary autopsies through his Know Your Rights Camp organization. The initiative collaborates with a panel of board-certified forensic pathologists who perform autopsies, disclose preliminary findings and issue final reports to requesting families.

At the time of its launching Kaepernick said We know that the prison industrial complex, which includes police and policing, strives to protect and serve its interests at all costs. The Autopsy Initiative is one important step toward ensuring that family members have access to accurate and forensically verifiable information about the cause of death of their loved one in their time of need.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, pathology coordinator, said: I am extremely enthusiastic about this truly unique program. The opportunity to have unbiased second autopsies performed by independent, experienced forensic pathologists in police-related deaths will provide victims families with knowledge that the true facts of any such case have been thoroughly analyzed and prepared for appropriate utilization whenever deemed necessary.

Coincidentally, the Autopsy Initiatives announcement of a secondary autopsy for Thompson came just days after the death of Harry Belafante, the racial justice activist and brilliant entertainer, who had often professed his support for Kaepernick.

Commenting on Kaepernicks actions Belafonte stated Historically, those who benefit from the oppression of others have always tried to silence dissent. When a black person raises their voice in protest against oppression, those who are complicit in that oppression are often the first to criticize. Kaepernick
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 07:45:07 PM: I want for California to be nice like Florida. I do not want a culture of cops and criminals and prisons. I want a culture of Christians and Church buses, And we can hire the homeless people to wash the sidewalks and we can hire the former criminals to work doing security to keep our immigrants safe.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 08:18:04 PM: Maybe Emelio Estevez can be BIG like John F. Kennedy, and Emelio marched with Cesar Chavez and he showed his loyalty for the down-trodden. Emelio can improve relations with Mexico, and with Colombia, and with El Salvador, etc.

Maybe Emelio Estevez can run for President of the United States in 2024. But, he better get busy studying, with Dr Debra Tolar, and with others. He needs to study if he wants to go into Politics.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:00:14 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 06:02:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.

Could stick your ass any higher in the air for the fascists?

What are your achievable now solutions to end the mass shootings?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 10:31:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:00:14 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 06:02:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.

Could stick your ass any higher in the air for the fascists?

What are your achievable now solutions to end the mass shootings?

Make it harder to procure a weapon
Require liability insurance
Ban all semiautomatic assault weapons for civilian use. No grandfather clause for AR style weapons.

It is a start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 04, 2023, 11:32:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:00:14 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 06:02:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.

Could stick your ass any higher in the air for the fascists?

What are your achievable now solutions to end the mass shootings?

Treat right wing groups like every other form of international terrorist. Break their power, scatter their networks and seize their resources.

Easy peasy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 05, 2023, 03:57:23 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akb73/alex-jones-would-like-you-to-know-he-was-brutally-pranked-by-a-guy-pretending-to-be-tucker-carlson (http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akb73/alex-jones-would-like-you-to-know-he-was-brutally-pranked-by-a-guy-pretending-to-be-tucker-carlson)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 05, 2023, 07:51:26 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 10:31:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:00:14 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on May 04, 2023, 06:02:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 04, 2023, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 04, 2023, 08:22:33 AM
"Maybe"? You're the "absolute security" freak and yet you continually ignore the one constant in all the mass murders. Because people have to protect their yards from stray soccer balls.

I'm all for people continuing to have the right to defend themselves. And yet for every one of those stories that you can post about somebody shooting a bad guy to protect their kids or themselves, I can post 5 stories about those weapons being used in ways that have nothing to do with "killing bad people lurking in the shadows."

The right to defend themselves...means guns.
Florida...well over 1.3 million people with a valid concealed weapons permit.
One out of every five firearms sold is an AR-Style rifle.
Americans now own an estimated 15 million AR-15s...gun groups say.
Gun owners vote...I can't see US politicians banning handguns and/or assault rifles anytime soon.

So that leaves good security measures needed to foil mass shooters.

Could stick your ass any higher in the air for the fascists?

What are your achievable now solutions to end the mass shootings?

Make it harder to procure a weapon
Require liability insurance
Ban all semiautomatic assault weapons for civilian use. No grandfather clause for AR style weapons.

It is a start.
I'm not sure why somebody who has to defend himself against bad guys lurking in the shadows needs to be burdened by such niceities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 05, 2023, 08:59:55 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 07:45:07 PM
I want for California to be nice like Florida. I do not want a culture of cops and criminals and prisons. I want a culture of Christians and Church buses, And we can hire the homeless people to wash the sidewalks and we can hire the former criminals to work doing security to keep our immigrants safe.

Salute,

Tony V.
Jesus have you ever BEEN to Florida? 80% of the state, geographically, is a combination of meth heads, alligators and the banjo guy from Deliverance, post retirement, coupled with the highest STD rate in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 05, 2023, 09:22:33 AM: Now, some would argue that Mississippi has the highest level of STD in the country, but, first, Tony has no firm grasp of facts when it comes to Florida, so why should I and second, I am not referring to the whole state, but rather that swampy dark hearted interior, where for instance the CDP The Villages has the second highest STD rate in the country, right behind Battle Mountain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 05, 2023, 02:47:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 05, 2023, 08:59:55 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 04, 2023, 07:45:07 PM
I want for California to be nice like Florida. I do not want a culture of cops and criminals and prisons. I want a culture of Christians and Church buses, And we can hire the homeless people to wash the sidewalks and we can hire the former criminals to work doing security to keep our immigrants safe.

Salute,

Tony V.
Jesus have you ever BEEN to Florida? 80% of the state, geographically, is a combination of meth heads, alligators and the banjo guy from Deliverance, post retirement, coupled with the highest STD rate in America.

Sad, Florida was great when I went there with the Space Shuttle Program in 1978 as a kid, and then I went back in 1991 to Orlando and to Cocoa Beach, and it was great. The women in Florida always seemed more open and friendly than the women in California, the women in California are more concerned with money and power, etc. If I lived in Florida I would probably have a wife.

Now in California, crime is rising big time, and everyone wants to be a gangster. We are rich, there is no reason for crime. If people need help then all that they have to do is to ask for help and then we will help them. They do not need to join gangs and they do not need to sell drugs and they do not need to commit crimes, we need to teach the people young that we are rich and that if they need help then all that they have to do is to ask for help. And we need to have a Wellness Center in every community where people can get help.

My Cousin in Oregon said Oregon is bad now with homelessness and illegal drugs, and a friend in Washington said Seattle is bad now with drugs and homelessness, it is bad all over I guess. The best we can do at this point is to open Wellness Centers in every community, and we need to get our people into housing and we need to get them medical help and mental help, etc.

And I want for the Churches to all welcome the homeless people like in the movie "Jesus Revolution" and also Youth For Christ can help the orphans in Mexico, etc. The Christians need to help people, part of being a Christian is doing service to help other people.

My home town was ruined by meth and drugs and crime and all of the bad people from Los Angeles moved to Lancaster because of cheap housing, so now they call my home town a ghetto. But, my home town was nice as a kid, and we built the Space Shuttles and other cool stuff, we never considered my home town to be a ghetto when I grew up there. And it was only a short drive to Malibu to the beach, etc. And the Antelope Valley has a great Community College. And now they have the Lancaster Performing Arts Center which is nice, my home town is improving. And good things are happening in Mojave, etc.

The main way to start helping our people here in Los Angeles, as well as in Portland, and in Seattle, etc, is to build Wellness Centers and to help people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 05, 2023, 03:46:49 PM: Well Tony, based on everything you have posted here about women i have no doubt you would be more likely to find a wife in Florida, though you might have even better luck in Kabul. Or a home for retired strippers in Battle Mountain Nevada.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 05, 2023, 04:23:13 PM: I like the Italian women the best, it would be nice to have a good Catholic woman from Italy.

I have a friend who joined the United States Navy and they stationed him in Naples, Italy, and he spent 4 years in Naples, he married a beautiful woman in Naples and brought her back to his home in Santa Monica, and then he gets a free education because he served in the military, so he is going to study to be an Archeologist and then they are going to move back to Italy and he is going to be an Archeologist in Italy. He is a cool guy and he is living his best life.

I met a beautiful woman at a Coffee Shop in Rome, Italy, I was there for 6 weeks and I went to her for my morning coffee everyday. But, she did not speak English and I could not speak Italian, but I enjoyed seeing her for coffee everyday.

If I owned a night club in Rome, Italy, then I could find a good wife in Italy.

Of note in Florida, a lot of rich people from New York City move to Florida, and I always loved the Italian-American women from New York. Marisa Tomei is a beautiful woman from New York, she was great in "My Cousin Vinny."

I am sure the crime will be reduced here in the USA, people want the American Dream and they do not want crime. And as Mayor Bass helps the homeless, etc, and as we build Wellness Centers, etc, then I am sure the crime will be reduced.

And California has beautiful women but the women want someone who will make them a star, and who will shower them with wealth. It is hard for a poor man to get a date in Hollywood. But Hollywood is great if you are successful.

"...And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which before he had only in fantasy, wealth, honor, and the love of women. " From Sanford Meisner who got it from Freud.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 03:07:23 AM: Happy Coronation Day!

The new Christian King has been crowned.
Long live the King.
God save the King.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 06, 2023, 01:12:08 PM: Banjo kid is still living in Georgia and working at a Walmart.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 06, 2023, 01:19:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 03:07:23 AM
Happy Coronation Day!

The new Christian King has been crowned.
Long live the King.
God save the King.

I liked him better when he was Green.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 06, 2023, 01:22:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 03:07:23 AM
Happy Coronation Day!

The new Christian King has been crowned.
Long live the King.
God save the King.

Meghan should be there with Harry and their family.

And instead of making money from airing their dirty laundry in public, Harry and Meghan should do Charity Work, they can produce Charity Balls and Galas and Parties to raise money for Charity. One good Charity that they can support here in Hollywood is Children of the Night which helps children who are homeless on the streets of Hollywood, Children of the Night saves children from child sex trafficking, etc, and from bad people who prey on our children. Children of the Night is a great Charity which Harry and Meghan could support.

https://www.childrenofthenight.org/history

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 01:40:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 06, 2023, 01:19:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 03:07:23 AM
Happy Coronation Day!

The new Christian King has been crowned.
Long live the King.
God save the King.

I liked him better when he was Green.

He'll still be green..."a leopard never changes its spots".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 06, 2023, 01:50:09 PM: Harry and Meghan can throw a Party on Oscar Night in Hollywood, like "Night of 100 Stars" that Norby Walters used to produce, and they can raise money for Children of the Night. They can throw the party at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, and they can have an outdoor bar at MacArthur Park, etc.

Harry and Meghan can also throw a Party at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France to raise money for Children of the Night in Hollywood.

A Prince and an Actress, they should be able to throw good parties, they can raise money for Charity by partying and socializing and by having fun.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 06, 2023, 07:52:45 PM: America is welcome to them.
Hope they and their kids have happy lives in America.
If they can raise money for charity and help disadvantaged people in America then that will be good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 07, 2023, 08:32:34 AM: Another mass shooting in Texas. I wonder if the victims were evil-doers lurking in the dark.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 09:14:50 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 07, 2023, 08:32:34 AM
Another mass shooting in Texas. I wonder if the victims were evil-doers lurking in the dark.

Shooter reportedly dressed in tactical gear.
Just walked right on in to the mall and shot people dead, including little kids...and wounded others.
No real security, no physical staged entry point barriers...metal detectors, bullet proof screens, armed guards.
"The shadows" can be broad daylight...in this case 3.30pm.
Shooter was indeed lurking, waiting to pounce. "Security-careless" enabled him.
So sad...those innocent people murdered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 07, 2023, 10:58:44 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 09:14:50 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 07, 2023, 08:32:34 AM
Another mass shooting in Texas. I wonder if the victims were evil-doers lurking in the dark.

Shooter reportedly dressed in tactical gear.
Just walked right on in to the mall and shot people dead, including little kids...and wounded others.
No real security, no physical staged entry point barriers...metal detectors, bullet proof screens, armed guards.
"The shadows" can be broad daylight...in this case 3.30pm.
Shooter was indeed lurking, waiting to pounce. "Security-careless" enabled him.
So sad...those innocent people murdered.
Texas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 11:20:57 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 07, 2023, 10:58:44 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 09:14:50 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 07, 2023, 08:32:34 AM
Another mass shooting in Texas. I wonder if the victims were evil-doers lurking in the dark.

Shooter reportedly dressed in tactical gear.
Just walked right on in to the mall and shot people dead, including little kids...and wounded others.
No real security, no physical staged entry point barriers...metal detectors, bullet proof screens, armed guards.
"The shadows" can be broad daylight...in this case 3.30pm.
Shooter was indeed lurking, waiting to pounce. "Security-careless" enabled him.
So sad...those innocent people murdered.
Texas.

Yes...and instead of tightening gun laws, Texas slackened them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 07, 2023, 02:48:20 PM: Texas, like Florida is run by looters, terrorists and the criminally insane. You can easily spot them by how they mix up and combine the flag and the cross.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 07, 2023, 08:58:23 PM: It is so hard to unravel Christian and con game in America,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 09:47:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 07, 2023, 08:58:23 PM
It is so hard to unravel Christian and con game in America,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline)

Horrid.

The past is set in stone...the future is ours to own.

It's all been unravelled.
A bright light has been shone.
Govt regulation, legislation and strict policing are the answers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 07, 2023, 11:17:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 07, 2023, 09:47:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 07, 2023, 08:58:23 PM
It is so hard to unravel Christian and con game in America,

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline)

Horrid.

The past is set in stone...the future is ours to own.

It's all been unravelled.
A bright light has been shone.
Govt regulation, legislation and strict policing are the answers.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 08, 2023, 01:14:15 AM: California is soon going to be a leader in Lithium Mining.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-lithium-industry-develops-for-electric-vehicle-battery-needs-60-minutes-2023-05-07/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 08, 2023, 12:57:30 PM: Scoreboard Update!

Good Guy With Gun 2
Lurkers 0 (Actually MINUS 1)

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/ (https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 08, 2023, 12:58:26 PM: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/8/2168137/-We-Already-Have-the-Law-to-Get-Weapons-of-War-Off-Our-Streets (http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/8/2168137/-We-Already-Have-the-Law-to-Get-Weapons-of-War-Off-Our-Streets)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 08, 2023, 01:35:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 08, 2023, 12:57:30 PM
Scoreboard Update!

Good Guy With Gun 2
Lurkers 0 (Actually MINUS 1)

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/ (https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/)
You're welcome to keep track of that scoreboard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 08, 2023, 02:23:08 PM: Someone needs to make "The American Dream" magazine to educate the immigrants from Latin America as they come to the USA.

The magazine can tell the immigrants how to come to the USA legally, and the magazine can be funded by charging Immigration Lawyers money to advertise them to the immigrants with ads in the magazine.

The magazine can tell the immigrants where the dying towns are where the cheap empty housing is available, and the magazine can tell the immigrants what opportunities are available in each area, etc, and it can tell the immigrants about the places to learn English and about where to study and where the good schools are in each area, etc.

There can also be articles teaching the immigrants about the history of the Labor Movement in the USA, and about the United Farm Workers, and about the Teamsters, etc. And there can be the contact information for the Unions in each area for the immigrants.

There can also be the contact information for Kiwanis International and other good groups which the people might want to join and support, and also if they need help they need to know who to contact.

Charlotte Casiraghi does a free magazine about the fashion industry, etc, and someone could do a free magazine for the immigrants from Latin America who are coming to the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 08, 2023, 02:30:45 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 08, 2023, 01:35:54 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 08, 2023, 12:57:30 PM
Scoreboard Update!

Good Guy With Gun 2
Lurkers 0 (Actually MINUS 1)

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/ (https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/murfreesboro-homeowner-not-facing-charges-after-killing-one-intruder-injuring-another/)
You're welcome to keep track of that scoreboard.
I do. You will never catch up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 08, 2023, 02:38:43 PM: Okay. Have fun with your toys.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 08, 2023, 03:40:31 PM: The Printing shop which does my headshots for acting also does magazines, they are great. The name is Select Graphics and Printing in Garden Grove, California.

https://www.selectgp.com/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 08, 2023, 05:48:42 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 08, 2023, 02:38:43 PM
Okay. Have fun with your toys.

Red wants nothing to do with the scoreboard. It only emphasizes what miserable failures anyone ever attached to his philosophy has ever been,

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-greg-abbott-gun-violence_n_645877ece4b0ff22e37b5be7 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-greg-abbott-gun-violence_n_645877ece4b0ff22e37b5be7)

Everything is bigger in Texas including your chances of being shot in the face by some trigger happy republican.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 08, 2023, 10:01:42 PM: Baby steps

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-house-panel-passes-bill-raise-age-buy-certain-assault-style-rifles
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 09, 2023, 05:18:52 AM: In Australia today, people are pulling their own teeth out with pliers.
People are starving themselves to be able to feed their children.
Rents are doubling for some people.
"We have gone from feeding the homeless to feeding the hungry"..."the working poor cannot afford rent, power prices, fares etc and food, so now they're lining up at our place for a meal or half a plate of food." -
Rev Bill Crews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 09, 2023, 08:25:58 AM: Speaking of food,
People in America are reportedly pushing back at the price of food at McDonald's.
I am, in my world...the price of food at McDonald's is now out of my price range.

The young staff at McDonald's in my world have to clean the toilets.
The public in my world are dirty pigs, not all of them, but very many are...the toilets at the McDonald's I liked to go to were so disgustingly unbearable we had to stop going there.
No way I'd be letting a young daughter, or son for that matter, of mine work at that company and have to clean public toilets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 09, 2023, 08:59:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 09, 2023, 08:25:58 AM

The young staff at McDonald's in my world have to clean the toilets.

Who do you think cleans them elsewhere?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 09, 2023, 09:52:33 AM: Why do Bambu's gloomy latrine reflections remind me of Triangle of Sadness? (will put up a review in Film thread, if anyone is interested)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 09, 2023, 10:25:18 AM: the air in Oslo, Norways capital, is measurably cleaner. The city is also quieter as noisier gasoline and diesel vehicles are scrapped. Oslo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 09, 2023, 02:14:11 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 09, 2023, 08:59:55 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 09, 2023, 08:25:58 AM

The young staff at McDonald's in my world have to clean the toilets.

Who do you think cleans them elsewhere?

Don't know.
I do know who should be cleaning them...contract cleaners.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 09, 2023, 03:00:19 PM: It would get you out of the house and give you some exercise. I will happily serve as your reference, Bambi. Nice to see you showing some ambition.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 09, 2023, 05:30:25 PM: Hey, Billo!

Maybe there just is no shit to find?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3E3rNBrBc
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 09, 2023, 09:07:28 PM: Was that Bill or Putins twelfth best body double? It is hard to spot the difference.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 10, 2023, 03:35:41 AM: Is it irresponsible for men in their late seventies to be fathering children?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 10, 2023, 01:02:21 PM: Since you are a child in your late seventies, for you it would be irresponsible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 10, 2023, 02:11:41 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 10, 2023, 01:02:21 PM
Since you are a child in your late seventies, for you it would be irresponsible.
Actually, any attempt by him to reproduce at any age would be irresponsible and should as a matter of public policy be prohibited.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 10, 2023, 05:00:25 PM: Just a reminder in light of yesterdays verdicts and tonights spectacle

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-presidential-debates/trump-planned-debate-stunt-invited-bill-clinton-accusers-rattle-hillary-n663481
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 10, 2023, 08:34:26 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 10, 2023, 05:00:25 PM
Just a reminder in light of yesterdays verdicts and tonights spectacle

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-presidential-debates/trump-planned-debate-stunt-invited-bill-clinton-accusers-rattle-hillary-n663481

#####

No surprise, the war continues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 10, 2023, 08:52:53 PM: Your little war on sanity, yeah. I expect you will defend that huge trench between you and reality with your dying breath.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 10, 2023, 11:07:19 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 10, 2023, 08:52:53 PM
Your little war on sanity, yeah. I expect you will defend that huge trench between you and reality with your dying breath.

Well really, what do people expect...that they're going to mock and attack Trump and Republicans / the Right 24/7/365 and there's not going to be a 'war'?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 10, 2023, 11:26:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 10, 2023, 11:07:19 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on May 10, 2023, 08:52:53 PM
Your little war on sanity, yeah. I expect you will defend that huge trench between you and reality with your dying breath.

Well really, what do people expect...that they're going to mock and attack Trump and Republicans / the Right 24/7/365 and there's not going to be a 'war'?

A little historical perspective

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 10, 2023, 11:27:17 PM: I expect this country not to engage in a war to defend a serial liar and sexual abuser.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 11, 2023, 10:50:23 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 10, 2023, 11:26:33 PM

A little historical perspective

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

Reading this, it struck me again how often it is the most privileged people, the most sheltered from what is reality for millions, who love to tell you sternly what "nature" is like and pontificate endlessly on their deep grasp of reality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 12:58:38 PM: BBC tv studio, Coronation night...woman commented that the balcony (Royal Family) was all White.

Well there would've been one Black face there, but...you know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 11, 2023, 01:16:42 PM: Seems like Bambi wanted to treat the most recent post by Oilcan as a prompt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 11, 2023, 01:18:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 12:58:38 PM
BBC tv studio, Coronation night...woman commented that the balcony (Royal Family) was all White.

Well there would've been one Black face there, but...
Her husband's appalling, racist shit show of a family, who in a just world even had they managed to escape beheading in the 18th century should have at least been tossed onto the trash heap of history at the close of the Great War with the rest of the Czars, Kaiser and Emperors, have made her life with them a nightmare and made her persona non grata at any public display of their awfulness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 11, 2023, 03:11:21 PM: Just because your inlaws happen to be fucktards does not mean you have to endorse them by showing up every time they have some silly event.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 07:33:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 11, 2023, 01:18:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 12:58:38 PM
BBC tv studio, Coronation night...woman commented that the balcony (Royal Family) was all White.

Well there would've been one Black face there, but...
Her husband's appalling, racist shit show of a family, who in a just world even had they managed to escape beheading in the 18th century should have at least been tossed onto the trash heap of history at the close of the Great War with the rest of the Czars, Kaiser and Emperors, have made her life with them a nightmare and made her persona non grata at any public display of their awfulness.

"What Sparkle wants, Sparkle gets" didn't work out for them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 07:44:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 11, 2023, 01:18:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 12:58:38 PM
BBC tv studio, Coronation night...woman commented that the balcony (Royal Family) was all White.

Well there would've been one Black face there, but...
Her husband's appalling, racist shit show of a family, who in a just world even had they managed to escape beheading in the 18th century should have at least been tossed onto the trash heap of history at the close of the Great War with the rest of the Czars, Kaiser and Emperors, have made her life with them a nightmare and made her persona non grata at any public display of their awfulness.

Well, in the real world, what else should they have expected ...after their Oprah interview...and his book and all the other stuff they've said and done.
Lies is one word that's being used.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 11, 2023, 08:35:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 07:44:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 11, 2023, 01:18:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 12:58:38 PM
BBC tv studio, Coronation night...woman commented that the balcony (Royal Family) was all White.

Well there would've been one Black face there, but...
Her husband's appalling, racist shit show of a family, who in a just world even had they managed to escape beheading in the 18th century should have at least been tossed onto the trash heap of history at the close of the Great War with the rest of the Czars, Kaiser and Emperors, have made her life with them a nightmare and made her persona non grata at any public display of their awfulness.

Well, in the real world, what else should they have expected ...after their Oprah interview...and his book and all the other stuff they've said and done.
Lies is one word that's being used.

Kaching is another word.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 09:46:47 PM: Luckily they have the King they do, bambuKing would've stripped their titles and waved them goodbye ... permanently.

Wise women advising men on Youtube are telling them to be prepared to walk from relationships if their rules/boundaries are broken...and to declare these boundaries very clearly.
. No continuing to be out clubbing with girlfriends like a single woman on the prowl.
. No contacting exes.
. No discussing bedroom/relationship/family life with anyone.
. No cheating.
. No lying of any kind...including about the cost of dresses, shoes etc.
. No excessive spending.
. No screaming at partner. No abusing him or any staff.
. No disclosing family finances to anyone.
. Honesty only allowed.
. No bad language in public.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 12, 2023, 09:34:45 AM: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/12/media/oklahoma-pbs-oeta-reliable-sources/index.html

The light of civilization goes dimmer in Oklahoma, as RW fascists suckle at Kevin Stitt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 12, 2023, 10:45:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 11, 2023, 09:46:47 PM
Luckily they have the King they do, bambuKing would've stripped their titles and waved them goodbye ... permanently.

Wise women advising men on Youtube are telling them to be prepared to walk from relationships if their rules/boundaries are broken...and to declare these boundaries very clearly.
. No continuing to be out clubbing with girlfriends like a single woman on the prowl.
. No contacting exes.
. No discussing bedroom/relationship/family life with anyone.
. No cheating.
. No lying of any kind...including about the cost of dresses, shoes etc.
. No excessive spending.
. No screaming at partner. No abusing him or any staff.
. No disclosing family finances to anyone.
. Honesty only allowed.
. No bad language in public.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/prince-harry-stories-came-members-151150747.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 12, 2023, 11:24:16 AM: In its latest course catalog, Evanston Township High School (Chicago)
offered two AP calculus classes for racial affinity groups. The first was restricted to students who identify as Latinx.The second was open only to students who identify as black.

The Wall Street Journal reports a 2017 Equity Report for the school district said the District leadership team attributes the racial predictability of achievement and disciplinary outcomes to institutional racism.
According to data from Wirepoints, a Chicago think tank, 32% of 8th grade students are reading at grade level, while 100% of district teachers are rated as excellent or proficient on the Illinois Report Card from the state Board of Education.

So the teachers are great but the students are still failures?
As the WSJ concluded
Who would have thought that, nearly 70 years after SCOTUS unanimously outlawed school segregation progressives would endorse separate but equalto cover for educational failure?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 12, 2023, 02:38:58 PM: If you had ever passed math or reading you would have made a better post. Instead you fall under the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 12, 2023, 03:10:09 PM: We have 16 Million vacant houses in the USA where the refugees and homeless can live.

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/16-million-homes-vacant-in-us

If you fill the homes full of beds then you can house many people, you can put 2 beds in each bedroom and you can get a lot of people into housing.

And we need to make our immigrants legal, so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so that they can join Labor Unions, etc.

We also need to set up classes to teach the refugees how to speak English, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 12, 2023, 03:50:47 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 12, 2023, 03:35:39 PM
Losers of the Week

Bunch of witches being rounded up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 12, 2023, 04:00:50 PM: The family that prays together slays together

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/lori-vallow-daybell-guilty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 12, 2023, 04:09:42 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 12, 2023, 03:50:47 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on May 12, 2023, 03:35:39 PM
Losers of the Week

Bunch of witches being rounded up.

A good start with hopefully thousands more GOP fraudsters to follow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 12, 2023, 07:08:25 PM: Some of the immigrants have a really hard life, I met 2 immigrants today at a friend's store, they just hitch-hiked up from Mexico today, and although Mexico is only 100 miles away they looked very tired, all that they were traveling with was the clothes on their backs, no money, no food, no idea where they were going, they could not speak English, the poor guys have it rough. They were pan-handling to get money for food and for a few beers while they talked with the local Spanish speaking people here about where the opportunities are and where to find work, etc. America was built by strong people like these immigrants. All I had was a dollar on me, so I gave them a dollar and wished them luck.

Someone needs to make a magazine in Spanish to give information to these immigrants from Latin America about the United Farm Workers, and about the Teamsters, and we need to let them know where the jobs and housing are, and where to learn English, etc. The Immigration Lawyers can pay for the magazines and the Immigration Lawyers can place advertisements in the magazines. Select Graphics and Printing in Garden Grove, California, will make magazines for people at a fair price if someone wants to make a magazine to pass out to the immigrants.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 12, 2023, 11:37:52 PM: What I learnt from 'Audit the Audit' videos on Youtube about driving a motor vehicle in America and the behaviour of cops in traffic stops.

What I learnt:
. Get a camera in your vehicle and record everything.
. Do not speed.
. Do not text while driving.
. Do have all the lights on your vehicle working properly.
. Never use weed or any illegal drug if you're ever going to drive a motor vehicle.
The question the cops will ask you is:
"When was the last time you used weed"?
"I can't remember" is the *wrong* answer. It gives the cops an invitation to arrest you for suspected DUI, even if you blow zero on the alco meter.
"Never" is the wise answer, which you should/need to be able to prove.
. Always have licence, registration, and insurance ready to produce immediately, without fumbling... and have a separate copy in your bag and another at home.
. If in your state you are not required to consent to a sobriety test, do not submit to one.
. Do not give passing cops the finger, if pedestrian or driving.
. Do not call cops "idiots", respect the uniform.
. Do not answer cops' questions":
"Where are you going to?"
"Where are you coming from?"
*
Cops' next question, if you tell them you're coming from a friend's house could be.
"Did you use weed at your friend's house tonite?"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 12, 2023, 11:48:55 PM: Just make sure you are never in a position to use that information. Stay in your penal colony please.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 13, 2023, 12:38:26 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 12, 2023, 11:48:55 PM
Just make sure you are never in a position to use that information. Stay in your penal colony please.

50,000 convicts makes you a penal colony too.
It's wise information.
What gives with American cops trying to prosecute people for things they don't do?

I don't have such trouble at traffic stops...no 1st, 4th, etc Amendment rights arguments roadside, no calling for a supervisor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 13, 2023, 01:15:36 AM: I am recollecting the mighty flow of information regarding the quirks and peculiarities that riddle our legal and justice and penal systems that has passed before your eyes here over the years and wonder how you can ask such vague and vacuous questions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 13, 2023, 06:16:41 AM: If I lived in America I'd be saying "Defund the Police".

Loveland Colorado.."incentivised policing"...get heaps of DUI arrests and you get rewards and a nice (fake)gold cup like at the horse races. Never mind if they're false arrests.
You can then put that on your Facebook page, hero cop...LOL.
In the YouTube video, a White man pilot has been arrested, handcuffed roadside, taken to the police station, forced to undertake a breath test, result reading zero, cop not happy, forces him to take a blood test, result zero, charged with DUI, big leather strap tied around him and he handcuffed to that.
His life ruined.
Sarah Schielke, Civil Rights attorney tells all about it, legal action taken, police chief quietly resigned, then employed in Arizona as a police chief.
Nothing much ever happens to the false arrest cops.

Defund the police!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 13, 2023, 11:13:14 AM: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/giant-phallus-shaped-iceberg-floating-in-conception-bay-surprises-residents-of-dildo-canada

Are there any store/business names in that town that contain the town name that would not be risible? We need a penetrating analysis from our forum experts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 13, 2023, 03:12:38 PM: Dildo should think of renaming itself after the iceberg.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 14, 2023, 12:55:50 PM: (https://www.scienceforums.net/uploads/monthly_2023_05/Trump_Scrabble.jpg.cbd8004e76a9153f1be912cebb020560.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 14, 2023, 04:31:02 PM: The aerospace industry brings about forty billion dollars per year to the Antelope Valley, my hometown.

https://labusinessjournal.com/special-reports/special-report-aerospace-up-up-and-away/

We need to nurture our communities, and we need to stop the needless crime and problems.

In my hometown some assholes flooded the town with meth and got all of the people addicted, then they started locking them in a prison which was built right in the middle of my hometown, it was all a result of neglect by the community.

But, people can bounce back from the meth epidemic, etc, most of the addicts are dead now from their hearts going out from too much meth. Hopefully the next generation learns to just say "NO!" to drugs. The fuckers now are selling fentanyl and heroin to our people, the mother fuckers, one pill can kill an innocent teen, we need to teach the children to say no. We need to spend some time teaching our children, and making films to show our children, and television shows on PBS, etc. We need to bring back the "After School Specials" on television for the children to watch after school that teaches them important things that kids need to learn.

The Antelope Valley has a fantastic community college, with wonderful professors.

And it is only about 60 miles away from Malibu, it is a short drive from the desert to the beach.

And we need to have a Jesus Revolution.

My Mother still lives in the Antelope Valley, she has always loved the desert, and she has a nice safe house, and she has a good husband, and for her the desert is still great. She worked for a government contractor who built satellites and stuff for our government, I went to her work one day on family day and they showed me a satellite that they were building to tell us where the Gold is here on Earth, and to tell us where other resources are. One of the companies she worked for was Sverdrup Technology. She is retired now, but she loved her jobs that she had, and they all loved her, she has a lot of friends in the desert.

Anyhow, we have a lot of resources and blessings, and we need to come from a place of abundance, we are not some poor area where people are desperate and where people need to commit crimes to survive, we are a rich nation, if you need help there are people who you can ask for help who will help you, there is no reason to commit crimes. And we need to help our homeless people, and we need to feed the hungry people, and we need to send the Foster Youth to college for free, etc.

The desert also needs to make National Parks to preserve the beauty of the desert and the Joshua Trees, we need to protect the desert now while we still can. Just like how New York saved the open land for Central Park then we need to have Preserves in the desert to forever save the natural beauty of the desert.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 14, 2023, 05:01:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 14, 2023, 12:55:50 PM
(https://www.scienceforums.net/uploads/monthly_2023_05/Trump_Scrabble.jpg.cbd8004e76a9153f1be912cebb020560.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 15, 2023, 06:09:27 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 14, 2023, 04:31:02 PM
The aerospace industry brings about forty billion dollars per year to the Antelope Valley, my hometown.

https://labusinessjournal.com/special-reports/special-report-aerospace-up-up-and-away/

We need to nurture our communities, and we need to stop the needless crime and problems.

In my hometown some assholes flooded the town with meth and got all of the people addicted, then they started locking them in a prison which was built right in the middle of my hometown, it was all a result of neglect by the community.

But, people can bounce back from the meth epidemic, etc, most of the addicts are dead now from their hearts going out from too much meth. Hopefully the next generation learns to just say "NO!" to drugs. The fuckers now are selling fentanyl and heroin to our people, the mother fuckers, one pill can kill an innocent teen, we need to teach the children to say no. We need to spend some time teaching our children, and making films to show our children, and television shows on PBS, etc. We need to bring back the "After School Specials" on television for the children to watch after school that teaches them important things that kids need to learn.

The Antelope Valley has a fantastic community college, with wonderful professors.

And it is only about 60 miles away from Malibu, it is a short drive from the desert to the beach.

And we need to have a Jesus Revolution.

My Mother still lives in the Antelope Valley, she has always loved the desert, and she has a nice safe house, and she has a good husband, and for her the desert is still great. She worked for a government contractor who built satellites and stuff for our government, I went to her work one day on family day and they showed me a satellite that they were building to tell us where the Gold is here on Earth, and to tell us where other resources are. One of the companies she worked for was Sverdrup Technology. She is retired now, but she loved her jobs that she had, and they all loved her, she has a lot of friends in the desert.

Anyhow, we have a lot of resources and blessings, and we need to come from a place of abundance, we are not some poor area where people are desperate and where people need to commit crimes to survive, we are a rich nation, if you need help there are people who you can ask for help who will help you, there is no reason to commit crimes. And we need to help our homeless people, and we need to feed the hungry people, and we need to send the Foster Youth to college for free, etc.

The desert also needs to make National Parks to preserve the beauty of the desert and the Joshua Trees, we need to protect the desert now while we still can. Just like how New York saved the open land for Central Park then we need to have Preserves in the desert to forever save the natural beauty of the desert.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony,
What you need is 'Uncle bambu's Mobile Drugs, Sex, and Life Education Show for the School Kiddies' [teens].
...complete with jail cell on stage, videos of just alive drug addicts, dead drug addicts, coffins, graves...complete with shovels and earth.
Actors playing live drug addicts on stage, then in the coffins, and 'buried'.
Attractive students persuaded to "take" drugs by dealers counting the cash.
Said students convulse and 'die' on stage, get buried...never again to be alive.

Naked adults on stage, women lying naked on lounges [poolside types], cameras zooming in on breasts and genitals, projected to a large screen in the school auditorium.
Naked men lined up on stage..."One of these naked men is gay, please choose which one".
Hostess explains that bodies come in all different shapes and sizes.
"This is what natural female breasts look like"..."anything else is fake".
Lots of giggles from the kiddies at first, but after a while the novelty wears off, and serious thought ensues.

The sex education part is exactly what they do in Britain, saw it in a doco.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 15, 2023, 05:29:59 PM: One of my radio hosts was having trouble with his son aged about 13,
Boy was going along with other boys doing anti-social actions, like kicking over people's trash bins etc.
Host was concerned son could get a criminal record so he arranged with the prison to be able to take his son there one day and give him a tour.
Tour including locking the boy in a cell and leaving him there for 30 mins or so.
"This is where you'll be coming if you break the law, and the door won't be opened after 30 mins.
"No luxuries like you have at home, this will be your new home, no girlfriends, no cars, no phones etc."
Son was a very good boy after that.
Trouble with the West today, life is sugar-coated, reality is missing, all high school students should be taken on prison tours and sat in cells, and have their phones, cars, hot showers, girlfriends and boyfriends confiscated for a week.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 15, 2023, 05:31:36 PM: Couldn't agree with you more, Bambu. So many kids think they know everything and learn everything by spending their entire days in front of screens. Wait......
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 15, 2023, 05:43:38 PM: LOL.
Not gonna be any phone screens in my schools from Jan 1st 2024...phones banned.
I can see problems with that...one being phones needed for safety and family contact travelling to and from school.
Students are reportedly plotting ways to get arround the ban.
Fun times ahead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 15, 2023, 06:20:03 PM: The last school I taught at in NY had that policy. A fleet of trucks and vans appeared going into the business of holding phones for students throughout the school day. They crowded out the snack trucks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 15, 2023, 06:26:07 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 15, 2023, 05:29:59 PM
One of my radio hosts was having trouble with his son aged about 13,
Boy was going along with other boys doing anti-social actions, like kicking over people's trash bins etc.
Host was concerned son could get a criminal record so he arranged with the prison to be able to take his son there one day and give him a tour.
Tour including locking the boy in a cell and leaving him there for 30 mins or so.
"This is where you'll be coming if you break the law, and the door won't be opened after 30 mins.
"No luxuries like you have at home, this will be your new home, no girlfriends, no cars, no phones etc."
Son was a very good boy after that.
Trouble with the West today, life is sugar-coated, reality is missing, all high school students should be taken on prison tours and sat in cells, and have their phones, cars, hot showers, girlfriends and boyfriends confiscated for a week.

It was known those programs did not work more than 20 years ag.

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/as-we-search-for-racial-justice-memories-of-scared-straight/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 15, 2023, 09:48:47 PM: An anti-capitalism coffee shop in Canada is closing after barely a year in business, its owner announced.

The reason?

per the owner
the lack of generational wealth or seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources

The Toronto cafe, The Anarchist, opened in March 2022 and previously described itself as an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land,
It will close its doors on May 30.
In an effort to make coffee accessible to everyone and to enforce the idea that the enterprise is not a capitalist venture, the shop had a pay what you canmodel that was subsidized by pricier drinks, according to the cafe website.
The owner said The Anarchist has been a huge success in every way I hoped, and has given me so much inspiration and education that I plan to put to use in future projects.
He ended with

Fuck the rich. Fuck the police. Fuck the state. Fuck the colonial death camp we call Canada.
The shop also sells merchandise highlighting anti-capitalist views.

Good luck on those future projects

LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 15, 2023, 11:50:59 PM: He has already gone twenty years longer than you have without selling his ass. That is already a measure of success you will never grasp.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 16, 2023, 01:09:27 AM: Yeah.

No such thing as systemic racism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/tax-audits-black-americans/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 02:37:48 AM: Just watched the movie;

"Mrs Chatterjee versus Norway"

Respect Norway?
No thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 16, 2023, 03:11:58 AM: Since you lack self respect you are not actually able to give respect to anything else. Not sure that will change if you watch another movie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 04:44:56 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 15, 2023, 06:26:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 15, 2023, 05:29:59 PM
One of my radio hosts was having trouble with his son aged about 13,
Boy was going along with other boys doing anti-social actions, like kicking over people's trash bins etc.
Host was concerned son could get a criminal record so he arranged with the prison to be able to take his son there one day and give him a tour.
Tour including locking the boy in a cell and leaving him there for 30 mins or so.
"This is where you'll be coming if you break the law, and the door won't be opened after 30 mins.
"No luxuries like you have at home, this will be your new home, no girlfriends, no cars, no phones etc."
Son was a very good boy after that.
Trouble with the West today, life is sugar-coated, reality is missing, all high school students should be taken on prison tours and sat in cells, and have their phones, cars, hot showers, girlfriends and boyfriends confiscated for a week.

It was known those programs did not work more than 20 years ag.

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/as-we-search-for-racial-justice-memories-of-scared-straight/

What's old is new again.
Mmm, maybe videos instead of actual visits, HD colour and filming techniques could make the experiences real.
Youth crime is out of control in bambuworld...everything from zip code gangs in stabbings in Sydney, to drunken destruction / robberies of homes and businesses, and assaults of people in rural and regional towns...vigilantes (unarmed but in numbers) trying to reclaim their towns.
Car theft everywhere, a 13 yr old allegedly driving a stolen car killed people in a crash.
Cops and gov seem reluctant to act toughly as 'race' is said to be involved in some instances.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 06:44:01 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 16, 2023, 03:11:58 AM
Since you lack self respect you are not actually able to give respect to anything else. Not sure that will change if you watch another movie.

Self respect is overrated.
Life is a war.
I have a DVD somewhere titled "America is a War".
It's not only America, it's everywhere.

Based on a true story...so I lost respect for Norway.
I don't have to respect Norway if I don't want to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 16, 2023, 09:33:08 AM: What's Norway known for? Krumkake and child theft by social workers. And the krumkake is just a way to get at the kids.

It's great that Bambu is keeping up with the Hindi language immigrant drama films set in Norway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 16, 2023, 10:07:14 AM: Norway also gave us the great word "quisling"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 16, 2023, 01:55:55 PM: But only an Australian has taken it on himself to raise being a quisling to an art form.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 03:52:56 PM: WW2..."Poorly armed and neutral Norway " was invaded by Germany.

We're yet to see if Ukraine's decision to fight Russia and not surrender was the right one.
Many Ukrainian families slaughtered.

Australia, poorly armed, is like Norway, Denmark and Sweden in WW2, a sitting duck for invasion by China, and anyone else who feels like it.
Indonesia is tight with Russia.
Indonesia has millions of men who could quickly be turned into invaders.
With its already-powerful military, and Russia-China troops and arms added, victory by Indonesia/Russia/China would be assured.
Australia played the "neutral" game, signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties instead of arming itself with nuclear weapons.
Briitain tested atomic bombs in the Outback, that was the time Australia should've demanded some for itself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 16, 2023, 04:22:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 03:52:56 PM
WW2..."Poorly armed and neutral Norway " was invaded by Germany.

We're yet to see if Ukraine's decision to fight Russia and not surrender was the right one.
Many Ukrainian families slaughtered.

Australia, poorly armed, is like Norway, Denmark and Sweden in WW2, a sitting duck for invasion by China, and anyone else who feels like it.
Indonesia is tight with Russia.
Indonesia has millions of men who could quickly be turned into invaders.
With its already-powerful military, and Russia-China troops and arms added, victory by Indonesia/Russia/China would be assured.
Australia played the "neutral" game, signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties instead of arming itself with nuclear weapons.
Briitain tested atomic bombs in the Outback, that was the time Australia should've demanded some for itself.
Oh, quit pissing yourself you coward.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 05:53:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 16, 2023, 04:22:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 16, 2023, 03:52:56 PM
WW2..."Poorly armed and neutral Norway " was invaded by Germany.

We're yet to see if Ukraine's decision to fight Russia and not surrender was the right one.
Many Ukrainian families slaughtered.

Australia, poorly armed, is like Norway, Denmark and Sweden in WW2, a sitting duck for invasion by China, and anyone else who feels like it.
Indonesia is tight with Russia.
Indonesia has millions of men who could quickly be turned into invaders.
With its already-powerful military, and Russia-China troops and arms added, victory by Indonesia/Russia/China would be assured.
Australia played the "neutral" game, signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties instead of arming itself with nuclear weapons.
Briitain tested atomic bombs in the Outback, that was the time Australia should've demanded some for itself.
Oh, quit pissing yourself you coward.

Ukraine is losing the invasion war, slowly but surely.
You have all the latest weaponry and nukes galore.I have nothing, not even one gun.
When the invaders are coming in your front door, you can stand and fight.
I on the other hand
have to run out the back door as fast as I can and look for somewhere to hide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 16, 2023, 06:03:34 PM: There has been a lot of debate about the DAs charge, because we live in a world where some people see a video of a white man choking a Black man to death and argue that no crime has been committed.

Attorneys for Neelys family say they asked the DA to consider a charge of murder in the second degree.

The problem is that, based on what we know publicly, there isnot enough evidence to support a murder charge. It is very difficult to prove premeditation in this case, It does not appear that Penny was lying in wait for Neely or some other unfortunate homeless person to come along.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/vigilante-response-to-homelessness/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 16, 2023, 07:03:26 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 16, 2023, 06:03:34 PM
There has been a lot of debate about the DAs charge, because we live in a world where some people see a video of a white man choking a Black man to death and argue that no crime has been committed.

Attorneys for Neelys family say they asked the DA to consider a charge of murder in the second degree.

The problem is that, based on what we know publicly, there isnot enough evidence to support a murder charge. It is very difficult to prove premeditation in this case, It does not appear that Penny was lying in wait for Neely or some other unfortunate homeless person to come along.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/vigilante-response-to-homelessness/
Well, it takes no time at all to form the necessary intent for murder. But the reported circumstances, even on the reports of the witnesses who note Neely was not behaving in anything like the way RedDick accepts as gospel, would make a murder charge inappropriate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 16, 2023, 09:14:53 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 16, 2023, 07:44:34 PM
Six reasons to hold the court in contempt
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 16, 2023, 09:28:31 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 16, 2023, 07:44:34 PM
Six reasons to hold the court in contempt
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 17, 2023, 08:01:43 PM: The woman with the golden gun.

The golden gun, was allegedly found in the luggage of an American woman arriving in Australia...flew in from LA...gun allegedly detected in her hand luggage by x-ray machine at Sydney airport.

"US citizen Liliana Goodson has been charged with trying to smuggle a gold-plated pistol into Australia".
Picture: Facebook

Liliana is creating a lot of interest.
In the photo she has colourful facial tattoos, facial piercings, and a 'bone' thru her nose that extends past the sides of her mouth.

'Colt .45 - style pistol with pearl inlay.'
'The gun was not loaded'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 18, 2023, 09:40:16 AM: https://apnews.com/article/farmington-new-mexico-shooting-c2405e9da4aa50580be6110fc21d221e (https://apnews.com/article/farmington-new-mexico-shooting-c2405e9da4aa50580be6110fc21d221e)

I know Red's keeping a scoreboard for such matters (according to Red, I'll lose everytime). I'm helping him with the research. And I'm doing it for free.

#thebadguysarelurking #justthecostofdoingbusiness #secondamendment!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 18, 2023, 03:31:58 PM: Florida, where woke goes to die along with billions of dollars in investment.

Hate woke? Go broke!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/business/disney-ron-desantis-florida.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 18, 2023, 04:25:02 PM: Quote
They believe two of the three weapons he carried were owned by relatives.

Two days before the attack, Wilson purchased additional ammunition magazines, police said.

Authorities said it appears he shot indiscriminately at vehicles, and bullets struck 11 of them along with seven homes.

Additional weapons and ammunition were found at the home Wilson shared with his father, but Hebbe said he did not appear to have organized those before he left the house. The suspect had access to over 1,400 rounds of ammunition and 10 other weapons at the time of the attack....

This again points toward legislation that holds people responsible who allow their guns to be accessible to others. Require storage in a gun safe, and push the arms industry towards thumbprint technology. In addition to the obvious, which is restore the assault weapons ban which, during its ten years before sunsetting out, was affirmed by every single court that heard a challenge to its constitutionality.

The Chris Rock Law also remains on my wish list. (though I'd favor an exception for rock-salt shells in shotguns, which are handy nonlethal shot for driving off aggressive animals in western boondocks like mine)(boyfriends, e.g.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 18, 2023, 10:00:58 PM: Gun safes have their place, ...but the good people, armed to protect themselves from the bad people, don't have time to go searching for their guns in safes when said bad people are smashing down their front doors, side doors, windows etc trying to rape them or their families [a rape or attempted rape occurs in America every 5 minutes], trying to bash and rob them, steal their cars and every valuable they have...or worse, kill them.

The good people need to be wearing their handguns and have their AR 15s within easy reach.
An AR 15 is a valuable tool for self defence...especially against violent home invaders.
20 million Americans think so, they have one.

Ideally strict purchasing and ownership rules around assault rifles would apply...maybe must be age 21 to buy one.

Serial killers knock on people's doors in the middle of the day...refer serial killer BTK [Bind, Torture, Kill]...they strike when the husbands are at work.
Every woman in America should own and carry a gun...and be trained to special forces standard in their use.

Remember that young mom with her toddler daughter sitting beside her on the sofa, in her own home. her husband having left for work...who was bashed, kicked, punched, ...then when the big, huge, monster of a man [who happened to be Black] intruder came back downstairs having searched for things to steal, bashed her again and threw her down the stairs into the basement?
She could've done with an active alarm on her door as a warning, and an AR 15 at the ready to shoot the intruder when he appeared in her living room.
Or a handgun ready to fire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 18, 2023, 10:11:12 PM: Colourful and heavily tattooed US citizen Liliana Goodson, also known as River SolDorado Salvatore Chunga, said she hopes to stay in the country despite facing a possible maximum of 10 years behind bars.

When approached by The Daily Telegraph at Bondi, Ms Goodson said she was unable to discuss the case but revealed she is "hoping to stay here" in Australia.
"I came here hoping to gain Australian citizenship", she told The Daily telegraph.

The 28 year-old said she wanted to pack up her life and move down under because "it's not America".

"There's a lot wrong with America. It's not safe for me, for trans people or people of colour. The police are very corrupt."

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Well there you go.
Some wanting into America, and some wanting out.

Liliana, among her facial tattoos, has the words "open your mind" tattooed in light purple along her face just above her jaw line.

Unusual to hear of Americans claiming persecution/'not safe' in America to the stage of seeking asylum in another country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 19, 2023, 01:28:19 AM: American Memory Lane

THE FIRST McDONALDS RESTAURANT OPENED ON MAY 15, 1940

83 years ago, a culinary revolution was quietly set into motion on the streets of San Bernardino, California. The date was May 15, 1940, when brothers Maurice ("Mac") and Richard McDonald opened the doors of the very first McDonalds restaurant. Little did they know, their humble fast-food establishment would go on to change the world of dining forever.

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My Grandmother worked at the original McDonalds in San Bernardino, back when McDonalds used to have beautiful young women to bring your food out to your car for you. Sonny Barger from the Hells Angels used to hang out at McDonalds with his buddies, he called my Grandmother "Miss New York" because he said she had class, he had nick-names for everyone, although she was born in a small town outside of Denver, Colorado, she did not mind Sonny calling her Miss New York, she came to California with her family during the Great Depression.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 19, 2023, 08:30:34 AM: Marco Rubio gets smaller everyday

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/sports/baseball/dodgers-pride-night.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 19, 2023, 02:25:38 PM: The success of Dubai, and Abu Dhabi, is good for world peace, as envy and jealousy are a huge cause of war, as was stated in the movie "Harrison Bergeron." If people are busy living their own dreams and if they are busy building and creating, then they do not sit there and build up hate for other people who are living their best lives.

And the same way that the world comes to America for the American Dream then the Muslims can go to Dubai, and to Abu Dhabi, to chase their dreams. And the Muslim refugees from Syria, etc, can go live in Dubai, and in Abu Dhabi.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 20, 2023, 01:11:43 PM: On the issue of social systems which take care of their seniors and which value their elders...

I was taught very young in elementary school about the Mayan people of Mexico and about their social system where the children and young people took care of the elders, while the elders were the leaders in the Government, etc.

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

And in Europe today the people live with their whole extended family and they help their elders, while at the same time the elders can baby-sit the children while the younger adults work, etc.

The culture in the United States where you are on your own at 18 years old is different. When I was a little kid I worked with my Grandmother, she was a dog groomer and I washed dogs for her to help her to buy food and to pay the rent, so I did help my Grandmother. But, when I was homeless on the street no one in my family felt obligated to help me, and I was on my own. I was homeless for 2 years, and no one cared. And even worse, when I was homeless in Hollywood it was against the law to feed the homeless, there were times when I went up to 3 days without eating.

I support communities where they value their elders, and where they have a sense of family and a sense of community. Italy is my favorite country, maybe I will move to Italy and marry an Italian woman and get a big Italian family and grow old where the elders are valued.

I am also a Christian, and I support helping the needy as the Bible tells us to in Matthew 25; 31-46, in a Christian community people would have helped me when I was homeless. In Italy they do not have homeless people because Italy is a Christian nation and they help each other. Also Italy has hostels where you can take a shower and where you can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

( Of Note, we have rich Christians coming to the USA from the Philippines who are helping the homeless here in California, and they are helping the Foster Children, etc. We also have doctors here from the Philippines who are treating our poor here in California. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 22, 2023, 12:09:22 AM: Fights and murders in Downtown Anaheim, at the beautiful Garden Walk right by Disney, this is unacceptable and we need better security and neighborhood watch.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/2-men-found-dead-after-shooting-at-anaheim-gardenwalk/

Anaheim is beautiful, and we are rich, we do not need to accept crime and problems. Just like you will never see unruly behavior in Monte Carlo, they have money and class, and they have security and body guards and cops all over.

And just like Beverly Hills, they will not tolerate the high crime in Beverly Hills, they are rich and they can afford security guards, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 22, 2023, 12:29:17 AM: As we help the homeless our already over-crowded healthcare system is struggling, we have a huge shortage of doctors, and of psychiatrists, etc. Also, the poor people are not getting the same high quality healthcare that the rich people are getting.

We need to train more doctors, and psychiatrists, etc. And the doctors and nurses from the Philippines are welcome here in the USA.

Here locally we have the University of California in Irvine Medical School which is training local doctors, and we have other great medical schools in Southern California, and we have San Diego State University which is training psychiatrists.

We need to invest in education here in the USA and we need to train more doctors and psychiatrists. And as we get the homeless people into housing they will all need doctors, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 22, 2023, 08:59:16 AM: (https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/5ca8d820bda04284be3eb0f459e52bc3/1000.jpeg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 22, 2023, 01:57:18 PM: Las Vegas Review-Journal

Brightline West envisions opening its decade-plus-in-the-making high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Southern California by the time the 2028 Olympics Games in Los Angeles begin → bit.ly/45kBYWl

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All of the jobs building our high speed train are going to be Union jobs, good jobs will be created.

We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to put them to work, they can grow food, they can drive trucks, they can build housing, and they can help to build our high speed trains, etc, etc, etc.

And we can build a high speed train between New York City and Washington DC, and between Chicago and Detroit, and we can build high speed trains for other routes. We can bring the immigrants up from our Southern Border and we can put them to work building our high speed rail, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 22, 2023, 03:23:53 PM: The USA is heading in the wrong direction, we need to unite all as Americans and we need to support the ACLU, and we need to support our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and our Fair Housing Act of 1968, and we need to remember that God created all men as equals, and we all have the same rights in America. We fought and we worked hard to get to the place where we are today in America. We must not go backwards, and we certainly do not want to go back to segregation.

America must not destroy itself with Americans fighting against Americans. Lincoln said that no enemy could ever so much as take a drink of water from the Ohio River, we are strong if we work together as equals, but if America falls it will be because of Americans fighting against each other and destroying America from within.

The NAACP has advised Black people to avoid Florida, and we are heading in the wrong direction.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/naacp-travel-advisory-ron-desantis-florida

The last time I was in Florida there were commercials on television asking people to join together to teach poor uneducated adults how to read with a charity which was founded by the founder of Famous Amos Cookies who is a beloved Black man. We all need to work together to teach our poor people how to read, and to help the children who do not have fathers, etc, and we all need to support good human rights for all people. Florida loves Famous Amos, Florida is not racist.

And the Seminole Native American Indian Tribe in Florida is very successful.

We need to all have equal rights in America, and we need to build schools instead of prisons.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 22, 2023, 03:36:19 PM: If DeSantis has not banned Famous Amos already, he likely soon will.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 22, 2023, 06:22:02 PM: Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/trump-records-foreign-deals.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 22, 2023, 07:57:33 PM: Meanwhile, across the seas...

Older Australian women are becoming homeless in record numbers

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An absolute disgrace.
Someone's mom, someone's sister.

Fast becoming like America, where older American women are homeless in great numbers...one such woman living in a tent was shown on Youtube, terribly incontinent, a man from a doctor group trying to assist her live a better life in her squalor.

Yes, like that link posted in Elba yesterday..."the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer".

Hopefully the person at the top, in each country, will soon wake up one morning and say "enough is enough", and DO something to solve the problem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 22, 2023, 08:43:03 PM: Not only older women...and not only in America now;

Sydney's housing crisis is driving a wave of "working homeless", residents who can't find or afford a home despite holding a job, with the situation so bad an encampment of tents and car sleepers has emerged in the heart of Anthony Albanese's inner-west electorate.

Tents are pitched in the grounds of Enmore park, 3.4km from the Prime Ministers's Marrickville home, complete with portable BBQs, water supplies, sleeping bags, tarps, cats and dogs - on top of "community" of utes, vans and cars with night sleepers surrounding the popular park.

Many of the rough sleepers hold down jobs and have been forced into the drastic circumstances because of soaring rents and a lack of accommodation, with advocates slamming the housing system as "broken".

Last week, while temperatures outside dipped to just under nine degrees [celsius], The Daily Telegraph spoke to multiple victims of the city's "out of control" housing crunch.

Kerry, in her 30s, works as a jeweller by day but at night lives with her black cat and toy poodle dog Chelsea in a tent in the middle of Enmore Park.

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Well there you go.

Maybe Albo...he of the "Joe/Albo climate deal"...could erect a solar panels/battery structure in 'his' park, for the homeless folk...so Kerry, Chelsea and
black kitty kat can stay warm and have hot food to eat.

Joe could do the same in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 23, 2023, 02:50:30 AM: video from the court:
'Families confront Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz in court'

Man:
"when you die, it is my fondest hope that they take you and burn you, and take your ashes and throw them in the garbage dump... you know why? because, garbage to garbage."

Woman:
"I wish no peace for you...I wish nothing but pain".

#####

If a juror, I would've had to vote "no" to the death penalty...as 3 did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 23, 2023, 03:07:02 AM: Bambi you should think about keeping private equity out of the residential housing game entirely. It rapidly becomes a purely parasitic relationship. Make the fat bastards put their money into genuinely productive projects or steadily go broke.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 23, 2023, 03:42:42 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 23, 2023, 03:07:02 AM
Bambi you should think about keeping private equity out of the residential housing game entirely. It rapidly becomes a purely parasitic relationship. Make the fat bastards put their money into genuinely productive projects or steadily go broke.

Without private investors buying apartments/homes for long term capital gain, and renting them out to use the rent to pay off the mortgage, the state govts would have to provide the housing...smacks of the dreaded "socialism', capitalists would say.
Who knows where Albo's one million new immigrants will be living.

There are about 164,000 to 200,000 empty properties in Sydney (reportedly being bought and "warehoused" for future occupation by, well, someone....or for future capital gain.)
And five figure waiting list for public housing.
"One third of homes in Millers Point (harbourside enclave) were empty on census night".

"Just about all of them are Airbnb".

Cottage A...3bedrooms, 2 bathrooms sleeps 6...$485 a night.

485 x 7 = $3,395 pw.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 23, 2023, 11:01:41 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on May 22, 2023, 03:36:19 PM
If DeSantis has not banned Famous Amos already, he likely soon will.

Surely not banned from his cookie jar??
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 23, 2023, 11:07:06 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 22, 2023, 06:41:56 PM
As the Crow flies

Even if Crow has had no direct SCOTUS dealings, he knows people who do, and he supports think tanks that have submitted amicus briefs. That Crow could imagine (as he does to an interviewer in The Atlantic) this doesn't all smell of graft and rotting fish is hard to swallow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 23, 2023, 01:00:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 22, 2023, 07:57:33 PM
Meanwhile, across the seas...

Older Australian women are becoming homeless in record numbers

#####

An absolute disgrace.
Someone's mom, someone's sister.

Fast becoming like America, where older American women are homeless in great numbers...one such woman living in a tent was shown on Youtube, terribly incontinent, a man from a doctor group trying to assist her live a better life in her squalor.

Yes, like that link posted in Elba yesterday..."the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer".

Hopefully the person at the top, in each country, will soon wake up one morning and say "enough is enough", and DO something to solve the problem.

Australia can learn from Italy, Italy has hostels where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

And now in Los Angeles Mayor Bass is working to help the homeless, she is using City money to buy old hotels to use as temporary housing for the homeless, etc, and Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless. It is about time, the homeless crisis in Los Angeles has been bad for a long time.

In Orange County we have Wellness Centers where people can go to get help, and we have the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, etc.

And Orange County has Sober Living Homes for the homeless...

Flagmans Sober Living Homes has both Male and Female beds available.

(714) 745-0948

Housing for the homeless in Orange County, California.

Some of the Sober Living Homes have swimming pools, etc.

And the City Hall in Anaheim has a Housing Authority with a big budget to help the homeless in Orange County.

Progress is happening. We just need to care and we need to take action to help the homeless.

And yes Bambu, we need for the rich people at the top to care about the poor homeless people who are on the bottom. We need for our society to care about each other and to help each other.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 01:42:22 PM: How does one support a think tank.?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 23, 2023, 02:52:56 PM: We need to help the homeless by any means necessary, and there is no shame when it comes to feeding starving people and getting the homeless into housing.

On the issue of the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, California, a lady named Darlene Powell went to Washington D.C. and she begged for help to help the mentally ill and homeless people of Orange County, and Washington D.C. gave her sixty million dollars to help the people of Orange County. She then went to the City, the County, the State, and to wealthy private donors for more money to help the homeless people of Orange County. Wealthy people from the Philippines also came to Orange County and helped the homeless people of Orange County.

On the issue of the Anaheim Housing Authority, we the people of Anaheim own Angel Stadium, and we own many other properties, including the Convention Center, etc, and we also own the Electric Company in Anaheim, and some of the money from our assets goes towards helping the homeless people of Anaheim. Currently the City of Anaheim spends one hundred million dollars per year to help the homeless people of Anaheim.

Plus, we have Disneyland and Disney is altruistic here and helps the people of Anaheim.

And people can do like Paul Newman did and they can set up companies for the sole purpose of doing charity work, Newman's Own is still doing charity work long after the passing of Paul Newman, may he rest in peace, Paul Newman was a great man.

Famous Amos also helped people and was altruistic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 23, 2023, 08:45:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 01:42:22 PM
How does one

One is doing fine! Thanks for asking! How do you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 09:20:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 23, 2023, 08:45:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 01:42:22 PM
How does one

One is doing fine! Thanks for asking! How do you?
How does one support a think tank?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 23, 2023, 11:28:38 PM: Rudy Giuliani was hired to be a consultant a long time ago in Mexico, to teach Mexico how to reduce crime, etc.

https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Mexico-Hires-Giuliani-As-Consultant-10556900.php

Rudy did a great job in New York City reducing crime with the Broken Window Theory, etc, and there are many things that Rudy can teach to Mexico, it would be great if Rudy could go to Mexico right now and teach the Mexicans how to make things better in Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 23, 2023, 11:54:39 PM: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Every 15 days we report on the progress of actions to guarantee the people's right to health in Mexico. We are solving structural problems to lift the public system and cleanse it of corruption. Follow the call for doctors and specialists, even retired, for the purpose of strengthening the IMSS Health Plan together.

Serving young people and permanently reporting on the harms of drugs, helps prevent consumption, mainly among young people.

The most important thing is to give opportunities and encourage togetherness in families.

More info: https://bit.ly/3BTq9J6

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The President of Mexico is doing his best to improve the situation in Mexico, and he is trying to strengthen their health care system, etc, and prevent illegal drug use, etc.

I would send Rudy Giuliani to help the President of Mexico, Rudy really is a smart man, and he needs to stop supporting Trump and he needs to go to Mexico where he is desperately needed.

And Mexico needs to build schools and libraries big time, along with orphanages for the orphans, etc.

The Catholic Church is also an ally in Mexico.

And I went to Mexico to do charity work with Youth For Christ when I was a teen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 23, 2023, 11:56:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 09:20:34 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 23, 2023, 08:45:33 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 23, 2023, 01:42:22 PM
How does one

One is doing fine! Thanks for asking! How do you?
How does one support a think tank?

Check, cash or for right wing think tanks they also eagerly accept hard drugs.

Their normal state of drug addled deterioration is why so called constitutional originalists are always fundamentally incoherent and self-contradictory.

A lot of those tanks like the heritage foundation hold fluids so cloudy they really need to be fully cleaned out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 24, 2023, 03:56:58 AM: Speaking of Mexico.

25 million people live in a 60 mile radius of the active volcano, that is now 'activating'.
That's not good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 25, 2023, 01:13:11 AM: Tina Turner...

In the late 1980s Tina came to Australia, signed to a campaign to promote rugby league footy.

My paper today, on her passing;

Former Australian Rugby League Boss Ken Arthurson has hailed Tina Turner as the "warm and bubbly" megastar who made the NRL a sporting juggernaut.

"She was such a lovely lady - she got on with everybody and was an outstanding person," Arthurson said.

What a lovely lady she was and what a fantastic job she did for rugby league when she was in Australia."
We were all involved in the Simply the Best campaign and she was so magnificent and easy to work with.

I am saddened by the news of her passing.
She will be missed by so many."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 25, 2023, 02:26:53 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 24, 2023, 03:36:30 PM
Another sad day in America

DeSantis is looking for political advice from Liz Truss or the head of lettuce that outlasted her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 25, 2023, 09:49:30 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 25, 2023, 09:25:44 AM

Well, the Brits had enough sense to get rid of Truss, we can not even get rid
of George Washington Santos.

That would just be cruel, to discard a Holocaust survivor.

Meanwhile, I see that DeSantis launched his campaign by telling us he was scrupulously avoiding corporate media and instead launched himself on a platform owned by a corporate billionaire!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 25, 2023, 04:59:01 PM: We need to train more doctors and psychiatrists.

If the youth have the aptitude to be a doctor then we need to make sure that poverty, etc, does not stop people from becoming doctors. If they have what it takes to be a doctor or a psychiatrist then we need to make sure that they are able to succeed.

And we have homeless people who have potential who can help other people after they are helped, they can manage homeless shelters, they can be crisis intervention specialists, they can be van drivers, etc, etc, etc, and some can become nurses, and doctors, and psychiatrists, etc.

I have a friend who is a doctor, she is an Oncologist, but when she was a teen she was a homeless prostitute who was addicted to heroin, she joined Narcotics Anonymous and she got clean, and then she got back into school, and she stayed in school and she worked hard until she became an Oncologist. Now she has a beautiful home on the beach in Huntington Beach and she has a wonderful family with a handsome son, she is very grateful.

If people have what it takes to become a doctor or a psychiatrist, then we need to make sure that they succeed, regardless of their past situations, etc. We have a huge shortage of doctors and psychiatrists and we need to train more people, if they have the aptitude then we need to help them to reach their potential.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 26, 2023, 05:00:45 PM: Governor Newsom is thinking about sending Oprah Winfrey to Congress to replace Diane Feinstein.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/gavin-newsom-could-tap-oprah-to-replace-feinstein-in-senate-report/

I like Oprah, always have, and I love the movie "The Color Purple" in which she did a fantastic job. ( One time when I lived in Malibu I was standing in line at the grocery store with Loretta Swit from the television show MASH, and we were standing next to a rack of tabloid magazines, and Loretta said she hated that kind of stuff, and she said that she hated day-time television. At which point I brought up Oprah, who I said was a bright spot on day-time television, and I mentioned "The Color Purple" and Loretta agreed that Oprah is cool. )

I would support sending Oprah to D.C. to represent my state in the Senate.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 27, 2023, 05:22:47 AM: Don Jr is coming to Australia for a speaking tour, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
July 2023.

"Landmark Australian Tour"

"You've already lost the battle if you're afraid to fight".

#####

Why?
The nation is full of leftists.

Maybe Sky might be able to whip up crowds for him.
If not..."rent a crowd" will go if the tickets are free.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 27, 2023, 02:51:02 PM: You should quarantine Jr. before he spreads some of his less curable diseases. If you guys have somewhere offshore to divert him to, you should send him there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 27, 2023, 06:51:38 PM: We need for NASA at Edwards Air Force Base to teach our police departments about the new technology which makes the helicopters quieter. Right now it is bad because the noise from the helicopters flying over our neighborhoods at night interrupts the sleep of the residents. We have new technology which allows us to have quieter helicopters, and we need to teach the police departments about the new technology.

I sent this message to the Mayor of Anaheim, but I am sure that all people who are affected by the noise of the helicopters at night would agree with me.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 28, 2023, 04:22:12 AM: Last few mornings..."coldest in Sydney for 47 years".

Could be 'global warming'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 28, 2023, 05:11:19 AM: US driver Sophia Kim caught speeding in Sydney Cross City Tunnel: Americans defend expat
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 28, 2023, 06:08:05 AM: cont'd;

Daily Mail;

Americans have been left dumbfounded after a driver was fined for travelling over the speed limit in Australia.
American expat Sophia Kim said she was shocked after receiving a $295 fine for driving 20kph over the limit in Sydney on May 23.

She said in a Tik Tok video she was 'too stressed' to have noticed the signs warning her of the speed limit and cameras in the Cross City Tunnel.
Ms Kim received backlash on social media for questioning whether or not she could fight the fine as it was her first time driving through the tunnel.

Americans came to her defence when the video was shared to Twitter questioning the use of cameras and how seriously the speed limit was taken.
Several claimed police were more relaxed about speed in the United States saying the signs were more like 'suggestions'.

'Discovered Australia loves revenue raising', one wrote.
'We have speed "suggestions" over here. Everyone does five to ten above usually,' a second wrote.

#####

Speed limit signs in America are 'more like suggestions'?
Interesting.

20 is not '5 to 10'.

Think bambuworld had that '5 to ten over' unwritten rule...about 20 years ago....but not now...the road toll then was alarming.

Now the road safety campaign is "Towards Zero", zero deaths on the roads.
Slowly the road toll is coming down. Certainly nowhere near what it was 20 years ago.

Any accidents in Sydney's tunnels throw the traffic into chaos for hours. people miss flights, appointments, it's utter mayhem.
So the fines are steep, and you lose demerit points out of your limit of 12 every two years.
Reach 13 points and they cancel your driving licence.

The cameras in the tunnels are hidden...but there are warning signs.
There could be a small leniency in the posted speed, but I wouldn't count on it.

Only motorists who drive carefully at the posted speed limits...[the limits in tunnels shown in large illuminated white numerals circled in red hanging from the tunnel roof, at very regular intervals], ...are required...anyone else should catch public transport...trains, buses, ferries, ...and cabs/Ubers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 28, 2023, 04:22:12 AM
Last few mornings..."coldest in Sydney for 47 years".

Could be 'global warming'.
Global warming causes more extreme weather, Arctic/Antarctic warming, and disrupts polar jet streams, causing polar air to plunge rapidly to lower latitudes. So yes, the cold can be caused by overall warming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 28, 2023, 01:22:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 28, 2023, 04:22:12 AM
Last few mornings..."coldest in Sydney for 47 years".

Could be 'global warming'.
Global warming causes more extreme weather, Arctic/Antarctic warming, and disrupts polar jet streams, causing polar air to plunge rapidly to lower latitudes. So yes, the cold can be caused by overall warming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 28, 2023, 08:20:08 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 28, 2023, 04:24:44 PM
Till death do them part
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on May 29, 2023, 09:06:22 AM: Gives a fresh meaning to Shotgun Wedding.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 29, 2023, 01:25:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

In three words, yes it does.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-climate-and-environment-natural-disasters-99e53454edecb6d286e979f46ceb8dcb
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 29, 2023, 08:08:44 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 29, 2023, 07:56:01 PM
Another American Hero

There was a little douchey Hawley that grew into this basically unchecked. That bears some thought.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 09:54:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 29, 2023, 09:55:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.

Like the previous poster, I also agree wholeheartedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 09:57:15 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
You cannot be serious
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 10:45:13 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 09:57:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
You cannot be serious
By this response you have shown that you are a moral coward, in addition to a nihilist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 30, 2023, 03:56:56 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on May 30, 2023, 12:08:39 PM
Fearless Leader of his Kangaroo Court

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-voting-rights-act-an-end-to-racism-by-judicial-order
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 30, 2023, 05:20:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 10:45:13 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 09:57:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
You cannot be serious
By this response you have shown that you are a moral coward, in addition to a nihilist.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM: Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 30, 2023, 06:46:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 30, 2023, 05:20:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 10:45:13 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 09:57:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 29, 2023, 09:42:08 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 29, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 28, 2023, 11:07:20 AM

Global warming causes more extreme weather.
Uh, in a word, no.

Constitutional scholar AND atmospheric physicist!

The Academy in Stockholm is amazed at your deep knowledge that seems to just happen, without you doing any real reading or research.

Or knowing your ass from an ozone hole.
You cannot be serious
By this response you have shown that you are a moral coward, in addition to a nihilist.
LOL!

By that he means you cannot prove he is anything more than a garden variety ignoramus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 07:27:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM
Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

In reply, US should move nukes to Australia, the outback is massive.
Already a CIA base at Pine Gap.
US drones are reportedly already guided from the vast expanse.
Clear skies, not much rain, no snow, no mountains, just thousands of square miles of nothing. The ultimate in starry skies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 07:34:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 07:27:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM
Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

In reply, US should move nukes to Australia, the outback is massive.
Already a CIA base at Pine Gap.
US drones are reportedly already guided from the vast expanse.
Clear skies, not much rain, no snow, no mountains, just thousands of square miles of nothing. The ultimate in starry skies.
You do not need our nukes you stinking cube of wallaby poo, get them from Belarus!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 30, 2023, 08:12:24 PM: Wombat poo. It's the wombats who have the house with poo corners.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:23:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 07:34:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 07:27:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM
Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

In reply, US should move nukes to Australia, the outback is massive.
Already a CIA base at Pine Gap.
US drones are reportedly already guided from the vast expanse.
Clear skies, not much rain, no snow, no mountains, just thousands of square miles of nothing. The ultimate in starry skies.
You do not need our nukes you stinking cube of wallaby poo, get them from Belarus!

Exactly what the worry is, that when push comes to shove enough Americans might think that way and decide to just feed Taiwan, Australia, Asia etc to the China/Russia bear...and deal with it.
In the US Message Board forums it's exactly that that was said by Americans about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia[China's best buddy]..."not one American life".
Understandable of course...US can defend itself against them for now.
But when China/Russia gets Taiwan, Australia, NZ, the Pacific nations, all of Asia, all of Europe...what then for America?...US economy will be shot...US will be trading on China's terms, only.
Should be 'fun'.

If I were Washington I'd be grabbing Australia, wombats and all [their pouch is the reverse of kangaroo, the opening facing their tail not their head, so when they dig the pouch doesn't fill up with dirt]...while it's going for a song.
When China gets it, the price will be a lot higher.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 30, 2023, 09:39:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 07:27:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM
Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

In reply, US should move nukes to Australia, the outback is massive.
Already a CIA base at Pine Gap.
US drones are reportedly already guided from the vast expanse.
Clear skies, not much rain, no snow, no mountains, just thousands of square miles of nothing. The ultimate in starry skies.

Sounds like a great place for massive solar farms.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:45:28 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 30, 2023, 09:39:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 07:27:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 30, 2023, 06:20:08 PM
Here ya go, bambu.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

In reply, US should move nukes to Australia, the outback is massive.
Already a CIA base at Pine Gap.
US drones are reportedly already guided from the vast expanse.
Clear skies, not much rain, no snow, no mountains, just thousands of square miles of nothing. The ultimate in starry skies.

Sounds like a great place for massive solar farms.

Indeed.
Commercial- build solar batteries seem to be less prone to fires that home ones.
Communities ... housing estates etc...are installing commercial-build battery banks, homes with solar panels on rooves.
...providing residents with electricity for $8 pm cost.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:47:07 PM: LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team's annual Pride Night.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM: Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

#####

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.

What next...a gay President dressed as a nun?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 10:04:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:47:07 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team's annual Pride Night.

In America we have to allow everyone to have their own point of view, and that is part of what freedom is all about.

Beverly Hills and Los Angeles has a huge Persian population, and the Persians of Los Angeles deserve to have their own night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and they can help bring attention to the situation in Iran.

And we need to have a good night at Dodger Stadium for the Catholics, etc, and other groups deserve a night too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 11:03:30 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 10:04:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:47:07 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team's annual Pride Night.

In America we have to allow everyone to have their own point of view, and that is part of what freedom is all about.

Beverly Hills and Los Angeles has a huge Persian population, and the Persians of Los Angeles deserve to have their own night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and they can help bring attention to the situation in Iran.

And we need to have a good night at Dodger Stadium for the Catholics, etc, and other groups deserve a night too.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, but, mocking the religion of others in the process should not be allowed.
Isn't there some US law against that?

Note they're not dressed in burqas and mocking Islam/the Prophet.
They pick on the nice, quiet, tolerant Christians....knowing that White heterosexual Christian males are the most hated group in America today and can't do anything about them...just have to sit there and be mocked.
Best thing for Christians to do is start boycotts...starting with empty stadiums.
Naming and shaming those allowing Christianity to be mocked ...is one thing that can be done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 11:13:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 11:03:30 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 10:04:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:47:07 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team's annual Pride Night.

In America we have to allow everyone to have their own point of view, and that is part of what freedom is all about.

Beverly Hills and Los Angeles has a huge Persian population, and the Persians of Los Angeles deserve to have their own night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and they can help bring attention to the situation in Iran.

And we need to have a good night at Dodger Stadium for the Catholics, etc, and other groups deserve a night too.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, but, mocking the religion of others in the process should not be allowed.
Isn't there some US law against that?

Note they're not dressed in burqas and mocking Islam/the Prophet.
They pick on the nice, quiet, tolerant Christians....knowing that White heterosexual Christian males are the most hated group in America today and can't do anything about them...just have to sit there and be mocked.
Best thing for Christians to do is start boycotts...starting with empty stadiums.
Naming and shaming those allowing Christianity to be mocked ...is one thing that can be done.

The creators of South Park wrote a play named "The Book of Mormon" and they mocked the Mormons, and there is nothing the Mormons can do about it. And over the years the writers of South Park have mocked everyone.

Of note, after Los Angeles first blocked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence then the Mayor of Anaheim welcomed them to come to Anaheim to Angel Stadium. It is just the way it is in America. We have to allow everyone to have their own voice and their own point of view.

But we can still have a Christian night, and a family night, etc, at the stadiums.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 30, 2023, 11:24:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 11:03:30 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 10:04:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:47:07 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team's annual Pride Night.

In America we have to allow everyone to have their own point of view, and that is part of what freedom is all about.

Beverly Hills and Los Angeles has a huge Persian population, and the Persians of Los Angeles deserve to have their own night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and they can help bring attention to the situation in Iran.

And we need to have a good night at Dodger Stadium for the Catholics, etc, and other groups deserve a night too.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, but, mocking the religion of others in the process should not be allowed.
Isn't there some US law against that?

Note they're not dressed in burqas and mocking Islam/the Prophet.
They pick on the nice, quiet, tolerant Christians....knowing that White heterosexual Christian males are the most hated group in America today and can't do anything about them...just have to sit there and be mocked.
Best thing for Christians to do is start boycotts...starting with empty stadiums.
Naming and shaming those allowing Christianity to be mocked ...is one thing that can be done.

Tell your clergy to be less ridiculous, pay their taxes, stay out of politics and to lay off the altar boys. Every little bit helps.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 11:53:19 PM: We have the Anti Defamation League...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League

There are people who work to stop hate.

But Mel Brooks could still make fun of the Jews, etc. And of course he is a Jew himself.

People are not allowed to defame people or to slander people, and we do not allow hate, but people are allowed to mock groups of people openly.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 12:15:40 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 11:53:19 PM
We have the Anti Defamation League...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League

There are people who work to stop hate.

But Mel Brooks could still make fun of the Jews, etc. And of course he is a Jew himself.

People are not allowed to defame people or to slander people, and we do not allow hate, but people are allowed to mock groups of people openly.

Salute,

Tony V.

What about a mocking gay men event at Dodgers stadium, before the next game?
suuuure, bet that wouldn't be allowed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 12:25:53 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 12:15:40 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 30, 2023, 11:53:19 PM
We have the Anti Defamation League...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League

There are people who work to stop hate.

But Mel Brooks could still make fun of the Jews, etc. And of course he is a Jew himself.

People are not allowed to defame people or to slander people, and we do not allow hate, but people are allowed to mock groups of people openly.

Salute,

Tony V.

What about a mocking gay men event at Dodgers stadium, before the next game?
suuuure, bet that wouldn't be allowed.

Or even better, bring in Cheech and Chong to mock the gays openly on Pride night right in front of them, and they can laugh at themselves being mocked. Cheech and Chong have some great skits on mocking the gays. And for instance there is some funny stuff in the movie "Still Smokin" where Cheech and Chong mock the gays.

It is sad that all of the great comedians are getting old and are dying.

Cheech just built a new museum for Chicano Art in Riverside, he is doing good things before he dies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 31, 2023, 02:08:51 AM: (http://images.dailykos.com/images/1182706/large/antifaactivists.jpg?1682623729)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 02:13:15 AM: A man went to work for the Mormon Church believing that he was going to use his skills to do good deeds and to help people, but instead he said the church only cared about money and about building their bank accounts, and they never helped anyone. He said that the Mormon Church should lose their tax exempt status because they are not a charity and they do not help people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-church-ensign-peak-whistleblower-david-nielsen-allegations-60-minutes-2023-05-14/

I hope that this case will lead to the Mormon Church becoming aware, and deciding to serve the Lord and to help the needy.

Right now the main people who are helping the poor in California are the Roman Catholics, including the wonderful people from the Philippines, Christians from the Philippines have been helping the orphans and the homeless, and feeding the hungry, in California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:53:29 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM
Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an insuit to any rational religion. Kershaw, Williams, you and the rest of the cancel culture that want to boycott Target and Bud Light are haters who want LGBTQ people to disappear, and are trying to boycott products simply because they acknowledge LGBTQ people exist and buy things. Using faith as a cover for your hatred offends my Catholic faith way way more than any gentle mocking of constituent group names you stinking cube of wallaby poo. (Hi bart!)
Quote

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.
Hate of any of God's creatures is not Christian. It is hate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:58:42 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 30, 2023, 08:12:24 PM
Wombat poo. It's the wombats who have the house with poo corners.
You say that as if "wombat" and "wallaby" are not both just another word for "kangaroo".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 31, 2023, 09:23:18 AM: Welp!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/global-markets-view-usa-2023-05-31/

Deep in the article

Also pressured by the Chinese news, crude oil prices are now falling at an annual rate of more than 40% for the first time since the depth of the pandemic in June 2020. Euro zone natural gas prices are at their lowest in almost two years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 31, 2023, 09:30:07 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:58:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 30, 2023, 08:12:24 PM
Wombat poo. Its the wombats who have the house with poo corners.
You say that as if wombat and wallaby are not both just another word for kangaroo

You know perfectly well that my Inner 12 Year Old simply wanted to coin the phrase "house with poo corners."

You may resume thrashing Eeyore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 31, 2023, 09:34:29 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on May 31, 2023, 09:23:18 AM
Welp!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/global-markets-view-usa-2023-05-31/

Deep in the article

Also pressured by the Chinese news, crude oil prices are now falling at an annual rate of more than 40% for the first time since the depth of the pandemic in June 2020. Euro zone natural gas prices are at their lowest in almost two years.

Northern Europeans know how to sweater up when they need to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 10:47:46 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on May 31, 2023, 09:30:07 AM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:58:42 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on May 30, 2023, 08:12:24 PM
Wombat poo. Its the wombats who have the house with poo corners.
You say that as if wombat and wallaby are not both just another word for kangaroo

You know perfectly well that my Inner 12 Year Old simply wanted to coin the phrase "house with poo corners."

Oh yeah, game recognizes game.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on May 31, 2023, 02:38:40 PM: Speaking of game, are DeNiro and Pacino engaged in some sort of octogenarian new dad contest?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 02:41:18 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi attended the Cannes Film Festival in a dress designed to bring attention to the executions in Iran of people who are going against the extremist Muslim government of Iran. Mahlagha is a very brave woman, and she is also one of the most beautiful women in the world. Mahlagha is using her beauty to help the poor people of Iran.

(https://cdn.kbizoom.com/media/2023/05/31093335/Mahla-Javeri-1111-053123.webp)

Mahlagha lives here in California, and she is involved with the Persian community here in California. And she loves the Dodgers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on May 31, 2023, 03:13:41 PM: How is her "beauty [helping] the poor people of Iran"?

What about her good works?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 04:09:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 31, 2023, 03:13:41 PM
How is her "beauty [helping] the poor people of Iran"?

What about her good works?
Her Dodger Fandom is likely a great moral support when one is beaten and imprisoned for improper wearing of head coverings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 04:39:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 04:09:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on May 31, 2023, 03:13:41 PM
How is her "beauty [helping] the poor people of Iran"?

What about her good works?
Her Dodger Fandom is likely a great moral support when one is beaten and imprisoned for improper wearing of head coverings.

Los Angeles has a huge Persian population, and when Dodger Stadium has 50,000 Persians at Dodger Stadium all bringing awareness to the situation in Iran, then that has power for the poor oppressed people in Iran. Every little bit helps, and movements that start here in California can go global, look at McDonald's which started here in San Bernardino and which is now global and which has now sold billions of hamburgers, things that start here in California can go global. And Beverly Hills and Hollywood still have a lot of power.

And the beauty of Mahlagha Jaberi helps her to bring attention to the situation in Iran, but of course her good deeds and kind heart make her even more beautiful and effective. She is beautiful, and she is kind, and she cares about the people of Iran, she is working to help the people of Iran. And Mahlagha is a leader, she can help to lead a movement to help the people of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 05:25:22 PM: In America, homeless people are being arrested and tossed in jail, for simply putting something under or over them.
They can lie in the snow, but as soon a they cover themselves with something they are breaking the law, are given a ticket, can't pay the ticket...so into the handcuffs and off to behind bars they go.

Charming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 05:40:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 05:25:22 PM
In America, homeless people are being arrested and tossed in jail, for simply putting something under or over them.
They can lie in the snow, but as soon a they cover themselves with something they are breaking the law, are given a ticket, can't pay the ticket...so into the handcuffs and off to behind bars they go.

Charming.

Where at?

And America needs to have hostels all over where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night, like in Rome, Italy. We need to ask the people from the Philippines to open hostels all over America, they have been helping the people here in California for decades.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 07:03:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 05:40:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 05:25:22 PM
In America, homeless people are being arrested and tossed in jail, for simply putting something under or over them.
They can lie in the snow, but as soon a they cover themselves with something they are breaking the law, are given a ticket, can't pay the ticket...so into the handcuffs and off to behind bars they go.

Charming.

Where at?

And America needs to have hostels all over where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night, like in Rome, Italy. We need to ask the people from the Philippines to open hostels all over America, they have been helping the people here in California for decades.

Salute,

Tony V.

Colorado, and across the country.

Refer VERA ...Institute of Justice.

'JAILED FOR BEING HOMELESS'
by Stacey McKenna/ photos by Benjamin Rasmussen
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 07:18:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM
Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an insuit to any rational religion. Kershaw, Williams, you and the rest of the cancel culture that want to boycott Target and Bud Light are haters who want LGBTQ people to disappear, and are trying to boycott products simply because they acknowledge LGBTQ people exist and buy things. Using faith as a cover for your hatred offends my Catholic faith way way more than any gentle mocking of constituent group names you stinking cube of wallaby poo. (Hi bart!)
Quote

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.
Hate of any of God's creatures is not Christian. It is hate.

Oh, mocking nuns is 'gentle mocking', and that's OK? Well it's not OK.

LGBTQIA+ folk have a right to exist, and have a parade...equality.
They should not have the right to go mocking Christian nuns.

They started the war.
Kershaw and Williams are to be thanked and praised for speaking out (maybe at great risk to their careers, that commentator was sacked for saying 'all lives matter').
Should be given medals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on May 31, 2023, 07:23:53 PM: Make them and send them medals.

Arts and crafts could be good for your mental health. Unlike reading what you call news it will not make you any dumber.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 08:42:31 PM: Bambu, keep an eye out on your television for commercials inviting the people of Australia to come tour San Francisco, as they are spending six million dollars on advertising to bring the tourists back to San Francisco...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-launches-6-million-ad-campaign-lure-tourists-18126690.php

The tourists are not coming to San Francisco because the city has homeless people all over the streets, and drug addicts on the streets, etc. If they want to bring the tourists back then they need to help the homeless and help the addicts and nurture their city. San Francisco needs to be loved and nurtured and they need to bring back a sense of community. People used to love San Francisco, and San Francisco was my Mom's favorite city. And there are many Italian-Americans and Chinese-Americans in San Francisco. They need to love and nurture their city in order to bring the tourists back.

And they need lots of cheap hostels like in Rome, Italy, where people can shower and sleep for $15 per night.

My Mother loves the Ghiradelli Chocolate from San Francisco.

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

And Levi Strauss Blue Jeans started in San Francisco.

They need to love and nurture San Francisco and they need to make it nice again, and then the tourists will return.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on May 31, 2023, 10:29:25 PM: Hanahhahaha!

Trump running his mouth on TAPE!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM: Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 11:16:07 PM: . Homeless...Denver should be building a tent city for its people who have nowhere to live...instead of tossing them in jail.
What's the good of giving a person who is sick and living under a bridge on an old mattress, and has nothing, a ticket fine for $100?
Answer, no good.
Denver doesn't seem to have progressed much since the wild west.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 11:56:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM
Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an insuit to any rational religion. Kershaw, Williams, you and the rest of the cancel culture that want to boycott Target and Bud Light are haters who want LGBTQ people to disappear, and are trying to boycott products simply because they acknowledge LGBTQ people exist and buy things. Using faith as a cover for your hatred offends my Catholic faith way way more than any gentle mocking of constituent group names you stinking cube of wallaby poo. (Hi bart!)
Quote

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.
Hate of any of God's creatures is not Christian. It is hate.
Well, hate certainly defines you.
Bud Light, Target, Kohls, et al,simply lost sight of their customer base who liked their defined brands over the years without the controversy of social Justice. It is reminiscent of the idiocy ofColinKapernicke who was shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, that Americans would rebel against desecrating the National Anthem over a selfish job search.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 31, 2023, 11:59:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 11:16:07 PM

. Homeless...Denver should be building a tent city for its people who have nowhere to live...instead of tossing them in jail.
What's the good of giving a person who is sick and living under a bridge on an old mattress, and has nothing, a ticket fine for $100?
Answer, no good.
Denver doesn't seem to have progressed much since the wild west.

My Great Grandfather was the Chief of Police of Denver, Colorado, in the 1920's, and my family came to California during the Great Depression. So, the Wild West was my family.

The television show Mork and Mindy took place in Denver.

And supposedly if the Government in Washington, DC, is destroyed, then a Government in Denver will take over.

I went through Colorado on a Greyhound Bus in about 1990, in the winter, it was night and there was a blizzard, and a girl sitting next to me shared her blanket, and someone had a portable stereo and they were playing Garth Brooks, it was a great experience.

And like I said, we need to bring the people from the Philippines to America and give them business loans to open hostels where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15, and they can sleep in a nice bed instead of sleeping under a bridge.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 01, 2023, 03:48:58 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance

You are a delusional ass face. None of the few people who can stand your presence take a single word you say seriously.

Keep drinking from the toilet though. At this point nothing you do can either improve or threaten your health.

http://www.vox.com/policy/23742237/debt-ceiling-deal-explained-student-loans-snap-irs (http://www.vox.com/policy/23742237/debt-ceiling-deal-explained-student-loans-snap-irs)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 01, 2023, 06:07:34 AM: He's correct about people disrespecting the anthem with protests.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 11:02:48 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 31, 2023, 07:18:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM
Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an insuit to any rational religion. Kershaw, Williams, you and the rest of the cancel culture that want to boycott Target and Bud Light are haters who want LGBTQ people to disappear, and are trying to boycott products simply because they acknowledge LGBTQ people exist and buy things. Using faith as a cover for your hatred offends my Catholic faith way way more than any gentle mocking of constituent group names you stinking cube of wallaby poo. (Hi bart!)
Quote

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.
Hate of any of God's creatures is not Christian. It is hate.

Oh, mocking nuns is 'gentle mocking', and that's OK? Well it's not OK.

LGBTQIA+ folk have a right to exist, and have a parade...equality.
They should not have the right to go mocking Christian nuns.

They started the war.
Kershaw and Williams are to be thanked and praised for speaking out (maybe at great risk to their careers, that commentator was sacked for saying 'all lives matter').
Should be given medals.
You stupid, stupid, stupid little hateful man. THEY started it? Good lord gay people have been mocked and ostracized and hated and jailed and killed by followers of organized religion for centuries and you think THEY started it? They could peal Christianity like a pear and God himself would call it justice.

Specifically, look at the name of the organization. Gay men. Sisters. Do you seriously think that started as a badge of pride? It was an insult that they have embraced and weaponized. The people who started it were the people who mocked the LGBGQ+ community.

And I will believe Kershaw's real problem is with mocking religion and not Gay people when he starts protesting staging of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, or speaks out against Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 12:40:00 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 11:02:48 AM
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an Inuit to any rational religion.

Reading the posts of you and Bambu is akin to watching a Cobra and Mongoose fight. Who cares who wins?
The existence of rational religion is not an insult to gay, transgendered, or other marginalized people.

The Sisters ofPerpetualIndulgence is a qualified and successful non profit trying to help marginalized people who are victims of bigotry.
Their tactics rankle Catholics and other religious leaders and politicians.
The mistake by the Dodgers was not explaining why the Sisters were being presented an honor during Pride Night and compounding the error by kowtowing to political pressure and canceling the Sisters.
Then a backlash from Sisters supporters got them reinstated.
And then Chaos.
Kershaw defended his religion without criticizing gays which he would never do. He has been outspoken on his faith throughout his career which includes a book. Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself.
He also convinced the Dodgers to relaunch Christian Faith and Family Day at Dodger Stadium on July 30th.The Dodgers last held such an event in 2019 and Kershaw is determined to make it bigger and better than it was before COVID.[/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 12:41:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance
That certainly explains the reaction of the far right to the deal.

The debt ceiling deal is is in fact exactly what Biden has always been, for good and bad. Pragmatic, bipartisan liberal deal making.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 12:43:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 11:56:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on May 31, 2023, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on May 30, 2023, 09:55:32 PM
Nationals' pitcher Williams says he's 'deeply troubled' by it...says it insults his religion.

Seems today if you're gay you can basically insult anyone you like with impunity.

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" are said by some to be 'mostly gay men'.

Bud Light
Target

have suffered massive financial loss because of boycotts.

Maybe time for a baseball boycott?
The existence of gay and transgendered persons is not an insuit to any rational religion. Kershaw, Williams, you and the rest of the cancel culture that want to boycott Target and Bud Light are haters who want LGBTQ people to disappear, and are trying to boycott products simply because they acknowledge LGBTQ people exist and buy things. Using faith as a cover for your hatred offends my Catholic faith way way more than any gentle mocking of constituent group names you stinking cube of wallaby poo. (Hi bart!)
Quote

America seems to have gone into decline since Christians have 'disappeared'.
Time for a "rise from the dead".
Time for Christian folk to act.
Hate of any of God's creatures is not Christian. It is hate.
Well, hate certainly defines you.
Bud Light, Target, Kohls, et al,simply lost sight of their customer base who liked their defined brands over the years without the controversy of social Justice. It is reminiscent of the idiocy ofColinKapernicke who was shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, that Americans would rebel against desecrating the National Anthem over a selfish job search.
It does highlight the hypocrisy of the right bemoaning liberal "cancel culture". Their only issue is and always has been that they are not the ones doing the canceling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 12:49:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 12:41:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance
That certainly explains the reaction of the far right to the deal.

The debt ceiling deal is is in fact exactly what Biden has always been, for good and bad. Pragmatic, bipartisan liberal deal making.
LOL!
The Country is moving rightward and expecting more from its government than printing money and writing more Welfare checks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM: The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 01, 2023, 01:49:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance

ROFLMAO

Democrats pulled MyKevin across the voting line.

149 GOP

165 Democrats
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 01, 2023, 02:26:40 PM: Christians and Jews have been persecuted too, it is not just the gays whom have suffered through the years.

And that was the reason why the Puritans came to America was for religious freedom. And the Pope and the Catholic Church assisted with the exploration and settling of the new world for religious freedom.

We try hard in the USA to have good rights for everyone. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as we work to have good rights for all people.

And we have the Anti Defamation League to stop hate, and we need to respect the rights of all people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 01, 2023, 02:56:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 11:02:48 AM

...They could peel Christianity like a pear and God himself would call it justice.

Specifically, look at the name of the organization. Gay men. Sisters. Do you seriously think that started as a badge of pride? It was an insult that they have embraced and weaponized. The people who started it were the people who mocked the LGBGQ community.

And I will believe Kershaws real problem is with mocking religion and not Gay people when he starts protesting staging of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, or speaks out against Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

A bit ironic that Kershaw, who has been supportive of previous Pride Nights, couldn't see past the detail of tongue-in-cheek costumes to the larger picture of a group that was being honored for providing comfort to the sick and dying. As for the Wallaby Briquette, when does he ever see beyond the distorting lens image offered by his media masters?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 01, 2023, 03:02:10 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 01, 2023, 01:49:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance

ROFLMAO

Democrats pulled MyKevin across the voting line.

149 GOP

165 Democrats

stunning political coup was one of Jimdick's most breathless pieces of RW hagiography. Yeah, roflmao is what it deserves. At least two of those words do not mean what he thinks they mean.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 01, 2023, 03:05:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 12:49:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 12:41:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance
That certainly explains the reaction of the far right to the deal.

The debt ceiling deal is is in fact exactly what Biden has always been, for good and bad. Pragmatic, bipartisan liberal deal making.
LOL!
The Country is moving rightward and expecting more from its government than printing money and writing more Welfare checks.

No that you are freebasing actual horseshit instead of the kind conservative networks water down for public consumption, please turn in you keys, drivers license and any firearms you may have access to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 03:05:35 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 01, 2023, 03:02:10 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 01, 2023, 01:49:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on May 31, 2023, 10:40:06 PM
Kevin McCarthy delivered .
A spending cut of2 trillion dollars ( maybe more through appropriation legislation) and a stunning political coup.
For once the GOP did not sacrifice the good for the perfect,
The Biden defeat by refusing to believe theGOP had the guts in staring him down likely will drive him to retirement

Good riddance

ROFLMAO

Democrats pulled MyKevin across the voting line.

149 GOP

165 Democrats

stunning political coup was one of Jimdick's most breathless pieces of RW hagiography. Yeah, roflmao is what it deserves. At least two of those words do not mean what he thinks they mean.
For RedDick that is true of most words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 01, 2023, 03:08:43 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 12:40:00 PM

Reading the posts of you and Bambu is akin to watching a Cobra and Mongoose fight. Who cares who wins?

Either you never read Kiplings famous tale, or you did but failed to understand why it is traditional to root for the valiant mongoose.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 03:12:45 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 01, 2023, 03:08:43 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 12:40:00 PM

Reading the posts of you and Bambu is akin to watching a Cobra and Mongoose fight. Who cares who wins?

Either you never read Kiplings famous tale, or you did but failed to understand why it is traditional to root for the valiant mongoose.
Yeah, admittedly not all my references land for anyone but me, but at least I understand them. Also, kudos to you on figuring out his formating. I gave up.

Edit: I see he fixed it. I also see that I made an inexplicable reference to Eskimos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 01, 2023, 03:15:56 PM: BTW, the Katherine Hepburn quote was perfect, Lime. Not sure anyone caught that. Lion in Winter - one of the great marital fights of cinema.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 03:23:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 01, 2023, 03:15:56 PM
BTW, the Katherine Hepburn quote was perfect, Lime. Not sure anyone caught that. Lion in Winter - one of the great marital fights of cinema.
My second favorite Christmas film of all time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 01, 2023, 04:00:42 PM: What about a white heterosexual male parade at Dodgers stadium, 'black face' section?
Bet that'd be popular, not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 01, 2023, 04:04:11 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 01, 2023, 02:26:40 PM
Christians and Jews have been persecuted too, it is not just the gays whom have suffered through the years.

And that was the reason why the Puritans came to America was for religious freedom. And the Pope and the Catholic Church assisted with the exploration and settling of the new world for religious freedom.

We try hard in the USA to have good rights for everyone. And we have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as we work to have good rights for all people.

And we have the Anti Defamation League to stop hate, and we need to respect the rights of all people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gay and trans people who are also Jews and Christians are usually the first to be persecuted.
When the Nazis rose to power the gay and trans communities were the first targets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 04:41:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them

.
You really ought to pay more attention.

Last week CNN polled with a question to voters
if Mr. Biden won another term would it be a disaster or, a setback.
The total for both was 66%, with 41% in the disaster column.
CNN pointed out the results foretold that Convincing the overall public that Biden deserves a second term could prove a challenge.

All of a sudden Biden dropped ignoring the GOP Bill to NEGOTIATING over, not the debt ceiling , but a SPENDING COMPROMISE!

The dems had to go along or kiss off 2024 since the public had also chimed in in support of cutting spending.

Ahead are 12 Appropriation bills not yet passed in Congress and if not negotiated will trigger an automatic one per cent cut

As DanHenninger of the Wall Street Journal explained:

This is what is known as a Sequester.
Sequester is to democrats
What garlic is to Vampires
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 05:10:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them

.
You really ought to pay more attention.
I have been. You should pay more attention to something other than hard right wish fulfillment fantasies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 01, 2023, 05:17:12 PM: Weakest House ever.

McCarthy chose to keep beating Russia over trying to start beating Dems.

Expanding Snap in exchange for expediting a review that will deny permitting to a pipeline and prevent that misallocation of funds and purposeless wanton destruction championed by West Virginia neck suckers sooner than it would have been blocked prior to the deal.

Republicans will get to chose to cut unpopular loopholes and corporate welfare or to take the blame they deserve for the triggered cuts to spending.

At least republicans can count on the ground game and thoroughly not embarrassing or disgusting prominent figures to boost their fortunes this year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 01, 2023, 05:54:19 PM: Here in America we should be the most tolerant and forgiving people, as our ancestors and us all ended up here because of persecution in other places, and we came here to make this place better than the other places. We wrote our Declaration of Independence where we declared that ALL people are created equal and we all have the same rights in America. And then we wrote our Constitution and we modeled our government on the only Democratic Republics in history, Athens, and Rome, and we have our Bill of Rights, and we did our best to make the USA better than the places we had to escape from.

We fought to end slavery, and then we slowly worked to improve the situation for all people in America.

And as a Christian we have all sinned and I am only saved through Christ. And they say judge not because you too could be judged. I try to be tolerant and forgiving. And God loves everyone, that is the Golden Rule is to love your neighbor as God loves you. If we all obeyed the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments then it would be a great world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 01, 2023, 06:10:21 PM: Preach it in the churches Tony and God bless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 06:33:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 05:10:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them

.
You really ought to pay more attention.
I have been. You should pay more attention to something other than hard right wish fulfillment fantasies.
The hard right decided to take a symbolic or small victory saving its furor for thr bigger fights.
The democrats leapt at the chance to escape a battle that would have ruined them as serious lawmakers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 06:46:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 06:33:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 05:10:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them

.
You really ought to pay more attention.
I have been. You should pay more attention to something other than hard right wish fulfillment fantasies.
The hard right decided to take a symbolic or small victory saving its furor for thr bigger fights.
Snicker. Never change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 01, 2023, 07:16:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 06:33:39 PM

The hard right decided to take a symbolic or small victory saving its furor for thr bigger fights.

So you missed the Freedom Caucus furor and pants-shitting over Kevin's deal, the last couple days.

BAE, Bubble Boy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 01, 2023, 07:38:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 06:33:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 05:10:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 01, 2023, 02:43:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 01, 2023, 01:48:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 01, 2023, 01:10:38 PM
The country is going right and wants the government to do more!
Sure. That is why democrats are supporting spending cuts.
The upcoming appropriation votes will not make Bernie and Lizzie very happy.
Yes, the nature of bipartisan governing is that no one is ever really happy. But Sanders and Warren will be less unhappy than Matty and Marge unless McCarthy is willing to blow the whole thing up for them

.
You really ought to pay more attention.
I have been. You should pay more attention to something other than hard right wish fulfillment fantasies.
The hard right decided to take a symbolic or small victory saving its furor for thr bigger fights.
The democrats leapt at the chance to escape a battle that would have ruined them as serious lawmakers.

Oh, Prunella!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 01, 2023, 08:51:17 PM: Even the little fascist drummer boy has thrown in the towel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 01:40:32 AM: Why should people respect people who don't respect others.

Mother Teresa was a nun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 02, 2023, 03:24:53 AM: http://www.ksl.com/article/50604543/somebody-wants-the-bible-removed-from-davis-county-school-libraries (http://www.ksl.com/article/50604543/somebody-wants-the-bible-removed-from-davis-county-school-libraries)

Too gross and weird for middle and elementary schools. By High School kids in Utah have the stomach for and fortitude to withstand such filthy prose so the Bible is allowed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 05:50:56 AM: Sky News:

New York Post

Transgender cyclist forced to stand on podium alone as female competitors boycott ceremony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 07:26:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 05:50:56 AM
Sky News:

New York Post

Transgender cyclist forced to stand on podium alone as female competitors boycott ceremony.

So?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 08:30:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 01:40:32 AM
Why should people respect people who don't respect others.

Mother Teresa was a nun.
And the transgender cyclist whose ostracizing you celebrated is a human being who has gone through a life of struggle you cannot fathom. And you have no problem with people disrespecting her. And I guarantee you that you have laughed at a comic representation of a religious figure without once conceptualizing it as disrespect. Not to mention I absolutely fucking guarantee you have laughed at Gay person played for laughs without once thinking "why should people respect people who don't respect others?" And that if someone pointed out the disrespect you would talk about the repression of straight people. You stupid,.stupid, stupid hate filled little puddle of kangaroo piss.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 10:52:26 AM: By the way, oilcan, as the resident expert in marsupial waste, do kangaroos piss in puddles?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 02, 2023, 11:36:41 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 08:30:07 AM
You stupid,.stupid, stupid hate filled little puddle of kangaroo piss.
That statement says more about you rather than who you thought you were criticizing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 11:56:54 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 02, 2023, 11:36:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 08:30:07 AM
You stupid,.stupid, stupid hate filled little puddle of kangaroo piss.
That statement says more about you rathrer than who you thought you were criticizing.
It says I think bambu is a stupid, stupid, stupid hate filled little puddle of kangaroo piss.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 02, 2023, 02:02:50 PM: You are rat piss, Red, rat piss that is at least seven percent meth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 02, 2023, 02:40:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 10:52:26 AM
By the way, oilcan, as the resident expert in marsupial waste, do kangaroos piss in puddles?

Elba does not set the bar high for expertise in this area. AFAIK kangaroos aerate their urine before expelling it under high pressure, producing a penetrating mist that permeates a couple hundred square feet of adjacent ground. Stakes a claim to territory, something like a hydraulically enhanced tomcat.

Some Aussies will rent kangaroos to use as a natural herbicide treatment, chaining them up mid-lawn, and dosing them with cranberry cocktail. Apparently pretty effective on bindweed and broadleaf weeds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 03:36:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 01:40:32 AM
Why should people respect people who don't respect others.

Mother Teresa was a nun.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvzebx/mother-teresa-was-kind-of-a-heartless-bitch
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 04:51:57 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 03:36:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 01:40:32 AM
Why should people respect people who don't respect others.

Mother Teresa was a nun.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvzebx/mother-teresa-was-kind-of-a-heartless-bitch
https://deeshaa.org/teresa-ghoul-of-calcutta/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 02, 2023, 04:57:02 PM: I think the most famous piece going after Mother Teresa was that of Christopher Hitchens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 05:30:05 PM: See previous link.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 06:56:08 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 02, 2023, 04:57:02 PM
I think the most famous piece going after Mother Teresa was that of Christopher Hitchens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 06:56:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 02, 2023, 04:51:57 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 02, 2023, 03:36:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 01:40:32 AM
Why should people respect people who don't respect others.

Mother Teresa was a nun.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvzebx/mother-teresa-was-kind-of-a-heartless-bitch
https://deeshaa.org/teresa-ghoul-of-calcutta/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 02, 2023, 08:29:14 PM: Oh dear...
delete Mother Teresa...replace with the Sisters of Charity New York.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 03, 2023, 03:13:08 AM: Looks like White people are now being hunted and shot dead in America, simply for being White.
Lawrence Herr, 66 yr old man shot dead while repairing a mail box in a front yard.
Drive by shooting...in Kenner.
Video.
Two Black male suspects arrested.
Police report one suspect said he wanted to kill a White person.

Looks like White people in America will now have to wear full body armour everywhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 03, 2023, 10:22:10 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 03, 2023, 03:13:08 AM
Looks like White people are now being hunted and shot dead in America, simply for being White.
Lawrence Herr, 66 yr old man shot dead while repairing a mail box in a front yard.
Drive by shooting...in Kenner.
Video.
Two Black male suspects arrested.
Police report one suspect said he wanted to kill a White person.

Looks like White people in America will now have to wear full body armour everywhere.

Just shut up, fool.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178398395/mississippi-11-year-old-boy-called-police-shot
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 03, 2023, 10:37:46 AM: Why even bother with Bambu on such issues?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 03, 2023, 05:11:28 PM: Yes, White males, the most hated group in America/the West today, now can't even repair a letterbox in a front yard wifhout being gunned down for simply being White.
"Just an old White man, so who cares" seems to be the mood.
Where's the national outrage?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 03, 2023, 05:27:54 PM: The outrage falls on anyone who tries to claim there is an absolute right to own or carry firearms in this country. They get the blame and it is clear they must be brought down if the shootings are ever to be brought under control.

If you want to you can fly over and picket a gun manufacturer, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 03, 2023, 06:20:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 03, 2023, 05:27:54 PM
The outrage falls on anyone who tries to claim there is an absolute right to own or carry firearms in this country. They get the blame and it is clear they must be brought down if the shootings are ever to be brought under control.

If you want to you can fly over and picket a gun manufacturer, Bambi.

Are you outraged that Laurence "peanut" Herr was allegedly gunned down by two (one) black males who'd recently been released from prison?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 03, 2023, 07:44:23 PM: Aussie's most decorated war hero, charged the machine guns in Afghanistan etc, during his recent defamation case against some newspapers etc, was judged by the judge to be a murderer and war criminal.

Aussie troops were sent to Afghanistan to fight and die, never to see their families again, so bambu-ilk didn't have to go, and to fulfill the country's alliance commitments..
While fighting and waiting to die they drank alcohol, which is being blamed for some of them being out of control [Taliban terrorists having war crimes trials?]
Alcohol is now banned for deployed troops.

If the SAS special forces troops, while waiting to die, chose to drink alcohol out of the prosthetic leg of a dead terrorist, then who am I to tell them they couldn't.

Defence Force is trying to strip service medals from whole units...there's outrage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 03, 2023, 07:50:18 PM: The outrage is due to coal gas fumes. The remedy is clear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 03, 2023, 11:19:31 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/sargassum-seaweed-algae-florida-bacteria-vibrio (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/sargassum-seaweed-algae-florida-bacteria-vibrio)

I am sure the good people of Florida can count on their republican governor to handle the situation well.

If he asks nicely he should be able to get Exxon to help spearhead the cleanup.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 04, 2023, 12:23:35 AM: Flesh-eating bacteria and the smell of hydrogen sulfide concentrate the mind wonderfully.

A science pal of mine lives in the Dutch Caribbean, has been monitoring this down there. Beach cleaning is a regular routine down there. There's also talk about trying to use it for fertilizer, which has some hurdles I think.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 04, 2023, 01:05:57 PM: Looks like time delay Aileen Cannon gave Trump has run out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 04, 2023, 06:21:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 03, 2023, 07:50:18 PM
The outrage is due to coal gas fumes. The remedy is clear.

The chief commander, who was well out of harms way...in Dubai, is refusing to strip himself of his service medal.
Our troops wanted to fly/conduct missions at night, but the commanders sent them out in daylight, easy targets for the enemy...reported by a soldier.
The outrage is warranted.
The whole thing is one big mess.
The People stand with the troops, the govt has war crimes trials and/or strips medals at its own peril.
The People thought sending our troops to Afghanistan was crazy...given what happened with the Russians.
Should've sent the RAAF instead, the old F-111 "pigs" could've flown low and done the same job, all the while destroying the heroin trade.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 05, 2023, 04:27:37 PM: Looks like the Mar A Lago investigation is wrapping up.

Trump is toast.

Trumpism is alive within a shrinking bubble of MAGA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on June 05, 2023, 04:38:42 PM: Sounds like Sununu wants to shrink it as much as possible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/05/chris-sununu-trump-gop-2024/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 05, 2023, 04:46:26 PM: Not about anything relevant but might as well post it here. One of my staff asked me if Disneyland was a thing when I was a kid and I do not think I have ever hated anyone more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 05, 2023, 05:59:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 05, 2023, 04:46:26 PM
Not about anything relevant but might as well post it here. One of my staff asked me if Disneyland was a thing when I was a kid and I do not think I have ever hated anyone more.

I went to Disneyland as a 20 year old in 1978.

Meh

However I will fight anyone who says a bad word about the Wonderful World of Disney!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 05, 2023, 06:13:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 05, 2023, 04:46:26 PM
Not about anything relevant but might as well post it here. One of my staff asked me if Disneyland was a thing when I was a kid and I do not think I have ever hated anyone more.
Well, you did stipulate it had no relevancy.
Filed appropriately.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 05, 2023, 06:23:59 PM: That was startlingly close to civil. Good job.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 05, 2023, 06:29:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 05, 2023, 06:13:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 05, 2023, 04:46:26 PM
Not about anything relevant but might as well post it here. One of my staff asked me if Disneyland was a thing when I was a kid and I do not think I have ever hated anyone more.
Well, you did stipulate it had no relevancy.
Filed appropriately.
This as with most of your posts, filed appropriately. That is what the toilet is for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 05, 2023, 07:41:35 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 05, 2023, 05:29:43 PM
Meanwhile, in France

Had to look that one up!

Could not happen to a nicer Islamaophobe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM: Mickey Mouse is my hero.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 05, 2023, 10:06:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Mickey Mouse is my hero.
You are hardly alone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 05, 2023, 10:57:04 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 05, 2023, 10:06:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Mickey Mouse is my hero.
You are hardly alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmILOL55xP0
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 06, 2023, 11:06:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Mickey Mouse is my hero.

My cat just ate your hero.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 06, 2023, 05:31:22 PM: Holy shit!

WaPo exclusive today:

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 06, 2023, 05:55:19 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 06, 2023, 03:53:29 PM
The Growing Field

These people.

Christie looking for the buffet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 06, 2023, 05:56:50 PM: I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for 2000, Alex.

https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-harris-faulkner-asked-leave-restaurant-praying/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 06, 2023, 05:57:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 06, 2023, 05:31:22 PM
Holy shit!

WaPo exclusive today:

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/

Pretty much forced the EU to pick a side.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 06, 2023, 05:58:04 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 06, 2023, 05:56:50 PM
I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for 2000, Alex.

https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-harris-faulkner-asked-leave-restaurant-praying/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 06, 2023, 06:31:32 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 06, 2023, 05:58:04 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 06, 2023, 05:56:50 PM
I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for 2000, Alex.

https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-harris-faulkner-asked-leave-restaurant-praying/

She was handled by tuckums producers, excluding the ones involved in ongoing litigation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 06, 2023, 06:40:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 06, 2023, 11:06:55 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Mickey Mouse is my hero.

My cat just ate your hero.

That was not Mickey or Minnie, they are indestructible.
Banned by the Taliban, they became immortal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 06, 2023, 08:47:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 06, 2023, 05:56:50 PM
I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for 2000, Alex.

https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-harris-faulkner-asked-leave-restaurant-praying/

The Lord has determined I am a woman. And my pronouns are U.S.A.

Also, clearly not a grammarian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 06, 2023, 08:50:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 06, 2023, 06:40:51 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 06, 2023, 11:06:55 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 05, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Mickey Mouse is my hero.

My cat just ate your hero.

That was not Mickey or Minnie, they are indestructible.
Banned by the Taliban, they became immortal.

Whenever I think I'm getting kind of weird, Bambu helps put things in perspective.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 06, 2023, 10:16:22 PM: Stand your ground, dammit!

https://www.wesh.com/article/aj-owens-arrest/44111435
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 06, 2023, 10:49:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 06, 2023, 05:31:22 PM
Holy shit!

WaPo exclusive today:
Exclusive?

I mean are you that naive?

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/
[/quote]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 07, 2023, 12:51:39 AM: You are citing the same source.

Did they also run a piece on how the freedumb caucus is now in the pocket of the electric stove racket?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 07, 2023, 11:16:14 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 06, 2023, 10:49:34 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 06, 2023, 05:31:22 PM
Holy shit!

WaPo exclusive today:
Exclusive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(news)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 07, 2023, 12:21:37 PM: A challenge by a Post columnist to Mr Bean's critique of EVs in a recent Guardian column.

https://archive.is/ihdUT

And here is Mr Bean s column which sets out the reasons he felt duped by electrics.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/03/electric-vehicles-early-adopter-petrol-car-ev-environment-rowan-atkinson

I will respond to replies that show the writer actually read the columns and absorbed the factual points without cherrypicking bits out of context.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 07, 2023, 01:22:10 PM: We are a long, long way from replacing the internal combustion vehicle.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23749844/ford-f150-lightning-payload-range-loss-aaa (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23749844/ford-f150-lightning-payload-range-loss-aaa)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 07, 2023, 06:08:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 07, 2023, 01:22:10 PM
We are a long, long way from replacing the internal combustion vehicle.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23749844/ford-f150-lightning-payload-range-loss-aaa (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23749844/ford-f150-lightning-payload-range-loss-aaa)

You are a long, long way from being competent to drive. When you can manage to feed yourself, call back and we will see if we can find your keys.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 07, 2023, 07:52:03 PM: Historical Note.

New England Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780 when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states and parts of eastern Canada. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. The darkness was so complete that candles were required from noon on. It did not disperse until the middle of the next night.

AOC must have missed this date in American History.
Imagine that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 07, 2023, 09:48:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 07, 2023, 07:52:03 PM
Historical Note.

New England Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780 when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states and parts of eastern Canada. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. The darkness was so complete that candles were required from noon on. It did not disperse until the middle of the next night.

AOC must have missed this date in American History.
Imagine that.

You should also note 1816, the Yesr Without Summer.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during the gloomy, cold and snowy summer of 1816 as smoke from the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the year before (April, 1815) altered the climate of North America and Europe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 07, 2023, 09:48:13 PM: Weird.

What's weird is life in today's world.
*Nothing* is normal anymore.

First of all one has to answer the question being asked "What is a woman"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 07, 2023, 10:04:17 PM: Someone who will put half of a hotdog in a storage dish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 07, 2023, 10:13:58 PM: Waste not, want not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 07, 2023, 10:26:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 07, 2023, 09:48:13 PM
Weird.

What's weird is life in today's world.
*Nothing* is normal anymore.

First of all one has to answer the question being asked "What is a woman"?

1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOcrlJuF9wU
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 12:08:56 AM: Then, having wrestled with "what is a a woman", a man is hit with "the majority of women today are not dateable"...and '70% of women in NY who go on dates [from online] only do so for free food". [Youtube video]

Normal seems to have changed greatly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 02:08:11 AM: Settle your bloomers, grandma. There is none for you in any variety.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 08:48:01 AM: Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
This son of a bitch
Is no longer with us

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/pat-robertson-dead.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:10:10 AM: Who says there is no good news anymore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 10:46:57 AM: SCOTUS tries CYA before ethics investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 02:31:17 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 10:46:57 AM
SCOTUS tries CYA before ethics investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 04:38:03 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 08, 2023, 03:48:07 PM
The next American Savior

Mother may I?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 08, 2023, 05:17:05 PM: Gavin Newsome is doing all he can to change the subject from the mess he is making of California.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 06:51:42 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 08, 2023, 05:01:22 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 08, 2023, 08:48:01 AM
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
This son of a bitch
Is no longer with us

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/pat-robertson-dead.html

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.

Lucifer: Hey! Welcome, Pat! Lemme call Rush and let him know you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 08:59:10 PM: "Better Bachelor" on YouTube is telling all.

Telling how in the West young men/men are being turned into "women"...not masculine males.
...and how people are complaining that 'strong brave men' are not intervening when a woman and kids are being stabbed in a park (France) etc.

BB details how such a man (in NY) did intervene, and for his trouble, (he allegedly accidentally killed the attacker while having him a choke hold), faces 10 years in prison.
BB says...WHY would anyone intervene.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM: BB is a fucking idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 10:43:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

I disagree.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 10:47:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 10:43:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

I disagree.

Bambu is a fucking idiot and always has been.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:49:09 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 10:43:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

I disagree.
Of course you do. Idiots never recognize idiocy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:51:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 08, 2023, 05:17:05 PM
Gavin Newsome is doing all he can to change the subject from the mess he is making of California.

He sure has led an interesting life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 11:58:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.

That is the song taken up by most fucking idiots today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 12:54:13 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 11:58:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.

That is the song taken up by most fucking idiots today.

You're Left, and you're supporting biological males competing in sports against girls and women.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 09, 2023, 03:13:46 AM: Do not give it much thought as it is a reductively simplistic view of an essentially trivial situation.

May the best players win.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 05:01:40 AM: It's not trivial.
It's very important to the future of American girls and women.
So important that the parents of schoolgirls are now taking action...and American women athletes are doing the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 09:59:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 12:54:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 11:58:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.

That is the song taken up by most fucking idiots today.

You're Left, and you're supporting biological males competing in sports against girls and women.

Most on the Left could not give a flying fuck.

There are approximately 1.2 million trans folks in a nation of 330,000,000 million people.
There are maybe 100 examples of trans athletes in competition.

Just shut the fuck up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:00:06 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 05:01:40 AM
It's not trivial.
It's very important to the future of American girls and women.
So important that the parents of schoolgirls are now taking action...and American women athletes are doing the same.

Grifters milking suckers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:38:44 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 12:54:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 11:58:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.

That is the song taken up by most fucking idiots today.

You're Left, and you're supporting biological males competing in sports against girls and women.
Whatever the minor and trivial problems that arise from the very small number of transsexuals who want to compete in sports the solution to it should not be the further isolation, ostracizing, and humiliation of isolated, ostracized and humiliated youths. And for most of the people who are proposing that as a solution, the isolation, ostracizing and humiliation is the point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 09, 2023, 10:59:40 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:00:06 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 05:01:40 AM
It's not trivial.
It's very important to the future of American girls and women.
So important that the parents of schoolgirls are now taking action...and American women athletes are doing the same.

Grifters milking suckers.

Bambu thinks he is the former, but his saggy teats and daft expression prove definitively that he is in the latter category.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 09, 2023, 11:28:52 AM: Now that Saudia Arabia has merged into the PGA there are a couple of proposed rule changes.

Players who hit an errant shot must yell ALLAHU AKBAR! instead of "FORE!

And Tour winners not only get a bigger check they also get a New Wife!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 09, 2023, 12:48:28 PM: Trump sold the US attack plans for Iran to the Saudis and took payment in the form of business at his golf courses.

This proves trump is the very soul of the republican party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 09, 2023, 02:47:56 PM: May Pat Robertson rest in peace, he was a great man. He produced the 700 Club himself, and he was a good servant of the Lord.

A long time ago I thought about producing my own Christian show, I wanted to study the Bible more and produce a show for Christians, but the schools which train the preachers are very expensive, there is an Evangelical College in Oregon, but it is very expensive.

Here is a video that I made a long time ago interviewing my friend Jon, back then I was thinking about doing a show for Christians. I could have rock stars and movie stars, etc, on my show and we can talk about Christ and about being a Christian in today's world.

https://youtu.be/47YL7vd0pKQ

Pat Robertson died, and Dr Charles Stanley died, and Reverend Schuller died, all of the great Christians from television are dying, and we need for new people to broadcast new shows on television for Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 09, 2023, 02:55:54 PM: What made Pat Robertson a "great man"? His hypocrisy? His gay-bashing? His anti-Semitism?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 09, 2023, 03:03:44 PM: War crimes. It is funding bloody repressions with money from folks like Tony.

Windfall is a magical song.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 09, 2023, 04:53:35 PM: The movie "The Jesus Revolution" is ready to open in India, that is awesome, the people of India are getting ready to watch a movie about hippie Christians in California. And I hope that we can have a real life Jesus Revolution and I hope that we can bring everyone to Christ.

And as a teen in High School we had all of the most beautiful women in Youth For Christ, we had cheer-leaders with us when we went to Mexico to help the orphans in Mexico and people living in a garbage dump in Mexico, we went down with money and gifts for the poor in Mexico, and it was all about sharing the love of Christ. I hope that the teens of today are still able to ride buses to Mexico with Youth For Christ and with other good groups.

And Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico. You meet great people when you are doing charity work and when you are serving the Lord.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 06:06:02 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 09:59:01 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 12:54:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 08, 2023, 11:58:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 08, 2023, 11:29:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 08, 2023, 10:00:48 PM
BB is a fucking idiot.

Could be you think that way because he's blaming the Left for much of society's ills today.

That is the song taken up by most fucking idiots today.

You're Left, and you're supporting biological males competing in sports against girls and women.

Most on the Left could not give a flying fuck.

There are approximately 1.2 million trans folks in a nation of 330,000,000 million people.
There are maybe 100 examples of trans athletes in competition.

Just shut the fuck up.

Seems to be.
They don't care much about the welfare of their daughters?

Payton McCabe, a high school volleyball player , was struck in the face by a volleyball. That volleyball was spiked by a transgender player on the opposing team.
McNabb told lawmakers in a state hearing that she suffered both a concussion and a neck injury.
She said that "allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous."

The North Carolina Senate passed the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which allows competition only between girls who were born girls.

Right now over 20 states have banned transgender youth from competing in school sports.
And who knows, that number might increase in the future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 09, 2023, 07:13:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 06:06:02 PM

Payton McCabe, a high school volleyball player , was struck in the face by a volleyball. That volleyball was spiked by a transgender player on the opposing team.
McNabb told lawmakers in a state hearing that she suffered both a concussion and a neck injury.
She said that "allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous."

Several problems with this news quote, aside from the player's surname changing mid-story. Did anyone determine if there was an actual concussion? Was there medical evidence? legal action? a comparison of spiking velocities?Also begs the question, would a male player not also have received a concussion from a ball propelled with that much force? We have no way to rule out the possibility that anyone receiving a spiked ball in the head may get concussed and whiplashed. It's a freak occurence that really doesn't answer any questions about the tiny percent of trans players in women's sports.

ONCE AGAIN, WITH FEELING:

Anecdote is not evidence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 07:54:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 09, 2023, 07:13:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 06:06:02 PM

Payton McCabe, a high school volleyball player , was struck in the face by a volleyball. That volleyball was spiked by a transgender player on the opposing team.
McNabb told lawmakers in a state hearing that she suffered both a concussion and a neck injury.
She said that "allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous."

Several problems with this news quote, aside from the player's surname changing mid-story. Did anyone determine if there was an actual concussion? Was there medical evidence? legal action? a comparison of spiking velocities?Also begs the question, would a male player not also have received a concussion from a ball propelled with that much force? We have no way to rule out the possibility that anyone receiving a spiked ball in the head may get concussed and whiplashed. It's a freak occurence that really doesn't answer any questions about the tiny percent of trans players in women's sports.

ONCE AGAIN, WITH FEELING:

Anecdote is not evidence.

Besides all that, it simply is not fair.....not fair to be making biological females compete against biological males.

Then, in a video from a media interview/story, were shown early teen girls at one school having to have a biological male in their change rooms when they're in various stages of undress.
Also at the same or another school same age girls having to have a gay male student in their bathrooms.
Parents are outraged, as they should be. One mother said "we teach our girls to respect their bodies, they have the right to feel comfortable in the girls' change rooms."
The mom is 100% correct.

Interesting that the 20+ states that care enough about their daughters to have passed laws that only girls born girls can compete in girls' sports...shown in the video map are not...WA, OR, NV, CA going down the west coast.....all the east coast states down to the top of the Carolinas NC and SC have enacted such laws...as has WV.
GA hasn't, most of the South has, and the ones thru the middle up to the Dakotas, WI etc.
Seems fathers in the traditionally "Red States", "flyover country" [some changed to Blue at the last election] are mostly the ones who care most about the "bodies and minds" welfare of their daughters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 08:10:22 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 09, 2023, 02:47:56 PM
May Pat Robertson rest in peace, he was a great man. He produced the 700 Club himself, and he was a good servant of the Lord.

A long time ago I thought about producing my own Christian show, I wanted to study the Bible more and produce a show for Christians, but the schools which train the preachers are very expensive, there is an Evangelical College in Oregon, but it is very expensive.

Here is a video that I made a long time ago interviewing my friend Jon, back then I was thinking about doing a show for Christians. I could have rock stars and movie stars, etc, on my show and we can talk about Christ and about being a Christian in today's world.

https://youtu.be/47YL7vd0pKQ

Pat Robertson died, and Dr Charles Stanley died, and Reverend Schuller died, all of the great Christians from television are dying, and we need for new people to broadcast new shows on television for Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.

Satan

Welcome Pat! Lemme call Rush and let him know you are here!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:24:39 PM: It's a wonder Manhattan hasn't sunk into the harbour/river/sea by now...with all that weight on it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 08:39:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 07:54:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 09, 2023, 07:13:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 06:06:02 PM

Payton McCabe, a high school volleyball player , was struck in the face by a volleyball. That volleyball was spiked by a transgender player on the opposing team.
McNabb told lawmakers in a state hearing that she suffered both a concussion and a neck injury.
She said that "allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous."

Several problems with this news quote, aside from the player's surname changing mid-story. Did anyone determine if there was an actual concussion? Was there medical evidence? legal action? a comparison of spiking velocities?Also begs the question, would a male player not also have received a concussion from a ball propelled with that much force? We have no way to rule out the possibility that anyone receiving a spiked ball in the head may get concussed and whiplashed. It's a freak occurence that really doesn't answer any questions about the tiny percent of trans players in women's sports.

ONCE AGAIN, WITH FEELING:

Anecdote is not evidence.

Besides all that, it simply is not fair.....not fair to be making biological females compete against biological males.
Again, "Whatever the minor and trivial problems that arise from the very small number of transsexuals who want to compete in sports the solution to it should not be the further isolation, ostracizing, and humiliation of isolated, ostracized and humiliated youths. And for most of the people who are proposing that as a solution, the isolation, ostracizing and humiliation is the point."
Quote

Then, in a video from a media interview/story, were shown early teen girls at one school having to have a biological male in their change rooms when they're in various stages of undress.
Also at the same or another school same age girls having to have a gay male student in their bathrooms.
Parents are outraged, as they should be. One mother said "we teach our girls to respect their bodies, they have the right to feel comfortable in the girls' change rooms."
The mom is 100% correct.
The idea of transsexuals being "gay male students" or presenting a real threat to girls in changing rooms speaks volumes that clearly do not reach your ears perched atop Mount Stupid.
Quote

Interesting that the 20+ states that care enough about their daughters to have passed laws that only girls born girls can compete in girls' sports...shown in the video map are not...WA, OR, NV, CA going down the west coast.....all the east coast states down to the top of the Carolinas NC and SC have enacted such laws...as has WV.
GA hasn't, most of the South has, and the ones thru the middle up to the Dakotas, WI etc.
Seems fathers in the traditionally "Red States", "flyover country" [some changed to Blue at the last election] are mostly the ones who care most about the "bodies and minds" welfare of their daughters.
Haters of transsexuals who want to exclude them from society, humiliate and isolate them are not more concerned with the welfare of their daughters but they are unconcerned with the damage they are causing to other people's chdren.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM: The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 11:26:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?

I do not give a flying fuck about it.

Let the guy compete and put an asterisk in the book.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 11:37:03 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 11:26:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?

I do not give a flying fuck about it.

Let the guy compete and put an asterisk in the book.

If the girls don't get the places, beaten by a biological men, they don't go to the state and national championships, then the Olympics.
The Olympics are having none of it, biological men against biological women in sport.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 10, 2023, 12:04:52 AM: Your burning yearning to grope the androgynous is sick and troubling.

If counseling does not help you stop, Bambu, chemical castration might be your last best alternative to get yourself under control.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 10, 2023, 02:29:50 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 10, 2023, 12:04:52 AM
Your burning yearning to grope the androgynous is sick and troubling.

If counseling does not help you stop, Bambu, chemical castration might be your last best alternative to get yourself under control.

LOL

You know it's totally wrong ...but you won't admit it.
Never mind, govts and sports governing bodies are doing it without your support.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 10, 2023, 03:42:08 AM: You are being totally wrong and you need to do something about it to get yourself to stop.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 10, 2023, 05:18:48 PM: So that is a municipal toilet bowl he is sitting on?

They might want to ankle bracelet him to the stall during bathroom breaks over the course of the trial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 06:41:15 AM: If what was shown on my tv news tonite is correct, a former president could be in very serious trouble.
Multiple decades in prison as the maximum sentence if convicted.
If he did what he's being accused of...why would he do that?
He was shown saying that he's done nothing wrong, that everything he did was allowed under the rules.
He said evil forces are out to get him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM: There is also a deficit of 400,000 workers in the industry, which has resulted in construction delays and higher homebuilding costs - a growing concern for the industry, NAHB Chairman Alicia Huey shared with lawmakers at Capitol Hill this week

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/some-homebuilders-are-cutting-corners-as-demand-heats-up-124424033.html

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 11:02:14 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Biden has it all figured it out.
Open the borders and invite a new batch of slaves in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 11, 2023, 02:59:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 06:41:15 AM
If what was shown on my tv news tonite is correct, a former president could be in very serious trouble.
Multiple decades in prison as the maximum sentence if convicted.

He did what he is accused of. There is no law saying he has to survive his sentence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 04:16:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 11:02:14 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Biden...
Open the borders and invite a new batch of slaves in.
Every word here is a lie. Including the "a".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 11, 2023, 04:20:22 PM: I think we should engage with Mexico, and I think that it would be foolish to build a wall on the border and to hide behind the wall. I live only about 100 miles from the border with Mexico, and I think that we should have a good active relationship with Mexico.

My Grandmother opened Gold Mines in Mexico, and she helped to bring paved roads, and electricity, and running water, and television, and radio, etc, etc, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico. She brought civilization into some very remote parts of Mexico, and they loved her for it. She brought money and prosperity to some very poor people.

And when I was a teen I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ and it was a great experience. We went down to give money and gifts to orphans, and to people living in a garbage dump. I learned how lucky I am to be born in America, I was born by NASA, and Hollywood, and Disneyland, I was born in a whole different world than the orphans in Mexico. And for the street children, and for the people living in garbage dumps, etc. California is full of wealthy Christians, and it is traditional as a teen to go on a mission to Mexico to share the love of Christ with the poor people in Mexico.

We need to have a good relationship with Mexico. And we can invest in the Ports in Mexico, and Mexican Truck Drivers can join the Teamsters Union and they can deliver goods to Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 11, 2023, 05:32:16 PM: Has the judge had the indictment read to her yet?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 11, 2023, 05:37:48 PM: This is truly the end of Western civilization

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/heat-pump-sales-topped-gas-furnaces-United-States/652277/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 11, 2023, 06:38:43 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 11, 2023, 05:37:48 PM
This is truly the end of Western civilization

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/heat-pump-sales-topped-gas-furnaces-United-States/652277/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 07:05:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 04:16:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 11:02:14 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Biden...
Open the borders and invite a new batch of slaves in.
Every word here is a lie. Including the "a".
(Sigh) Insults, but no rebutting facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 11, 2023, 07:10:10 PM: Your drivel is not worth rebuttal.

Keep groping around. You may smack your head into something worth saying.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 11, 2023, 07:21:23 PM: Took awhile but here we are

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2019/08/04/domestic-terrorists-dont-make-america-great-again/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 07:43:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 04:16:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 11:02:14 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Biden...
Open the borders and invite a new batch of slaves in.
Every word here is a lie. Including the "a".
(Sigh) Insults, but no rebutting facts.
No insults. Just facts. You are a proven liar. Or perhaps you would like to explain how you can be both 47 and a reporter who covered the death of Chuck Hughes in 1971.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 08:02:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 07:43:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 04:16:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 11:02:14 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 09:51:51 AM

Gosh, Luee, any thoughts on where America could fill that shortage with workers who are used to working long hard hours outdoors in the heat?
Biden...
Open the borders and invite a new batch of slaves in.
Every word here is a lie. Including the "a".
(Sigh) Insults, but no rebutting facts.
No insults. Just facts. You are a proven liar. Or perhaps you would like to explain how you can be both 47 and a reporter who covered the death of Chuck Hughes in 1971.
LOL!
Checkmate
Again
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 11, 2023, 08:40:23 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 11, 2023, 07:10:10 PM
Your drivel is not worth rebuttal.

If you rebutt, he either shouts squirrel, pretends to misunderstand the rebuttal, fires an ad hominem, or changes his initial assertions and insists he never said what you're disputing. So why bother? If he's too stupid to grasp the difference between an undocumented alien and a resident foreign national (who is by definition, by making their presence and request for public assistance a matter of record, documented ), then why bother? If he's playing some chickenshit game feigning stupid, at this point a really generous assumption, then again, why bother?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 11, 2023, 08:43:29 PM: Red herrings can be simple.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 09:16:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 11, 2023, 08:40:23 PM

If he's too stupid to grasp the difference between an undocumented alien and a resident foreign national (who is by definition, by making their presence and request for public assistance a matter of record, documented ), then why bother?
Which changes the debate Luee raised and Lime rebutted by swinging and missing.
I cited studies that provided data that was not my opinion

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that, as of 2022, American taxpayers shell out at least $151 billion each year to cover the cost of illegal immigration. Broken down, the data reveals that taxpayers pay $182 billion annually to provide services and benefits to illegal aliens and their dependents. These costs are offset by about $31 billion in taxes that are collected from the estimated 15.5 million illegal aliens living in the United States, bringing the net cost to $150.7 billion annually.

The 2022 costs represent a 30 percent increase to taxpayers in just five years. A former version of this study, conducted in 2017 by FAIR, placed the annual net cost of illegal immigration at $116 billion. Most of the additional costs have been added in the past two years, as the Biden administration de facto open borders policies have triggered a historic surge of new illegal migrants pouring across our borders. Moreover, the updated price tag of $151 billion is a conservative estimate as there are additional costs incurred from illegal immigration, but there is currently insufficient data to provide reliable cost estimates.

If you disagree with these facts please cite how they are wrong.
So far all you have done is attack me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 09:19:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
Simple answer.
No
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 10:46:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.
It is that simple.
Why do you favor unfairness to female athletes which include a number who are lesbian?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 11:22:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 10:46:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.
It is that simple.
No it is not.
Quote
Why do you favor unfairness to female athletes
Begging the question.
Quote
which include a number who are lesbian?
What does sexual preference have to do with it?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 12:51:17 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 11:22:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 10:46:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.
It is that simple.
No it is not.
Quote
Why do you favor unfairness to female athletes
Begging the question.
Quote
which include a number who are lesbian?
What does sexual preference have to do with it?
Sexual preference has nothing to do with the question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 12:54:41 AM: Red cannot reach for a single source without getting his grubby fingers stuck in a hate group. It is almost surprising.

http://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform (http://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 01:03:22 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 11, 2023, 10:46:26 PM
It is that simple.
Why do you favor unfairness to female athletes which include a number who are lesbian?

If you want to be a defender of little girls first you need to stop raping them then groping them then forcing them to carry your children against their wills.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 02:09:51 AM: That is a fools take on the topic, all a fool can handle, and on every point foolishly dead wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 02:37:27 AM: Your question is simple.

You are simply terrified to find out that many of the guys who have been kicking your ass for years in every form of competition are by your definition women. It keeps you up at night and is causing you additional shrinkage.

There is nothing more to it than that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 12, 2023, 09:31:07 AM: This thread has touched bottom.

And not in the fun way that bottoms can be touched.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 10:19:41 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/12/2174843/-Italy-breaking-Berlusconi-is-deceased (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/12/2174843/-Italy-breaking-Berlusconi-is-deceased)

Ding dong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 10:31:32 AM: http://pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/when-the-tide-goes-out/ (http://pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/when-the-tide-goes-out/)

Soak the rich, for the children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 11:23:44 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
]All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.
And I thought Nihilism in here was exclusive to YankGuy
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 12:00:10 PM: You did not think. It was a clumsy spasm. You regurgitated some more bullshit. That is all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 12:20:57 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 11:23:44 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
]All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.
And I thought Nihilism in here was exclusive to YankGuy
You should stop using words you do not understand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 04:07:46 PM: Blissful silence would ensue from that quarter and sustain for a heavenly long interval.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 04:49:54 PM: If this apartment complex was owned by a Christian then 10% would go back into the community as the Christian works to obey Matthew 25; 31-46 and as the Christian does charity work. Christians live a purpose driven life that is about much more than just making money, and money is just a tool that can be used to help the poor, etc.

But, when the apartment complex is owned by a giant foreign corporation then all that they care about is money, they charge as much as they can get and they give back as little in return as they can, it is just about money. The world becomes a sad place when everyone just starts only caring about money and when no one gives back to their community. People become very lonely, people even become so depressed that they commit suicide. They forget all about the love of Christ, and the communities lose their love.

What makes Rome so beautiful is more than the statues and fountains, it is the Christian love of the people in Rome, and they all nurture their communities.

California is having problems in San Francisco, and in Los Angeles, and in San Bernardino, and they need to turn to Christ to save their cities. And they can give tax breaks to people who do charity work. They can also have hostels like in Rome where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night. We need to have a Jesus Revolution, and we need for local companies to own the businesses and to own the apartment complexes, etc, in Anaheim we even own our own electric company and we own Angel Stadium, and good guys like Gene Autry nurtured Anaheim. The cities need for people to give back to their communities and to nurture their communities instead of just being greedy and sending the money to some giant foreign corporation.

And we need for Americans to advance on Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, we need to get beyond simply providing food and shelter to reach a point where we are training doctors, and scientists, and psychiatrists, etc, our people need to learn how to solve problems and our people need to find a sense of purpose in nurturing our cities. And like with Cheech donating the new museum in Riverside for Chicano Art, Cheech is a good American, and he is setting a good example. That is what the cities need, they need good guys like Cheech to open new museums, etc, and they need for people to nurture the cities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 12, 2023, 05:35:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 04:49:54 PM
Christians live a purpose driven life that is about much more than just making money, and money is just a tool that can be used to help the poor, etc.

Tony V.

So did Gandhi. You don't have to be Christian to practice altruism and compassion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 06:56:40 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 12, 2023, 05:35:18 PM
[. You don't have to be Christian to practice altruism and compassion.
You do not have to believe anything to practice altruism and compassion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 06:59:19 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 12, 2023, 05:35:18 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 04:49:54 PM
Christians live a purpose driven life that is about much more than just making money, and money is just a tool that can be used to help the poor, etc.

Tony V.

So did Gandhi. You don't have to be Christian to practice altruism and compassion.

"The Jesus Revolution" is opening up in India, I hope it is a huge success, and I hope it helps to inspire a real Jesus Revolution, here in California, and in Mexico, and as far as we can go. Bringing Jesus to Las Vegas might be too much to expect, but we can try there too.

Pepperdine in Malibu is a Christian college, it is a good college, my Father studied Business there. Pepperdine can help to save Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Perpperdine can have a think tank and they can discuss ways that they can use money and Business to improve the situation in our California cities, and they can also suggest ways that tax breaks can be used to help the poor and the homeless, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 07:45:39 PM: Here in California during the Great Depression the farmers got together and formed Co-Operatives where they shared advertising expenses and shipping expenses, etc, and they shipped oranges east on railroads, etc. Sunkist sent the oranges east on railroads and created wealth for the local communities here.

And picking oranges has always been a great way to create jobs for desperate people, and it still is right now. I would rather pick oranges in California than live in a garbage dump in Mexico. Picking oranges out in the fresh air and sunshine with the music playing, with your buddies, they try to make the most of it, and then they go surfing after work, etc. And they have lots of tacos, etc, when you work hard then you eat good. And Corona beers for all of the workers, etc. We just received a lot of rain, so California will be growing a lot of food, Arizona too as they grow winter vegetables in Arizona, they have dams with huge lakes out in the desert, we need to be smart and we need to keep building dams, etc. And they can grow wheat, and mustard, and other stuff in Nevada, along with raising cattle and making cheese, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 08:06:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.

All sports are fair, if the competitors are all the same biological gender.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 09:03:31 PM: The bout of mud wrestling you are constantly losing with reality seems like it was stacked against you from the beginning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 09:54:43 PM: Because of dams built wisely in Arizona a long time ago, now Arizona has huge lakes to provide water for winter farming. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, etc, they are all getting their winter vegetables from Arizona now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:03:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.

All sports are fair, if the competitors are all the same biological gender.
Why? What difference does gender make?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 10:20:57 PM: About that possible Wuhan Lab Leak(continued)

Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott report for the Times of London

Fresh evidence drawn from confidential files reveals Chinese scientists spliced together deadly pathogens shortly before the pandemic. Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began.

Investigators who scrutinised top secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid 19 outbreak.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 12, 2023, 10:21:35 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 09:54:43 PM
Because of dams built wisely in Arizona a long time ago, now Arizona has huge lakes to provide water for winter farming. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, etc, they are all getting their winter vegetables from Arizona now.

Salute,

Tony V.

Dude

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/04/water-shortage-arizona-california-utah-climate-change/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 12, 2023, 10:43:16 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 12, 2023, 10:20:57 PM
About that possible Wuhan Lab Leak(continued)

Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott report for the Times of London

Fresh evidence drawn from confidential files reveals Chinese scientists spliced together deadly pathogens shortly before the pandemic. Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began.

Investigators who scrutinised top secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid 19 outbreak.

Trump, while stealing nuclear secrets, with the help of the republican party, helped Covid kill Grandma along with hundreds of thousands of other Americans.

Republicans took the outbreak as an opportunity to promote violence between neighbors while stealing the peoples money for themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 10:57:03 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 12, 2023, 10:21:35 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 12, 2023, 09:54:43 PM
Because of dams built wisely in Arizona a long time ago, now Arizona has huge lakes to provide water for winter farming. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, etc, they are all getting their winter vegetables from Arizona now.

Salute,

Tony V.

Dude

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/04/water-shortage-arizona-california-utah-climate-change/

In the winter the whole USA is getting spinach from Arizona and from California...

https://economics.arizona.edu/arizona-leafy-greens-economic-contributions-industry-cluster

New York, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, etc, they are all getting their spinach in the winter from California and Arizona, all thanks to dams, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 03:26:57 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:03:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.

All sports are fair, if the competitors are all the same biological gender.
Why? What difference does gender make?

Usain Bolt-ilk can't be competing in races against women.
They have to compete against men only.

Ditto LeBron-ilk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM: Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 09:43:26 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM
Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.

Nah.
bambu-ilk understand most sports just fine...except gridiron.
All the different plays....very confusing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 09:58:17 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 03:26:57 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:03:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 12, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 12, 2023, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 11, 2023, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 11, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 09, 2023, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 10:29:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 09, 2023, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 09, 2023, 08:46:38 PM
The parents don't hate transgender students, they just don't want biological males in the same change rooms as their daughters and don't want them competing in the same sports/races.
They believe in equality for women, the sports for women to be fair and equal. All schoolgirls born girls to be competing against each other, with biological males not included.
It's only fair.

Bullshit.

It is not anything but the Rights way of setting up a campaign.

Focus a message sent on all rightwing frequencies how these deviants are destroying society, seducing our toddlers and eating our infants. God said you must hate these abominations yada yada yada.

Then those who fall for that MAGA bullshit elect the bastards who make their lives miserable.

Do you think biological males competing against biological females in sports is fair to the biological females?
Red herring.

Simple question.
That is all you are mentally capable of, which is why you think that is the important question, and why you think it is simple.

Yes, I am no Rhodes scholar.
But you don't have to be one, or have a degree from Harvard to figure out this one.
It is simple.
My question is simple.
The answer is simple..yes, or no.
You either think it's fair, or not fair.
All sports are unfair. That is the nature of sports. There are always people with competitive advantages.

All sports are fair, if the competitors are all the same biological gender.
Why? What difference does gender make?

Usain Bolt-ilk can't be competing in races against women.
They have to compete against men only.

Ditto LeBron-ilk.
I did not realize Bolt and James were transgendered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 10:01:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM
Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.

Nah.
bambu-ilk understand most sports just fine...except gridiron.
All the different plays....very confusing.
It would not take much to confuse you. Like just someone jingling keys during a game.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on June 13, 2023, 12:19:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 09:58:17 AM
I did not realize Bolt and James were transgendered.

Most bolts come with nuts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 13, 2023, 02:42:52 PM: As we work to improve our cities then we need to remember the power of FOOD. When cities riot then we can withhold food until they calm down, and only peaceful law abiding people will be allowed to eat.

And you do not need to go hunt down the homeless people in order to help them and to let them know about the services to help them, instead one can simply feed the homeless and the homeless people will all show up to eat, and the homeless will follow the rules in order to be able to eat.

There is power with FOOD, and we can use food to improve our cities.

Of note, I attended the Saint Justin Martyr Catholic Church here in Anaheim, and the ladies from the church cooked a pot-luck and they fed everyone after church, the food was amazing, the ladies from the church cooked wonderful food. We had a priest from Ireland, he was great. Someone burned our church down, but it has since been rebuilt, though I now live on the other side of town. Feeding the people is a great way to get the people to come to Church on Sunday.

And the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana feeds the homeless people as they sign them up for benefits and services. The people will show up and they will obey the rules in order to be able to eat.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 06:23:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 10:01:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM
Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.

Nah.
bambu-ilk understand most sports just fine...except gridiron.
All the different plays....very confusing.
It would not take much to confuse you. Like just someone jingling keys during a game.

More like the no-ideas who arrive after kick-off and wander around like lost sheep looking for their seats, blocking everyone's view.
And the ones who can't go '5 minutes' without a beer or wine and push past everyone as they exit the rows, then return with multiple drinks, often spilling some.
One time it would be good to be rich and be watching the game from a private box.
Trump has his own plane...the best way to travel, in your own plane..no being jammed up in 'cattle class'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 13, 2023, 11:50:56 PM: We can force the heartless giant foreign corporations to be altruistic via the strength of Unions and Labor Laws, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 14, 2023, 09:11:49 AM: https://apnews.com/article/cormac-mccarthy-dies-98a5936a9b89409a9485a3a2bf2208ea

RIP Cormac. Died in Santa Fe which, based on my visits there, is definitely a country for old men. And getting unaffordable these days.

Blood Meridian troubled me, as great literature should.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 14, 2023, 12:53:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 06:23:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 10:01:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM
Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.

Nah.
bambu-ilk understand most sports just fine...except gridiron.
All the different plays....very confusing.
It would not take much to confuse you. Like just someone jingling keys during a game.

More like the no-ideas who arrive after kick-off and wander around like lost sheep looking for their seats, blocking everyone's view.
And the ones who can't go '5 minutes' without a beer or wine and push past everyone as they exit the rows, then return with multiple drinks, often spilling some.
One time it would be good to be rich and be watching the game from a private box.
Trump has his own plane...the best way to travel, in your own plane..no being jammed up in 'cattle class'.

The thought of crowds of people spilling their drinks on you cheered me up this morning.

Thanks
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 02:17:08 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 14, 2023, 12:53:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 06:23:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 13, 2023, 10:01:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 13, 2023, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 13, 2023, 03:52:28 AM
Sport is better if Bambu-ilk are not permitted to watch or comment. That is no hardship because sport is too complicated for Bambu-ilk to follow.

Nah.
bambu-ilk understand most sports just fine...except gridiron.
All the different plays....very confusing.
It would not take much to confuse you. Like just someone jingling keys during a game.

More like the no-ideas who arrive after kick-off and wander around like lost sheep looking for their seats, blocking everyone's view.
And the ones who can't go '5 minutes' without a beer or wine and push past everyone as they exit the rows, then return with multiple drinks, often spilling some.
One time it would be good to be rich and be watching the game from a private box.
Trump has his own plane...the best way to travel, in your own plane..no being jammed up in 'cattle class'.

The thought of crowds of people spilling their drinks on you cheered me up this morning.

Thanks

lol
No surprise.
Before you start your celebration party...of late the bars are putting multiple drinks in cardboard trays....instead of patrons carrying them in their hands.
And, RSA officers have appeared at every bar (Responsible Service of Alcohol officers).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 14, 2023, 03:17:29 PM: On the issue of alcohol servers and hot dog servers, etc, at Angel Baseball games at Angel Stadium, my dearly departed buddy Tom managed homeless shelters and he put the homeless people to work selling hot dogs and beer at Angel Stadium to raise money for Canning Hunger to feed the hungry people. Tom and his crew of homeless workers and with people he got from Narcotics Anonymous, etc, raised over one million dollars for Canning Hunger.

Tom set a good example that other people can follow, and there can be homeless people selling beer and hot dogs at Baseball games all over the United States to raise money for Charity to feed the hungry people, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 06:46:54 PM: The end of the electric car is near.
Toyota's new hydrogen combustion engine will revolutionise motoring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 14, 2023, 06:55:39 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 14, 2023, 12:49:16 PM
Liberty on the March

Arizona
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 14, 2023, 07:10:27 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 14, 2023, 06:55:39 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 14, 2023, 12:49:16 PM
Liberty on the March

Arizona
Every time she opens her mouth i thank God she lost.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 14, 2023, 07:12:21 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 06:46:54 PM
The end of the electric car is near.
Toyota's new hydrogen combustion engine will revolutionise motoring.
The fuel is called "Klear" with a K and will turn every car into the Hindenburg.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 10:17:17 PM: How come Biden had classified documents and escaped prosecution and Trump is on trial?

Trump says he had every right to
have the classified documents.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 14, 2023, 10:26:58 PM: It is really cute that you still believe a word Trump has to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:09:17 PM: Me Too.
...has become a farce.
Genuine cases, but an ever-increasing number of ...well you know.

Men in Australia are running scared...men in Britain are reportedly running super-scared...of being falsely accused.

Men there are on the run, many giving women a miss altogether.
My senate is in turmoil today as sexual allegations by a female senator [under 'parliamentary privilege'] are being repelled as false.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:15:34 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 14, 2023, 10:26:58 PM
It is really cute that you still believe a word Trump has to say.

Didn't say I believe him.
I believe he believes what he's saying.

Maybe he made an honest mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 15, 2023, 01:10:56 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:09:17 PM
Me Too.
...has become a farce.
Genuine cases, but an ever-increasing number of ...well you know.

Men in Australia are running scared...men in Britain are reportedly running super-scared...of being falsely accused.

Men there are on the run, many giving women a miss altogether.
My senate is in turmoil today as sexual allegations by a female senator [under 'parliamentary privilege'] are being repelled as false.

(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyoEy7XXsAAjdWK?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 15, 2023, 02:07:30 AM: Fuck Gregg Abbott

https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-statement-regarding-arrival-migrants-los-angeles
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2023, 10:36:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 10:17:17 PM
How come Biden had classified documents and escaped prosecution and Trump is on trial?
Knowledge and intent and the deliberate attempt to obstruct the investigation.
Quote

Trump says he had every right to
have the classified documents.
Well he is a fucking liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2023, 10:43:37 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:09:17 PM
Me Too.
...has become a farce.
Genuine cases, but an ever-increasing number of ...well you know.

Men in Australia are running scared...men in Britain are reportedly running super-scared...of being falsely accused.

Men there are on the run, many giving women a miss altogether.
My senate is in turmoil today as sexual allegations by a female senator [under 'parliamentary privilege'] are being repelled as false.
God white male persecution complex is sickening.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2023, 10:45:13 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:15:34 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 14, 2023, 10:26:58 PM
It is really cute that you still believe a word Trump has to say.

Didn't say I believe him.
I believe he believes what he's saying.
P. T. Barnum would love you.
Quote

Maybe he made an honest mistake.
Except his statements and his actions, especially his attempts to hide the documents and avoid handing them over when demanded belies the idea of a mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2023, 12:44:06 PM: Mexico is building a whole network of high speed trains to attract tourists to Mexico, add that to their vast ability to grow food, and they can train their people to be chefs to cook for the tourists, etc. And they can tax Coca Cola to pay for education for the children, etc, they can have tariffs on imports to help to pay for education, etc. And they can build libraries, etc. Mexico is going to be nice for the tourists.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 15, 2023, 01:13:20 PM: For our new immigrants, we need to make our people legal so that they can join unions and so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and then the unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are, etc. For instance, the immigrants can join the United Farm Workers and they can move to live in Merced, California, and they can pick strawberries, etc. Plus there is the Teamsters Union, etc. The unions can tell the immigrants where the jobs are.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 15, 2023, 09:50:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2023, 10:43:37 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:09:17 PM
Me Too.
...has become a farce.
Genuine cases, but an ever-increasing number of ...well you know.

Men in Australia are running scared...men in Britain are reportedly running super-scared...of being falsely accused.

Men there are on the run, many giving women a miss altogether.
My senate is in turmoil today as sexual allegations by a female senator [under 'parliamentary privilege'] are being repelled as false.
God white male persecution complex is sickening.

Not all men in Australia and Britain now are white.
The latest two men charged by police are both non-white, one Indigenous, the other of NZ (maybe Maori) ancestry.
One is charged with "sexually touching" (groping), without permission, a woman on both breasts 5 times in a few minutes, (in a pub).
He faces 5 years in prison.
At his first court appearance recently his lawyer stated that "the CCTV doesn't show that".
His next court appearance is in two weeks.

The other is charged with "sexual assault of a woman" in a hotel bathroom.
He's pleaded not guilty.
His trial starts soon. He's not denying the sex took place, but that it was consensual.

Both are star, and much loved by fans, Rugby players, one in rugby union, the other in rugby league.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 15, 2023, 10:03:22 PM: Bambu will always put his sexism before his racism. It is what he has for principles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 15, 2023, 11:25:04 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 15, 2023, 10:03:22 PM
Bambu will always put his sexism before his racism. It is what he has for principles.

White male persecution is totally real.
*
Women today somehow seem to have been elevated to 'goddess status', 'perfect in every way', 'entitled', 'can do no wrong'.
Seems it's been decreed that *every* political etc job that becomes vacant has to be filled by a woman.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 16, 2023, 06:41:43 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 15, 2023, 11:25:04 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 15, 2023, 10:03:22 PM
Bambu will always put his sexism before his racism. It is what he has for principles.

White male persecution is totally real.
*
Women today somehow seem to have been elevated to 'goddess status', 'perfect in every way', 'entitled', 'can do no wrong'.
Seems it's been decreed that *every* political etc job that becomes vacant has to be filled by a woman.

White male persecution is totally real.

The most powerful demographic in the history of the world crying the pseudo blues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 16, 2023, 07:13:00 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 16, 2023, 06:41:43 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 15, 2023, 11:25:04 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 15, 2023, 10:03:22 PM
Bambu will always put his sexism before his racism. It is what he has for principles.

White male persecution is totally real.
*
Women today somehow seem to have been elevated to 'goddess status', 'perfect in every way', 'entitled', 'can do no wrong'.
Seems it's been decreed that *every* political etc job that becomes vacant has to be filled by a woman.

White male persecution is totally real.

The most powerful demographic in the history of the world crying the pseudo blues.

"Two wrongs don't make a right"...goes the saying.

Obviously they do.
Oh well, such is life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 16, 2023, 10:47:02 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 15, 2023, 09:50:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 15, 2023, 10:43:37 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 14, 2023, 11:09:17 PM
Me Too.
...has become a farce.
Genuine cases, but an ever-increasing number of ...well you know.

Men in Australia are running scared...men in Britain are reportedly running super-scared...of being falsely accused.

Men there are on the run, many giving women a miss altogether.
My senate is in turmoil today as sexual allegations by a female senator [under 'parliamentary privilege'] are being repelled as false.
God white male persecution complex is sickening.

Not all men in Australia and Britain now are white.
The latest two men charged by police are both non-white, one Indigenous, the other of NZ (maybe Maori) ancestry.
One is charged with "sexually touching" (groping), without permission, a woman on both breasts 5 times in a few minutes, (in a pub).
He faces 5 years in prison.
At his first court appearance recently his lawyer stated that "the CCTV doesn't show that".
His next court appearance is in two weeks.

The other is charged with "sexual assault of a woman" in a hotel bathroom.
He's pleaded not guilty.
His trial starts soon. He's not denying the sex took place, but that it was consensual.

Both are star, and much loved by fans, Rugby players, one in rugby union, the other in rugby league.
Your belief that men should be allowed to grope and rape women is noted.

And if men are running scared and afraid that their conduct might be misconstrued or misunderstood, where they have to watch what they do and say around the opposite sex or always make sure there are witnesses, welcome to the world toxic masculinity has created. Women have been living in that world for a long, long time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 16, 2023, 10:50:13 AM: Happy 300th Anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, the great defender of free markets and Capitalism whose observations in the Wealth of Nations has never been more relevant than in the last half Century.

Since the decline of Communism, there has been a reduction in poverty that is unmatched in any previous period of human history. In 1981, the absolute poverty rate worldwide was 42.7 percent; by 2000, it had fallen to 27.8 percent. Today, it is less than 9 percent. Even in China, which retains a Communist Party that monopolizes power, economist Weiying Zhang of Peking University told German economist Rainer Zittlemann that China s rapid growth of the past four decades has been driven by the power of the market and the non state sectors, rather than the power of the government and the state sector as claimed by the China model theorists.The vitality of China alone is a magnificent victory of the Adam Smith vision of the market.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 16, 2023, 10:52:26 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 16, 2023, 10:47:02 AM

And if men are running scared and afraid that their conduct might be misconstrued or misunderstood, where they have to watch what they do and say around the opposite sex or always make sure there are witnesses, welcome to the world toxic masculinity has created. Women have been living in that world for a long, long time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 16, 2023, 11:47:04 AM: http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/16/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-00101963 (http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/16/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-00101963)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 16, 2023, 03:33:37 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 16, 2023, 11:47:04 AM
http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/16/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-00101963 (http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/16/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-00101963)

What I am about to post would have caused bankshot1 and Hammy to go apoplectic.

The author of this article is a professor at John Jay College. The president is a friend from high school, Karol Mason.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 16, 2023, 03:34:06 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 16, 2023, 02:24:11 PM
Lets make a deal

That ship has sailed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 16, 2023, 04:05:46 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 16, 2023, 03:54:28 PM
Tyrants United
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 16, 2023, 06:01:38 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 17, 2023, 03:37:28 AM: Joe made a speech 'today'...and at the end said:
"God save the Queen"!

Wazzat?

Deceased Elizabeth 11?
Or in relation to Pride?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 17, 2023, 02:47:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 16, 2023, 06:01:38 PM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead)

https://youtu.be/uwiTs60VoTM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 17, 2023, 03:13:35 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 17, 2023, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 16, 2023, 06:01:38 PM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/16/2175850/-Weird-El-Ni-o-Heating-N-Atlantic-to-Record-Highs-Extreme-Atlantic-Hurricane-Season-Ahead)

https://youtu.be/uwiTs60VoTM

http://youtu.be/Dhzk29uvsdE (http://youtu.be/Dhzk29uvsdE)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 17, 2023, 05:02:47 PM: Ouch. That guy used to have a political career. Too bad he went too far throwing his weight around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 17, 2023, 06:42:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 17, 2023, 05:02:47 PM
Ouch. That guy used to have a political career. Too bad he went too far throwing his weight around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 17, 2023, 06:42:33 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 17, 2023, 05:19:15 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 17, 2023, 05:02:47 PM
Ouch. That guy used to have a political career. Too bad he went too far throwing his weight around.

A bridge too far?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 18, 2023, 06:48:24 PM: I awoke 2 hours ago, and switched on Sky breakfast tv news.
Young woman started presenting the weather.
Thought I was in America, as her thick American accent sounded..." not arrived yut", for "not arrived yet"...u for e, just like young women in the Hallmark movies.
Maybe she's Canadian, some Hallmark movies seem to be made in Canada, with 'CANHD' appearing top left of screen.

And her "Noo South Woiles" not Nyew South Wayles.
She had a friendly and happy face, and nice smile...so I kept watching the program.
I asked her when my nukes would be arriving, but she didn't
answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 18, 2023, 06:49:10 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 18, 2023, 02:16:12 PM
The Challenger on the Democratic side?

RFK Jr is a stark raving mad failson
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 18, 2023, 09:13:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 18, 2023, 06:48:24 PM
I awoke 2 hours ago, and switched on Sky breakfast tv news.
Young woman started presenting the weather.
Thought I was in America, as her thick American accent sounded..." not arrived yut", for "not arrived yet"...u for e, just like young women in the Hallmark movies.
Maybe she's Canadian, some Hallmark movies seem to be made in Canada, with 'CANHD' appearing top left of screen.

And her "Noo South Woiles" not Nyew South Wayles.
She had a friendly and happy face, and nice smile...so I kept watching the program.
I asked her when my nukes would be arriving, but she didn't
answer.

You have achieved peak Bambu
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 12:37:00 AM: Pepperdine just hired a former Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader to lead the Cheer Team...

https://pepperdinewaves.com/news/2023/6/14/general-pepperdine-cheer-welcomes-dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-daphne-james-as-head-coach.aspx

Pepperdine is a good Christian college and it is good that Pepperdine has beautiful cheerleaders to represent Pepperdine, they can be ambassadors for Pepperdine.

And Pepperdine can make and sell a Poster of the cheerleaders, the same way that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders does, and the money from the poster can go to a good charity such as Youth For Christ, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 19, 2023, 10:14:05 AM: Facebook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 11:04:39 AM: http://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albos-team-sets-employment-records-despite-job-categories-disappearing,17629 (http://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albos-team-sets-employment-records-despite-job-categories-disappearing,17629)

Albo beats Scummo in every imaginable way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 19, 2023, 03:05:28 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 11:04:39 AM
http://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albos-team-sets-employment-records-despite-job-categories-disappearing,17629 (http://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albos-team-sets-employment-records-despite-job-categories-disappearing,17629)

Albo beats Scummo in every imaginable way.

ScoMo, like Trump, got stuck with the Covid Pandemic.
When all the hard work had been done, all Albo and Joe had to do, with the aid of traditional leftist media, unions, rioters, was bark criticism of ScoMo and Trump from the sidelines, and blame them for everything.
Then ride in on white horses and take over... voters fooled.

Low unemployment?
Of course. You're not an unemployment statistic if you're not looking for work.
Why would you be looking for work if you can get a generous unemployment benefit paid into your bank account every 14 days..."work for the dole" having been scrapped.

New Zealand is in recession.

Australia is expected to join it soon.
People are having to sell their homes, construction companies are going broke, businesses are going broke as sales slump.
Albo's energy price drop election promise is in the toilet.
Can't blame ScoMo and Josh for it.
Albo just blames everything on "the war in Ukraine"...and gets a free pass, for now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 03:56:38 PM: Australia needs to keep close with California, we have good relations with Australia, and we can work together in the business of Fashion, Film, Television, and Music, etc, etc, etc. California also has great colleges, including Pepperdine in Malibu which is a great Christian college, my Father studied Business at Pepperdine, it is a great school, we have a lot of great schools and the Australians are welcome to attend the schools here. We also have USC film school, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, etc.

Australia can also expand trade with the Philippines, and Australia can welcome immigrants from the Philippines to Australia, etc. The Filipinos are good Christian people who can help Australia.

And of course there is China, and Europe, and India, etc, and Latin America, etc. Australia can get coffee from Colombia, etc. Australia can sell beef to China, etc, etc, etc, Australia can help to feed China.

Here in California we have the Outback restaurants which are Australian themed restaurants, and we have KB Lager, etc, and Fosters beer, etc. We also have cheap Australian wine here. And the Australians love the beaches in California, and the surfing culture here.

When McDonald's opens restaurants all over China then Australia can sell the beef to China for their hamburgers, etc.

New Zealand needs to focus on Tourism, and they need to welcome the Chinese tourists, etc, they need to become chefs, and they need to open resorts, etc, and the people of New Zealand can wine and dine the Chinese and they can be the vacation destination for the Chinese.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 06:41:40 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 03:56:38 PM
Australia needs to keep close with California,

Please, lets keep turds like Bambu far from California, an ocean away at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 06:42:09 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 19, 2023, 05:34:10 PM
Finishing touches

Bizarro Bobby.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 19, 2023, 07:56:20 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 19, 2023, 05:34:10 PM
Finishing touches

He's a frustrating blend of progressive ideas (he's been a helluva environmental lawyer, and has made some insightful comments about the power of oligarchy in the US), and nutty conspiracy theories. I'm not sure what caused some of the marbles to fall out back in the early oughts, but I don't think seeing his uncle and his father assassinated helped his overall stability. And maybe was an early precursor to future infatuation with conspiracy theories.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 19, 2023, 09:33:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 06:41:40 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 03:56:38 PM
Australia needs to keep close with California,

Please, lets keep turds like Bambu far from California, an ocean away at least.

Fear not, bambu has no intention of migrating to California, or anywhere else in America.
It's not that the USA is not a wonderful place...it's just that he would get lost there, no money...he'd have no hope, even if allowed in...earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes...and shovelling snow!
Imagine poor bambu in America, oh the horror, where would he live, how would he survive...too dreadful to even imagine it. Cleaning public toilets to survive would be on the cards.
"Better the 'devil' you know"!
Think America is a young man's game. Young man with degrees, a federal govt job, money.
Don't think 'elderly people' are allowed to migrate anyway.
US has a $28billion trade surplus with Australia...so we're good for something! lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 19, 2023, 10:01:57 PM: Vlad is very unhappy that the Australian govt passed laws stopping Russia from building a new embassy on land close to Federal Govt Parliament House in Canberra.
Canberra is a planned city, 282km SW of Sydney.
Way out in he country.
Getting down near the 'Snowy Mountains', ski fields.
More snow falls on them than on the Swiss alps.

Canberra is surrounded by hills and small mountains
One mountain, Black Mountain, has atop it a large communications tower.
Guess who would've had a perfect line of sight to the tower?
...the new Russian embassy!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 19, 2023, 10:03:07 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 19, 2023, 05:34:10 PM
Finishing touches

That reminds me of the line from1988.

You sir, are no Bobby Kennedy!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 20, 2023, 02:23:35 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 19, 2023, 09:33:46 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 06:41:40 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 03:56:38 PM
Australia needs to keep close with California,

Please, lets keep turds like Bambu far from California, an ocean away at least.

Fear not, bambu has no intention of migrating to California, or anywhere else in America.
It's not that the USA is not a wonderful place...it's just that he would get lost there, no money...he'd have no hope, even if allowed in...earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes...and shovelling snow!
Imagine poor bambu in America, oh the horror, where would he live, how would he survive...too dreadful to even imagine it. Cleaning public toilets to survive would be on the cards.
"Better the 'devil' you know"!
Think America is a young man's game. Young man with degrees, a federal govt job, money.
Don't think 'elderly people' are allowed to migrate anyway.
US has a $28billion trade surplus with Australia...so we're good for something! lol

Bambu, you are educated and well mannered and I am sure that you would make a fantastic Butler to a wealthy family in Beverly Hills, or in Napa, and Mrs Bambu could be a Nanny for their children, and you and Mrs Bambu could live a life of luxury in California. The household staff members are part of the family for the rich people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 04:18:41 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 20, 2023, 02:23:35 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 19, 2023, 09:33:46 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 19, 2023, 06:41:40 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 19, 2023, 03:56:38 PM
Australia needs to keep close with California,

Please, lets keep turds like Bambu far from California, an ocean away at least.

Fear not, bambu has no intention of migrating to California, or anywhere else in America.
It's not that the USA is not a wonderful place...it's just that he would get lost there, no money...he'd have no hope, even if allowed in...earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes...and shovelling snow!
Imagine poor bambu in America, oh the horror, where would he live, how would he survive...too dreadful to even imagine it. Cleaning public toilets to survive would be on the cards.
"Better the 'devil' you know"!
Think America is a young man's game. Young man with degrees, a federal govt job, money.
Don't think 'elderly people' are allowed to migrate anyway.
US has a $28billion trade surplus with Australia...so we're good for something! lol

Bambu, you are educated and well mannered and I am sure that you would make a fantastic Butler to a wealthy family in Beverly Hills, or in Napa, and Mrs Bambu could be a Nanny for their children, and you and Mrs Bambu could live a life of luxury in California. The household staff members are part of the family for the rich people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sounds good, Tony.
I'm living a good life here these days, elderly retired people who own somewhere to live no matter how modest don't need to spend a lot of money, the govt aged pension is enough if spent wisely.
Butler to the wealthy in Beverly Hills would've been a good adventure 30 years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 04:26:04 AM: Aircraft carrier USS America docked in Brisbane this afternoon.
Here for exercises.
I feel safer already.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 04:35:31 AM: Sky News just announced that it will take Australia 400 years to mine enough nickel to be able to phase out fossil fuels.
And, that making aluminium is very energy intensive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 20, 2023, 04:54:20 AM: And you wonder why you do not have nukes.

Sack the crew at Sky news for starters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 10:47:26 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 04:35:31 AM
Sky News just announced that it will take Australia 400 years to mine enough nickel to be able to phase out fossil fuels.
Well then you are fucked. No where near enough dead dinosaurs to make it 400 years. Looks like it is a.Road.Warrior future for you.
Title: Re: Sky News is incompetent
Post by: Oiled on June 20, 2023, 12:56:28 PM: While his company lost, the battery Riley bet on - lithium iron phosphate, called LFP - is increasingly winning.

Demand for nickel and cobalt has surged in recent years and automakers are adopting strategies to hedge against the turbulent market. Tesla has changed its tune and said in April that nearly half of its vehicles sold in the first three months of the year do not include nickel or cobalt.

Batteries like what Riley envisioned are gaining popularity as automakers are increasingly interested in avoiding nickel and cobalt, which are rare as well as difficult and fraught to extract from the earth.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-lfp-battery/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 01:54:53 PM: Shelby Steele writing in the Wall Street Journal

In the mid 60s, when the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King were staples on the evening news, we black Americans stepped into a vastly greater freedom than anything we had ever known.
Great God Almighty, we are free at last portrayed freedom as heaven. But freedom also had to have been scary. Oppression had conditioned us to suppress our humanity, to settle ourselves into a permanent subjugation. Not the best preparation for a full life in freedom.

I believe it was this collision with freedo , its intimidating burden of responsibility, its terror of the unknown, its risk of humiliation that pressured black Americans, especially the young, into a terrible mistake.

In segregation we had longed for a freedom grounded in democratic principles. In the 60s we won that point. But then suddenly, with the ink still wet on the Civil Rights Act, a new voice of protest exploded onto the scene, a voice of race and color and atavistic longing: black power.

To accommodate, we shifted the overriding focus of racial protest in America from rights and laws to identity. Today racial preferences are used everywhere in American life. Identity is celebrated almost as profusely as freedom once was.

It all follows a simple formula
Add a history of victimization to the identity of any group, and you will have created entitlement. Today
black identity is a victim focused identity designed to entitle blacks in American life. By the terms of this identity, we blacks might be called citizen victims or citizens with privileges.

The obvious problem with this is that it baits us into a life of chasing down privileges like affirmative action.
In broader America, this only makes us sufferers for want of privileges. Reparation can never be more than a dream of privilege.

Mr. Steele is a senior fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution and author of
Shame: How America s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 03:09:54 PM: It is all uppity Black people's fault! Excellent!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 20, 2023, 06:01:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 01:54:53 PM
Shelby Steele writing in the Wall Street Journal

To accommodate, we shifted the overriding focus of racial protest in America from rights and laws to identity. Today racial preferences are used everywhere in American life. Identity is celebrated almost as profusely as freedom once was.

Most ethnic groups, on attaining some traction in America, make ethnic identity and pride in ones heritage something to celebrate. Interesting how JimDick doesn't post rants about identity-obsessed Japanese-Americans seeking reparations for WW2 internment camps, or Chavez Ravine outcast Latinos seeking compensation, or native tribal peoples holding pow-wows and asking for compensation for land theft and child kidnapping and grave-robbing.

Here's a thought. If people discriminate against your ethnic group for several centuries, you might start to feel part of your identity is pushing back against that discrimination.

If one result of that discrimination is that 30% of Blacks live below the poverty line, then undoing the effects of that discrimination will inevitably involve coming together to focus selective attention on fixing it. So maybe that "atavistic longing" for social and political power is just what's needed to get people out of poverty. The focus will be racial because white people made the focus of their discrimination racial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 06:14:13 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 10:47:26 AM
Quote from: bambu. on June 20, 2023, 04:35:31 AM
Sky News just announced that it will take Australia 400 years to mine enough nickel to be able to phase out fossil fuels.
Well then you are fucked. No where near enough dead dinosaurs to make it 400 years. Looks like it is a.Road.Warrior future for you.

I don't want to get "upgraded, like a 'Cyberman', into the EV clan".
A guy on Youtube explained it all...how if I allow myself to become a 'Cyberman' I'll become totally controlled. How software on subscription will control every aspect of my life.
He advises not to buy an electric car, explained and showed via the electric Porsche he's leasing in Britain why I shouldn't, lest I be "upgraded', totally controlled.
He showed and explained why "EVs will never work", in his opinion.
His convinced me.
Explained that everything is fast becoming "subscription service only."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 20, 2023, 08:35:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 01:54:53 PM
Shelby Steele writing in the Wall Street Journal

In the mid 60s, when the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King were staples on the evening news, we black Americans stepped into a vastly greater freedom than anything we had ever known.
Great God Almighty, we are free at last portrayed freedom as heaven. But freedom also had to have been scary. Oppression had conditioned us to suppress our humanity, to settle ourselves into a permanent subjugation. Not the best preparation for a full life in freedom.

I believe it was this collision with freedo , its intimidating burden of responsibility, its terror of the unknown, its risk of humiliation that pressured black Americans, especially the young, into a terrible mistake.

In segregation we had longed for a freedom grounded in democratic principles. In the 60s we won that point. But then suddenly, with the ink still wet on the Civil Rights Act, a new voice of protest exploded onto the scene, a voice of race and color and atavistic longing: black power.

To accommodate, we shifted the overriding focus of racial protest in America from rights and laws to identity. Today racial preferences are used everywhere in American life. Identity is celebrated almost as profusely as freedom once was.

It all follows a simple formula
Add a history of victimization to the identity of any group, and you will have created entitlement. Today
black identity is a victim focused identity designed to entitle blacks in American life. By the terms of this identity, we blacks might be called citizen victims or citizens with privileges.

The obvious problem with this is that it baits us into a life of chasing down privileges like affirmative action.
In broader America, this only makes us sufferers for want of privileges. Reparation can never be more than a dream of privilege.

Mr. Steele is a senior fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution and author of
Shame: How America s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.

Speaking of Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and a host of Negro Intellectuals

There is a long history of African American or other minority candidates within the Republican party who will validate America and say, Everything is great, and we can make it,

(That approach does not an include) a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society, and we need to do something about that.

If that candidate is not willing to acknowledge that, again and again, we have seen discrimination in everything from getting a job to buying a house to how the criminal justice system operates.

Barack Obama
44th President of the United States of America
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 09:51:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 03:09:54 PM
It is all uppity Black people's fault! Excellent!

Actually Tim Scott proves the opposite.
Scott wants to fight black poverty by giving them more economic opportunity while reducing government dependency and union run rotten schools.
His ideas are sound.
Note how fast it took Obama to attack him while supporting the suppression of blacks with the ever present chains of progressive welfare programs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 21, 2023, 07:01:52 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 09:51:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 03:09:54 PM
It is all uppity Black people's fault! Excellent!

Actually Tim Scott proves the opposite.
Scott wants to fight black poverty by giving them more economic opportunity while reducing government dependency and union run rotten schools.
His ideas are sound.
Note how fast it took Obama to attack him while supporting the suppression of blacks with the ever present chains of progressive welfare programs.

Tim Scott will always quote Dr. King except on topics like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xD8vWQJEok
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 21, 2023, 07:15:02 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 09:51:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 20, 2023, 03:09:54 PM
It is all uppity Black people's fault! Excellent!

Actually Tim Scott proves the opposite.
Scott wants to fight black poverty by giving them more economic opportunity while reducing government dependency and union run rotten schools.
His ideas are sound.
Note how fast it took Obama to attack him while supporting the suppression of blacks with the ever present chains of progressive welfare programs.

Tim Scott telling white people it is ok to be racist

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1671330558419320833?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 21, 2023, 11:38:34 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 20, 2023, 06:01:54 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 01:54:53 PM
Shelby Steele writing in the Wall Street Journal

To accommodate, we shifted the overriding focus of racial protest in America from rights and laws to identity. Today racial preferences are used everywhere in American life. Identity is celebrated almost as profusely as freedom once was.

Most ethnic groups, on attaining some traction in America, make ethnic identity and pride in ones heritage something to celebrate. Interesting how JimDick doesn't post rants about identity-obsessed Japanese-Americans seeking reparations for WW2 internment camps, or Chavez Ravine outcast Latinos seeking compensation, or native tribal peoples holding pow-wows and asking for compensation for land theft and child kidnapping and grave-robbing.

Here's a thought. If people discriminate against your ethnic group for several centuries, you might start to feel part of your identity is pushing back against that discrimination.

If one result of that discrimination is that 30% of Blacks live below the poverty line, then undoing the effects of that discrimination will inevitably involve coming together to focus selective attention on fixing it. So maybe that "atavistic longing" for social and political power is just what's needed to get people out of poverty. The focus will be racial because white people made the focus of their discrimination racial.

Ward: Against my better judgement I gave your post a full reply, responding to the opinion piece posted. Either address the points raised or this will be your official demotion (or promotion) to Ignore box. I think the last paragraph of my reply contains the gist of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 21, 2023, 12:41:32 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 21, 2023, 11:38:34 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on June 20, 2023, 06:01:54 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 20, 2023, 01:54:53 PM
Shelby Steele writing in the Wall Street Journal

To accommodate, we shifted the overriding focus of racial protest in America from rights and laws to identity. Today racial preferences are used everywhere in American life. Identity is celebrated almost as profusely as freedom once was.

Most ethnic groups, on attaining some traction in America, make ethnic identity and pride in ones heritage something to celebrate. Interesting how JimDick doesn't post rants about identity-obsessed Japanese-Americans seeking reparations for WW2 internment camps, or Chavez Ravine outcast Latinos seeking compensation, or native tribal peoples holding pow-wows and asking for compensation for land theft and child kidnapping and grave-robbing.

Here's a thought. If people discriminate against your ethnic group for several centuries, you might start to feel part of your identity is pushing back against that discrimination.

If one result of that discrimination is that 30% of Blacks live below the poverty line, then undoing the effects of that discrimination will inevitably involve coming together to focus selective attention on fixing it. So maybe that "atavistic longing" for social and political power is just what's needed to get people out of poverty. The focus will be racial because white people made the focus of their discrimination racial.

Ward: Against my better judgement I gave your post a full reply, responding to the opinion piece posted. Either address the points raised or this will be your official demotion (or promotion) to Ignore box. I think the last paragraph of my reply contains the gist of it.
Hope you are not holding your breath on that. He never engages because that would force him to think beyond what he regurgitates from his right wing news sources.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 21, 2023, 01:30:25 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 21, 2023, 11:38:34 AM

If one result of that discrimination is that 30% of Blacks live below the poverty line, then undoing the effects of that discrimination will inevitably involve coming together to focus selective attention on fixing it.
Except, of course, that is not true. Discrimination is not a factor.
In fact the poverty line is undefinable since it ignores the effect of transfer payments from the Federal and other Governments.
The progressive approach to EXPAND those payments is the actual discrimination and it suffered another defeat in Court just this month.
https://ground.news/article/court-preliminarily-enjoins-minority-business-development-agency-race-and-ethnicity-based-funding (https://ground.news/article/court-preliminarily-enjoins-minority-business-development-agency-race-and-ethnicity-based-funding)
As the decision noted

The MBDA willnot help business owners who trace their ancestry to the Middle East, North Africa or North Asia. Moreover all minority business owners who own less than 51% of their business are excluded from getting MBDA help. So when President Biden announced that his equity agenda would build community wealth for underserved communities, he meant only preferred racial groups like Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and some Southeast Asians.
In short the Biden Administration deliberately discriminated giving favor to blacks over other Americans.

Quote

Ward: Against my better judgement I gave your post a full reply, responding to the opinion piece posted. Either address the points raised or this will be your official demotion (or promotion) to Ignore box. I think the last paragraph of my reply contains the gist of it.
I will not miss you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 21, 2023, 01:40:32 PM: Quote
Hope you are not holding your breath on that. He never engages because that would force him to think beyond what he regurgitates from his right wing news sources

Yep. Am only holding my breath at the suspense of the attempts at rescue of the Titanic site submersible.

Early reports had me thinking it reached crush depths on Sunday and they all died instantly. Then today the banging noises were picked up, and the realization they have less than a day of oxygen left....best hope is the ballast release worked when power failed and they're bobbing on the surface somewhere, carried a ways from the site by currents.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 21, 2023, 01:43:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 21, 2023, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Oilcan on June 21, 2023, 11:38:34 AM

If one result of that discrimination is that 30% of Blacks live below the poverty line, then undoing the effects of that discrimination will inevitably involve coming together to focus selective attention on fixing it.
Except, of course, that is not true. Discrimination is not a factor.
In fact the poverty line is undefinable since it ignores the effect of transfer payments from the Federal and other Governments.
The progressive approach to EXPAND those payments is the actual discrimination and it suffered another defeat in Court just this month.
https://ground.news/article/court-preliminarily-enjoins-minority-business-development-agency-race-and-ethnicity-based-funding (https://ground.news/article/court-preliminarily-enjoins-minority-business-development-agency-race-and-ethnicity-based-funding)
As the decision noted

The MBDA willnot help business owners who trace their ancestry to the Middle East, North Africa or North Asia. Moreover all minority business owners who own less than 51% of their business are excluded from getting MBDA help. So when President Biden announced that his equity agenda would build community wealth for underserved communities, he meant only preferred racial groups like Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and some Southeast Asians.
In short the Biden Administration deliberately discriminated giving favor to blacks over other Americans.

Quote

Ward: Against my better judgement I gave your post a full reply, responding to the opinion piece posted. Either address the points raised or this will be your official demotion (or promotion) to Ignore box. I think the last paragraph of my reply contains the gist of it.
I will not miss you.

Given the number of lies and distortions in your reply, the feeling is mutual. Click.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 21, 2023, 02:01:20 PM: Texas judge Mark Pittman is a real wizard at writing decisions. He may not be a grand wizard yet, but he has aspirations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 21, 2023, 07:10:22 PM: Months pass on the Julian recovery calendar.

https://apnews.com/article/missing-actor-julian-sands-california-mountain-search-e566f0a9eae931186073d4394d568c26

Rather odd circumstances. He's about my age, and I know there's a tendency in that bracket to overestimate how much fitness one can still muster on a hike. I can still climb Black Elk Peak but sure AF wouldn't try it in January.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 21, 2023, 09:28:07 PM: GOP IN DISARRAY!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-boebert-a-little-bitch-on-the-house-floor
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 21, 2023, 10:19:16 PM: Am I really going to have to agree with Greene on something?

What a world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 21, 2023, 11:55:21 PM: Karen on Karen violence is so sad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 22, 2023, 08:12:35 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 21, 2023, 10:19:16 PM
Am I really going to have to agree with Greene on something?

What a world.
Stopped clock.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 22, 2023, 11:44:16 AM: Actually, MTG is more a stopped calendar, right every five to twenty eight years, depending on leap years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 22, 2023, 11:53:06 AM: Zelensky has already spent the next three accounting errors!🤣
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 22, 2023, 11:56:10 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 22, 2023, 08:12:35 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 21, 2023, 10:19:16 PM
Am I really going to have to agree with Greene on something?

What a world.
Stopped clock.

If clocks can get roid rage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 22, 2023, 02:40:43 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 22, 2023, 11:53:06 AM
Zelensky has already spent the next three accounting errors!🤣

Killing fascist white Christian nationalists and those they can deceive or terrorize into conscription is expensive but always worthwhile many times over.

You can see this in recent changes in American understanding of the growing republican threat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 22, 2023, 02:42:29 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 22, 2023, 12:37:11 PM
Cat Fight!!!

They both fight like weasels.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 22, 2023, 03:07:29 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 22, 2023, 12:37:11 PM
Cat Fight!!!

...hilariously, over who could submit a Biden impeachment resolution first. When pols fight over their areas of agreement, you know they're willing to make anything divisive. I expect a Deadwood-style showdown soon in the House over whole grain v whole wheat. (and thanks for well wishes on my no-longer-virgin Ignore box)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 22, 2023, 03:32:38 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 22, 2023, 12:37:11 PM
Cat Fight!!!

Call the folks at Worldstar Hip Hop!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 22, 2023, 03:34:01 PM: These are not serious people. They beclown themselves day by day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/22/biden-impeachment-house-committees-lauren-boebert/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 22, 2023, 04:20:59 PM: Texas government hates Texans

https://truthout.org/articles/abbott-signs-bill-axing-construction-workers-water-breaks-amid-record-heat/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 22, 2023, 05:35:39 PM: There was a segment on the television news about the Homeless people, and they interviewed a lady who said that the homeless people had lived that way all of their lives and that is the only life they know, and so we do not need to help them. What an ignorant woman, some people are ignorant.

I had some wonderful friends from the Philippines who were rich Christians and they were connected with the Catholic Church and with the Government of the Philippines, and they spent their lives helping the homeless. Many of the homeless people are wonderful people, they just need help, once you spend some time helping the homeless people then it becomes so rewarding. It is hard, and you have some bad and dangerous people, but you have many kind and loving people too, you have more good than bad. And there are people from the Entertainment Industry, and other formerly wealthy people in the shelters. There are some wonderful people who go on to do great things after they receive some help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 22, 2023, 07:59:29 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 22, 2023, 06:49:02 PM
Our shadow Court

http://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/alito-barrett-supreme-court-ethics-travel/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/alito-barrett-supreme-court-ethics-travel/index.html)

Shady
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM: I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 11:35:17 AM: The World Is Turning against Gender Experiments on Children

Last week the United Kingdom s National Health Service announced that it would limit the use of puberty-suppressing drugs going forward. Only those children enrolled in clinical trials may be prescribed these drugs. The decision comes in response to an interim report about the infamous Tavistock gender clinic, which found there were gaps in evidencein the use of the drugs.
New guidelines will strongly discourage families from seeking out these drugs from other sources.

The U.K. is not alone. In March, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced its intention to revise clinical recommendations around so-called gender affirming care for minors. The updated guidelines restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and transition related surgeries only to clinical research. Finland and Sweden have also pulled back on the medical experimentation on children in the name of gender ideology.
These European countries are reversing course not because they have experienced some religious revival or have been subjected to conservative culture war politics. Rather, their more publicly rationed form of healthcare provision, severely constricted by public budgets, puts a premium on showing good results and thereby limits the reach of ideological fantasy disguised in medical language.

In the US twelve states, led by Republicans, have passed restrictions on the use of off-label drugs or experimental gender surgeries on children. More red states may do the same.

There is a clear public interest in limiting the damage done to children by an ideological mania and superstitious moral panic that says our children are somehow born into the wrong bodies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 11:41:08 AM: You still don't get the plagiarism thing, do you?

"There is a clear public interest in limiting the damage done to children by an ideological mania and superstitious moral panic that says our children are somehow born into the wrong bodies" is a direct quote from the National Review and should be credited.

On the other hand, nobody here thinks you write well enough to come up with such wording.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 12:13:19 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 11:41:08 AM
You still don't get the plagiarism thing, do you?

"There is a clear public interest in limiting the damage done to children by an ideological mania and superstitious moral panic that says our children are somehow born into the wrong bodies" is a direct quote from the National Review and should be credited.

On the other hand, nobody here thinks you write well enough to come up with such wording.
Did you understand the sentence you quoted?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 23, 2023, 12:23:39 PM: Loving the Ignore feature.

The RW arguments against such treatment have actually polarized people who might have been open to a discussion of what medical measures are appropriate for gender dysphoria. I was open to that myself, as I think there is still much to be learned in the scientific understanding of body image dysphoria and how early one should intervene with medical measures.

I know someone who had a surgical reduction of breasts, who at that time wanted a more gender neutral body, then later had great regrets. Better knowledge of body dysphoria and better access to a specialist in that area might have been helpful. Polarized and morally judgmental people aren't going to fix these issues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 23, 2023, 12:36:35 PM: Red is not trying to fix anything. He is trying to destroy the country before justice finds him and tears him limb from limb. That is the republican plan. Between the republican party and The United States of America, only one can survive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 12:50:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.
The shipwreck occurred 5 days before the confirmed explosion of the submarine. The shipwreck was reported in headline stories and followups worldwide.

BTW who is Chuck Tatem?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 12:55:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 12:13:19 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 11:41:08 AM
You still don't get the plagiarism thing, do you?

"There is a clear public interest in limiting the damage done to children by an ideological mania and superstitious moral panic that says our children are somehow born into the wrong bodies" is a direct quote from the National Review and should be credited.

On the other hand, nobody here thinks you write well enough to come up with such wording.
Did you understand the sentence you quoted?
I understand it just fine and would be happy to discuss it with an individual smart enough to write it. Not somebody dumb enough to steal it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 01:16:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 12:50:46 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.
The shipwreck occurred 5 days before the confirmed explosion of the submarine. The shipwreck was reported in headline stories and followups worldwide.

BTW who is Chuck Tatem?
A spelling error on my part. Thank you for catching it.

Chuck Tatum is my Ace in the Hole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 01:20:10 PM: And for those who have not seen it, for a 72 year old movie Ace in the Hole is a depressingly relevant and continuingly insightful movie. Billy Wilder was and remains the greatest screenwriter of all time, and my favorite director.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 01:26:31 PM: Quote
Herbie Cook: The old man sure looked bad. Did you see his face?

Charles Tatum: Yeah.

Herbie Cook: Like the faces of those folks you see outside a coal mine with maybe 84 men trapped inside.

Charles Tatum: One man's better than 84. Didn't they teach you that?

Herbie Cook: Teach me what?

Charles Tatum: Human interest. You pick up the paper, you read about 84 men or 284, or a million men, like in a Chinese famine. You read it, but it doesn't stay with you. One man's different, you want to know all about him. That's human interest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 23, 2023, 01:44:36 PM: Thanks, HL. Added to my to watch list.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 02:30:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 12:55:10 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 12:13:19 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 11:41:08 AM
You still don't get the plagiarism thing, do you?

"There is a clear public interest in limiting the damage done to children by an ideological mania and superstitious moral panic that says our children are somehow born into the wrong bodies" is a direct quote from the National Review and should be credited.

On the other hand, nobody here thinks you write well enough to come up with such wording.
Did you understand the sentence you quoted?
I understand it just fine and would be happy to discuss it with an individual smart enough to write it. Not somebody dumb enough to steal it.
I suggest you figure out a way save yourself undue stress and angst.
I am not changing my posting habits.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:34:25 PM: That you're a thief causes me no stress nor angst. Just don't expect me to debate with you over your purloined goods.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 02:51:21 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:34:25 PM
That you're a thief causes me no stress nor angst. Just don't expect me to debate with you over your purloined goods.
No loss. Your idea of debating is changing the subject of a debate to irrelevance.
That is what Nihilists always attempt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 23, 2023, 02:55:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 02:51:21 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:34:25 PM
That you're a thief causes me no stress nor angst. Just don't expect me to debate with you over your purloined goods.
No loss. Your idea of debating is changing the subject of a debate to irrelevance.
That is what Nihilists always attempt.

We can take that as racist red copping to his endless thieving.

I think the case is closed now, though the dirty culprit is unlikely to reform his pitiful disgraceful ways.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:55:52 PM: I'm happy to debate an issue with somebody smart enough to do more than cut and paste it. You're not that person.

Any debating you would be tantamount to enabling your thievery. I simply won't do that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 03:22:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 02:51:21 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:34:25 PM
That you're a thief causes me no stress nor angst. Just don't expect me to debate with you over your purloined goods.
No loss. Your idea of debating is changing the subject of a debate to irrelevance.
Your utter lack of self knowledge is truly stunning.
Quote
That is what Nihilists always attempt.
As is your continuing use of that word when you clearly have no idea what it means.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 03:34:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:55:52 PM
I'm happy to debate an issue with somebody smart enough to do more than cut and paste it. You're not that person.

Any debating you would be tantamount to enabling your thievery. I simply won't do that.
For some reason I always heard that third line as "Where Mobius still runs crack", which I had a hard time orienting to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 23, 2023, 07:21:24 PM: Another day, another tornado bringing death and destruction to Texas.
Trouble with being President for only 4 year terms...you never get time to actually do anything much.
Even if a President tried to implement a scheme to stop loss of life in tornadoes, by the time anything was discussed the 4 years would be up an the President maybe not President anymore.

"Trump's wall" is a perfect example.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 08:19:49 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:55:52 PM
I'm happy to debate an issue with somebody smart enough to do more than cut and paste it. You're not that person.

Well, then debate the National Review.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 08:59:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 08:19:49 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:55:52 PM
I'm happy to debate an issue with somebody smart enough to do more than cut and paste it. You're not that person.

Well, then debate the National Review.
Okay. Whatever you say (or what somebody else says). Thief.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 09:12:40 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 08:59:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 08:19:49 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 23, 2023, 02:55:52 PM
I'm happy to debate an issue with somebody smart enough to do more than cut and paste it. You're not that person.

Well, then debate the National Review.
Okay. Whatever you say (or what somebody else says). Thief.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 23, 2023, 09:47:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 01:20:10 PM
And for those who have not seen it, for a 72 year old movie Ace in the Hole is a depressingly relevant and continuingly insightful movie. Billy Wilder was and remains the greatest screenwriter of all time, and my favorite director.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 10:35:36 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.
Yeah that adventure Queen Isabella financed was a bust?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 23, 2023, 10:38:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 10:35:36 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.
Yeah that adventure Queen Isabella financed was a bust?

You should ask the indigenous.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 24, 2023, 01:10:18 AM: Good news:

Climate emergency...is over.
We can all relax now.

Greta '@GretaThunberg' wrote on Jun 21 2018

[screenshot shown on Sky News; skynews dot com dot au Andrew Bolt

"A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."

5 years came and went ...the other day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 24, 2023, 11:23:38 AM: She was fifteen. Teens are prone to hyperbole. Let's move on.

Actual news is happening. Wagners are stirring shit in Russia, maybe will get some other former splinters like the Chechens to join up. My favorite news snip this morning was a report of a Wagner column moving north of Voronezh and some witnesses in a small town said they had stopped to...do some shopping.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 24, 2023, 11:33:02 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.

The pros use spherical hulls and titanium alloy or high-yield steel alloy. This guy was a rich idiot who didn't listen to his engineering staff and thought he could cut corners. Anyone who knows, or is, a cycling enthusiast will tell you that carbon fiber is prone to delamination and sudden shattering. Using it for deep-sea exploration is borderline insane. At the least, they needed hull stress checks after the two dozen dives it had already made. And the viewport was rated for 1300 m. maximum. Titanic is around 4000 m deep.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 24, 2023, 01:23:08 PM: Poking around the wreck of the Titanic, the grave of many?
No thanks.

Doesn't stop others though. Some go disturbing graves in the pyramids.
"Ooo, look here, this is the grave of an ancient person, let's have a look."
Let's not, "grave-robbing" should be banned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 24, 2023, 03:37:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 10:35:36 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.
Yeah that adventure Queen Isabella financed was a bust?
Are you saying the purpose of Columbus's voyages was to give rich Spaniards an up close look at the ruins 9f Vinland?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 24, 2023, 04:35:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 24, 2023, 03:37:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on June 23, 2023, 10:35:36 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.
Yeah that adventure Queen Isabella financed was a bust?
Are you saying the purpose of Columbus's voyages was to give rich Spaniards an up close look at the ruins 9f Vinland?
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 24, 2023, 07:21:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 24, 2023, 11:33:02 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 23, 2023, 10:20:55 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 23, 2023, 11:09:49 AM
I think Chuck Tatem did his usual good job covering the Titan submarine incident. Pity he was too busy covering the tragic deaths of five rich people to bother with the deaths of 300 impoverished Pakistanis. But then, they were just deportees.

What the attraction is to spend all that money to see a wrecked ship
on the bottom of the ocean is completely beyond me. And the tragic lose
of life, what a horrible waste.
I have no doubt this will not put an end to these deep-water sight-seeing
trips. No more than the joy-rides into space. Space rescues is no doubt
a coming attractions and a thrilling way for billionaires to spend their money.

The pros use spherical hulls and titanium alloy or high-yield steel alloy. This guy was a rich idiot who didn't listen to his engineering staff and thought he could cut corners. Anyone who knows, or is, a cycling enthusiast will tell you that carbon fiber is prone to delamination and sudden shattering. Using it for deep-sea exploration is borderline insane. At the least, they needed hull stress checks after the two dozen dives it had already made. And the viewport was rated for 1300 m. maximum. Titanic is around 4000 m deep.
Regarding the rich idiot and those like them that believed in pushing the envelope.

Sam Howe Verhovek, the author of Jet Age The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World, is a contributing writer for National Geographic magazine.

The Washington Post featured these comments by him.

The British-built de Havilland Comet, the first jet airliner ever to fly, was a sleek, beautiful, fatally flawed machine. Within two years of entering service in 1952, three Comets blew apart in the sky, killing everyone aboard. But when a court of inquiry convened to determine the cause, the man who a decade before had committed his nation to winning the race to jet powered passenger flight lectured his inquisitors before they could even get to the first technical question.
You know, and I know, the cause of this accident, thundered Lord Brabazon of Tara, a daring aviator who held the very first official pilot license in the United Kingdom.

It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like that in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 24, 2023, 07:57:50 PM: They took on the cruel sea...and lost...as many have done before them.
Unless one has to take on the cruel sea and all the critters in it, it's best to stay away.
People lose limbs, become quadriplegics, and drown on a regular basis when they take on the cruel sea, even just swimming at a beach.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 24, 2023, 08:38:48 PM: See how stoopid Australia is...

Now Russia, has lodged a High Court [High Court no less] appeal of the Australian govt's decision to deny Russia permission to build a new embassy in Canberra close to Parliament House and with line of sight to the communications tower on Black Mountain.

Russia already has an embassy in Canberra, it should be told to use that one.

Foreign govt's allowed to make appeals to the Australian High Court?
LOL...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 24, 2023, 09:07:53 PM: You misunderstand any nation or situation containing the letter a. It is an interesting partial lobotomy you have gotten yourself, Bambi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 24, 2023, 10:21:00 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 24, 2023, 09:07:53 PM
You misunderstand any nation or situation containing the letter a. It is an interesting partial lobotomy you have gotten yourself, Bambi.
Also, e, I, o and u. Throw in y, just in case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 25, 2023, 10:42:03 AM: (https://www.scienceforums.net/uploads/monthly_2023_06/image.thumb.png.ac0d9f4b50625ed8777349e44a73dc78.png)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 25, 2023, 03:20:44 PM: The best way to show that a stick is crooked is to lay a straight stick alongside it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/25/whitehouse-alito-ethics/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 26, 2023, 06:11:59 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 26, 2023, 05:31:36 PM
Review

Fox cannot get enough of her

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330042026112
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 26, 2023, 07:40:48 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 26, 2023, 06:11:59 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 26, 2023, 05:31:36 PM
Review

Fox cannot get enough of her

https://ww w.foxnews.com/video/6330042026112

She's correct though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 26, 2023, 08:11:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 26, 2023, 07:40:48 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on June 26, 2023, 06:11:59 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on June 26, 2023, 05:31:36 PM
Review

Fox cannot get enough of her

https://ww w.foxnews.com/video/6330042026112

She's correct though.

She is so full of shit the whites of her eyes are brown
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 26, 2023, 08:49:02 PM: Gyms day of reconning is once again approaching.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now)

Supreme Court green lights Ohio State wrestling trial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 26, 2023, 10:24:45 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 26, 2023, 09:16:12 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 26, 2023, 08:49:02 PM
Gyms day of reconning is once again approaching.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now)

Supreme Court green lights Ohio State wrestling trial.

His Medal of Freedom gets him out of jail free?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 26, 2023, 11:35:21 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 26, 2023, 09:16:12 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 26, 2023, 08:49:02 PM
Gyms day of reconning is once again approaching.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177785/-I-bet-Jim-Jordan-needs-Depends-now)

Supreme Court green lights Ohio State wrestling trial.

His Medal of Freedom gets him out of jail free?

Heh heh heh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 27, 2023, 11:20:32 AM: Looks like SCOTUS conservatives have been scared by the ethics backlash.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 27, 2023, 01:23:46 PM: (http://images.dailykos.com/images/1202980/story_image/cbe230627c.jpg?1687833953)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 27, 2023, 02:19:08 PM: I am seeing lots of advertising inviting the tourists to Israel, and that is great, I am happy that Israel has had peace lately. President George W. Bush took out a lot of bad people in the Middle East, etc, and it is better now that Saddam, and Arafat, and Bin Laden are gone. I remember when suicide bombers were blowing themselves up at bus stops in Israel, etc, all supported by Arafat and Saddam, with money going to the families of suicide bombers, etc, it is so much better now that those bad guys are gone.

So now the tourists are able to enjoy Israel, I would like to go see Israel eventually.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 27, 2023, 02:43:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 27, 2023, 02:19:08 PM
I am seeing lots of advertising inviting the tourists to Israel, and that is great, I am happy that Israel has had peace lately. President George W. Bush took out a lot of bad people in the Middle East, etc, and it is better now that Saddam, and Arafat, and Bin Laden are gone. I remember when suicide bombers were blowing themselves up at bus stops in Israel, etc, all supported by Arafat and Saddam, with money going to the families of suicide bombers, etc, it is so much better now that those bad guys are gone.

So now the tourists are able to enjoy Israel, I would like to go see Israel eventually.

Salute,

Tony V.

I remember Obama giving the green light to take out Bin Laden. In fact he torched Trump at the WHCD while the mission was getting underway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 27, 2023, 07:42:24 PM: Gun ownership should require a mental health check, a stress test and 24-7 AV surveillance for any licensed owner.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 07:47:18 PM: "Cocked and ready to fire!!!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 27, 2023, 08:35:11 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 27, 2023, 07:52:22 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 07:47:18 PM
"Cocked and ready to fire!!!"

Never occurred to this murderer that kidnapping for money happens
after hitting it big at the tables.

You would think she would tried 911 first?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 09:13:05 PM: If the driver had his own weapon
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 09:47:17 PM: Sarcasm doesn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 27, 2023, 09:49:01 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on June 27, 2023, 09:38:36 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 09:13:05 PM
If the driver had his own weapon

He would still be dead.

Sarcasm, my friend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 27, 2023, 09:53:58 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 27, 2023, 07:47:18 PM
"Cocked and ready to fire!!!"

Indeed!
But you pull the trigger and take a life as a very last resort.
You don't shoot Uber drivers in the head because you see a directions to Mexico sign.
You try everything else first.
As posted by others.
. You ask the driver to stop the car, then get out.
. You call 911.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 27, 2023, 09:55:42 PM: Bambu has advised that he starts a vendetta posthumously with a gofundme launch at the funeral.

Bambu is working up the courage to go out to the store and get popcorn which he will use a coal fire to heat up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 28, 2023, 01:27:43 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 27, 2023, 09:55:42 PM
Bambu has advised that he starts a vendetta posthumously with a gofundme launch at the funeral.

Bambu is working up the courage to go out to the store and get popcorn which he will use a coal fire to heat up.

I have electricity for both heating and cooling.
Gas for hot water.

Not a coal or wood fire in sight...hate that smoke, ashes, mess.
Fire pit? Sit out in the cold around a fire pit? Sit out in the heat in summer with the mozzies and other bugs around a fire pit?
No thanks...I'm more your 'relax on the lounge in the warm/cool living room' kinda guy.
Keep on burning that coal in the power stations...for now.

"Power has to be available, reliable, affordable" - no1 radio host.
He's 100% correct.
The only really reliable large scale source of power in Australia today that is all three of those is... from coal-fired power stations.
Even mention 'nuclear' and the green dreamers in bambuworld go outraged in their minds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 28, 2023, 07:04:27 PM: Australian ineptitude with technology is not only reflected in your cuisine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 28, 2023, 08:02:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 28, 2023, 07:04:27 PM
Australian ineptitude with technology is not only reflected in your cuisine.

Australia's problem is that it's too nice, too agreeable, too soft, too willing to shaft itself to please others.
Willing to ruin its economy, which you'll no doubt be pleased to know is soon to become one of the worst in the world...by signing up to the global green dream, when its carbon emissions are so small that if it disappeared under the sea tomorrow it would make almost no difference to anything.

Went around signing every nuclear non-proliferation treaty going...trying to be all things to all people.
...allowing Britain to conduct atomic bomb tests in the Outback...and not grabbing nukes for itself.
Now it has to depend on other countries for its defence as China bangs the drums of war.

Cuisine?
I can buy Mexican, Asian, food in my supermarket, and African, Mexican, Asian etc food in my district.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2023, 09:48:18 PM: Bambu, tell Australia to stay close with California, we are strong, and we can work together on defense, fashion, movies, music, television, and on other things. We can also help you with clean energy ideas.

And Australia and New Zealand need to become the new loving vacation destination for the Chinese. And it is a compliment that the Chinese are all learning English. They love us.

China Town in San Francisco, and in New York, and in Los Angeles, can be our ambassadors to China. And the Chinese love Malibu.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2023, 10:34:49 PM: Bambu, the Asians love Luaus with roasted pigs with pineapple and mangoes and with sliced apples, etc, and they love beach parties and music and dancing, they love Karaoke, and swimsuits, and they love Margaritas and Pina Coladas, etc. They love Malibu, and they are all learning English.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 28, 2023, 11:19:01 PM: Bambu, Australia has a thriving Mango Industry, the hippies in Australia can smoke pot and they can have communes and they can sell mangoes to the resorts for the Chinese tourists in Australia and in New Zealand. The fishermen can catch fish for the tourists, and the tourists can have crab and lobster and shrimp, etc. And the tourists can drink Mimosas, I recommend the Sunkist Orange Juice from California, we need to have thriving trade between California and Australia and New Zealand, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 28, 2023, 11:35:11 PM: This question and result by YouGov poll is so very telling.
Respondents were ask to pick one that they agreed with:

A. Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants and our priority should be to protect ourselves.

B. It is mostly full of good people, and we must find a way to embrace each other and not allow ourselves to become isolated.

Trump voters by margin of 70 to 18 picked A. Biden voters by margin of 76 to 11 picked B.

Trump voters live in fear; Biden voters live in hope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 02:23:46 AM: They whipped out the comfy chair on Rudy. They may have even brandished the fluffy pillow.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 29, 2023, 10:48:35 AM: RIP Affirmative Action
Your time to go was overdue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 11:09:28 AM: Racism Over, White People Declare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 29, 2023, 11:23:44 AM: Best hope ATP is for colleges to ramp up outreach programs to low-income families, which remain disproportionately PoC and indigenous. Without that outreach, low income enrollments tend to drop when AA systems are scrapped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 11:28:02 AM: In related SCOTUS news, the Court has unanimously stood up for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. For white Christians, at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on June 29, 2023, 11:42:14 AM: Chris will be so happy!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on June 29, 2023, 11:43:11 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 11:09:28 AM
Racism Over, White People Declare.

Well not even close.
Affirmative Action was designed as a reparation for the ugliness of discrimination.
It has warped into nothing more than a glorified DEI severely used to hold down Asian and Latino
Students.
So much so that schools are dropping SAT tests and turning their backs on Meritocracy.
Voters overwhelmingly oppose , no matter how they interpret the Constitution
Liberals oppose 60-40 while the numbers for Independents and the GOP are 70-80 per cent opposed.
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 01:07:17 PM: Affirmative Action never got red a job despite red declaring loudly and to everyone that he is and always has been a half-wit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 01:16:03 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 29, 2023, 10:48:35 AM
RIP Affirmative Action
Your time to go was overdue.

At least it did not have to be buried at a crossroads with a stake driven through its heart like the independent legislature theory. Back to hell with that fuel for fascist plots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 01:23:32 PM: Ban the admission of legacy students and donor offspring. Student bodies will get much smarter and more diverse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 29, 2023, 03:29:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on June 29, 2023, 11:23:44 AM
Best hope ATP is for colleges to ramp up outreach programs to low-income families, which remain disproportionately PoC and indigenous. Without that outreach, low income enrollments tend to drop when AA systems are scrapped.
Best thing for Black students is to say fuck the Ivy League and apply to Hampton, Howard, Spellman and Morehouse etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 29, 2023, 03:32:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on June 29, 2023, 11:43:11 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 11:09:28 AM
Racism Over, White People Declare.

Well not even close.
Affirmative Action was designed as a reparation for the ugliness of discrimination.
It has warped into nothing more than a glorified DEI severely used to hold down Asian and Latino
Students.
So much so that schools are dropping SAT tests and turning their backs on Meritocracy.
Voters overwhelmingly oppose , no matter how they interpret the Constitution
Liberals oppose 60-40 while the numbers for Independents and the GOP are 70-80 per cent opposed.
.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-killed-affirmative-action/

Mediocre White people can relax.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 03:58:54 PM: Choosing students for college/university entry by the colour of their skin, their race, is indeed racist.
Everyone sits the exams for entry, those with the highest scores should get accepted.

Anything else could be called, well...you know.

If it ends up that most of the students accepted are of Asian descent ("Tiger mothers"/ coaching etc) then so be it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 04:17:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 03:58:54 PM
Choosing students for college/university entry by the colour of their skin, their race, is indeed racist.
As usual you have accepted the right wing white simplification of a complex issue and solution.
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Everyone sits the exams for entry, those with the highest scores should get accepted
That is not how college admissions have ever worked. Nor should they. Standardized testing is ONE tool that can help predict success. And note that rich white affirmative action - donors, alums, those who can afford private prep services - is not aff3cted.
Quote

Anything else could be called, well...you know.

If it ends up that most of the students accepted are of Asian descent ("Tiger mothers"/ coaching etc) then so be it.
Chris loves hiding his mediocrity behind "over performing Asians".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 04:43:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 04:17:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 03:58:54 PM
Choosing students for college/university entry by the colour of their skin, their race, is indeed racist.
As usual you have accepted the right wing white simplification of a complex issue and solution.
Quote
Everyone sits the exams for entry, those with the highest scores should get accepted
That is not how college admissions have ever worked. Nor should they. Standardized testing is ONE tool that can help predict success. And note that rich white affirmative action - donors, alums, those who can afford private prep services - is not aff3cted.
Quote

Anything else could be called, well...you know.

If it ends up that most of the students accepted are of Asian descent ("Tiger mothers"/ coaching etc) then so be it.
Chris loves hiding his mediocrity behind "over performing Asians".

It is simple.
Very very simple.
Choosing by race is racist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 06:14:43 PM: Speaking of college...

"If you wake up one morning and you find yourself in a society where 23 yr olds with 4-year college degrees and, like, initiative, who aren't smoking weed every day, ...can't make enough to buy a car, much less a home, much less get married, much less have children ...then why should you be surprised when half of them say they prefer socialism? - Tucker Carlson

Indeed.
Mr Carlson sure is wise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 06:19:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 04:43:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 04:17:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 03:58:54 PM
Choosing students for college/university entry by the colour of their skin, their race, is indeed racist.
As usual you have accepted the right wing white simplification of a complex issue and solution.
Quote
Everyone sits the exams for entry, those with the highest scores should get accepted
That is not how college admissions have ever worked. Nor should they. Standardized testing is ONE tool that can help predict success. And note that rich white affirmative action - donors, alums, those who can afford private prep services - is not aff3cted.
Quote

Anything else could be called, well...you know.

If it ends up that most of the students accepted are of Asian descent ("Tiger mothers"/ coaching etc) then so be it.
Chris loves hiding his mediocrity behind "over performing Asians".

It is simple.
Very very simple.
No it is not. You are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 06:40:33 PM: I am glad you are entertaining Bambu. It keeps him occupied so he does not try to harass the young Sheilas down at the bus stop. When he gets bored it is a bit of a blight on the neighborhood.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 07:29:14 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 06:40:33 PM
I am glad you are entertaining Bambu. It keeps him occupied so he does not try to harass the young Sheilas down at the bus stop. When he gets bored it is a bit of a blight on the neighborhood.

LOL

Never get bored, there is never enough time to watch everything on YouTube....in the newspapers and on TV.
Gotta love those who invented it all, and provide the content.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 08:33:12 PM: On YouTube today,
"Top 25 countries for atheists"... no 1 = China
no2 = Japan.

Yes, the world is majority atheist now...and the number of atheists increasing.
Some atheists, on their death beds, starting praying.

It's my belief that many atheists in America are not really atheists, but are lapsed-Christians....or have "Christian" beliefs but refuse to admit it because being atheist is very cool today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 29, 2023, 10:03:55 PM: Theologically as with everything else you are an idiot Bambu.

Daddy is gone, child. Look around you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on June 29, 2023, 10:42:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 08:33:12 PM
On YouTube today,
"Top 25 countries for atheists"... no 1 = China
no2 = Japan.

Yes, the world is majority atheist now...and the number of atheists increasing.
Some atheists, on their death beds, starting praying.

It's my belief that many atheists in America are not really atheists, but are lapsed-Christians....or have "Christian" beliefs but refuse to admit it because being atheist is very cool today.
History, politics, climate change, EVs, religion and faith... is there any subject you do not know nothing about?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 29, 2023, 11:31:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on June 29, 2023, 08:33:12 PM
On YouTube today,
"Top 25 countries for atheists"... no 1 = China
no2 = Japan.

Yes, the world is majority atheist now...and the number of atheists increasing.
Some atheists, on their death beds, starting praying.

It's my belief that many atheists in America are not really atheists, but are lapsed-Christians....or have "Christian" beliefs but refuse to admit it because being atheist is very cool today.

Swear there aint no heaven
And I pray there aint no hell
But Ill never know by living
Only by dying will tell
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 29, 2023, 11:56:10 PM: Laura Nyro a brilliant songwriter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 02:41:02 AM: Meanwhile, across the seas...in bambuworld

Victoria Police investigate an alleged spike in officers identifying as gender-neutral to claim a higher clothing allowance fee.

#####

Coming soon to your local police station?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 30, 2023, 03:07:54 AM: You must never have heard of the secret policemans ball.

Late as usual, Bambi.

You should have seen the clothing allowance for the initial head of our FBI.

All Cops Are Bisexual
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on June 30, 2023, 08:59:29 PM: Texas power grid holding during heatwave because of the expansion of renewable energy.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/

Maintaining and operating existing coal plants costs more than building solar and wind

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/new-us-solar-and-wind-cost-less-than-keeping-coal-power-running
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 09:19:09 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on June 30, 2023, 08:59:29 PM
Texas power grid holding during heatwave because of the expansion of renewable energy.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/

Maintaining and operating existing coal plants costs more than building solar and wind

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/new-us-solar-and-wind-cost-less-than-keeping-coal-power-running

That's good news.
"Any port in a storm" as they say.
Anything to keep the lights on and petrol pumps working at gas stations.

Oh, my power prices are increasing up to 100% starting July 1st 2023.
Dumb "independent regulator" tripe.
This is what happens when govts sell off power grids.
They can only "sell the farm" once.

Govts should always own the energy, water, and land.
If foreign nations own the energy grids, they can just switch off all the power and invade.
Gotta keep the coal ready though...for when the sun ain't shinin' and the wind ain't blowin'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 10:06:52 PM: Lock up your daughters [and sons]...rapists and murderers are after them!
Nowhere is safe!
Not research labs at night when the young woman is alone with a male work colleague who is infatuated with her...lovely young woman, engaged to be married, was raped and murdered in a research lab.

Nowhere is safe.

Oh, and pedophiles now have their own flag! Older guy on Youtube showed a photo of one, complaining.

Why do pedophiles have their own flag now?
Because they can.
Because *anything* is allowed today.

The pedophile flag has two blue stripes at the top...to show attraction to boys.
Two pink stripes at the bottom...to show attraction to girls.
Pale yellow in the middle to show attraction to children in general.
...the older man in the video said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on June 30, 2023, 10:14:12 PM: Turn off the electronics. Go outside.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 10:21:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 30, 2023, 10:14:12 PM
Turn off the electronics. Go outside.

'Annie Le...Yale student killed in the lab'

Maybe you'd like to check the security at your local university...might save someone's life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 30, 2023, 10:24:58 PM: You mean this flag, as courts around the world have shown

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Flag_of_the_Vatican_City.svg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 10:32:34 PM: No...but I'm not Googling the other alleged one.
If it appears on Youtube again I'll give you the video details.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on June 30, 2023, 10:34:51 PM: Yes it is. To the tune of billions.

I know I advised you to get out more, but maybe you should take your search for like minded souls away from this flag group you are looking for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 30, 2023, 11:23:49 PM: Ruby the Kangaroo is inviting the Chinese tourists to come to Australia....

https://www.afr.com/world/asia/australia-s-plan-to-get-chinese-tourists-back-20230623-p5dj1w

Embrace the Chinese Bambu, the Chinese are great. Serve them your best wine, and feed them your best meals, etc, etc, etc, and roasted pigs, and Margaritas and Pina Coladas, etc, etc, etc. Feature the Rugby team for the Chinese women in the advertising with Ruby the Kangaroo. Margot Robbie can invite the Chinese men to Australia along with Ruby the Kangaroo, and the Women's Beach Volleyball Team, etc.

Australia can be the new Vacation Destination for the Chinese.

Embrace the Chinese Bambu, do not be afraid. The Chinese are great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 11:52:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on June 30, 2023, 11:23:49 PM
Ruby the Kangaroo is inviting the Chinese tourists to come to Australia....

https://www.afr.com/world/asia/australia-s-plan-to-get-chinese-tourists-back-20230623-p5dj1w

Embrace the Chinese Bambu, the Chinese are great. Serve them your best wine, and feed them your best meals, etc, etc, etc, and roasted pigs, and Margaritas and Pina Coladas, etc, etc, etc. Feature the Rugby team for the Chinese women in the advertising with Ruby the Kangaroo. Margot Robbie can invite the Chinese men to Australia along with Ruby the Kangaroo, and the Women's Beach Volleyball Team, etc.

Australia can be the new Vacation Destination for the Chinese.

Embrace the Chinese Bambu, do not be afraid. The Chinese are great.

Salute,

Tony V.

Chinese tourists are great.
Chinese people are nice.
They're getting better at not just rushing into the surf at Bondi beach and having to be rescued.
"Backpackers rip" is not to be trifled with, if you don't want to end up in New Zealand.
It's at the southern end, right near the bus stop!
Off the bus and into the calmish water.

It's the Chinese warships cruising my coastline etc and the Chinese govt's banging of war drums that are the problems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 01, 2023, 03:40:54 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on June 30, 2023, 10:34:51 PM
Yes it is. To the tune of billions.

I know I advised you to get out more, but maybe you should take your search for like minded souls away from this flag group you are looking for.

Maybe you could save/help children by keeping an eye out for that flag, and if you don't want to get involved yourself have your women lobby for it to be banned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 01, 2023, 01:19:17 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 01, 2023, 10:45:59 AM
I see our High Court has descended to a new low. Deciding a case from
Colorado that was fabricated whole cloth to obtain a decision on a hypothetical
Case!

Gives new meaning to Activist Court!

Hardly.

In Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston,(1995), a UNANIMOUS Supreme Court established that
the First Amendment free speech rights of private groups to define the parameters of their expressive conduct during a parade trumped the provisions of a state anti-discrimination law.

And in 2000 a landmark SCOTUS decision held
that the constitutional right to freedom of association allowed the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to exclude a homosexual person from membership in spite of a state law requiring equal treatment of homosexuals in public accommodations.
More generally, the court ruled that a private organization such as the BSA may exclude a person from membership when the presence of that person affects in a significant way the group s ability to advocate public or private viewpoints.

In effect the five to four decision ruled that opposition to homosexuality is part of BSA expressive message and that allowing homosexuals as adult leaders would interfere with that message.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 01, 2023, 01:30:15 PM: The court has been packed with activists with no regard for the law in total thrall of their un-American and anti American patrons, the bastards who also find the republican party for some decades now.

The nation will suffer until the court is repaired by purging insurgents and terrorists from its number.

Thanks for the reminder, Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 01, 2023, 01:31:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 01, 2023, 03:40:54 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 30, 2023, 10:34:51 PM
Yes it is. To the tune of billions.

I know I advised you to get out more, but maybe you should take your search for like minded souls away from this flag group you are looking for.

Maybe you could save/help children by keeping an eye out for that flag, and if you don't want to get involved yourself have your women lobby for it to be banned.

We keep an eye out for their cross and their little fish symbol as well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 03, 2023, 08:26:23 AM: Quote from: bambu. on June 30, 2023, 10:06:52 PM
Lock up your daughters [and sons]...rapists and murderers are after them!
Nowhere is safe!
Not research labs at night when the young woman is alone with a male work colleague who is infatuated with her...lovely young woman, engaged to be married, was raped and murdered in a research lab.

Nowhere is safe.
I am going to go out on limb and guess you have never made the mental connection between the type of male behavior you support and crimes like that.
Quote

Oh, and pedophiles now have their own flag! Older guy on Youtube showed a photo of one, complaining.

Why do pedophiles have their own flag now?
Because they can.
Because *anything* is allowed today.

The pedophile flag has two blue stripes at the top...to show attraction to boys.
Two pink stripes at the bottom...to show attraction to girls.
Pale yellow in the middle to show attraction to children in general.
...the older man in the video said.
Good Christ you are a gullible buffoon. Your minders should make sure you are not allowed anywhere near.any unfiltered, uncurated source of "information".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 03, 2023, 08:37:15 AM: Seems new "free speech" laws in Australia are about to slience *everyone*.
Millions of dollars in fines for posting "false information" and/ or opinion that offends anyone, basically.
Or something like that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 03, 2023, 12:45:00 PM: Oz must have gotten sick of Old No 1 poisoning minds with a steady steam of unrefined BS and fascist talking points. Better late than never.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 03, 2023, 04:32:38 PM: Buses are arriving in California that are being sent by the Governor of Texas, but they do not understand that the fabric of our community is interwoven with immigrants from all over the world. We love our Statue of Liberty.

So, here is what is happening... Buses are arriving at the Saint Anthony's Croatian Catholic Church in China Town in Los Angeles with about 50 people on each bus. So, the Catholics are helping our immigrants, and we need to organize. We need to also bring in the United Farm Workers Union, and the Teamsters Union, etc. And the Pope and the Unions need to send a message to the Governor in Texas, and to the Governor of Florida.

Also, the Churches and the Unions can work together to tell the immigrants where the jobs are and to help the immigrants to get into jobs and housing.

Here in Orange County, California, there is housing available for Sober Living Homes, and that is the main source of housing for the homeless here right now. People can also find housing on Craig's List, etc. And the Wellness Center in Orange will help people, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana will help people, etc.

Mel Gibson could run for President, he was born in New York, he has had a few problems but Americans have a short memory, and he is still young. Mel lives here in Malibu I think, and he has a big family. It is an idea, he could beat Trump.

And Andy Garcia and Marco Rubio and the Cubans need to send a message to the Governor of Florida and to the Governor of Texas.

On the bus that just arrived here were children from Colombia, and people from Bolivia, and Peru, and from Mexico, and they are all welcome here, they can pick strawberries in Merced, California, etc, while they learn about available opportunities, and while they get educated and while they learn English, etc. The United Farm Workers can tell the immigrants where the jobs are and can connect them with the jobs, and the Teamsters and other unions can help our new immigrants as well. And the Catholic Church can help our immigrants, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 03, 2023, 04:47:41 PM: Referring to Jews as "oven dodgers" is likely going to stick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 03, 2023, 07:17:48 PM: Robert Rivas is the new State Speaker after his parents came to America and worked as Farm Workers, he will help the Farm Workers and he will help the immigrants.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276881218.html

Robert Rivas rose from the bottom to the top, from the son of immigrants who worked in the fields to the California State Government. And he will be strong against extremists like Trump, and the Governors of Florida and Texas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 03, 2023, 08:58:37 PM: Oh dear, look at the long lines of people at US airports this 4th July
Think that caper is for young people.
I couldn't survive it.

xxxxxxxxx

Tony,
missiles flying and Israel raiding, in the West Bank.
I couldn't have Isreal on my travel list.

xxxxxxx

Best idea,
relocate Gaza population, and West Bank population...to Jordan....said relocated residents paid handsome financial compensation?
Gaza and West Bank land then becoming part of Israel?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 03, 2023, 09:18:46 PM: Australia has more room and a less valuable culture than Jordan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 03, 2023, 10:29:02 PM: Bambu, the areas of Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, are very wealthy, nice areas, the homeless Palestinians can be offered money to go live in Abu Dhabi, and in Dubai. The refugees from the Middle East can go be Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, they can be truck drivers, and construction workers, and grocery store workers, etc, and they can help to grow the food, etc, and whatever jobs they can get, they can own their own restaurants, etc.

And my hometown helped to build the Iron Dome Missile Defense System, and the Patriot anti-missile equipment, which is used to protect Israel.

Israel has been safe lately, I think. It is not like the old days when they had suicide bombers blowing themselves up at bus stops.

We need to start sending all of the Muslim refugees to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai.

( Poverty is the father of crime and revolution, wealthy fat people are not going to go blow themselves up at a bus stop. Abu Dhabi and Dubai are nice wealthy areas to send the Muslim refugees to. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 03, 2023, 11:36:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 03, 2023, 09:18:46 PM
Australia has more room and a less valuable culture than Jordan.

Jordan would be better for them, more like home.
Same culture.
Or the places Tony suggested.
Suicide bombers blowing themselves up at bus stops?
No thank you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:15:08 AM: If you do not oppress people they tend not to want to blow you up.

If you had an Irish friend and any integrity or testicular fortitude you might try to coax them to share his or her perspective on the topic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 05:45:32 AM: 'The West is under threat by culture wars" - Sky News
"France is a pefect example" - Sky News

#####

Seems to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 06:31:41 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:15:08 AM
If you do not oppress people they tend not to want to blow you up.

If you had an Irish friend and any integrity or testicular fortitude you might try to coax them to share his or her perspective on the topic.

Ah yes, Irish, the Orange and the Green.
Protestants and Catholics
Rome and London.

Madame Bardot warned the French what would happen if they went down the massive immigration multicultural road.
They nearly tossed her in prison for her words.
As France burns and is looted again...her words must be ringing in their heads as they watch France and French culture being destroyed.
Not much good now standing in the streets singing the French national anthem.
They should've listened to Brigitte-ilk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM: Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 04, 2023, 03:12:39 PM: Happy 4th of July, Happy Birthday America.

"The Sound of Freedom" is playing at the theatres.

Good human rights are worth fighting for. And please support Children of the Night in Hollywood which is a charity that saves the homeless children on the streets of Hollywood and which saves them from prostitution, etc.

https://www.childrenofthenight.org/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 04, 2023, 04:14:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

In the USA multiculturalism has to work, and we need to be united by our humanity, we are all humans, and as humans we all have good human rights that belong to all humans equally. We have our Bill of Rights for all humans, and we have the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and we have the Fair Housing Act of 1968, and we all need to have an equal chance to enjoy the American Dream.

And my favorite leader in Europe is Pope Francis, and he loves all people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 04, 2023, 05:27:14 PM: It is important for people to create good honest summer jobs for the youth, and to teach them good things in their formative years.

When I was 15 years old I painted houses for a guy named Larry Rodrigues in order to earn money to pay for new brakes for my VW Baja Bug. Larry owned a company named Realistic Rental Repair, and he was friends with all of the local real estate people, and he used to paint houses, etc, to get them ready to rent, or to sell, etc.

Larry was an old hippy from Hawaii, and he was great to work for, and he taught me a lot. He taught me how to paint houses, and he taught me how to hire people to do the work for me and how to delegate responsibility, and he used to give me books and he would pay me to read the books, and he would quiz me to make sure that I read the books before he paid me. He was a positive influence on my life. And I was able to buy new brakes for my VW.

It is important for entrepreneurs to hire the young men in the desert and to pay them to paint houses in the summer, and to be altruistic and to help to teach the young men good things that will help them in life.

And Larry taught me that when you are homeless and hungry do NOT steal or break the law to eat, instead ask for help and let people help you. If you steal then people will hate you, but if you humble yourself and ask for help then people will help you.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 05:33:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

No question that European nations need to squash racism and institutional barriers to integration if they want their societies to thrive in the future.

The same is true for Australia and the USA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 06:36:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 05:33:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

No question that European nations need to squash racism and institutional barriers to integration if they want their societies to thrive in the future.

The same is true for Australia and the USA.

Maybe France would benefit from some wiser immigration, because it seems what it's done in the past isn't working out so well.
...and some deportation.
France would do well to vote out Macron, and vote in someone from the bambu-ilk camp.
France would be a better and much safer place then.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 07:06:42 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 05:33:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

No question that European nations need to squash racism and institutional barriers to integration if they want their societies to thrive in the future.

The same is true for Australia and the USA.

The only racism in Australia today is the racism called "reverse racism"...racism against White people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 07:17:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 04, 2023, 04:14:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

In the USA multiculturalism has to work, and we need to be united by our humanity, we are all humans, and as humans we all have good human rights that belong to all humans equally. We have our Bill of Rights for all humans, and we have the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and we have the Fair Housing Act of 1968, and we all need to have an equal chance to enjoy the American Dream.

And my favorite leader in Europe is Pope Francis, and he loves all people.

Salute,

Tony V.

There should only be one culture in America...American culture.
American culture as defined by its Constitution and laws.
Forced marriages, FGM, anything else that's non-American culture should not be allowed, banned, with very serious penalties for crimes committed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 09:37:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 07:06:42 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 05:33:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

No question that European nations need to squash racism and institutional barriers to integration if they want their societies to thrive in the future.

The same is true for Australia and the USA.

The only racism in Australia today is the racism called "reverse racism"...racism against White people.

If you sucked less people would have a better opinion of folks like you.

You are why white is becoming synonymous with badly intended, planned and executed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 05, 2023, 05:03:36 PM: This is one of five young men for whom Donald Trump demanded the death penalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyregion/yusef-salaam-harlem-city-council.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 05, 2023, 06:33:19 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 05, 2023, 05:03:36 PM

This is one of five young men for whom Donald Trump demanded the death penalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyregion/yusef-salaam-harlem-city-council.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Exactly one reason why chambers of death should be abolished in America.
There are others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 05, 2023, 06:56:43 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 05, 2023, 05:03:36 PM

This is one of five young men for whom Donald Trump demanded the death penalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyregion/yusef-salaam-harlem-city-council.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Hope he is the mayor before trump is up for parole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 08:11:35 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 07:06:42 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 05:33:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 04, 2023, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 04, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Spoken like the direct descendant of Oswald Mosley. Your furher would be so proud.

Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain
together stated that multiculturalism in Europe/Britain has been a dismal failure.

No question that European nations need to squash racism and institutional barriers to integration if they want their societies to thrive in the future.

The same is true for Australia and the USA.

The only racism in Australia today is the racism called "reverse racism"...racism against White people.
Not as long as you live there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 06, 2023, 08:48:17 AM: It is all a hoax!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/06/earth-record-heat-climate-extremes/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 06, 2023, 11:11:27 AM: Saw that, thanks, LB. Weirdly, El Nino sometimes gives the Black Hills a cool summer. We have had the past week with highs ten to twenty degrees below normal. Mid sixties. (which always means it's baking hot somewhere else) Today is the first day we will get over 70 in a while. Opened windows to store up some cool in the house overnight and it was 63 on the first floor when we came down for breakfast. Climate change doesn't just make everything warmer, it can make temp differences between adjacent regions more extreme.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 06, 2023, 01:25:37 PM: Do you think they should ask a fascist paste eating traitor like yourself to help explain it?

I am sure you can make something up that having no basis in law will sound convincing to an idiot like you.

It would have been a big help to George or Donald neither of whom had any business being in government. Save your advice for the sinking state of Florida or the burning state of Texas where at least you cannot make matters much worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 01:47:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 11:46:30 AM
The primary legal battle in Biden v. Nebraska was not about student loan debt, but rather the authority of the executive branch to use vague wording in laws to enact sweeping reforms without the need for congressional action.

Apprently neither the despot in the White House nor his leftist media darlings just dont understand how our government works.
I could debate the person whose language you stole about the difference between "vague wording" and "a result you politically oppose", or the interesting decision to find a major question doctrine in the penumbra of legislative power which allows it to rewrite the plain wording of a statute, or how intervening in a political dispute between the legislative and executive branches exists side by side with the claim that conservative jurisprudence is not acttivist. But I see no reason to argue it with a thief.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 03:13:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 01:47:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 11:46:30 AM
The primary legal battle in Biden v. Nebraska was not about student loan debt, but rather the authority of the executive branch to use vague wording in laws to enact sweeping reforms without the need for congressional action.

Apprently neither the despot in the White House nor his leftist media darlings just dont understand how our government works.
I could debate the person whose language you stole about the difference between "vague wording" and "a result you politically oppose", or the interesting decision to find a major question doctrine in the penumbra of legislative power which allows it to rewrite the plain wording of a statute, or how intervening in a political dispute between the legislative and executive branches exists side by side with the claim that conservative jurisprudence is not acttivist. But I see no reason to argue it with a thief.
I understand your reluctance to discuss the facts of the case, especially in light of a 6-3 decision that destroyed your arguments.
Maybe you should invite Nancy to lunch so she could explain it to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 03:26:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 01:47:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 11:46:30 AM
The primary legal battle in Biden v. Nebraska was not about student loan debt, but rather the authority of the executive branch to use vague wording in laws to enact sweeping reforms without the need for congressional action.

Apprently neither the despot in the White House nor his leftist media darlings just dont understand how our government works.
I could debate the person whose language you stole about the difference between "vague wording" and "a result you politically oppose", or the interesting decision to find a major question doctrine in the penumbra of legislative power which allows it to rewrite the plain wording of a statute, or how intervening in a political dispute between the legislative and executive branches exists side by side with the claim that conservative jurisprudence is not acttivist. But I see no reason to argue it with a thief.
I understand your reluctance to discuss the facts of the case, especially in light of a 6-3 decision that destroyed your arguments.
Maybe you should invite Nancy to lunch so she could explain it to you.
The only thing the Supreme Court decision destroyed was the myths that Conservative justices are not activists and are strict constructionists. But smart people already knew that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 06, 2023, 03:36:53 PM: On the issue of France, I need to do a DNA test, but my Grandmother told me that my ancestors came to the USA from France to escape from the French Revolution and to save their heads from the guillotine, I guess I have the Bourbon Capetian royal family in my family tree.

France needs to bring in Crowd Control experts from Disneyland in Paris to teach the French how to set up barricades and how to do Crowd Control. The Crowd Control experts at the Theme Parks can teach the people of France how to do Crowd Control. They can run France like a giant Theme Park.

On the issue of fresh new immigrants who could benefit France, France can invite the Roman Catholics from Latin America to migrate to France and to join the French Foreign Legion, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 06, 2023, 03:59:41 PM: We all have skeletons in our closets, Tony. I will not hold it against you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 06, 2023, 05:36:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 06, 2023, 01:47:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 06, 2023, 11:46:30 AM
The primary legal battle in Biden v. Nebraska was not about student loan debt, but rather the authority of the executive branch to use vague wording in laws to enact sweeping reforms without the need for congressional action.

Apprently neither the despot in the White House nor his leftist media darlings just dont understand how our government works.
I could debate the person whose language you stole about the difference between "vague wording" and "a result you politically oppose", or the interesting decision to find a major question doctrine in the penumbra of legislative power which allows it to rewrite the plain wording of a statute, or how intervening in a political dispute between the legislative and executive branches exists side by side with the claim that conservative jurisprudence is not acttivist. But I see no reason to argue it with a thief.
I understand your reluctance to discuss the facts of the case, especially in light of a 6-3 decision that destroyed your arguments.
Maybe you should invite Nancy to lunch so she could explain it to you.

The Supreme Court is everything conservatives decried over the decades, activist judges legislating from the bench.

You are cheering for politicians in black robes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 06, 2023, 09:15:35 PM: As people move to the desert to live, and as the temperatures rise, then people can learn from Las Vegas, in Vegas they run on a 24 hour schedule, all of the businesses are open 24 hours per day, and so the people can sleep at home with the air conditioner cooling their home during the heat of the day, and then they can work and shop, etc, during the cool of the night. Also, Vegas has swimming pools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 06, 2023, 09:50:36 PM: Not true Tony. Vegas is a big place. Some of it is open around the clock, more is 9 to 5 like everywhere else.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 06, 2023, 11:06:57 PM: When Elvis Presley would stay in Las Vegas then he used to put aluminum foil on the windows of his hotel room so that he could sleep with the air conditioner on during the heat of the day, and then perform during the cool of the night. They could tell which room Elvis was in because of the aluminum foil on the windows.

I think Palm Springs in California has some businesses that are open 24 hours per day as well, so that people can sleep during the heat of the day with the air conditioner cooling their home while they sleep, and then they can work and shop at night, etc. Plus they have swimming pools.

Right now lots of people are moving to Arizona and to New Mexico, and they could benefit from having a 24 hour schedule in the heat of the summer, etc. And in Mexico they sleep during the heat of the day and they work when it is cool, they take a siesta in the heat of the day.

I was born and raised in the desert of California, in Lancaster, and the secret is to drink lots of water, you need to stay hydrated. I never had a problem from the heat. But the desert nights were fantastic, I loved the nights in the desert, we used to party all night, back when it was all cool people from the Space Shuttle program, etc. The desert was like a resort when I was young. I loved the desert as I was growing up. And my first car was a VW Baja Bug, it was great, I used to do 100 mph across the desert.

That is my advice for people moving from New York and from New Jersey, etc, to the desert in Arizona and in New Mexico, and Nevada, etc, is to try to work at night, and sleep during the day with the air conditioner running. And be sure to have a swimming pool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 07, 2023, 01:21:55 AM: There are lots of empty houses for the homeless people, and for the refugees...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendarichardson/2022/03/07/16-million-homes-lie-empty-and-these-states-are-the-vacancy-hot-spots/

HUD needs to do a new program to get the homeless people into the empty houses.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 07, 2023, 08:54:39 AM: Meanwhile, back in the real world, property owners remain uninterested in renting out their vacant properties to the homeless - because those properties are usually vacant due to being vacation homes or being houses they're waiting to sell.

Try reading, and comprehending, the whole article before posting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 07, 2023, 10:38:27 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 07, 2023, 08:54:39 AM
Meanwhile, back in the real world, property owners remain uninterested in renting out their vacant properties to the homeless - because those properties are usually vacant due to being vacation homes or being houses they're waiting to sell.

Try reading, and comprehending, the whole article before posting.
What whole article?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 07, 2023, 01:04:32 PM: Reading is fundamental but impossible if you are a fox fundy with tertiary Syphilis like Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 07, 2023, 01:59:23 PM: I read the article, we need for HUD to explore ways of getting the homeless into the vacant housing.

In the past the leaders just left the homeless people on the sidewalks and no one was doing anything here to help the homeless, it is only recently that Mayor Bass in Los Angeles started helping the homeless, and in Orange County we had rich Christians from the Philippines here helping the homeless, it is only recently that the leaders have decided that helping the homeless is a priority.

So, as we begin this new effort to get the homeless into housing then we need to explore ways of getting the homeless into the vacant housing that is already built, we have 16 million vacant homes.

If the people want to make money from the vacant homes, then we need to explore ways that those homeowners can make money from their currently vacant properties. If they are waiting to sell, then maybe we can work out some kind of deal so that they can make money as the housing goes to the homeless.

HUD needs to explore ways of having mutual rewards for the owners of the vacant housing and the homeless, the owners need money, and the homeless need housing.

( I also support group homes for the homeless, and Sober Living Homes, and Hostels. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 07, 2023, 04:16:25 PM: I had a Film professor at Antelope Valley community college who was so smart and well educated that he wrote his own text books for his classes. I am impressed when the professors reach such a high level that they can write their own textbooks. His name is Jaime Bihlmeyer and he is teaching Film at the University of Missouri now, I am sure he is teaching a lot to the students there.

I really enjoyed my time in community college at AVC and the school had some wonderful professors. Biden wants to make community college available to all Americans and I support that. The community college that I attended was fantastic and it was time well spent. Then the students who have high aptitude can continue to study and train. After AVC I went on the attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was fantastic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 07, 2023, 07:04:59 PM: The latest in the climate change hoax

This week the temperatures on Earth were the highest in history.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 07, 2023, 10:09:48 PM: My solution to the homeless crisis is the best:

Tent cities.
Good enough for the army, then good enough for the homeless.
Aircon/heated tents, doctors, good food, no drugs, no booze, clean toilets/bathrooms (cleaned by a contracted company)....etc.
Plenty of spare land in America...not in tornado alley.

It's the responsibility of the federal govt to ensure that every citizen is living a comfortable life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 08, 2023, 01:03:15 AM: I am sure Albo will consider your proposal if you put it in a nice letter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on July 08, 2023, 02:06:01 PM: Threads, which sounds like the worst features of Twitter and Instagram, gets panned by a Vice writer.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvp8j/threads-is-all-the-worst-parts-of-twitter-and-instagram-in-one-very-bad-app
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 08, 2023, 07:34:36 PM: Damn!

Justice denied.

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/07/08/justice-denied-judge-dismisses-tulsa-race-massacre-lawsuit/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 08, 2023, 09:21:55 PM: What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?

Oh Dam!

xxxxxxxxx

Justice is often denied people.
Seems to be prevalent in America though, if movies and docos are anything to go by.
A leaning towards plea bargains instead of discovering if the accused is innocent or guilty...seems popular.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2023, 12:34:56 AM: Henry David Thoreau was awesome, he lived in the woods by a pond and he thought about philosophy, and he will be forever remembered for being a teacher to Ghandi and other great men.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2023, 12:43:20 AM: Bambu, the Governments get money from TARIFFS ON IMPORTS, and Mexico can put tariffs on Coca Cola and on other imports to build schools and hospitals and orphanages and libraries, etc. In Mexico they can put a tariff on Coca Cola to build a school, etc.

And Kiwanis needs to sell Kiwanis bottled water to make money to help the children globally with Kiwanis International and the Key Club.

Australia has Kiwanis, and everyone else does too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 09, 2023, 05:41:17 AM: Saw on tv Greta being arrested and moved off a street the other day.
Blocking a street, with others.
She should really not be doing things like that. Not in her best interest, and won't save the planet anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 09, 2023, 12:15:05 PM: Greta and Malia can replace Thomas and Alito on our Supreme Court today. Once they are nominated and confirmed I will feel much better about our future. David Hogg can replace Roberts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 10, 2023, 06:40:15 PM: Greta is facing prison time for that road blocking stunt..."disobeying police".
She's going to have to go to court and stand before the judge for sentencing
Now look at the mess she's gotten herself into.
All totally preventable.

Hopefully she'll be seen as a good person who has made a silly mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 10, 2023, 06:46:12 PM: You're like that prissy and gossipy maiden aunt I never had.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 10, 2023, 06:54:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 10, 2023, 06:46:12 PM
You're like that prissy and gossipy maiden aunt I never had.

LOL

"Disobeying police" over there is very serious, apparently.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 10, 2023, 08:47:32 PM: Her work is too late for you.

Your brain has already boiled away to nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 10, 2023, 10:13:53 PM: Uh oh!

https://www.ajc.com/politics/grand-jurors-who-will-consider-trump-charges-to-be-selected-tuesday/R7RXC2GUFRB5JLHKKRE5LX4IZ4/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 11, 2023, 09:25:13 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 11, 2023, 03:21:36 PM
Administrator: Nor able to post attachments lately. Any technical problems?

Booooooooooooooo!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 02:26:53 AM: The United Farm Workers can help the immigrants, and the UFW is the largest provider of legal services for immigrants in the state of California.

https://www.ufwfoundation.org/

The Mexican Truck Drivers also need to be able to join the Teamsters Union, and we need to invest in the ports in Mexico. Goods from Mexico can be delivered to Kentucky, etc, by Mexican Truck Drivers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 02:40:54 AM: Here is a Trucking company that delivers from Mexico to the USA and Canada...

https://www.marten.com/

And we need for the Mexican Truck Drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 03:21:26 AM: Goods can be delivered from Mexico to Kentucky and can be sold cheaply in markets to keep the people of Kentucky supplied with goods while the people of Kentucky attend schools and train for the jobs of the future.

New schools and libraries can be built in the poorest parts of Kentucky, and Mexican Markets can be built and the people of Kentucky can buy goods from Mexico while they return to school and study and train for the jobs of the future.

Kentucky can have Northgate Gonzales Mexican Markets like we have in Anaheim, and Kentucky can get cheap goods from Mexico while they return to school and study and train.

https://www.northgatemarket.com/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2023, 07:05:18 AM: Cannot do it, Tony. Texas is in the way. Nothing good ever makes it through Texas.

Maybe an airdrop like we did in Berlin might work.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 07:15:56 AM: Here is a list of some of our poorest places, many are in Kentucky, some places are running at a 50% poverty rate...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/03/13/kentucky-counties-dominate-worst-places-to-live-list/3151985002/

And the Teamsters Union wants the new members and MONEY TALKS, the Teamsters want the Mexican members and the union dues.

We can build new schools and libraries in our poorest areas, and we can build Mexican Markets and we can send the poor people cheap goods from Mexico while they read and study and learn.

And some cool people like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton control Texas, they are all Cowboys in Texas, Willie and Dolly would support helping the poor people in Kentucky. And Dolly supports reading for the poor children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2023, 07:28:03 AM: I have hung out with a Willy in Texas when I used to live in Austin. He would deny having much influence on the doings in that state, not since the last real human Governor they had down there Anne Richards was mistakenly replaced with a vampire.

The fake ass cowboys who have flocked there since and have greatly added to the level of stupidity in Texas.

Dolly is from Tennessee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2023, 07:30:53 AM: Speaking of Tennessee,

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/11/after-publicly-boycotting-bud-light-kid-rock-is-quietly-serving-the-beer-at-his-nashville-bar/ (https://www.salon.com/2023/07/11/after-publicly-boycotting-bud-light-kid-rock-is-quietly-serving-the-beer-at-his-nashville-bar/)

Kid Rock comes out as a trans influencer ally.

It is funny how money can make even the most raving spittle flecked bigotry take a back seat.

If it were not for conservative hypocrites there would not be any conservatives at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 07:35:32 AM: Willie is a good American, and I love how he does the Farm Aid concerts to help the farmers.

And Dolly was the hero during the covid crisis. I know she is from Tennessee but they love Dolly in Texas I am sure.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2023, 07:54:55 AM: So you think she could strong arm the bunch of psychopaths and kleptomaniacs who actually run Texas to finally do something for the good of someone else for the first time in their lives?

They had better think a whole lot of Dolly if that is going to work.

The AG in Texas is a fugitive from justice. The whole state is turning into a Branch Davidian compound, childcare and all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 12, 2023, 08:00:07 AM: http://www.huffpost.com/entry/milan-kundera-dead_n_64ae8756e4b0e5efaadf5107 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/milan-kundera-dead_n_64ae8756e4b0e5efaadf5107)

I am surprised to find he was with us this long.

RIP
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 08:20:01 AM: My Late Uncle Dennis went to Texas to work drilling for oil, and he made a lot of money, but his friends were all doing heroin, and he started doing heroin with the other guys, and he ended up coming back to California poor and going through withdrawls.

They are giving heroin to the people here in Anaheim too, when my Uncle Dennis was here they gave him free heroin. He was weak when it came to drugs and he would do whatever the other people were doing.

My friend had to quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers because they were all on heroin and he did not want to overdose and die, and the guy who replaced him ended up overdosing and dying.

So, we need to teach our people to say "NO" to drugs, even if the drugs are free. And one pill can kill. And now we have legal marijuana so that is safe and cool, and wine is safe. There is no need to do the dangerous and addictive hard drugs. And addiction is a horrible thing.

California has the best and worst of everything, we have the stuff that is great, and we have stuff that is horrible.

I am sure Texas has good and bad just like everywhere else. You just have to make wise choices. As a teen I loved the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and I had their poster on my wall. And they used to have Spring Break at South Padre Island. The women from Texas seem wholesome. Dale Evans was born in Texas, she was poor and got off to a rough start, but she always loved Texas and she had friends from Texas and she never said a bad word about Texas.

Lately the Governor of Texas has been sending buses full of immigrants to Los Angeles. George W. Bush needs to have a private talk with the Governor of Texas. The UFW can also have a talk with the Governor of Texas. And the ACLU can help.

The good people need to speak up and stop the racist extremists from doing silly things like bussing immigrants to Los Angeles.

We need to fix our broken immigration laws, we need to write a new immigration law, and we need to make our immigrants all legal like Reagan did. And we need to have a Good Neighbor Policy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 08:51:48 AM: In Tennessee the musicians started a charity named "The Store" where poor people shop for groceries which are given to them for free.

https://www.thestore.org/what-we-do.html

I am sure Tennessee would love to have trucks full of cheap food and products from Mexico to go on the store shelves for the poor people.

And if anyone can talk sense into the leaders in Texas it would be Dolly Parton, she is an amazing woman.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 12, 2023, 10:57:19 AM: Saw Fac mentioned the hot water around the Florida Keys last week.

It ain't the heat... it's the major changes in lifestyle...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/07/climate-change-heat-waves-ocean-sea-level-rise/674676/

Maybe Kundera would not have written The ULoB. The world would be too hot for window washers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 12, 2023, 11:00:14 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 11, 2023, 03:21:36 PM
Administrator: Nor able to post attachments lately. Any technical problems?

Your attachment is being posted, but now I can't view it without downloading the jpeg. I think someone tinkered with Elba lately. The plus side was it started letting me post and quote words with apostrophes.

edit: Ok, it downloaded the jpeg but can't open it to view. Booo is right. Can you link your sketch page, we could click a URL?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 12, 2023, 06:10:57 PM: I was in Kiwanis for a couple of years, and I loved how we made a difference in our community. I fully support Kiwanis International.

And Kiwanis International can help in Kentucky, and in Mexico, and in Tennessee, and everywhere.

https://www.louisvillekiwanis.org/

Kiwanis can help the poor and the refugees in Mexico and can help to support them as they grow food, and drive trucks, and work at the ports, etc. Then, Kiwanis can invite in stores such as the Northgate Mexican Market into the poor parts of Kentucky, etc, and can truck in goods from Mexico for the store shelves for the poor people. Kiwanis can set it all up and they can organize the aid for Kentucky, they can get Marten Trucking, and the Northgate Market, etc, to all work together, and it needs to all become self sustaining.

Then, as mentioned in Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, as the need for food and shelter are met in Kentucky, then schools and libraries can be built, and the people can learn to solve problems, and they can become doctors, and scientists, and teachers, etc, and they can create, etc, they can rise to the highest levels of actualization.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 12, 2023, 07:31:02 PM: Oh thank you Lord!
I have seen the Light.
Thank God I am Free at Last!

https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/07/11/georgia-republicans-welcome-state-rep-mainors-switch-from-dems-as-new-life-of-the-party/
(https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/07/11/georgia-republicans-welcome-state-rep-mainors-switch-from-dems-as-new-life-of-the-party/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 12, 2023, 08:39:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 12, 2023, 07:31:02 PM

Oh thank you Lord!
I have seen the Light.
Thank God I am Free at Last!

https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/07/11/georgia-republicans-welcome-state-rep-mainors-switch-from-dems-as-new-life-of-the-party/
(https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/07/11/georgia-republicans-welcome-state-rep-mainors-switch-from-dems-as-new-life-of-the-party/)

Political Pump and Dump

Hope she has her post political career set up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 13, 2023, 09:23:42 AM: You can tell she does by the issues she is taking up. No one joins that cult at that point in their life without intending to drink the blood of innocents. That is why you should never give bibles to people who will not even read their way through the constitution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 13, 2023, 09:46:14 AM: Quote
"Representative Mainor has demonstrated a courage of her convictions that I admire,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 13, 2023, 09:50:24 AM: Quote
Representative Mainor has demonstrated a courage of her convictions that I admire, said Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones, one of the highest-profile supporters of the voucher bill. She has fought to give choices to Georgia families trapped in failing public schools, and we welcome her to our team to continue fighting for educational opportunities for all of Georgias children.

Irony escapes the quoted one, apparently. Would not fixing failing public schools be the way to fight for educational opportunities for all children? And 6500 is not going to cover a years tuition at many private schools.

(and the apostrophe/quote mark glitch is back! Boooo!)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2023, 01:42:16 PM: According to the United Nations there are 3.3 billion people living in poor nations where they spend more money for interest on debt instead of on education and healthcare.

The poor nations need to go into the Banking Business and then they can pay interest to themselves, they can own the Bank that they borrow from and they can pay interest to themselves.

In the United States there was Alexander Hamilton who opened the Bank of New York immediately after the USA formed so that the USA could borrow from the Bank of New York and so that the USA could get in debt to its own bank instead of getting in debt to a foreign bank. ( The Bank of New York is America's Bank, and it is also the official Bank of the nation of Israel. When I was a cook at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, we had a waitress who her Mom was the Vice President of the Bank of New York. Battle Mountain is the Gold capital of the world and Gold is important to banks. Of note, the Bank of New York was the first company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. )

Colombia can have the Bank of Bogota to borrow from, etc. And if the banks are locally owned then the nations can tax the banks on their profits and the money from the taxes that the banks pay can go to education and to healthcare, etc.

And also Bono from U2 and President George W. Bush worked to reduce the debt of many poor nations, the wealthy nations can help and teach the poor nations.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 13, 2023, 03:24:46 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 13, 2023, 09:50:24 AM
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Representative Mainor has demonstrated a courage of her convictions that I admire, said Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones, one of the highest-profile supporters of the voucher bill. She has fought to give choices to Georgia families trapped in failing public schools, and we welcome her to our team to continue fighting for educational opportunities for all of Georgias children.

Irony escapes the quoted one, apparently. Would not fixing failing public schools be the way to fight for educational opportunities for all children? And 6500 is not going to cover a years tuition at many private schools.

Her point is the public schools continue to be low priority for democrats who have sold their souls to the big city teacher unions.
And $6500 will be a big boost in income for non public schools, especially K to JuniorHis, with lower teacher Pay scales.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2023, 03:44:59 PM: SAG just decided to go on strike. The Entertainment Industry has changed, and it is not the same as it was back in the old days with Carl Laemmle, etc, etc, etc, and then with Lucy and Desi as bosses in Hollywood, and other Local people, the Bosses of the Movie Studios used to live and work here, and the Bosses were altruistic and they made sure that the people were well taken care of. But, now the studios are owned by heartless foreign corporations that only care about profits and which do not care about the quality of the lives of the workers and the quality of the communities where they operate. The heartless corporations only care about money, and they do not care about the workers, so we need Unions to force the corporations to be altruistic and to treat the workers well.

Go look at the neighborhood around Paramount Studios, it is a horrible neighborhood with bars on the windows, etc, and trash all over, it is a slum, Paramount is not contributing in a healthy way to the community. They only care about money and not about the community where they do business. Paramount needs to love and nurture their neighborhood and they need the input from people who live in the local area here in California where the Movie Studio is. And Paramount needs to hire local people to work at Paramount, and local kids from the community can be taught about film and they can go to film school, etc. And Burbank is bad now, and Hollywood is bad, it is because heartless corporations are in charge instead of having good loving Christians from the local community in charge. If locals were in charge then everything would be better, but with the foreign corporations then the only way to deal with them is with Unions and with Strikes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 13, 2023, 03:49:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 13, 2023, 03:24:46 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 13, 2023, 09:50:24 AM
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Representative Mainor has demonstrated a courage of her convictions that I admire, said Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones, one of the highest-profile supporters of the voucher bill. She has fought to give choices to Georgia families trapped in failing public schools, and we welcome her to our team to continue fighting for educational opportunities for all of Georgias children.

Irony escapes the quoted one, apparently. Would not fixing failing public schools be the way to fight for educational opportunities for all children? And 6500 is not going to cover a years tuition at many private schools.

Her point is the public schools continue to be low priority for democrats who have sold their souls to the big city teacher unions.
And $6500 will be a big boost in income for non public schools, especially K to JuniorHis, with lower teacher Pay scales.

People who underpay under qualified teachers to under educate and miseducate children would pocket a windfall. It is not a surprise they are the same people who want to abolish the department of education at the federal level. No crook likes having a cop on the beat to make their scamming children and parents more risky.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2023, 04:51:17 PM: President Meloni of Italy wants to give the South of Italy their own Special Economic Zone within the European Union so that the North of Italy can advance their economy at a faster pace without being slowed by the South. That is HORRIBLE logic, and Italy must remain UNITED all as one nation. The South has wine, olives, limoncello, seafood, etc, and tourism, etc. Italy must remain united.

In the United States we are all UNITED and equal. We do not have a Special Economic Zone for Mississippi because they are different than California; all states in the United States are UNITED and EQUAL. And that is how Italy must be, Italy must be UNITED and EQUAL.

And the European Union needs to be united and strong, and England needs to re-join the European Union, to promote peace and cooperation in Europe as well as to advance world trade with big nations like China, India, and with the USA. Along with the fact that Europe has to be strong against outside forces such as Russia, the European Union is wise for many reasons and Europe must be united and strong.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 13, 2023, 05:34:27 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/13/fossil-fuel-deaths-inhaling-gas (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/13/fossil-fuel-deaths-inhaling-gas)

Oil and gas workers, take your talents to the clean energy boom. You will live longer and make more money.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2023, 05:40:22 PM: Bambu, you can learn a lot from Shakespeare, including from "Othello" by Shakespeare. I recommend the movie that was made by Orson Welles as the cinematography is fantastic. In "Othello" a bad man named Iago whispers lies into people's ears to sow discord, and what was once a fairy tale life for Othello and Desdemona turns into a tragedy all because of Iago.

People do that in real life too, they break people up into groups and then they sow discord and the groups destroy themselves with unnecessary fighting among themselves. When we work together then we are strong, and no one can defeat us, but if we let people divide us up into groups and then fight the groups among themselves then we will destroy ourselves. The enemies of America can simply divide us up and then spread discord until America destroys itself. Just like in "Othello."

And we are the richest nation in the world and our streets are full of homeless people and we have a crisis in the USA right now, but our Unions are all fighting to help our workers. We have Unions, and we have Labor Laws to protect our workers. So, if we work together then we can all win, but if we fight among ourselves and if we destroy ourselves then we are foolish like Othello was.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 13, 2023, 07:39:41 PM: Good post, Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 13, 2023, 10:10:16 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2023, 05:40:22 PM
Bambu, you can learn a lot from Shakespeare, including from "Othello" by Shakespeare. I recommend the movie that was made by Orson Welles as the cinematography is fantastic. In "Othello" a bad man named Iago whispers lies into people's ears to sow discord, and what was once a fairy tale life for Othello and Desdemona turns into a tragedy all because of Iago.

People do that in real life too, they break people up into groups and then they sow discord and the groups destroy themselves with unnecessary fighting among themselves. When we work together then we are strong, and no one can defeat us, but if we let people divide us up into groups and then fight the groups among themselves then we will destroy ourselves. The enemies of America can simply divide us up and then spread discord until America destroys itself. Just like in "Othello."

And we are the richest nation in the world and our streets are full of homeless people and we have a crisis in the USA right now, but our Unions are all fighting to help our workers. We have Unions, and we have Labor Laws to protect our workers. So, if we work together then we can all win, but if we fight among ourselves and if we destroy ourselves then we are foolish like Othello was.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only... I'd been wised up at home that "the world is evil, bad people lurk in every shadow, around every corner, everywhere, in work places, in every country, every society, every neighbourhood...and you'll be "eaten alive" if you're not absolutely smarter than they are."
"They'll rob you, steal everything you have, take advantage of you, rip you off at every turn, bash you, lie about you, trample you...any evil deed, they'll do it."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 13, 2023, 10:18:40 PM: I am surprised you are not more successful as a motivational speaker.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 14, 2023, 11:30:54 AM: Speaking of arid barren places....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

Xeriscaping becomes the law? About fuggin time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2023, 12:21:54 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 11:30:54 AM
Speaking of arid barren places....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

Xeriscaping becomes the law? About fuggin time.

Building towns/cities in the desert, which Scottsdale seems to resemble, one would expect drought, scorching temps, and to struggle with water.
From the photo, that landscape doesn't resemble an ideal location for housing estates etc.
My No 1 radio host would have a plan..."Watering America"..."move the water from where it is to where it is not...dams and pipelines. Harness the billions of gallons of water flowing into the ocean."
Floods in Vermont, droughts in Arizona...snow melting in the north...plenty of water.
In the western movies Arizona territory looked like the last place anyone would want to build a permanent home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 14, 2023, 12:44:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 11:30:54 AM
Speaking of arid barren places....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

Xeriscaping becomes the law? About fuggin time.
We took our front yard out about 6 years ago. Probably doing the back yard this year. You know, when you decide to live in the fecking desert, live in the fecking desert.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 14, 2023, 12:53:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 14, 2023, 12:21:54 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 11:30:54 AM
Speaking of arid barren places....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

Xeriscaping becomes the law? About fuggin time.

Building towns/cities in the desert, which Scottsdale seems to resemble, one would expect drought, scorching temps, and to struggle with water.
From the photo, that landscape doesn't resemble an ideal location for housing estates etc.
My No 1 radio host would have a plan..."Watering America"..."move the water from where it is to where it is not...dams and pipelines. Harness the billions of gallons of water flowing into the ocean."
As always, your No. 1 radio host has No..2 for brains. We already do that. By the time it reaches the oceans, the Colorado is as weak a stream as my 2 am piss.
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Floods in Vermont, droughts in Arizona...snow melting in the north...plenty of water.
No, there is not. We have been in a drought for years, last year notwithstanding. You seem to think you can first, have the infrastructure in place to harness a once in a century flood and second transport it 2500 miles.
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In the western movies Arizona territory looked like the last place anyone would want to build a permanent home.
No, that would be the house next to you. The desert is a beautiful living place and I have not used a snow shovel in 13 years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2023, 01:43:45 PM: My whole lot is paved and my garden lives in terra cotta except for the lemon and mango trees and the passion fruit covering the fence. Herbs, veggies and berries all live in pots. No mowing or shoveling required.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2023, 02:04:42 PM: Heads up Corporate America, Affirmative Action is no longer permitted

That message came out loud and clear in a letter from 13 state Attorneys General to the Fortune 100, advising that hiring practices based on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) may also be illegal racial discrimination.

Well intentioned racial discrimination is just as illegal as invidious discrimination, wrote Jonathan Skrmetti of Tennessee and Kris Kobach of Kansas.

Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences.
The prohibition exists even if it is meant to counteract historical bias. If your company previously resorted to racial preferences or quotas to offset its bigotry, that discriminatory path is now definitively closed.

The letter also identifies companies who illustrate the pervasiveness and explicit nature of these racial preferences including Airbnb, Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Lyft, Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Snapchat, TikTok, Uber and others have also set policies that amount to discrimination on the basis of race. Microsoft set quotas for suppliers.

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2023/pr23-27-letter.pdf (https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2023/pr23-27-letter.pdf)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2023, 02:56:23 PM: The letter came from 13 fascist terrorists at war with and on the run from the law.

Patriotic corporations with any concern for preserving shareholder value will completely disregard it.

They will look at the my pillow company as the cautionary tale and continue to diversify to meet the needs of their diverse markets.

The death bleats of you pseudo culture are getting shriller and shriller by the day, Red. You should have stuck to small government instead of Zerg charging the culture wars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 14, 2023, 03:05:31 PM: Foot race. Eighty percent of contestants along the starting line. Twenty percent, of particular ancestry, are at a line 100 meters behind the starting line, due to rules set up centuries ago. Someone suggests the race would be more fair if that twenty percent were moved up to the starting line. This would be correcting the effects of discrimination.

They've done child paychology experiments where three year olds are able to grasp this basic concept.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2023, 03:12:30 PM: The 80s and 90s are when AIDS grew legs, put on makeup and became the republican party. Much that has followed flows from that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2023, 06:25:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 03:05:31 PM
Foot race. Eighty percent of contestants along the starting line. Twenty percent, of particular ancestry, are at a line 100 meters behind the starting line, due to rules set up centuries ago. Someone suggests the race would be more fair if that twenty percent were moved up to the starting line. This would be correcting the effects of discrimination.

They've done child paychology experiments where three year olds are able to grasp this basic concept.
Too bad that concept eluded everyone who decided not to give a leg up at the start line.
Also known as KINDERGARTEN.
How Affirmative Action was put into practice by favoring placements from the top down was mercifully deep sixed by SCOTUS. Logically it not only will be gone from college admissions it soon will be thrown out of business hiring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 14, 2023, 07:06:39 PM: Grass takes in carbon dioxide, and gives off oxygen.
Love that grass.
Live in a desert, drought, poor old lawn cannot live.

2005...Sydney bambuworld was in drought, the dam level dropping slowly...water restrictions...hand-held hoses with trigger nozzles only allowed for watering gardens and lawns, and only before 10am and after 4pm.

bambu always obeys all laws and all water restrictions.
So, when watering my front garden and lush green lawn one afternoon...in my quiet Rightist "middle class" suburb with nice, mostly modest homes, not necessarily mansions...an SUV stopped across the street. Woman wound down window and yelled at me: "Where's the fire"?
While I was processing what that might mean, she yelled at me again about using water on the lawn and garden...then before I could discuss the matter with her she drove off.

A man across the city was watering his roses in his front yard, obeying the water restrictions, when a man passing by yelled at him about using water on his garden. The man watering then hosed the man walking by, the man walking by then went into the yard of the man hosing, and killed him, severe bashing.

After that, when I was watering I made sure I always had 'weapons' ready for defence behind my courtyard wall. Tomahawk, quality steel garden fork etc.

Mother in Law, team bambu, and other family members laid the grass as rolls of turf in 100F heat in the mid1970s, and there was no way I was going to let it die.
Small amount of fertiliser, small amount of water regularly, regular mowing, lush green lawn.
"Blood, sweat and tears", be damned if I was going to let the self-appointed "water nazis" win.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2023, 07:19:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 14, 2023, 06:25:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 03:05:31 PM
Foot race. Eighty percent of contestants along the starting line. Twenty percent, of particular ancestry, are at a line 100 meters behind the starting line, due to rules set up centuries ago. Someone suggests the race would be more fair if that twenty percent were moved up to the starting line. This would be correcting the effects of discrimination.

They've done child paychology experiments where three year olds are able to grasp this basic concept.
Too bad that concept eluded everyone who decided not to give a leg up at the start line.
Also known as KINDERGARTEN.
How Affirmative Action was put into practice by favoring placements from the top down was mercifully deep sixed by SCOTUS. Logically it not only will be gone from college admissions it soon will be thrown out of business hiring.

Just the failing businesses. My Pillow says hi.

You are less of a market and more of a bone yard than you think.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 14, 2023, 07:23:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 14, 2023, 11:30:54 AM
Speaking of arid barren places....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

Xeriscaping becomes the law? About fuggin time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 14, 2023, 10:04:05 PM: Re: Affirmative Action.
By Ted Rall

Democrats benefited in November 2022 from the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. They probably will not get a similar boost from Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
An Economist YouGov survey found 59% of Americans, including 57% of independents, approve of the court decision against racial preferences in college admissions. Only 27% disapprove.

Even 36% of Democrats approve of the ruling. Many of them are probably left leaning white men like me, who never cared for race based affirmative action. Like most white guys my age I turn 60 next month I have been told more than once that I was being passed up for a job, an award or a gig because my demographics were now disfavored. I shrugged and moved on, these slights neither destroyed my life nor turned me into a racist. But I came to see how affirmative action can sour race relations. My ancestors were poor European immigrants who arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What does slavery have to do with me?

My senior year at Columbia University, I received no financial aid. I was 28, returning to finish my degree after six years, and the $36,000 I had earned the year before disqualified me. My first job after graduating was as an office assistant at the admissions and financial aid office. As I was struggling to pay my student loans, I processed an application from a black woman my age. I was told she had a multimillion dollar trust fund and was awarded a full scholarship because the university needed her for diversity reasons.

Later I worked as a math tutor at a private school in Manhattan. One day the director called me aside to inform me that I was being let go. I asked what I had done wrong. Nothing, the kids love you,You are doing a great job. We want to hire a black tutor instead.
Do you know anyone? He smiled, showing no regret or sympathy.
As a good liberal, I was expected to understand

A few years ago a Hollywood producer approached me about developing one of my autobiographical humor books into a TV series. After a series of meetings, my agent called to ask if I would be willing to change the lead character, based on me, to a person of color. It is almost impossible to sell anything based on a white male these days,p

The idea did not bother me, and I agreed. It was not enough. My agent later told me that studios were not interested even in a project created by and based on the book by a white male.

Some people react to being passed over for being white, Asian or male with aplomb, regarding their own setbacks as a price worth paying to right past injustices. Some magnify every grievance and become hardened bigots.

Most handle it the way I have, by swallowing the unfairness and putting it behind them. Race based affirmative action is gone in college admissions, and perhaps soon in the workplace as well. People like me will not mourn it.

Mr. Rall is a political cartoonist, columnist and author, most recently, of The Stringer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 14, 2023, 10:36:56 PM: Some magnify every grievance and become hardened bigots.

You found yourself in that sentence right there.

Pro tip, the author did not intend it as the recommendation you clearly think it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 15, 2023, 03:52:45 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/florida-hurricane-insurance-crisis-climate

DeSantis needs to stop fighting culture wars that are political posturing for the 2024 race and start working with the legislature and other governmental groups to find solutions to problems that Floridians really care about.

Ideas like:
building smaller, more easily insurable, affordable homes farther from the water,
subsidize architectural choices that better handle wind and flood,
promote wetlands and other green spaces that help buffer communities against storms,
etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 15, 2023, 04:11:47 PM: I do not think he will. DeSantis and Florida republicans only have one policy goal, to speed the advent of Armageddon for all the people of Florida. If a policy does not bring on the end of the world they do not waste their malicious energy supporting it. Your ideas run right against their core philosophy as it could potentially help many many people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 15, 2023, 04:56:14 PM: I was born and raised in the desert, it was a great place to grow up. And my Mother still lives in the desert, she has solar power with a battery system for her home, and she has a swimming pool, so she can run her air conditioner cheaply and the filter system for her pool is cheap to run, she loves it. And she only lives 80 miles from Los Angeles, so she is not so far out in the wilderness. And the Antelope Valley has aerospace and defense, and NASA, etc, so there is a good economy there, with a lot of good smart people in the area, and good schools, it is a good area.

And yes Bambu, people need to keep building pipes, acquaducts, dams, lakes, etc, in the desert in order to provide water for residents, as well as for growing Winter Vegetables, etc.

Theodore Roosevelt Lake in Arizona helps to provide water for residents as well as for growing Winter Vegetables, etc.

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

And solar power is well suited for the desert.

The desert has a lot of wide open cheap land, in Arizona, and in New Mexico, and a lot of people are retiring to the desert. And rich people from California are selling their expensive homes in California and they are moving to the desert in Arizona, and they love it, Lisa Brando who was a daughter of Marlon Brando lives in the desert of Arizona and she loves Arizona.

And the band the Scorpions even wrote a song about Arizona. And Rob Halford of the band Judas Priest lives in Arizona. Lots of famous people live in Arizona now.

And Palm Springs in California has always been a desert playground for the rich and famous, though Palm Springs is not cheap anymore. I like the Mid Century Modern homes in Palm Springs with the palm trees and a swimming pool, like how Frank Sinatra lived in Palm Springs.

Of note as well, is that Las Vegas turned into a wonderful city thanks to Hoover Dam, the American Dream is alive and well in Las Vegas.

The desert is great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 15, 2023, 05:44:18 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 15, 2023, 03:52:45 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/florida-hurricane-insurance-crisis-climate

DeSantis needs to stop fighting culture wars that are political posturing for the 2024 race and start working with the legislature and other governmental groups to find solutions to problems that Floridians really care about.
Some of my friends in Florida think the opposite. He should stay in Florida as Governor because they like the work he is doing there.
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Ideas like:
building smaller, more easily insurable, affordable homes farther from the water,
There is very little market for new small landlocked houses.

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subsidize architectural choices that better handle wind and flood,
promote wetlands and other green spaces that help buffer communities against storms,

Already done in many places.My brother lives in a subdivision that was built on those guidelines and needed only a broom to clean up after the last hurricane.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 15, 2023, 06:51:31 PM: In Italy they built acquaducts, and they cut tunnels through solid stone to run water through the tunnels, and in Rome they had running water in their homes, and they had indoor toilets with plumbing, etc. The Italians were way ahead of everyone on the issue of water and development.

In Peru they have puquios which are underground canals for water to run and they turned a desert into a garden, there is debate about if the Natives built the puquios with the help of the Spaniards or if the Natives built the puquios on their own.

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

We can put our unemployed people and our new immigrants and refugees, etc, to work building things which benefit all of us, instead of just giving the people money to be on welfare and to not do anything, then we should pay them to build acquaducts, and dams, etc, etc, etc. The USA built a lot of dams during the Great Depression, and we built the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco during the Great Depression. Public Works Projects are good for humanity and they are good for America. We can turn the desert into a garden, and we can have plentiful Winter Vegetables, etc. Instead of turning people away at our Southern Border then we need to put them to work on Public Works Projects. And along with water issues, we can also work on clean transportation issues such as High Speed Trains, and Subways, etc, we can put the people to work instead of paying them to sit around and do nothing, or instead of turning people away at the Southern Border then we can invite them in and we can put them to work. And we can put the homeless people to work on Public Works Projects, etc.

And it makes one feel good to contribute to the construction of America. My Grandfather helped to build an acquaduct here in California for water, and my Father worked for the Los Angeles County Road Department when I was born and he helped to build our Highway System, and the Road Department sent my Father to Pepperdine for free to study Business and Management because they wanted for him to be a leader at the Road Department, it was a good job and he should have kept it and he might still be alive, instead of getting struck by lightning while loading Hay into a Rancher's barn in Oregon and dying way back in 1977. But anyhow, when I drive on the Highway then I know my Father helped to build that Highway, and when I drink water I know my Grandfather did work to help to supply our water. There is a satisfaction that comes with getting to be a part of our community and working on Public Works Projects. And I helped to build a Public School for children, and I helped to build a Laboratory at China Lake Navy Weapon Center, and I helped to build the Visitor Reception Area at NASA at Edwards Air Force Base, etc, it feels good to be a part of something bigger than myself, and to contribute to the USA. Like President Kennedy said, ask what you can do for America and not what America can do for you. Instead of just giving free money and housing to healthy people then we need to put them to work instead on Public Works Projects.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 16, 2023, 10:25:08 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 15, 2023, 05:44:18 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 15, 2023, 03:52:45 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/florida-hurricane-insurance-crisis-climate

DeSantis needs to stop fighting culture wars that are political posturing for the 2024 race and start working with the legislature and other governmental groups to find solutions to problems that Floridians really care about.
Some of my friends in Florida think the opposite. He should stay in Florida as Governor because they like the work he is doing there.
Quote
Ideas like:
building smaller, more easily insurable, affordable homes farther from the water,
There is very little market for new small landlocked houses.

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subsidize architectural choices that better handle wind and flood,
promote wetlands and other green spaces that help buffer communities against storms,

Already done in many places.My brother lives in a subdivision that was built on those guidelines and needed only a broom to clean up after the last hurricane.

It is a shame DeSantis exiled all the builders. There will be no new homes built and no homes repaired as long as he is governor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 16, 2023, 02:49:58 PM: China would soon turn a desert into a lush green wonderland.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 16, 2023, 03:38:38 PM: https://archive.li/2023.07.16-103931/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/climate/climate-geodesic-dome-house.html

Domes make good homes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 16, 2023, 04:19:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 16, 2023, 02:49:58 PM
China would soon turn a desert into a lush green wonderland.
As in that noted lush garden area known as the Gobi pastureland. You fucking idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 16, 2023, 06:04:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 16, 2023, 02:49:58 PM
China would soon turn a desert into a lush green wonderland.

The Chinese helped to build our railroads here in the USA.

We can do great things if we have peace, and if we work together, and we can feed the hungry, and we can house the homeless, etc.

Israel is growing eggplant in Israel the size of watermelons, Israel can teach a lot to the Chinese and to the world on the issue of growing food in the desert.

If we are wise, and if we have peace and teamwork, then we can grow gardens in the desert, and we can feed and house all of our people.

And even just having good people open HOSTELS for $15 per night where the homeless people can take a nice hot shower and sleep in a bed. We need for people to provide a shower and a bed without making huge profits, there needs to be cheap hostels like in Rome. Maybe the Chinese can help to open Hostels, and the Filipinos can help, etc.

We can do great things if we have peace and teamwork.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 16, 2023, 08:56:13 PM: The 10 worst states to live and work in are all red ones. The list is topped and tailed by the two big ones, Texas and Florida.

No surprises there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 16, 2023, 09:52:13 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 16, 2023, 04:19:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 16, 2023, 02:49:58 PM
China would soon turn a desert into a lush green wonderland.
As in that noted lush garden area known as the Gobi pastureland. You fucking idiot.

Not that sort of desert.
Btw, Australia sells sand to Arab nations.
Sells camels to Arab nations, some for racing.....and camels to America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on July 17, 2023, 12:12:48 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 16, 2023, 08:56:13 PM
The 10 worst states to live and work in are all red ones. The list is topped and tailed by the two big ones, Texas and Florida.

No surprises there.

Huh, people are voting with their feet.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 17, 2023, 02:57:15 AM: Orlando. Yikes. Enjoy these next several months of beautiful weather. They should be a nice small preview of what the summer next year will have in store.

By the time you are looking in September there should still be plenty of room in Wyoming or Idaho where you kindred spirits tend to gather.

Wait too long after that and DeSantis will have had time to build a wall to keep you in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 17, 2023, 03:00:17 AM: How Rupert Murdoch destroys cultures,

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/gonski-review-government-funding-private-public-schools (http://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/gonski-review-government-funding-private-public-schools)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on July 17, 2023, 07:46:51 AM: Cut off again basically Florida is the #1 growth state for 2022-2023. People are voting with their feet about which is the best state to move to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 17, 2023, 08:02:23 AM: Quote from: luee on July 17, 2023, 07:46:51 AM
Cut off again basically Florida is the #1 growth state for 2022-2023. People are voting with their feet about which is the best state to move to.
Move in haste, repent in leisure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 17, 2023, 09:32:00 AM: Florida is mind numbing in its flatness. Keys are lovely, however. Given the huge quantities of bugs and lizards, I'm pretty sure our cats would love it. While it's not my cup of tea, the 160 AQI here this morning makes it look sort of inviting. A tactical mistake, opening our windows last night.

https://www.aqi.in/us/dashboard/united-states/south-dakota/rapid-city
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 17, 2023, 05:24:58 PM: It will be highs in the upper seventies with humidity and AQI hovering around 60 into next week in this unrivaled den of iniquity we call San Diego. It might be a degree off perfect, but we will try to find a way to manage. After all that is what we have microclimates for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 17, 2023, 06:27:26 PM: Quote from: luee on July 17, 2023, 07:46:51 AM
Cut off again basically Florida is the #1 growth state for 2022-2023. People are voting with their feet about which is the best state to move to.

Good luck getting homeowners insurance

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/business/farmers-homeowners-insurance-florida.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 17, 2023, 07:33:52 PM: A typical Floridian with an equivalent house pays as much as I do for insurance, taxes, security and pest control just for their insurance.

Good thing for them there is no chance their rates will continue to rise in the near future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 17, 2023, 10:43:58 PM: Evil

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-trooper-migrants-wire-18205076.php
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 18, 2023, 05:32:51 AM: I do not know how Newsom thinks that California is doing so great, our whole state is in a crisis, and Los Angeles and San Bernardino both declared a state of emergency. Our state is in a crisis.

The workers here are all fighting for fair pay and good treatment so that they do not have to work full time to live in their cars, etc. It is important for the hard working people to be able to earn a fair living, and hard work must pay off. And we have a huge gap between the poor and the rich in America. Of note as well is that many employers here in California are heartless foreign corporations which only care about money and not about people, so the Unions must fight for fair pay and good treatment, and we can force the heartless foreign corporations to be altruistic because it is in our best interest to do so. Collective bargaining is the only way we can make the corporations treat people fair.

We need to decide that it is not acceptable to have homeless people all over our streets, and workers living in their cars. If you work, you need to at least be able to get a shower and a bed at a hostel for $15.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 18, 2023, 05:41:41 AM: Florida is a beautiful state, I wish Jeb Bush was in charge still instead of the scumbags who are running Florida now.

I would love to own a little night club on the sand in Florida, built cheaply so that if a hurricane destroys it then it will be cheap to rebuild, it can be like a tiki bar in Hawaii. And I love the women in Florida, they are more down to earth and less greedy than the women in California.

I could serve pina coladas to women in bikinis all night, while live bands play.

I applied for a job at a great little night club on the sand in Cocoa Beach, if I would have gotten the job then I would have stayed there.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 18, 2023, 08:57:22 AM: My wealthiest friend spent her whole life doing charity work to help the homeless, she was my hero, she was worth over 100 million dollars but she still helped the homeless everyday until she died. She was a special person, and she made other people feel special.

She was part of the ruling class from the Philippines, and her best friend was a cousin of President Gloria Arroyo. They came to the USA and opened many successful businesses, while at the same time doing charity work and helping the homeless.

The Philippines is a good Christian country, and they are good allies. Japan attacked the Philippines during World War II and was extremely brutal and evil to the people of the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur helped to save the Philippines, and the people of the Philippines love the USA very much.

San Francisco needs to welcome people from the Philippines to help to save San Francisco. There are people who want to kill America, and there are wonderful people who want to save America, and the good Christians from the Philippines love America and they want to save America.

And the people from the Philippines can open cheap hostels in San Francisco where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

My friend was amazing, she was rich, but she was a servant for the poor. She was truly a servant of God. And that is what California needs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 10:22:07 AM: Step by step
Inch by inch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:15:36 PM: Making private equity strictly regulated and transparent in all its operations solves many of the crises facing workers and families in California and across the United States.

MTG thinks Biden will get it done and it will help make Build Back Better as much a part of the fabric, backbone and character of our nation as the New Deal and Great Society. Progressive policies can once again fuel the uplift of all our population especially those vehemently opposed to progressivism, the same ones who tend need both support and restrictions more than most.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:18:35 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 10:22:07 AM
Step by step
Inch by inch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/

Now we need to catch and convict all those AGs violating HIPAA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 01:31:41 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:18:35 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 10:22:07 AM
Step by step
Inch by inch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/

Now we need to catch and convict all those AGs violating HIPAA.

Speaking of AGs making noise

https://thehill.com/homenews/4102079-minnesota-ag-compares-clarence-thomas-to-house-slave-in-django-unchained/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:52:44 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 01:31:41 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:18:35 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 10:22:07 AM
Step by step
Inch by inch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/

Now we need to catch and convict all those AGs violating HIPAA.

Speaking of AGs making noise

https://thehill.com/homenews/4102079-minnesota-ag-compares-clarence-thomas-to-house-slave-in-django-unchained/

Keith should go the the Supreme Court as one of four or five Justices appointed by President Biden.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 18, 2023, 02:52:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:52:44 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 01:31:41 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 01:18:35 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 18, 2023, 10:22:07 AM
Step by step
Inch by inch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/

Now we need to catch and convict all those AGs violating HIPAA.

Speaking of AGs making noise

https://thehill.com/homenews/4102079-minnesota-ag-compares-clarence-thomas-to-house-slave-in-django-unchained/

Keith should go the the Supreme Court as one of four or five Justices appointed by President Biden.

Had a laugh at Ted "Outlaw Sex Toys" Cruz's use of the phrase "radical orthodoxy."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 18, 2023, 03:51:46 PM: The vast hollow emptiness of conservatism projects its secret self criticism everywhere one used to find political debate.

The ran out of ideas with Eisenhower. This is how they fill the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 01:56:47 PM: USS Canberra has arrived in Sydney for its commissioning and celebrations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 02:13:52 PM: When my news bulletin last night announced that ...a tank and cars have crashed in Queensland state...I thought the invasion had begun, and that people had driven cars at the tank to stop it.

Turned out to be "a fiery crash between 6 cars and a truck carrying a tank."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 19, 2023, 03:00:08 PM: Sounds like the 1938 invasion by Martians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 03:15:01 PM: Note to Martians, do not probe Australians. The tend to leak for days after.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 05:41:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Note to Martians, do not probe Australians. The tend to leak for days after.

LOL

Whereas Americans, allowed to carry guns, turn the Martians into "Swiss cheese".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 06:01:05 PM: You must not have watched Earth Girls are Easy. Try to keep up with the science.

No wonder you do not have nukes.

Fucking colonials.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 19, 2023, 06:17:30 PM: At first when Gustavo Petro was elected as President of Colombia I was worried, as he is a Leftist, and a former Leftist Guerilla, but so far he is doing a great job.

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

The United States has been very close with Colombia at least since the time of President George W. Bush, and Colombia has had a long string of fantastic presidents, some of whom even studied at Harvard, and we have been supporting education in Colombia, and we have been expanding trade, and Colombia is a wonderful success story.

I am happy that President Gustavo Petro is doing a good job, and may God bless Colombia.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 07:35:24 PM: Margie Three Toes may have stepped in it

D.C. Code
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 07:37:10 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 07:35:24 PM
Margie Three Toes may have stepped in it

D.C. Code

Could not have happened to a nicer what would you call her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 07:45:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 06:01:05 PM
You must not have watched Earth Girls are Easy. Try to keep up with the science.

No wonder you do not have nukes.

Fucking colonials.

Who? The 'Sons and Daughters of the Southern Cross'?
We'll get nukes, one way or another..you watch us...we won't be jumping into the billabong to become ghosts until the very end.

Or maybe biological and chemical weapons...everybody else is, without sanction.

We don't have nukes because we fell for the 3 card trick;
Card 1: 'Signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties is best for world peace'.
Card 2: 'Sign defence alliances and you will be looked after, no need for nuclear weapons'.
Card 3: 'Defence alliances are an iron-clad guarantee of protection if attacked'.

Whereas nothing, absolutely nothing about defence alliances is guaranteed...protection/assistance is at the whim of the leaders/people of other countries at the time.
Which is fair enough, "look after yourself in this world, son...because nobody else will".
Exactly why every nation is now trying to arm itself as best it can.
Ukraine is a perfect example for other defenceless countries..."arm yourself with nukes and every missile known to man or you'll be slaughtered".

*

Science, or space fantasy?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 19, 2023, 08:05:33 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 07:37:10 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 07:35:24 PM
Margie Three Toes may have stepped in it

D.C. Code

Could not have happened to a nicer what would you call her.

I would not call her. Nor would I call a rabid pit bull.

Missed the DC Code news, whatever that's about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 09:09:18 PM: :)s
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 07:37:10 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 07:35:24 PM
Margie Three Toes may have stepped in it

D.C. Code

Could not have happened to a nicer what would you call her.

D.C. Code 22-3053. Finally, a third party who comes into possession of the sexual image and who publishes it (i.e., shares it with 6 or more people) can be charged with Second Degree Unlawful Publication of a Sexual Image. This is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to 180 days in jail and/or a fine of $1,000
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 09:10:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 07:45:09 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 06:01:05 PM
You must not have watched Earth Girls are Easy. Try to keep up with the science.

No wonder you do not have nukes.

Fucking colonials.

Who? The 'Sons and Daughters of the Southern Cross'?
We'll get nukes, one way or another..you watch us...we won't be jumping into the billabong to become ghosts until the very end.

Or maybe biological and chemical weapons...everybody else is, without sanction.

We don't have nukes because we fell for the 3 card trick;
Card 1: 'Signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties is best for world peace'.
Card 2: 'Sign defence alliances and you will be looked after, no need for nuclear weapons'.
Card 3: 'Defence alliances are an iron-clad guarantee of protection if attacked'.

Whereas nothing, absolutely nothing about defence alliances is guaranteed...protection/assistance is at the whim of the leaders/people of other countries at the time.
Which is fair enough, "look after yourself in this world, son...because nobody else will".
Exactly why every nation is now trying to arm itself as best it can.
Ukraine is a perfect example for other defenceless countries..."arm yourself with nukes and every missile known to man or you'll be slaughtered".

*

Science, or space fantasy?

No Nukes for bambu!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 09:30:05 PM: We will know that Bambuland has nukes when we see the mushroom cloud over Sydney, Brisbane or Perth. Anyone who has worked with Ozzies knows what would happen. It is why they get no help with stuff they cannot figure out for themselves.

It is the metaphorical fork with the cork on its tines a la Freddy trying to pull a con. In the case of Oz, there is no con. Bambu and his cohort depend on the presence of that cork.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:32:30 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 19, 2023, 09:10:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 19, 2023, 07:45:09 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 19, 2023, 06:01:05 PM
You must not have watched Earth Girls are Easy. Try to keep up with the science.

No wonder you do not have nukes.

Fucking colonials.

Who? The 'Sons and Daughters of the Southern Cross'?
We'll get nukes, one way or another..you watch us...we won't be jumping into the billabong to become ghosts until the very end.

Or maybe biological and chemical weapons...everybody else is, without sanction.

We don't have nukes because we fell for the 3 card trick;
Card 1: 'Signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties is best for world peace'.
Card 2: 'Sign defence alliances and you will be looked after, no need for nuclear weapons'.
Card 3: 'Defence alliances are an iron-clad guarantee of protection if attacked'.

Whereas nothing, absolutely nothing about defence alliances is guaranteed...protection/assistance is at the whim of the leaders/people of other countries at the time.
Which is fair enough, "look after yourself in this world, son...because nobody else will".
Exactly why every nation is now trying to arm itself as best it can.
Ukraine is a perfect example for other defenceless countries..."arm yourself with nukes and every missile known to man or you'll be slaughtered".

*

Science, or space fantasy?

No Nukes for bambu!

We'll get them, we will you know.
You might own them, Britain might own them, but we'll get them here, make no mistake.
We're already getting the subs to put them in...some time this century...see what happens when one delays.
The time has come for Australia to arm itself properly, one way or another.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:58:57 AM: Warren Brown writes, from South Australia [Daily Telegraph today]:

On the gun-barrel-straight bitumen from Wilmington to Orroroo in South Australia, our two-and-a-half tonne RAM 1500 Laramie is belting across a dead-flat landscape where I'm convinced the landscape has been plotted with a spirit level and finished off with a road grader.

The RAM is in its element out here - its 5.7 litre HEMI 400 horse-power fuel-injected V8 effortlessly eating up the kilometres, seemingly itching to be given open rein on an open road at full throttle.

The best-selling RAM and its rivals, the Ford F150 and Chevrolet Silverado, are about to be joined by the twin-turbo V6 Toyota Tundra, this week approved for sale in Australia.

But make no mistake - these pick ups are not catering for the ute market - they are proudly presented as a political statement aimed for the red-blooded car guys who have had enough of woke society shaming them into conceding to some alternative eco-friendly vehicle with the charm of a kitchen appliance.

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 20, 2023, 11:52:37 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/20/2182385/-NO-MORE-NORMAL-N-C-Tornado-Hits-Pfizer-Plant-Destroys-25-of-Sterile-Injectable-Medicine-in-U-S (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/20/2182385/-NO-MORE-NORMAL-N-C-Tornado-Hits-Pfizer-Plant-Destroys-25-of-Sterile-Injectable-Medicine-in-U-S)

And here we are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 20, 2023, 02:48:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:58:57 AM
Warren Brown writes, from South Australia [Daily Telegraph today]:

On the gun-barrel-straight bitumen from Wilmington to Orroroo in South Australia, our two-and-a-half tonne RAM 1500 Laramie is belting across a dead-flat landscape where I'm convinced the landscape has been plotted with a spirit level and finished off with a road grader.

The RAM is in its element out here - its 5.7 litre HEMI 400 horse-power fuel-injected V8 effortlessly eating up the kilometres, seemingly itching to be given open rein on an open road at full throttle.

The best-selling RAM and its rivals, the Ford F150 and Chevrolet Silverado, are about to be joined by the twin-turbo V6 Toyota Tundra, this week approved for sale in Australia.

But make no mistake - these pick ups are not catering for the ute market - they are proudly presented as a political statement aimed for the red-blooded car guys who have had enough of woke society shaming them into conceding to some alternative eco-friendly vehicle with the charm of a kitchen appliance.

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Well there you go.

He doesn't seem to know what woke means. It means be aware of racial/ethnic prejudice and discrimination in your society. It has nothing to do with the question of what vehicles are sustainable.

I have no problem with a construction worker, rancher, remodeler driving a F150 because they actually need the cargo capacity and towing power. But the performative thing where people buy one and then mainly use it to commute and pick up groceries is pretentious and pathetic. Own a truck because you need to haul stuff, not because it's a surrogate penis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 20, 2023, 02:58:22 PM: As my bud Tim Russert said, Floriduh, Floriduh, Floriduh!

They are trying to rewrite history and whitewash it at the same time.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

If they are trying to erase us from history you know what comes next. They will not succeed but they are gonna give it the old college try.

The updated standards say students should learn that enslaved people developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit, and that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should note acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 20, 2023, 02:59:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 20, 2023, 02:48:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:58:57 AM
Warren Brown writes, from South Australia [Daily Telegraph today]:

On the gun-barrel-straight bitumen from Wilmington to Orroroo in South Australia, our two-and-a-half tonne RAM 1500 Laramie is belting across a dead-flat landscape where I'm convinced the landscape has been plotted with a spirit level and finished off with a road grader.

The RAM is in its element out here - its 5.7 litre HEMI 400 horse-power fuel-injected V8 effortlessly eating up the kilometres, seemingly itching to be given open rein on an open road at full throttle.

The best-selling RAM and its rivals, the Ford F150 and Chevrolet Silverado, are about to be joined by the twin-turbo V6 Toyota Tundra, this week approved for sale in Australia.

But make no mistake - these pick ups are not catering for the ute market - they are proudly presented as a political statement aimed for the red-blooded car guys who have had enough of woke society shaming them into conceding to some alternative eco-friendly vehicle with the charm of a kitchen appliance.

#####

Well there you go.

He doesn't seem to know what woke means. It means be aware of racial/ethnic prejudice and discrimination in your society. It has nothing to do with the question of what vehicles are sustainable.

I have no problem with a construction worker, rancher, remodeler driving a F150 because they actually need the cargo capacity and towing power. But the performative thing where people buy one and then mainly use it to commute and pick up groceries is pretentious and pathetic. Own a truck because you need to haul stuff, not because it's a surrogate penis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 20, 2023, 03:08:43 PM: developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit - holy mother of fuck, George Orwell nailed it.

Hey, while we're at it, let's call abduction for ransom sequestering for funds that may be applied for their personal benefit...

Finally caught up on the Margie shenanigans, showing the nude pix of Hunter, at the hearing? That would be a hoot if they could get her on a District law. Also a possible defamation charge, given her comment on Hunter making pornography.

More delightful is Team Biden using her Turning Point Action speech for Joe's campaign ads.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2023, 03:35:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:58:57 AM
Warren Brown writes, from South Australia [Daily Telegraph today]:

On the gun-barrel-straight bitumen from Wilmington to Orroroo in South Australia, our two-and-a-half tonne RAM 1500 Laramie is belting across a dead-flat landscape where I'm convinced the landscape has been plotted with a spirit level and finished off with a road grader.

The RAM is in its element out here - its 5.7 litre HEMI 400 horse-power fuel-injected V8 effortlessly eating up the kilometres, seemingly itching to be given open rein on an open road at full throttle.

The best-selling RAM and its rivals, the Ford F150 and Chevrolet Silverado, are about to be joined by the twin-turbo V6 Toyota Tundra, this week approved for sale in Australia.

But make no mistake - these pick ups are not catering for the ute market - they are proudly presented as a political statement aimed for the red-blooded car guys who have had enough of woke society shaming them into conceding to some alternative eco-friendly vehicle with the charm of a kitchen appliance.
Y]es, guys with self esteem problems, self conscious of their dick size and troubled by some of their sexual longings will always want to put on a show of manhood through "stuff".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 07:35:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2023, 03:35:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 03:58:57 AM
Warren Brown writes, from South Australia [Daily Telegraph today]:

On the gun-barrel-straight bitumen from Wilmington to Orroroo in South Australia, our two-and-a-half tonne RAM 1500 Laramie is belting across a dead-flat landscape where I'm convinced the landscape has been plotted with a spirit level and finished off with a road grader.

The RAM is in its element out here - its 5.7 litre HEMI 400 horse-power fuel-injected V8 effortlessly eating up the kilometres, seemingly itching to be given open rein on an open road at full throttle.

The best-selling RAM and its rivals, the Ford F150 and Chevrolet Silverado, are about to be joined by the twin-turbo V6 Toyota Tundra, this week approved for sale in Australia.

But make no mistake - these pick ups are not catering for the ute market - they are proudly presented as a political statement aimed for the red-blooded car guys who have had enough of woke society shaming them into conceding to some alternative eco-friendly vehicle with the charm of a kitchen appliance.
Y]es, guys with self esteem problems, self conscious of their dick size and troubled by some of their sexual longings will always want to put on a show of manhood through "stuff".

Nah, a big country demands big cars/utes/muscle trucks sometimes.
Like towing travel trailers/caravans around Australia ..."doing the lap"...or "getting away on vacation/weekends" towing same vehicles.
Tradies buy them as business/family vehicles, claim them on their business taxation (ATO/IRS)...tow trailers carrying tools, machinery for plumbing/carpentry/house-washing etc by work days, caravans by fun days.The caravans now weight 3.5 and 4 tons.
By the time you load up the faaamily and all their gear, the tow vehicle has to be big, and heavy.
"The lap", with excursions into the middle is about 15,000 - 20,000 miles.
Dirt, rough roads in many places, the outback is no place for amateurs unprepared for the challenges.
Water, spare tyres, food, shade, chairs, bikes, sometimes boats on top of the caravans.
A 5.7 litre 400 HP HEMI V8 big truck sounds ideal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2023, 07:48:57 PM: Read your bolded comment. They are not driving those out of need. It is compensating for their pinkie dicks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 20, 2023, 08:23:00 PM: Jason Aldean song is attacked by Progressives.
Song soars to number One, mainly because attacks are lies.

Funny how that works.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 20, 2023, 08:50:40 PM: No one.gave a shit when you posted the exact same thing yesterday. What makes you think anyone gives a shit today?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 08:54:13 PM: Like it or not...in today's world a man is judged by the car he owns/drives.
, among other things.
Other things, like job/career, income, looks, height, attire etc.
Gonna own a truck for work/play, might as well go big and beautiful.
The day I saw that new Tundra '1794' on Youtube I fell in love with it.
So roomy, so country, so me.
Wouldn't fit in my garage, would cost too much to buy and run, and wouldn't fit within the car spaces at the mall, though...so I'll just have to make do with a Corolla sedan or hatch if ever I need a new car.
But if I were a tradie, on tradie income, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 20, 2023, 10:02:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 20, 2023, 08:23:00 PM
Jason Aldean song is attacked by Progressives.
Song soars to number One, mainly because attacks are lies.

Funny how that works.

Yknow I would almost give you the thumbs up on that, because I have heard enough country music to understand where he is coming from. I dont think the small town ethos of looking out for each other really needs to be taken as promotion of trigger happy vigilantes. I can see how it makes an unpleasant thud on urban ears, and I understand why some might project the xenophobia and/or racism on the lyrics, but really I dont feel every small town song needs to combed over for nasty nits.

That said I am more a Mellencamp fan when it comes to small town songs. Mellencamp drills down to some truths, while this guy seems more about fantasizing. Also some good small town tracks from the likes of Robert Johnson, Steve Earle, and Spruce Bringsteen.

And maybe next time research the history of the town square you are shooting the damned video in, director!

Oh yeah life goes on...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 06:13:59 AM: Jason Aldean deserves to learn what the fuck he is talking about. That means having his tired ass dragged behind a truck till most of his skin falls off and his heart stops, like they do in small towns.

If you do not know what I am talking about, look it up. A recent example happened in Texas.

You can be proud of anything if you are dumb enough. There are millions of Russians proud of how their war is going in Ukraine.

There are millions of republicans proud of abusing their children.

Sense does not come gently and sense cannot wait.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 21, 2023, 07:31:11 AM: In bambuworld, Ford Mustang cars with petrol/gasoline engines are being recalled, some problem with them.
As that's happening an EV Mustang was being advertised on my tv.

I'm wary of vehicles built as left hand drive that are then changed to right hand drive, I can see how things might go wrong that.
Not sure if Mustangs sold here are built as left hand drive, and then converted, or built as right hand drive to start with.
One advantage of left hand drive is that if you're right handed you can easily shoot carjackers trying to open your driver's door.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 21, 2023, 07:51:42 AM: Or to kill somebody when he cuts you off on the highway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 21, 2023, 01:08:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 06:13:59 AM
Jason Aldean deserves to learn what the fuck he is talking about. That means having his tired ass dragged behind a truck till most of his skin falls off and his heart stops, like they do in small towns.

The most common way small towns kill is by boredom.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 01:15:37 PM: Boredom is better by far than certain kinds of excitement.

Bambu cannot get a gun. He has to make do with a boomerang instead in his automotive defense arsenal.

Aileen Cannon timed the stolen secrets trial perfectly to deal a death blow to the GOP. It starts too late for any other republican to gain traction and early enough for donald to be processed, deloused and assigned his number before the convention.

Cannon has looked at the lay of the land and decided President Biden should run unopposed for his second term.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 21, 2023, 01:39:04 PM: I suspect she will use pre trial motion practice to push it back. We will see.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 03:36:04 PM: RIP Tony Bennett, American icon and true gentleman and master of his craft.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 21, 2023, 04:52:43 PM: Alabama GOP says FUCK SCOTUS

The Rule of Law party

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on July 21, 2023, 05:27:04 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 03:36:04 PM
RIP Tony Bennett, American icon and true gentleman and master of his craft.

Second that. Nice work if you can get it.

https://youtu.be/ABXEsMvCOXo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 21, 2023, 05:45:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 20, 2023, 10:02:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 20, 2023, 08:23:00 PM
Jason Aldean song is attacked by Progressives.
Song soars to number One, mainly because attacks are lies.

Funny how that works.

Yknow I would almost give you the thumbs up on that, because I have heard enough country music to understand where he is coming from. I dont think the small town ethos of looking out for each other really needs to be taken as promotion of trigger happy vigilantes. I can see how it makes an unpleasant thud on urban ears, and I understand why some might project the xenophobia and/or racism on the lyrics, but really I dont feel every small town song needs to combed over for nasty nits.

That said I am more a Mellencamp fan when it comes to small town songs. Mellencamp drills down to some truths, while this guy seems more about fantasizing. Also some good small town tracks from the likes of Robert Johnson, Steve Earle, and Spruce Bringsteen.

And maybe next time research the history of the town square you are shooting the damned video in, director!

The director and the Production Company must have.

The Courthouse was featured in a Runaway June music video for their 2019 song We Were Richthe 2022 Paramount holiday film Nashville Country Christmas with Tanya Tucker, and Miley Cyrus , the 2009 film "
Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Not mention a host of other backdrops over the years by local Nashville and Tennessee productions.

Maybe it is you that needs to do your homework.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 21, 2023, 05:50:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 21, 2023, 05:45:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 20, 2023, 10:02:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 20, 2023, 08:23:00 PM
Jason Aldean song is attacked by Progressives.
Song soars to number One, mainly because attacks are lies.

Funny how that works.

Yknow I would almost give you the thumbs up on that, because I have heard enough country music to understand where he is coming from. I dont think the small town ethos of looking out for each other really needs to be taken as promotion of trigger happy vigilantes. I can see how it makes an unpleasant thud on urban ears, and I understand why some might project the xenophobia and/or racism on the lyrics, but really I dont feel every small town song needs to combed over for nasty nits.

That said I am more a Mellencamp fan when it comes to small town songs. Mellencamp drills down to some truths, while this guy seems more about fantasizing. Also some good small town tracks from the likes of Robert Johnson, Steve Earle, and Spruce Bringsteen.

And maybe next time research the history of the town square you are shooting the damned video in, director!

The director and the Production Company must have.

The Courthouse was featured in a Runaway June music video for their 2019 song We Were Richthe 2022 Paramount holiday film Nashville Country Christmas with Tanya Tucker, and Miley Cyrus , the 2009 film "
Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Not mention a host of other backdrops over the years by local Nashville and Tennessee productions.

Maybe it is you that needs to do your homework.
Help me out here. Which of those movies had a heavily implied threat of vigilante justice as a main theme? My guess is Hannah Montana, the Movie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 06:25:13 PM: There is very little that does not get Red to reach for his lynching shoes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 21, 2023, 06:26:44 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 21, 2023, 04:52:43 PM
Alabama GOP says FUCK SCOTUS

The Rule of Law party

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715

The last refuge of scoundrels party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 21, 2023, 07:42:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 21, 2023, 05:50:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 21, 2023, 05:45:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 20, 2023, 10:02:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 20, 2023, 08:23:00 PM
Jason Aldean song is attacked by Progressives.
Song soars to number One, mainly because attacks are lies.

Funny how that works.

Yknow I would almost give you the thumbs up on that, because I have heard enough country music to understand where he is coming from. I dont think the small town ethos of looking out for each other really needs to be taken as promotion of trigger happy vigilantes. I can see how it makes an unpleasant thud on urban ears, and I understand why some might project the xenophobia and/or racism on the lyrics, but really I dont feel every small town song needs to combed over for nasty nits.

That said I am more a Mellencamp fan when it comes to small town songs. Mellencamp drills down to some truths, while this guy seems more about fantasizing. Also some good small town tracks from the likes of Robert Johnson, Steve Earle, and Spruce Bringsteen.

And maybe next time research the history of the town square you are shooting the damned video in, director!

The director and the Production Company must have.

The Courthouse was featured in a Runaway June music video for their 2019 song We Were Richthe 2022 Paramount holiday film Nashville Country Christmas with Tanya Tucker, and Miley Cyrus , the 2009 film "
Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Not mention a host of other backdrops over the years by local Nashville and Tennessee productions.

Maybe it is you that needs to do your homework.
Help me out here. Which of those movies had a heavily implied threat of vigilante justice as a main theme?
None
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 22, 2023, 01:01:14 AM: That is why red panned them all on rotten tomatoes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 22, 2023, 04:16:35 PM: Vice President Harris just commented on the importance of teaching American History to all Americans, and I agree.

I had a wonderful History Professor at AVC, Dr Marks Ellis, she now teaches at Columbia University in New York City, and she could teach History on television on Saturdays, there can be shows about Science, and about History, etc, on Public Broadcasting on Saturdays, etc.

Dr Marks Ellis is a Black woman from Haiti, and she is an expert on American History, her specialty is the Great Depression, she studied what caused the Great Depression, and she studied about the Great Depression itself, and she studied what America did after the Great Depression to make sure that another Great Depression never happens again. She is an expert on all of American History, but Professor Marks Ellis is especially well educated on the issue of the Great Depression.

We need to put our great professors onto Public Broadcasting on Saturdays, including having wonderful History professors such as Dr Marks Ellis.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 22, 2023, 04:51:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 20, 2023, 08:54:13 PM
Like it or not...in today's world a man is judged by the car he owns/drives.
, among other things.
Other things, like job/career, income, looks, height, attire etc.
Gonna own a truck for work/play, might as well go big and beautiful.
The day I saw that new Tundra '1794' on Youtube I fell in love with it.
So roomy, so country, so me.
Wouldn't fit in my garage, would cost too much to buy and run, and wouldn't fit within the car spaces at the mall, though...so I'll just have to make do with a Corolla sedan or hatch if ever I need a new car.
But if I were a tradie, on tradie income, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

When I worked for Suzanne Pleshette then I got to see how all of the rich people lived, and Suzanne had a Rolls Royce, and a Bentley, but for everyday driving she drove a Jeep. All of the stars were driving Jeeps, Jerry Vale could drive whatever he wanted but he drove a Jeep.

What I learned from the rich people is that TIME is the most important thing you will ever have, and how you spend your time, and who you spend your time with, etc. The most valuable thing that we have is our time.

And if I was rich, I kind of like the new electric VW Bus. I have a friend who does custom sound systems and he could put a sound system in it for me.

But, I am fine with walking. In Europe they all walk. I am grateful to be able to walk. I love to get out and walk on a nice day, and we have a nice park close by, etc.

However, I think the women are going to respect me more after my poetry book is a best seller, and after my movie is winning Oscars. Then I am going to pick out the woman of my dreams, and then I will remain loyal to her until the end. I want true love, and then I want to be loyal. I want a wife to grow old with, and I want to have at least one child.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 22, 2023, 05:36:31 PM: https://youtu.be/o7NyNnwrm70
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 24, 2023, 03:39:12 AM: Ohio...on the highway...
black man walking towards police officers with his hands up...when a police dog was released to attack him anyway...dog shown biting into him furiously.
Pathetic...another outrage by cops.
Heads must roll.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 24, 2023, 12:47:12 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/how-to-spot-idiots-jb-pritzker-northwestern-speech
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 24, 2023, 01:34:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 24, 2023, 12:47:12 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/how-to-spot-idiots-jb-pritzker-northwestern-speech
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 24, 2023, 03:56:50 PM: http://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/07/24/miami-dade-police-dept-director-freddy-ramirez-hospitalized/ (http://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/07/24/miami-dade-police-dept-director-freddy-ramirez-hospitalized/)

Oh Florida.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 24, 2023, 08:56:45 PM: Candace Owens has a video on Youtube that details the real, honest, detailed, correct history of slavery.
African Americans are shocked to learn the truth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM: What a clown you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 24, 2023, 10:14:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.
I do not know what Candace Owens video shows.
But Kamala Harris is a disgrace to America.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/
(https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:00:52 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.

Look it up.
African Americans who watch the video realise, and say, that they'd been told something much different.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on July 25, 2023, 03:22:06 AM: I will pass. Thanks though!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 04:57:47 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 24, 2023, 10:14:41 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.
I do not know what Candace Owens video shows.
But Kamala Harris is a disgrace to America.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/
(https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/)

Pro tip for you, Red, the way you can tell your ass from your elbow is that your head does not fit inside your elbow and is therefore less likely to be stuck in your elbow.

Go home, child. Change your diaper. I only mention it because you reek something fierce.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 05:01:16 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:00:52 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.

Look it up.
African Americans who watch the video realise, and say, that they'd been told something much different.

You are a simp, a shmuck, a mark and a very basic bitch. Your very worthlessness is the only thing keeping you alive.

I can still get you a pretty good taco.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:03:24 AM: They're shocked to discover that slave traders waited on the coast of Africa and waited for their partners, Black people, to round up other Black people and sell them for bottles of gin and mirrors.
Astounded to discover that "slavery" derived from "Slavs" of eastern Europe who were enslaved by Muslims.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 05:06:00 AM: This makes you less of a trifling prick how exactly, Bambu?

Thought so.

Taco?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:40:47 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 05:06:00 AM
This makes you less of a trifling prick how exactly, Bambu?

Thought so.

Taco?

The truth will set you free.

Candace Owens video..."White People didn't invent slavery" is very enlightening.
"There are 700.000 slaves in Africa today" shocked African Americans watching it...(child soldiers, human trafficking etc).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 25, 2023, 09:18:35 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:03:24 AM
They're shocked to discover that slave traders waited on the coast of Africa and waited for their partners, Black people, to round up other Black people and sell them for bottles of gin and mirrors.
Astounded to discover that "slavery" derived from "Slavs" of eastern Europe who were enslaved by Muslims.

Who is astounded by any of this? It's well known that tribal chieftains and nobles participated in the W African slave trade. If a tribe member owed a debt, they would let themselves be traded to release their family from debt, having no idea what they were headed for in the Americas. Many were duped by being told they would work off the debt in a short span of time.

As YG would say, go outside, get some fresh air.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 09:57:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:00:52 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.

Look it up.
African Americans who watch the video realise, and say, that they'd been told something much different.

To use an old school saying,

Nigga, please.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 10:00:02 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 24, 2023, 10:14:41 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on July 24, 2023, 09:10:37 PM
What a clown you are.
I do not know what Candace Owens video shows.
But Kamala Harris is a disgrace to America.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/
(https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum/)

Nothing more pathetic than an asshole trying to defend the indefensible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 10:03:34 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:03:24 AM
They're shocked to discover that slave traders waited on the coast of Africa and waited for their partners, Black people, to round up other Black people and sell them for bottles of gin and mirrors.
Astounded to discover that "slavery" derived from "Slavs" of eastern Europe who were enslaved by Muslims.

Shocked by capitalism?

Europeans created the market for uncompensated labor to develop the land seized in New World colonies.
What happens 8n capitalism when a demand is created? It is met with supply.

No demand, no supply.

White people created the Triangle trade system.

Own it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM: video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 03:25:25 PM: Where you go, Bambi, is deep into the sprawling corpse mouth of the confederacy among other places. No rational creature will be joining you there.

You will not be lonely, plenty of deadenders like Red will be there to gibber menacingly at you all through the days and the nights.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 04:30:51 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM
video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.

Candace is the modern equivalent of Vital Hasson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jew-who-worked-for-the-nazis-and-hunted-down-refugees-in-wwii-greece/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:59:58 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM
video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.

Candace is the modern equivalent of Vital Hasson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jew-who-worked-for-the-nazis-and-hunted-down-refugees-in-wwii-greece/

Nah... Candace is working for good not evil.
Her video has been very enlightening for Black people who were living in the dark of the lies they'd been fed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 06:05:37 PM: That is the opinion you hear from the type of Australian that takes their children to church to be fucked. I saw a video about it. It was very eye opening indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 06:09:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:59:58 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM
video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.

Candace is the modern equivalent of Vital Hasson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jew-who-worked-for-the-nazis-and-hunted-down-refugees-in-wwii-greece/

Nah... Candace is working for good not evil.
Her video has been very enlightening for Black people who were living in the dark of the lies they'd been fed.

Gee, tell me all about being Black.

Candace Owen is a grifter and charlatan suckering marks like you by telling you what you want to hear to assuage your prejudice and racism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 06:10:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 06:05:37 PM
That is the opinion you hear from the type of Australian that takes their children to church to be fucked. I saw a video about it. It was very eye opening indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 08:23:36 PM: All truths needs to be revealed.

Candace said that White people were guilty of slavery, and so were Black people, Egyptians, Asians etc.
The truth.
All she's doing is correcting lies that have been told.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 08:53:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 08:23:36 PM
All truths needs to be revealed.

Candace said that White people were guilty of slavery, and so were Black people, Egyptians, Asians etc.
The truth.
All she's doing is correcting lies that have been told.

White Europeans created the market.
Period.
No demand.
No supply

Fuck Candace she is a second class grifter getting paid to be a house negro
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 25, 2023, 09:29:54 PM: Translated back into Australian, all Bambu is saying is that he is an asshole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:59:58 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM
video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.

Candace is the modern equivalent of Vital Hasson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jew-who-worked-for-the-nazis-and-hunted-down-refugees-in-wwii-greece/

Nah... Candace is working for good not evil.
Her video has been very enlightening for Black people who were living in the dark of the lies they'd been fed.
Owens does not make videos to enlighten African Americans. She makes videos for white people who want to feel better about themselves. Whatever the broad history of slavery in the world, in this country slavery was almost entirely by white people. And it was entirely race based chattel slavery. White people enslaving blacks.

And nothing she says would surprise or enlighten much of anyone. Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 26, 2023, 09:47:59 AM: Lasting effects, that persist to present generation, seems key here. Some of my ancestors were Ukraine peasants abducted to Sweden and made agricultural slaves. But that was long ago, they blended into the general population, and reparations would be pointless. My grandpa was poor when he took a boat to America, but that was due to being an orphan. He left, age sixteen, mainly to get away from the nagging and ill-tempered aunts who were raising him.

All that is remainian of the Ukrainian in my generation is our mouths water when we hear "borscht" and we still don't see value of definite articles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 26, 2023, 12:28:38 PM: Amended twice!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:39:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 26, 2023, 12:28:38 PM
Amended twice!
Twice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 12:40:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Maybe if you thought about it for a bit something might come to you. Or not.
Quote
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.
Racism over, white people declare.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 12:40:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:39:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 26, 2023, 12:28:38 PM
Amended twice!
Twice.
Which we needed to do because....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 01:24:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 12:40:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Maybe if you thought about it for a bit something might come to you. Or not.
Quote
Cat got your tongue?
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.
Racism over, white people declare.
Racism and slavery are not synonyms
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 26, 2023, 01:57:49 PM: It looks like Harvard and other institutions will be ordered soon to stop donor and legacy preferences in admissions.

Recent studies have shown that those applicants are deeply retarded compared to the rest of the applicant pool. Therefore it is discriminatory to show them any preference.

This is a class conscious decision that may go a long way to address some of the ills that have been allowed to fester for as long as racists have been opposing affirmative action due to nepo being a predominantly white problem at least so far in the history of the United States.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 26, 2023, 04:58:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 05:59:58 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 25, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 25, 2023, 12:41:10 PM
video:
"I'M SO MAD" * Candace Owens SCHOOLS black people ...
"White People Ended Slavery".

#####

Well there you go.

Candace is the modern equivalent of Vital Hasson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jew-who-worked-for-the-nazis-and-hunted-down-refugees-in-wwii-greece/

Nah... Candace is working for good not evil.
Her video has been very enlightening for Black people who were living in the dark of the lies they'd been fed.
Owens does not make videos to enlighten African Americans. She makes videos for white people who want to feel better about themselves. Whatever the broad history of slavery in the world, in this country slavery was almost entirely by white people. And it was entirely race based chattel slavery. White people enslaving blacks.

And nothing she says would surprise or enlighten much of anyone. Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 26, 2023, 04:59:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.

That sounds about white
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2023, 05:32:33 PM: Jon Bon Jovi is awesome, he donated an apartment complex with 55 apartments for homeless adults in Philadelphia, the JBJ Soul Homes.

https://www.projecthome.org/jbj-soul-homes

The apartment complex also has services to help the homeless people to get back into life.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2023, 06:41:15 PM: We can use campgrounds for our refugees, like Bambu suggested, we have lots of great campgrounds in the USA, here is one link...

https://www.blm.gov/visit/merced-river

The Unions can work together with our Public Campgrounds to help our refugees and immigrants. The Campgrounds can provide emergency housing, while the Unions help the immigrants to find a good union job.

( It is 414 miles from Tijuana, Mexico, to Merced, California. There are jobs in Merced. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2023, 06:47:45 PM: I went to a page for Architects from Santorini, Greece, on Facebook, and I invited the Architects to design and build the student housing at the college in Elko, Nevada, and I told them to include swimming pools and tennis courts. That would be awesome. I hope the college in Elko is smart enough to embrace the Greek architects when they show up and submit plans to build student housing there. Ha ha. I put the idea out there for them, we will see what happens.

Building new housing can be fun, we do not need to build boring housing, we can bring in the Greeks and we can tell them to let their imaginations go wild in Elko, Nevada, for the student housing.

The college in Elko is a great bargain for students, and it is a great place of higher learning. And it would be fun if they could bring in the Greek architects to build student housing and swimming pools and tennis courts.

https://www.gbcnv.edu/housing/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 26, 2023, 06:55:37 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 26, 2023, 04:59:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.

That sounds about white

Red is auditioning for the part of secret love child of Uncle Tom and Scarlet OHarah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 26, 2023, 07:09:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on May 21, 2022, 04:34:04 PM
Some people see mobile home parks as being a solution for housing, but many trailer parks are horrible places. I had a friend who was murdered at a trailer park. The only nice trailer park I know of is at Paradise Cove in Malibu, where they have 24 hour security. It is much better to have custom high density housing like in Santorini, Greece.

And when I posted a picture of an apartment complex in Santorini, Greece, Bambu thought it was a place for rich people. You could build that same style of housing for cheap in Battle Mountain, Nevada. So the poor people can live like the rich people, they can live in a location where they feel like they live in a resort. Instead of trailer parks, there can be high density Santorini, Greece, style apartments.

We can have communities where all of the people feel blessed and grateful.

Right now we have homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks, imagine if they had Greece style apartments in Nevada, they would be so much better off. There is no life being out there on the sidewalk.

Also, the poor people can work on farms and vineyards, so housing can be directed in that direction as well. And they can do trade with San Francisco, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

You would have to ...give...the said "poor people" those apartments in Nevada...so they could feel like they live in resorts.

No 1 radio host says that "if you're standing on the street corner giving away pies for free, everyone will take one".

Leftist govt in bambuworld was letting in so many asylum seekers who arrived on people-smuggling boats [mostly from the Middle East etc via Indonesia] that there wasn't enough housing for them [after all the "free houses" were gone], so the govt was housing them in actual resort hotels. 50,000 came on 800 boats, 1000+ drowning at sea..the screams of the dying women and children heard as one boat crashed on the rocks at Christmas Island.
Of course what happened when that was made public, 'everyone' then demanded that they also should be housed free in resort hotels by the govt.
Public outrage there was.

By 2006 the Rightist govt had stopped the boats...but as is their want in the good times, the People's minds went fuzzy with promises from the Left of more of the same only better, and they fell for the Left's "Kevin 07" "Me Too" election promises campaign, fancy T shirts "Kevin 07".
First thing Kevin [Rudd, now Australian Ambassador to the US, he of the threw a tantrum in Iraq warzone because there was no hairdryer for him, and verbally abused a female on an RAAF plane because his meal was not hot enough or something]. He of the "robust language" [profanity-central at all and sundry].

Kevin-Labor govt then said of the Right's immigration policy..."racist and too harsh", and the floodgates were re-opened and the people-smugglers were back in business.
He became a liability, so the Left replaced him as Prime Minister with Julia Gillard before the 2010 election,[she addressed US Congress].
She of the "there will be no carbon tax under the govt I lead".
She had to form an alliance with the Greens to stay in govt...Greens leader was Bob Brown.
They wanted a carbon tax, so she introduced a carbon tax...was then 'branded' 'Juliar'.

She became a liability, so the Left replaced her as Prime Minister with ...Kevin Rudd....before the 2013 election.
Was he who announced that asylum-seekers arriving by boat would never be settled in Australia...and started housing them in shipping containers on Manus Island PNG.
Too late by then, and he/Labor govt lost the election.

Enter Tony Abbott ["The Monk"] as Rightist Prime Minister ... the people-smuggling boats were soon stopped...their passengers were towed back to Indonesia in special aircon orange capsule boats...by the Navy.
No more boats!
No more carbon tax!
No more need for asylum seekers to be housed in resort hotels...those who ignored the warnings and tried their luck, were sent off to the pacific Island of Nauru..'never to be settled in Australia'. Some took the money and returned home, those who refused eventually ended up in America under that deal with Obama.
Life was good....until the next lot of Leftist voters in 2022 elected a Labor govt again!
Now, the asylum seekers are flying in, foreign students, anyone and everyone, claiming asylum...90% or something failing in their claims...but the Leftist govt has deported very few.

Oh well, such is life!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 26, 2023, 07:20:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 26, 2023, 06:55:37 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on July 26, 2023, 04:59:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 26, 2023, 12:06:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 26, 2023, 08:29:06 AM
Because what the Crimea Khanate did in Europe or the Romans did with conquered peoples is absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the experience of.race based slavery in the US, and the lasting effects of that on African Americans in the country.

Slavery has a world wide history but only in America does it have lasting effects on African Americans?
In a country of immigrants there has never been a coalition of shared non white victimhood. a necessary concept behind the premise of white supremacy.

Census figures alone destroy that myth with dozens of ethnic demographics earning more per capita than do whites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income)

How is it that the US has assimilated millions of foreigners, including a huge chunk of those with old world class bigotry, and linked everything to the concept of all are equated equal, yet somehow African Americans are excluded? Even though our Constitution was amended twice to atone for the evils of slavery?
Fortunately we have discovered that Affirmative Action was destroying meritocracy.
It took way too long to figure that out.
The effects of slavery are long gone.

That sounds about white

Red is auditioning for the part of secret love child of Uncle Tom and Scarlet OHarah.

"I won't worry about that today...I'll worry about that tomorrow" - Scarlett O'Hara.

Scarlett "symbolizes independence of mind in the face of societal expectations".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2023, 07:43:48 PM: You bring up some good points Bambu.

We have some nice campgrounds for emergencies for the refugees from Ukraine, and for the Mexicans and Latin Americans, and we have Russians coming in, and we have Park Rangers and police to protect the campgrounds.

The Unions can help the refugees and immigrants to get jobs, and they will be guaranteed good pay and good treatment.

The USA is the one nation that belongs to all people, and everyone is welcome here. We have a statue welcoming our new immigrants.

It is 414 miles from Tijuana, Mexico, to Merced, California, and there are jobs in Merced picking strawberries, and driving trucks, and working in warehouses, and many other jobs. The immigrants can live in the Public Campgrounds at the Merced River while examining the possibilities for employment in Merced.

And Battle Mountain, Nevada, is a good location too, where people to can build housing and where they can do trade with San Francisco, etc. Land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, only costs $1,000 per acre. The college is in Elko, Nevada.

And we can put the homeless people into the same housing with the refugees, and the homeless can work the same jobs as the refugees. They can all join unions, etc. All people are equal. My neighbors all speak Spanish, and they are very nice people, I live 100 miles away from Mexico and so my neighbors are mostly Latino. We have a nice apartment complex here in Anaheim, we have a gated community, with a swimming pool, and security cameras all over. We have a park down the street with an amphitheatre, and with tennis courts. Anaheim is beautiful.

Merced, California, is nice, and Napa is nice, and they have farm jobs, and Battle Mountain, Nevada has cheap land, and Elko has a good college. Anaheim is nice, and we have many great schools in Orange County, but it is very expensive here, and it is hard to get a job, the competition for jobs is fierce. The refugees are better off to go live in a camp, while they find a job picking strawberries in Merced with the United Farm Workers, or finding a job working in a vineyard in Napa, etc.

So far as trailer parks, Paradise Cove in Malibu is very nice, and they have 24 hour armed security and guards at the entrance with cameras, etc. Paradise Cove has ZERO crime. All trailer parks should have security guards and cameras like Paradise Cove.

My friend Joey Jojolla was murdered at a trailer park in Lancaster by a member of a racist prison gang known as the Nazi Lowriders, my friend was Roman Catholic, that was a bad and dangerous trailer park where former prisoners lived and they had members of prison gangs living in the trailer park, it was a horrible and dangerous trailer park. They need security guards at the entrance and exits and also patrolling, and they need cameras all over, etc.

And we need Hostels where people can shower and sleep in a bed, for $15 per night.

Right now we have Sober Living Homes in Orange County for $500 per month, and that is the best deal we have right now for people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 26, 2023, 09:00:42 PM: My Grandfather almost bought a cattle ranch in Australia, he was thinking about moving the family to Australia. But, then he was killed in an automobile accident. My Mother and Father ended up buying a Cattle Ranch 60 miles outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada, they bought 360 acres of land, and they bought cattle, pigs, chickens, horses, etc. We only lived there for a few years, when my Mother started having problems from being way out in the middle of nowhere with no friends, etc, and no electricity, etc. My Mother was born in California, and she wanted to have friends, and she wanted the luxuries of life. They wanted to live like "Bonanza" but after a few years of being out in the wilderness my Mother had enough and moved to live with her Mom in San Bernardino, California, and so my Father gave up the ranch and moved to San Bernardino with my Mother.

When I went back to Battle Mountain as a young adult, I did not live way out like we did when I was a child, I lived with my Grandparents who lived closer to town, and I was able to ride a bicycle to my job as a cook at the Colt Casino in Battle Mountain. I worked at the casino and I had friends who I worked with, and I was friends with the people who came in to eat at the casino, etc. Battle Mountain is a nice friendly town, and I preferred to live in town and to work at the casino. ( One of my waitresses was the daughter of the Vice President of the Bank of New York, I had some highly educated and well mannered classy friends at the casino. ) If my Mother had lived closer to town then she would have liked Battle Mountain better, it was hard 60 miles outside of town where she did not have any friends.

By the way, my parents made money from the pigs, they did not make any money from the cattle, but they made a lot of money from the pigs. Being a pig farmer is not as glamorous as being a cattle rancher, but they made more money from the pigs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 02:24:27 AM: not in America, but:

5 days, 5 men gunned down in the suburban streets of Sydney, including a lawyer.
Handguns are illegal, doesn't stop the bad people.
Bullets flying everywhere...innocent people will get shot if the cops don't do better.
Apparently, if you're a lawyer for some people, crime gangs for example, you can be shot for something so trivial as an 'unsuitable' bill, or an 'inadequate' defence.
The lawyer survived the shooting.
The murdering shooters torch 2 cars on every killing.
Perfectly good utes and cars, including Toyotas.
People, including me, could've made good use of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:34:50 AM: Bambi, you will make a lovely colony for China as you were for the Brits though the Chinese will get less from you than the Brits did because you have clearly fallen to shit since an external power last had you well in hand.

I like how you think that the series of prat falls and poop jokes that have occurred on your subcontinent amount to some sort of history. It is as laughable as it is untrue.

The tiny window of your survival hangs open by the tiniest margin entirely dependent on you giving up your right wing bullshit.

I do not think you will give it up. I think you are already to fucked in the head. When you are gone I will have a chuckle about how far gone the distended scrotum of western culture was before it got replaced by the newer and older better option.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 08:13:34 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:34:50 AM
Bambi, you will make a lovely colony for China as you were for the Brits though the Chinese will get less from you than the Brits did because you have clearly fallen to shit since an external power last had you well in hand.

I like how you think that the series of prat falls and poop jokes that have occurred on your subcontinent amount to some sort of history. It is as laughable as it is untrue.

The tiny window of your survival hangs open by the tiniest margin entirely dependent on you giving up your right wing bullshit.

I do not think you will give it up. I think you are already to fucked in the head. When you are gone I will have a chuckle about how far gone the distended scrotum of western culture was before it got replaced by the newer and older better option.

We're already finished, almost...the Australian Army band went to the Chinese embassy and played the Chinese national anthem.
Apparently the Left is sucking up to China.
Will likely not come as a surprise to many.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 27, 2023, 10:01:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 02:24:27 AM

The lawyer survived the shooting.

There's the real tragedy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 05:53:30 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:34:50 AM
Bambi, you will make a lovely colony for China as you were for the Brits though the Chinese will get less from you than the Brits did because you have clearly fallen to shit since an external power last had you well in hand.

I like how you think that the series of prat falls and poop jokes that have occurred on your subcontinent amount to some sort of history. It is as laughable as it is untrue.

The tiny window of your survival hangs open by the tiniest margin entirely dependent on you giving up your right wing bullshit.

I do not think you will give it up. I think you are already to fucked in the head. When you are gone I will have a chuckle about how far gone the distended scrotum of western culture was before it got replaced by the newer and older better option.

And what, pray tell, is " the newer and older better option"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:43:05 PM: Chinese culture has a more robust history and better command on the nuances of the present than Australian culture. It is a newer older better option.

Once you have tried it on for a few years I will be curious to see what you think.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 07:36:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:43:05 PM
Chinese culture has a more robust history and better command on the nuances of the present than Australian culture. It is a newer older better option.

Once you have tried it on for a few years I will be curious to see what you think.

Chinese culture is for Chinese...in China.
Chinese food, a different matter.

Seems your plan for downunder will have to wait a while...

"Execrcise Talisman Sabre 2023 , being held from 21 July to 4 August, looks very different from previous iterations of this biennial event on Australian shores. One reason for this is the changing security landscape, as China grows evermore beligerent, and Russia has become bogged down in a war of attrition in Ukraine."

"In addition to the two key partners of Australia and the US, forces from Canada, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Tonga,and the UK were all participating."

Seems 'my' COUSAN idea is gaining momentum as the world wakes up to what's going on.

It's simple really;

First they came for Taiwan
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Taiwan.

Then they came for Australia
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Australia.

Then they came for South Korea
And I did not speak out
Because I was not South Korea.

Then they came for Indonesia
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Indonesia.

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 27, 2023, 08:28:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 06:43:05 PM
Chinese culture has a more robust history and better command on the nuances of the present than Australian culture. It is a newer older better option.

Once you have tried it on for a few years I will be curious to see what you think.

Chinese culture is for Chinese...in China.
Chinese food, a different matter.

Seems your plan for downunder will have to wait a while...

"Execrcise Talisman Sabre 2023 , being held from 21 July to 4 August, looks very different from previous iterations of this biennial event on Australian shores. One reason for this is the changing security landscape, as China grows evermore beligerent, and Russia has become bogged down in a war of attrition in Ukraine."

"In addition to the two key partners of Australia and the US, forces from Canada, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Tonga,and the UK were all participating."

Seems 'my' COUSAN idea is gaining momentum as the world wakes up to what's going on.

It's simple really;

First they came for Taiwan
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Taiwan.

Then they came for Australia
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Australia.

Then they came for South Korea
And I did not speak out
Because I was not South Korea.

Then they came for Indonesia
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Indonesia.

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

First they came for Taiwan and Biden said, Step back, Jack! You do not want ANY of this smoke!

https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-ends-g7-summit-with-a-warning-to-china-on-taiwan/7102925.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 27, 2023, 08:44:04 PM: The G O P loves Oz

Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, blocked an effort to include language approving the transfer of nuclear submarines to Australia in a bid to pressure the Biden administration to put more money toward submarine production in the United States.

His protest was endorsed by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/senate-passes-bipartisan-defense-bill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 27, 2023, 09:55:38 PM: Republicans need a reformation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 27, 2023, 10:45:24 PM: If by that you mean a grand flushing and washing out to sea, I agree with you that they do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 03:03:04 AM: More than 600 females are raped/sexually assaulted every day in America.
If only all women in America carried guns 24/7/365 and were expert in their use.
That number could be reduced to zero.
...which would be wonderful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 11:15:30 AM: You should invite all our gun advocates to a big convention at your place Bambu, if only so we can deny them re-entry.

That would also be wonderful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 28, 2023, 11:45:09 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 03:03:04 AM
More than 600 females are raped/sexually assaulted every day in America.
If only all women in America carried guns 24/7/365 and were expert in their use.
That number could be reduced to zero.
...which would be wonderful.
It would also be wonderful if people like you stopped excusing toxic male behavior every time someone accused a rugby player you like of sexual assault. You never see the connection between the excuses you make and how that enables the worst behavior.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 12:26:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 28, 2023, 11:45:09 AM
Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 03:03:04 AM
More than 600 females are raped/sexually assaulted every day in America.
If only all women in America carried guns 24/7/365 and were expert in their use.
That number could be reduced to zero.
...which would be wonderful.
It would also be wonderful if people like you stopped excusing toxic male behavior every time someone accused a rugby player you like of sexual assault. You never see the connection between the excuses you make and how that enables the worst behavior.

Some women lie about sexual assault.
Some women lie about domestic violence.
Men too.
. 2 men lied about a woman in Melb, a teacher...said she sexually assaulted them in a tent at a party in her backyard when they were aged 8.
She was convicted and put in prison. Her husband had received a $1m compensation payment.
Her sisters fought for her. Her conviction was overturned she was set free.
. Footballer 'SKD' was charged with 'historic' domestic violence assault. [he had asked the woman to leave his apartment permanently]
Had a trial. He was found not guilty, because he was not guilty.
. Plead guilty to groping a woman after having consumed 15+ drinks in a pub...age 24...'a good man' otherwise, working to improve the lives of autistic children, and having made not small donations to children's charities over time.
I just say he should not be put in prison, but made serve the community for 18 months instead, while being allowed to work. His good name ruined, among the public shame.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 12:55:40 PM: You had him shot in the post to which you are replying to the reply of. Make up your mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 28, 2023, 02:03:14 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 12:55:40 PM
You had him shot in the post to which you are replying to the reply of. Make up your mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 28, 2023, 02:27:45 PM: The refugees would be better at nice campgrounds in California instead of homeless on the streets of the cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York, etc. And areas such as Napa, Merced, Bakersfield, etc, are nice areas. And the Park Rangers and police can help to protect the refugees at the campgrounds, and the unions can help the refugees to find jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 28, 2023, 02:47:22 PM: When I worked at Universal Studios then we had our own Police Department, and all of the cops worked for us, and that is how it should feel with all police, the cops need to be there to protect and serve and the citizens need to all feel like the cops work for us, the same way I felt at Universal when we had our own police department.

And my Great Grandfather was chief of police of Denver, Colorado, in the 1920s. So, the police are regular people in our communities. And I was friends with the chief of police here in Anaheim, John Welter, from when I was in Kiwanis International.

We need to all feel like we have our own private police force, we need to feel like the cops are there to serve and protect us.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 02:50:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 12:55:40 PM
You had him shot in the post to which you are replying to the reply of. Make up your mind.

There are gropers, then there a rapists...then there are those who are intoxicated in a pub or club who, having chatted to a woman stranger while both seated on a sofa, when the woman says she's leaving and rises to go, put their hand on the woman's outer thigh above her clothes, urging her to return...then find themselves charged with sexual assault. Public shame, assaulted a woman. Plead guilty, stand before the judge for sentencing.
Married footballer, 30 something, loved by all, headlines "X sexually touches a woman in a club, has been charged". Intoxicated, from country town in another state...the team in Sydney for a match...was one case.
Good name almost ruined.
Found guilty...judge saw it for what it was, a good man who didn't mean any harm, just wanted to talk...he being "Mr Have a Chat".
The footy governing body banned him for a few games and directed that he must visit all 16 footy clubs and confess his sin, giving a lecture on how bad his behaviour was...or something.
Anyway, the visits never happened, the governing body was told their idea was 'rubbish'.
No wonder guys are running a mile from dating, and being in clubs and pubs today....as general rule.
Saw a woman on Youtube complaining that "men no longer need real women for marriage, there's porn".

Shoot the rapists, but maybe have mercy on drunk guys in bars who just want to chat...or not...gotta be able to justify all shootings though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 28, 2023, 03:25:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 02:50:52 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 12:55:40 PM
You had him shot in the post to which you are replying to the reply of. Make up your mind.

There are gropers, then there a rapists...then there are those who are intoxicated in a pub or club who, having chatted to a woman stranger while both seated on a sofa, when the woman says she's leaving and rises to go, put their hand on the woman's outer thigh above her clothes, urging her to return...then find themselves charged with sexual assault. Public shame, assaulted a woman. Plead guilty, stand before the judge for sentencing.
Married footballer, 30 something, loved by all, headlines "X sexually touches a woman in a club, has been charged". Intoxicated, from country town in another state...the team in Sydney for a match...was one case.
Good name almost ruined.
Found guilty...judge saw it for what it was, a good man who didn't mean any harm, just wanted to talk...he being "Mr Have a Chat".
The footy governing body banned him for a few games and directed that he must visit all 16 footy clubs and confess his sin, giving a lecture on how bad his behaviour was...or something.
Anyway, the visits never happened, the governing body was told their idea was 'rubbish'.
No wonder guys are running a mile from dating, and being in clubs and pubs today....as general rule.
Saw a woman on Youtube complaining that "men no longer need real women for marriage, there's porn".

Shoot the rapists, but maybe have mercy on drunk guys in bars who just want to chat...or not...gotta be able to justify all shootings though.
I knew you would eventually make my point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM: Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 10:26:21 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Yes. The answer is no handgun. That was a lovely conversation. I may have underestimated you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 04:03:25 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 10:26:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Yes. The answer is no handgun. That was a lovely conversation. I may have underestimated you.

Many women in America carry handguns and own assault rifles, and know how to use them to protect themselves.
There just aren't enough of them.

Apparently if you carry a 9mm Glock type hand gun and press the barrel into the body of a bear etc the gun won't fire...but if you do it with a revolver it will fire.
Same maybe applies with rapists/other bad humans.
Looks like revolvers are best.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 29, 2023, 11:11:33 AM: Quote from: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 04:03:25 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 10:26:21 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Yes. The answer is no handgun. That was a lovely conversation. I may have underestimated you.

Many women in America carry handguns and own assault rifles, and know how to use them to protect themselves.
There just aren't enough of them.

Apparently if you carry a 9mm Glock type hand gun and press the barrel into the body of a bear etc the gun won't fire...but if you do it with a revolver it will fire.
Same maybe applies with rapists/other bad humans.
Looks like revolvers are best.

LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 29, 2023, 01:00:59 PM: Bambi wants to commit homicide for the state benefits it confers when he is convicted.

Right wingers are all such selfish takers even all the way on the ass end of the world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 29, 2023, 01:34:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Pepper spray has very low recoil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 02:45:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 29, 2023, 01:34:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Pepper spray has very low recoil.

Pepper spray and guns would be ideal...complete protection.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 03:09:05 PM: Meanwhile, in leftist governed non-US bambustate;

Fed up nurses claim they are being forced to reuse contaminated wipes covered in faecal matter in a shocking cost-cutting attempt by their workplace.

#####

12 years ago, an older White bambu-ilk man said to me: "We've seen the best of it [the state/nation in which we live]"...I agreed with him.
It's only gotten worse since then.
The above is a perfect example of why.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 29, 2023, 04:08:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 03:09:05 PM
Meanwhile, in leftist governed non-US bambustate;

Fed up nurses claim they are being forced to reuse contaminated wipes covered in faecal matter in a shocking cost-cutting attempt by their workplace.

#####

12 years ago, an older White bambu-ilk man said to me: "We've seen the best of it [the state/nation in which we live]"...I agreed with him.
It's only gotten worse since then.
The above is a perfect example of why.

Rabbi Ben Ezra
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 29, 2023, 04:35:28 PM: The best decade of my life was the 1980s, back when we had Ronald Reagan as President. Since the 1990s everything has gone downhill in America. Some people do not understand until they become one of the homeless people out there on the street, once you are out on the street for a couple of years, then you understand the situation better. I was homeless in Hollywood and it was against the law to feed the homeless, that was what my home turned into, I was homeless in my own home state where I was born and it was against the law to feed me.

Wealthy Christians came from the Philippines to America and the wonderful people from the Philippines saved me and nurtured me back to health. We have immigrants who care more about the homeless than the local Americans do. Seriously, in Hollywood it was against the law to feed the homeless. We had people on the streets of Hollywood who looked like walking skeletons.

Finally Mayor Bass declared a State of Emergency and she is helping the homeless. We should have been helping the homeless this whole time.

And we need Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 29, 2023, 04:39:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 02:45:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 29, 2023, 01:34:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on July 28, 2023, 08:09:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 28, 2023, 04:41:37 PM
Bambi is every six year old ever trying to work his way into an adult conversation.

We could have an adult conversation about the best handguns for women in America to carry for weight, maximum fire power, and least recoil.

.

Pepper spray has very low recoil.

Pepper spray and guns would be ideal...complete protection.

You are the creepiest person I know. Whatever you want to be shot by, sure, sign yourself up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 29, 2023, 04:41:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on July 29, 2023, 03:09:05 PM
Meanwhile, in leftist governed non-US bambustate;

Fed up nurses claim they are being forced to reuse contaminated wipes covered in faecal matter in a shocking cost-cutting attempt by their workplace.

#####

12 years ago, an older White bambu-ilk man said to me: "We've seen the best of it [the state/nation in which we live]"...I agreed with him.
It's only gotten worse since then.
The above is a perfect example of why.

It is all because you have let Rupert Murdoch and his cabal rape all the brains out of your heads continuously for over a generation. That is the the kind of thing you get. Get used to it. You have earned it. And it will persist as long as you stand in the way of the better people working to fix your mess.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2023, 03:05:00 AM: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Has Donated More Than 200 Million Books. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has crossed a major milestone, having officially distributed a whopping 200 million books to children worldwide. According to the organization, the total number of books gifted as of June 2023 is 211,415,579.

---------

As the manufacturing jobs leave, and as the coal mining jobs leave, then we need to become more like Greece and we need to build libraries and schools, and we need to instill a love of reading in our people. Our people need to develop a love of books and a love of learning. And our people can become teachers, and doctors, and scientists, etc, etc, etc.

And the best thing that we can donate to a poor village in Mexico is a library full of books.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 03:24:42 AM: Please no one give Tony an update on the state of the economy in Greece. It would break his heart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 30, 2023, 05:47:19 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 29, 2023, 04:35:28 PM
The best decade of my life was the 1980s, back when we had Ronald Reagan as President. Since the 1990s everything has gone downhill in America. Some people do not understand until they become one of the homeless people out there on the street, once you are out on the street for a couple of years, then you understand the situation better. I was homeless in Hollywood and it was against the law to feed the homeless, that was what my home turned into, I was homeless in my own home state where I was born and it was against the law to feed me.

Wealthy Christians came from the Philippines to America and the wonderful people from the Philippines saved me and nurtured me back to health. We have immigrants who care more about the homeless than the local Americans do. Seriously, in Hollywood it was against the law to feed the homeless. We had people on the streets of Hollywood who looked like walking skeletons.

Finally Mayor Bass declared a State of Emergency and she is helping the homeless. We should have been helping the homeless this whole time.

And we need Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 05:54:00 AM: Bambu I am surprised to see you agreeing with Tony that things are run better when we kick all the white boys out of government. You are slow as fuck but it is good to see you come around to the side of reason.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 30, 2023, 06:01:06 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 29, 2023, 04:35:28 PM
The best decade of my life was the 1980s, back when we had Ronald Reagan as President. Since the 1990s everything has gone downhill in America. Some people do not understand until they become one of the homeless people out there on the street, once you are out on the street for a couple of years, then you understand the situation better. I was homeless in Hollywood and it was against the law to feed the homeless, that was what my home turned into, I was homeless in my own home state where I was born and it was against the law to feed me.

Wealthy Christians came from the Philippines to America and the wonderful people from the Philippines saved me and nurtured me back to health. We have immigrants who care more about the homeless than the local Americans do. Seriously, in Hollywood it was against the law to feed the homeless. We had people on the streets of Hollywood who looked like walking skeletons.

Finally Mayor Bass declared a State of Emergency and she is helping the homeless. We should have been helping the homeless this whole time.

And we need Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 30, 2023, 10:50:08 AM: When I first read of Phoenix record breaking streak of 16 days over 90 degrees, I misread it and was thinking, how is THAT a record? Then it hit me what they meant. Not the daily highs. Never dropped below 90 for sixteen days even in the wee hours of the morning.

And even CACTI can't handle it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/us/phoenix-arizona-heat-saguaro-cactuses/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 30, 2023, 11:12:31 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 03:24:42 AM
Please no one give Tony an update on the state of the economy in Greece. It would break his heart.
I think tony's conception of Greece is Homeric. Temporally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 11:24:51 AM: Poll
U.S. Is a Land of Prayer, Belief in Heaven,
Angels, and the Supremacy of a Higher Power

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.

Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.

In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 11:29:19 AM: Angels are being hunted to extinction by the republican party because they make cracked out old fuckers feel bad about their daily acts of anti-woke terrorism.

Jesus wept.

Then republicans called him gay and hit him with a truck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 30, 2023, 11:37:52 AM: I believe in Hedy Lamarr who helped invent frequency hopping, which was later modified for use in Bluetooth. Somewhat angel-like.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 03:03:42 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/07/30/jason-aldean-small-town-bruce-springsteen-john-mellencamp/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/07/30/jason-aldean-small-town-bruce-springsteen-john-mellencamp/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on July 30, 2023, 03:33:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 10:50:08 AM
When I first read of Phoenix record breaking streak of 16 days over 90 degrees, I misread it and was thinking, how is THAT a record? Then it hit me what they meant. Not the daily highs. Never dropped below 90 for sixteen days even in the wee hours of the morning.

And even CACTI can't handle it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/us/phoenix-arizona-heat-saguaro-cactuses/index.html

The climate is always changing.
Ice Ages come and go.
The globe heats and cools in 100,000 year cycles naturally.
The glaciers started melting 11,000 years ago.

Is man-made climate change real?
Is the Arizona heatwave caused by man-made climate change?
There are many questions.
Even learned scientists don't agree on the answers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM: The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 30, 2023, 08:20:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 11:24:51 AM

Poll
U.S. Is a Land of Prayer, Belief in Heaven,
Angels, and the Supremacy of a Higher Power

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.

Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.

In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds)

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/a5aebe37d396d671f224c452e34318f1/tumblr_inline_p2db2d7I7E1rv7lp8_500.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 08:54:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.

I love that those who replace you have already stolen most of your carbon.

Thank you for taking time out of your ignominious demise to show us where the shittiest idiots stand on the issues of today.

I would ask you to get out of the way, but since you are a feckless twat and you are there already there is not really any point to it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2023, 09:38:16 PM: A security guard was beaten to death at a really cool little night club in Hollywood, the Dragonfly, it is a cool little club with a great smoking section, Willie Nelson would love the smoking section at the Dragonfly. The clubs all need more security and more cameras, etc.

In Israel they spend the money from recycling to spend on security guards, so at least they have some security. The money from the bottles and cans, etc, all goes to pay for security, and that is better than nothing, it is good to at least have some security.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 30, 2023, 09:52:30 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 30, 2023, 07:46:23 PM
WIP

It is still blank to me.

If you post elsewhere and use the Img tag I bet I would be able to see that though you may be avoiding that for an IP reason.

As for now I will just wonder what you are working on
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on July 30, 2023, 10:25:17 PM: Why hasn't sleepy Joe opened things up for the Pakastani?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2023, 10:42:04 PM: Quote from: luee on July 30, 2023, 10:25:17 PM
Why hasn't sleepy Joe opened things up for the Pakastani?

We have hashish coming in from Pakistan, and also that is where Europe is getting their hashish from, along with the hashish from Turkey.

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

We also have doctors coming in from Pakistan.

I support the safe trade of legal hashish, etc. ( If hashish and cannabis is cheap in Chicago, Harlem, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, Compton, Oakland, Detroit, etc, etc, etc, then we will have a more peaceful summer. Biden could help to make for a more peaceful summer by relaxing restrictions on legal hashish and cannabis trade. )

We can also have the legal trade of cannabis from Thailand for the USA, we can supply all of our inner cities with plentiful cannabis.

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

And cannabis is safe.

We can give them new libraries and books with the money that is made from selling them hashish and cannabis. And they can have coffee shops and parks, etc. Libraries and hashish for the inner cities, with a nice cappuccino.

We can bring a taste of Amsterdam to Detroit, and to Chicago, etc, this summer. Maybe that can help to save San Francisco, they can have a summer of love and hashish. ( Here is a video of Sammy Davis Jr in Amsterdam... https://youtu.be/VNNZan852tQ )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:44:28 AM: I like the concept. Can you post a link to your site?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 09:17:18 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts
That italicization says everything.
Quote

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Did you read the articles? The people who run the DBC disagree with you. But then they know what they are talking about and study and care for saguaroes and other desert plants every day of their lives. Who needs "pointy headed experts" when you have people like an op ed writer from Faux News or the WSJ or bambu's number two for brains number one radio host.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 09:29:40 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 09:17:18 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts
That italicization says everything.
Quote

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Did you read the articles? The people who run the DBC disagree with you. But then they know what they are talking about and study and care for saguaroes and other desert plants every day of their lives. Who needs "pointy headed experts" when you have people like an op ed writer from Faux News or the WSJ or bambu's number two for brains number one radio host.
Yes I read them or I would not have posted them.
I am sorry you do not understand them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 10:54:26 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 09:29:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 09:17:18 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts
That italicization says everything.
Quote

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Did you read the articles? The people who run the DBC disagree with you. But then they know what they are talking about and study and care for saguaroes and other desert plants every day of their lives. Who needs "pointy headed experts" when you have people like an op ed writer from Faux News or the WSJ or bambu's number two for brains number one radio host.
Yes I read them or I would not have posted them.
I am sorry you do not understand them.
My apologies. I meant article, referring to oil's link, not articles, which would appear to refer to yours. Though the context should have been clear, my phrasing was not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:00:55 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 31, 2023, 10:58:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:44:28 AM
I like the concept. Can you post a link to your site?

FAC, cartoons posted on website

It is dope seeing them all one after the other in series.

The mechanics of your site stop me from easily reaching the image link through my phone so the easy way to add an image does not work for images posted there. Edit functions in my interface only reach the top frame.

It looks like Jesus will be voting Biden again due to the great job he is doing and the extra shitty quality of the alternatives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 12:22:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 10:54:26 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 09:29:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 09:17:18 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts
That italicization says everything.
Quote

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Did you read the articles? The people who run the DBC disagree with you. But then they know what they are talking about and study and care for saguaroes and other desert plants every day of their lives. Who needs "pointy headed experts" when you have people like an op ed writer from Faux News or the WSJ or bambu's number two for brains number one radio host.
Yes I read them or I would not have posted them.
I am sorry you do not understand them.
My apologies. I meant article, referring to oil's link, not articles, which would appear to refer to yours. Though the context should have been clear, my phrasing was not.
The original article is irrelevant since Climate Change has existed for billions of years and life on earth has never been better. No one denies human existence is part of the cause but our adaptation to change has been and will be the driving force to an even bette life.
The idea we have to scrap our existing energy sources and replace them with yet unproven methods that cannot handle the challenges posed by 7 billion souls over 200 countries is ridiculous.

The old adage Everybody talks about but no one does a thing about THE WEATHER
has been proved proven false zillions of times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:28:43 PM: Adaptations will save us so it is ridiculous to think we have to adapt.

Red and the right wing have trickled down to the point where they do not function at all above the neck. It is an adaptation of a sort to a world that has passed them by.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on July 31, 2023, 02:07:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 12:22:27 PM

The idea we have to scrap our existing energy sources and replace them with yet unproven methods

LIAR

1887 - the year James Blyth proved the concept of an electricity generating wond turbine, in Scotland.

And wind power, with mechanical gearing, was first developed in Persia, in the 9th century. Holland followed with upgrades in the 12th century and thereafter.

What is unproven is that you have the slightest grasp of low carbon power technologies or ancillary storage technologies.

Reading only right-wing propaganda has been demonstrated to kill neurons at the same pace as huffing spray paint.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 02:19:39 PM: http://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html?unlocked_article_code=A8xLUraGXXZP7bNc--csoHFQCXQLItsOCOLIHJnC2H4S5FjGcQ7PWkotPD-elZDGHfB3M1AcmP7hwIAkJpEkiDNcqlt0FcxPFeOdhKgd5mNU1YDM_8tlh9E27av6ceV56_1GgNfXQBEpa2VKKSZV7cQPtpHN-uibsAwOGIuaxDe0ycZi3Z_RgfoEe6NXTNDUiPvvEjAOdyZ6qsyboqPPM1bvsD5wTLEhscgwdDydpNX-OUAWWd9HpmOLhAhA5tHmI_urFFbRAJaRN-WI1QF1L2vONNkht_4YtLLaCSdD789mV4CWkXt1PrKgGUoiVgLxoI0AxatGY_TCFcritvA&smid=url-share (http://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html?unlocked_article_code=A8xLUraGXXZP7bNc--csoHFQCXQLItsOCOLIHJnC2H4S5FjGcQ7PWkotPD-elZDGHfB3M1AcmP7hwIAkJpEkiDNcqlt0FcxPFeOdhKgd5mNU1YDM_8tlh9E27av6ceV56_1GgNfXQBEpa2VKKSZV7cQPtpHN-uibsAwOGIuaxDe0ycZi3Z_RgfoEe6NXTNDUiPvvEjAOdyZ6qsyboqPPM1bvsD5wTLEhscgwdDydpNX-OUAWWd9HpmOLhAhA5tHmI_urFFbRAJaRN-WI1QF1L2vONNkht_4YtLLaCSdD789mV4CWkXt1PrKgGUoiVgLxoI0AxatGY_TCFcritvA&smid=url-share)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 02:24:12 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on July 31, 2023, 02:07:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 12:22:27 PM

The idea we have to scrap our existing energy sources and replace them with yet unproven methods

LIAR

1887 - the year James Blyth proved the concept of an electricity generating wond turbine, in Scotland.

And wind power, with mechanical gearing, was first developed in Persia, in the 9th century. Holland followed with upgrades in the 12th century and thereafter.

What is unproven is that you have the slightest grasp of low carbon power technologies or ancillary storage technologies.

Reading only right-wing propaganda has been demonstrated to kill neurons at the same pace as huffing spray paint.

I like this tactic of drowning red in a whole thought. It is an approach that cuts right through the many layers of misconceptions in which the nasty little prick likes to hide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 31, 2023, 04:09:34 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 31, 2023, 09:07:58 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:44:28 AM
I like the concept. Can you post a link to your site?

gradycartoons.com
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 31, 2023, 04:13:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 12:22:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 10:54:26 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 31, 2023, 09:29:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on July 31, 2023, 09:17:18 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts
That italicization says everything.
Quote

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.
Did you read the articles? The people who run the DBC disagree with you. But then they know what they are talking about and study and care for saguaroes and other desert plants every day of their lives. Who needs "pointy headed experts" when you have people like an op ed writer from Faux News or the WSJ or bambu's number two for brains number one radio host.
Yes I read them or I would not have posted them.
I am sorry you do not understand them.
My apologies. I meant article, referring to oil's link, not articles, which would appear to refer to yours. Though the context should have been clear, my phrasing was not.
The original article is irrelevant since Climate Change has existed for billions of years and life on earth has never been better. No one denies human existence is part of the cause but our adaptation to change has been and will be the driving force to an even bette life.
The idea we have to scrap our existing energy sources and replace them with yet unproven methods that cannot handle the challenges posed by 7 billion souls over 200 countries is ridiculous.

The old adage Everybody talks about but no one does a thing about THE WEATHER
has been proved proven false zillions of times.

Amazing how these wingers are so determinedly suicidal when it comes to Covid and Climate Change but why do they insist on taking the rest of us with them?

Fucking world is on fire and these assholes are talking about WEATHER.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 06:43:31 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on July 31, 2023, 04:15:12 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:00:55 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on July 31, 2023, 10:58:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 12:44:28 AM
I like the concept. Can you post a link to your site?

FAC, cartoons posted on website

It is dope seeing them all one after the other in series.

The mechanics of your site stop me from easily reaching the image link through my phone so the easy way to add an image does not work for images posted there. Edit functions in my interface only reach the top frame.

It looks like Jesus will be voting Biden again due to the great job he is doing and the extra shitty quality of the alternatives.

Thanks FAC, the slide show looks good on LTs and Tablets.
Hopefully, the mod returns and fixes the problem.
Th error messages say too much time elapsed before posting, which is ridiculous
or the file is too big, which I know is not the case.
Quotes, apostrophes, and now attachments
I suspect the site will crash again soon and Be down until the writers strike is over!
👌👍✌️👏🙏😉

If you add a static gallery format you will be able to display those images here simply through the simple img tag. You may want to use smaller watermarked versions to do it.

Waiting for the mod may be as futile as waiting for Red, Kiid, Bambi or Luee to grow up and become men.

She helps those who help themselves without blithely or intentionally making a fucking mess of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 06:48:04 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on July 31, 2023, 04:13:36 PM
Amazing how these wingers are so determinedly suicidal when it comes to Covid and Climate Change but why do they insist on taking the rest of us with them?

Fucking world is on fire and these assholes are talking about WEATHER.

If it all burns down they will stop being reminded how shittily they are doing compared to everyone with a lick of sense at everything despite their having been born on third base.

Obtuseness is their suicide bomb. Their self hatred is an accelerant in the mix.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on July 31, 2023, 10:41:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on July 30, 2023, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on July 30, 2023, 04:24:32 PM
The findings show that consensus has increased across the board. The findings also reaffirm that consensus increases with the level of expertise - the more you know about climate science, the more likely you are to understand that humans are responsible for climate change. Near 100 percent of scientists in our most expert group who identify as climatologists and actively publish in the peer-reviewed literature are in complete agreement that climate change is real and caused by humans, says Peter Doran.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientific-agreement-anthropogenic-nature-climate.html

(no paywall)
Meanwhile back in the real world which includes real people not pointy headed experts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-parliamentary-election-climate-policy-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-5c5c0c9e)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-will-never-run-out-of-resources-earth-ocean-tech-knowledge-engineering-e65f88c7)

Oh, and by the way, Cacti in the Arizona desert can survive 96 minimum temps, just not grow as fast.
This ain t their first dance with the heat.

About the cacti

https://www.voanews.com/a/saguaro-cacti-collapsing-in-arizona-extreme-heat-scientist-says/7202127.html

Weather Abnormalities

But some events were so abnormal that they sent a wave of consternation through the scientific community. Antarctic sea ice is at a historically low level for this time of year, according to federal data. Sea surface temperatures across the North Atlantic have been off the charts Europes Copernicus Climate Change Service reported, noting that the figures set records for this time of year by a very large marginWater temperatures off the coast of South Florida rose to unfathomable levels in recent days, leading scientists to fear for the fate of the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/31/july-hottest-month-extreme-weather-future/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2023, 11:21:51 PM: I live a European lifestyle here in California, I walked through the park for a nice evening stroll to the Mexican Market, where I bought fresh baked bread, California pepper jack cheese from Joseph Farms, some organic yellow mustard, some nice cotto salami, and a nice bottle of wine. All that I need now is a beautiful Mediterranean woman to eat with.

I bought a nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from Tisdale Vineyards in Modesto, California, here is a link to their page...

https://www.tisdalewine.com/

This is the kind of stuff that we can do world trade with is our California wine, and California cheese, and California cotto salami, and Organic mustard, etc, we can send all of that to China as we participate in world trade.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 11:32:50 PM: I thought you were saying Cali is an unholy hell going straight to the dogs and the worms and the thundering armies of ants not two posts ago.

Tony, which one is it please?

It was the best of times

It was the worst of times
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 31, 2023, 11:46:47 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on July 31, 2023, 11:32:50 PM
I thought you were saying Cali is an unholy hell going straight to the dogs and the worms and the thundering armies of ants not two posts ago.

Tony, which one is it please?

It was the best of times

It was the worst of times

Times are hard right now, and we have homeless people all over the streets, but at the same time we make great local wine, and great local cheese, and great local cotto salami, etc, and we can help our poor people if we are able to sell products from California to the Chinese, etc.

California is the best, and the worst, all in the same place.

We need to work hard to make California into a better place, and we need to help our homeless, and we need to expand trade with China, etc. We can send wine, cheese, Sunkist orange juice, etc, etc, etc, to China and be altruistic with the money and educate our poor and help our homeless and build libraries, and we can build hospitals, etc. And we can train doctors, and scientists, and teachers, etc.

Modesto, Merced, Napa, Bakersfield, etc, all help California on the issue of world trade.

And I am lucky to live in a safe neighborhood here in Anaheim, it is a blessing. Anaheim is a nice city, but we need to work hard to help our homeless, and we need lots of staff to work at the Mental Health Association offices, and at the Wellness Centers, etc. We have a good city, but we can do more to help our abused women, and our poor and homeless, etc.

I love California, but we can do better. And guys like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise need to help us to save Hollywood. And Emilio Estevez can help to save Hollywood, we have some good people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 01, 2023, 12:05:43 AM: The Yellow Trucking Company went out of business, it is all very sad, it was a huge UNION company.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/business/yellow-corp-closing/index.html

30,000 Union workers lost their jobs.

We need for the Mexicans to step in and help. We need to invest in the ports in Mexico, we need for Mexican truck drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union, and we need for the Mexicans to jump in and help to fill the void created by the loss of Yellow.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 01:13:45 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 01, 2023, 12:05:43 AM
The Yellow Trucking Company went out of business, it is all very sad, it was a huge UNION company.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/business/yellow-corp-closing/index.html

30,000 Union workers lost their jobs.

We need for the Mexicans to step in and help. We need to invest in the ports in Mexico, we need for Mexican truck drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union, and we need for the Mexicans to jump in and help to fill the void created by the loss of Yellow.

Salute,

Tony V.

No 'slave' labour.
Americans need proper wages ..enough to be able to live and support a family.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 01:17:41 AM: What I learnt from Youtube today:

'Carpe diem'
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 01:41:35 AM: That is carpe jugulum for those of you playing along at home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:17:15 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 01:41:35 AM
That is carpe jugulum for those of you playing along at home.

Nah, carpe diem...from 'Best Hallmark Movies 2023'..."When Call the
Heart" Series 10 ep1 ....Youtube.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 01, 2023, 02:33:50 AM: The Truck Drivers in Mexico need to have the same high pay and good treatment that the Canadians receive.

The Mexican Truck Drivers need to be able to join the Teamsters just like the Canadian Truck Drivers.

https://teamsters.ca/

And we need to invest in the ports in Mexico. Mexican truck drivers can bring goods up from Mexico to Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 03:07:02 AM: Foreman over there hates the gang
Poor people on the farm get it rough
Truck drivers drive like the Devil
Policemen acting so tough

They need water
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 01, 2023, 10:38:27 AM: I know you're dead but what am I?

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191104833/pee-wee-herman-dead-paul-reubens

RIPPWH.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 11:54:57 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 01, 2023, 10:38:27 AM
I know you're dead but what am I?

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191104833/pee-wee-herman-dead-paul-reubens

RIPPWH.

https://youtu.be/OfMayIzLhqw
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 01:05:43 PM: The Diamonds played Tequila last night and we crowd did the dance.

Rest in Power. Marge has arrived with her rig to carry you home to glory.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:57:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on July 30, 2023, 09:38:16 PM
A security guard was beaten to death at a really cool little night club in Hollywood, the Dragonfly, it is a cool little club with a great smoking section, Willie Nelson would love the smoking section at the Dragonfly. The clubs all need more security and more cameras, etc.

In Israel they spend the money from recycling to spend on security guards, so at least they have some security. The money from the bottles and cans, etc, all goes to pay for security, and that is better than nothing, it is good to at least have some security.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Absolute security protects absolutely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 03:38:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:57:18 PM

Indeed.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Absolute security protects absolutely.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. - Proverbs, c26, v11
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 05:38:02 PM: TRUMP INDICTED
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 05:44:40 PM: Again?

I hope they have the good sense to hold him pretrial as a recidivist terrorist flight risk this time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 05:52:16 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 05:38:02 PM
TRUMP INDICTED

No wonder the GOP House majority was in such a hurry to drop urgent business and leave town.

Many GOP members have to start fact finding junkets in places with no extradition treaty to the USA before the feds catch them, cuff them and get them in front of juries.

Perry will be touring Siberia. Jordan is going off to join the Taliban.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 01, 2023, 06:37:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 05:44:40 PM
Again?

I hope they have the good sense to hold him pretrial as a recidivist terrorist flight risk this time.

Repeat oh-fender.

https://youtu.be/FXCy2UN1zVs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 07:09:31 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 01, 2023, 06:37:12 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 05:44:40 PM
Again?

I hope they have the good sense to hold him pretrial as a recidivist terrorist flight risk this time.

Repeat oh-fender.

https://youtu.be/FXCy2UN1zVs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 07:18:13 PM: Happy Lughnasadh all.

A good day for some to be reaping what they have sown.

I shared a little burnt offering from my crop. It seemed well received.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 01, 2023, 07:41:41 PM: Slainte!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 08:00:40 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 07:18:13 PM
Happy Lughnasadh all.

A good day for some to be reaping what they have sown.

I shared a little burnt offering from my crop. It seemed well received.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 08:07:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 03:38:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:57:18 PM

Indeed.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Absolute security protects absolutely.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. - Proverbs, c26, v11

Kennedy was shot dead, he was in an open car.
Obama was not shot...absolute security.
Absolute security protects absolutely....bambu C1 V1
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 08:44:35 PM: Do they let you dig bunkers in OZ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 09:03:23 PM: The dishonorable Senator tubberville has become a morgue truck on the Alabama economy through his irrational fear and hatred of all things vajayjay.

Every soulless moron sent to office sets his or her constituency backwards down a dark road of self destruction. Since the soulless morons all run as republicans, the only party in which they can be accepted, avoiding the mistake of choosing one is pretty easy.

Some might say RFK Jr. is an exception. He is not. Though he filed as a Democrat where he has no support, he is funded by republicans and is running as a loud and proud nazi which is mainstream republican positioning these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 09:21:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 08:07:22 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 03:38:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:57:18 PM

Indeed.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Absolute security protects absolutely.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. - Proverbs, c26, v11

Kennedy was shot dead, he was in an open car.
Obama was not shot...absolute security.
Absolute security protects absolutely....bambu C1 V1

https://youtu.be/SECVGN4Bsgg
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 09:56:22 PM: Trump is calling OJ to see if he would want to be his running mate this time around. Unfortunately for donald the Juice will not lower himself so far as to participate in so sad a spectacle as this unraveling trump campaign. The man has standards after all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 10:01:40 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 01, 2023, 09:21:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 08:07:22 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 03:38:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 02:57:18 PM

Indeed.
There's no such thing as too much security.
Absolute security protects absolutely.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. - Proverbs, c26, v11

Kennedy was shot dead, he was in an open car.
Obama was not shot...absolute security.
Absolute security protects absolutely....bambu C1 V1

https://youtu.be/SECVGN4Bsgg

Indeed, who can it be now?
Yes, people should stay away from my door, unless invited.
Anyone, before I came to live in my village, who came knocking on my door was usually 'trouble', usually wanted to sell me something, or convert me to their religion, or tell me that my roof needed repairs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 10:15:20 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 08:44:35 PM
Do they let you dig bunkers in OZ?

They have them in FNQ [Far Nth Qld] state...protection from cyclones that sweep down from Asia.
Not for me, i'll take my chances above ground...walls, gates, security patrols...and villa locked up airtight, watertight, every other tight.

The bad people lurk in the shadows, waiting to pounce...the moment you get security careless. bambu C1 V2
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 01, 2023, 10:20:07 PM: There is one sitting at your keyboard right now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 11:10:04 PM: Where are they getting all the people who are indicting Trump from...down at the universities and Democrat conventions?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 03:07:13 AM: "You can't fight a wildfire with a garden hose"...bambu C1 V3.

Firestorm coming?
Pack up the kids, pets, valuables and vehicles and leave early...or you could all die or be seriously burnt.
Many people perished in the fires in Australia because they stayed when they should've been gone days before.
"Be prepared"...the Scouts.
Keep the vehicles full of petrol.
Have bags ready for each person to put their valuables, clothes, toiletries in.
Have family drills...
"Evacuate"!
Calmly implement the plan, whatever it is, who goes in which vehicle, ...if one vehicle, who nurses the luggage, pets, food, water, blankets etc.
Make sure you have all the kids, and pets before you drive off, you might not be able to go back for them.
Never go back for the photos!
Spread the family photos around the relatives.
Don't panic...cool heads are required.
Don't assume anything, make sure no one is left behind.
"Assumption is the mother of all f-ups" - Under Siege 2.
You don't want to hear "it's too late to leave"... as some people did in the fires in Australia.
Your fires look very bad.
Leave early, the roads could be blocked if you don't...in Australia people were burnt to death when trapped in the escaping traffic.

"Planning to make a plan is not a plan" - my Rural Fire Service Commissioner.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:29:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 11:10:04 PM
Where are they getting all the people who are indicting Trump from...down at the universities and Democrat conventions?

The Fed has been banging up war criminals in Europe for a bit, but before that he took down every kind of scumbag here. There are no scumbags as big as trump or as nasty or as infectious, but Smith has come close.

Manhattan and Fulton county both have district attorneys who are former federal prosecutors I believe. They also have prodigious records incarcerating nasty pieces of work like those that make up team trump. They were elected by the people of the areas where the respective crimes were committed.

I sent in an eight foot length of extra thick slime resistant rope with my taxes this year in the hope that it will prove useful.

Justice is just around the corner and it will come down like a condemned tenement building on dirty dastardly donald, asbestos cloud, lead paint chips and all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:32:01 AM: What if you put a great big wall of coal between you and any potential fire, Bambi?

That has got to work. You tell us coal is good for everything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 02, 2023, 10:26:55 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:29:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 01, 2023, 11:10:04 PM
Where are they getting all the people who are indicting Trump from...down at the universities and Democrat conventions?

The Fed has been banging up war criminals in Europe for a bit, but before that he took down every kind of scumbag here. There are no scumbags as big as trump or as nasty or as infectious, but Smith has come close.

Manhattan and Fulton county both have district attorneys who are former federal prosecutors I believe. They also have prodigious records incarcerating nasty pieces of work like those that make up team trump. They were elected by the people of the areas where the respective crimes were committed.

I sent in an eight foot length of extra thick slime resistant rope with my taxes this year in the hope that it will prove useful.

Justice is just around the corner and it will come down like a condemned tenement building on dirty dastardly donald, asbestos cloud, lead paint chips and all.

Also note, Bambi, that Jack Smith is registered as an Independent. And Garland, who appointed him, is a moderate. One sign of the GOPs shift to the Far Right was when a centrist Supreme Court candidate offered up to appease Republicans, i.e. Garland, was rejected in a flagrant blocking of standard procedure.

I hope they have enough of Fac's slime resistant rope for all of Trump's henchmen too.

Or they could use current Republican voter credulity, which seems to be infinitely stretchable without breaking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 02, 2023, 10:45:01 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 02, 2023, 10:24:26 AM
Why no Steve Bannon and Ginnie Thomas among the co-conspirators?

Must be on another indictment coming after Trump is locked up.
First report i saw had Thomas as uninvited co-conspirator 6, but that got walked back.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 11:20:44 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:32:01 AM
What if you put a great big wall of coal between you and any potential fire, Bambi?

That has got to work. You tell us coal is good for everything.

Nah...renewables are best...but not until they're:

. Available
. Reliable
. Affordable

In London, NYC, the number of fires started by e-bikes and e-scooters, while charging, is alarming.
Also alarming is the number of ships transporting electric vehicles that are catching fire.
It is suspected by some experts to be the nature of lithium ion batteries.
No way I'd be having anything to do with EVs until the new era of batteries arrive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 11:29:33 AM: Independents and progressives often have political leanings one way or
another.
People outside of America see clearly what's going on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 02, 2023, 11:49:19 AM: Eminent legal scholar Lawrence Tribe:

He is fundamentally saying that he is the law and that anything which brings a law to bear against him undermines what he perceives as America? That is the very inverse of what most of us think America is all about. It is about more than any one person - however charismatic, however adored by his followers.

People outside of America, except for a few inbred idiots in Dingofark, Queensland, see clearly that yesterdays indictment is helping restore faith that America will remain a functioning democracy and that Trump will get justice for his attempts to subvert democracy. Legal professionals of Smith's caliber follow the law and present the evidence and relevant facts, regardless of their personal political views outside the courthouse. Smith has long registered as Independent to further stress his professionalism in this regard.

You can lazily fire off innuendos you've hoovered up from highly partisan sources, but the facts will come out in the trial next year and I think they will speak for themselves as to Trump's role in obstructing a normal lawful transfer of power and making fraudulent claims in order to seize power as an autocrat and conspiring with others to make a slate of false electors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 02, 2023, 12:28:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 02, 2023, 10:45:01 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on August 02, 2023, 10:24:26 AM
Why no Steve Bannon and Ginnie Thomas among the co-conspirators?

Must be on another indictment coming after Trump is locked up.
First report i saw had Thomas as uninvited co-conspirator 6, but that got walked back.
You cannot be serious. Democrats use Ginnie to smear Clarence, nothing else.
But while you are banging into the trees you seemed to have missed the forest, those who were not indicted as co-conspirators like the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys.
You know those who actually planned to, and did, breach the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Now that was the worst offense against democracy and something like 1000 people have already been penalized.

Even Prosecutor Smith concedes Mr. Trump had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcomedeterminative fraud during the election and that he had won.

Trump behaved miserably and deceitfully and deserves never to be elected again.

But CRIMINAL CHARGES TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT?

This indictment is nothing more than an attempt to re stage the Senate Trial that failed to remove Trump from office.

In short it is the DOJ trying to stretch the law to solve a political problem.

It will not even get to trial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 12:40:10 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 11:20:44 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:32:01 AM
What if you put a great big wall of coal between you and any potential fire, Bambi?

That has got to work. You tell us coal is good for everything.

Nah...renewables are best...but not until they're:

. Available
. Reliable
. Affordable

In London, NYC, the number of fires started by e-bikes and e-scooters, while charging, is alarming.
Also alarming is the number of ships transporting electric vehicles that are catching fire.
It is suspected by some experts to be the nature of lithium ion batteries.
No way I'd be having anything to do with EVs until the new era of batteries arrive.

That is why we are investing so much in scaling up better battery technologies. It is good to see you getting with the program, the one where humanity works its ass off to survive the spoils of its past successes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 12:45:30 PM: Red has trump on suicide watch. Since he is in the cult he may be privy to info not shared among sane people. So long as trump feels hunted and hated till his very last breath and he destroys as much as possible of what is left of the republican party on his way out, I am not overly invested in the particulars.

It would be nice if they used the rope.

Ginni Thomas is a dirty bomb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 02, 2023, 01:16:32 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 02, 2023, 10:24:26 AM
Why no Steve Bannon and Ginnie Thomas among the co-conspirators?

Must be on another indictment coming after Trump is locked up.

Yep.

Fewer defendants fewer attorneys

Trump number one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 06:51:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 12:40:10 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 11:20:44 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:32:01 AM
What if you put a great big wall of coal between you and any potential fire, Bambi?

That has got to work. You tell us coal is good for everything.

Nah...renewables are best...but not until they're:

. Available
. Reliable
. Affordable

In London, NYC, the number of fires started by e-bikes and e-scooters, while charging, is alarming.
Also alarming is the number of ships transporting electric vehicles that are catching fire.
It is suspected by some experts to be the nature of lithium ion batteries.
No way I'd be having anything to do with EVs until the new era of batteries arrive.

That is why we are investing so much in scaling up better battery technologies. It is good to see you getting with the program, the one where humanity works its ass off to survive the spoils of its past successes.

There should be sensible transition, not what there is today.
The safe batteries need to be invented first.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 02, 2023, 06:53:07 PM: They're trumped-up charges you know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 06:53:56 PM: That is almost clever in Queensland.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 02, 2023, 08:08:31 PM: Alexander Hamilton set up the Bank of New York so that the United States could borrow from our local bank instead of getting in debt to foreign banks, and so that we could pay interest to our own local bank and so we could tax our own local bank to help with Education, Healthcare, etc. The Bank of New York was the first company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Bank of New York is also the official Bank of the Nation of Israel.

There was a reason why enemies of freedom attacked New York, because New York is the Center of the Financial World for the USA. The World Trade Center was very important.

So right now as our credit is being attacked we need to protect the Bank of New York, and all of our Financial Network in New York, and we need to back our currency with Gold from Battle Mountain, Nevada, etc, and with Gold from Mexico, and with Gold from Colombia, etc. We need to back our money with Gold.

Israel backs their money with diamonds and the Bank of New York is their official Bank.

We need to back up the Financial Network in the USA with locally sourced Gold.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 02, 2023, 08:17:17 PM: Do not go gold bug Tony. It is just one element of many. There are some useful molecules out there for you to consider as well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 03, 2023, 03:21:06 AM: Last week mrs bambu and I were discussing world affairs while watching Sky News.
The topic of billions and trillions was mentioned.
I said "that's the problem for Americans and their debt at the moment...trillions of dollars".
She said: "don't worry, they'll just print some more"!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 05:06:11 AM: One of you seems to be a viable organism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 01:27:58 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates)

Everyone does better when the rich are made to pay even part of their fair share.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 03, 2023, 02:02:16 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 01:27:58 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates)

Everyone does better when the rich are made to pay even part of their fair share.

Ah yes..."the rich".
Define "rich".
Someone who started with nothing, studied economics at university, graduated, then went to work for a car company in their head office....learning about the auto industry?
Later being approved for a dealership.
Ran that successfuly while still young.
From there buying struggling dealerships of different auto brands and majing them successful too?
Then doing fhe same thing globally...business acumen.
Also doing the same thing with pubs and clubs.
Look at how many people employed in his successful businesses.

In your haste to "tax the rich" you need to be careful you don't kill off incentive.
So called "rich people" often employ "poor people".
We have a rich man in bambuworld.
He builds apartment complexes, hotels...ones that stay up, because they're built properly. He employs many people in the construction industry
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 03, 2023, 02:16:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 03, 2023, 02:02:16 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 01:27:58 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates)

Everyone does better when the rich are made to pay even part of their fair share.

Ah yes..."the rich".
Define "rich".
Someone who started with nothing, studied economics at university, graduated, then went to work for a car company in their head office....learning about the auto industry?
Later being approved for a dealership.
Ran that successfuly while still young.
From there buying struggling dealerships of different auto brands and majing them successful too?
Then doing fhe same thing globally...business acumen.
Also doing the same thing with pubs and clubs.
Look at how many people employed in his successful businesses.

In your haste to "tax the rich" you need to be careful you don't kill off incentive.
So called "rich people" often employ "poor people".
We have a rich man in bambuworld.
He builds apartment complexes, hotels...ones that stay up, because they're built properly. He employs many people in the construction industry

That is why white people are trying to stifle Black women entrepreneurs

https://www.reuters.com/legal/conservative-activist-behind-us-affirmative-action-cases-sues-venture-capital-2023-08-02/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 05:27:43 PM: My Grandmother worked for the Gold mines in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and then she went to Mexico and she spent 20 years opening Gold mines in Mexico. And I had a waitress in Battle Mountain at the Colt Casino where I worked who was the daughter of the Vice President of the Bank of New York. The Banks need to back everything up with Gold.

And my wealthiest friend was a Christian woman from the Philippines who spent her life helping the homeless people here in California. Her first Business here in California was a night club in Los Angeles named "Manila Gardens" and her club was very successful. She opened many businesses here and she gave all of her money away doing charity work for the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 08:06:31 PM: No one would ever make a plan to be successful and then work hard at it if in the end they though they might have to pay some taxes.

The kind of poverty you live in, Bambi, cannot be fixed with money.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 09:35:22 PM: It is important to dress up nice and to go spend a Saturday night celebrating life with the rich people, even if you are not rich. My Mother was a hair dresser with her own beauty shop and a couple of houses that she rented out, and my Father worked for the Los Angeles County Road Department, and my Mother always made my Father take her out to someplace nice to eat on a Saturday night, and they would go dancing, and they would go out to see movies, and they would always get out and have fun on the Saturday nights. My Mother always fit in well with the rich people, and she did the hair for all of the rich ladies, and every Saturday night my Mother and Father went out to celebrate life with the well to do people in the community.

And then years later for instance, my Mother and her then husband spent the day having cocktails with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft at the Pieces of Eight in Marina Del Rey, that is a great thing about California is that so many great people have lived here over the years, and it is nice.

There is no reason for the rich and poor to be separate, you have to be able to dress up and walk with Kings, while at the same time you need to keep the common touch.

I need to be able to take a date to the best restaurants without worry, that is the way my Mother raised me, I can go have cocktails and sushi with the rich people and not have any problems.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 03, 2023, 09:59:22 PM: If the rich paid their taxes they would not spend so much on gates or live in such perpetual fear of working people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 10:29:24 PM: Trump is a fool to want to build a wall between the USA and Mexico instead of working together as a team to reap our shared rewards.

My Grandmother spent 20 years opening Gold mines in Mexico, and that can be to our benefit as we work to back up our financial system with Gold. All of her work was a waste of time if we just build a wall, instead we should tear down the wall and Biden and Harris should send an envoy to Mexico on a mission to improve relations and trade between the USA and Mexico and to work together on issues such as Drug Cartels and Poverty and Refugees, etc.

Christians can rule in Mexico instead of drug cartels. The good people can rule in Mexico instead of letting a few bad apples rule.

And we need to all be equal in America with equal rights.

We can also invest in the ports in Mexico, and we can allow the Mexican truckers to join the Teamsters Union, etc.

And we can send food and wine to China, etc, as we participate in world trade. Sending California wine, and California cheese, and cotto salami from California, and Sunkist orange juice, and organic mustard, etc, etc, etc, to China will help with world peace.

We also need to make sure that we keep New York strong and that we protect our Financial System, including protecting the Bank of New York.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 10:42:23 PM: Bambu, the people from the Philippines are not white, but they are our best allies in the world, you cannot judge people by the color of their skin, the people from the Philippines are good Christians who help the homeless here in California.

And I love the Italians, and the French, and the Spaniards, and the Greeks, the Mediterranean people are beautiful, and those people built the foundation for the USA and for most of modern western civilization.

We spit out England, and we fought against England twice, once for our independence and again during the War of 1812. And Canada burned down our White House during the War of 1812. Just because the British and the Canadians are white does not mean that they are our friends. We need to strive to be friendly with the British, and we need to work together to support Ukraine, etc. But, I support Ireland, Spain, and Argentina against England. I have not always agreed with England. But, we need to be allies now, just like with the Germans and the Japanese.

China has always been on our team, and Chinese immigrants helped to build our railroads. We need to have peace with China, and we need to send good California wine and cheese and stuff to China as we participate in world trade.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 11:13:28 PM: There is a book by Will Durant named "Caesar and Christ" where Will Durant argues that Rome and Israel were the two most powerful forces on laying the foundation for modern civilization. And since Rome was built on the foundation provided by Athens, then the Greeks would be in the game as well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2023, 12:28:18 AM: I send messages on Facebook to Pope Francis at the Vatican News page, and I send messages to Vice President Harris, and to whoever I can help with an idea at the time. I send messages to Mayor Bass of Los Angeles telling her ideas on how to help the homeless. I sent an idea to NASA asking for NASA to help to make the Police Department Helicopters quieter so as not to disturb residents while they sleep at night. I send ideas to whoever I think I can help.

Some of these people on Facebook such as Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola, and others, are influencers. I do not think that I am an influencer, but sometimes I have some good ideas, and I am good at rhetoric, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 04, 2023, 07:50:33 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 09:35:22 PM
It is important to dress up nice and to go spend a Saturday night celebrating life with the rich people, even if you are not rich. My Mother was a hair dresser with her own beauty shop and a couple of houses that she rented out, and my Father worked for the Los Angeles County Road Department, and my Mother always made my Father take her out to someplace nice to eat on a Saturday night, and they would go dancing, and they would go out to see movies, and they would always get out and have fun on the Saturday nights. My Mother always fit in well with the rich people, and she did the hair for all of the rich ladies, and every Saturday night my Mother and Father went out to celebrate life with the well to do people in the community.

And then years later for instance, my Mother and her then husband spent the day having cocktails with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft at the Pieces of Eight in Marina Del Rey, that is a great thing about California is that so many great people have lived here over the years, and it is nice.

There is no reason for the rich and poor to be separate, you have to be able to dress up and walk with Kings, while at the same time you need to keep the common touch.

I need to be able to take a date to the best restaurants without worry, that is the way my Mother raised me, I can go have cocktails and sushi with the rich people and not have any problems.

Salute,

Tony V.

Some women today go on dates with men just to get "free dinners".
Me, I'd be taking any first date "for coffee", at a coffee shop/cafe.
That way if there's not a second date you're only out a few bucks not a hundred.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 04, 2023, 08:42:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 04, 2023, 07:50:33 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 03, 2023, 09:35:22 PM
It is important to dress up nice and to go spend a Saturday night celebrating life with the rich people, even if you are not rich. My Mother was a hair dresser with her own beauty shop and a couple of houses that she rented out, and my Father worked for the Los Angeles County Road Department, and my Mother always made my Father take her out to someplace nice to eat on a Saturday night, and they would go dancing, and they would go out to see movies, and they would always get out and have fun on the Saturday nights. My Mother always fit in well with the rich people, and she did the hair for all of the rich ladies, and every Saturday night my Mother and Father went out to celebrate life with the well to do people in the community.

And then years later for instance, my Mother and her then husband spent the day having cocktails with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft at the Pieces of Eight in Marina Del Rey, that is a great thing about California is that so many great people have lived here over the years, and it is nice.

There is no reason for the rich and poor to be separate, you have to be able to dress up and walk with Kings, while at the same time you need to keep the common touch.

I need to be able to take a date to the best restaurants without worry, that is the way my Mother raised me, I can go have cocktails and sushi with the rich people and not have any problems.

Salute,

Tony V.

Some women today go on dates with men just to get "free dinners".
Me, I'd be taking any first date "for coffee", at a coffee shop/cafe.
That way if there's not a second date
You could have stopped there.
Quote
you're only out a few bucks not a hundred.
You cheap misogynistic bastard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 04, 2023, 09:09:16 AM: The last of the romantics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 04, 2023, 10:31:50 AM: 🤣

I thought of this xkcd cartoon when Trump was blathering about his free speech rights this week.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2023, 06:02:56 PM: He is leaving

Leaving

On that midnight train to Georgia

To find a dark hole

And be locked inside

Leaving on that midnight train to Georgia

Georgia

To live his life in that world

While I go free in mine

One charge

One vote

And the jury will decide

Guilty

RICO

Is what the jury will decide
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2023, 06:54:32 PM: Project Angel Food in Hollywood just received donations to double their space and triple their service to the community. In this crazy economy the good people in Hollywood donated fifty million dollars to Project Angel Food for the expansion.

https://www.angelfood.org/our-stories/project-angel-food-to-double-size-of-current-facilities-adding-new-building-and-tripling-meal-production-capacity-by-2027

There are a lot of good people in Hollywood, and I am sure that if they knew that I was out there homeless and hungry in Hollywood that there are good people such as Jamie Lee Curtis who care about the homeless who would have built homeless shelters and places to feed the homeless in Hollywood.

As people donate to help the poor in Hollywood, then people need to invest in opening Hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night. And there can be Sober Living Homes where people can rent a bed to live in a home for $500 per month.

I also support Food Without Borders which feeds the homeless people anywhere and everywhere. I support free sandwiches and bottles of water for the homeless on the streets of Hollywood.

I also support having Wellness Centers where people can get help, and I support having Mental Health Associations, etc.

I also support Children of the Night which helps the homeless teens on the streets of Hollywood.

Meanwhile, thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis, she is doing a good job at helping the needy in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2023, 07:35:04 PM: Coffee is a good first date, but it is nice to dress up and to go someplace nice to eat with a person who you enjoy their company. And that is part of the joy of life. And falling in love, that is the stuff of life.

One romantic place is the Odyssey Restaurant in Granada Hills, California, they have wonderful food and the restaurant is on the top of a hill overlooking the valley. The Odyssey Restaurant is a great place to take a date.

Then there is The Sunset Restaurant in Malibu, right on the sand, it used to be named "Monroe's" after Marilyn Monroe. You can watch the sun set over the ocean while you eat. It was the best restaurant in Malibu when I lived there.

Here in Anaheim there is the Anaheim White House Restaurant, which has the best food in Anaheim, and Chef Bruno does charity work to feed the hungry children of Orange County. It is the place to go for filet mignon, escargot, frog legs, caviar, and all of the stuff on your bucket list to try, he has a lot of stuff on his menu that I want to try. And it is right down the street. If I had a steady girlfriend or a wife we could go there often.

And we have sushi restaurants all over where people can get sushi. For cheaper stuff we have Mexican food, and Italian food.

For a dream date we have Club 33 at Disneyland, which has a 5 star restaurant, it is very exclusive and it would impress a date if I took her there. But Club 33 is Very exclusive. If I get lucky I would love to take a date to Club 33.

And then I want to find a good woman who wants to travel with me, and we can go see New York City, etc, and Paris, France, and Monaco, etc.

One of my favorite songs is "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, and that is how life is, I wish I could save my time for when I am in love, to give my time to people I love. And it all starts with the first cup of coffee at a coffee shop.

We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2023, 08:54:51 PM: It would be rude to ask a poster to define support as it is used in recent posts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2023, 09:07:27 PM: One can support by favoring an activity or organization, and can contribute as they are able and as they see fit.

One can also contribute abilities and gifts from God, such as the ability to write, act, sing, dance, etc, and Jamie Lee Curtis is able to contribute because of who her family was, and because of her acting career, and from being a good citizen here in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 04, 2023, 09:12:46 PM: Too rude to warrant a straight answer it seems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 04, 2023, 09:17:01 PM: One of my heroes was Cesar Chavez, who said that the best use of an education is to help other people. Cesar Chavez never made any money, and he died poor, but he has streets named after him, and he will be remembered forever.

Another hero was Henry David Thoreau who sat by a pond and wrote philosophy about peace and human rights, Thoreau will be remembered forever, and he influenced many great people.

I also love the poetry of Maya Angelou and other poets, and I love the old Abolitionist poetry, and the poetry from the Harlem Renaissance.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 12:58:01 AM: The state of Florida is still killing human beings in its chamber of death. It's not the only US state doing it.
Talk about living in no-idea land.
Not even "dumb, drunk, racist and backward" bambuworld still kills human beings in death chambers.
We also no longer allow school teachers to hit students anymore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 01:56:39 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 12:58:01 AM
The state of Florida is still killing human beings in its chamber of death. It's not the only US state doing it.
Talk about living in no-idea land.
Not even "dumb, drunk, racist and backward" bambuworld still kills human beings in death chambers.
We also no longer allow school teachers to hit students anymore.

Watch Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" starring Robert Blake. It is a great movie. The cinematography is fantastic.

I agree, let them rot in prison until they die of old age. And feed them bad food. No luxury, no joy in life, only punishment in jail until they die. And they can have a Bible and a priest.

California does not allow the death penalty. I do not think that we have had the death penalty since Jerry Brown. I think death row has been shut down.

And I think that Australia is very civilized, like Olivia Newton John. I think of beautiful blonde women when I think of Australia. And like Margot Robbie.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 02:44:25 AM: One of my professors at AVC, Dr Debra Tolar, taught us that for the single men in the USA the best place to go to find a wife is Australia, the American man can go to a night club or to a resort in Australia and the man can just go about wining and dining and the women of Australia will come to him, if the women in Australia like you then then they will let you know, so the American men can just kick back and party while the Australian women approach him and then he just picks out a good one. If the women in Australia like you then they will let you know, they will show you attention if they like you.

And I have an idea for a new Charlie's Angels with Aurelia Scheppers, Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola, and it can be made by Emilio Estevez here in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 02:54:15 AM: http://youtu.be/9iqxJK6gSlE (http://youtu.be/9iqxJK6gSlE)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 03:34:47 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home)

My sig line says QED.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:11:10 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 01:56:39 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 12:58:01 AM
The state of Florida is still killing human beings in its chamber of death. It's not the only US state doing it.
Talk about living in no-idea land.
Not even "dumb, drunk, racist and backward" bambuworld still kills human beings in death chambers.
We also no longer allow school teachers to hit students anymore.

Watch Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" starring Robert Blake. It is a great movie. The cinematography is fantastic.

I agree, let them rot in prison until they die of old age. And feed them bad food. No luxury, no joy in life, only punishment in jail until they die. And they can have a Bible and a priest.

California does not allow the death penalty. I do not think that we have had the death penalty since Jerry Brown. I think death row has been shut down.

And I think that Australia is very civilized, like Olivia Newton John. I think of beautiful blonde women when I think of Australia. And like Margot Robbie.

Salute,

Tony V.

For your viewing pleasure...YouTube "Olivia Newton-John sings the Australian national anthem"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:37:37 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 02:44:25 AM
One of my professors at AVC, Dr Debra Tolar, taught us that for the single men in the USA the best place to go to find a wife is Australia, the American man can go to a night club or to a resort in Australia and the man can just go about wining and dining and the women of Australia will come to him, if the women in Australia like you then then they will let you know, so the American men can just kick back and party while the Australian women approach him and then he just picks out a good one. If the women in Australia like you then they will let you know, they will show you attention if they like you.

And I have an idea for a new Charlie's Angels with Aurelia Scheppers, Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola, and it can be made by Emilio Estevez here in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.

Think that was long ago...like WW2.
The local men here during the war reportedly used to complain that the American servicemen were:
"Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!"
It is said that some local women were so impressed by the charm, uniform and money that they married the American servicemen and went to live in America with them, only to discover that after the war there was no uniform, no money much, and the charm was not as before...and they couldn't come home.
It's a cautionary tale...best not to rush into marriage ...to people flashing the cash or other 'assets' in bars and niteclubs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 05, 2023, 11:30:48 AM: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192336975/doj-asks-judge-issue-protective-order-after-trump-post

Mob boss.

Australia does seem to punch above its weight in terms of female acting talent.

Rose Byrne, Isla Fisher, Cate Blanchette, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Margot Robbie et al.

Like its parent nation Britain, Oz has the tradition of teaching the prerequisite skills for stage and screen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 05:09:17 PM: Olivia Newton John lived on Pacific Coast Highway right by where I lived in Malibu, and Princess Diana was going to buy the house next door to Olivia Newton John. We were all very sad when Princess Diana died, we were all looking forward to having her as a neighbor.

And my advice for the Men from Australia who want to marry an American woman, is to take a vacation to Florida, spend a summer in Florida and shop for a bride. Cocoa Beach is nice, and Saint Augustine is nice, the Keys are nice, and the women are very beautiful and friendly in Florida. The women in Florida have the Southern Charm, and they are all in swimsuits on the beach. That is my advice for the Men of Australia who want an American bride, is to shop for a bride in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:52:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 05:09:17 PM
Olivia Newton John lived on Pacific Coast Highway right by where I lived in Malibu, and Princess Diana was going to buy the house next door to Olivia Newton John. We were all very sad when Princess Diana died, we were all looking forward to having her as a neighbor.

And my advice for the Men from Australia who want to marry an American woman, is to take a vacation to Florida, spend a summer in Florida and shop for a bride. Cocoa Beach is nice, and Saint Augustine is nice, the Keys are nice, and the women are very beautiful and friendly in Florida. The women in Florida have the Southern Charm, and they are all in swimsuits on the beach. That is my advice for the Men of Australia who want an American bride, is to shop for a bride in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Men from Australia" are fast becoming Chinese, and Indian, as massive immigration floods the landscape.
Much of the White male breeding stock were slaughtered in WW1 and WW2.

Stayed in a hotel in Sydney recently, ...walking around, thought I was in Beijing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 05, 2023, 06:03:39 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 03:34:47 AM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home)

My sig line says QED.

The physicist in your sig line, one of my favorite science personalities, helped develop QED and the visual diagrams that describe its interactions are called Feynman diagrams.

Quantum electrodynamics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 06:09:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:52:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 05:09:17 PM
Olivia Newton John lived on Pacific Coast Highway right by where I lived in Malibu, and Princess Diana was going to buy the house next door to Olivia Newton John. We were all very sad when Princess Diana died, we were all looking forward to having her as a neighbor.

And my advice for the Men from Australia who want to marry an American woman, is to take a vacation to Florida, spend a summer in Florida and shop for a bride. Cocoa Beach is nice, and Saint Augustine is nice, the Keys are nice, and the women are very beautiful and friendly in Florida. The women in Florida have the Southern Charm, and they are all in swimsuits on the beach. That is my advice for the Men of Australia who want an American bride, is to shop for a bride in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Men from Australia" are fast becoming Chinese, and Indian, as massive immigration floods the landscape.
Much of the White male breeding stock were slaughtered in WW1 and WW2.

Stayed in a hotel in Sydney recently, ...walking around, thought I was in Beijing.

Blessed are the peacemakers. Now we have the United Nations, and the CIA, to prevent future world wars, I pray we can stop the wars. I support food, and peace, and a good economy, and world trade, etc.

And Australia needs to welcome the immigrants from Ukraine, and from Russia. And also from the Philippines. Poland and Eastern Europe are all our allies as well. Australia has a lot to offer, and If You Build It They Will Come. Build them colleges and housing like in Santorini, Greece, and resorts, etc, and train them to be your doctors and psychiatrists and nurses, etc.

Peace. We need peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 10:00:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 05, 2023, 06:03:39 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 03:34:47 AM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home)

My sig line says QED.

The physicist in your sig line, one of my favorite science personalities, helped develop QED and the visual diagrams that describe its interactions are called Feynman diagrams.

Quantum electrodynamics.

And that has given birth to my new favorite field, quantum microbiology.

Surely you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 05, 2023, 10:56:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:52:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 05:09:17 PM
Olivia Newton John lived on Pacific Coast Highway right by where I lived in Malibu, and Princess Diana was going to buy the house next door to Olivia Newton John. We were all very sad when Princess Diana died, we were all looking forward to having her as a neighbor.

And my advice for the Men from Australia who want to marry an American woman, is to take a vacation to Florida, spend a summer in Florida and shop for a bride. Cocoa Beach is nice, and Saint Augustine is nice, the Keys are nice, and the women are very beautiful and friendly in Florida. The women in Florida have the Southern Charm, and they are all in swimsuits on the beach. That is my advice for the Men of Australia who want an American bride, is to shop for a bride in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Men from Australia" are fast becoming Chinese, and Indian, as massive immigration floods the landscape.
Much of the White male breeding stock were slaughtered in WW1 and WW2.

Stayed in a hotel in Sydney recently, ...walking around, thought I was in Beijing.

I said do you. Speak my language?

He just smiled and gave em a vegemite sandwich.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 05, 2023, 10:57:36 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 05, 2023, 07:38:52 PM
When it rains, it pours!

American Il Duce

New on: https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 06, 2023, 06:45:48 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185067/-New-Energy-Paradigm-Thinking (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185067/-New-Energy-Paradigm-Thinking)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 06, 2023, 11:05:21 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 05, 2023, 10:56:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 05, 2023, 05:52:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 05, 2023, 05:09:17 PM
Olivia Newton John lived on Pacific Coast Highway right by where I lived in Malibu, and Princess Diana was going to buy the house next door to Olivia Newton John. We were all very sad when Princess Diana died, we were all looking forward to having her as a neighbor.

And my advice for the Men from Australia who want to marry an American woman, is to take a vacation to Florida, spend a summer in Florida and shop for a bride. Cocoa Beach is nice, and Saint Augustine is nice, the Keys are nice, and the women are very beautiful and friendly in Florida. The women in Florida have the Southern Charm, and they are all in swimsuits on the beach. That is my advice for the Men of Australia who want an American bride, is to shop for a bride in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.

"The Men from Australia" are fast becoming Chinese, and Indian, as massive immigration floods the landscape.
Much of the White male breeding stock were slaughtered in WW1 and WW2.

Stayed in a hotel in Sydney recently, ...walking around, thought I was in Beijing.

I said do you. Speak my language?

He just smiled and gave em a vegemite sandwich.

:)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 06, 2023, 12:35:36 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 10:00:27 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 05, 2023, 06:03:39 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 05, 2023, 03:34:47 AM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185298/-Voyager-2-calls-home)

My sig line says QED.

The physicist in your sig line, one of my favorite science personalities, helped develop QED and the visual diagrams that describe its interactions are called Feynman diagrams.

Quantum electrodynamics.

And that has given birth to my new favorite field, quantum microbiology.

Surely you

Are Joking, Mr Feynman!

The whole emerging field of quantum biology is fascinating. Magnetoreception is one I find intriguing. Depends on quantum level effects.

Always good to learn how forum members branch out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 06, 2023, 04:10:04 PM: Anaheim is a great city that was built by Walt Disney and Gene Autry, and other great people. And because of them Anaheim now receives over 50,000 tourists per day, and we have constant money flowing into our city, including money that goes into a General Fund to be spent by the citizens of Anaheim however we wish to spend it.

Walt Disney and Gene Autry passed down many blessings to the citizens of Anaheim. But, at the same time we have to be careful of evil outsiders who come in and try to steal from the city, such as our former Mayor who was so corrupt that he tried to sell Angel Stadium and pocket some of the money for himself, he cared more about himself than he did about the citizens of Anaheim. We need to be vigilant in Anaheim to make sure that the blessings make it to the people, instead of being stolen by corrupt leadership. Walt and Gene wanted for the blessings to go to the citizens of Anaheim, and not to corrupt leaders.

So, with each new day we have 50,000 new tourists to sell stuff to, and they all need to eat, and they all need hotel rooms, etc. All thanks to Walt Disney and Gene Autry. There is no reason for bitter poverty in Anaheim, and the children of Anaheim will never know the bitter poverty of the Great Depression that our ancestors knew. Anaheim is rich, and we have money flowing into our city everyday, and we even have a General Fund to be spent however we want.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 06, 2023, 05:48:18 PM: Our city motto in Anaheim is "City of Kindness" and this is the place where children come from all over the world to see Mickey Mouse and Snow White. Some people think that we are raising weak children, but I would rather children be dreamers, and that they have imagination, and that they have that Disney magic.

Our children from Anaheim can grow up to take magic to poor places where people have forgotten how to dream, and they can teach the people how to dream again.

And violence is the last refuge for the incompetent, thus the wise people do not need violence. I would rather raise dreamers instead of warriors. Put the best people at the top where the dreamers are, and blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 06, 2023, 06:06:35 PM: And look at the joy that Grace Kelly brought to Monaco and to Prince Rainier. Grace Kelly was a dreamer.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 06, 2023, 11:36:04 PM: "When you've got no money coming in, reality bites"...couple on tv home renovation for sale tv program, in my world.
Indeed.
No job because of ill health.
Wife loses her job too...the mortgage is unaffordable, so the house must be sold, the mortgage paid out, and accommodation/living somehow paid fir with what's left.
The couple is now shown on my tv, opening their water bill.
Show host "Sometimes a crisis can be a crossroads".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 12:03:23 AM: Tori Spelling is homeless...

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-tori-spelling-is-living-in-an-rv-with-her-kids/

Aaron Spelling would be spinning in his grave.

Tori Spelling can get help at USC film school, and at Chapman film school, lots of film students are fans of the late Aaron Spelling.

I have a few ideas for shows that Tori could produce, she needs to start producing like Aaron Spelling did.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 01:07:21 AM: That's bad, that's very very bad.
Tori, now aged 50, seemingly broke with 5 children to support, all with mold- infected lungs.
Yes, the money will run out one day if you're not careful how you spend it.
Maybe getting divorced.

Maybe she could make a claim on Aaron Spelling's estate, which her mother Candy seems to have, for enough money each week to support her 5 children and her, with rental of a modest home/apartment, food, clothing, school needs, transport, utilies, furniture etc.
Her youngest child is age 6.
"Waltzing matilda" in freezing cold and boiling hot America is a very hard road to travel when there's no money coming in and you're homeless.
Maybe "Hollywood" could set up a trust fund for the family, all those who became rich helped by Aaron Spelling could make a donation....the money used to buy the above listed items for the family.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 01:51:21 AM: Tax the rich and fund comprehensive and effective services for all homeless including hosing, counseling, debt relief and job placement. Much simpler and better that way. Tori should not have to suffer. Nor should antbody else.

Tax the rich and fund the IRS to be sure they pay their fair share.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 01:56:12 AM: Lots of people made a lot of money thanks to Aaron Spelling. I spent time on the set of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Melrose Place" and those were great shows. Aaron Spelling was great.

Tori can make a new "Charlie's Angels" television show, she can bring in Emilio Estevez to help her, and she can hire Aurelia Scheppers, Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola, to star on the show. She can produce the show here in Hollywood, and Aaron Spelling was well loved in Hollywood.

And USC film school, and Chapman film school, can help Tori Spelling, and there is also The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 03:04:46 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 01:51:21 AM
Tax the rich and fund comprehensive and effective services for all homeless including hosing, counseling, debt relief and job placement. Much simpler and better that way. Tori should not have to suffer. Nor should antbody else.

Tax the rich and fund the IRS to be sure they pay their fair share.

What is your formula to decide "rich".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 12:47:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 03:04:46 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 01:51:21 AM
Tax the rich and fund comprehensive and effective services for all homeless including hosing, counseling, debt relief and job placement. Much simpler and better that way. Tori should not have to suffer. Nor should antbody else.

Tax the rich and fund the IRS to be sure they pay their fair share.

What is your formula to decide "rich".

10 or more times the average salary in annual income while holding 20 times the average annual salary in wealth.

In the US, our average salary is just about to hit 60,000 usd. If you are clearing 600,000 or more a year and hold 1.2 mil or more in assets you are rich. Anything you make beyond that should be taxed at a proportionally higher marginal rate and your additional wealth should be taxed too if you have any.

In OZ the average is closer to 70,000 Aussie bucks, so the salary target is 700,000 and wealth 1.4 mil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 12:56:33 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/08/07/criminalizing-the-samaritan-why-cities-across-the-us-are-making-it-illegal-to-feed-the-homeless/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/07/criminalizing-the-samaritan-why-cities-across-the-us-are-making-it-illegal-to-feed-the-homeless/)

Reaganomics still at work punishing the American People. Reaganomics is when the government does all it can to avoid helping people but shows up early and eager for the chance to keep them down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 03:56:00 PM: Reaganomics was "Trickle Down" economics, Reagan lowered the taxes for the people at the top, so they could make more money, and in turn they could afford to pay their employees more money.

And for instance, Roy Rogers paid 90% in taxes after the first set amount, and Reagan lowered that amount so that Roy did not have to pay such high taxes. Sadly, the Rogers family ended up poor like Tori Spelling after Roy died. Roy Rogers' Grandchildren were poor and on Welfare. It would have been great if Roy could have at least passed down a few Roy Rogers Restaurants to his family, so they could have had money coming in from the work that Roy did all of his life. Roy worked hard.

It is sad to watch the great American families fall into poverty after the main breadwinners die.

The guy who wrote the movie "Amistad" used the money that he earned to buy 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants, so they will always have an income and jobs. He was smart.

Dave Mustaine is investing in vineyards and a winery to pass down to his family after he dies, that is wise.

And I support low taxes, with good strong Labor Unions and Labor Laws, and good treatment and good money for workers, I support low taxes and lots of money for the bosses and I support Labor Unions and good pay for the workers. We need Unions to make sure the workers are paid fair.

Anyhow, it is sad when families spend hundreds of years working here in America just to end up homeless and poor, each generation is supposed to live better than the previous generation, and it is sad that all of the rich families are falling into poverty here in the USA.

And if I moved to Italy right now, I would be just as poor as if my family never came to America at all. We might as well have stayed in Europe. Although, I guess my family came to America at the time of the French Revolution in order to save their heads from the guillotine, so America was a blessing for the French at that time.

I support the American Dream, and I support the California Dream, and I support letting the workers earn good money, and I support letting business leaders get rich, and I want for their families to stay rich. I want for the great families to send their children to the best schools, and I want for the rich families to stay rich.

Tori Spelling should not be homeless. And I hope that the good people of Hollywood step up to help to save Tori Spelling.

Our families should not work for hundreds of years just to be homeless here. Something is wrong. We need for Americans to be able to acquire and retain wealth, and once a family is rich then they need to be able to stay rich, and their Grandchildren need to benefit from their wealth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 04:38:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 12:47:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 03:04:46 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 01:51:21 AM
Tax the rich and fund comprehensive and effective services for all homeless including hosing, counseling, debt relief and job placement. Much simpler and better that way. Tori should not have to suffer. Nor should antbody else.

Tax the rich and fund the IRS to be sure they pay their fair share.

What is your formula to decide "rich".

10 or more times the average salary in annual income while holding 20 times the average annual salary in wealth.

In the US, our average salary is just about to hit 60,000 usd. If you are clearing 600,000 or more a year and hold 1.2 mil or more in assets you are rich. Anything you make beyond that should be taxed at a proportionally higher marginal rate and your additional wealth should be taxed too if you have any.

In OZ the average is closer to 70,000 Aussie bucks, so the salary target is 700,000 and wealth 1.4 mil.

they pay 50% of that $700, 000 over about $120,000 in federal taxation now.
$1.4mil? the price of many many homes in Sydney...many close to Sydney city $2m+++.
Tax the family home? not if you want to stay in govt.
The Left is now taxing investment properties to the hilt, so what are investors doing (many are 'mom and dad' investors)...selling the properties, bought by people to live in..less places for rent as a result.
Less supply, the rents increase.
So the homeless population is increasing..up 13% in Qld and 4% in NSW or something.
News said "more money will be needed for the homeless"...yet Albo and Co will be bringing in 700,000 new migrants in the next 12 months...it's madness.
You pay $10 for a pair of jeans, we have to pay $80.
Cash in the bank...not taxed, only income is taxed...we have to pay tax on the interest.
We, everyone, pays a GST 10% on just about everything we buy or any service. (Goods and Services Tax)
Have your car serviced...$400. plus $40 GST to the federal govt.
Restaurant bill $120...+ $12 GST.
Plumber's bill $150 + $15 GST.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 07, 2023, 04:48:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 03:56:00 PM
Reaganomics was "Trickle Down" economics, Reagan lowered the taxes for the people at the top, so they could make more money, and in turn they could afford to pay their employees more money.

And for instance, Roy Rogers paid 90% in taxes after the first set amount, and Reagan lowered that amount so that Roy did not have to pay such high taxes. Sadly, the Rogers family ended up poor like Tori Spelling after Roy died. Roy Rogers' Grandchildren were poor and on Welfare. It would have been great if Roy could have at least passed down a few Roy Rogers Restaurants to his family, so they could have had money coming in from the work that Roy did all of his life. Roy worked hard.

It is sad to watch the great American families fall into poverty after the main breadwinners die.

The guy who wrote the movie "Amistad" used the money that he earned to buy 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants, so they will always have an income and jobs. He was smart.

Dave Mustaine is investing in vineyards and a winery to pass down to his family after he dies, that is wise.

And I support low taxes, with good strong Labor Unions and Labor Laws, and good treatment and good money for workers, I support low taxes and lots of money for the bosses and I support Labor Unions and good pay for the workers. We need Unions to make sure the workers are paid fair.

Anyhow, it is sad when families spend hundreds of years working here in America just to end up homeless and poor, each generation is supposed to live better than the previous generation, and it is sad that all of the rich families are falling into poverty here in the USA.

And if I moved to Italy right now, I would be just as poor as if my family never came to America at all. We might as well have stayed in Europe. Although, I guess my family came to America at the time of the French Revolution in order to save their heads from the guillotine, so America was a blessing for the French at that time.

I support the American Dream, and I support the California Dream, and I support letting the workers earn good money, and I support letting business leaders get rich, and I want for their families to stay rich. I want for the great families to send their children to the best schools, and I want for the rich families to stay rich.

Tori Spelling should not be homeless. And I hope that the good people of Hollywood step up to help to save Tori Spelling.

Our families should not work for hundreds of years just to be homeless here. Something is wrong. We need for Americans to be able to acquire and retain wealth, and once a family is rich then they need to be able to stay rich, and their Grandchildren need to benefit from their wealth.

Salute,

Tony V.

Trickle down economics.

Pissing on your head and saying it is raining.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 05:00:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 03:56:00 PM
Reaganomics was "Trickle Down" economics, Reagan lowered the taxes for the people at the top, so they could make more money, and in turn they could afford to pay their employees more money.

And for instance, Roy Rogers paid 90% in taxes after the first set amount, and Reagan lowered that amount so that Roy did not have to pay such high taxes. Sadly, the Rogers family ended up poor like Tori Spelling after Roy died. Roy Rogers' Grandchildren were poor and on Welfare. It would have been great if Roy could have at least passed down a few Roy Rogers Restaurants to his family, so they could have had money coming in from the work that Roy did all of his life. Roy worked hard.

It is sad to watch the great American families fall into poverty after the main breadwinners die.

The guy who wrote the movie "Amistad" used the money that he earned to buy 5 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa and he hired his family members to work at his restaurants, so they will always have an income and jobs. He was smart.

Dave Mustaine is investing in vineyards and a winery to pass down to his family after he dies, that is wise.

And I support low taxes, with good strong Labor Unions and Labor Laws, and good treatment and good money for workers, I support low taxes and lots of money for the bosses and I support Labor Unions and good pay for the workers. We need Unions to make sure the workers are paid fair.

Anyhow, it is sad when families spend hundreds of years working here in America just to end up homeless and poor, each generation is supposed to live better than the previous generation, and it is sad that all of the rich families are falling into poverty here in the USA.

And if I moved to Italy right now, I would be just as poor as if my family never came to America at all. We might as well have stayed in Europe. Although, I guess my family came to America at the time of the French Revolution in order to save their heads from the guillotine, so America was a blessing for the French at that time.

I support the American Dream, and I support the California Dream, and I support letting the workers earn good money, and I support letting business leaders get rich, and I want for their families to stay rich. I want for the great families to send their children to the best schools, and I want for the rich families to stay rich.

Tori Spelling should not be homeless. And I hope that the good people of Hollywood step up to help to save Tori Spelling.

Our families should not work for hundreds of years just to be homeless here. Something is wrong. We need for Americans to be able to acquire and retain wealth, and once a family is rich then they need to be able to stay rich, and their Grandchildren need to benefit from their wealth.

Salute,

Tony V.

Spend more than you earn, you will end up homeless.
Spend inherited wealth, it'll be gone...like you never had it.

It costs money to be well groomed..the working homeless can afford it, and afford to keep a job.The unemployed homeless are the ones really suffering.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 05:50:45 PM: Education is the answer for your new immigrants Bambu, put them in college and train them to be your doctors and psychiatrists and nurses, etc.

And education and wise investing is wise for the rich people. Roy Rogers was uneducated, and so they took advantage of him. And all of the children from the Rogers family should have went to the best schools that America has to offer, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc, even Pepperdine where they could live on the beach while they receive an education. The Rogers family should have all went to college.

And Tori Spelling had training on the set of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and she should be producing like her Dad did. And she can bring in Emilio Estevez and other stars to help her, Emilio spent his whole life around show business. Then Tori can hire poor unknown actresses and actors such as Aurelia Scheppers, Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola, and she can create new shows.

My Family started to educate our family before my Grandfather was killed, he sent my Mother's Cousin to school to become a Pharmacist and he owns his own Pharmacy in Fontana, California, now. Then my Father studied Business at Pepperdine, but then my Father was killed back in 1977. I tried to get an education, I attended Antelope Valley Community College, and I attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and I did it all on my own, but it never paid off, though an education makes life fuller even if one does not make money. The main thing was that I tried, and I went to school instead of being a criminal and going to prison like my Uncles, I never sold meth, and I tried to stay honest. I may have been homeless, but I never sold meth.

Anyhow, poverty sucks, and I value an education.

Australia needs to build lots of colleges, and you can train the new immigrants to be your doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, etc.

I would love to sell my movie script right now, and open a night club in Rome, Italy, and find a nice Italian wife.

I have a friend who is a rock star, he was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other bands, and he came over and he helped me to write up a Business Plan for my Production Company, and he helped me to draw up a life plan for my life, and for qualities that I want in a wife, etc. He loves California, and he loves the USA, and he thinks that I can be successful right here in the USA and that I can make movies and have a wife and family here, etc. He is a dreamer like me, and I get excited and enthusiastic when I talk with him, he gets me to dream and then to write my dreams on paper and to take my dreams seriously as though they could really be attainable. He lives in Culver City and he has watched people make movies and television shows there his whole life, and he thinks that I could succeed in Hollywood. He is also a Christian and he wants me to start going to church every Sunday again and to have loyal Christian friends here in my community. He is helping me a lot. As we get older it is hard to keep the dreams of our youth alive, and it is nice to have friends who are dreamers who are trying to help me keep my dreams alive.

And if I have a family, then I would like to pass down some money making enterprises to my family, such as a night club, and a vineyard and winery, etc, along with my copyrights, etc. Right now I have 2 copyrights and I plan to have many more.

I think Aaron Spelling owned lots of copyrights, Candy needs to help Tori to produce some of the old copyrights that Aaron Spelling had, they can make "Charlie's Angels" and other television shows, and they can hire the new hot young stars from Social Media, and there is Aurelia Scheppers, Mahlagha Jaberi, and Marli Buccola.

And I support low taxes, and I support Labor Unions and good wages and benefits for workers. Instead of the money going to the government, I would rather see the money go to the people who create the jobs and see the money go to the workers. I would rather see money go to workers, instead of going to people on Welfare. I would rather see America be a nation of workers instead of being a poor ghetto nation on Welfare. And I want for us to build schools, libraries, and parks, in the ghettos, with coffee shops like in Amsterdam, we need to pump some money into making our ghettos nicer. And we need to reduce the misery. We need to fight against the bitter painful poverty in America. And we need to build schools, libraries, parks, and coffee shops, in the poor parts of Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 06:04:11 PM: Candy says she will help her daughter and the kids.
Article seemed to say she was giving Tori money before but stopped doing so.
Who knows what's going on.

Tori had 5 children with her husband, now divorce or split seems to be on the cards with she left to raise the kids alone.
Maybe the 16 and 15 yr olds could seek part time employment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM: Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 06:18:26 PM: A US nuke submarine has docked in Australia...a tour of it shown on my tv news last night...part of the AUKUS pact.
Captain explained what it does/can do.
Australian crews to commence training.
Aaaah, I feel safer already.

Submariners are a special type of person...it was way too cramped for me.
I like to be able to always see out windows.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 06:19:40 PM: Shannon Doherty who was on "Beverly Hills, 90210" with Tori supported her poor family with money that she made from acting, she worked since she was a child as an actress to help to support her family.

Tori could get an agent for her children, and her children could act in movies and in television shows like Shannon Doherty did.

One television show that shoots here in Hollywood is the Soap Opera "The Young and the Restless" which films here at CBS, the show pays the actors very well, I had 3 teachers who worked on "The Young and the Restless" and back then the pay started out at $30,000 per week, and then it went up from there. One of my teachers, Karen Hensel, had been on the show for a while and she was making over $100,000 per week on "The Young and the Restless."

I know an agent, Rod Baron of Baron Entertainment, he would help Tori Spelling and her family if she needs an agent for her and her children. But, I am sure Tori knows lots of good agents.

I met Tori on the set of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and she was beautiful, and she was nice. Shannon Doherty was there, and Jason Priestley, and the whole cast of the show was there, I spent the whole day with them, it was great.

I am sure people will help Tori and her children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:26:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 06:19:40 PM
I met Tori on the set of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and she was beautiful, and she was nice. Shannon Doherty was there, and Jason Priestley, and the whole cast of the show was there, I spent the whole day with them, it was great...
...except for the resulting TRO.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 06:34:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM
Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.

"Are we poor now, mommy"? is becoming a more common event in Western society today.
Women who once donated expensive dresses etc to charity shops, and food to charities ...are now shopping at said charity shops and eating at free kitchens for the homeless...their husbands having lost their well-paying jobs...the cars, holidays, their cell phones and those of the kids, the nice house etc...all gone.
Maybe you could deal with it be lobbying for better education in schools of the perils of financial mismanagement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 06:50:06 PM: Education is the best thing that we can do for our people.

Julie Rogers just wrote a book about her Grandparents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and it is selling a lot of copies, she is doing well. And she married a man who is an Italian-American from San Francisco and his family has money from Italian Restaurants in San Francisco. So Julie is doing well. And Julie went to college, she is college educated. They have a nice home in Carson City, Nevada, now, where it is cheap to live, and they are doing great.

Julie is making her own money with her education and with her ability to write novels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 06:56:22 PM: Many people are living life in vans today, everything from mini vans to delivery vans to mobile homes (RVs)...in America best to have guns for self defence.
They need income of some sort to survive, ...van has to be maintained, there's food, internet, phones, water etc to be purchased.
Many of them work from the vans, have businesses, ...or "work from home" remotely for an employer.
Some reportedly work for large tech companies and live in their carparks.
YouTube videos show/tell all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 07:17:24 PM: Housing is expensive in California, and lots of good, honest, hard working people are living in their cars. The answer is to have Hostels where people can take a nice shower and where they can sleep in a comfortable bed for $15 per night. Sober Living Homes where people can rent a bed for $500 per month are also great.

California is expensive, but it is easy to make money if you are smart and if you have help to open your own business, etc. We have 50,000 tourists per day in Anaheim if one can figure out something to sell to the tourists, such as food, a hotel room, souvenirs, etc. And my Mother has a cousin who is pretty rich from his Pharmacy in Fontana.

But, if you are a writer then you can live someplace cheaper, such as Carson City, Nevada, and you do not have to pay the high prices for housing like in California.

And in Battle Mountain, Nevada, you can buy land for $1,000 per acre. But, Battle Mountain does not have 50,000 tourists per day to sell stuff to. Battle Mountain has under 5,000 people in their total population, and they have the highway so you can sell food to people on the highway, etc, but you cannot make the big bucks selling stuff to tourists like in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 07, 2023, 08:00:07 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 07, 2023, 04:48:44 PM

Trickle down economics.

Pissing on your head and saying it is raining.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 07, 2023, 08:02:32 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM
Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.

Thanks for spelling that out!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 08:21:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM
Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.

Also nice to know Oz taxes high income at the minimal acceptable fair and equitable rate, 50 percent. It might think about easing into the top bracket and paying for that by raising the ultimate top marginal rate a few points to make the balance.

UMC more likely to put it back into the economy than the solipsists at the top of the wealth chain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 09:27:52 PM: Rome, Italy, is nice, and the rent is the same price as in Anaheim, and Rome receives 10 million tourists per year, so there are many tourists to sell stuff to, the economy in Rome is great

And Rome has Hostels for $15 per night for a shower and a bed

Plus Rome has Cinecitta which is the largest movie studio in Europe.

I tried to move to Rome in 2003 but I could not get a job, if I could have gotten a job I would have stayed there. Rome is great, and it is the Christian capital of the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 07, 2023, 09:33:15 PM: "When the cheese is on the table, that's when the rats come out" - US man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 07, 2023, 09:47:36 PM: Roy Rogers started out poor when he first came to California from Ohio during the Great Depression, and he picked fruit for a living like my ancestors did, and he drove a truck, and he did whatever he could to make honest money. He played guitar and sang at the homeless camps for the fruit pickers, and that was how he developed his skill as a guitar player and singer and entertainer. Then, he became more and more involved with music, and he traveled around and performed on radio stations, and whatever they could do to earn money for food, he said he was always hungry. Then one day he was on a radio station and he told the listeners that he was hungry and that he loved lemon pie, so a listener brought a lemon pie to him, and her name was Arlene and that was how Roy met his first wife. ( I think that is the story. )

Then Roy went to get his hat cleaned, and the guy at the hat store told him about a job for a singing cowboy. Roy went and applied for the job, and the rest is history. Roy became a huge star like Gene Autry.

Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers played at swimming pool parties for William Randolph Hearst in San Simeon, and Roy was friends with all of the rich and famous people. And over the years Roy Rogers was friends with Ronald Reagan and with other Presidents of the United States.

Roy went from being a poor kid from Ohio, to being the King of the Cowboys.

I just wish he would have valued an education more.

I spent 2 days with Roy Rogers, one day my Brother took me to Roy's Daughter Dodie's house for Christmas Day and I spent the whole day with Roy and Dale, and Roy told me stories all day. Then, on another day, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were at my Brother's wedding, when my Brother married their Granddaughter Kristen. Roy and Dale were very nice people, and they were very kind.

I wanted for my Brother's children to all attend college, their Great Grandparents were Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, I wanted for them to all go to Harvard, and to get the best education the USA had to offer. But, instead they all moved to Alabama, and none of them went to college. And they had problems with meth, and other stupid low life shit that they should not have been around. Now they all have tattoos and bad teeth, etc. That seems to be the direction America wants to go, tattoos and bad teeth. But we can try to get them to go to Harvard.

Anyhow, I liked Roy, I just wish he would have valued an education more, and I wish he would have sent all of the kids to college.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 02:49:44 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 08:21:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM
Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.

Also nice to know Oz taxes high income at the minimal acceptable fair and equitable rate, 50 percent. It might think about easing into the top bracket and paying for that by raising the ultimate top marginal rate a few points to make the balance.

UMC more likely to put it back into the economy than the solipsists at the top of the wealth chain.

Don't wanna tax your qualification for 'rich' too much, need them to keep buying new cars, new boats, new houses...look at all the furniture they also buy.
There's the boat sales, and boat maintenance companies, marina costs.
'Poor' people aren't buying many boats, and certainly not expensive ones...more like 'tinnies' with an outboard motor. Crocs love tipping them over and eating the occupants...best not to use them on rivers in croc country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM: Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".

A word in the national anthem was changed recently from "young" to "one"...after complaints from Indigenous community.

Australians all let us rejoice
for we are one and free
...................

I fail to see how two flags are 'one".

Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 03:34:49 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 07, 2023, 08:32:29 PM
Recent works https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

The Strange Candidacy of Dr. Ronald & Mr. DeSantis

See what you did there.

So slipping polls are his bathtub gin apparently.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 03:35:34 AM: Some people think that the police department protects us from a meltdown of civilization, they call it the "Thin Blue Line." But in reality it is the school teachers, and the preachers, who make society better, it is the people who teach us to love our neighbors who are the people who are holding society together. It is the people who teach us to be kind, and to love our neighbors, who are the civilization builders.

And you do not have to pay a good person to obey the law or to be good to their neighbors, as long as I have a gun to defend my neighbors then I will help to watch over my neighbors. You do not have to pay me to help my neighbors. The people who have the most power are the people who taught me to have love and compassion for my neighbors. The teachers, and the preachers, have the power to save society. And we can all own guns and we can all protect our neighbors, no one should have to pay you to protect your neighbors and other good innocent people.

And movies, and television shows, and books, and music, all have power to teach people and effect people.

I hate the mother fucking gangster rap, and they have the East Coast fighting against the West Coast, that was how Tupac died, and the neighborhoods are all fighting against each other, it is all BULLSHIT. We need peace, and food, and education, and a good economy. There is no reason for the young people to be killing each other over bullshit music. Blessed are the peacemakers. And Los Angeles and New York are both on the same team, we are all Americans, and we have more to gain by working together as a team instead of having bullshit violence.

And may God bless Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries here in Los Angeles, Homeboy Industries helps former gang members to get well and to enter society as a good human being and to be redeemed. The gangsters are all sick, and Homeboy Industries helps to make them well. Praise be to God and to Father Boyle.

We need love, and peace, and food, and people need to love their neighbors.

Blessed are the peacemakers. It is easy to make war, but we need peace even though it is harder, and blessed are the peacemakers.

And if everyone obeyed the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule then our prisons would be empty.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 03:38:32 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 02:49:44 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 07, 2023, 08:21:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 07, 2023, 06:15:00 PM
Failed Nepo Babies are not high on my list of "must deal with" issues.

Also nice to know Oz taxes high income at the minimal acceptable fair and equitable rate, 50 percent. It might think about easing into the top bracket and paying for that by raising the ultimate top marginal rate a few points to make the balance.

UMC more likely to put it back into the economy than the solipsists at the top of the wealth chain.

Don't wanna tax your qualification for 'rich' too much, need them to keep buying new cars, new boats, new houses...look at all the furniture they also buy.
There's the boat sales, and boat maintenance companies, marina costs.
'Poor' people aren't buying many boats, and certainly not expensive ones...more like 'tinnies' with an outboard motor. Crocs love tipping them over and eating the occupants...best not to use them on rivers in croc country.

There is lots of work regular people need done. Catering to parasites does not have to be the basis for a career for anyone.

Slavish devotion to debunked economic ideas might make one think so, but only if one is a very stupid and deluded species of fish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 04:16:42 AM: The Bible says that men need to work, and the Bible says that blessed is a man who hires workers, and the Bible tells us to pay our workers fair and to treat them well.

https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/the-dignity-of-work-and-the-rights-of-workers

The Bible also says that poor widows and their children are loved by God, and God will punish the people who take advantage of poor widows and their children. God sees everything.

We need to work, but we need to be paid well for our work, and all people need to be respected.

Of note on the issue of boats, I have a nephew who I never met who is a yacht captain, rich people pay him to be the captain for their yachts. He also piloted a ferry boat I guess. He is a good guy and he is a good honest worker.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 04:57:36 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 04:16:42 AM
The Bible says that men need to work, and the Bible says that blessed is a man who hires workers, and the Bible tells us to pay our workers fair and to treat them well.

https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/the-dignity-of-work-and-the-rights-of-workers

The Bible also says that poor widows and their children are loved by God, and God will punish the people who take advantage of poor widows and their children. God sees everything.

We need to work, but we need to be paid well for our work, and all people need to be respected.

Of note on the issue of boats, I have a nephew who I never met who is a yacht captain, rich people pay him to be the captain for their yachts. He also piloted a ferry boat I guess. He is a good guy and he is a good honest worker.

Salute,

Tony V.

Trouble is...America / the West are fast becoming atheist.
'Conscience' is dying out fast.
It's fast becoming totally "dog eat dog'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:33:23 AM: "Britain moves asylum-seekers to controversial housing barge."

"Asylum-seekers take legal action against Britain".

Britain has to get control of its borders, one way or another..or the floodgates will open.
Britain should do what Australia did, draw a line in the sand, state that anyone who comes to Britain by boat seeking asylum will never be settled in Britain, and mean it, back it up with actions.
Send anyone who tries it to an offshore island, or barge.
Also, tow back the boats...to the edge of France's territorial waters, and point the boats at land....as Australia did with Indonesia.
The boats stopped coming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
Quote

A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
Quote
Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 09:16:17 AM: Also, what kind of microsheep do you have under there that you can carry them around in Tucker bags?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 10:26:40 AM: I have wondered this since I was around age ten. The only photos I've seen show the tucker bag as a size that would accomodate a couple loaves of bread, a few canned goods....about the capacity of a PBS totebag. NM that a squirming sheep could not be wrangled with one hand while you hold the bag open with the other.

I blame too many hits off the billabong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 10:42:00 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
Quote

A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
Quote
Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.

Jumbuck, tucker bag etc are in song Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe the swagman had killed the sheep and just had some of the meat in his tucker bag.
Who knows.
Poetic licence is a wonderful thing. lol

Advance Australia Fair is the National anthem.
In it you might not like the word 'girt'...lol

"We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 10:54:05 AM: The Minstrel boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you will find him,
His father s sword he has girded on,
And his wild harp slung behind him...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 10:59:02 AM: There's also the lack of narrative arc in the Kookaburra Song. Aside from sitting in an old gum tree and laughing, what really happens there?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 08, 2023, 11:10:05 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 07, 2023, 08:32:29 PM
Recent works https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

The Strange Candidacy of Dr. Ronald & Mr. DeSantis
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 11:23:23 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 08, 2023, 10:59:02 AM
There's also the lack of narrative arc in the Kookaburra Song. Aside from sitting in an old gum tree and laughing, what really happens there?

There's a guy on Youtube with a ukulele singing the whole Kookaburra Song
(pronounced "Cook a burra:")

"Kookaburra sits on electric wire
jumpin up and down with his pants on fire"
etc

kids song.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 11:33:21 AM: My national anthem is 'nice', 'friendly'. 'harmless'.
Written long ago.

"Our land abounds in nature's gifts
of beauty rich and rare"
etc

Time for a new one, tough and forceful...along the lines of the French and Mexican anthems.

"To arms, citizens
Form your batallions.
March on.
Slaughter the invaders.
Make the soil run with their blood."
etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 12:53:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
Quote

A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
Quote
Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.

Jumbuck, tucker bag etc are in song Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe the swagman had killed the sheep and just had some of the meat in his tucker bag.
Who knows.
Poetic licence is a wonderful thing. lol

Advance Australia Fair is the National anthem.
Liar. If it is not Waltzing Matilda, it is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, which also bothers me because it talks, or rather sings, of a "platypus duck." A platypus is not a duck. Or any bird. That is just a foul mistake.
Quote
In it you might not like the word 'girt'...lol

"We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea".
I take it "girt" is slang for "penal colony".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 02:20:21 PM: My favorite verse of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is the sixth, penultimate verse, now usually omitted,.even from the online lyrics:

Watch my wombat go poo, Stu
Watch my wombat go poo
It's coming out in a cube, Stu
So watch my wombat go poo.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 02:34:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 08, 2023, 10:59:02 AM
There's also the lack of narrative arc in the Kookaburra Song. Aside from sitting in an old gum tree and laughing, what really happens there?

That is what historians have been asking about Australian politics and culture for decades.

So far the answer seems to be not much.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 08, 2023, 03:44:26 PM: Australia in the international news!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/child-sex-abuse-australia-arrests-fbi-agents-murder-rcna98707
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 04:07:56 PM: Where women glow and men plunder.
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 04:18:12 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 02:20:21 PM
My favorite verse of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is the sixth, penultimate verse, now usually omitted, even from the online lyrics:

Watch my wombat go poo, Stu
Watch my wombat go poo
Its coming out in a cube, Stu
So watch my wombat go poo.

In some areas of the Outback, that verse is slightly different, with a cruder more rustic quality....

Watch me wombat shit brick , Rick,
Watch me wombat shit brick
So make your walls extra thick, Rick,
When the wombats shit brick!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 05:07:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 04:57:36 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 04:16:42 AM
The Bible says that men need to work, and the Bible says that blessed is a man who hires workers, and the Bible tells us to pay our workers fair and to treat them well.

https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/the-dignity-of-work-and-the-rights-of-workers

The Bible also says that poor widows and their children are loved by God, and God will punish the people who take advantage of poor widows and their children. God sees everything.

We need to work, but we need to be paid well for our work, and all people need to be respected.

Of note on the issue of boats, I have a nephew who I never met who is a yacht captain, rich people pay him to be the captain for their yachts. He also piloted a ferry boat I guess. He is a good guy and he is a good honest worker.

Salute,

Tony V.

Trouble is...America / the West are fast becoming atheist.
'Conscience' is dying out fast.
It's fast becoming totally "dog eat dog'.

The Christians need to do service, like I did with Youth For Christ when I went to Mexico to help the orphans and people living in a garbage dump. The way to bring people to Christ is to help them when they need help, like it says in Matthew 25: 31-46.

I knew a woman, she was a drug addict with children, and I pleaded for her to get clean and to be a good Mom for her children, she told me that if she got clean then she would not have any friends to help her and to give her rides to the store, etc, etc, etc. It was all BULLSHIT. She should have been able to get clean and then go to Church and the Christians need to help women like that who need help.

The Christians need to help the homeless, and the orphans, and the drug addicts, and the poor widows with children, and the Christians need to feed the hungry, etc. As we help people then we can bring them to Christ. We also need to minister to people in prison, etc, we need to bring them all to Christ.

We have some new movies, "The Jesus Revolution" and "The Sound of Freedom" and there is the television show "The Chosen" and more Christian television shows and movies need to be made.

And there is a music school in Rome, Italy, where they are teaching music to Christians, The Saint Louis College of Music, they are training the Christian musicians of the future.

And there are YMCA summer camps for the Children. I worked for the Burbank YMCA at a summer camp for 2 summers as a teen serving God.

Here in Anaheim we have the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church and the Church needs to serve the community, and the homeless need to be welcome, and all people need to be welcome at the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church.

Link...

https://ccopendoor.org/

And Pope Francis is a great Pope, Pope Francis is going to bring China to Christ, the Chinese love Pope Francis. We need to love the Chinese, and we can bring them to Christ.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

We need to love our neighbors, and we need to do loving service. We need to help people, and we need to feed people, etc. That is how we will bring people to Christ.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM: Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 05:21:06 PM: My dearly departed wealthiest friend was wealthy from the Banana Industry in the Philippines, and she was a good Christian who spent her whole life helping the homeless, etc. When she came to America she opened a night club named "Manila Gardens" and she was very successful, and God kept giving her more money as she gave money away to help the homeless. God blessed her, and all of her businesses were successful, and she kept giving her time and money to God. She was my hero. May she rest in peace.

And if I was rich like her then I would want to serve God like she did, and I want to be so rich that I can give money away to the needy, etc. That is what money is for is for helping the poor and the needy, and for helping to make life better for people. And we need to give people tax breaks for donating money to charity, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 05:55:44 PM: How much can you donate to charity for a tax deduction? Generally, itemizers can deduct 20% to 60% of their adjusted gross income for charitable donations. The exact percentage depends on the type of qualified contribution as well as the charity or organization. Jul 11, 2023

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We need to help the poor and the needy like it says in Matthew 25: 31-46.

We are going to win people over for Christ by doing good Christian acts of kindness, and by helping the homeless, and the orphans, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 06:31:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 12:53:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
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A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
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Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.

Jumbuck, tucker bag etc are in song Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe the swagman had killed the sheep and just had some of the meat in his tucker bag.
Who knows.
Poetic licence is a wonderful thing. lol

Advance Australia Fair is the National anthem.

Liar. If it is not Waltzing Matilda, it is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, which also bothers me because it talks, or rather sings, of a "platypus duck." A platypus is not a duck. Or any bird. That is just a foul mistake.
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In it you might not like the word 'girt'...lol

"We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea".
I take it "girt" is slang for "penal colony".

lol
girt = framed
"Our land is framed by sea"

America was a British penal colony long before Australia was. lol
Only when Britain was kicked out of America did it start a penal colony in Australia instead, in 1788.

xxxxxx

It ...is...Waltzing Matilda...the swagman, billabong, jumbuck, tucker bag, Squatter (rancher).

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport...totally weird song...never liked it or the singer.

xxxxxxx

Two flags?
Imagine the US flag, and another flag, one representing say Black people, or some other race, always flying together everywhere, with equality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 08:45:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.

Jesus wept.

No needle eye for you, Bambu
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 08:46:03 PM: Christ has enough problems, Tony. Just look at Bambu
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 08:51:04 PM: Inglewood, California, is doing great because of the stadiums there, there is the Forum, and So Fi Stadium, and the money is flowing into Inglewood. Right now they are rolling in cash because of Taylor Swift.

Food, drinks, hotel rooms, souvenirs, etc, etc, etc. Inglewood is rising in the world. Inglewood used to be a poor ghetto, but now the money is flowing into Inglewood.

And Inglewood has new restaurants, and a new Cinenopolis movie theatre, etc, etc, etc. Inglewood is creating a lot of great stuff for the tourists and for the locals.

Inglewood, and Compton, used to be ghettos, but now they are developing and growing and building, and they are creating good stuff for the tourists, etc. The locals may have problems with gentrification but they have new movie theatres to enjoy and new restaurants, etc, and they can make money by selling stuff to the tourists.

It is good to see some bright positive things happening in California.

And may God bless Taylor Swift, the money is pouring into Inglewood right now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 08, 2023, 10:15:00 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/

A clear-eyed look at how to restore our communities and our interpersonal connections. Smart lady.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 10:56:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.

We need to raise kind, compassionate, Christian leaders, Bambu, not ignorant cannon fodder who just rush headfirst into cannon fire. And blessed are the peacemakers.

Here is what we need to do...

We need to raise kind and compassionate and empathetic Christian children, who rise to become great leaders and who go on to help other people. Pepperdine is a Christian college, and they are training leaders to help the poor, and to help to make the world a better place.

So, we need to raise good peaceful children, like in Catholic schools, there will be no violence. The boys can have Martial Arts, and Boxing, and Wrestling, but no fighting on the playground. There will be peace, and discipline, they will study hard, but they can have fun teachers and it could be fun. Here in California a lot of teachers are actors, and I had a teacher who used to come to class as different characters, one day he would be Edgar Allen Poe, and the next day he would be Mark Twain, he was great, the world needs good teachers like him. And I had a teacher for Euclidean Geometry who was a Magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, he was great. We can have good fun teachers.

And the children can study acting, and film, and other forms of art.

I loved Social Studies as a Kid, and I loved to learn about other cultures and about people. We need to teach the children Social Studies.

And Science, etc. And they can make Paper Airplanes, and they can launch model rockets, etc. And they can build robots, etc. Also, they can learn all about computers, etc. They all need to know how to use an Apple computer, etc.

And the youth can have groups like Youth For Christ and they can go help orphans in Mexico, etc.

There is also the YMCA, etc, etc, etc.

Then the youth need to all go to college. We can start small by sending everyone to community college for free, and then we can see who the leaders are, etc, and people can rise in areas where they have aptitude.

After community college the youth can go to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Pepperdine, etc.

The actors can go to Julliard, and to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Where I went).

There is USC film school, and Chapman film school, and NYU film school, for the people who want to be filmmakers.

Then the people need to be on a mission to do good with their lives like my dearly departed Christian friend from the Philippines, she spent her whole life helping the homeless. And I want to help orphans, and I want to help people. We need to teach the young people how to have purpose and how to enjoy doing service, etc.

There is also politics, etc.

And sports, etc.

We need to raise kind gentle geniuses who spend their lives working to make our world a better place.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 11:35:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 08:45:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.

Jesus wept.

No needle eye for you, Bambu

I am not a rich man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 12:16:42 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 08, 2023, 10:56:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.

We need to raise kind, compassionate, Christian leaders, Bambu, not ignorant cannon fodder who just rush headfirst into cannon fire. And blessed are the peacemakers.

Here is what we need to do...

We need to raise kind and compassionate and empathetic Christian children, who rise to become great leaders and who go on to help other people. Pepperdine is a Christian college, and they are training leaders to help the poor, and to help to make the world a better place.

So, we need to raise good peaceful children, like in Catholic schools, there will be no violence. The boys can have Martial Arts, and Boxing, and Wrestling, but no fighting on the playground. There will be peace, and discipline, they will study hard, but they can have fun teachers and it could be fun. Here in California a lot of teachers are actors, and I had a teacher who used to come to class as different characters, one day he would be Edgar Allen Poe, and the next day he would be Mark Twain, he was great, the world needs good teachers like him. And I had a teacher for Euclidean Geometry who was a Magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, he was great. We can have good fun teachers.

And the children can study acting, and film, and other forms of art.

I loved Social Studies as a Kid, and I loved to learn about other cultures and about people. We need to teach the children Social Studies.

And Science, etc. And they can make Paper Airplanes, and they can launch model rockets, etc. And they can build robots, etc. Also, they can learn all about computers, etc. They all need to know how to use an Apple computer, etc.

And the youth can have groups like Youth For Christ and they can go help orphans in Mexico, etc.

There is also the YMCA, etc, etc, etc.

Then the youth need to all go to college. We can start small by sending everyone to community college for free, and then we can see who the leaders are, etc, and people can rise in areas where they have aptitude.

After community college the youth can go to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Pepperdine, etc.

The actors can go to Julliard, and to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Where I went).

There is USC film school, and Chapman film school, and NYU film school, for the people who want to be filmmakers.

Then the people need to be on a mission to do good with their lives like my dearly departed Christian friend from the Philippines, she spent her whole life helping the homeless. And I want to help orphans, and I want to help people. We need to teach the young people how to have purpose and how to enjoy doing service, etc.

There is also politics, etc.

And sports, etc.

We need to raise kind gentle geniuses who spend their lives working to make our world a better place.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.

I was a kind, compassionate and gentle Christian child...where did that get me at school and in the workforce?
Nowhere....nothing but used and abused, belted with a cane by the school principal for looking at my watch in assembly, as I was nearly fainting in the outdoors heat.
Not until I used the nail rod on the physically assaulting bully at school [and became good friends with a boy from my home 'town' [suburb], a Lebanese boy who said "hey bambu, here...look at my new switch blade knife"]....did I find peace at school.
Ah yes, the two ........boys, armed with rod and knife, lived a peaceful life at school.
I also bought a whip.
Saw knife boy interviewed on my tv news about a decade ago, when churches in the middle east were being attacked and it was thought the attacks could come to bambuworld...he's now a respected elder of a well-known church...gotta love knife boy.

I'm thinking of becoming the Rev Dr bambu, by doing some online study/courses/exams.
Apparently one can buy degrees online for not much money. Not from Harvard, but lesser known tertiary education institutions, maybe they only exist online.

At about age 16, in the bathroom, I told my father "No" to something, just chores or similar, he got angry and punched me, knocked me into the bath.
Ouch!
So I went out and bought a 'Rambo' type knife at the army disposal store...told mommy dearest to keep my father away from me.

I fared much better than my cousins, their father regularly flogged them with a leather belt. One day mommy dearest took us for a visit in the daytime. Uncle got angry about something and gave the boys a hiding. You could hear the belt on flesh as he thrashed them, he worked out at the gym, muscleman.
I never went there again.
He died 'early', good riddance to bad rubbish.

Not until I repaid the violent office supervisor .....who thought I was so "beaten down" that he could hit me with a rather heavy computer binder because he was angry that a customer was at the counter after closing time.....with 3 steps after him and kicked him in the butt wearing leather riding boots.
He complained to mrs bambu at the office Christmas party, she gave him no sympathy, told him he should not have assaulted me. Mrs bambu is the kind you want in the 'trenches' with you.

Yes, the violent only understand violence...it's plain to see.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2023, 01:13:21 AM: The only thing that prevents us from doing great things is the road blocks in our mind.

I lived with the rich people all of my life, and my Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter, etc.

We need to teach our children how to think, and about Philosophy, and about Rhetoric, Logic, Poetry, etc.

Bambu, I recommend Pepperdine for the young men from Australia who want to study and surf. Latigo Beach is full of stars and Pepperdine Professors, and the Pepperdine students go there to surf. Latigo Beach is where I learned how to surf. On a pink surfboard owned by a 15 year old girl.

I lived in Malibu like a star for 1 year. And I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General. God sent me to make the Peace.

We need to start returning goods to the Chinese, such as California wine, and California cheese from Joseph Farms, etc, and we can send Sunkist orange juice and Coca Cola and McDonald's Restaurants.

And the Pope is trying to expand the Catholic Church into China, We are going to win China over for the Catholic Church.

Peace.

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2023, 01:31:46 AM: Bambu, in Rome everyone is a Christian, and we all love each other and there are churches everywhere. I lived across the street from the Church of Saint Lawrence. I went there to pray.

Saint Lawrence was in charge of the money from the Church, so an evil ruler demanded the wealth of the Church, so Saint Lawrence brought the poor and the orphans and the widows, etc, and Saint Lawrence told the Mother Fucker that the wealth of the Church was the poor who the Church helped.

The evil ruler burned Saint Lawrence alive. After Saint Lawrence performed miracles in prison.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 04:30:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 11:35:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 08:45:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 05:46:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 08, 2023, 05:10:42 PM
Christians need to renounce guns, the republican death cult and their entire ethno-nationalist project along with mining for fossil fuels. Otherwise there is no needle eye big enough to admit them.

Christians, persecuted everywhere in the world today, need to buy more guns, arm themselves to the max so when they're attacked they can at least fight back.
I only got *respect*and stopped the physical persecution of me in high school by making a nail rod at home, carrying it in my school case ( no back packs then)...and using it.

The only thing the violent understand is violence.

Jesus wept.

No needle eye for you, Bambu

I am not a rich man.

You are a piece of shit, the kind Christ consigns to Hell in the last judgement.

No harp for you, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 04:32:33 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2023, 01:31:46 AM
Bambu, in Rome everyone is a Christian, and we all love each other and there are churches everywhere. I lived across the street from the Church of Saint Lawrence. I went there to pray.

Saint Lawrence was in charge of the money from the Church, so an evil ruler demanded the wealth of the Church, so Saint Lawrence brought the poor and the orphans and the widows, etc, and Saint Lawrence told the Mother Fucker that the wealth of the Church was the poor who the Church helped.

The evil ruler burned Saint Lawrence alive. After Saint Lawrence performed miracles in prison.

Salute,

Tony V.

They say travel broadens your mind till you cant get your head out of doors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM: Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 09:21:44 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 06:31:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 12:53:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
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A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
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Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.

Jumbuck, tucker bag etc are in song Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe the swagman had killed the sheep and just had some of the meat in his tucker bag.
Who knows.
Poetic licence is a wonderful thing. lol

Advance Australia Fair is the National anthem.

Liar. If it is not Waltzing Matilda, it is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, which also bothers me because it talks, or rather sings, of a "platypus duck." A platypus is not a duck. Or any bird. That is just a foul mistake.
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In it you might not like the word 'girt'...lol

"We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea".
I take it "girt" is slang for "penal colony".

lol
girt = framed
"Our land is framed by sea"

America was a British penal colony long before Australia was. lol
Only when Britain was kicked out of America did it start a penal colony in Australia instead, in 1788.

xxxxxx

It ...is...Waltzing Matilda...the swagman, billabong, jumbuck, tucker bag, Squatter (rancher).

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport...totally weird song...never liked it or the singer.

xxxxxxx

Two flags?
Imagine the US flag, and another flag, one representing say Black people, or some other race, always flying together everywhere, with equality.
Do not have to imagine it. I have a neighbor who also flies a Marines flag. Routinely pass by a MIA flag, and a pride flag on my way to work. Since they are on the same pole, flown below the US flag per regulation. I am guessing you would only have a problem with one of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 09:30:33 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 08, 2023, 04:18:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 02:20:21 PM
My favorite verse of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is the sixth, penultimate verse, now usually omitted, even from the online lyrics:

Watch my wombat go poo, Stu
Watch my wombat go poo
Its coming out in a cube, Stu
So watch my wombat go poo.

In some areas of the Outback, that verse is slightly different, with a cruder more rustic quality....

Watch me wombat shit brick , Rick,
Watch me wombat shit brick
So make your walls extra thick, Rick,
When the wombats shit brick!
The cubed poo is one of my top 4 random facts I know. Alomg with, not in order, Santa Claus punching a heretic in the face at the Council of Niceae during a debate over the homoousian nature of Christ, Francis Bacon dying of pneumonia contracted while experimenting with ice and snow as a means of preserving meat which makes him the father of empiricism and its first prominent victim, and a dog being nominated for an Oscar best adapted screenplay for the movie.Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. All of those bring me joy whenever I think of them. I mean, bad news for Bacon, but it is not like I knew the guy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:49:33 PM: A dog wrote the screen play to Greystoke?

I remember it being short on dialogue but that still seems highly improbable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 01:36:48 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:49:33 PM
A dog wrote the screen play to Greystoke?

I remember it being short on dialogue but that still seems highly improbable.
P. H. Vazak was the sole credited screenwriter for the movie. The Academy just goes with who gets the WGA credit. The great Robert Towne actually wrote it, but when the studio would not let him direct he took his name off the screenplay and credited to his dog. I really hope that fact leads his inevitable obituary, though I suspect winning an Oscar for writing one of the two or three greatest non-Billy Wilder screenplays of all time gets the lede.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 01:49:27 PM: Greystoke is of course also famous for having all of the female lead's dialogue overdubbed in post.production by Glenn Close. And for starring Christopher Lambert, a nice looking block of wood who later starred as a Scot with a French accent for some reason in Highlander, a movie about immortals who are being killed, A PLOT POINT THAT STILL PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF TO THIS DAY AND ALWAYS WILL.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 02:03:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.

Do you repent your sins?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 02:23:30 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.
Yes, bambu should never travel. He should not even leave his basement. Keep the noxious infection localized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 03:12:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 02:23:30 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.
Yes, bambu should never travel. He should not even leave his basement. Keep the noxious infection localized.

Bali bombings
9/11
What happened to British nurse David Chell in Malaysia
NZ volcano eruption
Hurricanes/Tornadoes/Twisters [all confusing]
Blizzards
Bears, big cats
Floods
Fires
Rain
Terrorism
Planes shot down
Plane crashes, bus crashes, car crashes, kidnappings [some cabs are fake]
Earthquakes
Crowds, lines a 'mile' long.
Diseases...malaria etc
Food problems...I wouldn't like most of it.
Airports closed, flights delayed, flights overbooked [should be banned]...horrible, totally destroy the travel experience.
Travel..only for the brave.
I travel the world, on Youtube...the quality of videos from drones etc these days is superb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 03:22:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 09:21:44 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 06:31:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 12:53:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 08, 2023, 08:47:13 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 08, 2023, 03:23:55 AM
Atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fly two giant flags...one on each side of the arch.

The Aboriginal flag...representing Black people, on one side, ....and....the National flag containing the British Union Jack, 7 point Federation Star, and stars of the Southern Cross...representing 'White/Everyone else' people on the other side.
Please tell me how that is not 'segregation' and 'division'.
Please tell me how that is "We are ONE".
I wonder which of the two flags you approve of.
Quote

A word in the national anthem was changed recently...
Hopefully, from "jumbuck" to "sheep". Speak English, fools.
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Oh, and around Sydney now they're putting up, in bright letters 2'6" and 3' high, at the entrance to suburbs...

LITTLE VIETNAM

LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE ITALY etc.

Gotta love assimilation. lol

Coming to America soon?
Yeah, like maybe in 1850. Forget it bambu its Chinatown, Korea Town,, Little Italy, Slavic Village, Little Warsaw and the like and they have been around the US for decades. And their people get assimilated just fine in a generation. No reason to think that will change.

Jumbuck, tucker bag etc are in song Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe the swagman had killed the sheep and just had some of the meat in his tucker bag.
Who knows.
Poetic licence is a wonderful thing. lol

Advance Australia Fair is the National anthem.

Liar. If it is not Waltzing Matilda, it is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, which also bothers me because it talks, or rather sings, of a "platypus duck." A platypus is not a duck. Or any bird. That is just a foul mistake.
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In it you might not like the word 'girt'...lol

"We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea".
I take it "girt" is slang for "penal colony".

lol
girt = framed
"Our land is framed by sea"

America was a British penal colony long before Australia was. lol
Only when Britain was kicked out of America did it start a penal colony in Australia instead, in 1788.

xxxxxx

It ...is...Waltzing Matilda...the swagman, billabong, jumbuck, tucker bag, Squatter (rancher).

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport...totally weird song...never liked it or the singer.

xxxxxxx

Two flags?
Imagine the US flag, and another flag, one representing say Black people, or some other race, always flying together everywhere, with equality.
Do not have to imagine it. I have a neighbor who also flies a Marines flag. Routinely pass by a MIA flag, and a pride flag on my way to work. Since they are on the same pole, flown below the US flag per regulation. I am guessing you would only have a problem with one of them.

Below the US flag, not beside it in equality!
People wanna have their own flags, fine by me, but they should not be flown as equal to the national flag.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 03:49:48 PM: There is no flag protocol requiring the US flag to be higher, unless flying on the same pole. In fact, other national flags are always flown at the same height. For state, city, localities, or "penants of societies" are flown adjacent the only requirements are the US flag on the right, and the other flag cannot be higher. Well, also the US flag is raised first and lowered last. When they are not adjacent or on the same pole, like, oh, on opposite sides of a large arch that spans a bridge, there are no rules. ANARCHY!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 04:44:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 02:03:46 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.

Do you repent your sins?

All the time.

That is why I manage to commit new and interesting ones instead of repeating the same tired old few over and over again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2023, 05:26:06 PM: People love to break people up into groups and then fight the groups against each other.

And it is easy to start a fight.

Blessed are the peacemakers. We need to raise kind gentle geniuses who are expert peacemakers.

And in America we need to all be equal, we will destroy ourselves if we fight against each other. More Americans were killed in our Civil War than in any other war that we have been in. We have our Declaration of Independence where we declare that ALL men are created equal with the same human rights. It took a war to free the slaves, but we did it. And then people fought and marched to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We need to all be equal, and we need to all have the same human rights. And we must refuse to kill each other, we must not let them divide us up and fight us against each other.

In my hometown they had race riots in the public high schools, and that is unacceptable. The high schools need to all be safe like the Catholic high school is safe.

And 2 children were fighting on a playground, and one child hit his head on concrete when he fell and he died. The child who died was Black, and the other child was White, so Louis Farrakhan came to my hometown and called out for a race war to get justice for the Black child who died on the playground. Instead of wanting to raise society up, Louis Farrakhan wanted to lower us all down to the level of children fighting on the playground. Luckily we have good people in the Antelope Valley, and an Italian businessman from Sicily, Frank Visco, pulled Louis Farrakhan into a private room and had a personal conversation with him, no one knows what was said in their private meeting, but after the meeting Louis Farrakhan left town and the race war never happened. Frank Visco is a good man of peace, and blessed are the Peacemakers.

Pope Francis is a good man of peace.

We need peace, and we need to teach our children peace. And our schools need to be safe places for our children, they need to be able to learn, and in the best case scenario then the children can actually love school, and they can love to learn, and they can love to make new friends, and they can have good fun teachers, etc.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo they are always fighting among themselves, so they never have positive growth, they are wasting their energy on internal conflicts. If they worked together as a team then they could make great strides, if they give everyone equal rights and if they all worked together then they could have good lives. People win with peace, everyone wins.

With peace our energy can go towards good food for our people, and education, and health care, and science, and we can build libraries, etc, etc, etc.

Our diversity is a blessing if we are all equal and if we work together as a team, but if we dwell on our differences and if we fight against each other then we will destroy ourselves.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 09, 2023, 05:51:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 03:12:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 02:23:30 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.
Yes, bambu should never travel. He should not even leave his basement. Keep the noxious infection localized.

Bali bombings
9/11
What happened to British nurse David Chell in Malaysia
NZ volcano eruption
Hurricanes/Tornadoes/Twisters [all confusing]
Blizzards
Bears, big cats
Floods
Fires
Rain
Terrorism
Planes shot down
Plane crashes, bus crashes, car crashes, kidnappings [some cabs are fake]
Earthquakes
Crowds, lines a 'mile' long.
Diseases...malaria etc
Food problems...I wouldn't like most of it.
Airports closed, flights delayed, flights overbooked [should be banned]...horrible, totally destroy the travel experience.
Travel..only for the brave.
I travel the world, on Youtube...the quality of videos from drones etc these days is superb.

Rain!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 09, 2023, 06:10:22 PM: Right now we need to teach the youth of the Antelope Valley how to respond when people try to start the inevitable race riots in the public high schools. The new school year is getting ready to start, and for sure people will try to start race riots, so we need to neutralize that and teach the youth how to remain peaceful.

Imagine in the play "Othello" if an angel came to teach him to beware of Iago, everything would have been different.

Our schools can be safe, fun places where the children can learn and where they can enrich their lives. We are blessed to be a rich nation where we can educate all of our children, and they need safe schools.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 06:16:48 PM: Inevitable race riots? What in God's Holy Name are you babbling about?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 09, 2023, 09:26:07 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 06:16:48 PM
Inevitable race riots? What in God's Holy Name are you babbling about?

Helter Skelter!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 09:58:56 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 09, 2023, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 03:12:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 02:23:30 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 09, 2023, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 09, 2023, 06:32:31 AM
Travel?
I was terrified when mrs bambu announced that part of her travel as well as to Japan was to Hong Kong (Disneyland).
As luck would have it, that was before things in Hong Kong turned very bad.
...and she returned safely.

Overseas travel is not for me.
"Banged up abroad" I would be destroyed in my soul.
Not worth the risk.

You are going to Hell for your sins. Stay put till then if you want to. Nobody cares.
Yes, bambu should never travel. He should not even leave his basement. Keep the noxious infection localized.

Bali bombings
9/11
What happened to British nurse David Chell in Malaysia
NZ volcano eruption
Hurricanes/Tornadoes/Twisters [all confusing]
Blizzards
Bears, big cats
Floods
Fires
Rain
Terrorism
Planes shot down
Plane crashes, bus crashes, car crashes, kidnappings [some cabs are fake]
Earthquakes
Crowds, lines a 'mile' long.
Diseases...malaria etc
Food problems...I wouldn't like most of it.
Airports closed, flights delayed, flights overbooked [should be banned]...horrible, totally destroy the travel experience.
Travel..only for the brave.
I travel the world, on Youtube...the quality of videos from drones etc these days is superb.

Rain!

Indeed.
Rain just washed out the huge Scouts jamboree in South Korea.
Attendees evacuated.
Now a bus carrying evacuated Scouts has crashed.
Should've had a ZOOM jamboree.

***

Hurricane, and fires...are now destroying Hawaii.
Tourists are rushing to leave.
Hospitals are being overrun with burns victims
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 10, 2023, 10:30:05 AM: Yes, a few lines above you had specified events like floods and hurricanes. So then listing simply rain was unintentionally humorous, as if implying that having weather that calls for an umbrella is another reason to stay in the house. Pro tip: never move to Oregon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 10, 2023, 10:37:23 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 09, 2023, 09:30:33 AM

cubed poo is one of my top 4 random facts I know. Alomg with, not in order, Santa Claus punching a heretic in the face at the Council of Niceae during a debate over the homoousian nature of Christ, Francis Bacon dying of pneumonia contracted while experimenting with ice and snow as a means of preserving meat which makes him the father of empiricism and its first prominent victim, and a dog being nominated for an Oscar best adapted screenplay for the movie.Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. All of those bring me joy whenever I think of them. I mean, bad news for Bacon, but it is not like I knew the guy.

Those are great, and notable for their historical range. I recently found a delightful one regarding an activity called coning. Google coning driverless cars.

Up there with Hungarians stopping Soviet tanks by setting dinner plates in the streets. (the Russians would mistake them for mines)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 10:54:40 AM: Cool. Self-driving cars are Skynet's first step to domination.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 01:01:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 10, 2023, 10:30:05 AM
Yes, a few lines above you had specified events like floods and hurricanes. So then listing simply rain was unintentionally humorous, as if implying that having weather that calls for an umbrella is another reason to stay in the house. Pro tip: never move to Oregon.

As regards 'travel'.
"It rains 9 months of the year in Seattle" - Sleepless in Seattle movie.
You travel there expecting rain.

You pay a lot of money to travel to "sunny California" -ilk in the world, and it rains for a week.
Billy Connelly says: "Put on a raincoat and live a little".
I say: "Rain ruins travel vacations".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 01:20:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 01:01:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 10, 2023, 10:30:05 AM
Yes, a few lines above you had specified events like floods and hurricanes. So then listing simply rain was unintentionally humorous, as if implying that having weather that calls for an umbrella is another reason to stay in the house. Pro tip: never move to Oregon.

As regards 'travel'.
"It rains 9 months of the year in Seattle" - Sleepless in Seattle movie.
You travel there expecting rain.

You pay a lot of money to travel to "sunny California" -ilk in the world, and it rains for a week.
Billy Connelly says: "Put on a raincoat and live a little".
I say: "Rain ruins travel vacations".
Do 99.999999998% of the world a favor and stay just where you are. Permanently.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 10, 2023, 01:28:19 PM: Bambu is also scared of plumbers.

It rains in his basement all the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 03:48:54 PM: California is nice, it is just expensive, you have to study Business and you need to be smart with your money if you want to live in California. My Mother has a cousin who owns a Pharmacy in Fontana, and he is living a good life.

And yes, sadly, every year the high schools in the Antelope Valley have race riots. We need to neutralize it, we need to teach the children now during a time of peace so that when the instigators start whispering in their ears that they will support diversity and love their neighbors instead of killing each other. Ask any public high school teacher in the Antelope Valley about the racial problems every year, they will agree with me in that we need to neutralize it now before the problems start.

Of note on Business and living in California, a lot of the old Punk bands like Black Flag just all partied and they lived in apartment complexes by Oki Dog and they just partied all of the time, and now they are all poor. There is no money for the old Punkers, they spent it all partying back in the day. But the Rock stars were all smart, and they had good Jewish agents and managers, etc, Kiss, Sammy Hagar, Alice Cooper, the Rock stars are all super rich. I recommend that the music students study Business, and that they hire good Jewish agents, etc. I know a good Jewish agent, Rod Baron of Baron Entertainment, and I recommend Rod Baron for the new Punk bands. The Punkers need to learn to hire good agents.

A friend is in the studio right now with his band "No Reaction" and they are making a new album. Then he has another band named "Cognitive Dissonance" and he is working on another album with them. So he will have 2 albums coming out soon. If he makes money he wants to open his own recording studio with a night club and a music school and music store, he wants to have a lot going on at his place. He was in The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Suicidal Tendencies, and he produced Neighborhood Watch, and The Brood, he has done a lot of stuff. I hope he succeeds. And he is trying to help me to get my movie script made into a film, and he is trying to help me to get my poetry book published, he is helping me. His turf is Culver City, and Venice Beach, he was born and raised there and he has spent his whole life there.

Peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 04:10:36 PM: Well, at least I am marginally more interested in the plight of Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn than Tori Spelling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 05:00:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 04:10:36 PM
Well, at least I am marginally more interested in the plight of Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn than Tori Spelling.

Tori, husband, and kids were reportedly spending $100,000 a month on bills etc.
Tori was a prolific 'shopper', reportedly.
All good, their money, free country...still (but for how much longer, woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)
However, to avoid such spending causing one to go broke, one needs the income to support it.
The soup kitchen and tarp attached to a fence on the street for a home await those who make unwise financial decisions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 10, 2023, 05:27:06 PM: woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)

You're even a clown in your parentheticals.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 05:29:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 05:00:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 04:10:36 PM
Well, at least I am marginally more interested in the plight of Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn than Tori Spelling.

Tori, husband, and kids were reportedly spending $100,000 a month on bills etc.
Tori was a prolific 'shopper', reportedly.
All good, their money, free country...still (but for how much longer, woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)
However, to avoid such spending causing one to go broke, one needs the income to support it.
The soup kitchen and tarp attached to a fence on the street for a home await those who make unwise financial decisions.

It used to be that bad, during the Great Depression when my ancestors came to California it was really hard. Watch the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" about the Great Depression. My ancestors all came to California and they picked fruit during the Great Depression. They were all extremely hard workers.

California has Wellness Centers now, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, etc, and all that Tori has to do is to show up and ask for help and they will help her, they will put her in a beautiful mansion and they will cook for her. I lived in a 12 room mansion with 3 hot tubs, and my roommates were all homeless rich people.They will put Tori and her children in a 12 room mansion and they will cook for her. While she gets help. And she can get a good Jewish agent, and a manager, etc, and a good smart butler to run her house, etc. Anyhow, she can get help in Orange County if she needs help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 10, 2023, 06:05:29 PM: I am calling you Rip from now on. You clearly did not wake up in the same century you fell out in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 10, 2023, 06:22:10 PM: And she can get a good Jewish agent,

Salute Tony V. no doubt believes this to be a compliment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 06:55:59 PM: HOMELESS RICH PEOPLE! 12 ROOM MANSION!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 10, 2023, 06:59:12 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 10, 2023, 05:27:06 PM
woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)

You're even a clown in your parentheticals.

And clueless as to what woke means. Since woke actually means more open to free speech about systemic racism and discrimination, it would seem to expand public discourse not restrict it. People tend to be freer when they are awakened. That's the whole point.

This is social justice warrior all over again. Take something that's a good thing to be and make using it sarcastically some sort of pseudo argument against it.

Woke just means white people can't declare racism over without getting some dissent from those who are directly experiencing it or those who are listening to them. And dissent, as the bumper sticker on my Honda says, is patriotic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 10, 2023, 06:59:41 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 06:55:59 PM
HOMELESS RICH PEOPLE! 12 ROOM MANSION!

🤣
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 08:10:50 PM: Poor Hawaii.

We cannot save what is already lost, but we can rebuild, and Hawaii can rise from the ashes.

The best pot I ever smoked was from Hawaii. My cousin had a friend who owned a yacht in Hawaii where he lived, and he owned the "U.S. Bong Company" and he grew pot in Hawaii and he sold his pot to San Francisco, and to Hollywood, and to San Diego, etc. They were selling a strain of weed named Puna Electric and it was the best pot in the world. That was what everyone was smoking in Hollywood back when "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" came out at the Drive In.

Hawaii can sell pot to San Francisco, and to Los Angeles, and to San Diego, etc, and to whoever wants the best pot in the world.

Hawaii can use the money from the pot to rebuild Hawaii.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 10, 2023, 08:12:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 10, 2023, 06:59:12 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 10, 2023, 05:27:06 PM
woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)

You're even a clown in your parentheticals.

And clueless as to what woke means. Since woke actually means more open to free speech about systemic racism and discrimination, it would seem to expand public discourse not restrict it. People tend to be freer when they are awakened. That's the whole point.
Just what is systemic racism?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 10, 2023, 08:31:18 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 10, 2023, 08:12:57 PM

Just what is systemic racism?

The only thing keeping you out of prison or off the streets. I know you enjoy it, but hopefully not for too much longer.

It will not be for very long at all if the rising generations have anything to say about it.

Your cohort offing themselves with guns, pills, needles, Covid, and more entertainingly through death by cop is certainly helping matters though you are all screeching like bitches on the way out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 09:21:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 10, 2023, 01:28:19 PM
Bambu is also scared of plumbers.

Indeed.
Shonky plumbers abound...they dig up half your yard, charge a fortune, and still don't fix fhe problem...that they could've fixed with a camera and minimal digging.

The shonks didn't get me...no1 morning radio host keeps us well informed...as do current affairs programs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 10:18:01 PM: The Mental Health Association in Santa Ana is very wealthy, and there is no need for anyone to be homeless in Orange County anymore.

But, we need to look out for each other. Here is a story... I was living in a beautiful house with about 10 rooms and the lady who owned and ran the house was feeding us wonderful food, it was great, but the people had to work together to keep it safe. There was a mentally ill white guy who was going to stab a black guy from Ghana, and I had to save the black guy. I told the mentally ill white guy that the only voice that mattered was mine, and that the voices in his head did not mean shit, and I made him give me the knife. It was a nice house, with good food, and it was way better than being homeless, but we had to look out for each other to keep it safe, it took teamwork to keep it safe.

Tori Spelling could simply show up at the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana and they will help her and her family. Then, after she gets back on her feet then she can help the next guy, when Tori is rich again then she could help the next homeless family.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 10, 2023, 10:35:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 10, 2023, 08:12:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 10, 2023, 06:59:12 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 10, 2023, 05:27:06 PM
woke is slowly restricting free speech and dictating what people should do and think, or else.)

You're even a clown in your parentheticals.

And clueless as to what woke means. Since woke actually means more open to free speech about systemic racism and discrimination, it would seem to expand public discourse not restrict it. People tend to be freer when they are awakened. That's the whole point.
Just what is systemic racism?
The favorite food of sealions everywhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 11:27:53 PM: Ventura County Star

Somis Ranch Apartments will begin leasing the first of its 360 apartments in November to farmworkers.

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Good to see new apartments being built for the farmworkers, and Ventura is nice, the workers can go surfing after work, etc. Lots of good strawberries come from Ventura, and other good food, we all win as they build new housing for the farmworkers in Ventura.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 11:29:21 PM: Grand Announcement;

"It's 'Australia Week' in Vegas next March!

"NRL confirms four clubs for Sin City"...newspaper.

Part of the week will be 4 Rugby League teams from the Australian NRL playing their first game of the 2024 season in Vegas.
Not exhibition matches, these games will be for competition points and therefore very seriously contested.
Like NFL...but different.
80 footy players loose in Sin City...not too sure about that.
Could be 'trouble' if they're not kept in club groups.

Does it snow in Vegas in March?
Rain is ok, they play in the rain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 11:37:47 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 10, 2023, 11:29:21 PM
Grand Announcement;

"It's 'Australia Week' in Vegas next March!

Part of the week will be 4 Rugby League teams from the NRL playing their first game of the 2024 season in Vegas.
Not exhibition matches, these games will be for competition points and therefore very seriously contested.
Like NFL...but different.

Does it snow in Vegas in March?
Rain is ok, they play in the rain.

Vegas has nice weather, rare snow. Normally the weather in Vegas is real nice. Hot in the summer, with nice pools and air conditioned rooms, and a 24 hour schedule so people work at night, the casinos are all busiest at night. Should be nice in March. Vegas is nice.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 10, 2023, 11:56:05 PM: Las Vegas was my Grandmother's favorite city, she wanted to open a 24 hour dog kennel and dog grooming shop in Las Vegas. My Grandfather loved The Golden Nugget and he named his favorite race horse "Golden Nugget" and then we had "Golden Nugget Jr." they were beautiful race horses.

The Australia Rugby team might like the Golden Niugget...

https://www.goldennugget.com/las-vegas/

And it is like in Spain, they have dinner at 10:00 pm and they party all night. In Battle Mountain, Nevada, I worked at the casino from !0:00 pm to 6:00 am. And Nevada is full of Basques, they live a lot like the culture in Spain. Elko, Nevada, even runs with the bulls every year.

Nevada is a fun state, the Rugby players will have fun in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 12:37:03 AM: 2 new movie studios are being built in Nevada, and lots of new tax breaks are being proposed to help to start a film and television industry in Nevada.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/06/01/one-step-closer-movie-studios-being-built-southern-nevada/

They can make Westerns, such as making a series of films from the Slocum series of Westerns by Jake Logan.

I have some ideas for a few Westerns, one idea is for a Lawyer in the Wild West, like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason, fast with a gun and smart with the law.

There is also an old series of books about Casey the stagecoach driver, and other old books.

Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey, etc, are also good writers but have already been over-done in Western movies. I think the Slocum Westerns could be more fun for today's audience.

Bible movies can also be made in Nevada. Lots of stuff can happen in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 01:05:36 AM: Every star should have some good investments, including restaurants, like Danny Trejo with his Tacos, Trejos Tacos is a very popular restaurant for tourists, he owns a few restaurants now in the Hollywood area.

Tori Spelling can have an ice cream shop like Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, and I picture Tori Spelling selling gourmet cupcakes, she can have a shop on Melrose Ave in Hollywood, and also on Rodeo in Beverly Hills. And she needs good agents and managers to guide her and she needs helpers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 01:53:35 AM: Note to Vegas service industry, though they know this very well already, Australians do not tip and they tend to steal shit as if it were meant for them as a souvenir.

The stadium is adjustable to control for climate. The ruggers will be fine unless they test their limits the evening prior due to a total lack of professionalism and self control.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 11, 2023, 01:55:10 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 12:37:03 AM
2 new movie studios are being built in Nevada, and lots of new tax breaks are being proposed to help to start a film and television industry in Nevada.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/06/01/one-step-closer-movie-studios-being-built-southern-nevada/

They can make Westerns, such as making a series of films from the Slocum series of Westerns by Jake Logan.

I have some ideas for a few Westerns, one idea is for a Lawyer in the Wild West, like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason, fast with a gun and smart with the law.

There is also an old series of books about Casey the stagecoach driver, and other old books.

Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey, etc, are also good writers but have already been over-done in Western movies. I think the Slocum Westerns could be more fun for today's audience.

Bible movies can also be made in Nevada. Lots of stuff can happen in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.

Love westerns, it'd be great if they started making new ones in Vegas.
Randolph Scott movies are getting a lot old.
Every day is movie day, and every night is movie night in the villa of team bambu.
Keep the new movies coming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 02:09:10 AM: The studios will have to abandon their totalitarian pipe dreams first.

No screen schlock for you, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 11, 2023, 10:22:02 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2023, 01:55:10 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 12:37:03 AM
2 new movie studios are being built in Nevada, and lots of new tax breaks are being proposed to help to start a film and television industry in Nevada.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/06/01/one-step-closer-movie-studios-being-built-southern-nevada/

They can make Westerns, such as making a series of films from the Slocum series of Westerns by Jake Logan.

I have some ideas for a few Westerns, one idea is for a Lawyer in the Wild West, like a mix between Clint Eastwood and Perry Mason, fast with a gun and smart with the law.

There is also an old series of books about Casey the stagecoach driver, and other old books.

Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey, etc, are also good writers but have already been over-done in Western movies. I think the Slocum Westerns could be more fun for today's audience.

Bible movies can also be made in Nevada. Lots of stuff can happen in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.

Love westerns, it'd be great if they started making new ones in Vegas.
Randolph Scott movies are getting a lot old.
Every day is movie day, and every night is movie night in the villa of team bambu.
Keep the new movies coming.

https://youtu.be/P7PefRYcrcE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 01:00:48 PM: I thought it was going to be a Blazing Saddles clip, but that was better.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 03:37:38 PM: As the sports teams from Oakland all move to Las Vegas, the Raiders, and the Athletics, then it is great for Vegas, Vegas is doing fantastic, but what about poor Oakland? Oakland is a bad ghetto now, even worse than San Francisco.

https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-advantages

Education is important, schools are important, and libraries, and community colleges, etc. We can expand after school programs for the children, and we can teach the high school boys how to install sound systems in cars, etc. ( I have a friend who can install a sound system in a Ferrari and he is doing very well, and he teaches the high school kids. ) We need to teach the kids how to make an honest living, so that they do not have to resort to crime.

Wellness Centers are also important, and Mental Health Associations, and Sober Living Homes are important, etc.

They need hostels where they can get a bed and a shower for $15 per night.

Vegas is doing great, but it is not so great in Oakland, and San Francisco is also having problems.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 03:55:55 PM: The Unions can reach out to the homeless teens, and to the poor and at risk teens, and the unions can hire the boys as apprentices, etc, and they can help the boys to learn how to earn an honest living.

https://teamsters2010.org/

We need to teach the youth how to make an honest living so that they do not have to be homeless and so they do not become criminals.

Poverty is the father of revolution and crime. We need to help the poor youth to get started on a good path.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 05:02:06 PM: We need to hook the Foster Youth up with the Unions to be apprentices, etc, and to learn how to make an honest living when they grow up and are on their own.

CASA can be hooked up with the Unions, etc.

https://www.californiacasa.org/

And then there is also community college, but the youth need to have a home and money, they cannot be living in their cars while they go to community college. So, there is the issue of cheap group homes for the students, etc, and good paying side jobs that the students can work while they study. The Unions and CASA and the community colleges can all work together as a team to serve the foster youth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 05:14:37 PM: http://www.jobcorps.gov (http://www.jobcorps.gov)

They could use your help too, Tony, if you have the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 05:36:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 05:14:37 PM
http://www.jobcorps.gov (http://www.jobcorps.gov)

They could use your help too, Tony, if you have the time.

Very cool. Looks like a good program.

When Hollywood opens back up then Job Corps needs to connect with Hollywood to create jobs for the youth. And Hollywood creates jobs in more places than just here in California, Hollywood also creates jobs in Georgia, and Hollywood is going to create more jobs in Florida, and in New York, and in Michigan, and new studios are being built in Nevada, etc. So, when the Entertainment Industry goes back to work then a lot of opportunities will be created. And Show Business jobs are the kind of jobs that the youth want, they all want to work in Show Business.

SAG/AFTRA, and the WGA, and the DGA, and the Producers Guild, etc, etc, etc, they can all have apprenticeships for the Youth, and Internships, etc.

And of course the community colleges all need to teach acting, and film, and writing, etc.

We need to have a bridge connecting our youth with the jobs in the Entertainment Industry.

Of note, Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs with Disney, the youth go right to work for Disney when they graduate. It is wonderful, the youth are going right to work with a good company when they graduate.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 05:51:34 PM: Hollywood also creates a lot of good jobs in Canada and in New Zealand and in Australia and for the British. And we need to be more involved at Cinecitta in Rome, and at the Victorine Studio in Nice, France, etc. Hollywood creates jobs all around the world. I am sure everyone will be happy when Hollywood goes back to work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 11, 2023, 06:07:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 05:51:34 PM
Hollywood also creates a lot of good jobs in Canada and in New Zealand and in Australia and for the British. And we need to be more involved at Cinecitta in Rome, and at the Victorine Studio in Nice, France, etc. Hollywood creates jobs all around the world. I am sure everyone will be happy when Hollywood goes back to work.

Salute,

Tony V.

Many Hallmark movies seem to be made in Canada.
Girl meets handsome guy, they fall in love, and live happily ever after.
Maybe it's time for not-so-handsome guys to be featured, ones with 'nice personalities'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 06:17:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 11, 2023, 06:07:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 11, 2023, 05:51:34 PM
Hollywood also creates a lot of good jobs in Canada and in New Zealand and in Australia and for the British. And we need to be more involved at Cinecitta in Rome, and at the Victorine Studio in Nice, France, etc. Hollywood creates jobs all around the world. I am sure everyone will be happy when Hollywood goes back to work.

Salute,

Tony V.

Many Hallmark movies seem to be made in Canada.
Girl meets handsome guy, they fall in love, and live happily ever after.
Maybe it's time for not-so-handsome guys to be featured, ones with 'nice personalities'.

My Mother loves the Hallmark movies, and when I go to visit her we drink expensive gourmet coffee and we watch Hallmark movies. And she loves the Classics. She has good memories of watching the Classics with her Grandmother who used to take her to the movie theatres when she was a child. Her Grandmother used to take her to Olvera Street in Los Angeles, and to the zoo, and to the movies, etc. Her Grandmother owned a restaurant in San Bernardino, she was successful and she gave a lot of money to charity, and she used to spend a lot of time with my Mother, she was a good influence on my Mother. Anyhow, the Hallmark films are great, and they bring a lot of joy to my Mother.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 11, 2023, 08:32:43 PM: Speaking of Hallmark movies,

http://www.vox.com/culture/2023/8/11/23827919/montgomery-alabama-riverboat-dock-brawl-black-resistance-jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town (http://www.vox.com/culture/2023/8/11/23827919/montgomery-alabama-riverboat-dock-brawl-black-resistance-jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 12, 2023, 01:22:44 AM: Tony, you are down a judge in Anaheim.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/california-judge-jeffrey-ferguson-shot-wife-texts (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/california-judge-jeffrey-ferguson-shot-wife-texts)

The fat old white republican shot his wife. They seized his whole arsenal. It is the typical small penis syndrome situation typical of many white men. It is a good thing they caught the guy. He will see a lot of familiar faces in prison.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 12, 2023, 02:05:07 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/08/12/compassionate-christian-authoritarianism-the-leftist-utopia-the-right-thinks-will-save-the-church/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/12/compassionate-christian-authoritarianism-the-leftist-utopia-the-right-thinks-will-save-the-church/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2023, 03:33:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 12, 2023, 01:22:44 AM
Tony, you are down a judge in Anaheim.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/california-judge-jeffrey-ferguson-shot-wife-texts (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/california-judge-jeffrey-ferguson-shot-wife-texts)

The fat old white republican shot his wife. They seized his whole arsenal. It is the typical small penis syndrome situation typical of many white men. It is a good thing they caught the guy. He will see a lot of familiar faces in prison.

Sad situation. And sad that they had a guy like that as a judge here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 12, 2023, 04:53:41 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 11, 2023, 08:40:05 PM
https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

Two new cartoons.

Thanks, enjoyed catching up there with the last half dozen or so. Assuming you are a craftsman who looks for any feedback that hones your skills, I will note one caricature that needs work - your Zuck. I'm shit as a sketcher, but will guess that you can bring out his features with slightly more angle on the face and maybe more oilyness? DK, but keep em coming. Art, for me, was the Road Not Taken (wood sculpture)(I still find cutting and chiseling and planing wood very relaxing).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2023, 05:00:44 PM: Katie Hobbs of Arizona looks like a good Governor, she was a social worker who helped abused women, and she is a Roman Catholic.

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

We can have nice little farming villages in Arizona where they can grow Winter Vegetables for New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, etc. The United Farm Workers can work together with Katie Hobbs and with the farmers to grow wonderful Winter Vegetables for our cities. Everyone can win.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2023, 09:56:41 PM: My favorite city is Rome, Italy, it is my favorite place. So, that is what we need to copy here in Anaheim, we need fountains, and libraries, and book stores, etc. And Anaheim needs to build some film and television studios. And every neighborhood needs a coffee shop, etc.

Peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 11:56:01 AM: Charlottesville 8/12/2017

Never forget

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/2017_Charlottesville%2C_Virginia_car_attack_photograph.jpg)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 13, 2023, 03:46:28 PM: So Maui installed 80 alarm sirens on the island and none of them were activated. There will be some investigating into this later, I expect. I wonder if the high winds had already knocked out part of the grid, which prevented the alarm network from operating. If so, they will hopefully look into autonomous power setups for each siren.

Reminded me of the Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota, which was also terribly fast due to high winds and also had many surviving by running into a body of water. I expect running into a Minnesota lake in October presented rigors that the Pacific doesn't.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 13, 2023, 03:48:19 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 12, 2023, 09:56:41 PM
My favorite city is Rome, Italy, it is my favorite place

Really? Thanks. I just joined Elba five minutes ago, so that's really useful new information!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 13, 2023, 06:51:28 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 11:56:01 AM
Charlottesville 8/12/2017

Never forget

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/2017_Charlottesville%2C_Virginia_car_attack_photograph.jpg)

Damn straight.

The tiki boys are always looking for a way back into the light as they plan their next evils.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 13, 2023, 06:57:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 13, 2023, 03:46:28 PM
So Maui installed 80 alarm sirens on the island and none of them were activated. There will be some investigating into this later, I expect. I wonder if the high winds had already knocked out part of the grid, which prevented the alarm network from operating. If so, they will hopefully look into autonomous power setups for each siren.

Reminded me of the Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota, which was also terribly fast due to high winds and also had many surviving by running into a body of water. I expect running into a Minnesota lake in October presented rigors that the Pacific doesn't.

That is one of the rippiest coasts in the world and some damn powerful currents. Do not undersell the Big Blue for majesty or destructive potential. Not that a lake swim in Minnesota autumn sounds like a good time.

The Joshua trees are cooking off in the high desert. They tend to be spread out, so I read it as more of a tragedy than a danger to population centers at the moment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 07:20:54 PM: The cost of generating electricity from the sun and wind is falling fast and in many areas is now cheaper than gas, oil or coal. Private investment is flooding into companies that are jockeying for advantage in emerging green industries.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 07:24:55 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 13, 2023, 06:57:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 13, 2023, 03:46:28 PM
So Maui installed 80 alarm sirens on the island and none of them were activated. There will be some investigating into this later, I expect. I wonder if the high winds had already knocked out part of the grid, which prevented the alarm network from operating. If so, they will hopefully look into autonomous power setups for each siren.

Reminded me of the Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota, which was also terribly fast due to high winds and also had many surviving by running into a body of water. I expect running into a Minnesota lake in October presented rigors that the Pacific doesn't.

That is one of the rippiest coasts in the world and some damn powerful currents. Do not undersell the Big Blue for majesty or destructive potential. Not that a lake swim in Minnesota autumn sounds like a good time.

The Joshua trees are cooking off in the high desert. They tend to be spread out, so I read it as more of a tragedy than a danger to population centers at the moment.

Even the Saguaros are dying in the heat
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 13, 2023, 07:38:00 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 07:20:54 PM
The cost of generating electricity from the sun and wind is falling fast and in many areas is now cheaper than gas, oil or coal. Private investment is flooding into companies that are jockeying for advantage in emerging green industries.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Oh magic oracle, free this plain text for the massive unwashed such as I.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 13, 2023, 09:28:18 PM: To erase a people first erase their history

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/08/12/arkansas-education-department-nixes-ap-african-american-studies-course-at-last-minute
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 13, 2023, 09:46:25 PM: When their history includes their struggle to make America become the America it claims to be, then that erasure simply discredits the entire American history curriculum. It makes me want to come up with a nasty Arkansas joke.

Ok, taking a shot.

What is the definition of an Arkansas virgin?

A girl who can outrun her brother and her father!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 02:53:44 AM: The Filipinos make up almost one third of the people in Hawaii.

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

There was a crazy Guy who burned Rome so he could rebuild it, Nero, then he blamed the Christians for the fire.

It is sad that Hawaii burned and that some people died, but now is a chance to rebuild the area that burned in Hawaii. They can rebuild Hawaii while using their wildest imaginations. They can spare no expense, and they can build a tourist's paradise in Hawaii.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 14, 2023, 03:52:38 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 13, 2023, 09:46:25 PM
When their history includes their struggle to make America become the America it claims to be, then that erasure simply discredits the entire American history curriculum. It makes me want to come up with a nasty Arkansas joke.

Ok, taking a shot.

What is the definition of an Arkansas virgin?

A girl who can outrun her brother and her father!

Arkansas is the place they resettled the convicts too fucked up for the penal colony of Georgia if you can imagine such a thing. It is Australia squared, a god forsaken, depraved waste populated by the cousin-uncle of every motherfucker to malformed and mistreated to make it anywhere else.

The bipeds in Arkansas waltz across to Nebraska or Texas. What is left gives you that fine greeting you only get in Little Rock and similar. If you see light glimmer on their single fucking tooth, it is already too late. Cue the banjos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 08:16:07 AM: I worked with a man from Arkansas, he was very nice, as was his wife.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 14, 2023, 08:56:49 AM: Well the worm has turned.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/briefing/china-climate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 02:21:14 PM: Meanwhile, in Leftist land...Australia.
Daily Telegraph headliine today:
"Anti-Semitism rife at unis amid Israel conflict."
(I left out the racist/religious slur that was quoted in the headline).

"Lefist groups on campuses across the country have been 'ostracising' and harassing Jewish students, with a national survey revealing that two thirds of Jews have faced anti Semitism from their university peers- and staff".

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 14, 2023, 03:42:00 PM: http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/6/12/23755678/montana-climate-change-lawsuit-young-people-coal-global-warming (http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/6/12/23755678/montana-climate-change-lawsuit-young-people-coal-global-warming)

How coal dies in Montana, finally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 14, 2023, 03:43:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 02:21:14 PM
Meanwhile, in Leftist land...Australia.
Daily Telegraph headliine today:
"Anti-Semitism rife at unis amid Israel conflict."
(I left out the racist/religious slur that was quoted in the headline).

"Lefist groups on campuses across the country have been 'ostracising' and harassing Jewish students, with a national survey revealing that two thirds of Jews have faced anti Semitism from their university peers- and staff".

#####

Well there you go.

Bibi should think about what he is doing to those poor students in Oz and elsewhere. Terrible policies usually have predictable knock on effects like these.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 14, 2023, 04:15:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 08:16:07 AM
I worked with a man from Arkansas, he was very nice, as was his wife.

An Arkansas farm wife sent her son out to find a stray mare. He returned an hour later. Did you find her? asked Ma. He said, I came across her in the south pasture. Ma said, well, wash her off!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 14, 2023, 04:21:33 PM: The only safe animal to be in Arkansas is a hedgehog.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 04:35:19 PM: My Grandfather was born in Mena, Arkansas. He was a strong man. He hitch-hiked from Arkansas to California at 11 years old with his brothers during the Great Depression. He had some successful businesses here in California, including a Hard Wood Floor Company in Hollywood. His nephew owns a pharmacy in Fontana, California, after my Grandfather paid for him to go to college.

I still have relatives in Mena, Arkansas, they own a Real Estate business there, etc, my Mother is friends with them, but they ignored me when I sent them an email. Anyhow, my family from Arkansas were Cowboys, they were all pioneers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mena,_Arkansas

Of note, when I was attending The American Academy of Dramatic Arts there was a woman there from Arkansas, and she was the most beautiful woman in the school, and she was a great actress. Arkansas has lots of great people, and beautiful women.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on August 14, 2023, 05:28:41 PM: The Clintons served well there. Could not wait to leave though.

from the web

Arkansas is filled with natural beauty from the Ozark Mountains to the Hot Springs National Park, perfect for outdoor enthusiasts. And with charming small towns and vibrant city centers, there are plenty of reasons to consider calling Arkansas home. If you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 05:33:00 PM: Arkansas is a good place for the refugees from Ukraine, send them to Mena. They can build schools, and libraries, and they can build whatever.

One time we were doing scene work at the AADA, and the beautiful young actress from Arkansas changed clothes in front of me backstage, she was so beautiful.

And if their teeth are bad then that would be a great place to build Dental Schools, and they can train Dentists, etc. ( By the way, be sure to have the teeth of the children sealed after they get their permanent teeth, and ACT mouth wash seals their teeth. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 14, 2023, 05:33:26 PM: Arkansas is the only place in the US where you can dig for diamonds. Least ways, with any chance for success.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 06:12:41 PM: Kiwanis International

1 hour

Kiwanis is serious about youth protection.

That is why we have created a toll-free, confidential helpline that can be used 24 hours a day by Kiwanis family members and the youth we serve. To access the U.S. helpline, call 866-607-SAFE (7233).

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California, Nevada, and Hawaii are all in the same district in Kiwanis, and for sure Kiwanis will be working hard to help the people of Hawaii.

Kiwanis is also International, and Kiwanis is working hard to help the people of Ukraine, and others who need help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 07:14:04 PM: For our Veterans and service members here by Long Beach and by Los Angeles International Airport we have the Bare Elegance strip club in Hawthorne, it is a first rate strip club where the movie stars all go, Clint Eastwood goes there, and Danny DeVito, and lots of other stars go there, it is the top strip club in the Hollywood area. And they do not serve alcohol, instead they serve cappuccinos.

https://www.bareelegance.com/

The dancers are all pretty rich who work there, they are living in million dollar condominiums at Empire West, etc.

There are always limousines lined up in front of Bare Elegance, and there are always stars there. And it is great for the Navy guys who do not have a chance to go meet women. China Lake needs to build a Bare Elegance strip club, etc.

At Edwards Air Force Base there was a Madame named Pancho Barnes who owned the Happy Bottom Riding Club, it was a Bordello, and all of the stars from Hollywood used to go there, Pancho was friends with all of the stars.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 14, 2023, 08:21:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 14, 2023, 05:33:00 PM

One time we were doing scene work at the AADA, and the beautiful young actress from Arkansas changed clothes in front of me backstage, she was so beautiful.

She was used to stripping in front of Dad so you provided a nice substitute for that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 14, 2023, 08:31:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 14, 2023, 05:33:26 PM
Arkansas is the only place in the US where you can dig for diamonds. Least ways, with any chance for success.

There's a small chance at the kimberlite pipes near Kelsey Lake, Colorado, but they generally won't let you onto the old open pit area. I started as a geology major before switching to biology. I liked field work but never looked back after switching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 14, 2023, 08:33:42 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 14, 2023, 04:21:33 PM
The only safe animal to be in Arkansas is a hedgehog.

Because they know where the diamonds are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 14, 2023, 10:27:48 PM: Chris gonna find Ray Charles!
IYKYK

https://youtu.be/ggGzE5KfCio
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 11:18:06 PM: Arkansas is a good place to move to.

. Mild weather
. Tax breaks
. Largest gated community in America (gated communities are great)
. Light traffic
..Natural wonderland
. Jobs
. Centrally located
. Cheap gasoline prices.
. Cheap rentals.
. Low cost of living
. Cheap housing...buy a great home for $250,000
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 15, 2023, 03:37:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 14, 2023, 11:18:06 PM
Arkansas is a good place to move to.

. Mild weather
. Tax breaks
. Largest gated community in America (gated communities are great)
. Light traffic
..Natural wonderland
. Jobs
. Centrally located
. Cheap gasoline prices.
. Cheap rentals.
. Low cost of living
. Cheap housing...buy a great home for $250,000

Agreed, Arkansas is a great spot for the refugees from Ukraine.

The Vietnamese picked Westminster, California.

The Persians picked Beverly Hills, California.

The Albanians picked Glendale, California.

The people from Ukraine can pick Mena, Arkansas.

Here is a link for a community college in Mena, Arkansas...

https://www.uarichmountain.edu/index.html

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 15, 2023, 04:38:08 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 15, 2023, 04:26:00 PM
https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

The Iceman Freezeth (new)

Where are they now? (Touched up old cartoon)

Time to Pitch Mitch!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 15, 2023, 05:05:23 PM: Mayor Dave Bronson says he wants to relocate unhoused people to warmer climates or where they have family. People experiencing homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska, may be sent to Los Angeles and other U.S. cities with warmer climates this winter amid a shortage of shelters. Jul 28, 2023

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Alaska can send the homeless people to Arkansas where the climate is better.

Arkansas needs to build schools and housing big time. And existing schools can be expanded, etc.

And for the homeless people then they will need psychiatric services, and mental health services, and N/A and A/A, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 12:20:06 AM: Australia signs climate agreement with California

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Should be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 12:23:21 AM: US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy hints at possible plea deal for Julian Assange.

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Should be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 01:18:41 AM: Former President Trump says he will release proof of election fraud

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Should be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 16, 2023, 04:52:18 AM: Should be good.

Maybe.

Is not happening. Good luck with that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM: The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2023, 06:27:28 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM
The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.

It is good for us to be working together as a team on worthwhile projects such as creating a cleaner environment. And California has a lot of good schools and good scientists, and we are training the next generation for STEM careers, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. It is good that we are working together in good ways.

California and Australia can work work together on many things, including Fashion, Music, Television, Film, Medicine, etc, etc, etc, and on Defense, etc.

And it is always good when we work together peacefully for the benefit of all of humanity. Peaceful teamwork is always a good thing if our intentions are good.

By the way, we are working with Japan to develop Hydrogen powered cars and trucks, etc. The Mayor of my hometown, Mayor R. Rex Parris went to Japan to advance teamwork on Hydrogen power. My hometown built the Space Shuttles, so we have a lot of geniuses in my hometown, and they build a lot of secret planes and satellites, etc. We can work with Australia too, Mayor R. Rex Parris needs to show the same good will and brotherly love towards Australia that he is giving to Japan.

And we need to build schools and libraries everywhere, and we need scientists and laboratories everywhere.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2023, 05:45:43 PM: My hometown built the Space Shuttles, and many secret planes and satellites, and so much history was made in the Antelope Valley, the Sound Barrier was broken by Chuck Yeager in the Antelope Valley, etc. There was so much in my youth to spark my imagination, plus we were close to Hollywood, and Disneyland, etc.

Our youth should be the doctors, and scientists, and teachers, and leaders of the future.

But, instead we had a fucking asshole mayor of Lancaster for a while, Henry Hearns, and he was a preacher at a Black church in Los Angeles, and he brought all of the poor Black people to the Antelope Valley from Compton, and from Watts, and from South Central Los Angeles, etc. So, now the Antelope Valley has gangs, and drugs, and crime, and they call it a ghetto now, it is sad. We built the Space Shuttles before Henry Hearns started bringing all of the scumbags from Los Angeles to the Antelope Valley.

We should have been building schools, and raising scientists and leaders.

There is nothing cool about gangs, drugs, and prison, which is what they tried to turn my hometown into. But, Space Shuttles are great, and secret planes, and satellites, and science is fun. They could build a medical school and they can search for a cure for Cancer, etc, that would be great. Science, technology, etc, is great. We do NOT need the gangs and drugs and crime and prisons.

Enough is enough, we need to stop turning the desert into a ghetto, and we need to build schools and raise scientists and leaders instead.

I am not racist against the Black people, but they need to realize that education is the way to improve their lives and not drugs and gangs and crime.

Inglewood has new stadiums, etc, and lots of new stuff has been built in Inglewood and in Compton, so the Black areas are going to become more affluent. Gentrification is happening, but at the same time people have more honest opportunities.

Drugs, crime, prison, gangs, etc, it is all BULLSHIT. We need to train scientists and doctors, etc, instead.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 16, 2023, 06:43:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM
The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.

Australia is roughly the size of the contiguous United States (aka the lower 48), but has only 1/12 the population. A small fraction of the outback would easily provide the affordable solar and wind (with peak use storage systems) everyone needs. And the jumbucks and swagmen would enjoy the shade provided by solar panels. The kookaburra is laughing at all you stodgy dinosaurs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 16, 2023, 06:51:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM
The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.

Good thing brighter folks than you are running the show.

https://www.austrade.gov.au/benchmark-report/renewable-energy-superpower
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2023, 06:52:37 PM: You know, Tony, I think it was Barack Obama who noted that when people begin a sentence with "I am not racist against the Black people, but..." it never ends well. And yours did not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 16, 2023, 07:14:35 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2023, 05:45:43 PM

But, instead we had a fucking asshole mayor of Lancaster for a while, Henry Hearns, and he was a preacher at a Black church in Los Angeles, and he brought all of the poor Black people to the Antelope Valley from Compton, and from Watts, and from South Central Los Angeles, etc. So, now the Antelope Valley has gangs, and drugs, and crime, and they call it a ghetto now...

There he is. I have long sensed the real Tony in there, hiding behind the idealism and philanthropy and declarations of Christian love and ministering to the poor and uplifting the unhoused yata yata yata.

Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 16, 2023, 05:45:43 PM

I am not racist against the Black people, but they need to realize that education is the way to improve their lives and not drugs and gangs and crime.

There he is again!

Wow. Hiding in the shadows no more.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 09:03:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 16, 2023, 06:43:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM
The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.

Australia is roughly the size of the contiguous United States (aka the lower 48), but has only 1/12 the population. A small fraction of the outback would easily provide the affordable solar and wind (with peak use storage systems) everyone needs. And the jumbucks and swagmen would enjoy the shade provided by solar panels. The kookaburra is laughing at all you stodgy dinosaurs.

'All' the solar panels and their controllers are made in China.
They are connected to the internet...and as such China could hack in and turn off all the power ...it was reported the other day.
At that news there was much alarm.

The unemployed/homeless 'swagmen'' these days camp in backpacker hostels, their costs paid for with the welfare money credited to their bank accounts each fortnight...bambu-ilk over the decades demanded it....''money to live on [buy food and possibly some shelter] for the unemployed/homeless."
The swagmen usually stay close to towns where the food is.

The billabong campers these days usually travel in Japanese 4WD vehicles and big American trucks ...towing big caravans...or in RVs.
Plenty of solar on the caravan roofs.
They can stay off grid for a very long time power wise...but food and water storage demands that about 2 weeks is their limit.
They love the billabongs and oceans to camp near.

Wind?
Wind turbines fail...

https://www.cotes.com/blog/most-common-reasons-for-wind-turbine-failures#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20external%20wind,edge%20corrosion%20or%20blade%20cracks. (https://www.cotes.com/blog/most-common-reasons-for-wind-turbine-failures#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20external%20wind,edge%20corrosion%20or%20blade%20cracks.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 09:40:59 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 16, 2023, 06:51:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 05:32:18 AM
The things listed in the Aust/California climate change-green dreaming deal are harmless enough, and could have many benefits.
Hope they don't have any bright ideas about mandating only electric vehicles can be sold in Australia after 2030, 2035, or in their lifetimes.

Good thing brighter folks than you are running the show.

https://www.austrade.gov.au/benchmark-report/renewable-energy-superpower

All very nice...but,

Capture it in the outback, store it in the outback...lovely.
But the People don't live in the outback, they live on the coast.
Easy you say, transmit the stored energy to the coast.
How?
By transmission lines.
But there aren't any.
Build some you say...simple.

What is in between the outback and the coast?
Farms, fertile farmland, where Australia feeds itself and parts of the world.
Family farms. Cattle, sheep, and all sorts of crops...for export and to feed the cattle and sheep.
The transmission lines have a large foot print on a farm.
As 'usual' the left doesn't understand, or doesn't want to understand, anything about farms.

"The National Farmers' Federation has vowed to oppose any widespread compulsory acquisition of farmland needed for power line corridors "to the bitter end".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 10:01:47 PM: Wind turbines fail, and...who wants a wind turbine in their 'yard' ?

. Wind turbine blades kill thousands of migratory birds.
. Most wind turbines need a sustained wind speed of 9mph or higher to operate. A still morning with 'an afternoon sea breeze' doesn't cut it.
. Wind turbines are noisy, have health hazards for humans.
. Wind turbines compromise wildlife habits.

Wind turbines are bad news.

"Residents oppose offshore wind project".
"Paddle-out protest over wind farm".
"Community meeting on proposed wind farm".
"Hundreds of residents lined the shore today in protest of the Offshore wind project".
"Wind farm will no longer be situated there".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 10:19:48 PM: Justin Trudeau blasted after trans woman breaks Canadian powerlifting record
24 hours ago

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Should be interesting.
Riley Gaines, a former college swimmer, has blasted Justin Trudeau for his "radical disdain" for women after trans athlete Anne Andres broke a new Canadian and
unofficial world record at a women's powerlifting championship.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 12:50:25 AM: The real world has moved past your shitty gripes, Bambi, and is on to implementing solutions,

http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/ (http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/)

This is one of many approaches that exceed the limitations in your perspective.

It is no wonder no one gives you shit to do. If they did, nothing would ever get done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 12:58:27 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 12:50:25 AM
The real world has moved past your shitty gripes, Bambi, and is on to implementing solutions,

http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/ (http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/)

This is one of many approaches that exceed the limitations in your perspective.

It is no wonder no one gives you shit to do. If they did, nothing would ever get done.

"More ot less silently".
In other words they make a noise.
And, have moving parts.
And make a louder noise as the parts wear, I bet.
No use on homes with sloping rooves.
Maybe could be used on commercial buidings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 02:53:57 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 12:58:27 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 12:50:25 AM
The real world has moved past your shitty gripes, Bambi, and is on to implementing solutions,

http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/ (http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/)

This is one of many approaches that exceed the limitations in your perspective.

It is no wonder no one gives you shit to do. If they did, nothing would ever get done.

"More ot less silently".
In other words they make a noise.
And, have moving parts.
And make a louder noise as the parts wear, I bet.
No use on homes with sloping rooves.
Maybe could be used on commercial buidings.

Maybe you should put your money in with these guys instead

http://www.halcium.com/ (http://www.halcium.com/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 04:03:07 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 02:53:57 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 12:58:27 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 12:50:25 AM
The real world has moved past your shitty gripes, Bambi, and is on to implementing solutions,

http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/ (http://newatlas.com/energy/aeromine-rooftop-wind/)

This is one of many approaches that exceed the limitations in your perspective.

It is no wonder no one gives you shit to do. If they did, nothing would ever get done.

"More ot less silently".
In other words they make a noise.
And, have moving parts.
And make a louder noise as the parts wear, I bet.
No use on homes with sloping rooves.
Maybe could be used on commercial buidings.

Maybe you should put your money in with these guys instead

http://www.halcium.com/ (http://www.halcium.com/)

That sounds a lot better than the big ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 04:52:44 AM: On my Ozland tv screen now:
"Entry to the Green Dream to cost another $150bn."
That's B for Billion.
$150 billion...don't know where Albo thinks he's gonna get that money from.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 05:42:00 AM: The next headline:

"(Legal)Immigration causing housing shortage".

Same as in America.
Plus illegal immigration.

Young people so in love with the Left and 'hateful' of ScoMo-ilk that they vote themselves into *homelessness*.
You'd have to laugh if it weren't so serious.

The young voting Left, fans of Albo and co, are the ones who'll be affected, not older people who have a home.
(Legal)Migrants mainly vote Left, it is said.
Legal immigrants must have considerable money, to show they can support themselves.
Some have to have sponsors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 09:01:33 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 16, 2023, 10:01:47 PM
Wind turbines fail, and...who wants a wind turbine in their 'yard' ?

. Wind turbine blades kill thousands of migratory birds.
. Most wind turbines need a sustained wind speed of 9mph or higher to operate. A still morning with 'an afternoon sea breeze' doesn't cut it.
. Wind turbines are noisy, have health hazards for humans.
. Wind turbines compromise wildlife habits.

Wind turbines are bad news.

"Residents oppose offshore wind project".
"Paddle-out protest over wind farm".
"Community meeting on proposed wind farm".
"Hundreds of residents lined the shore today in protest of the Offshore wind project".
"Wind farm will no longer be situated there".
But residents love it when a huge coal burning plant gets built in their neighborhood, right? You are a horrible consumer of news.

Note there is a potential typo lurking near "news" that makes that last sentence horrific.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 17, 2023, 12:40:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 16, 2023, 06:52:37 PM
You know, Tony, I think it was Barack Obama who noted that when people begin a sentence with "I am not racist against the Black people, but..." it never ends well. And yours did not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:30:52 PM: In Nevada they teach you that "The House Always Wins" and it needs to be the same way with the United States, the house must always win.

We had Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, and the others, and they set the USA up for success, they set it up for the house to always win.

Alexander Hamilton set up the Bank of New York so that we could borrow money from ourselves instead of getting in debt to foreign nations, and then they created income for the USA by putting tariffs on imports, and tariffs on imports were the main source of income for the government until World War 1.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM: It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews and God told them to take care of each other and to help the poor. But, in the USA we are all different, and people may not feel connected to a homeless person, they do not feel any obligation to help that homeless person, even if the homeless person is a Veteran who put his life in danger for the USA then the people still do not feel any obligation to help that homeless person.

Christians are supposed to give 10% to the Church, and the Church is supposed to help the homeless and the widows and the orphans, etc, but many people are not Christians.

So we need to have all people as equals, and we have Social Security, and Health Care, for all people, and finally now with Mayor Bass we are helping the homeless people in Los Angeles. The USA is learning and growing and we are helping the homeless people now, we are making progress.

We need for the USA to have the same unity that Israel has, and to help our poor and our people with the same purpose that Israel does. We need for all men to be equal, just like the Jews are equal. And we need for the USA to be united with the same connection to each other that the Jews have.

The USA is a one of a kind nation, this is the only place that is for all people of the world, and where all people are equal. It is hard, but we are making progress.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 17, 2023, 06:11:57 PM: Seriously, is there any way to get Josh back to resume his duties as a moderator? No, never mind, I can see why he would not want to take up that Sisyphean task again. I did admire that thing he did for a short while where he could red highlight posters factually incorrect statements and so label them.

What minimal bit of research would it have required to find out that 26% of Israels population is not Jewish? Or that it would be considerably more if 700,000 native Palestinian Arabs had not been forced out in 1948?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 06:24:15 PM: Megan Kelly slammed the USA Women's Soccer team over their performance during their national anthem..."except the blonde on the end".

Megan Kelly was outraged that the American women weren't singing their national anthem (like other teams were singing theirs), or if they didn't know the words at least place hand on heart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 06:47:58 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews and God told them to take care of each other and to help the poor. But, in the USA we are all different, and people may not feel connected to a homeless person, they do not feel any obligation to help that homeless person, even if the homeless person is a Veteran who put his life in danger for the USA then the people still do not feel any obligation to help that homeless person.

Christians are supposed to give 10% to the Church, and the Church is supposed to help the homeless and the widows and the orphans, etc, but many people are not Christians.

So we need to have all people as equals, and we have Social Security, and Health Care, for all people, and finally now with Mayor Bass we are helping the homeless people in Los Angeles. The USA is learning and growing and we are helping the homeless people now, we are making progress.

We need for the USA to have the same unity that Israel has, and to help our poor and our people with the same purpose that Israel does. We need for all men to be equal, just like the Jews are equal. And we need for the USA to be united with the same connection to each other that the Jews have.

The USA is a one of a kind nation, this is the only place that is for all people of the world, and where all people are equal. It is hard, but we are making progress.

Salute,

Tony V.

Easier, Tony?

What, you mean like in Japan, China, etc?
Yes, only one race, one culture.
Sure is easier.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 06:54:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Between ignoring the existence of Palestinians and the tacit belief if ethnicpurity, I can't even. Just... no.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:05:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 06:54:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Between ignoring the existence of Palestinians and the tacit belief if ethnicpurity, I can't even. Just... no.

Why not? There are people in America cheering against America in sport.
Should they be allowed to do that and go unpunished?

American, or living in America as a permanent resident, and cheering against America, there's a name for that isn't there?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 07:16:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 06:54:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Between ignoring the existence of Palestinians and the tacit belief if ethnicpurity, I can't even. Just... no.

Why not? There are people in America cheering against America in sport.
Should they be allowed to do that and go unpunished?

American, or living in America as a permanent resident, and cheering against America, there's a name for that isn't there?
What in God's Holy Name are you blabbering about? I do not care a fig who someone roots for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:22:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 07:16:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 06:54:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Between ignoring the existence of Palestinians and the tacit belief if ethnicpurity, I can't even. Just... no.

Why not? There are people in America cheering against America in sport.
Should they be allowed to do that and go unpunished?

American, or living in America as a permanent resident, and cheering against America, there's a name for that isn't there?
What in God's Holy Name are you blabbering about? I do not care a fig who someone roots for.

And that's the problem.
Exactly why patriotism in America is in rapid decline.
One morning you'll likely awaken to find America is no more, a now-foreign flag flying high over the nation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 07:31:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:22:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 07:16:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 17, 2023, 06:54:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 17, 2023, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
It is hard with race in the USA. It would be easier if we were all the same race like Israel with the Jews, Israel is the most united nation in the world in my opinion. We need to have the same equality that Israel has, only we need to do it with all of the world's people, and all people need to be equal.

In Israel it is easy to take care of the poor and to help the young people to get started in Business, etc, they just naturally take care of their own people, and plus they are all Jews...

Good grief.
Between ignoring the existence of Palestinians and the tacit belief if ethnicpurity, I can't even. Just... no.

Why not? There are people in America cheering against America in sport.
Should they be allowed to do that and go unpunished?

American, or living in America as a permanent resident, and cheering against America, there's a name for that isn't there?
What in God's Holy Name are you blabbering about? I do not care a fig who someone roots for.

And that's the problem.
Exactly why patriotism in America is in rapid decline.
One morning you'll likely awaken to find America is no more, a now-foreign flag flying high over the nation.
"With all due respect to [Samuel Johnson], it is in fact the first."

- Ambrose Bierce

Besides, what you are talking about is jingoism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 07:39:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:22:21 PM
And that's the problem.
Exactly why patriotism in America is in rapid decline.
One morning you'll likely awaken to find America is no more, a now-foreign flag flying high over the nation.

Flag fucking is not patriotism. Nuremberg style rallies are not patriotic. Chauvinist hooliganism is the opposite of patriotism. You would know this if you did not spend every waking moment hiding from your country and seeking the noises of fools to reenforce the stupidity of your disordered mind.

Patriotism is alive and well at the food bank and on the picket line and in the reproductive health networks that mirror the Underground Railroad and efforts to integrate and welcome newcomers of every stripe and in the political organizing that is destroying conservatism and driving it from the political scene.

If you ever had it, you would recognize it, but you never did so you do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:52:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2023, 07:39:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 17, 2023, 07:22:21 PM
And that's the problem.
Exactly why patriotism in America is in rapid decline.
One morning you'll likely awaken to find America is no more, a now-foreign flag flying high over the nation.

Flag fucking is not patriotism. Nuremberg style rallies are not patriotic. Chauvinist hooliganism is the opposite of patriotism. You would know this if you did not spend every waking moment hiding from your country and seeking the noises of fools to reenforce the stupidity of your disordered mind.

Patriotism is alive and well at the food bank and on the picket line and in the reproductive health networks that mirror the Underground Railroad and efforts to integrate and welcome newcomers of every stripe and in the political organizing that is destroying conservatism and driving it from the political scene.

If you ever had it, you would recognize it, but you never did so you do not.

Patriotism died in Australia long ago, when the country was finally overrun with foreigners waving their own flags, and being encouraged and favoured above others.
The others realised their fate, but instead of jumping to their death in the billabong, they opted out of the unwinnable flag war and went fishing in, and sailing on, the billabong instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 09:42:33 PM: Bambu, your traveling Gypsies will want 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, with Wine, Beer, Cigarettes, Coffee, Frozen Burritos, and with Nachos, etc.

Link...

https://www.7-eleven.com/products/hot-foods/nachos

Also, you will want McDonald's, and Carl's Jr, and In N Out, and Jack in the Box, etc. And Shakey's Pizza, and Pizza Hut, and Naugles Tacos, and Tito's Tacos, and Oki Dog, etc, etc, etc. El Polo Loco is good Chicken, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Tell Caroline Kennedy that Australia wants all of the good stuff. You need a Ron Jon Surf Shop from Florida, Australia needs all of the best stuff.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 18, 2023, 12:02:08 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 17, 2023, 09:42:33 PM
Bambu, your traveling Gypsies will want 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, with Wine, Beer, Cigarettes, Coffee, Frozen Burritos, and with Nachos, etc.

Link...

https://www.7-eleven.com/products/hot-foods/nachos

Also, you will want McDonald's, and Carl's Jr, and In N Out, and Jack in the Box, etc. And Shakey's Pizza, and Pizza Hut, and Naugles Tacos, and Tito's Tacos, and Oki Dog, etc, etc, etc. El Polo Loco is good Chicken, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Tell Caroline Kennedy that Australia wants all of the good stuff. You need a Ron Jon Surf Shop from Florida, Australia needs all of the best stuff.

Salute,

Tony V.

We have most of the big American fast food outlets and drive thrus already, have had for decades.
Doesn't seem to be much home-cooking going on anymore.
Long lines at the drive thrus from 6am ...some 24 hrs.

There are also 7- elevens everywhere, as gas stations-convenience stores.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 18, 2023, 04:45:54 AM: You will not have to worry about China since we have already colonized you. Not a moment too late as you are clearly in need of both civilization and culture.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2023, 10:45:18 PM: Kiwanis International can work together with Paint Companies and with Home Building Supply Stores, etc, to organize the beautification of our ghettos here in the USA, and Katie Hobbs and Arizona can send fresh Winter Vegetables to our ghettos, etc. And Dolly Parton can send books to our ghettos.

A secret for painting housing is to use Boat Paint, my friend used Boat Boat to paint custom houses. Marine and Boat Paint can be used to paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors. And they can have cobblestones, etc. and fountains, and plants, and trees, etc.

We need to have beautification projects in our ghettos, they can use Marine Paint and they can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, and they can have libraries, and coffee shops, etc, and it can be nice like in Amsterdam. And Governor Katie Hobbs can make sure that our ghettos have lots of fresh winter vegetables, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 18, 2023, 10:53:39 PM: Welcome to Thereisenstadt!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2023, 11:07:31 PM: God knew that we needed water, and that it was getting so bad that people were ready to start fighting over water, but then God sent lots of water, and we have dams in Arizona where they are growing plentiful Winter Vegetables for New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, because of plentiful rain then there are people who will turn that rain water into food to feed to our poor ghettos, etc. ( And as we send food for our ghettos, we also need to give them paint jobs and beautification projects, and libraries, and coffee shops, etc. We can send a ray of blessing to the ghettos as we send them Winter Vegetables. )

That rain will all be turned into food by good people and America can enjoy the blessings of dams built long ago.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 12:11:10 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2023, 10:45:18 PM
Kiwanis International can work together with Paint Companies and with Home Building Supply Stores, etc, to organize the beautification of our ghettos here in the USA, and Katie Hobbs and Arizona can send fresh Winter Vegetables to our ghettos, etc. And Dolly Parton can send books to our ghettos.

A secret for painting housing is to use Boat Paint, my friend used Boat Boat to paint custom houses. Marine and Boat Paint can be used to paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors. And they can have cobblestones, etc. and fountains, and plants, and trees, etc.

We need to have beautification projects in our ghettos, they can use Marine Paint and they can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, and they can have libraries, and coffee shops, etc, and it can be nice like in Amsterdam. And Governor Katie Hobbs can make sure that our ghettos have lots of fresh winter vegetables, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

The whole of the West needs a good coat of paint...over sealer, and undercoat...it sure is looking old, tired, rundown, drab.
Some bright colours might make it look alive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 12:42:41 AM: News?
You have a cute baby daughter, she grows into a lovely 18 yr old young woman, she graduates high school, then you drive innocent her off to college.
You drop her off in her accommodation, shed some tears, then leave.
5 minutes after you're gone, her roommate 'drags' her off to a frat party.

When you make it home, probably best to set up an altar, and pray regularly.
It's your only hope.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 19, 2023, 01:36:27 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 12:11:10 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2023, 10:45:18 PM
Kiwanis International can work together with Paint Companies and with Home Building Supply Stores, etc, to organize the beautification of our ghettos here in the USA, and Katie Hobbs and Arizona can send fresh Winter Vegetables to our ghettos, etc. And Dolly Parton can send books to our ghettos.

A secret for painting housing is to use Boat Paint, my friend used Boat Boat to paint custom houses. Marine and Boat Paint can be used to paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors. And they can have cobblestones, etc. and fountains, and plants, and trees, etc.

We need to have beautification projects in our ghettos, they can use Marine Paint and they can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, and they can have libraries, and coffee shops, etc, and it can be nice like in Amsterdam. And Governor Katie Hobbs can make sure that our ghettos have lots of fresh winter vegetables, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

The whole of the West needs a good coat of paint...over sealer, and undercoat...it sure is looking old, tired, rundown, drab.
Some bright colours might make it look alive.

You are not the West, Bambu. What you see in the mirror applies to you. We are fine. We will destroy conservatism and live to fight another day.

You, you do not look so good. Lie down for awhile. Let the West get on with things. It all goes over your head anyway. Trying to think only makes you break out in that rash.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 02:37:09 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 19, 2023, 01:36:27 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 12:11:10 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 18, 2023, 10:45:18 PM
Kiwanis International can work together with Paint Companies and with Home Building Supply Stores, etc, to organize the beautification of our ghettos here in the USA, and Katie Hobbs and Arizona can send fresh Winter Vegetables to our ghettos, etc. And Dolly Parton can send books to our ghettos.

A secret for painting housing is to use Boat Paint, my friend used Boat Boat to paint custom houses. Marine and Boat Paint can be used to paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors. And they can have cobblestones, etc. and fountains, and plants, and trees, etc.

We need to have beautification projects in our ghettos, they can use Marine Paint and they can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, and they can have libraries, and coffee shops, etc, and it can be nice like in Amsterdam. And Governor Katie Hobbs can make sure that our ghettos have lots of fresh winter vegetables, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

The whole of the West needs a good coat of paint...over sealer, and undercoat...it sure is looking old, tired, rundown, drab.
Some bright colours might make it look alive.

You are not the West, Bambu. What you see in the mirror applies to you. We are fine. We will destroy conservatism and live to fight another day.

You, you do not look so good. Lie down for awhile. Let the West get on with things. It all goes over your head anyway. Trying to think only makes you break out in that rash.

I drive thru America often, via the internet...it's actually better than doing it for real..I don't have to keep my eyes on the road.
As beautiful as the scenery in America is, more than a few places could do with a coat of paint.
It's the same outside of America too.
Tony's idea is a good one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 03:24:13 PM: It is hard in America right now, that is why all of the workers are on strike. And thank God we have Labor Unions, and Labor Laws, etc.

We have come a long way in America from the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894 and Eugene V. Debs, back when the Pullman company owned the stores and the housing and the workers worked for nothing and gave all of their money back to the Pullman company stores, etc.

And we had child labor, and slavery, and other bad things. We have come a long way.

I support the workers, and the workers need to be paid fair and they need to be treated well. We have come a long way, and it will get better because we have learned over the years and we know how to make things better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 19, 2023, 05:21:41 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 03:24:13 PM
It is hard in America right now, that is why all of the workers are on strike. And thank God we have Labor Unions, and Labor Laws, etc.

We have come a long way in America from the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894 and Eugene V. Debs, back when the Pullman company owned the stores and the housing and the workers worked for nothing and gave all of their money back to the Pullman company stores, etc.

And we had child labor, and slavery, and other bad things. We have come a long way.

I support the workers, and the workers need to be paid fair and they need to be treated well. We have come a long way, and it will get better because we have learned over the years and we know how to make things better.

Salute,

Tony V.

What
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 06:34:08 PM: Seems to always have been hard in America, an extremely hard "dog eat dog" existence for average Joe / below average Joe.
Maybe why the crime rate is so high.
Memphis being the most dangerous city in America.

My assessment from afar is that it was not as hard in the 50's, 60s and 70s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 19, 2023, 08:09:43 PM: It was harder, but you got beat more for speaking out so less was reported or recorded of the struggles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 08:27:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 06:34:08 PM
Seems to always have been hard in America, an extremely hard "dog eat dog" existence for average Joe / below average Joe.
Maybe why the crime rate is so high.
Memphis being the most dangerous city in America.

My assessment from afar is that it was not as hard in the 50's, 60s and 70s.

I went through Memphis on a Greyhound Bus, and we went through Nashville, and Chattanooga, etc, it was great. I liked Memphis, it was one of my favorite cities in the USA, I ate Big Macs at a McDonald's in Memphis while traveling through on the Greyhound Bus. The people in Memphis were very nice, and the women were beautiful and they had that Southern Charm. The Big Macs were great, and the people were nice. Also, Memphis is in the Book "The Firm" by John Grisham, which is a great book, the book is way better than the movie.

I like Memphis, it is one of my favorite cities. I like Saint Augustine in Florida, and I like Cocoa Beach in Florida, and I like Las Vegas, Nevada, and I like Palm Springs, California, and I like Malibu, California, etc. The USA has some great cities. Carson City, Nevada, is nice, we have a lot of nice areas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 08:44:29 PM: I am sure that the current and future Farms in Arizona are and will be nice Farming Villages where they can have nice communities, and they have the United Farm Workers of America, they will be treated fair. Also, many farms are Co-Operatives, and the workers and farmers all share in the profits, like with Sunkist here in Southern California and also in Arizona.

The Farming Villages can have schools, and libraries, and coffee shops, and swimming pools, and tennis courts, and movie theatres, etc.

And the Farming Villages will send fresh Winter Vegetables to the ghettos of the USA, which is awesome, we can send them food, books, coffee shops, and a fresh coat of paint, and Kiwanis International can organize everything to beautify our ghettos and to improve the lives of American citizens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 09:00:38 PM: My Grandmother worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino, and Sonny Barger from the Hell's Angels hung out there, and Sonny used to call my Grandmother "Miss New York" because he said she had class, she was from a small town outside of Denver, Colorado, but she allowed Sonny to call her "Miss New York."

I had Big Macs with Bruce Willis in Saint Louis, Missouri, at a McDonald's at the Greyhound station by the Arch. It was in the middle of the night, just hanging out with Bruce Willis like normal guys having burgers, then his new Mercedes was delivered on a truck and he had to leave, he was all normal except for the new Mercedes that he had delivered.

Then, I met Eddie Van Halen at the McDonald's in Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd, by Ozzy Osbourne's Star on the Walk of Fame, all of the stars go to the McDonald's and Eddie loved McDonald's.

Everyone loves a good Big Mac every now and then. And Greyhound goes to all of the McDonald's restaurants as you travel across the country, it is great. I highly recommend that you get out when you can and see the USA on a Greyhound Bus, it is a great way to see America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 19, 2023, 09:59:17 PM: Stay safe and dry, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 19, 2023, 10:39:41 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 19, 2023, 09:59:17 PM
Stay safe and dry, Tony.

Thanks, you too.

I see it all as a blessing, God knew we needed water, so we are getting lots of water. And it is all going to be used to grow food, and to create jobs for Farm Workers, etc, and to feed fresh vegetables to people in ghettos, the rain is wonderful, we are so blessed.

I hope everyone enjoys a good safe and peaceful experience from the storm. I plan to drink coffee and watch the rain fall. Maybe I will do some reading, I like to read when it is raining out.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 19, 2023, 11:01:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 06:34:08 PM
Seems to always have been hard in America, an extremely hard "dog eat dog" existence for average Joe / below average Joe.
Maybe why the crime rate is so high.
Memphis being the most dangerous city in America.

My assessment from afar is that it was not as hard in the 50's, 60s and 70s.
Well,.you ARE white.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 20, 2023, 12:30:40 AM: We need to send trucks full of products to open Northgate Mexican Markets in the poor parts of Kentucky, as the coal miners go back to school then they can have cheap Mexican Markets to shop at.

https://www.northgatemarket.com/

I get fresh baked bread, fresh made tortillas, pork in a million ways, chicken in a million ways, beef in a million ways, seafood in a million ways, etc. Plus they carry Italian wine. And everything to make Margaritas, and Pina Coladas, etc. Plus good deals on little things like frozen pizza, etc. And we have lots of local fruits and vegetables, and chili peppers, etc.

Bambu, tell Caroline Kennedy that you want Northgate Gonzalez Mexican Markets in Australia, and we have traveling Gypsies here in California too. I had neighbors who were Persian Gypsies, about 12 girls lived in a 1 bedroom apartment, they had a van and they all drove around together in a van. They used to wear homemade dresses and go barefoot. They used to wash their van in the parking lot of my apartment complex while wearing swimsuits in the heat of the summer. Anyhow, the Persian Gypsies here love the Northgate Gonzalez Mexican Markets. And the stars shop at the Northgate Mexican Market too, I saw Hugh Laurie there and other stars. The Australians would love to have a dozen Northgate Gonzalez Mexican Markets, just tell Caroline Kennedy what you want.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 20, 2023, 12:58:04 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 19, 2023, 11:01:05 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 19, 2023, 06:34:08 PM
Seems to always have been hard in America, an extremely hard "dog eat dog" existence for average Joe / below average Joe.
Maybe why the crime rate is so high.
Memphis being the most dangerous city in America.

My assessment from afar is that it was not as hard in the 50's, 60s and 70s.
Well,.you ARE white.

True enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 20, 2023, 01:37:45 AM: Hawaiians adopted Spam as one of their staple foods, and it is commonly used in a fried rice dish. The company says it ships 7 million cans of Spam to the state each year, and its products are "practically the national food" of Hawaii. 3 days ago

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The people of Hawaii love fried Spam on whole wheat toast with grilled pineapple. They have the bakeries and the pineapple farms, all that they need is for everyone to send them Spam.

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Spam that is sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota (also known as "Spam Town USA") and in Dubuque, Iowa. Austin, Minnesota also had a restaurant with a menu devoted exclusively to Spam called "Johnny's SPAMarama Menu."

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Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 20, 2023, 08:21:55 AM: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 20, 2023, 09:30:52 AM: I did not have to click that youtube link to know what it is.

Once again we witness the deep bond between Vikings and Polynesians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 20, 2023, 10:03:38 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 20, 2023, 09:30:52 AM
I did not have to click that youtube link to know what it is.

Once again we witness the deep bond between Vikings and Polynesians.
Yeah, pretty obvious response to Tony's Spam spam.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 20, 2023, 07:50:44 PM: Tony!

https://youtu.be/NxIAedHLrjk

Brah we should ship a ton of Old Bay seasoning to Italy and open a crab shack!

Steaming crabs by the bushel with corn would change how the Italians eat the crabs!

You know Italy and I am from DC by way of Long Island so I know BLUE CLAW CRABS!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 21, 2023, 04:09:15 AM: The floods in California are horrible, and life-threatening, now there's an earthquake...not a big one but a quake nonetheless.
Hope everyone is still alive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 21, 2023, 11:43:01 AM: California is still here, Bambi. Thanks for your concern.

You will be happy to know that our solar panels all got a good cleaning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 21, 2023, 05:20:54 PM: Hehe!

I predict that by 2040, "my solar panels got a good cleaning" will be slang for nookie.

On a distantly related topic, I learned a new fun fact today. If you visit a city in England that goes back to the Middle Ages, it is not uncommon to find an old street called Grape Lane, Grove Lane, or Grope Lane. These were apparently the result of tidying up offensive streetnames, in particular the common name for a street where there was a prostitution district: Gropecunt Lane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Now I'm wondering about the Beatles and Penny Lane...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 21, 2023, 05:24:30 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 20, 2023, 07:50:44 PM
Tony!

https://youtu.be/NxIAedHLrjk

Brah we should ship a ton of Old Bay seasoning to Italy and open a crab shack!

Steaming crabs by the bushel with corn would change how the Italians eat the crabs!

You know Italy and I am from DC by way of Long Island so I know BLUE CLAW CRABS!

"We fight this blue crab, but he is stronger than us because there are so many of them," said Marco Giudici, who has been fishing in the Orbetello lagoon for more than 40 years. He even has a battle scar: On one thumb, he has the marks of a crab that almost broke his nail with a claw. 1 day ago

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I know the perfect spot for a night club in Rome, we could feed them all crab while they listen to live music.

One time I had Cajun food at BB King's House of Blues which was at the Universal City Walk, it was fantastic, I drank beer and Southern Comfort while listening to live Blues all night, and they kept bringing me plates of Cajun seafood, I was with some friends from the AADA, and after the Club closed we jumped the fence at Universal and took a tour of Universal in the middle of the night, I told my friend "Just act like we belong here" as we walked around Universal Studios, I used to work at Universal so I know the place, and we passed security guards and everything with no problems, all drunk on Southern Comfort. It was a great night. That is what night clubs are for, they are places to make memories. I made memories at BB King's night club, and the food was fantastic.

All of the clubs in Italy are blessed with crab now, they need guys like you Larry to teach them how to cook it. Certainly they see the crabs as a blessing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 21, 2023, 05:35:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 21, 2023, 04:09:15 AM
The floods in California are horrible, and life-threatening, now there's an earthquake...not a big one but a quake nonetheless.
Hope everyone is still alive.

Everything is fine here in Anaheim, the rains were nice, no wind to speak of, and like Fac said, it cleaned everyone's solar panels.

We build everything really strong in California, we have strict codes for building because of earthquakes, so everything is fine. When people from around the world want to learn how to build earthquake safe housing then they come to California to learn.

It is a beautiful day now, we are blessed.

Plus, there were fires, and fire dangers, so the rain put out the fires and reduced the fire dangers. We need to put the homeless people to work, and the prisoners to work, reducing fire dangers, they can clear dry brush, they can trim trees, etc, we can put them to work to reduce fire dangers. Plus, we need to put the electric power lines underground and we need to go with all clean energy with the companies owned by the Citizens like in Anaheim, and in Anaheim the power lines will all be put underground over the next 50 years.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 21, 2023, 05:37:48 PM: We, on the Eastern outskirts of Hilary, got wind but no rain to speak of, more a light descending mist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 21, 2023, 05:41:43 PM: Hey, listen here
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality, I tell you
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman, you gonna make a big man out of me

And no pointy headed woke elitist is taking her away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 21, 2023, 06:39:21 PM: I met her. She is nice.

She is sleeping with your sister and never was nor will be interested in you or anyone like you.

They celebrate Beltian, contribute to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and ponder which model of Subaru to go for when they take that big road trip.

Gather round children, wherever you roam.
Admit that the waters around you have grown
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 21, 2023, 08:57:49 PM: We have lots of local work to do with Canada and Mexico...

We cannot allow New York to be covered in smoke from fires in Canada, we cannot allow any more of that to occur. We need to send the homeless people and the prisoners from New York to work in the forests of Canada to do fire prevention work, and the Government of Canada can pay for the homeless and the prisoners to do work to prevent future forest fires. Canada also needs better fire spotters, and they need to put the fires out while the fires are small. We must not allow the bad fires in Canada that cover New York with smoke.

And here in California, we need to improve relations with Mexico, and we need to remove the fence, and we need to work together as a team with Mexico to reduce crime and to make things better. No one wants for the drug cartels to retain power in Mexico, we are wise adults, we know that the good people must control Mexico. The good law abiding people must control Mexico. It is time to grow up and behave like adults. We do not need any walls. Here in California we LOVE Mexico. And the Latinos are in the Majority here in Anaheim. We love Mexico. We need to build schools, and libraries, and hospitals, and orphanages, etc, in Mexico, while we increase business and expand trade, and we can invest in the ports in Mexico, and Mexican truck drivers can join the Teamsters Union, etc. And we have the United Farm Workers of America, etc. And Governor Katie Hobbs of Arizona can help to create jobs for the Farm Workers as we send Winter Vegetables to New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, etc, etc, and we can have beautification projects in the USA, etc.

Mexico is investing in Trains, they are building new trains all over Mexico right now. And Mexico is banking on Tourism.

AOC and some others from the USA are in Mexico right now. There are many issues that we need to address with Mexico, and we need to be friends and loving neighbors, there is no reason for a wall.

We need to improve relations with both Canada and Mexico and there are things we need to work on with our neighbors. And we also need to write a new immigration law that includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on August 21, 2023, 09:00:42 PM: Ward quoting that well-known opponent of Leftist woke elitists, Freddie Mercury.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on August 21, 2023, 09:16:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 21, 2023, 05:37:48 PM
We, on the Eastern outskirts of Hilary, got wind but no rain to speak of, more a light descending mist.

Hey, Boz, did you know that Crazy Chester (of your tagline) was an actual resident of Fayetteville Arkansas, from where my lovely wife came? Levon Helm and Ronnie Hawkins knew him from their time in Arkansas. My wife's parents knew him as a local eccentric who walked around town with cap guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 21, 2023, 09:26:59 PM: Quote from: wombattery on August 21, 2023, 09:00:42 PM
Ward quoting that well-known opponent of Leftist woke elitists, Freddie Mercury.
LOL!freddie mercury
Oilcan needed google to even identify him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 21, 2023, 11:19:11 PM: Red is trying to shrink other posters down to his scale. Aw. It is so pathetic.

Red is an art piece demonstrating precipitous republican cognitive decline.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 22, 2023, 12:05:10 AM: It is also possible that Red wants to see trump and Christie on the ticket together. He is picturing them dancing together on stage at a rally to some music they are being sued not to play.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 22, 2023, 10:47:41 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 21, 2023, 09:26:59 PM
Quote from: wombattery on August 21, 2023, 09:00:42 PM
Ward quoting that well-known opponent of Leftist woke elitists, Freddie Mercury.
LOL!freddie mercury
Oilcan needed google to even identify him.

The joke was you quoting FB Girls as if the song were a rebuff to woke leftists.

Also amusing you would think anyone of my generation hasn't heard of Freddie Mecury. I was, what, 20-22, when I was trying to figure out the chords of Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano. Ditto Killer Queen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 05:23:03 PM: That is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. - Walt Disney

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H.G. Wells believed that we could save the world if we brought the writers, and the artists, into the ruling process with the politicians and Kings, etc. Which we have done in the USA, we sent Bob Hope on USO Tours to keep up morale for our troops, and Marilyn Monroe, etc. And we even had an actor as President, Ronald Reagan.

And we have the story-tellers telling us stories every evening when we watch television through the actors and actresses.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 05:27:50 PM: Freddie Mercury lived here in Los Angeles, and he threw legendary parties, he was a fantastic host from what I was told.

My Aunt has an ex-husband who had a Gay Brother who was Freddie Mercury's Gay Lover and they both died of AIDS, sad, then my Gay Cousin died of AIDS, AIDS was horrible and we lost a whole community here in Los Angeles, we lost a lot of people to AIDS. I am so happy that the scientists have made progress in the battle against AIDS.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 22, 2023, 07:25:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 05:27:50 PM
Freddie Mercury lived here in Los Angeles, and he threw legendary parties, he was a fantastic host from what I was told.

My Aunt has an ex-husband who had a Gay Brother who was Freddie Mercury's Gay Lover and they both died of AIDS, sad, then my Gay Cousin died of AIDS, AIDS was horrible and we lost a whole community here in Los Angeles, we lost a lot of people to AIDS. I am so happy that the scientists have made progress in the battle against AIDS.

Salute,

Tony V.

You can thank Dr. Fauci
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 08:48:31 PM: I hate when beautiful actresses try to hang on to their beauty and become sad when they find the beauty of youth fleeting and short lasting. There is no need for them to become unhappy, they can embrace the fact that they are older and wiser, which makes us better leaders, etc. The Native American Indians and the Japanese value their elders, they make the wise old men their leaders, and the Chinese, the wise cultures make their wise people their leaders.

So, with Sofia Vergara, and Jennifer Lopez, and with Pamela Anderson, as they grow older they can be leaders, and they are wiser, and they can help the next generation of young stars, and they can write, and produce, and direct, etc. And they can own the companies like with Lucy who went on to produce "Star Trek" etc, etc, etc. And the same with Natalie Portman, etc, she can be a Boss and a Leader now that she is an Elder. The same with Michelle Pfeiffer, etc, she can be a Boss now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 22, 2023, 09:13:58 PM: I think Salute Tony V is running out of things to pontificate on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 10:20:38 PM: It is hard for actresses because Hollywood has a youth focused culture, and the same with Paris, and Milan, etc. Some women feel like they are washed up when they are no longer young and beautiful, because of the Western culture, instead of glowing in their wisdom as Elders. We need for the women to Glow in their Wisdom as they age in Hollywood, and we need for them to write, direct, and produce, like Lucy, and they can own their own companies, etc. The women need to have Lucy as a Role Model, instead of worrying about lost youth, they can grow into world leaders in the Entertainment Industry, etc. When Hollywood emerges after the strike it will be different and there will be new people working. We need for our wise and talented people to grow into Leadership Positions and to lead in the New Hollywood that will emerge after the strikes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 10:55:37 PM: TikTok has over 1.677 billion users globally out of which 1.1 billion are its monthly active users as of 2023. Aug 9, 2023

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The stars of the future will be the hot young stars from Tik Tok and from Face Book, etc. Then their Bosses will be the Elders from Hollywood who have been here making movies for the last 20 years, etc. The studios are also growing with new studios in Florida that will be used for film and television, plus there will be new studios in Las Vegas, etc, plus there is Apple, and Amazon, etc, who are all making movies and television shows now. Hollywood will rise from the strikes with hot new stars from Social Media, with the Elders as the Bosses.

Plus we have the film schools, and the acting schools, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 22, 2023, 11:00:46 PM: Helen Mirin (British actress) is quoted as saying:
"Hollywood caters to the 25 yr old p...s."
If true, Hollywood could also cater to older female actresses by having them play the mothers of the younger women.

Hollywood should stop *killing* dogs and other pets in movies.
Instead of having the Apaches spear a rancher's lovely dog, they could have the spear just miss the dog and the dog escape...to appear again when the Apaches have been driven away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 11:20:48 PM: Hollywood does not kill dogs, nor are any animals injured in Hollywood movies.

And I support having our experienced Elders here in Hollywood running the show. Like Lucy. And I support giving more Women the opportunity to be the Boss like Lucy.

I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, she was a great Boss. And I wonder who is living in Empire West now? When I worked for Suzanne Pleshette then the whole building was full of stars. We had a few Playboy Playmates living there, and Jerry Vale, and Norby Walters, and Hal Needham, and lots of rich and famous people. I worked security, I watched the front door and parked the cars ( The cars were Rolls Royces, Bentleys, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, and I got to drive Hal Needham's Maserati, I was able to drive some nice cars ).

More women need to rise to Leadership Positions in the New Hollywood. Women like Lucy, and like Suzanne Pleshette, make great Bosses.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 11:58:31 PM: Here is a new show, Marli Buccola can play Jeannie and the "I Dream of Jeannie" show could be brought back, they can film the show at Universal in Orlando, Florida.

(https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/27608742/625full-marli-buccola.jpg)

Emilio Estevez could direct the show.

And Aurelia Scheppers, and Mahlagha Jaberi could be on the show.

That is what the new future in Hollywood can look like as we expand into more filming in Florida, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 12:55:20 AM: New Beach Blanket Bingo movies can be made in California using the new hot young talent from Tik Tok and Face Book and from You Tube, plus with the film students, and with the acting students.

Westerns can be made in Nevada at the new studios in Nevada, they can make the Slocum Westerns, etc.

Plus Bible movies can be made in the Desert, including in Lancaster, California.

And Florida can make "I Dream of Jeannie" with Marli Buccola, Aurelia Scheppers, and with Mahlagha Jaberi.

Oliver Stone has a few ideas on projects that he wants to make, Universal needs to give Oliver the money and the freedom to make some great projects. And Rob Zombie has some ideas on movies he wants to make, and he needs to be given the money and the freedom to make movies.

Plus people can bring back some of the Aaron Spelling projects, such as "Fantasy Island" and "Charlie's Angels" etc.

And lots of stars have movies and television shows that they want to make, we can make the movies and television shows in California, and in Florida, and in Nevada, etc. And in Rome, Italy, there is Cinecitta.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 23, 2023, 09:48:48 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 22, 2023, 09:13:58 PM
I think Salute Tony V is running out of things to pontificate on.

Spoke too soon. 😀
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 10:25:02 AM: In America the Constitution protects the right to practice religious beliefs.
No matter what the woke folks say.

Steve Tennes, owner of Country Mill Farms, sued East Lansing in 2017 after officials chose to exclude him from the city farmers market. Tennes, a devout Catholic, apparently was targeted by city officials after saying on Facebook that he follows the Catholic Church teachings about marriage, including when he participates in weddings at his family farm.

On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Michigan ruled that Tennes and his family were improperly forced to choose between following their religious beliefs and a government benefit for which they were otherwise qualified.

The court said the city of East Lansing violated the Tennes free exercise rights protected in the U.S. Constitution, Amendment One. The reason is simple, denying a person an equal share of the rights, benefits, and privileges enjoyed by other citizens because of her faith discourages religious activity.

Amen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 23, 2023, 10:50:11 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 10:25:02 AM

In America the Constitution protects the right to practice religious beliefs.
No matter what the woke folks say.

Steve Tennes, owner of Country Mill Farms, sued East Lansing in 2017 after officials chose to exclude him from the city farmers market. Tennes, a devout Catholic, apparently was targeted by city officials after saying on Facebook that he follows the Catholic Church teachings about marriage, including when he participates in weddings at his family farm.

On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Michigan ruled that Tennes and his family were improperly forced to choose between following their religious beliefs and a government benefit for which they were otherwise qualified.

The court said the city of East Lansing violated the Tennes free exercise rights protected in the U.S. Constitution, Amendment One. The reason is simple, denying a person an equal share of the rights, benefits, and privileges enjoyed by other citizens because of her faith discourages religious activity.

Amen.

I agree!

Everyone has a Constitutional right to be an asshole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 11:31:54 AM: I am sure Red backs the rights of Border Angels to operate in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico with the same verve and vigor he is applying in this case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM: Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine. As always, I wonder whether they let their wedding venue be used for other non-canonical weddings. If they refuse to allow their farm to be used for celebrations of what the church considers adultery they would go out of business.

It looks like EL was trying to apply its anti-discrmimnation rule for vendors to slots in the Farmer's Market. The other aspect of their business being unrelated to the Farmer's Market, there was no legitimate interest in the regulating that other business. Had their hatred disguised as a religious belief directly impacted the Farmer's Market, say not selling to Jews or not hiring women, that would have been different.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:37:03 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 23, 2023, 09:48:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 22, 2023, 09:13:58 PM
I think Salute Tony V is running out of things to pontificate on.

Spoke too soon. 😀
Yeah, I blame Yankguy for making Tony to essentially say, wait, hold my beer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 23, 2023, 12:29:23 PM: Which, in turn, forced me to keep scrolling up to look at the pinup of Marli Buccola. Perfidious.

Amused this a.m. by Trumps latest attempt to shoot new holes in his feet.

New CBS poll, just out, has me leading the field by legendary numbers. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES

People used to give Trump at least some credit for cunning, if nothing else. But only the most devoted cultists could not be put off by someone displaying smug complacency, and apparent cowardice, five months before the first primary. How hard would it be for him to answer any questions arising at the debate touching on his indictments with on the advice of counsel... Oh, wait....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 01:05:24 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 22, 2023, 11:58:31 PM
Here is a new show, Marli Buccola can play Jeannie and the "I Dream of Jeannie" show could be brought back, they can film the show at Universal in Orlando, Florida.

(https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/27608742/625full-marli-buccola.jpg)

Emilio Estevez could direct the show.

And Aurelia Scheppers, and Mahlagha Jaberi could be on the show.

That is what the new future in Hollywood can look like as we expand into more filming in Florida, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Yeah, given the demographics of the talent in Hollywood and the Talibanish direction of the State government expanding filming in Florida is not something you should hold your breath over.

Also, oil does not have to scroll as much now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 01:12:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 23, 2023, 12:29:23 PM
Which, in turn, forced me to keep scrolling up to look at the pinup of Marli Buccola. Perfidious.

Amused this a.m. by Trumps latest attempt to shoot new holes in his feet.

New CBS poll, just out, has me leading the field by legendary numbers. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES

People used to give Trump at least some credit for cunning, if nothing else. But only the most devoted cultists could not be put off by someone displaying smug complacency, and apparent cowardice, five months before the first primary. How hard would it be for him to answer any questions arising at the debate touching on his indictments with on the advice of counsel... Oh, wait....

Trump is a republican. The more you get to know a republican, the lower your opinion of him or her sinks.

This is partially why so many republicans find themselves in segregated gated communities. No one else can stand to have them hanging around polluting the neighborhood.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 02:39:09 PM: It is not a farmers market without hate groups according to Red. He wants proud boys or at least the Billy boys flute corps around before he shops for a carrot or a plum. Red does not feel safe unless his bigotry has company. Farmers markets usually leave him feeling so very alone. Community tends to do that to vile fascist fucks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 05:21:49 PM: Emilio Estevez shared in a Fast with Cesar Chavez for improved rights for Farm Workers. The Bosses who support Labor are the best Bosses. Emilio Estevez has always supported the workers. So, Emilio would be the perfect Boss to send to Orlando, Florida, to make television shows for Universal Studios. And they can hire all of the new Social Media Stars such as Marli Buccola, Aurelia Scheppers, and Mahlagha Jaberi, etc. And for Orlando right away we think of Cape Canaveral and NASA and "I Dream of Jeannie."

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 05:52:25 PM: Bambu, Melbourne, Australia, has been rated as the Number One Sustainable Tourist Destination, according to the KTLA Channel 5 News in Los Angeles. Gene Autry used to own KTLA Channel 5. Congrats to Australia, people need to remember to have fun as you are entertaining the tourists, etc, and as you feed them, etc. I enjoyed working as a cook at a casino, and we had beautiful waitresses and one of my waitresses was the daughter of the Vice President of the Bank of New York. The Tourism Industry is a great Industry, and the Hotel Business is great, and the Night Club Business is great, and the Restaurant Business is great, etc. You can rent them cars and mopeds and scooters and bicycles and surfboards, etc. For the bars, watch the movie "Cocktail" with Tom Cruise, the bars need to be fun for the tourists. And in Italy the Italians are loving people and you can feel the love as they serve the tourists, and Australia can have that same love for the tourists, the tourists can feel the love.

In Anaheim we receive 50,000 tourists per day.

And Mexico is building Trains and they are banking on Tourism. Expect a lot of nice Tiki Huts in Mexico with Margaritas and Pina Coladas on the Beach with fish tacos, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 06:59:11 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 23, 2023, 06:35:53 PM
Debate advice from the Pros

https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

The four traitors who failed this country, each a good reason to end the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 08:23:18 PM: Right now all of the stores are getting robbed by smash and grab robbers, and we had thieves to worry about when I worked at the Broadway Department Store, we had shoes that were $750 and miniskirts that were $600 and dresses for $8,000 and we had Armani and all of the best designers. We had the good expensive bed sheets. So, we had to worry about thieves, and so we had a woman who was a former prisoner who was in charge of security, it was like "Criminal Minds" because we had a former criminal in charge of security. We had cameras, and a good security team, but people still stole from us. There is always a battle to stop the thieves when you own a store.

When I worked at Universal Studios, we had our own Police Department, and our own security, etc, and we had cameras, etc. Universal is a very safe place. We had 25,000 people per day and it was always safe.

In Israel the bars and night clubs use the money from recycling bottles and cans to help to pay for Security, and they all have security.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 08:31:55 PM: Back during the Great Depression they had Gambling Ships that were parked 30 miles off of the coast of Santa Monica, and they had 50 guards with Tommy Guns protecting the Gambling Ships while the people gambled and partied and had fun.

It kind of reminds me of the airport in Nice, France, the guards had machine guns, they had soldiers with machine guns at the airport.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 09:33:29 PM: Same thing in San Salvador.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 23, 2023, 10:43:34 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 23, 2023, 09:33:29 PM
Same thing in San Salvador.

They said Don't come back here Yankee, but if I ever do, I will bring more money, because all she wants to do is dance.

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/4844/

"Salvador" by Oliver Stone is an interesting film, and El Salvador has been a complicated place. ( And Universal needs to give Oliver Stone a Green Light and a Budget to make movies for Universal. Stone has a lot of great ideas. )

We are not going to win in Latin America with violence, we need to use education like in Colombia, and food, and trade, etc. Colombia is a great ally now, and Colombia can help as we work on other relationships in Latin America, and Puerto Rico can be diplomatic between the USA and Latin America as well.

We need to invest in the ports in Mexico, and allow the Mexican truck drivers to join the Teamsters Union, etc, and we can import cheap goods from Mexico for the poorest towns in Kentucky, etc, we can send them Northgate Mexican Markets from Anaheim, and the Mexican truck drivers can transport goods to Kentucky. In return Kentucky can sell Bourbon to Latin America, etc, the Tiki Hut Bars on the coasts of Mexico can carry Kentucky Bourbon to serve to their guests.

Youth For Christ can help in Latin America too, and Kiwanis International, and the Catholic Church.

Elvis made a movie in Acapulco, Mexico, and it did a lot for public relations between Mexico and the USA.

You cannot drive out darkness with darkness, only light can do that. And you cannot drive out hate with hate, only love can do that. We need to win El Salvador over with love and kindness, and with good honest trade, and with cooperation. While at the same time we are strong adults, we are not weak children, and we can stop the bad people, and the good law abiding decent people can rule.

Schools, libraries, hospitals, orphanages, etc, can all help in Latin America, as well as in poor parts of the USA, and honest trade and good food can help, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 24, 2023, 01:22:05 AM: Good food is part of the secret of world peace and feeding the hungry is a weapon of God.

Famine is a weapon of war, just like fire and the sword, and it is sad when people sell themselves out of simple hunger. In the Bible a guy sold his whole inheritance for a Bowl of Soup because he was starving. And watch the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" about the Great Depression here in California. Hunger is evil.

So, food is a weapon of God, when you feed the hungry people then you are fighting against the evil of hunger. When my dearly departed Buddy Tom used to help the homeless and feed the hungry and manage homeless shelters, etc, then he was doing it all for God, and Tom used to feed Steak and Lobster to shelters full of homeless people. I was with Tom when we fed a lavish 9 course meal to 14 homeless guys one year on Memorial Day. Tom was a warrior for Christ by feeding the homeless and by managing homeless shelters, etc.

And Lisa, and Rose, spent their whole lives feeding hungry people and helping the homeless. May they rest in peace. Lisa and Rose used to go to La Palma Park with a couple of roasted pigs and they would feed all of the people at the park. Also Lisa used to take 100 homeless people out to Hometown Buffet. They spent their lives fighting against hunger and they spent their lives serving God and helping people.

Hunger and extreme poverty does not need to happen, and sometimes hero warriors step up and help people.

Feeding people is a weapon of God against evil.

And Tom introduced me to a guy named Richard who founded and ran the local "Food Without Borders" and they used to feed the homeless in areas where it was against the law to feed the homeless such as in Hollywood, etc. They used to pass out sandwiches and bottles of water to the homeless people. Tom was a hero, and Richard was a hero too, they helped a lot of people, and also Lisa, and Rose, they helped a lot of people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 24, 2023, 04:28:15 PM: Someone should write a new version of the song "Imagine" that is about all of the good things that would happen if we were all Christians and if we all obeyed the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments and if we all loved our neighbors like the Bible asks us to do. We could have Heaven right here on Earth if we all loved and followed the Lord.

Bambu, Quantas Airlines for Australia made $1.6 Billion in profits last year, and they are expanding. Australia is doing great and you guys are the number one sustainable tourist destination now according to the KTLA Channel 5 News in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2023, 04:30:40 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 24, 2023, 04:28:15 PM
Someone should write a new version of the song "Imagine" that is about all of the good things that would happen if we were all Christians and if we all obeyed the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments and if we all loved our neighbors like the Bible asks us to do.
Salute,

Tony V.
So... a version of Imagine that is directly opposite the spirit and intent of Imagine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 24, 2023, 05:26:10 PM: Quickly!
Send Trump to Australia immediately!

He's needed desperately to scream with outrage, and lead a protest about, what the Electoral Commission said yesterday it's going to DO/ALLOW at the federal referendum in Oct.
The ballot paper will have CLEAR instructions on it.
Write the word YES if you want to vote YES...and
Write the word NO if you want to vote NO to the proposed changing of the Constitution.

The Electoral Commission said yesterday that it will also allow a "Y" for a "YES" vote and an "N" for a "NO" vote..."to comply with the wishes of the voter".

It also said that it will allow a "tick" for a "YES" vote but NOT an "x" for a "NO" vote.
The "NO" campaign is crying "FOUL", "BIAS", "MANIPULATION" etc.

We need Trump!

If you can't read and understand "write YES or NO" then you shouldn't be voting.
But the govt forces you to vote.
No matter...ticks, crosses, N or Y should be classed as invalid votes.
Only "yes" and "no" should be accepted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 24, 2023, 05:42:19 PM: Please. You can have him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 24, 2023, 07:44:13 PM: Har!

What happened to filling in a little bubble?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 24, 2023, 09:16:14 PM: Bambi can just write yes and not worry about it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 24, 2023, 10:29:37 PM: Bambu, Australia is the number one sustainable tourist destination, and I think that the Quantas planes need to be loaded with Bourbon from Kentucky to send to the Bars in Australia, many people believe that Kentucky makes the best Bourbon in the world, so if there is empty space on a plane or on a ship then they need to send Bourbon from Kentucky to Australia. Then the Bourbon companies of Kentucky can donate Libraries, and Schools, and Hospitals, etc. The Monks can run Bourbon companies in Kentucky to raise money to help the poor people of Kentucky. And remember to watch the movie "Cocktail" with Tom Cruise to see the best way to run a Bar.

And I recommend that you listen to what Condoleezza Rice has to say, she teaches at Stanford and her brain is very sharp.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 24, 2023, 11:43:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 24, 2023, 09:16:14 PM
Bambi can just write yes and not worry about it.

lol

I'll be voting "NO"...as anyone with even 1/8 of their brain working, who wants to help First Nation/Aboriginal People should be doing.

Albo's YES campaign is ...well, "crazy".
All it will do is further divide the nation, cause hatred, bankrupt and ruin the country.

The good news...the country will last long enough for me.
I'll be gone before it all turns to mush.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 24, 2023, 11:57:32 PM: No question you are heading to mush much faster than Australia in general.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 25, 2023, 03:42:36 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 24, 2023, 11:57:32 PM
No question you are heading to mush much faster than Australia in general.

You will be one day too, no one escapes. lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 25, 2023, 01:01:07 PM: No need to escape. Just enjoying the end of the boomers, also known as the worst generation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 01:12:56 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 25, 2023, 01:01:07 PM
No need to escape. Just enjoying the end of the boomers, also known as the worst generation.
Hey! Sure, in the end, many of us betrayed 0ur ideals, but at least we had them to betray!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 25, 2023, 02:28:54 PM: Thanks, I guess.

Shucks, Hairy.

There are lots of great boomers. You all are only fucktards in the aggregate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2023, 03:57:53 PM: Here is the full list of the top 10 most sustainable cities in the world.

Melbourne, Australia
Madrid, Spain
Seville, Spain
Stockholm, Sweden
Tallinn, Estonia
Toronto, Canada
Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Las Vegas, USA
Lisbon, Portugal
Munich, Germany

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We need to send Kentucky Bourbon to the top sustainable tourist destinations, and we can send them wine from California, and we can send them the best food to serve to their tourists, etc.

Las Vegas, Nevada, is the only city in the USA in the top 10.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 04:27:35 PM: Las Vegas... sustainable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2023, 05:10:36 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 04:27:35 PM
Las Vegas... sustainable.

Our fore-fathers who built the USA were geniuses. We built dams in strategic areas, including creating jobs by building dams during the Great Depression, and we have man-made lakes now that have had 100 years to grow. We have Hoover Dam, and Theodore Roosevelt Dam, and other great dams, so we are getting power and water thanks to the dams. The water is also allowing farmers to grow food all year long in Arizona and in Nevada, etc, Arizona is supplying Chicago, Detroit, New York, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, etc, etc, etc, with fresh Winter Vegetables now.

Americans are befitting from dams that we built 100 years ago during the Great Depression with Public Works Projects, etc.

Because of Hoover Dam, then Las Vegas is a sustainable tourist destination. Everyone is benefiting from the Public Works Projects from 100 years ago.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 05:19:39 PM: You have not visited Lake Mead lately, have you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2023, 05:58:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 05:19:39 PM
You have not visited Lake Mead lately, have you.

We have had a lot of rain, and all of the lakes are full. Lake Mead is full. And Lake Theodore Roosevelt is huge now, and that is where they are getting the water for the fresh Winter Vegetables, etc, they built the dam 100 years ago and they let the lake grow. We have dams that were built in strategic locations 100 years ago and so now we have these wonderful lakes to provide water to grow food, etc, and to provide water to cities, etc.

Now we have solar power, and wind power, so that people do not need to depend on the dams for electricity and the dams can be used for drinking water and for showers and lawns, etc, and for farming. As Vegas grows they can depend more on solar and wind, which are plentiful in the desert, and save the lake water for drinking, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 06:07:45 PM: Lake Mead is not full. And the water it accumulate does not make Vegas anything like sustainable at its current growth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM: The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 25, 2023, 04:27:35 PM
Las Vegas... sustainable.

Spit take of the week so far.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 07:36:22 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM
The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

This ends the daily information bulletin from Oilcan and his latest GOOGLE search of
Researched information only he was never aware of.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 25, 2023, 09:44:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM
The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

This ends the daily information bulletin from Oilcan and his latest GOOGLE search of
Researched information only he was never aware of.

Aquifer monitoring was part of an early job, post-college. It's a big concern in Nebraska, where I was living at the time. I've kept up with the field a little but through a professional network and science forum, not usually google searches.

I am seriously starting to wonder if you are experiencing early symptoms of dementia, given that you now avoid almost any real discussion of facts, something you were up for a few years ago. Your increasing paranoia that everyone who disagrees with you is just haphazardly cut/pasting seems to be fed by a general tendency to project your own struggles onto others. I hope you are getting the help you need.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 09:57:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 09:44:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM
The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

This ends the daily information bulletin from Oilcan and his latest GOOGLE search of
Researched information only he was never aware of.

Aquifer monitoring was part of an early job, post-college. It's a big concern in Nebraska, where I was living at the time. I've kept up with the field a little but through a professional network and science forum, not usually google searches.

Sure you are, Uh huh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 25, 2023, 10:26:21 PM: Theodore Roosevelt Lake is a large reservoir formed by Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona as part of the Salt River Project. Located roughly 80 miles northeast of Phoenix in the Salt River Valley, Theodore Roosevelt is the largest lake or reservoir located entirely within the state of Arizona. Wikipedia

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Our Forefathers here in the USA were smart men, and they built dams in strategic locations during the Great Depression and then the dams had 100 years to fill up the lakes. Now we have huge lakes to supply us with water for Farming, etc. Arizona is supplying New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, etc, with fresh Winter Vegetables.

The dams that we built 100 years ago went on to serve us well, and we are lucky to have lakes to supply us with water for Winter Vegetables, etc.

Certainly we need to be wise, and we need to look closely at our water supply, but our fore-fathers helped us by building dams, they were smart men.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 26, 2023, 03:12:31 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 09:44:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM
The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

This ends the daily information bulletin from Oilcan and his latest GOOGLE search of
Researched information only he was never aware of.

Aquifer monitoring was part of an early job, post-college. It's a big concern in Nebraska, where I was living at the time. I've kept up with the field a little but through a professional network and science forum, not usually google searches.

I am seriously starting to wonder if you are experiencing early symptoms of dementia, given that you now avoid almost any real discussion of facts, something you were up for a few years ago. Your increasing paranoia that everyone who disagrees with you is just haphazardly cut/pasting seems to be fed by a general tendency to project your own struggles onto others. I hope you are getting the help you need.
Well, you know RedDick. He has no knowledge, information or opinion except what he cuts and pastes from right wing web sites, so he assumes the same of everyone else.

But you do have to admit, it is pretty funny to see someone who claimed to be a 47 year old man who covered an event, as a reporter, that would have occurred 4 years before he was born doubting someone else's back story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 26, 2023, 05:20:00 PM: Southern California's summer of discontent - marked by a series of work stoppages from hotels to Hollywood - has inspired labor-supporting Democrats in the state legislature to try to change the law so striking workers can get unemployment checks while they picket for better pay and working conditions. 2 days ago

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Giving the striking workers unemployment checks is wise, and it will help the workers in their struggle for fair pay and good treatment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 03:13:09 AM: Yuma, Arizona, is growing 90% of the Winter Vegetables for the East Coast, and they are getting water from the Colorado River. They are also growing the premium wheat to be exported to Italy for the premium pastas.

https://www.visityuma.com/about-yuma/agritourism/

There is a huge demand for water from the Colorado River.

We can get more water from Lake Theodore Roosevelt for Winter Vegetables.

I hope they have nice fun farming villages, instead of just brutal farm work, I hope they have good times and a sense of community while they work to supply people with food. And they have the United Farm Workers, so they will be treated well. And refugees from our Southern Border can go to Yuma to work as Farm Workers.

Here is a link for a Pickle Company in Arizona, they can help to supply New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, etc, with pickles.

https://www.kleinspickle.com/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 03:54:00 AM: Sunkist is exporting fruit from California and from Arizona to Vietnam...

https://leisure-travel.vn/leisure-news/sunkist-arrives-in-vietnam-to-deliver-fresh-and-delicious-navel-oranges-from-sunny-california/

I am sure we are also exporting Sunkist products to China.

In 2022, California exported goods with a total value of about 17.7 billion U.S. dollars to China. This figure represents an increase from 2021, which saw a total export value of approximately 16.5 billion U.S. dollars. Jun 8, 2023

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 04:56:15 AM: Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology

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Pepperdine is teaching the young people how to do charity work, and how to help people, it is a Christian college and they are training people to do service to help the needy and to help to make the world a better place. And business can be used for good, such as the Monks who make Champagne and Cheese with the money going to help the poor. Christians can learn how to start altruistic businesses.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 08:59:15 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 09:57:36 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 09:44:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 25, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 25, 2023, 07:02:54 PM
The fact that farms in that watershed keep drilling deeper into a depleting aquifer (the aquifer is the real measure of any longterm water usage balance) is further evidence of what ecologists have been pointing out for a century. Deserts are not sustainable for large human populations. It's fairly sure that buying desalinated seawater from Cali next door will eventually be necessary. Hopefully from solar-powered plants.

Steinbeck, writing in the forties, (one of my favorite US authors) noted how wet years in the West would induce temporary amnesia about the drought part of the cycle. He talks about it a fair bit in his masterpiece East of Eden.
Vegas will need a clever Samuel Hamilton (a character based on Steinbeck's own grandfather, of the same name)

This ends the daily information bulletin from Oilcan and his latest GOOGLE search of
Researched information only he was never aware of.

Aquifer monitoring was part of an early job, post-college. It's a big concern in Nebraska, where I was living at the time. I've kept up with the field a little but through a professional network and science forum, not usually google searches.

Sure you are, Uh huh.

Growing up in Suffolk County our aquifer water was great! We got our water by pumping it up from under our house.

For an 8th grade science project we had my tap water tested by NYS and the report on the chemical composition basically told us to drink from the garden hose.
When I came home from college the Town landfill had leached toxins into the water rendering it un potabpple.l
The Town and County were like it is no big deal just buy bottled water.
So I joined a community organization working to push the county to supply municipal water service.I became a community organizer with the Citizens Alliance as a media coordinator.
Once the spotlight started falling on the county electeds they finally got their shit together and got the Feds to pay for a water system.

Then I got my first paying job as an organizer with New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM: In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 11:31:58 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 03:13:09 AM

Here is a link for a Pickle Company in Arizona, they can help to supply New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, etc, with pickles.

https://www.kleinspickle.com/

Please stop spamming this website. Ditto your ads for Sunkist, Visit Yuma, and Pepperdine U. Respect the topics set for forums and the rules against spam, or I will contact the site owner to see about some kind of ban.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 27, 2023, 01:06:06 PM: It seems a little weird that you want to ban Jesus, but if you think it will help I am willing to give it a go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 27, 2023, 01:51:15 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.
The number of non-police persons wearing body armor for personal prptection is...? Functinally zero?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 27, 2023, 01:57:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 27, 2023, 01:51:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.
The number of non-police persons wearing body armor for personal prptection is...? Functinally zero?
Though I am surprised the right has not flogged this as their solution to school shootings. Black dress pants or plaid knee length skirts, white dress shirt, kevlar vest...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 02:26:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 27, 2023, 01:51:15 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM

Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.
The number of non-police persons wearing body armor for personal prptection is...? Functinally zero?
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1103935711/body-armor-sales-increase-rise-mass-shootings-bans
(https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1103935711/body-armor-sales-increase-rise-mass-shootings-bans)
NPR, no less.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 04:17:20 PM: Still ridiculous. Just ups the ante on this whole preposterous arms race that is life in America. Sure, put every child in a kevlar vest, then our death industry can sell armor-piercing teflon rounds to all those frustrated school shooters. American Capitalism loves killing, and lots of it.

BTW, if you actually READ the NPR article, then you learned that most purchasers of the body armor are gun owners who are accessorizing. Want to look spiffy for the next white nationalist rally or street battle when the Jews and Blacks come to replace them!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 04:21:59 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 04:17:20 PM
Still ridiculous.
Yes you are.
Take your own advice and stop scamming the site.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 04:23:30 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 27, 2023, 01:57:27 PM
Though I am surprised the right has not flogged this as their solution to school shootings. Black dress pants or plaid knee length skirts, white dress shirt, kevlar vest...

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/texas-mother-creates-bulletproof-back-to-school-dress-daughter-protect-babies-guns-violence-school-shooting-190512988.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 04:29:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 04:21:59 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 04:17:20 PM
Still ridiculous.
Yes you are.
Take your own advice and stop scamming the site.

Where was the false statement or misrepresenting in my post? Which points are you calling a scam? (my advice was against SPAMMING, btw, not scamming.)

Still awaiting an actual discussion on the points raised...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 04:44:00 PM: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1103935711/body-armor-sales-increase-rise-mass-shootings-bans
(https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1103935711/body-armor-sales-increase-rise-mass-shootings-bans)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 04:52:43 PM: Water is very important, and every administration must examine our water supply and take action where needed, including building dams, and aquaducts, etc. And we CAN grow food in the desert, and we CAN have large populations of people in the desert, we just need to be wise. And we can sell oranges and pickles and other stuff grown in the desert all around the world, along with supplying our cities with fresh Winter Vegetables. Also, as people make money from the oranges and pickles, etc, then they can be altruistic and they can help the poor and the orphans and the homeless, etc. And we have Pepperdine which is teaching students how to help the needy. I posted all good stuff, I do not consider any of it to be spam.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 04:57:45 PM: When I worked watching the door and parking cars for Suzanne Pleshette, then some of the guys who I worked with wore bullet proof vests, but I was never afraid, I always felt safe in Hollywood. Some people wear bullet proof vests while working as security guards, etc, and as door men, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 05:49:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.

Why would any ordinary Joe need body armor?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2023, 07:11:32 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 05:49:50 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 27, 2023, 12:54:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 27, 2023, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on August 27, 2023, 11:06:34 AM
In a statement released by Edward Waters University, the school said that an unidentified male was on campus on Saturday, and that the person had refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave.

The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident, the statement reads, adding that the encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just catching up with the story. Did they match that guy to the DG shooter? A lot more people could have died if he had remained on the campus. And yet another shooting where the perp is emboldened by wearing body armor - makes me wonder if that would be something bannable. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about body armor.
Let us ban anything and everything we use for protection if it is misused by anyone.
Jesus.

Why would any ordinary Joe need body armor?

Ordinarly Joe needs body armour to protect himself from the bad people.
He needs to protect his heart, kidneys, liver, neck, head.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 27, 2023, 07:19:36 PM: Black people in Jacksonville need to enact segregation.
Form the BPA...Black Peoples Army.
They need to arm the members of said army with handguns and AR 15s...and train such soldiers to the max.
Special uniforms, weapons and dogs.
Secure fence erected around the Black folks community.
Checkpoints, Black soldiers of the BPA enforcing the new rules.
...so the Black ladies I saw on my tv will be able to go to the convenience store in peace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 27, 2023, 08:16:02 PM: Enjoyed scrolling through your recent work, some nice jabs there. There was one with Tim Scott where he was labeled as running for vice president . LoL. I think he's also running for a theocracy, so we will no doubt see some amusing antics as he woos the evangelical bloc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 27, 2023, 11:49:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 27, 2023, 07:19:36 PM
Black people in Jacksonville need to enact segregation.
Form the BPA...Black Peoples Army.
They need to arm the members of said army with handguns and AR 15s...and train such soldiers to the max.
Special uniforms, weapons and dogs.
Secure fence erected around the Black folks community.
Checkpoints, Black soldiers of the BPA enforcing the new rules.
...so the Black ladies I saw on my tv will be able to go to the convenience store in peace.

Bambu, it took hard work and a civil war and then marches and riots to get us to the point where we are today on the issue of equality and good human rights. Martin Luther King Jr and others marched and worked to get the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. And we had to desegregate our schools, brave Black youth had to go to White schools. We worked hard to have equality in the United States, and we need to all be equal, Asians, Blacks, Latinos, Europeans, Arabs, Jews, Italians, etc, we need to all be equal.

By the way, two of my heroes from the Entertainment Industry were great men who helped the poor, there was Kirk Douglas who was great and who attended the same acting school that I attended, the AADA, and Kirk Douglas got rich and then he spent his life giving money to charity. Then there was also Paul Newman, who started Newman's Own spaghetti sauce and salad dressing, etc, all for charity, the company is still making money for charity. The purpose of making money is to spend it, and to give it away, money is not meant to be hoarded, and life is short, it is best to spend the money and to give money away to help others. And I support the program at Pepperdine to teach social entrepreneurs how to become successful so that they can help the poor and the needy.

We need to all be equal, and we need to love and help our neighbors.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM: I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 01:12:56 AM: From the poem "Freedom's Plow."

A long time ago,
An enslaved people heading toward freedom
Made up a song:
Keep Your Hand On The Plow! Hold On!
The plow plowed a new furrow
Across the field of history.
Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.
From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.
That tree is for everybody,
For all America, for all the world.
May its branches spread and shelter grow
Until all races and all peoples know its shade.
KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW! HOLD ON!

By Langston Hughes

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America is for all people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:03:41 AM: I support people having security guards at businesses, and door men, etc, to help with security, and the department stores need to hire more security guards, etc, and we need more security for the schools, etc. I also support having safe gated communities, etc.

I also support helping the homeless, and helping people, so they are not desperate, and I support helping people who have mental illness, etc, so that they do not become criminals.

California has allocated more money for Mental Health, as well as to help the homeless, and that is important, and that will help to reduce crime.

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The Governor proposes a $4.7 billion general obligation bond for the March 2024 ballot to construct or rehabilitate up to 10,000 behavioral health beds in residential settings and housing units for veterans and other individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Aug 17, 2023

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More money is going to be spent to get the homeless people into housing. Housing is a big issue now. Housing and Mental Health Care are vital today to help our homeless people.

https://capitolweekly.net/newsom-takes-another-swing-at-getting-mentally-ill-homeless-off-the-streets/

I may not agree with Newsom on everything, but I agree that we need to do more to help the homeless and the mentally ill.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:31:25 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

Artificial Intelligence people are not human but look like destroying our civilization as they take over.
So happy I had most of my life before they came along.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:49:52 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 11:14:45 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:49:52 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.
First, what the actual FUCK?

Second, it is a pretty common trope for people, let's say uncomfortable with the presence of minorities to argue separation is for the benefit of minorities.

Third, you are a frightening little fascist in the literal sense of the word.

And lastly, clearly your problem with AI is the I part.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 01:45:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 11:14:45 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:49:52 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.
First, what the actual FUCK?

Second, it is a pretty common trope for people, let's say uncomfortable with the presence of minorities to argue separation is for the benefit of minorities.

Third, you are a frightening little fascist in the literal sense of the word.

And lastly, clearly your problem with AI is the I part.

And your suggestion/solution to keep the Black community there safe so the White, Nazi-loving, armed killers don't get them again, and the Black ladies can shop at the convenience store etc in safety...is what exactly?
Practical solution, not airy-fairy 'intellectual' BS...."get the guns" etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 02:32:50 PM: You should be able to make yourself a gun out of handy household items, Bambu. There must be something on YouTube about it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 02:44:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:49:52 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.

Yes Peace and Love does work.

And a Nazi Low Rider criminal racist gang member killed my Catholic Italian-American friend Joey Jojolla. The answer was to capture the criminal and to send him before a judge where he could be convicted and sent to prison for the rest of his life. We did not start a gang war, we let the law do its job, and we let the racist bad guy go to prison.

In the USA we are a nation of laws, and all men are created equal, we can have peace and love, and if you break the law then you pay the price. The bad guys go to prison. That is how we segregate the bad guys, we send them to their own private prison where all of the bad guys are. We break society up into the good people and the bad people and the bad people go to prison where they belong. If you commit a crime then you pay the price, and we need justice for all.

All men are created equal, with equal rights, and if you break the law then you pay the price, that is the way it works in the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:20:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 11:14:45 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 06:49:52 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.
First, what the actual FUCK?

Second, it is a pretty common trope for people, let's say uncomfortable with the presence of minorities to argue separation is for the benefit of minorities.

Third, you are a frightening little fascist in the literal sense of the word.

And lastly, clearly your problem with AI is the I part.

And your suggestion/solution to keep the Black community there safe so the White, Nazi-loving, armed killers don't get them again, and the Black ladies can shop at the convenience store etc in safety...is what exactly?
Practical solution, not airy-fairy 'intellectual' BS...."get the guns" etc.
Combating and ending racism in all its manifestations. Which is why people like RedDick and luee pretending that racism does not exist and that pointing out racism is the real problem are themselves the real problem.

And the solution is never, ever a fascist police state, as much as you orgasm over the possibility. And especially not one that fawns over vigilantism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 28, 2023, 04:12:54 PM: If the Japanese can own movie studios in Hollywood, then the Chinese should be able to open a movie studio in Hollywood too, and the Italians, and others.

When I worked for Universal it was owned by a giant Japanese corporation, and they paid everyone minimum wage, it sucked. It was a great job, I loved my job, but I was starving and I could not afford to rent an apartment and buy food, etc, I had to live with my Mom and starve. That was my personal experience from working for the Japanese, I will never work for the Japanese again.

I would rather work for the Chinese, or the Filipinos, than the Japanese.

And that is why everyone in the Entertainment Industry is on strike, the studios are owned by giant Japanese corporations and they are not treating people fair. Sony is not treating people fair. And when I worked at Universal I was not treated fair, I was an adult with a college degree and years of work experience and management experience and experience working with the public, etc, and Universal paid me the bare minimum wage while I starved. You cannot survive in California on minimum wage. That is why all of the workers are on strike.

I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a Chinese General, and she loved me. I have always gotten along well with the Chinese. I do not agree with communism, but I love the Chinese people.

And the people from the Philippines are great, my dearly departed friend Lisa from the Philippines was my wealthiest friend, and she spent her whole life helping the homeless, she was great. It would be great if the people from the Philippines owned a movie studio here in Hollywood.

The workers are all on strike because they have been working for heartless foreign corporations, and I understand, I starved when I worked at Universal, I would have went on strike too, people need to strike to get fair pay, the only way to get fair pay from heartless foreign corporations is with Labor Unions and Labor Laws.

I went to Italy and tried to get a job at the movie studio in Rome, I would love to make movies with the Italians, and I love Italy, I would have stayed there if I could have gotten a job.

Anyhow, I understand why the workers are on strike. I am growing old poor and alone even though I worked and studied hard, and it is not fair, and so the workers need to strike to make things fair. I fully support good Labor Unions and Labor Laws. And if the Japanese do not like it then they can go back to Japan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:53:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
The case in question involves discrimination against a couple who run a business. They were denied inclusion in a group activity of similar business people solely because they followed their religious teachings about marriage. The group was found in violation of the first amendment of the US Constitution.
The Pope and his opinion of American Catholics is a non issue.
We learned through John Kennedy that his presidency (and our laws) transcended any direction from Rome that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 06:19:46 PM: Backward American conservatives have replaced faith with ideology and failure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 07:19:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:53:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
The case in question involves discrimination against a couple who run a business. They were denied inclusion in a group activity of similar business people solely because they followed their religious teachings about marriage. The group was found in violation of the first amendment of the US Constitution.
The Pope and his opinion of American Catholics is a non issue.
We learned through John Kennedy that his presidency (and our laws) transcended any direction from Rome that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Yes, their hatred is protected by the Constitution. It is still hatred disguised - perhaps even to them - as a regions belief.

And of course I have cited Francis as an expert on Catholicism, on the belief system those haters espouse, not on any relationship between their hatred and the law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 07:46:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 07:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:53:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
The case in question involves discrimination against a couple who run a business. They were denied inclusion in a group activity of similar business people solely because they followed their religious teachings about marriage. The group was found in violation of the first amendment of the US Constitution.
The Pope and his opinion of American Catholics is a non issue.
We learned through John Kennedy that his presidency (and our laws) transcended any direction from Rome that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Yes, their hatred is protected by the Constitution. It is still hatred disguised
Hatred of what? Or whom?
Is having a belief based on Catholic Teaching reduced by you to hatred because you have a different belief.?
That is a definition of bigotry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM: The Pope agrees with me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 08:39:33 PM: Who does bad Catholic teaching demand that you hate?

Start with anyone interested in the works or words of Christ and expand outward from there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 28, 2023, 08:46:15 PM: Epistemology wise, I'm an agnostic. Belief wise, I see no problem with a finite human mind seeking connection to a universal mind. We humans seem, in our basic nature, meant to seek meaning, love and greater understanding. I think the couple in question are blocking their own path in this seeking, but have not followed the case closely enough to know where they land on the spectrum of prejudice.

Be interesting to hear a theologian like Robert Barron weigh in on this.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 28, 2023, 08:47:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.

😏
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:53:49 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 28, 2023, 08:46:15 PM
Epistemology wise, I'm an agnostic. Belief wise, I see no problem with a finite human mind seeking connection to a universal mind. We humans seem, in our basic nature, meant to seek meaning, love and greater understanding. I think the couple in question are blocking their own path in this seeking, but have not followed the case closely enough to know where they land on the spectrum of prejudice.

Be interesting to hear a theologian like Robert Barron weigh in on this.
Interesting but totally beside the point in the court case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:56:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.
Irrelevant, immaterial, and incorrect, especially since the Pope does not profess hatred toward anyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 09:07:58 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:56:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.
Irrelevant, immaterial, and incorrect, especially since the Pope does not profess hatred toward anyone.
You should try a new dictionary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 09:43:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:20:23 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 28, 2023, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 11:14:45 AM
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Quote from: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 12:19:16 AM
I am not sure Bambu believes he is human, Tony. I do not think he cares.

I think Bambu cares, and some of his ideas are great, and we often agree on issues, but he needs to understand how hard we have had to work in America to have equality, and we do not want to go back to the bad old days, we need to continue to move ahead in good ways.

Salute,

Tony V.

One can have equality, ....and also voluntary segregation...separation from White, Nazi-loving, racist, Black people-hating, mentally ill mass killers who obtain guns legally.
Young Black man was a victim, they haven't told his little daughter who loved him dearly yet that he was killed.
Black people there are distraught, beside themselves with depression that they're hated so much, and can't even go to the convenience store without being murdered.
Time for them to build physical barriers and arm themselves.
My "BPA, Black Peoples Army, weaponised to the max, securing the Black community there from harm...is a great idea. Basically the only idea that will work.
What's in place there now didn't work, time for change.
"Peace, love, and harmony" doesn't work...unless backed up with absolute security.
First, what the actual FUCK?

Second, it is a pretty common trope for people, let's say uncomfortable with the presence of minorities to argue separation is for the benefit of minorities.

Third, you are a frightening little fascist in the literal sense of the word.

And lastly, clearly your problem with AI is the I part.

And your suggestion/solution to keep the Black community there safe so the White, Nazi-loving, armed killers don't get them again, and the Black ladies can shop at the convenience store etc in safety...is what exactly?
Practical solution, not airy-fairy 'intellectual' BS...."get the guns" etc.
Combating and ending racism in all its manifestations. Which is why people like RedDick and luee pretending that racism does not exist and that pointing out racism is the real problem are themselves the real problem.

And the solution is never, ever a fascist police state, as much as you orgasm over the possibility. And especially not one that fawns over vigilantism.

In other words you have no solution.
Just more of the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 28, 2023, 09:50:24 PM: Yes!!!! The solution is clear. Arm everybody. Guns cocked and ready to fire.

And absolute security. That'll do the trick!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 28, 2023, 10:46:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 09:07:58 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:56:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.
Irrelevant, immaterial, and incorrect, especially since the Pope does not profess hatred toward anyone.
You should try a new dictionary.

It is always nice when republicans come out openly as anti-pope and anti-church. It helps good people see the fundamental evil in republicans more clearly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 29, 2023, 02:31:00 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 28, 2023, 11:30:55 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 28, 2023, 08:47:48 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.

😏

I want to remind these people that backwardness is useless, and they must understand that there s a correct evolution in the understanding of questions of faith and morals, that allows for doctrine to progress and consolidate over time.

Supreme Court, Pope Francis is talking about you, also!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 29, 2023, 02:32:50 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on August 28, 2023, 11:21:37 PM
Ready to leap ahead

https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

Pro tip

Do not lick him. The people of Indiana will tell you it is a terribly bad trip, life altering and not in a good way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 03:03:57 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 28, 2023, 09:50:24 PM
Yes!!!! The solution is clear. Arm everybody. Guns cocked and ready to fire.

And absolute security. That'll do the trick!!!

Absolute security protects absolutely.
With well over 400 mass shootings in America so far this year...
...if I were the Black community that was just attacked and had its members shot/murdered, I'd be arming myself to the max and providing absolute security for my members.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 08:30:23 AM: So it's your argument that arming everybody ("weapons cocked, ready to fire!!!") is a step in the direction of absolute security?

Gotcha.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 29, 2023, 09:06:10 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 03:03:57 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 28, 2023, 09:50:24 PM
Yes!!!! The solution is clear. Arm everybody. Guns cocked and ready to fire.

And absolute security. That'll do the trick!!!

Absolute security protects absolutely.
With well over 400 mass shootings in America so far this year...
...if I were the Black community that was just attacked and had its members shot/murdered, I'd be arming myself to the max and providing absolute security for my members.
Your solution is not absolute security it is a powder keg wrapped with oily rags. Fascist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 29, 2023, 09:28:20 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:53:49 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 28, 2023, 08:46:15 PM
Epistemology wise, I'm an agnostic. Belief wise, I see no problem with a finite human mind seeking connection to a universal mind. We humans seem, in our basic nature, meant to seek meaning, love and greater understanding. I think the couple in question are blocking their own path in this seeking, but have not followed the case closely enough to know where they land on the spectrum of prejudice.

Be interesting to hear a theologian like Robert Barron weigh in on this.
Interesting but totally beside the point in the court case.

Wasn't making a point re the case. Open forums are not required to stay welded to a narrowly defined line of thought, so I said something about the spiritual aspect of our decisions to judge or exclude people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 29, 2023, 09:41:58 AM: Yesterday's shooting at Chapel Hill is rather mysterious. I note that campuses now have to react to any shooting as if it might be a mass shooting in progress. On the sketchy info I saw this morning, apparently it was not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 11:14:49 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 08:30:23 AM
So it's your argument that arming everybody ("weapons cocked, ready to fire!!!") is a step in the direction of absolute security?

Gotcha.

Safeties on, that can be quickly switched to off.
*
The 21 yr old Nazi-loving, Black People-hating psycho shot dead a Black woman who was sitting in her car, fired 11 shots thru her windscreen.
Then went into the convenience store, shot people dead, fired at others in the store and running from the store but missed.
He was acting suspiciously near the "predominantly-Black" university. Cops saw him, followed him....he killed himself as the cops arrived at the convenience store, reportedly.
Armed security, guns ready to fire, in the store could've saved lives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 11:22:47 AM: Bambuworld is now thinking of banning Swastikas and other symbols of hate from being displayed in public.
I guess that would include tattoos.
Should've happened decades ago...along with burning the national flag in public.
Probably time the same thing/s were done in America.
Allowing Swastikas to be displayed everywhere under the guise of "free speech" is not what should be allowed.
Only encourages the violent haters.

21 yr old psycho had a past forced mental health assessment, which was not included in his background check records...so the gun stores that sold him the weapons legally had no reason not to do so.

21 yr old psycho texted his father from the store as he was committing his attack. Told his father to unlock his bedroom and look inside...there his father found pure hatred of Black People material etc.
Locked bedrooms are bad.
Open bedrooms are good...parents can see inside.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 11:24:58 AM: Until you can come up with a reason, besides easy access to guns, that mass shootings do not happen nearly as frequently (or at all) in other countries, where presumably there are plenty of people that hate others too, your constant droning that "more guns make you safer" seems kind of silly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 01:24:11 PM: Guns exist in America.
Handguns, semi-auto rifles, pump actions shotguns etc.
330 million population...390 million guns.
The bad people have guns, and use them for evil.
Unless the good people have guns, and are prepared to use them, they will always be victims.

The next mass shooting is not far away, innocent people will die.
Parents will *see* their children die.
Innocent adults will die.
Time for change.
Physical barriers, can the bad people walk thru steel walls?
Can they walk thru locked steel doors? brick walls?
Shoot thru bullet proof glass?
Walk thru proper security fences?

Bad people teens including girls in bambuworld are carrying knives and machetes...despite that being banned.
Unarmed lone security guards are sitting ducks.
One was *hacked up*, lived...by 3 teens incl 13 yr old girl, in Brisbane last week, at a mall supermarket...as he was escorting them out of the store.
Police are shocked, bambu-ilk are not.

Dave Chappelle reckons the best way to have assault rifles banned is for every Black person to go and buy one. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 01:34:02 PM: So if I understand you and bambu ilk's argument: if more people had guns fewer people would die from gun violence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 29, 2023, 03:41:44 PM: That fetish tends to be based more on feelings rather than anything rational, cogent, or coherent enough to call an argument.

In the case of Bambu feelings of inadequacy are the main drivers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 29, 2023, 04:33:35 PM: The prisons here in California are making the prisoners racist, watch the movie "Blood In and Blood Out" and also "American History X," they are dividing the prisoners up by race and they are fighting the prisoners against each other with race riots, etc, to control the prisoners. I learned about it in Psychology class in college, and also I had a couple of Uncles who were criminals who spent a lot of time in prison, they were very racist when they first got out of prison. I wrote a letter to the prison where one of my Uncles was and I told the Warden to stop making the prisoners racist, I told him that I knew what the Warden was doing and I told him to stop making our people racist. The prisoners are all racist when they get released and they take that poison into society.

Of note, there is a great movie with Robert Redford where he plays a Prison Warden, he goes in undercover as a prisoner to see what the prison was like and then he exposes himself as being the new Warden. It is a great movie. The name of the movie is "Brubaker." We need all new Wardens here in California, and we need to improve our prison system, and we need to work harder to reform and improve the lives of the prisoners. They can learn to groom dogs, and they can groom the stray dogs from the animal shelters in order to learn how to be dog groomers, etc. We need to teach the prisoners how to make an honest living.

Our prisons are a source of racism in society, and we need to reform our prisons.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 07:00:04 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 01:34:02 PM
So if I understand you and bambu ilk's argument: if more people had guns fewer people would die from gun violence.

Who knows...
...increased physical barriers and better armed security by good people could lessen the death toll from gun violence...or more of the people dying would be the bad people intent on evil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 07:08:47 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 11:24:58 AM
Until you can come up with a reason, besides easy access to guns, that mass shootings do not happen nearly as frequently (or at all) in other countries, where presumably there are plenty of people that hate others too, your constant droning that "more guns make you safer" seems kind of silly.

Of course there are less deaths from guns in countries where there are less guns.
The percentages I read the other day were:

US 80%
Canada 40%
Australia 11%
Britain 4%

But, America's culture is guns...so that has to be worked within.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 29, 2023, 07:35:04 PM: We used to have a culture of slavery as well. The redeeming quality of American culture is that it can be changed when a better idea comes around.

You should try it and vote yes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 29, 2023, 07:40:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 07:46:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 07:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:53:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
The case in question involves discrimination against a couple who run a business. They were denied inclusion in a group activity of similar business people solely because they followed their religious teachings about marriage. The group was found in violation of the first amendment of the US Constitution.
The Pope and his opinion of American Catholics is a non issue.
We learned through John Kennedy that his presidency (and our laws) transcended any direction from Rome that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Yes, their hatred is protected by the Constitution. It is still hatred disguised
Hatred of what? Or whom?
Is having a belief based on Catholic Teaching reduced by you to hatred because you have a different belief.?
That is a definition of bigotry.

FUCK THE POPE!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 29, 2023, 07:52:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 07:00:04 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on August 29, 2023, 01:34:02 PM
So if I understand you and bambu ilk's argument: if more people had guns fewer people would die from gun violence.

Who knows...
...increased physical barriers and better armed security by good people could lessen the death toll from gun violence...or more of the people dying would be the bad people intent on evil.
...good people...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on August 29, 2023, 07:54:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 08:56:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 08:38:35 PM
The Pope agrees with me.
Irrelevant, immaterial, and incorrect, especially since the Pope does not profess hatred toward anyone.

I thought shades of Hamilton Burger getting dick slapped by Perry Mason for a question were. Mason replied That question was Incompetent Irrelevant and Immaterial!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 11:12:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 29, 2023, 07:35:04 PM
We used to have a culture of slavery as well. The redeeming quality of American culture is that it can be changed when a better idea comes around.

You should try it and vote yes.

The Yes vote is not a better idea, though.
All it will do if it wins the referendum is enshrine 'race' into the Constitution, cause division, wreck the parliamentary system, and be the first step in the "Voice, Treaty, Truth" manifesto of Indigenous activists.
The "Truth" being,..reparations, sovereignty etc.
"Sovereignty" = "absolute power/authority".
How does 'civil war' grab you?
Some learned Indigenous Elders are firmly in the No camp, fully understanding what the ramifications of a Yes vote will be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 29, 2023, 11:22:02 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on August 29, 2023, 07:40:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 07:46:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 07:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:53:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 05:21:49 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 28, 2023, 05:20:06 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 28, 2023, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 23, 2023, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on August 23, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
Yeach, there is a Constitutional right to mistake your hate for religious doctrine.
Hate.?
You may want to read the case history.
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment.
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
If there was any hate it was directed at the Catholic Couple in the form of discrimination in violation of the first amendment
Pope Says 'Backward' American Conservatives Have Replaced Faith With Ideology
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-francis-backward-conservatives-catholic-church_n_64ecd06de4b05b9ed9edb5cf
The case in question involves discrimination against a couple who run a business. They were denied inclusion in a group activity of similar business people solely because they followed their religious teachings about marriage. The group was found in violation of the first amendment of the US Constitution.
The Pope and his opinion of American Catholics is a non issue.
We learned through John Kennedy that his presidency (and our laws) transcended any direction from Rome that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Yes, their hatred is protected by the Constitution. It is still hatred disguised
Hatred of what? Or whom?
Is having a belief based on Catholic Teaching reduced by you to hatred because you have a different belief.?
That is a definition of bigotry.

FUCK THE POPE!

Straight out of the KKK handbook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 02:54:58 AM: Bambu is slow, but he can follow. Usually he follows absolute assholes badly to create his own debased form of assholery we call bambuisms.

It is no wonder Bambu-ilk cannot fathom federating to better reflect clear reality and treat it as if it were as fearsome and impenetrable as voodoo and nuclear physics are to them.

Bambuisms, how to stay backward 101
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 04:06:58 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjzax/whats-going-on-with-australias-university-strikes (http://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjzax/whats-going-on-with-australias-university-strikes)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 30, 2023, 09:42:31 AM: So aboriginal people who have lived there for 65,000 years, want a voice in parliament? And Australia has never made any formal treaty with them? Tell me how this will wreck parliament, as you put it, Bambi. Seems like the main problem would be if the Voice turns out to be symbolic and toothless.

But generally, when you include people in a democratic system, it improves relationship between their communities and the rest of the nation. Reuters informs that voting yes aims to (quote) help mend fraught ties with the Aboriginal community and unite the nation, and the advisory body will help prioritise Indigenous health, education, employment and housing.(unquote).

To rectify racial/ethnic discrimination, as has been proved around the world, you do have to formally recognize that race/ethnicity. Pretending everyone is colorblind is generally a way for white people to feel good about themselves and ignore fixing systemic racism.

If I'm standing with my shoe on someone's face, I am not going to help that person by saying there are no people on the ground and it is divisive to act like there are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 06:56:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 02:54:58 AM
Bambu is slow, but he can follow. Usually he follows absolute assholes badly to create his own debased form of assholery we call bambuisms.

It is no wonder Bambu-ilk cannot fathom federating to better reflect clear reality and treat it as if it were as fearsome and impenetrable as voodoo and nuclear physics are to them.

Bambuisms, how to stay backward 101

What you talkin about?
Federating?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 07:41:37 PM: Allowing polities to have autonomy and representation in the system to which they contribute.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:03:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 30, 2023, 09:42:31 AM
So aboriginal people who have lived there for 65,000 years, want a voice in parliament? And Australia has never made any formal treaty with them? Tell me how this will wreck parliament, as you put it, Bambi. Seems like the main problem would be if the Voice turns out to be symbolic and toothless.

But generally, when you include people in a democratic system, it improves relationship between their communities and the rest of the nation. Reuters informs that voting yes aims to (quote) help mend fraught ties with the Aboriginal community and unite the nation, and the advisory body will help prioritise Indigenous health, education, employment and housing.(unquote).

To rectify racial/ethnic discrimination, as has been proved around the world, you do have to formally recognize that race/ethnicity. Pretending everyone is colorblind is generally a way for white people to feel good about themselves and ignore fixing systemic racism.

If I'm standing with my shoe on someone's face, I am not going to help that person by saying there are no people on the ground and it is divisive to act like there are.

In 1967 there was a referendum...and Indigenous people were made equal citizens.
Everybody equal. We are ONE.
Lovely.

But oh no, can't have one, gotta have two, Black and White[and everyone else, from all the other countries on earth].
Two races, two flags, two nations.

Oh well, bambu-ilk tried, but failed...to have 'one'...The Seekers tried with their song "I Am Australian" [being reviewed by all and sundry on Youtube now]...

"We are ONE, but we are many...and from all the lands on earth we come
We'll share a dream, and sing with ONE voice
I am, you are, we are Australian."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:10:06 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 07:41:37 PM
Allowing polities to have autonomy and representation in the system to which they contribute.

There are Indigenous Members of Parliament [Reps if you like] in the House and Indigenous Senators in the Senate in Australia today, duly elected by voters in their electorates the same as all others.
Equality.
Everyone equal.

"Sovereignty was never ceded [by Aboriginal People]" cries one Indigenous Senator activist.
She's firmly in the NO camp, she wants sovereignty. No Voice for her, she wants the lot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 08:11:12 PM: You are never short of strange bedfellows.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:34:35 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 30, 2023, 09:42:31 AM
So aboriginal people who have lived there for 65,000 years, want a voice in parliament? And Australia has never made any formal treaty with them? Tell me how this will wreck parliament, as you put it, Bambi. Seems like the main problem would be if the Voice turns out to be symbolic and toothless.

But generally, when you include people in a democratic system, it improves relationship between their communities and the rest of the nation. Reuters informs that voting yes aims to (quote) help mend fraught ties with the Aboriginal community and unite the nation, and the advisory body will help prioritise Indigenous health, education, employment and housing.(unquote).

To rectify racial/ethnic discrimination, as has been proved around the world, you do have to formally recognize that race/ethnicity. Pretending everyone is colorblind is generally a way for white people to feel good about themselves and ignore fixing systemic racism.

If I'm standing with my shoe on someone's face, I am not going to help that person by saying there are no people on the ground and it is divisive to act like there are.

There is already A VOICE

National Indigenous Australians Agency

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) vision is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered.

We recognise each First Nations community is unique. We work in partnership with community to make sure policies, programs and services meet their unique needs.

We work to support the Minister for Indigenous Australians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:47:43 PM: https://www.niaa.gov.au/

_________________________________

There's plenty of advice...but finding solutions is not so easy.....the domestic alcohol-fuelled violence, assaults, rapes of adults and children, in Indigenous communities is committed by Indigenous people.
Throw in drugs.

Theft of cars, smashing up of towns, assaults etc by indigenous youth[better off on the streets than at home with the above].
What are the solutions?
Alice Springs...town in central Australia...trouble...Albo visited for 30 minutes then left. lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 09:03:17 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 08:11:12 PM
You are never short of strange bedfellows.

White middle aged ladies in sun hats parading around in fancy "Yes 23" T Shirts seem to believe Albo when he says "It's just an advisory body".
Oh no it's not...its about exactly what was on Albo's T shirt from a few years back "Voice, Treaty, "Truth"
First a Voice enshrined in the Constitution, then a Treaty [it's 2023, not 1788], then Truth [reparations, sovereignty].
Marching about shouting "Pay the rent!"

One doesn't need to be Einstein.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 10:34:47 PM: It has been very clear for a long time that you stand exactly where your bigotry meets your extremely perverse self-interest. That is where you find the strange bedfellows, a freak show of pure greed and hate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 11:45:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 30, 2023, 10:34:47 PM
It has been very clear for a long time that you stand exactly where your bigotry meets your extremely perverse self-interest. That is where you find the strange bedfellows, a freak show of pure greed and hate.

You sound like a salesman for Albo's travelling snake oil show...where the truth is well hidden behind the slogans placard.

Today in another contentious interview he was again accused of failing to explain the Voice To Parliament. The interview saw him forced to deny that a "No" vote would mean Australia is a racist nation.

Daily Telegraph...
OPINION:

"Voice date marks our Apartheid day"

How could Anthony Albanese sell us Noel Pearson's Voice, a plan to ever divide us by race and guarantee
that generations more of Aboriginal children live in poverty?
xxxxxxxx
End of Opinion
_________

14 Oct 2023 the date of the referendum.
Apartheid Day if the Yes vote wins...Australia forever divided by race, with all that would entail.
Black people separating voluntarily from the nation of Australia to go their own way, set up their own sovereignty as I doubt they'll be granted sovereignty over the whole of Australia, although you never know. They reportedly own more than 50% of the land mass of Australia now.

Oh well, such is life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 01:41:41 AM: Today I walked (via Youtube) thru Montego Bay Town, St James, Jamaica.
Needs some money spent on it.
*
Yesterday I walked thru downtown Manila, Philippines.
It needs some money spent on it too.

This is what the world should be spending billions on, making these places look nice, feel uplifting...instead of spending the billions on blowing up countries.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 05:37:27 AM: That is a nice thought, you selfish racist homicidal fuck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 31, 2023, 09:18:47 AM: Quote from: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:34:35 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 30, 2023, 09:42:31 AM
So aboriginal people who have lived there for 65,000 years, want a voice in parliament? And Australia has never made any formal treaty with them? Tell me how this will wreck parliament, as you put it, Bambi. Seems like the main problem would be if the Voice turns out to be symbolic and toothless.

But generally, when you include people in a democratic system, it improves relationship between their communities and the rest of the nation. Reuters informs that voting yes aims to (quote) help mend fraught ties with the Aboriginal community and unite the nation, and the advisory body will help prioritise Indigenous health, education, employment and housing.(unquote).

To rectify racial/ethnic discrimination, as has been proved around the world, you do have to formally recognize that race/ethnicity. Pretending everyone is colorblind is generally a way for white people to feel good about themselves and ignore fixing systemic racism.

If I'm standing with my shoe on someone's face, I am not going to help that person by saying there are no people on the ground and it is divisive to act like there are.

There is already A VOICE

National Indigenous Australians Agency

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) vision is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered.

We recognise each First Nations community is unique. We work in partnership with community to make sure policies, programs and services meet their unique needs.

We work to support the Minister for Indigenous Australians.

This referendum appears to be a path towards reparations, so what's the problem with that? It certainly appears that the Europeans came and stole quite a bit, both lives and land. You don't provide any compelling case against reparations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 31, 2023, 09:20:27 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 05:37:27 AM
That is a nice thought, you selfish racist homicidal fuck.

Seems like you could just let him have the nice thought....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on August 31, 2023, 09:38:22 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 09:20:27 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 05:37:27 AM
That is a nice thought, you selfish racist homicidal fuck.

Seems like you could just let him have the nice thought....

Agreed. Even if the nice thought is likely to die of loneliness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 01:55:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 09:18:47 AM
Quote from: bambu. on August 30, 2023, 08:34:35 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 30, 2023, 09:42:31 AM
So aboriginal people who have lived there for 65,000 years, want a voice in parliament? And Australia has never made any formal treaty with them? Tell me how this will wreck parliament, as you put it, Bambi. Seems like the main problem would be if the Voice turns out to be symbolic and toothless.

But generally, when you include people in a democratic system, it improves relationship between their communities and the rest of the nation. Reuters informs that voting yes aims to (quote) help mend fraught ties with the Aboriginal community and unite the nation, and the advisory body will help prioritise Indigenous health, education, employment and housing.(unquote).

To rectify racial/ethnic discrimination, as has been proved around the world, you do have to formally recognize that race/ethnicity. Pretending everyone is colorblind is generally a way for white people to feel good about themselves and ignore fixing systemic racism.

If I'm standing with my shoe on someone's face, I am not going to help that person by saying there are no people on the ground and it is divisive to act like there are.

There is already A VOICE

National Indigenous Australians Agency

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) vision is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered.

We recognise each First Nations community is unique. We work in partnership with community to make sure policies, programs and services meet their unique needs.

We work to support the Minister for Indigenous Australians.

This referendum appears to be a path towards reparations, so what's the problem with that? It certainly appears that the Europeans came and stole quite a bit, both lives and land. You don't provide any compelling case against reparations.

To whom should the reparations be paid? people alive today who are 2/3 White?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 02:36:52 PM: Now that sounds like the beginning of a negotiation. It was so easy that you did not know you have started already. Trying to honestly figure out how to make it work is so much better than racist fascist stamping your feet and crying no.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2023, 02:41:49 PM: Charlie Benante, the drummer from Anthrax, has been hanging out with John Travolta, maybe they will get together and make an Anthrax movie, they have a lot of material to draw from, they could do some cool stuff. They could make the movie at Universal here in Hollywood after the strikes are over. That would be cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 02:48:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 02:36:52 PM
Now that sounds like the beginning of a negotiation. It was so easy that you did not know you have started already. Trying to honestly figure out how to make it work is so much better than racist fascist stamping your feet and crying no.

Oh I'll still be voting NO...hoping that there's a lot people in WA state, Tasmania state, Queensland state who've been too scared of "the violent left" to publicly show their support for the No vote...who'll be voting No at the ballot box.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM: Australia is running out of electricity. The Energy Regulator yesterday warned of "blackouts on the east coast this "El Nino" summer."
That's me sitting up in the dark...no hot water, no hot food, no gas station pumps working...etc.
Charming.
It's the fault of dumb politicians who embraced the "(man made)climate change" lunacy despite no 1 radio host telling them it was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years, and 1/3 of the world's uranium...it's gonna run short of electricity.
The dummies, cheered on by the climate change brigade, ignored warnings from the "sensible transition" folk and demonised coal and gas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 03:16:23 PM: You have a third world mindset because you are a third world kind of guy. It will be interesting to see how that turns out for you.

I am writing to congress to suggest they give nukes to the aboriginal people of Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:35:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 03:16:23 PM
You have a third world mindset because you are a third world kind of guy. It will be interesting to see how that turns out for you.

I am writing to congress to suggest they give nukes to the aboriginal people of Australia.

The way things are going bambuworld is heading towards being a third world basketcase.
As luck would have it I won't be around then.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2023, 04:13:34 PM: Mayor Bass said on the news this morning that you can judge a society by how we treat our young, and our old. If we raise our children well, then they will grow up to be good people. And I support societies such as the Ancient Incas who had a Social System where the young people helped the old people, the young people worked and the old people were the leaders and the young people took care of the old people.

If we educate and train and teach our children well, then they will become good caring, empathetic adults, who obey the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, etc.

And we need to have Habitat for Humanity and Homeboy Industries, etc, build housing for the Senior Citizens 55 and over, and we need to get our Seniors into housing.

Of note, many Veterans work to manage the Homeless Shelters to help the homeless, etc. There are a lot of homeless Veterans and after they are helped then they do service and give back and they help other people. Many of the workers at the Mental Health Association are Veterans, etc.

As we help the homeless then we can train them to help the other homeless. We can start a chain reaction.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 04:41:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:35:18 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 31, 2023, 03:16:23 PM
You have a third world mindset because you are a third world kind of guy. It will be interesting to see how that turns out for you.

I am writing to congress to suggest they give nukes to the aboriginal people of Australia.

The way things are going bambuworld is heading towards being a third world basketcase.
As luck would have it I won't be around then.

That last point portends a renaissance in Australia. Can you take your ilk with you wherever you go?

That would be a great public service to your nation and the world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 31, 2023, 05:05:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM
Australia is running out of electricity. The Energy Regulator yesterday warned of "blackouts on the east coast this "El Nino" summer."
That's me sitting up in the dark...no hot water, no hot food, no gas station pumps working...etc.

When someone paints the most extreme picture possible of a necessary change, it is usually propaganda. And usually sponsored by a fossil fuel company.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2023, 06:39:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM
Australia is running out of electricity. The Energy Regulator yesterday warned of "blackouts on the east coast this "El Nino" summer."
That's me sitting up in the dark...no hot water, no hot food, no gas station pumps working...etc.
Charming.
It's the fault of dumb politicians who embraced the "(man made)climate change" lunacy despite no 1 radio host telling them it was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years, and 1/3 of the world's uranium...it's gonna run short of electricity.
The dummies, cheered on by the climate change brigade, ignored warnings from the "sensible transition" folk and demonised coal and gas.

Anaheim runs our electric generators on Natural Gas, California has a lot of Natural Gas.

And Australia can buy cheap solar panels from China, and wind generators, etc, and you can use hydro and geothermal, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on August 31, 2023, 08:00:29 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Oilcan, or was it Barton, once was a part time worker emptying trash at a US Weather station.
He can explain how seashells are found in the Arizona desert
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 12:34:18 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on August 31, 2023, 06:39:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM
Australia is running out of electricity. The Energy Regulator yesterday warned of "blackouts on the east coast this "El Nino" summer."
That's me sitting up in the dark...no hot water, no hot food, no gas station pumps working...etc.
Charming.
It's the fault of dumb politicians who embraced the "(man made)climate change" lunacy despite no 1 radio host telling them it was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years, and 1/3 of the world's uranium...it's gonna run short of electricity.
The dummies, cheered on by the climate change brigade, ignored warnings from the "sensible transition" folk and demonised coal and gas.

Anaheim runs our electric generators on Natural Gas, California has a lot of Natural Gas.

And Australia can buy cheap solar panels from China, and wind generators, etc, and you can use hydro and geothermal, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

That will not work for him.

Bambu wants to die in flames along with everything else that makes his life so fucking awful.

The thing that makes his life so fucking awful is mainly his whiteness. I do not see that outlasting him so much in the fire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM: http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 01, 2023, 02:07:22 PM: Mayor Bass is standing up to the police department on the issue of Civil Rights, and the cops can no longer pull people over for no reason and search their cars. We have prisons full of people who had their rights violated. They sell them meth, then they pull them over for no reason, they search them and find the meth, and then they send them to prison. Mayor Bass is stepping in.

And we need to teach our high school kids how to make honest money so that they do not have to commit a crime to make honest money, they can learn to install sound systems in cars, etc, and now they can learn how to install solar panels on people's roof tops, etc. We need to teach our people how to make an honest living. You can also make money grooming dogs, we can teach our people in prison how to groom dogs, they can lean by grooming the dogs from the animal shelters. People need to be given the skills to earn an honest living.

Civil rights, and an honest job, that is what they need.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:29:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.

You are a one man crime spree of bad information.

I have seen film of a big crowd of white folks doing a lynching.

I would rather have some shit stolen than be lynched.

I was here in 2008. When white folks get to stealing shit, oh boy.

There were not any armed security barriers or armed guards in sight then either, except the ones protecting the very worst of the thieves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 01, 2023, 02:35:29 PM: I've found a video that will give our Austral-impaired members more useful information than they are presently receiving through the old coaxial.

https://youtu.be/L7av0C0jWQw?si=QxMcQJuuuhntD2Ig
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 03:04:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".
Did he identify one single crime that can credibly charged to BLM? Can you? Because as far as I know the people who make that kind of claim have nothing to back it up. Because they are making the same sort of assumption Faux News people made when they argued PO1135809"s mug shot will help with the black votw.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 04:10:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 01, 2023, 02:35:29 PM
I've found a video that will give our Austral-impaired members more useful information than they are presently receiving through the old coaxial.

https://youtu.be/L7av0C0jWQw?si=QxMcQJuuuhntD2Ig

Roadie wrap is a small piece of practical magic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:37:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on August 31, 2023, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Oilcan, or was it Barton, once was a part time worker emptying trash at a US Weather station.
He can explain how seashells are found in the Arizona desert

Well this is the most asinine post on this board today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:39:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.

The age old grift of telling racist white folks what they wanna hear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 01, 2023, 08:20:24 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:37:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 31, 2023, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Oilcan, or was it Barton, once was a part time worker emptying trash at a US Weather station.
He can explain how seashells are found in the Arizona desert

Well this is the most asinine post on this board today.

Well, given that any bright sixth grader can explain why seashells can be found in the Sonoran desert, I'll let him go find one and ask. Of course, the creepy old man factor may be a problem for him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 01, 2023, 08:21:58 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:39:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.

The age old grift of telling racist white folks what they wanna hear.

Sky News needs a Tibetan sky burial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 01, 2023, 08:30:18 PM: Utterly off topic and am a little embarrassed to say how much fun I find this webpage is...

https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm

Includes Lakota, Papiamento, Haitian Creole, and Morse Code.

Mit luftpudefartoj er fyldt med ael
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 08:32:35 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:39:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.

The age old grift of telling racist white folks what they wanna hear.

The videos didn't lie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 08:36:38 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 03:04:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".
Did he identify one single crime that can credibly charged to BLM? Can you? Because as far as I know the people who make that kind of claim have nothing to back it up. Because they are making the same sort of assumption Faux News people made when they argued PO1135809"s mug shot will help with the black votw.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ (https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 10:34:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 08:36:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 03:04:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".
Did he identify one single crime that can credibly charged to BLM? Can you? Because as far as I know the people who make that kind of claim have nothing to back it up. Because they are making the same sort of assumption Faux News people made when they argued PO1135809"s mug shot will help with the black votw.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ (https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/)
Nothing that ties BLM with criminal behavior, of course. Just the expected reactionary bull shit from Hillsdale.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 10:50:55 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 01, 2023, 08:30:18 PM
Utterly off topic and am a little embarrassed to say how much fun I find this webpage is...

https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm

Includes Lakota, Papiamento, Haitian Creole, and Morse Code.

Mit luftpudefartoj er fyldt med ael

Damn.

Now I want an aeroeslisador.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 10:52:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 08:32:35 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:39:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".

Film of Black people in a large store, loading up with all the goods they could carry and then running from the store was shown.
...not any physical barriers or armed security in sight.

The age old grift of telling racist white folks what they wanna hear.

The videos didn't lie.

The editors and presenters do the lying to you, Bambi. The same sixth grader Red creeps out could tell you that.

You just have to find his channel on YouTube.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 10:56:57 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 10:34:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 08:36:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 03:04:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 01, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 02:08:55 AM
http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/unearthing-racisms-christian-roots-how-far-right-christianity-quietly-fueled-jacksonville-shooter/)

On my Sky News last night was a Black American man, wearing a black hat, Dr Tre Pennie.
He was being interviewed.
On the screen was "BLM Movement is 'radicalised crime'....and "The Left ignore BLM criminal activity".
Did he identify one single crime that can credibly charged to BLM? Can you? Because as far as I know the people who make that kind of claim have nothing to back it up. Because they are making the same sort of assumption Faux News people made when they argued PO1135809"s mug shot will help with the black votw.

Link to Nazi bullshit, removed for the sake of decency

Nothing that ties BLM with criminal behavior, of course. Just the expected reactionary bull shit from Hillsdale.

You can always count on Bambu to post links to well funded Nazi propaganda.

Bambu links provide a sizable source of intel for Antifa as it spearheads our civil defense in the name of liberty and justice for all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 01, 2023, 11:09:59 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 01, 2023, 08:20:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:37:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 31, 2023, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Oilcan, or was it Barton, once was a part time worker emptying trash at a US Weather station.
He can explain how seashells are found in the Arizona desert

Well this is the most asinine post on this board today.

Well, given that any bright sixth grader can explain why seashells can be found in the Sonoran desert, I'll let him go find one and ask.

Lol.
The sixth grader and I did not need a google search for the answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 01, 2023, 11:47:53 PM: The sixth grader got an answer that reflects reality.

You got some bullshit that only reflects the type of kink you obsessively spank to.

That is a big part of why you creep the sixth grader out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 01, 2023, 11:48:21 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 01, 2023, 11:09:59 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 01, 2023, 08:20:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on September 01, 2023, 07:37:48 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on August 31, 2023, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on August 31, 2023, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: bambu. on August 31, 2023, 03:16:03 PM

Despite bambuworld having enough coal to make reliable and affordable electricity for 1,200 years, enough natural gas for 200 years, enough fracked gas for 400 years...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea-level/ice-melt

That's what happens if all that coal etc is burned. Here's a clip for you...

A large fraction of the Earths fresh water is frozen. Its stored in glaciers all around the world, and in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. When this ice melts or calves off, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise. If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet...
Oilcan, or was it Barton, once was a part time worker emptying trash at a US Weather station.
He can explain how seashells are found in the Arizona desert

Well this is the most asinine post on this board today.

Well, given that any bright sixth grader can explain why seashells can be found in the Sonoran desert, I'll let him go find one and ask.

Lol.
The sixth grader and I did not need a google search for the answer.
Well, Larry, he is giving it a run for the money.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2023, 12:18:12 AM: The voters of Anaheim will be able to vote on the new minimum wage for hotel workers, and the voters will most likely vote Yes to raise the minimum wage to $25 per hour. It costs $1,800 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment here, plus utilities, and food, etc, it is expensive to live here even if you walk and use public transportation, and it is way more if you own a car and drive. The voters can help to end the strike and declare a fair minimum wage for the hotel workers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 01:29:53 AM: Dr Tre Pennie, Black man in cowboy style hat, and the videos were indeed very very convincing.
...like it or not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 03:24:01 AM: Candace Owens and Kanye West both wore "White Lives Matter" shirts...a powerful statement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 08:15:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 03:24:01 AM
Candace Owens and Kanye West both wore "White Lives Matter" shirts...a powerful statement.
That statement being, the age old grift of telling racist white folks what they wanna hear still pays..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 08:38:54 AM: This just in: the man who spent his musical career advocating a deliberately chosen rootless, casual, laid back life on the fringes of society died a billionaire. That is a B.

Jimmy Buffett, Iconic 'Margaritaville' Singer, Dead At 76
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-singer-dead_n_64f2e531e4b0fe066b180d80
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 02, 2023, 11:05:53 AM: Another senseless death from nibbling on spongecake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM: Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 11:27:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM
Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Not all fascists are Nazis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 02, 2023, 11:50:07 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 11:27:08 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM
Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Not all fascists are Nazis.
I guess you are proof of that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 02:08:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 02, 2023, 11:50:07 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 11:27:08 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM
Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Not all fascists are Nazis.
I guess you are proof of that.
LOL. Buy a better dictionary. And learn to use it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 02, 2023, 02:31:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 02:08:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 02, 2023, 11:50:07 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 11:27:08 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM
Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Not all fascists are Nazis.
I guess you are proof of that.
LOL. Buy a better dictionary. And learn to use it.
Mine is just fine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2023, 03:44:24 PM: Rest in peace to Jimmy Buffett, he lived a life well lived.

Jimmy Buffett owned the "Margaritaville" Night Club at the Universal City Walk, earlier the Night Club was owned by BB King before he died, that Night Club has had some great owners, you have to be high powered to own that club, maybe Sammy Hagar will buy the Night Club next.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 04:22:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 02:08:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 02, 2023, 11:50:07 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 02, 2023, 11:27:08 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:19:37 AM
Written by Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute, hardly anything Nazi.
Not all fascists are Nazis.
I guess you are proof of that.
LOL. Buy a better dictionary. And learn to use it.

Burning inadequacy is causing Red to project again. Something dear to republicans must have died or imploded over night.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 04:25:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 01:29:53 AM
Dr Tre Pennie, Black man in cowboy style hat, and the videos were indeed very very convincing.
...like it or not.

You are a shnook. It means you find the dumbest lies convincing, especially if they make you feel better about the inherent evil in all of your ideas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 08:00:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 04:25:22 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 01:29:53 AM
Dr Tre Pennie, Black man in cowboy style hat, and the videos were indeed very very convincing.
...like it or not.

You are a shnook. It means you find the dumbest lies convincing, especially if they make you feel better about the inherent evil in all of your ideas.

Emboldened by the criminal acts of store theft/looting and assaults just basically being ignored in California etc, the same things are now happening in London...with the cops not interested in doing much about it.
Thieves and thugs just forming a line in high end/any end stores with anything worth stealing, and passing the goods outside to waiting accomplices...or thieves just grabbing items and running out.
Billions of pounds worth of items stolen.
If you're sitting in the store at a table you will most likely be assaulted and robbed. "Romanian travellers" were mentioned in the Daily Telegraph article. Cops are called but never arrive.
"Blue states" in America also got a mention.

Eventually there will be no stores, only online shopping, with people too scared to leave their homes in London etc for fear of being assaulted. No guns, no hope, innocent people are just sitting ducks.
Same things with assaults are now happening in 'multicultural' Melbourne, according to people commenting on the article.
Multicultural California, multicultural London, multicultural Melbourne...mmm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2023, 08:24:25 PM: Bambu, read about Rudy and the Broken Window Theory in New York City, Rudy cleaned up New York and made it great again, and we need to do the same thing in San Francisco, and in San Bernardino, and in Los Angeles, etc. We need to clean it up and then keep it nice. And we need to have hostels for $15 per night for a shower and a bed so there will be no excuse to be homeless. We need to clean up Hollywood and the rest of California and we need to keep it nice.

Also, we depend on tourism, and the tourists love it to be nice and clean.

Of note, when I worked at the Broadway Department Store in Pasadena back in 1996 we had problems with thieves, we had a tough lady who was a former criminal in charge of security, she did time in prison, she was a tough woman, it was like "Criminal Minds" where they pay the criminals to solve crimes. She did a good job on security.

And at the Whisky, Roxy, Troubadour, Rainbow, etc, they all have lots of security.

We need to clean things up and keep it nice, and we need cheap hostels so there is no reason to be homeless.

The unions and politicians are also working to raise wages so people will be able to afford nice apartments.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 08:33:16 PM: I am partially changing my mind about the Bambu media diet.

If it raises enough fear to keep Bambu and idiots like him off the streets and out of stores and restaurants and away from the public in general, that is a significant silver lining to the constant river of filth in question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 10:22:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 08:33:16 PM
I am partially changing my mind about the Bambu media diet.

If it raises enough fear to keep Bambu and idiots like him off the streets and out of stores and restaurants and away from the public in general, that is a significant silver lining to the constant river of filth in question.

LOL
You know exactly what's going on, but it seems to suit your 'anarchy' mantra of open borders, open theft, etc.
If somehow you are really "ignorant" of what's going on in America, I suggest you Youtube:
"Looting in California".
Many videos there for you to watch.
Thieves/looters robbing Home Depot, swamping gas station marts, etc etc and dozens of them running from high end stores, including young kids, escaping in getaway cars.
In Oregon also...thieves.
xxx
In London now, shops have their doors locked, they will let you in, then lock the doors behind you. Genuine customers only. Genuine customers most welcome.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2023, 10:33:28 PM: New security guards are being hired, and they are making GOOD Money, anywhere from $25 per hour to $110,000 per year...

https://time.com/6275440/insecure-private-security-replacing-police/

As more people hire private security then the more safer society will become, like in Monte Carlo.

In Israel the bars and restaurants use the money from recycling bottles and cans to hire security guards.

All of the Night Clubs in Hollywood have private security now.

And gated communities like Latigo Beach are a favorite place for the Stars. James Garner and Mel Gibson and Michael Landon used to hang out at Paradise Cove which has 24 hour security. I love Malibu, and our community had security gates.

My apartment complex in Anaheim has gates, and cameras, and I feel pretty safe here. But, I would love to live in Malibu, or at Empire West.

Anyhow, lots of new security guards are being hired.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 10:41:15 PM: Bill Cosby informed, told, advised Black folk in America what they should be doing to benefit themselves, their kids, their community.
No one much seems to have embraced his words.
On 'Cops' I'm watching now one young Black man wouldn't obey instructions from a cop to stop. He eventually stopped, cop went to cuff him, then he punched the cop and threw him on the ground/shop front.
Next minute he had 5 cops restraining him.
They bound him, put a bag over his head, put him on a trolley and into the back of an ambulance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 11:08:11 PM: Between Cosby and trump you really stand by your rapists. Was not there a bishop down your way you stuck your little lip out for as well? I seem to remember that.

It is a shock and a horror to think anyone would ever steal merchandise from a business. It must be a new practice, emerging in the last five to ten years.

No. Wait. It is older than that. You people stole your whole subcontinent and now you are fighting viciously to avoid being taken to account for it.

Stop being such a bad influence on us you lousy schnook.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 02, 2023, 11:24:31 PM: I loved Bill Cosby as a kid, I loved the Fat Albert Show. It sucks that he was a rapist. I hope he finds God and that he can find forgiveness and can be redeemed.

Meanwhile, there is Tiger Woods, Tiger is a good Black man who can help the Black Youth. Golf is a great sport for gentlemen. Great men discuss Business over a nice game of Golf. ( Battle Mountain, Nevada, has a nice 9 Hole Golf Course... http://www.battlemountaingolf.com/ )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 02, 2023, 11:58:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 02, 2023, 11:08:11 PM
Between Cosby and trump you really stand by your rapists. Was not there a bishop down your way you stuck your little lip out for as well? I seem to remember that.

It is a shock and a horror to think anyone would ever steal merchandise from a business. It must be a new practice, emerging in the last five to ten years.

No. Wait. It is older than that. You people stole your whole subcontinent and now you are fighting viciously to avoid being taken to account for it.

Stop being such a bad influence on us you lousy schnook.

You mean Catholic Cardinal Pell?
I am not Catholic and a Pope a few back called my church 'defective' ( and therefore me a 'defect'.)
So I have no time for Rome.
But, Cardinal Pell was nailed to the cross of injustice, convicted, and tossed in prison.
He was granted an appeal to the High Court.
The High Court saw the injustice, and found him not guilty.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 03, 2023, 12:42:23 AM: Pope Francis is a great man of Peace, he was just in Mongolia, and he is working to gain traction in China, it would be great if we could win China over for the Catholic Church. We can win people over by building schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc, in China and by helping the poor. Great things can happen as we win China over for Christ.

We can also improve Mexico if the Christians work together as a team to restore a healthy sense of community to Mexico. Mexico needs to be a nice place where people obey the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule. And in my house we had good manners and held doors open for ladies, etc, Mexicans can have that same sense of community, and Youth For Christ can help in Mexico, etc, and Pope Francis can help in Mexico, etc.

And the Pope can donate libraries to poor villages, etc. Lots of good things can happen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 03, 2023, 11:15:55 AM: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197441202/burning-man-festival-rains-floods-stranded-nevada

Burning Man attendees trapped in a mud bath. Giant flammable man too soaked to burn. Chuckle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 03, 2023, 02:57:01 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 03, 2023, 11:15:55 AM
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197441202/burning-man-festival-rains-floods-stranded-nevada

Burning Man attendees trapped in a mud bath. Giant flammable man too soaked to burn. Chuckle.

They finally found their way to Woodstock.

One death reported so far.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 03, 2023, 09:51:57 PM: Saw Native or Tribal cops 'crash' down a protesters' barrier that was blocking the entrance Rd.
Cops made arrests.
That's what cops should be doing in bambuword, but aren't.
Protesters rule the landscape, like the looters in CA and London.
Now the protesters are going to block the largest coal port of Newcastle for 2 days.
'Family protest', kids, adults to bring their kayaks.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with that.
Not if bambu were 'king'...his special police/troops would stop it...no disruption to the orderly operation of society allowed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM: If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 05:53:14 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM
If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.

That's 'king' (like 'king of rock and roll', 'king of the schoolyard')...in this case running the state....the Premier(king of the police).

"Blockade Australia" climate protest group are blockading coal trains, coal ports, roads, and anything else they feel like.
There oughta be somehing done about it.

Now, in Youtube videos...climate activists slash/deflate tyres of SUVs...in US, Canada, Britain, everywhere basically.
Sky News: "climate 'lunatics' are deflating tyres at night."
They leave a sign on your vehicle;
"ATTENTION, Your gas guzzler kills"

Signed..."Tyre Extinguishers".

Radical climate activists seem to be mainly leftists.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 06:50:29 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 05:53:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM
If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.

That's 'king' (like 'king of rock and roll', 'king of the schoolyard')...in this case running the state....the Premier(king of the police).

"Blockade Australia" climate protest group are blockading coal trains, coal ports, roads, and anything else they feel like.
There oughta be somehing done about it.

Now, in Youtube videos...climate activists slash/deflate tyres of SUVs...in US, Canada, Britain, everywhere basically.
Sky News: "climate 'lunatics' are deflating tyres at night."
They leave a sign on your vehicle;
"ATTENTION, Your gas guzzler kills"

Signed..."Tyre Extinguishers".

Radical climate activists seem to be mainly leftists.
Jesus Jumping Christ you stupid stupid man. There are videos on YouTube showing the world is flat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 08:28:31 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 06:50:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 05:53:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM
If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.

That's 'king' (like 'king of rock and roll', 'king of the schoolyard')...in this case running the state....the Premier(king of the police).

"Blockade Australia" climate protest group are blockading coal trains, coal ports, roads, and anything else they feel like.
There oughta be somehing done about it.

Now, in Youtube videos...climate activists slash/deflate tyres of SUVs...in US, Canada, Britain, everywhere basically.
Sky News: "climate 'lunatics' are deflating tyres at night."
They leave a sign on your vehicle;
"ATTENTION, Your gas guzzler kills"

Signed..."Tyre Extinguishers".

Radical climate activists seem to be mainly leftists.
Jesus Jumping Christ you stupid stupid man. There are videos on YouTube showing the world is flat.

Problem for you.....the videos are real...like the one:
"Just stop oil block London bridges'.
Useless cops just standing around watching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 04, 2023, 09:18:20 AM: News digest

Corgis on parade
Burning Man delayed
Ukraine high command is frayed
Paxton 'peachment plans are laid

Bambi stays afraid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 10:34:54 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 08:28:31 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 06:50:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 05:53:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM
If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.

That's 'king' (like 'king of rock and roll', 'king of the schoolyard')...in this case running the state....the Premier(king of the police).

"Blockade Australia" climate protest group are blockading coal trains, coal ports, roads, and anything else they feel like.
There oughta be somehing done about it.

Now, in Youtube videos...climate activists slash/deflate tyres of SUVs...in US, Canada, Britain, everywhere basically.
Sky News: "climate 'lunatics' are deflating tyres at night."
They leave a sign on your vehicle;
"ATTENTION, Your gas guzzler kills"

Signed..."Tyre Extinguishers".

Radical climate activists seem to be mainly leftists.
Jesus Jumping Christ you stupid stupid man. There are videos on YouTube showing the world is flat.

Problem for you.....the videos are real...like the one:
"Just stop oil block London bridges'.
Useless cops just standing around watching.
Problem for you... the purpose of propaganda is not to convince thinking people to change their minds but convincing people like you to not think at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 04, 2023, 11:13:54 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 10:34:54 AM
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the purpose of propaganda is not to convince thinking people to change their minds but convincing people like you to not think at all.
If true then you are proving that definition.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 01:00:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 04, 2023, 11:13:54 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 10:34:54 AM
[
the purpose of propaganda is not to convince thinking people to change their minds but convincing people like you to not think at all.
If true then you are proving that definition.
Rubber/glue is all you got? Pathetic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 04, 2023, 01:48:02 PM: If you enjoy observing Republicans scurrying in and out of precinct stations and courthouses, then these tours might also be entertaining for you:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/new-york-city-rats-tourism
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 04:24:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 04, 2023, 09:18:20 AM
News digest

Corgis on parade
Burning Man delayed
Ukraine high command is frayed
Paxton 'peachment plans are laid

Bambi stays afraid.

When one is a non-rich, shrinking, elderly man with a heart problem in Western society today, not tall, not muscular, not able to wrestle Burmese pythons in Florida, not allowed to carry a gun, knife, or anything else that could be classed as a weapon, there's no option for him but to be afraid.
Said fear can be reduced by security decisions.
The rich have secure homes, bodyguards and limo drivers, the rest have to make do with what security they can afford, and avoid every unsafe situation they can.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 06:52:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 04, 2023, 11:13:54 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 10:34:54 AM
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the purpose of propaganda is not to convince thinking people to change their minds but convincing people like you to not think at all.
If true then you are proving that definition.

Our Tokyo Rose has dropped in to deliver her two yen on the topic.

Thanks Rosie. Go fuck yourself and never come back.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 06:55:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 04:24:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 04, 2023, 09:18:20 AM
News digest

Corgis on parade
Burning Man delayed
Ukraine high command is frayed
Paxton 'peachment plans are laid

Bambi stays afraid.

When one is a non-rich, shrinking, elderly man with a heart problem in Western society today, not tall, not muscular, not able to wrestle Burmese pythons in Florida, not allowed to carry a gun, knife, or anything else that could be classed as a weapon, there's no option for him but to be afraid.
Said fear can be reduced by security decisions.
The rich have secure homes, bodyguards and limo drivers, the rest have to make do with what security they can afford, and avoid every unsafe situation they can.

Your fear is just honest self assessment. No walls are going to keep you out of your head.

Hang out. Watch your friends die off and your power dissipate.

No one will listen to you just as no one listens to you now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 06:55:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 04, 2023, 01:48:02 PM
If you enjoy observing Republicans scurrying in and out of precinct stations and courthouses, then these tours might also be entertaining for you:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/new-york-city-rats-tourism
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 07:27:53 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 10:34:54 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 08:28:31 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 04, 2023, 06:50:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 05:53:14 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 03:45:47 AM
If Bambu were king, his head would wind up on the fucking gate like the dear departed Charles I of England or Louis XVI of France. It would happen inside of a week and no war would be fought to prevent it.

That's 'king' (like 'king of rock and roll', 'king of the schoolyard')...in this case running the state....the Premier(king of the police).

"Blockade Australia" climate protest group are blockading coal trains, coal ports, roads, and anything else they feel like.
There oughta be somehing done about it.

Now, in Youtube videos...climate activists slash/deflate tyres of SUVs...in US, Canada, Britain, everywhere basically.
Sky News: "climate 'lunatics' are deflating tyres at night."
They leave a sign on your vehicle;
"ATTENTION, Your gas guzzler kills"

Signed..."Tyre Extinguishers".

Radical climate activists seem to be mainly leftists.
Jesus Jumping Christ you stupid stupid man. There are videos on YouTube showing the world is flat.

Problem for you.....the videos are real...like the one:
"Just stop oil block London bridges'.
Useless cops just standing around watching.
Problem for you... the purpose of propaganda is not to convince thinking people to change their minds but convincing people like you to not think at all.

My thought is that the British cops should get after the "Just Stop Oil" protesters who are basically ruining British society with their blockades...and instead of just standing around asking the protesters to cease...they hire some big, tall, muscular men in tipper trucks to attend the blockade protests... grab the protesters standing in the middle of the roads with banners,...bind their ankles, and arms to bodies, then 'toss' them into the trucks, drive them to the re-education centre and upend the load into a foam filled pit....re-education officials then taking charge of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 07:49:49 PM: Premier Chris Minns has been all but forced to keep Eraring open longer than planned to keep the lights on until major renewable energy projects are finished.

#####

In my world.
Coal-fired power station, has 4 generators. Two would need to be kept going.

Obviously not wanting to feel the wrath or the People, and business.
I could cope, but I wouldn't wanna be him if Barbie's hairdryer didn't work for lack of electricity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 09:20:34 PM: Barbie figuring out a better way to dry her hair certainly would be a help.

I know Bambu is just bursting with pride right now for all the young people standing up for their future.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 11:12:11 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 09:20:34 PM
Barbie figuring out a better way to dry her hair certainly would be a help.

I know Bambu is just bursting with pride right now for all the young people standing up for their future.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich)

Time to activate the big muscular guys in tipper trucks and have them get after the criminals damaging other people's property.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 11:15:22 PM: bambuworld today:
"Cross Party delegation to travel to US to seek release of Assange."

Should be interesting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 02:55:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 11:12:11 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 04, 2023, 09:20:34 PM
Barbie figuring out a better way to dry her hair certainly would be a help.

I know Bambu is just bursting with pride right now for all the young people standing up for their future.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/4/2190061/-Climate-activists-target-jets-yachts-and-golf-in-global-protests-against-the-ultra-rich)

Time to activate the big muscular guys in tipper trucks and have them get after the criminals damaging other people's property.

King head on a stick has spoken. Someone fetch the whetstone and a basket.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 02:57:26 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 11:15:22 PM
bambuworld today:
"Cross Party delegation to travel to US to seek release of Assange."

Should be interesting.

If it were still the Morrison government or if they had any prospects of returning, we would expect most members of the delegation to seek asylum in the United States.

As it is I expect they will talk some and eat much better than they are able to do at home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 04:52:31 AM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/new-york-city-staten-island-ferry-union-contract (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/new-york-city-staten-island-ferry-union-contract)

Progress.

Keep marching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 05, 2023, 09:59:33 AM: I have been looking at photos from the Great Depression, it is amazing how far we have come since then. Even with the Corona Virus and shutting our whole nation down we have not suffered as much as our ancestors did during the Great Depression.

When I went through Kansas it was all hay fields, way different than the photos of the dust bowl during the Great Depression.

And now we have the Jimmy Buffett lifesyle, people lounging on the beaches of Key West, drinking margaritas and eating cheeseburgers. People today are living a whole different life than our ancestors lived during the Great Depression.

Then they had to fight World War II after the Great Depression, they had hard lives.

As hard as I have had it, it is nothing compared to what our ancestors survived. They were strong people. And they created the Labor Unions and Labor Laws which improved the lives of the workers and which helped to create our huge middle class.

We have come a long, long way since the Great Depression, and we have learned a lot since then.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 05, 2023, 11:22:56 AM: Our Troops and our Veterans are mixed in with the people at the R.V. parks, and in the low rent housing, and some Veterans are homeless. I have a friend who succeeded as an Aircraft Mechanic on an Aircraft Carrier for the Navy and he was well paid, and when he retired he bought a beautiful custom made home in Texas, so he had a good life. But, a lot of Troops and Veterans have it harder than he did.

Of note, the Veterans are good at managing Homeless Shelters. As the homeless veterans are helped then many will rise to become shelter managers. I had a friend who was a Combat Medic and he was an awesome Shelter Manager.

As we help our homeless then many opportunities will be created for Shelter Managers, and Social Workers, and for Crisis Intervention Specialists, etc, and for Van Drivers, etc, and people can work at the Mental Health Associations, and at the Wellness Centers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2023, 12:18:20 PM: Woke and anarchy obviously rule the landscape in Britain today, and as such society there is in decline.
Asylum seekers shown on my tv burning their documents on a beach in France before departure for England via boat.

The asylum seekers are safe in France, so why are they going by boat to England?
The very generous welfare system perhaps?
Former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono once told Australia..."take the honey off the table".

Seems the People in Britain have had enough of the Just Stop Oil protesters blocking roads and motorists are becoming vigilantes, driving their cars slowly thru the protesters, as passengers in the cars get out and shove the protesters out of the way.
Whose fault is it that is happening?
Answer, the govt/cops.

Oil makes the world go around today, someone should explain it to oil protesters.
Largest producer of oil in the world today is...USA...19 million barrels a day.
Why?
Answer, to run the nation, secure energy for industry, transport etc...secure the economy.

2nd largest oil producer...Saudi Arabia.
3rd largest...Russia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2023, 01:03:31 PM: Youtube
@londonukstreetnews

video 'Some guy pours milk over Just Stop Oil protester in Hammersmith London'

Protesters plural actually.
Man "what's goin on ere"?
You can ave it (the milk), you f..... c.....s, you f..... d...heads."

x

video
@TheScottishSun
"Motorist sprays German Just Stop Oil protester in the face with fizzy juice."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 02:26:49 PM: [url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/15/just-what-the-doctor-ordered-in-california-a-prescription-could-pay-for-your-fresh-fruits-and-veggies/#:~:text=It%27s%20part%20of%20a%20
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 02:31:38 PM: Tony, we can house all the homeless in golf clubs and yachts. We can house more people in the property of right wing mega churches that get shut down for fraud. We can also house people in the property of right wing institutions that supported the insurrectionists and are fomenting another civil war.

Lots of space for everyone if we just get our priorities straight.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 07:27:53 PM

My thought is that the British cops should get after the "Just Stop Oil" protesters who are basically ruining British society with their blockades...and instead of just standing around asking the protesters to cease...they hire some big, tall, muscular men in tipper trucks to attend the blockade protests... grab the protesters standing in the middle of the roads with banners,...bind their ankles, and arms to bodies, then 'toss' them into the trucks, drive them to the re-education centre and upend the load into a foam filled pit....re-education officials then taking charge of them.

Wow, you can out-fascist the fascists. China should call you in for consultation on Uighur management.

Step 1: eliminate due process of law
Step 2: concentration camps!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 05, 2023, 06:21:08 PM: You mean long-time Democratic Party stalwarts like William Baude?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either. Since effort made so far - and for the record I disagree with them - has invoked the legal process required for disqualification.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:57:08 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
section three as advocated by democrats versus Trump makes a mockery of due process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 08:11:32 PM: The mechanism for law abiding Americans to disqualify trump resides in each state individually as we have a federalized election system. It will happen on a state by state basis and be contested by those for and against disqualification within the differing legal systems of each state.

Trump will probably remain on the ballot in some places and be eligible for those electoral votes. He probably will not make it on in some swing states. If that is decided prior to primaries it may have an interesting effect on the republican primary. Though with the stupid fucking cultists that make up the GOP that might still not be enough to break the spell.

It must be though to be a republican and live with no country, no morals and no future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2023, 10:11:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 04, 2023, 07:27:53 PM

My thought is that the British cops should get after the "Just Stop Oil" protesters who are basically ruining British society with their blockades...and instead of just standing around asking the protesters to cease...they hire some big, tall, muscular men in tipper trucks to attend the blockade protests... grab the protesters standing in the middle of the roads with banners,...bind their ankles, and arms to bodies, then 'toss' them into the trucks, drive them to the re-education centre and upend the load into a foam filled pit....re-education officials then taking charge of them.

Wow, you can out-fascist the fascists. China should call you in for consultation on Uighur management.

Step 1: eliminate due process of law
Step 2: concentration camps!

The re-education in lieu of having a criminal record if convicted in a court.
If you pull the oil protesters off the road and throw them onto the sidewalk, they just get straight back up and go sit on the road again.
Women are screaming at them that they have to get to work, to earn money to feed their families...makes no difference, the protesters don't care.
The only way to make them care is to remove them for re-education, if you want to explain to them that "this is your one and only chance to avoid a criminal record, with all that would entail in the future."

Or they can just be arrested and prosecuted in court.
In one video they are being moved along the road by a bus nudging them...but it's still only about the slow pace they were moving along anyway.
In other videos the public are dragging them off the roads by their hair, no matter they just rush back to the middle of the road and keep blocking.

You can see what's going to happen, a motorist is going to get so angry that they run down protesters and kill or maim them.
The govt and cops will have to accept some of the blame if that happens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2023, 10:14:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 05, 2023, 02:31:38 PM
Tony, we can house all the homeless in golf clubs and yachts. We can house more people in the property of right wing mega churches that get shut down for fraud. We can also house people in the property of right wing institutions that supported the insurrectionists and are fomenting another civil war.

Lots of space for everyone if we just get our priorities straight.

Spoken like a true communist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 05, 2023, 10:22:27 PM: Maybe it's time to replace the Leftist mayor of London Sadiq Khan with someone who can put an end to store looting and blockades by Oil protesters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 10:50:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 11:10:08 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 10:50:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Uh, no. I am standing on very thick ice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 11:31:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 11:10:08 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 10:50:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Uh, no. I am standing on very thick ice.
Under would be the correct preposition. Even if the Democratic position is.wrong, and it is not, it has nothing to do with due process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 06, 2023, 06:04:43 PM: Black Twitter. LOL

Imagine trying to have White Twitter....you'd be "eaten alive".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 06, 2023, 06:06:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 11:31:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 11:10:08 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 10:50:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
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Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Uh, no. I am standing on very thick ice.
Under would be the correct preposition. Even if the Democratic position is.wrong, and it is not, it has nothing to do with due process.
What was the last Trump impeachment about?
Take your time researching. I dont want to rush you into humiliating yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 06, 2023, 06:15:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 06, 2023, 06:04:43 PM
Black Twitter. LOL

Imagine trying to have White Twitter....you'd be "eaten alive".

You misspelled Elon Musk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2023, 06:23:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 06, 2023, 06:06:33 PM
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Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Uh, no. I am standing on very thick ice.
Under would be the correct preposition. Even if the Democratic position is.wrong, and it is not, it has nothing to do with due process.
What was the last Trump impeachment about?
Take your time researching. I dont want to rush you into humiliating yourself.
Non sequitor! 15 - Love.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 06, 2023, 07:53:31 PM: Meanwhile, across the seas...

Payback for slavery: war breaks out over Sydney crown land claim
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 06, 2023, 10:51:49 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 06, 2023, 06:23:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 06, 2023, 06:06:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 11:31:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 11:10:08 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 10:50:30 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 09:55:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 05, 2023, 06:26:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 05, 2023, 05:48:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 05, 2023, 04:00:35 PM

Step 1: eliminate due process of law

The democrat desire in its folly arguing section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for President.
So... you do not know what due process of law means either.
Section 3 as advocated by the democrat Trump haters is a mockery of due process.
Repeating it does not make it less wrong.
Then you missed law school.
You continue to make yourself look stupid, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Uh, no. I am standing on very thick ice.
Under would be the correct preposition. Even if the Democratic position is.wrong, and it is not, it has nothing to do with due process.
What was the last Trump impeachment about?
Take your time researching. I dont want to rush you into humiliating yourself.
Non sequitor! 15 - Love.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 07, 2023, 02:02:29 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/07/police-called-to-yoga-class-mistaken-for-mass-killing
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2023, 02:10:31 PM: Americans in areas such as here in Venice Beach, California, are talking about "Equity" for Citizens, such as housing for locals, etc, if you have been here for generations then you have "Equity" according to the Councilman in Venice Beach and you should have special benefits as a local that newly arrived residents do not receive.

But we cannot let society stagnate, we need to keep educating our people, and building up our communities, so we are building something to have equity in, and not just equity in a ghetto or equity in the work of someone else. We cannot have lazy and ignorant people who feel like they have special privileges just because they are a citizen.

And I hate the drug dealers, and people who are so fucked up that they sell death and suffering to people. The drug dealers are not building any valuable equity in our communities.

In order to have a community in which we can have equity, then we need to build a valuable and educated community. Everyday is a day to be building value in our communities, including helping the homeless, and educating the children, and helping the Senior Citizens, etc.

But, just because you have equity does not mean you are too good to pick fruit, and to work for Sunkist, etc, if the people are uneducated and unskilled then they need to take any honest job, even picking fruit, and those jobs are part of our equity, just as the jobs at Disneyland are part of our equity. And our movie studios and studio jobs are part of our equity, etc. Our opportunities are part of our equity.

When I lived in Malibu I had 2 children in my house, one girl was 8 years old and one was 15, and those girls knew that if they wanted to live in Malibu that they were going to have to work and study hard because they knew Malibu is expensive. The girls were not sitting around smoking pot thinking they were entitled to benefits from equity from being a citizen, the girls were studying hard, and they were doing things to help them to prepare for college, etc. They saw a rewarding life of hard work and reward ahead of them, not just equity from being a citizen. And they were using their blessings to improve their education, etc, for instance they did not have to do labor so they had time to read and study instead and also to volunteer for charities, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2023, 03:37:55 PM: Oklahoma, 1939...

Dinner table of tenant farm family living near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Food consists of beans, cornbread, lettuce, fried potatoes, fatback and gravy, cole slaw and sweet milk...

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We have lots of equity, we have made a lot of progress since the Great Depression. I am surrounded by wonderful grocery stores with plentiful cheap food. Even with inflation a person could still make a pot of spaghetti pretty cheap and have some wine and live way better than the people did during the Great Depression. Our ancestors had hard lives.

The farmers had better food than the city folks, and that is still the case, we need to do a better job at sending farm fresh food from our farms to our poor people in the cities. But, we have equity, and we have made progress. And dams from 100 years ago are helping us to grow winter vegetables, etc.

We are making progress.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 07, 2023, 05:04:57 PM: Picking up two dozen unpasteurized duck eggs from a farmer next week. They bring the richness chickens just cannot provide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2023, 08:11:02 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 07, 2023, 05:04:57 PM
Picking up two dozen unpasteurized duck eggs from a farmer next week. They bring the richness chickens just cannot provide.

Nice.

The chicken eggs are still over-priced here, but the chicken prices are cheap, I got the marinated and spiced Mexican style chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, it is a great deal.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 07, 2023, 08:15:22 PM: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/found-giant-freshwater-deposits-hiding-under-the-sea/

I drink your milkshake!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2023, 10:35:55 PM: Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/arts/television/danny-masterson-rape-trial-sentencing.html

His life is over. One minute he was rich and famous living a good life in the Hollywood Hills, and now his life is over. He will spend the rest of his life in prison probably.

People need to learn the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, and we need to respect people.

When I was in Cannes, France, for the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, it was like everyone there went to Charm School, everyone was beautiful and polite, we need to be the same way here in Hollywood. And we can have cheap hostels like in Rome, Italy.

Meanwhile, Danny can teach classes to the other prisoners about making a television show, they should make him a teacher for the other prisoners.

Hollywood has made it known that we will not tolerate the abuse of women.

Also, with the rise in crime in Beverly Hills people are hiring more Security Guards and Door Men, etc, so crime will fall quickly like in Monte Carlo, there is zero crime in Monte Carlo because of all of the private security guards all over.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 07, 2023, 11:54:01 PM: WOW.
I am totally impressed with President of The Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jnr...as Australia and Philippines sign Strategic Partnership.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2023, 12:08:23 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 07, 2023, 11:54:01 PM
WOW.
I am totally impressed with President of The Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jnr...as Australia and Philippines sign Strategic Partnership.

Good! Very cool. Love the Philippines.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2023, 12:10:36 AM: When I went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 I was struck by how polite and well mannered all of the people were, it was like they all went to Charm School. So, that got me thinking, we need to have Charm School classes in our high schools here in Los Angeles for our high school students.

When I was in high school I had a teacher who was an actor who was friends with Michael Landon and with Ricardo Mantalban, and he taught us how to behave at Hollywood parties, etc. So, we need to do that for all of our students, we need to teach all of our students how to behave at a Hollywood party, and how to eat at a fancy restaurant, and we need to teach our people manners, and class, like they do in France. We need to have Charm School classes in our High Schools.

We can also teach them Ball Room Dancing, etc, the Minuet, and the Waltz, at least. Our whole civilization would go up a notch if we taught the youth Ball Room Dancing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2023, 12:14:40 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 07, 2023, 08:11:02 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 07, 2023, 05:04:57 PM
Picking up two dozen unpasteurized duck eggs from a farmer next week. They bring the richness chickens just cannot provide.

Nice.

The chicken eggs are still over-priced here, but the chicken prices are cheap, I got the marinated and spiced Mexican style chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, it is a great deal.

Salute,

Tony V.

Cool. The thigh meat I like is 2.99 bone out and skin off
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 08, 2023, 12:49:04 AM: I can't eat ducks, kangaroos, deer, pandas, dogs, cats. bears etc...my mind won't allow it.

X

"Me Too",

Sydney businessman is released from prison on bail after being there for 3 weeks...charged will allegedly assaulting [two counts of "assault causing actual bodily harm"] his girlfriend [with an elbow].
...after CCTV of the incident was played to the Supreme Court.
Except for the CCTV tape being played, he'd likely still be there.
The tape shows his girlfriend as allegedly the aggressor, allegedly grabbing him from behind and trying to push and drag him from the building thru an open glass door...allegedly shoving him against a lobby wall. He allegedly hitting her with an elbow accidentally as he swung around.

His lawyer told the court...'It is very scary'. 'The pendulum seems to have swung far too far the other way.'
Indeed.
Scary as hell.
Swung so far that it is now wise for males to wear body cameras everywhere they go, 24/7/365 for self protection, so they don't find themselves nailed to the cross of injustice and locked up in a prison.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2023, 01:06:47 AM: Elect the Central Park Five!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 08, 2023, 02:20:51 AM: dailymail dot co dot uk

A climate scientist has admitted exaggerating the impact of global warming on Californian wildfires to get his research published.

Patrick T Brown claims studies about climate change are rejected by scientific journals if they do not 'support certain narratives' and they favour 'distorted' research which overstates dangers.

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Well there you go.
Wonder if any others are doing the same.?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 08, 2023, 10:33:29 AM: claims

You found one disgruntled scientist whose professional detachment has been subverted by partisan right-wing narratives and is striking the classic victim posture. Wonder who sponsored his research?

I'm guessing, based on my knowledge of the peer review process in publishing science papers, that his research was discovered to have methodological problems and compromised data that meant it simply didn't meet standards of scientific rigor.

That you had to dredge this from the Daily Mail suggests much of the real story is missing here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 08, 2023, 04:16:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 08, 2023, 10:33:29 AM
claims

You found one disgruntled scientist whose professional detachment has been subverted by partisan right-wing narratives and is striking the classic victim posture. Wonder who sponsored his research?

I'm guessing, based on my knowledge of the peer review process in publishing science papers, that his research was discovered to have methodological problems and compromised data that meant it simply didn't meet standards of scientific rigor.

That you had to dredge this from the Daily Mail suggests much of the real story is missing here.

Or, that's what is widespread...having to conform to the 'narrative', or else.
It's what is allegedly happening in bambuworld high schools and universities.
So I'm believing the scientist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2023, 05:42:07 PM: We need to have a kinder and gentler society with a loving community, instead of crime and gang wars.

Instead of raising the children to be violent little gang members and drug dealers then we need to raise them to be the new leaders for Hollywood, we need for them to grow up and to rule Hollywood. We need for our children to grow up to be wise, educated, polite, and well mannered, like the people who built Hollywood.

My ancestors came to California during the Great Depression, and they were poor but they were honest, and they worked hard, they all started out picking fruit, etc, and they worked their way up. My Grandmother went to Business School and she helped my Grandfather to open a Business, he owned a Hard Wood Floor Company in Hollywood, and they lived in a neighborhood with the movie stars, Roy Rogers and his first wife Arlene were neighbors with my Grandparents.

My Grandparents worked hard so that they could be upstanding members of the community. And they were friends with everyone in Hollywood, and they went to Hollywood parties and my Grandfather loved to do the Waltz, they loved to do Ball Room Dancing on Saturday Nights in Hollywood. They would wine and dine and dance with the stars.

My Grandfather died when I was a child, but my Grandmother did everything she could to teach me how to be polite, and well mannered, and to have high class, and to be honest and to work hard, and I studied and trained to try to take my rightful place as a leader here in Hollywood. We will see how far I can go.

We need to teach the youth of Hollywood how to be the next generation of leaders here in Hollywood. And we want nice communities with high classed people and a well mannered and polite society, and we need for people to help the homeless, and to keep the communities nice, etc.

And we need Charm School Classes in our High Schools, and we need to teach the students Ball Room Dancing, etc, along with the skills needed to run the film and television studios, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 08, 2023, 06:30:00 PM: Aha, Charm school...I could learn how to charm people to believe in me, and all my ideas, beliefs.
I could also run one, and charge money to learn the secrets of a happy and safe life today.

xxx

The progressive barn dance was my favourite dance, females had to dance with you! lol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 08, 2023, 07:36:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 08, 2023, 06:30:00 PM
Aha, Charm school...I could learn how to charm people to believe in me, and all my ideas, beliefs.
I could also run one, and charge money to learn the secrets of a happy and safe life today.

xxx

The progressive barn dance was my favourite dance, females had to dance with you! lol

It is always good to be a Gentleman. And you would be a good teacher, Bambu, you are patient and kind with a genuine love for humanity.

A friend from New York just told me that New York has Charm School in the schools for the children, she is from Brooklyn and she was in Charm School in the 5th Grade. They taught her a lot of good stuff.

And Charm School is important for the Men as well as the Women.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2023, 07:58:18 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/8/2192222/--I-back-the-blue-white-family-suddenly-outraged-at-police-brutality-directed-at-them (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/8/2192222/--I-back-the-blue-white-family-suddenly-outraged-at-police-brutality-directed-at-them)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 08, 2023, 09:52:36 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 08, 2023, 08:35:52 PM
Mission Impossible

https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

Cause two faces just does not cut it anymore in GOP world.

I especially like the purple text. Well done, that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 09, 2023, 11:34:38 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 08, 2023, 07:58:18 PM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/8/2192222/--I-back-the-blue-white-family-suddenly-outraged-at-police-brutality-directed-at-them (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/8/2192222/--I-back-the-blue-white-family-suddenly-outraged-at-police-brutality-directed-at-them)

Classic Leopard Ate Face story! Sorry to hear about the dog.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 09, 2023, 01:18:38 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 08, 2023, 10:33:29 AM
claims

I'm guessing, based on my knowledge of the peer review process in publishing science papers, that his research was discovered to have methodological problems and compromised data that meant it simply didn't meet standards of scientific rigor.

Well.

Oilcan chest puffing his knowledge of the peer review process (LOL) is a joke.

As Brown easily explained as quoted by numerous news outlets.
the study did not look at poor forest management and other factors that are just as important to fire behavior because I knew that it would detract from the clean narrative centered on the negative impact of climate change and thus decrease the odds that the paper would pass muster with Nature editors and reviewers.

California Assembly leader James Gallagher, a Republican, blasted liberals by saying that they cherry-pick data to fit their agenda.

Patrick Brown is saying the quiet part out loud, liberals are cherry picking data to fit an agenda and push radical policies that drive up the cost of living.
Climate change is a Democrats excuse to avoid blame for turning our forests into tinderboxes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 09, 2023, 02:02:20 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2192366/-Florida-s-brain-drain-continues-unabated-new-survey-shows (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2192366/-Florida-s-brain-drain-continues-unabated-new-survey-shows)

No one wants to share a state with Red or Luee. They are each as close to being a superfund site as a human being can get.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 09, 2023, 05:41:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 09, 2023, 01:18:38 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 08, 2023, 10:33:29 AM
claims

I'm guessing, based on my knowledge of the peer review process in publishing science papers, that his research was discovered to have methodological problems and compromised data that meant it simply didn't meet standards of scientific rigor.

Well.

Oilcan chest puffing his knowledge of the peer review process (LOL) is a joke.

As Brown easily explained as quoted by numerous news outlets.
the study did not look at poor forest management and other factors that are just as important to fire behavior because I knew that it would detract from the clean narrative centered on the negative impact of climate change and thus decrease the odds that the paper would pass muster with Nature editors and reviewers.

California Assembly leader James Gallagher, a Republican, blasted liberals by saying that they cherry-pick data to fit their agenda.

Patrick Brown is saying the quiet part out loud, liberals are cherry picking data to fit an agenda and push radical policies that drive up the cost of living.
Climate change is a Democrats excuse to avoid blame for turning our forests into tinderboxes.

We are talking past each other. I am not asserting that either liberals or conservatives in politics don't cherrypick data. Politicians gotta politick. I am saying that SCIENTISTS who cherrypick data are usually caught out in the peer review process and that it has more often been contrarian RW and partisan researchers who have been found to be doing this cherrypicking. (and often, sponsored by oil companies). Someone who is not a scientist and is a politician courting RW voters and donors, like Gallagher, is not at all to be trusted when he projects cherry picking onto liberals and labels policies as "radical." As for carbon neutral policy driving up living costs, it is more likely that rising average temperatures and ice melting will be far more expensive to everyone on this planet as we deal with crop failures, arable land losses, fisheries decline, property destroyed by wildfires, floods, hurricanes, submergence of coastal areas, etc.

The Dutch chip in on a million dollar dike because they know a storm surge will make a 100 million dollar flood.

(that's a metaphor, so spare me a citation dump on dike infrastructure costs)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 09, 2023, 07:26:32 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 09, 2023, 05:41:19 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 09, 2023, 01:18:38 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 08, 2023, 10:33:29 AM
claims

I'm guessing, based on my knowledge of the peer review process in publishing science papers, that his research was discovered to have methodological problems and compromised data that meant it simply didn't meet standards of scientific rigor.

Well.

Oilcan chest puffing his knowledge of the peer review process (LOL) is a joke.

As Brown easily explained as quoted by numerous news outlets.
the study did not look at poor forest management and other factors that are just as important to fire behavior because I knew that it would detract from the clean narrative centered on the negative impact of climate change and thus decrease the odds that the paper would pass muster with Nature editors and reviewers.

California Assembly leader James Gallagher, a Republican, blasted liberals by saying that they cherry-pick data to fit their agenda.

Patrick Brown is saying the quiet part out loud, liberals are cherry picking data to fit an agenda and push radical policies that drive up the cost of living.
Climate change is a Democrats excuse to avoid blame for turning our forests into tinderboxes.

We are talking past each other. I am not asserting that either liberals or conservatives in politics don't cherrypick data. Politicians gotta politick.
Patrick Brown is not a politician
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I am saying that SCIENTISTS who cherrypick data are usually caught out in the peer review process and that it has more often been contrarian RW and partisan researchers who have been found to be doing this cherrypicking.
Patrick Brown] concentrated on human error in his Maui Hurricane analysis. What did he cherry-pick?
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Someone who is not a scientist and is a politician courting RW voters and donors, like Gallagher, is not at all to be trusted when he projects cherry picking onto liberals and labels policies as radical.
Gallagher is a member of Congress pointing out that the the policies of Biden and AOC et al will ruin us economically.
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As for carbon neutral policy driving up living costs,
exactly what it will do since Net Zero will cost each American a minimum of $ 11grand a year which is why it WILL NOT HAPPEN! EVER.
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it is more likely that rising average temperatures and ice melting will be far more expensive to everyone on this planet as we deal with crop failures, arable land losses, fisheries decline, property destroyed by wildfires, floods, hurricanes, submergence of coastal areas, etc.
So what happened in LA when Smog enveloped it in the fifties? Did we ban automobiles?
No American businessmen came up with a cheap fix, the catalytic Converter, and the smog went away.
There are a million similar stories all over the world of how we adapt. Last check I made the world has more people and more wealth than ever.
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The Dutch chip in on a million dollar dike because they know a storm surge will make a 100 million dollar flood.

(that's a metaphor, so spare me a citation dump on dike infrastructure costs)
Actually your metaphor was stupid and makes my point.
700 years ago or so there was a huge Naval Battle in Holland.
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer was a naval engagement fought on 26 May 1573, during the early stages of the Dutch War of Independence. It was fought on the waters of the Haarlemmermeer a large lake which at the time was a prominent feature of North Holland.

Tell me what is there today?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 09, 2023, 07:59:10 PM: What I adopted as policy today:

If your spouse is not quite "with it" in the mind, and you're going shopping with them, travelling on public transport with them, going anywhere with them ..tie them to you ...that way they can't stay on the train when you get off, or get separated from you/lost.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 09, 2023, 08:21:55 PM: When the smog got bad enough we banned leaded gasoline. Then we raised fuel efficiency standards. And we mandates pollution controls on many industries. As a result the smog problem improved.

Biden and AOC are correct in their views and policies regarding the environment though the disagree on the degree to which action must be taken.

Gallagher is a crook and a lying bastard who hates America though he is stealing as much as he can while he tries to fool enough voters to keep him in Congress.

One day Red might find someone stupid enough to take his fascist wanking as gospel, someone besides himself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 01:50:11 AM: Thanks Deej. I do not know whether or not this will inspire your pen, but I kinda hope it does

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2191721/-About-Football-Children-s-Beauty-Pageants-and-SELL (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2191721/-About-Football-Children-s-Beauty-Pageants-and-SELL)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 02:04:22 AM: "Not My King", "Not My King" they chant as they protest, waving placards in Britain.
Young people mostly.
No-ideas, with no idea what Britain would be without The Monarchy, the pomp, ceremony, parades, democratic system.
Maybe they should all go live in Communist China.

Long live the King!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 10, 2023, 10:46:16 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 02:04:22 AM
"Not My King", "Not My King" they chant as they protest, waving placards in Britain.
Young people mostly.
No-ideas, with no idea what Britain would be without The Monarchy, the pomp, ceremony, parades, democratic system.
A democracy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 02:01:39 PM: If Charles III abdicates and cedes all monarchical powers and properties to the people via parliament he has a much better chance of avoiding either of the terrible fates that befell the two Charles that proceeded him as king.

Charles I had a much better end than Charles II though Charles II probably had much more fun being king before his life caught up with him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 10, 2023, 03:22:31 PM: World could use more of these pop-up houses

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/09/1196594500/pop-up-house-disaster-relief-families

Do the Brit monarchs really have any powers now? I think the are just figureheads, except for maybe a couple archaic rules which parliament would cancel in a minute if they ever were a real problem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2023, 03:54:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 02:04:22 AM
"Not My King", "Not My King" they chant as they protest, waving placards in Britain.
Young people mostly.
No-ideas, with no idea what Britain would be without The Monarchy, the pomp, ceremony, parades, democratic system.
Maybe they should all go live in Communist China.

Long live the King!

That is ironic, because the British used communism as a weapon of conquest, and also the USA defeated England twice in war and the British were afraid of the USA being the only Super Power.

My answer, is that we can have the United Nations where we all work together as a team for the benefit of all of humanity and peace. There is no need to be afraid if we all work together for peace. The British do not need to be afraid because we have the United Nations.

And King Juan Carlos of Spain was a good King, he retired and his son Felipe VI is doing a great job.

And long live Pope Francis!

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 10, 2023, 04:04:31 PM: I think the bulb may burned out on the Bat Signal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 05:04:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 03:22:31 PM
World could use more of these pop-up houses

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/09/1196594500/pop-up-house-disaster-relief-families

Do the Brit monarchs really have any powers now? I think the are just figureheads, except for maybe a couple archaic rules which parliament would cancel in a minute if they ever were a real problem.
The Royal Family, bound to follow the government in law, makes about 3500 public appearances a year, roughly 10 a day. They may be figureheads to you but their subjects love their
dedication to diplomacy and ambassadors for British interests and values abroad, increasing tourism at home, and promoting charities throughout civil society. ( London Times)

That job would kill Joe Biden in a week, but it would end his propensity to ignore our Constitution and Congress and use executive orders that never survive scrutiny.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 05:50:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 10, 2023, 10:46:16 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 02:04:22 AM
"Not My King", "Not My King" they chant as they protest, waving placards in Britain.
Young people mostly.
No-ideas, with no idea what Britain would be without The Monarchy, the pomp, ceremony, parades, democratic system.
A democracy.

Britain is a democracy...the People elect the govt, the Monarchy purely symbolic.
No need to have the Monarchy at all, but the system today is a very good one.
King Charles is streamlining it.

As in Australia, with its Constitutional Monarchy, where the politicians, military, police etc all have to swear allegiance to the Monarch, not themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 10, 2023, 06:45:04 PM: Flatten and freeze-dry the monarch, hang it on a flagpole, call it "the flag"...would make no difference.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 07:05:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 06:45:04 PM
Flatten and freeze-dry the monarch, hang it on a flagpole, call it "the flag"...would make no difference.
Fortunately adults rule Brittannia.
And they love the Royalty.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never will be slaves.

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 07:08:45 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 03:22:31 PM
World could use more of these pop-up houses

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/09/1196594500/pop-up-house-disaster-relief-families

Do the Brit monarchs really have any powers now? I think the are just figureheads, except for maybe a couple archaic rules which parliament would cancel in a minute if they ever were a real problem.

They own the entire coastline and most of the undeveloped land in the country, for a start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 07:14:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 07:05:48 PM

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.

Try demonstrating that nifty piece of advice yourself for a few months.

It might give someone here the impression that you at least know what the fuck you are saying, if not entirely what you are talking about, on one topic at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:16:26 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 10, 2023, 02:10:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 02:01:39 PM
If Charles III abdicates and cedes all monarchical powers and properties to the people via parliament he has a much better chance of avoiding either of the terrible fates that befell the two Charles that proceeded him as king.

Charles I had a much better end than Charles II though Charles II probably had much more fun being king before his life caught up with him.

The Moron DownUnder will always be a subject to the King or Queen,
not a citizen of a free democracy. Unsurprisingly he has no clue as to the difference.

Moronic maybe, but not so moronic as to allow a system whereby Trump could be elected Prime Minister and not be allowed to be speedily replaced.
Trump's antics would never have allowed him to even be put forward as a candidate, let alone elected.

Australia is a free democracy...with a House of Reps and a Senate. It has its own national anthem, its own flag, its own parliament, is self-governing just like the Republic Of the United States.

The Monarch can be removed as Head of State by the People in a referendum. The Monarch banished at the ballot box in an instant.
The Constitutional Monarchy removed from sight forevermore.
But why would we want to do that...and let the politicians run wild.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:17:07 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/another-christian-influencer-arrested-for-child-abuse-why-conservatives-keep-falling-for-these-cons/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/another-christian-influencer-arrested-for-child-abuse-why-conservatives-keep-falling-for-these-cons/)

Probably another Mother for Liberty in her spare time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:25:22 PM: So does Australia thank Liz or Charlie for banishing Scummo to the outer darkness?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:34:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:25:22 PM
So does Australia thank Liz or Charlie for banishing Scummo to the outer darkness?

Your-ilk leftist voters did it...foolishly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:38:09 PM: dailytelegraph dot com dot au
September 10 2023

If a conservative said various races and nationalities were destroying an entire city they'd be condemned, driven from public life. But it seems to be okay if you're the mayor of NYC, writes Tim Blair.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:43:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:34:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:25:22 PM
So does Australia thank Liz or Charlie for banishing Scummo to the outer darkness?

Your-ilk leftist voters did it...foolishly.

The wanker and his supporters were leading you to new levels of disorder, starvation, and devastation. It is good you got rid of his incompetent ass when you did, however you got it done.

If Scummo were still around you would be wholly owned by China already without ever a shot being fired, nuke or not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:45:54 PM: Tim Blair article continued:

One of life's great delights is watching smug lefties run headfirst into reality.
We see a great deal of this in Australia.

Labor was forced to abandon its "welcome to boaties" policy a decade ago after thousands turned up without passports or other identification.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:49:08 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:43:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:34:45 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 08:25:22 PM
So does Australia thank Liz or Charlie for banishing Scummo to the outer darkness?

Your-ilk leftist voters did it...foolishly.

The wanker and his supporters were leading you to new levels of disorder, starvation, and devastation. It is good you got rid of his incompetent ass when you did, however you got it done.

If Scummo were still around you would be wholly owned by China already without ever a shot being fired, nuke or not.

Not so.
He was the 'creator' of the AUKUS pact ...nuke subs et al. [which the left wing of the Labor Party hate... AUKUS and the nuke subs].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:59:47 PM: Tim Blair article continued:

In 2021, when campaigning for mayoral office, [Eric] Adams luxuriated in New York's precious "sanctuary city" status and declared: "We should protect our immigrants. Period."

Of course it's very easy to hold that view when illegal immigrants are pouring across the southern border into Texas rather than into New York, some 3200km away.

*

So Texas delivered a load of illegals to caring, humanitarian New York. Adams, at first, was glad to meet them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 09:13:39 PM: Tim Blair article continued:

Finally, last week, Adams cracked. In full view of his city, his country, the world and the almighty, Adams became the living embodiment of an age-old truism:
a conservative is a leftist who's just been mugged.

"I'm gonna tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I didn't see an ending to. I don't see an ending to this," Adams raved at a town hall meeting on Wednesday night

"This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City."

"One time we were just getting Venezuela," Adams continued. "Now we're getting Ecuador, now we're getting Russian-speaking coming through Mexico, now we're getting Western Africa."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 10, 2023, 09:23:03 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 07:05:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 06:45:04 PM
Flatten and freeze-dry the monarch, hang it on a flagpole, call it "the flag"...would make no difference.

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.

If only you could follow your own dictum.

Thanks for reminding me of the rank hypocrisy of right-wing cancel culture.

Quote
Fortunately adults rule Brittannia.
And they love the Royalty...

Not all of them, these days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/young-british-people-want-ditch-monarchy-poll-suggests-2021-05-20/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 09:33:24 PM: IMAGINE...

IMAGINE...

IMAGINE...

If a White[or any] Conservative mayor anywhere in America had said that!

***

Yes, like luee has been saying here for years...basically...that when it's a few, a trickle, there's not really a problem...but when the trickle becomes a flood.....everything gets overrun, swamped [my word].

Mayor Adams seems to be blaming Joe for the dilemma.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 09:37:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 09:23:03 PM

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.

If only you could follow your own dictum.

Thanks for reminding me of the rank hypocrisy of right-wing cancel culture.
You are the one suggesting Cancel Culture.

Quote
Fortunately adults rule Brittannia.
And they love the Royalty... [ quote]

Not all of them, these days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/young-british-people-want-ditch-monarchy-poll-suggests-2021-05-20/
Posting old news can be treacherous.
Especially in the interim when people take stock of what they have after a loss,
Britons not the least of them.
God Save The King!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 09:56:27 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 09:23:03 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 07:05:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 06:45:04 PM
Flatten and freeze-dry the monarch, hang it on a flagpole, call it "the flag"...would make no difference.

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.

If only you could follow your own dictum.

Thanks for reminding me of the rank hypocrisy of right-wing cancel culture.

Quote
Fortunately adults rule Brittannia.
And they love the Royalty...

Not all of them, these days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/young-british-people-want-ditch-monarchy-poll-suggests-2021-05-20/

Maybe they think Britain would still be full of tourists, spending up big, paying for all the very generous welfare the said "young British people" receive.
Young people seem to think Western govts have money trees somehwere they just pick from every time they need a top up to the economy.

No Buckingham palace, no Monarchy and all that goes with, not much in Britain to attract tourists, seems to me.
Some old castles maybe.
No way I'd be touring there if there were no Monarchy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 10, 2023, 10:14:43 PM: I am happy that Australia has a good new policy with the Philippines. I love the Philippines, and I have watched them help the homeless of Southern California.

And China is great, do not worry about China. They just want peaceful trade and money, and they love Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and New York City. Plus there is a new China Town in Las Vegas that is growing quickly. And Tim Cook, and Bill Gates, and Paul Allen, and Steve Jobs, and all of those guys sent jobs to China. And California is doing $17 Billion in exports with China alone each year. We need peace, no one wants a blood bath. And the Roman Catholic church is growing quickly in China. Blessed are the peace-makers.

Also, Pope Francis is a good man of peace, we must cherish him while he is alive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 10:54:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:45:54 PM
Tim Blair article continued:

One of life's great delights is watching smug lefties run headfirst into reality.
We see a great deal of this in Australia.

Labor was forced to abandon its "welcome to boaties" policy a decade ago after thousands turned up without passports or other identification.

Aside from you, I do not know another sheep fed entirely on bullshit that has lived so long. Congratulations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 11:00:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 10, 2023, 09:37:16 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 10, 2023, 09:23:03 PM

Do yourself a favor and shut up about something about which you know nothing.

If only you could follow your own dictum.

Thanks for reminding me of the rank hypocrisy of right-wing cancel culture.
You are the one suggesting Cancel Culture.

Quote
Fortunately adults rule Brittannia.
And they love the Royalty... [ quote]

Not all of them, these days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/young-british-people-want-ditch-monarchy-poll-suggests-2021-05-20/
Posting old news can be treacherous.
Especially in the interim when people take stock of what they have after a loss,
Britons not the least of them.
God Save The King!

If they still mine tin in Cornwall, they might have room down a mineshaft for you somewhere. You should check it out.

Also the language barrier should save you some of the beatings you inevitably receive in this country.

We have no further use for you here, Red. Be a good boy now and fuck off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 11, 2023, 01:12:14 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 10:54:19 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:45:54 PM
Tim Blair article continued:

One of life's great delights is watching smug lefties run headfirst into reality.
We see a great deal of this in Australia.

Labor was forced to abandon its "welcome to boaties" policy a decade ago after thousands turned up without passports or other identification.

Aside from you, I do not know another sheep fed entirely on bullshit that has lived so long. Congratulations.

Tow back the boats, and they stop coming.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.

Seal the southern border, no more illegal immigrants.
Same deal.

No BS, just a plain, simple, and orderly migration system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 11, 2023, 01:43:35 AM: This is why we will never let you in under any circumstances. You do not belong in a free country. It would make you lose your mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 11:35:11 AM: News Item

NEW MEXICO Criminals across New Mexico were ecstatic to hear from Governor Grisham today that no one in the state would be armed for an entire month.

( A new wrinkle in the age old promise of the lefties:
We are from the Government and we are here to help you!)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 11, 2023, 12:07:31 PM: Red has caught the trump family dementia that did in Fred and finishing donald as we speak. It is the rare transmissible kind, spread through the overconsumption of conservative media the FDA warns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 11, 2023, 07:33:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 11:35:11 AM
News Item

NEW MEXICO Criminals across New Mexico were ecstatic to hear from Governor Grisham today that no one in the state would be armed for an entire month.

( A new wrinkle in the age old promise of the lefties:
We are from the Government and we are here to help you!)

From the Babylon Bee?

The actual order is temp ban on concealed and open carry in Albuquerque. Home defense, hunting, and rural carry are not affected.

The emergency order followed the fatal shootings of young children, including a 13-year-old girl in July, a 5-year-old girl in August and an 11-year-old boy this month. You're okay if that trend continues in ABQ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 11, 2023, 08:33:10 PM: Of course he is OK with it. He is not in Albuquerque and also he is a fucking prick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 08:42:06 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 11, 2023, 07:33:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 11:35:11 AM
News Item

NEW MEXICO Criminals across New Mexico were ecstatic to hear from Governor Grisham today that no one in the state would be armed for an entire month.

( A new wrinkle in the age old promise of the lefties:
We are from the Government and we are here to help you!)

From the Babylon Bee?
Uh, no.

Quote
The actual order is temp ban on concealed and open carry in Albuquerque. Home defense, hunting, and rural carry are not affected.
Ah,so not only is order unconstitutional it is also stupid.

Reporter Question
Do you think that criminals are going to hear this message and not carry a gun in Albuquerque, on the streets, for 30 days?

Grisham responded, Ah, NO.
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 11, 2023, 08:50:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 08:42:06 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 11, 2023, 07:33:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 11:35:11 AM
News Item

NEW MEXICO Criminals across New Mexico were ecstatic to hear from Governor Grisham today that no one in the state would be armed for an entire month.

From the Babylon Bee?
Uh, no.

Yes.

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-mexico-criminals-excited-to-hear-no-one-will-be-armed-for-entire-month

You cut/paste from that article.

We're done.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 09:20:56 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 11, 2023, 08:50:17 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 08:42:06 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 11, 2023, 07:33:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 11:35:11 AM
News Item

NEW MEXICO Criminals across New Mexico were ecstatic to hear from Governor Grisham today that no one in the state would be armed for an entire month.

From the Babylon Bee?
Uh, no.

Yes.

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-mexico-criminals-excited-to-hear-no-one-will-be-armed-for-entire-month

You cut/paste from that article.
Nope
Quote
We are done

LOL
How many times you taking your bawl and going home to Mommy?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 11, 2023, 10:38:42 PM: Texas leads the United States on population growth, so that means that all of the new beautiful young women from Ukraine, and from Russia, are coming to Texas. That is surprising, I expected New York to top the list. New York is still the number one City, followed by Los Angeles, but right now all of the new people are coming to Texas.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/subcounty-metro-micro-estimates.html

Santa Cruz, California, is also on the list, it is a great area.

Texas needs to build lots of Tennis courts, the women from Eastern Europe love Tennis. And swimming pools, just because pools are great to have.

So if you are wondering where all of the new immigrants are coming to, they are mostly coming to Texas. So the lonely Cowboys in Texas are going to be able to find wives, that is great. The people are coming to Texas, and Texas is a great spot.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 11, 2023, 10:45:14 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 11, 2023, 09:19:47 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:16:26 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on September 10, 2023, 02:10:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 02:01:39 PM
If Charles III abdicates and cedes all monarchical powers and properties to the people via parliament he has a much better chance of avoiding either of the terrible fates that befell the two Charles that proceeded him as king.

Charles I had a much better end than Charles II though Charles II probably had much more fun being king before his life caught up with him.

The Moron DownUnder will always be a subject to the King or Queen,
not a citizen of a free democracy. Unsurprisingly he has no clue as to the difference.

Moronic maybe,

Australia is a free democracy...with a House of Reps and a Senate. It has its own national anthem, its own flag,

MAYBE? No maybe about it,

Your own flag? What is that Union Jack doing there? When you look at that
rag of a flag remember to bend your knee to your royals who disdain you
for being their inferiors.

You are a servile subject and even at that you suck!

The Union Jack symbolises our history...history is set in stone.
The stars of the Southern Cross our geography.
The 7 point Federation Star represents our political system.
You kicked the British out, and became a republic.
We became independent, but adopted a Constitutional Monarchy as our system.

The flag of Hawaii contains the Union Jack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 11, 2023, 10:59:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 11, 2023, 09:20:56 PM
LOL
How many times you taking your bawl and going home to Mommy?

As a piece of shit your highest ambition is to get stuck into the tread of someones shoe, but it is not happening for you today.

Go sit by your maggot infested self and decompose.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 11, 2023, 11:24:22 PM: 50% of the people in Ukraine speak fluent English, so as the refugees arrive in Texas half of them already speak fluent English. Then they can get help in Texas, and Texas has Catholic churches, etc, where immigrants can get help. And the churches can help to hook the people up with Social Programs, etc. And the Unions can help people to find jobs, etc. Texas has Truck Drivers and Teamsters, and the United Farm Workers, etc. Texas is a great choice for the immigrants. And Texas has wonderful schools. I was surprised that the people from Ukraine picked Texas to be the fastest growing area in the USA, but it is a good choice. We just need to make sure everyone has plenty of water, etc, and we can build new dams where needed, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 11, 2023, 11:24:27 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 11, 2023, 09:19:47 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:16:26 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on September 10, 2023, 02:10:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 02:01:39 PM
If Charles III abdicates and cedes all monarchical powers and properties to the people via parliament he has a much better chance of avoiding either of the terrible fates that befell the two Charles that proceeded him as king.

Charles I had a much better end than Charles II though Charles II probably had much more fun being king before his life caught up with him.

The Moron DownUnder will always be a subject to the King or Queen,
not a citizen of a free democracy. Unsurprisingly he has no clue as to the difference.

Moronic maybe,

Australia is a free democracy...with a House of Reps and a Senate. It has its own national anthem, its own flag,

MAYBE? No maybe about it,

Your own flag? What is that Union Jack doing there? When you look at that
rag of a flag remember to bend your knee to your royals who disdain you
for being their inferiors.

You are a servile subject and even at that you suck!

The national flag is the official flag...but the sons and daughters of the Southern Cross have another flag, the flag of defiance, the flag that was born in 1854, in the goldfields of Ballarat Victoria state, as oppressed miners, tired of "taxation without representation" etc built a stockade ...the Eureka Stockade and fought a war against law enforcement, which they lost. They stood around a flagpole, hoisted their new "Eureka" flag, and recited the oath:
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."

Some say the birthplace of democracy in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2023, 12:50:42 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 11, 2023, 11:05:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 11, 2023, 10:45:14 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on September 11, 2023, 09:19:47 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 10, 2023, 08:16:26 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on September 10, 2023, 02:10:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 10, 2023, 02:01:39 PM
If Charles III abdicates and cedes all monarchical powers and properties to the people via parliament he has a much better chance of avoiding either of the terrible fates that befell the two Charles that proceeded him as king.

Charles I had a much better end than Charles II though Charles II probably had much more fun being king before his life caught up with him.

The Moron DownUnder will always be a subject to the King or Queen,
not a citizen of a free democracy. Unsurprisingly he has no clue as to the difference.

Moronic maybe,

Australia is a free democracy...with a House of Reps and a Senate. It has its own national anthem, its own flag,

MAYBE? No maybe about it,

Your own flag? What is that Union Jack doing there? When you look at that
rag of a flag remember to bend your knee to your royals who disdain you
for being their inferiors.

You are a servile subject and even at that you suck!

The Union Jack symbolises our history.
The stars of the Southern Cross our geography.
The 7 point Federation Star represents our political system.
You kicked the British out, and became a republic.
We became independent, but adopted a Constitutional Monarchy as our system.

The flag of Hawaii contains the Union Jack.

Servile sycophantic subject!

No more time for you, Moron! You chose poorly and are condemned
to your stupidity. It becomes you especially well!

Just so you have the full story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 12, 2023, 01:01:18 AM: You are a good guy Bambu, just no more blood baths, no more World Wars. We need peace. We need to use the United Nations and we need to work together for world peace, and Putin is violating international law. We need to put Putin in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we need to have peace.

We also need to stop slavery and human trafficking and we need to protect the refugees, etc. We need to bring people out of the shadows and we need to make them legal so they can call the police in the case of an emergency and people also need to be able to join Labor Unions, etc.

And for people who need help we have Kiwanis International which is GLOBAL, and they can save children all around the world from troubles.

Kiwanis International

1 hour

Kiwanis is serious about youth protection.

That is why we have created a toll-free, confidential helpline that can be used 24 hours a day by Kiwanis family members and the youth we serve. To access the U.S. helpline, call 866-607-SAFE (7233).

Plus Pope Francis is a great man of peace, and the Catholic church always helps the refugees.

Along with great unions like the United Farm Workers, and the Teamsters. The workers of today are lucky, and the unions will protect the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2023, 01:05:36 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 12, 2023, 01:01:18 AM
You are a good guy Bambu, just no more blood baths, no more World Wars. We need peace. We need to use the United Nations and we need to work together for world peace, and Putin is violating international law. We need to put Putin in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we need to have peace.

We also need to stop slavery and human trafficking and we need to protect the refugees, etc. We need to bring people out of the shadows and we need to make them legal so they can call the police in the case of an emergency and people also need to be able to join Labor Unions, etc.

And for people who need help we have Kiwanis International which is GLOBAL, and they can save children all around the world from troubles.

Kiwanis International

1 hour

Kiwanis is serious about youth protection.

That is why we have created a toll-free, confidential helpline that can be used 24 hours a day by Kiwanis family members and the youth we serve. To access the U.S. helpline, call 866-607-SAFE (7233).

Plus Pope Francis is a great man of peace, and the Catholic church always helps the refugees.

Along with great unions like the United Farm Workers, and the Teamsters. The workers of today are lucky, and the unions will protect the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta catch Putin first, he's very elusive.
Putin is for peace, on his terms, which are not acceptable, so the war continues.
K J Un is going to Russia to meet Putin, reportedly for an arms deal.
Peace seems a long way off.
Russia, China, Nth Korea...the new alliance.
Heaven help us all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 12, 2023, 03:02:11 AM: Bambu, trust your friendship with Ferdinand Marcos Jr and with the people of the Philippines, and wise elders such as Gloria Arroyo, we can have peace. Gloria was a powerful woman and her and her cousin Rose and my friend Lisa helped the homeless all over Los Angeles and in Orange County. Lisa had 10 houses that were giant 14 room mansions full of homeless people, and Lisa cooked wonderful food for the homeless people in her houses. Today there are Sober Living Homes, such as the Flagman homes in the OC, and groups such as the Mental Health Association and the Wellness Center will put you in a Sober Living Home and they will feed the person. Anyhow, the people of the Philippines are wonderful, loving people, and the Philippines can help Australia to have peace with China.

I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General, the Chinese love Malibu, and they loved me, they love the USA, we will be fine, it will all be okay. And the Catholic Church is growing fast in China.

And Biden was just in Vietnam. Everything is cool with Vietnam.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 12, 2023, 10:23:12 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on September 12, 2023, 06:33:39 PM
https://gradycartoons.com/recent-works/

World Piece

Picking our toes in Key West (For FAC)

They are all after a piece. Well done. Glad my coffee was all the way in the next room when I clicked the link.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 12, 2023, 10:27:16 PM: Drew Barrymore is wanting to work in spite of the strikes, and she needs to watch "The Grapes of Wrath" starring John Barrymore about the need for UNIONS and about how far we have come since the Great Depression because of UNIONS. And workers cannot get fair treatment from heartless foreign corporations without UNIONS and Labor Laws.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 12, 2023, 10:53:06 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 12, 2023, 10:27:16 PM
Drew Barrymore is wanting to work in spite of the strikes, and she needs to watch "The Grapes of Wrath" starring John Barrymore about the need for UNIONS and about how far we have come since the Great Depression because of UNIONS. And workers cannot get fair treatment from heartless foreign corporations without UNIONS and Labor Laws.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.

Transport Workers Union just had a win in my High Court today.
Court ruled QANTAS illegally sacked 1700 workers...replacing them with outsourced labour.
"Qantas has faced public outrage in recent weeks, including allegations it sold tickets on thousands of flights that were already cancelled."

Great airline, just that the people running it of late haven't, shall we say, been ...well you know.
Heads are rolling.
Union wants the whole Board replaced.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 13, 2023, 11:54:50 AM: Hawaii...

Horrible fires happened in Hawaii in 2018.
The People told the state and federal govts what went wrong, and what needed to be done to ensure there was no repeat.

2023 ...even more horrific fires happened, with great loss of life, injury, and loss of property.
Hydrants with no water, no alarms, no evacuation plan, no cell phone warnings.
Post reportedly says that the authorities/ govts did none of what they were told after the 2018 fires.

Saw on my tv one lady in Hawaii say : "We got screwed".

Maybe now things will change...starting with the state govt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM: Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:16:10 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM

Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is Admin you at exelba?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:17:09 PM: Escaping from the escape from Elba. Napoleon should have done that. He might have had a happier end.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 13, 2023, 03:35:18 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:17:09 PM
Escaping from the escape from Elba. Napoleon should have done that. He might have had a happier end.

There is a scene in the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" where a guy is in a coach with another guy, and he invites the guy to join with him and his group in support of Napoleon in the overthrow of the King of France, when the guy rejects his offer to join the group then the guy tells him that he must die then, and he challenges him to a duel.

I would love to produce and direct "The Count of Monte Cristo" at Cinecitta, and make it a mini-series and keep it true to the book.

And in reality, there are 32,000 people on the island of Elba, and I bet it is not a bad place to live, as with a Greek Island, etc, as long as you have good company and a good library and good food, etc. Richard Branson got rich and now he lives on his own island. It might not be so bad to go live on an island.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 05:54:41 PM: Pick your island carefully, Tony

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/earth-well-outside-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-scientists-find (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/earth-well-outside-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-scientists-find)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 13, 2023, 07:27:45 PM: Well in the island continent to the south, fires are raging in the Northern Territory.
Unlike in Hawaii, the major one is away from people, but could threaten the town of Tennant Creek in future.
It's on a front 150km wide.
Aerial bombing, manpower are being used, but the fire is moving at 5kph, and they just can't put it out.
Another one has started in a national park there.

Meanwhile, a long way further south and on the coast, team bambu, with bush/forest at our back and ocean at our front, a "horror bushfire season" a possibility, is hatching an escape plan, and preparing to "leave early" with the dog, the valuables, the devices and chargers, food, water, clothes, money, etc in case the worst happens.
"Planning to make a plan is not a plan" - Rural Fire Service chief.

Returned home from grocery shopping today to see smoke on the mountain behind us.
Hopefully it's just the RFS [Rural Fire Service] "hazard reduction burning" [burning the fuel on the floors of the forests.]
The hazard reduction smoke covering Sydney is so thick you can't see vary far in front of you and it's a major health hazard.
Seems ridiculous to me...you can't burn every floor of every forest.
Cut fire breaks around towns/suburbs...and stop with all the smoke.
Cut fire breaks back from roads, so trees can't fall across them and stop people from leaving.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 14, 2023, 05:36:56 AM: Do not think you will make it, love. Good luck though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 14, 2023, 03:35:15 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/14/deer-street-shooting/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/14/deer-street-shooting/)

Cocked and ready to fire at all times!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2023, 03:50:37 PM: Bambu, have your prisoners install water sprinkler systems to protect you from fires, and have them cut fire breaks, etc, put your prisoners to work to make you safer.

Of note here in Orange County, there is a secret place that no one ever heard of, but a lot of people are coming to, people from New York are coming, and people from the Philippines, people from all over are coming to Lake Forest, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_California

As I was reading, one thing that I was struck by was the great sense of community they have there and community events.

The Church there is the Saddleback Church, Rick Warren was the Minister and he wrote a book "A Purpose Driven Life" about living a life with purpose. Lots of people there do charity work, etc, and they spend their lives doing service to help other people, etc. The big company there is the Oakley Company that makes Oakley Sunglasses, etc. And they have some other companies there. It is a rich area, and they give a lot of money to charity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 15, 2023, 04:36:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:16:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM

Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is Admin you at exelba?

Admin is just me setting up the site. I will moderate as Oil McOilface. Posts where you address Ward's syphilis or Luee's alleged clitoris will probably land better here. If old Third Eye members show up, or a few from my old Yahoo sci-fi group, it will be more mixed company, so I'll have to have some limits on invective.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 15, 2023, 05:29:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 15, 2023, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:16:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM

Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is Admin you at exelba?

Admin is just me setting up the site. I will moderate as Oil McOilface. Posts where you address Ward's syphilis or Luee's alleged clitoris will probably land better here. If old Third Eye members show up, or a few from my old Yahoo sci-fi group, it will be more mixed company, so I'll have to have some limits on invective.
Is 3rd I still active? I lost the link a couple phones ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 15, 2023, 05:57:33 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 15, 2023, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:16:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM

Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is Admin you at exelba?

Admin is just me setting up the site. I will moderate as Oil McOilface. Posts where you address Ward's syphilis or Luee's alleged clitoris will probably land better here. If old Third Eye members show up, or a few from my old Yahoo sci-fi group, it will be more mixed company, so I'll have to have some limits on invective.

Discretion is the word, Governor.

Pre travel activity has forestalled and other new endeavors, but I should catch a pause some time or another in the next few weeks in which I hope to check it out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 15, 2023, 06:38:12 PM: My hometown of Lancaster, California, just started their own local police force, but it will not deal with the everyday normal crimes that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department handles, the Sheriff's Department will still deal with 911 calls, etc. The new local Lancaster Police Force will help abused women, and the homeless, and the mentally ill, etc, it is going to be wonderful, hopefully. If they help the abused women, and the homeless, then I totally support that.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rodrick-armalin-named-lancasters-first-chief-of-police-committed-to-crime-prevention-strategies-from-day-one-301926280.html

And the cities can have Safe Houses in other cities where they can hide the abused women and children, etc. Abused women from Lancaster can hide in Anaheim, etc, and vice versa, abused women from Anaheim can hide in Lancaster, etc. The cities can help each other to help the abused women and their children.

There also needs to be Mental Health Associations like the one in Santa Ana, and there needs to be Wellness Centers like in Orange. And there needs to be safe Sober Living Homes, etc.

San Diego State University is the best at training Psychiatrists, so they are the school to contact when you want to build a new mental health center.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 15, 2023, 07:04:24 PM: We Aztecs thank you for the compliment.

Good on Lancaster. I hope they hire people with compassion, integrity and good sense.

I will smile when I pass through next time
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 15, 2023, 07:14:18 PM: Sky News:

Sharp rise in shoplifting in Australia

#####

No surprise.
Groceries have increase 60%...12 straight monthly increases in interest rates by the Reserve (Central)Bank.

Mortgage stress, grocery stress, electricity bills soaring..."everything" increasing in price alarmingly...financial stress eveywhere, some people having to steal food etc to feed/support the family.

from Iconic Irish song...Fields of Athenry (pron "At n rye")..

"For you stole Trevelyn's corn,
so the young might see the morn,
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay".

***

...to transport you to Botany Bay, (Australia).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 15, 2023, 10:03:38 PM: Knock on effects of letting Putin put Trump in the Oval Office. Thank Rupert. You will be feeling the negative aftershocks for years and years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 15, 2023, 10:43:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 15, 2023, 10:03:38 PM
Knock on effects of letting Putin put Trump in the Oval Office. Thank Rupert. You will be feeling the negative aftershocks for years and years.

More like govts and others not believing my no1 radio host (now retired from the major airwaves) when he said, and kept saying, that (man-made) "global warming/climate change" is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 10:47:16 AM: Get that tattooed on your forehead, Bambi. Then do the monk thing.

You will convince lots of people to cling hard to the mining and burning of lovely lovely coal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 16, 2023, 11:06:43 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 15, 2023, 10:43:59 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 15, 2023, 10:03:38 PM
Knock on effects of letting Putin put Trump in the Oval Office. Thank Rupert. You will be feeling the negative aftershocks for years and years.

More like govts and others not believing my no1 radio host (now retired from the major airwaves) when he said, and kept saying, that (man-made) "global warming/climate change" is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind".

It's really quite a dedicated hoaxer who will raise global temperatures, bleach coral, melt glaciers and ice caps, increase average severity of tropical cyclones, move the center of Tornado Alley several hundred miles east, and shift some species ranges northward, all in a space of a few decades! My God those pranksters are more industrious than crop circle makers!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 16, 2023, 11:14:40 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 15, 2023, 05:29:36 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 15, 2023, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 13, 2023, 03:16:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 13, 2023, 02:51:16 PM

Hi, this is a new online forum, where members of both Third Eye Film and Escape from Elba are invited to join.

https://exelba.freeforums.net/

Some of the trolling issues at Elba will not be issues at Ex Elba, which should make it a more enjoyable alternative. My hope is that by inviting present and past members from both forums could get us to a critical mass of participation that might make for a better online community. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is Admin you at exelba?

Admin is just me setting up the site. I will moderate as Oil McOilface. Posts where you address Ward's syphilis or Luee's alleged clitoris will probably land better here. If old Third Eye members show up, or a few from my old Yahoo sci-fi group, it will be more mixed company, so I'll have to have some limits on invective.
Is 3rd I still active? I lost the link a couple phones ago.

Depends on your definition of active. Syd still posts. Grace looks in about once/year. Gromit posted till about six months ago. Weeds pops in if you mention him and promotes himself in some indie film that is impossible to find anywhere. Carrobin was in process of moving back to the Carolinas (there are two of them, apparently) and quietly slid off the radar. Due to no moderator it apparently has half a million spambot members now but none of them can post. I'm amazed Marc is still paying the domain name fee and web hosting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 01:02:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 10:47:16 AM
Get that tattooed on your forehead, Bambi. Then do the monk thing.

You will convince lots of people to cling hard to the mining and burning of lovely lovely coal.

Won't take much convincing when the lights and everything else run by electricity go out...and/or their energy bills get so high they cannot pay them.
The radical green dreamers (wise green dreaming is good) seem so mixed up in their minds that they think coal, gas, oil, wood, timber etc fossil fuels can be dumped from the energy mix 'now'/soon, without there being anything reliable, available, affordable to replace them yet.
Mention "nuclear" and they *explode* with outrage.

Oh, and their poster girl Greta got herself arrested ...again...the other day, for blocking an oil port.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2023, 02:24:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 01:02:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 10:47:16 AM
Get that tattooed on your forehead, Bambi. Then do the monk thing.

You will convince lots of people to cling hard to the mining and burning of lovely lovely coal.

Won't take much convincing when the lights and everything else run by electricity go out...and/or their energy bills get so high they cannot pay them.
Yes, that is exactly what continued reliance on fossil fuels wl lead to. That is the other reason for.green energy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 02:59:03 PM: Bambu will not comprehend a smart adaptive distributed grid replete with storage elements. To do so leads directly to him recognizing himself as a foolish asshole of long standing. Bambu is too fragile a bird to take that weight so he dives headlong the fuck away from the point instead.

Predictable cowardice makes him boring boring boring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 06:38:24 PM: Ah yes, cowardice.
LOL
Send me a white feather, I'll wear it in my hat with pride.

I don't really care where the electricity that fuels my home comes from.
If you think I'm alone in that belief you might wanna think again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 16, 2023, 09:07:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2023, 02:24:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 01:02:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 10:47:16 AM
Get that tattooed on your forehead, Bambi. Then do the monk thing.

You will convince lots of people to cling hard to the mining and burning of lovely lovely coal.

Won't take much convincing when the lights and everything else run by electricity go out...and/or their energy bills get so high they cannot pay them.
Yes, that is exactly what continued reliance on fossil fuels wl lead to. That is the other reason for.green energy.

Except, of course, the obvious.
There no reliable green energy to replace fossil fuels.
Humans play a very small role in world wide climate change so mothballing the combustion engines, gas stoves, and incandescent light bulbs is stupid. The leftist freaks idiotically took nuclear energy off the table decades ago so we are left with windmills and solar that offer only intermittent and unreliable energy.
Governments made it worse by subsidizing the technology and weakening our grids.
We cannot wager our future on experimental technologies while eliminating our most reliable forms of energy, including coal.
That is why Biden has to go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 09:14:03 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 16, 2023, 09:07:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 16, 2023, 02:24:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 16, 2023, 01:02:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 10:47:16 AM
Get that tattooed on your forehead, Bambi. Then do the monk thing.

You will convince lots of people to cling hard to the mining and burning of lovely lovely coal.

Won't take much convincing when the lights and everything else run by electricity go out...and/or their energy bills get so high they cannot pay them.
Yes, that is exactly what continued reliance on fossil fuels wl lead to. That is the other reason for.green energy.

Except, of course, the obvious.
There no reliable green energy to replace fossil fuels.
Humans play a very small role in world wide climate change so mothballing the combustion engines, gas stoves, and incandescent light bulbs is stupid. The leftist freaks idiotically took nuclear energy off the table decades ago so we are left with windmills and solar that offer only intermittent and unreliable energy.
Governments made it worse by subsidizing the technology and weakening our grids.
We cannot wager our future on experimental technologies while eliminating our most reliable forms of energy, including coal.
That is why Biden has to go.

Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 11:13:09 PM: I feel better and better about the re-election chances for President Biden every time I see something like this from a repulsive dead ender like the two previous posters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 17, 2023, 03:25:09 PM: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has issued an apology to the American people this weekend, expressing her clear, sincere, and obvious regret at the fact that theaters doing a Denver production of the Beetlejuice musical have such high-quality night-vision cameras these days...

- AV Club

Apparently the part about Boebert and her partner giving each other a handy was more than a rumor. It is on tape!

Anyone else prompted to wonder if the musical version of Beetlejuice is somewhat lackluster at least in places? Usually people who are laughing clapping and singing along don't feel the need to give their partner a handjob.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 17, 2023, 03:27:13 PM: Shake shake shake, Senora! Shake it all night long!

(does the musical version incorporate the same Belafonte numbers as the movie?)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 17, 2023, 04:41:10 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 16, 2023, 11:13:09 PM
I feel better and better about the re-election chances for President Biden every time I see something like this from a repulsive dead ender like the two previous posters.

The 'repulsive dead enders' speak the truth though.

Show them the reliable, available, affordable green energy to replace fossil fuels in America, Australia the world...today or anytime in the near future, or not so near future.

You can't, because such things do not exist.

China is building a new coal-fired power station every week, for manufacturing and so "Barbie's" Chinese girl friend can use her hair-dryer, and 1.3 billion Chinese folk can eat hot food, have hot showers, keep warm in winter etc...oh, and keep the military churning out new ships, planes, missiles etc.

Notice how China (and India for that matter) are omitted from "climate change" criticism and Australia, America, Britain etc are the "big, bad wolves".

China is now selling more vehicles in Australia than Korean companies, reportedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 17, 2023, 04:53:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 17, 2023, 03:25:09 PM

Apparently the part about Boebert and her partner giving each other a handy was more than a rumor. It is on tape!

Anyone else prompted to wonder if the musical version of Beetlejuice is somewhat lackluster at least in places? Usually people who are laughing clapping and singing along don't feel the need to give their partner a handjob.
Is this the style of scintillating topics EXELBA will be offering under Oilcan?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 17, 2023, 05:06:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 17, 2023, 04:53:36 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 17, 2023, 03:25:09 PM

Apparently the part about Boebert and her partner giving each other a handy was more than a rumor. It is on tape!

Anyone else prompted to wonder if the musical version of Beetlejuice is somewhat lackluster at least in places? Usually people who are laughing clapping and singing along don't feel the need to give their partner a handjob.
Is this the style of scintillating topics EXELBA will be offering under Oilcan?

It is exciting though, having a new forum.
I'm hoping Exelba will allow the posting of a link then a few lines of text, like the Times used to do and US Message Board does.....not only a few words or maybe a short line before chopping off the rest like Elba does now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2023, 05:25:02 PM: As reported by Bloomberg, Harley-Davidson's decision to give its employees an ownership stake in the company was inspired by a somewhat surprising source: private equity giant KKR & Co., which recently rolled out employee stock ownership programs for hourly workers at their portfolio of industrial companies.

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Bambu, Australia can do like Harley Davidson and give the employees an ownership stake in the company, it motivates the workers when they have an ownership stake in a company, when it reaches a point where workers cannot earn enough from Union Wages and Benefits alone, then the workers can benefit by receiving an ownership stake in the company.

And the same is true in America with the Entertainment Industry, that is why companies like United Artists prospered, and Lucy and Desi with Desi-Lu Productions, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2023, 05:32:20 PM: Bambu, Australia is getting 90% of your solar panels from China...

https://thewest.com.au/business/australia-relies-on-china-for-90-per-cent-of-solar-panel-imports-c-4695556

That means that Australia needs to work together as a team with China to quickly supply Australia with solar panels, etc. Australia can send food and other supplies to China to support the speedy production of solar panels for Australia.

Also, teamwork promotes peace. So, that is good.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 17, 2023, 06:16:54 PM: Waiting now with baited breath. This should be good
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 17, 2023, 07:34:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 17, 2023, 05:32:20 PM
Bambu, Australia is getting 90% of your solar panels from China...

https://thewest.com.au/business/australia-relies-on-china-for-90-per-cent-of-solar-panel-imports-c-4695556

That means that Australia needs to work together as a team with China to quickly supply Australia with solar panels, etc. Australia can send food and other supplies to China to support the speedy production of solar panels for Australia.

Also, teamwork promotes peace. So, that is good.

Salute,

Tony V.

bambuworld govt intends to make solar panels locally.
And, today "nuclear transition" was headline on Sky News.

Well that's part of the solution to be able to have "Zero emissions by 2050".
2050 is nearly 30 years away.
Most of the politicians will be dead by then.
Gas fired power stations are real, they're clean and operating now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 17, 2023, 09:27:41 PM: Two out of three aint bad in Bambuland.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 17, 2023, 09:48:34 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 17, 2023, 04:53:36 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 17, 2023, 03:25:09 PM

Apparently the part about Boebert and her partner giving each other a handy was more than a rumor. It is on tape!

Anyone else prompted to wonder if the musical version of Beetlejuice is somewhat lackluster at least in places? Usually people who are laughing clapping and singing along don't feel the need to give their partner a handjob.
Is this the style of scintillating topics EXELBA will be offering under Oilcan?

The video reportedly shows Boebert s partner shooting his spooge onto the seat in front of him, much the way you do whenever Biden stumbles verbally or Kevin McCarthy shows a little ankle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 17, 2023, 10:01:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 17, 2023, 04:41:10 PM

Notice how China (and India for that matter) are omitted from "climate change" criticism and Australia, America, Britain etc are the "big, bad wolves".

No they are not. Climate science people and the IPCC have repeatedly pointed out that China is now the world's largest carbon footprint. China has received considerable critcism for dragging its feet on lowering emissions.

Green energy, with storage technologies now coming available, are reliable. My state is now 70% renewables, and electricity rates are lower than the national average. America's high energy consumption is related to lifestyle choices that have given us a sky-high obesity rate. Many developed countries with better standards of living than us use much less energy per capita. We can get there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:47:44 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 17, 2023, 10:01:31 PM
My state is now 70% renewables, and electricity rates are lower than the national average.

Thanks mostly to geography and the 46 th fewest people of the 50 states.
The great abundance of prairies lets the wind blow freely and the Misssouri River is a main contributor to hydroelectric power, about 30% of the total renewable number. The state has very little oil, natural gas, or coal supplies and no pipelines.
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=SD (https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=SD)

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America's high energy consumption is related to lifestyle choices that have given us a sky-high obesity rate.
Absurd comment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 18, 2023, 11:54:18 AM: So absurd it made your chins wiggle and sent a rolling tremor through your XXXXL diaper.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2023, 01:37:41 PM: A cop was murdered in Palmdale, California. 1,000 people showed up for a vigil last night at the Palmdale Sheriff's Station. Some people think Palmdale is a ghetto, but it is not really, the Antelope Valley builds top secret airplanes, etc, and satellites, etc, the Space Shuttles were built in the Antelope Valley, etc. A suspect has been arrested in the case.

https://abc7.com/palmdale-deputy-killed-ryan-clinkunbroomer-person-of-interest-detained/13796505/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2023, 01:58:10 PM: The President of Colombia made a post on Facebook this morning telling the Colombian immigrants here in Queens, New York, that he wants to make Colombia safe so that people do not have to leave to move to the USA for safety. I sent the President of Colombia a message telling him that New Orleans, Louisiana, has important ports, and I told him that a lot of the Colombian coffee enters the USA through ports in New Orleans, and I told him that it would be great if we could improve relations and trade between Colombia and New Orleans. As conditions improve in Colombia we can also improve trade and relations between Colombia and New Orleans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 18, 2023, 02:21:10 PM: The USA just made a deal with Iran to free some people, and the people on the news are leaving a lot out when they discuss Iran. For instance, we have 500,000 people from Iran in Beverly Hills, and 40% of the children in the schools in Beverly Hills are from Iran. Iran is right here in California. We need to improve relations and we need to improve human rights.

Also of note, is we have Mahlagha Jaberi who is a leader in the Persian community, and Mahlagha can help.

I worked with people from the Middle East at The Broadway Department Store in Pasadena, my Boss was Persian, She loved fashion and she dreamed of owning her own store, and we had Persians on our team.

Of note, when you pay high prices for gasoline, a lot of the money is being spent in Beverly Hills, some of the oil money is coming right here to Beverly Hills.

We have a lot of people here from Iran, one community leader is Mahlagha Jaberi, and we need to improve relations with Iran, and we need to improve human rights for the people of Iran.

( And I am a crusader, I would love to bring all of the Persians to Christ, I would love to show them the love and charity of the Lord and I would love to bring all of the Persians to Jesus. We can show the Persians love, and we can win them over with love. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. We can show love and charity to the people of Iran, while we stand in protest to abuses suffered by the Persian people. The Calvary Chapel Church is a good Church to begin with on helping to win over the hearts of the Persians, and other churches can join in as they are able. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM: What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 18, 2023, 04:19:16 PM: Just another Monday in a universe where thick chunks of fat didn't migrate to Trump's coronary arteries and stop the beating of his cruel and vicious heart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 04:30:14 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)
Every time I read something like that, I wonder why the right got its panties in a bunch over Clinton calling racists, homophobes and Islamophobes deplorable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 18, 2023, 04:41:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 04:30:14 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)
Every time I read something like that, I wonder why the right got its panties in a bunch over Clinton calling racists, homophobes and Islamophobes deplorable.

The right comprises a group made up of the very weakest members of our society and those who feed on them to explore the internal kinks they developed as a result of the extra terrible parenting they received as children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 05:16:12 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 18, 2023, 04:41:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 04:30:14 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)
Every time I read something like that, I wonder why the right got its panties in a bunch over Clinton calling racists, homophobes and Islamophobes deplorable.

The right comprises a group made up of the very weakest members of our society and those who feed on them to explore the internal kinks they developed as a result of the extra terrible parenting they received as children.
Constitutes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 06:06:17 PM: "Cocked and ready to fire!!!!!"

https://www.aol.com/news/florida-man-78-shoots-kills-174119882.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 08:24:24 PM: A Nevada teenager is facing murder charges for deliberately using a stolen car to run down a bicyclist and killing him last month. The victim turned out to be a retired police chief.

The driver had a passenger who recorded the horrendous incident on his IPhone
Now that the video has surfaced the murder charges were filed and the hunt is on for the teenage passenger.
The video is viral, millions of views on X and YouTube.
But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.
The teens, apparently, are not white.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM: A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.

You are both an idiot and a liar. Good to know I can put you on Ignore here and miss nothing of value. Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

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Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 01:28:05 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)

Is he correct though?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 05:25:33 AM: What do you think?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 19, 2023, 07:22:08 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 05:16:12 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 18, 2023, 04:41:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 18, 2023, 04:30:14 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)
Every time I read something like that, I wonder why the right got its panties in a bunch over Clinton calling racists, homophobes and Islamophobes deplorable.

The right comprises a group made up of the very weakest members of our society and those who feed on them to explore the internal kinks they developed as a result of the extra terrible parenting they received as children.
Constitutes.

No.

Constitutes would indicate that the right makes up part of a group with the accurately defined characteristics mentioned above.

Comprises indicates that the right is made up of groups and individuals, constituent parts if you will, that all share the indelible characteristics and attributes that are so widely attributed to them.

Comprises is the correct word in this context unless you believe in some larger conspiracy of utter rat bastards stretching beyond the right.

I try to avoid attributing things to conspiracy when simple stupidity and meanness will do
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 19, 2023, 07:26:06 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 01:28:05 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 18, 2023, 02:30:25 PM
What a sweetheart he remains.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703)

Is he correct though?

No. He is trying to set up a smokescreen so the grandson of a German immigrant deserter turned pimp can escape his just reward.

Whenever Germans fuck themselves they tend to try blaming it on the Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2023, 10:09:59 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 19, 2023, 07:26:06 AM

Whenever ~~Germans~~ people fuck themselves they tend to try blaming it on the Jews.

FIFY.

Marc Maron has a funny shtick along those lines.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 10:41:50 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

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Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
This:

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But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.

Is a lie, as oil pointed out. That story was all 0ver every media outlet. But worse than the lie was the reason behind lying:

Quote
The teens, apparently, are not white.
It is not a matter of the expression of opinion. It is deliberately lying to race bait that oil is excluding from his new site.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2023, 10:52:50 AM: I finally Iggy'd that lying sack of shit, but I salute your attempt to induce a flicker of self awareness in a brick.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 10:54:08 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
Quote
This:

[But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.

Is a lie, as oil pointed out. That story was all 0ver every media outlet. But worse than the lie was the reason behind lying:

The teens, apparently, are not whiteIt is not a matter of the expression of opinion. It is deliberately lying to race bait that oil is excluding from his new site.
So you cant explain why the MsM ignored the story either.
You can rebut my opinion as to why it was ignored but you will not.
Why is that?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2023, 11:00:35 AM: https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-irs-joe-biden-election-2024-69cc61586da9f624375e25b0c00c74f4

Wonder how many people who owned a gun for a short time, never used it, and failed to say they had drug problems on a purchase form, get prosecuted. Or even noticed by our legal system.

One delicious little joke here is that it's conservative gun nuts, the sort who want to pillory Hunter, who are opposed to the law banning gun possession by drug users and insist that the law is unconstitutional.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2023, 11:07:43 AM: The whole mess reminds me of that form my wife had to fill out when she was teaching music in school, asking if she'd ever used marijuana. The administrator told her to just write no, if the answer was yes, one time at a party when I was 19. Millions of teachers and subs lie on that question because the whole awful machinery lurches into CRUSH mode if you are honest. Basically the school system has to assume that "once, decades ago," is untrue and that the respondents are likely dope fiends.

I suspect that millions of people similarly lie when answering the question on a firearm purchase form.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 19, 2023, 11:12:26 AM: Also wonder how any jury would react to a man whose brother died, fell into a depression, got high a lot, and then purchased a gun that was never used. Not a lawyer but that sounds like a really tough case to get a conviction.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 12:19:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 10:54:08 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
Quote
This:

[But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.

Is a lie, as oil pointed out. That story was all 0ver every media outlet. But worse than the lie was the reason behind lying:

The teens, apparently, are not whiteIt is not a matter of the expression of opinion. It is deliberately lying to race bait that oil is excluding from his new site.
So you cant explain why the MsM ignored the story either.
THEY DID NOT IGNORE IT YOU LYING LITTLE TURD. A simple Google search will show multiple reports on every MSM outlet.
Quote
You can rebut my opinion as to why it was ignored but you will not.
Why is that?
It is not an opinion, ass. It is a false assertion of fact designed to feed.a lie to your white grievance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 12:22:44 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 05:25:33 AM
What do you think?

The Left seems to be supporting "the Arabs" / Palestinians.
So if Jews in America are mostly Leftist...well that doesn't seem to be a good thing for "the Jewish State"/ Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 12:26:04 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 19, 2023, 11:07:43 AM
The whole mess reminds me of that form my wife had to fill out when she was teaching music in school, asking if she'd ever used marijuana. The administrator told her to just write no, if the answer was yes, one time at a party when I was 19. Millions of teachers and subs lie on that question because the whole awful machinery lurches into CRUSH mode if you are honest. Basically the school system has to assume that "once, decades ago," is untrue and that the respondents are likely dope fiends.

I suspect that millions of people similarly lie when answering the question on a firearm purchase form.
A good friend of mine used as a character reference when applying to JAG after law school. Among the questions: Have you ever known the candidate to use illegal substances? And Have you ever known the candidate to drink to excess? I equivocated like a Jesuit (or a mid 90s Democratic President, though that was a decade later on) over what was meant by "use" for the first, and determined i was unable to determine the second based on my being far to drunk myself to tell.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 12:39:37 PM: <i>The Left seems to be supporting "the Arabs" / Palestinians.
So if Jews in America are mostly Leftist...well that doesn't seem to be a good thing for "the Jewish State"/ Israel.</I>

I guess Trump isn't the only moron.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 01:05:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 12:19:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 10:54:08 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
Quote
This:

[But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.

Is a lie, as oil pointed out. That story was all 0ver every media outlet. But worse than the lie was the reason behind lying:

The teens, apparently, are not whiteIt is not a matter of the expression of opinion. It is deliberately lying to race bait that oil is excluding from his new site.
So you cant explain why the MsM ignored the story either.
THEY DID NOT IGNORE IT YOU LYING LITTLE TURD. A simple Google search will show multiple reports on every MSM outlet.
Quote
You can rebut my opinion as to why it was ignored but you will not.
Why is that?
It is not an opinion, ass. It is a false assertion of fact designed to feed.a lie to your white grievance.
The MSM still has not covered the story,that is fact.
And you refuse to debate me on the reason.
You deliberately confuse facts with opinions to avoid discussion on a discussion forum and turn to name calling.
Par for your course.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 01:23:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 12:39:37 PM
<i>The Left seems to be supporting "the Arabs" / Palestinians.
So if Jews in America are mostly Leftist...well that doesn't seem to be a good thing for "the Jewish State"/ Israel.</I>

I guess Trump isn't the only moron.

You know...the "drive Israel into the sea" ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 01:31:08 PM: So rejecting an asshole like Trump is a vote for driving Israel (you'd think a great supporter of Israel, such as yourself, could at least spell it correctly) into the sea? And a vote to "destroy" America?

You can't be as dimwitted as Trump, can you be? You don't have to answer that one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 02:08:16 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 01:05:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 12:19:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 10:54:08 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 18, 2023, 10:23:32 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 18, 2023, 09:50:08 PM
A google search showed hundreds of news outlets picked up the Las Vegas papers report and subsequent stories on the search for the teen passenger who shot the video. I saw the story on AP some time ago.
Some time ago?
The video just went viral.

Don't bother trying to post this kind of garbage misinformation at the Ex Elba site. Which likely means that you will post nothing.
Gee, the whole purpose of Exlba is to give you the power to delete opinions YOU do not like by calling them misinformation.
You have not fooled anybody.
What is the point of a discussion forum if only to rubber stamp your opinions?
Quote
This:

[But do not look for coverage in or on the MSM.

Is a lie, as oil pointed out. That story was all 0ver every media outlet. But worse than the lie was the reason behind lying:

The teens, apparently, are not whiteIt is not a matter of the expression of opinion. It is deliberately lying to race bait that oil is excluding from his new site.
So you cant explain why the MsM ignored the story either.
THEY DID NOT IGNORE IT YOU LYING LITTLE TURD. A simple Google search will show multiple reports on every MSM outlet.
Quote
You can rebut my opinion as to why it was ignored but you will not.
Why is that?
It is not an opinion, ass. It is a false assertion of fact designed to feed.a lie to your white grievance.
The MSM still has not covered the story,that is fact.
And you refuse to debate me on the reason.
Because it is a lie. I realize that is where you live. But more to the point, given your posting history, why would anyone engage you in debate? You will not debate. You have not engaged in an honest political debate in the 18 years this forum has been a thing.
Quote
You deliberately confuse facts with opinions to avoid discussion on a discussion forum and turn to name calling.
Par for your course.
The confusion is yours. The wide spread MSM coverage you deny exist is the fact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 02:56:34 PM: So, to recap.

Two teenagers steal a car in Nevada and
go for a reckless joyride and deliberately run down a kill a bicyclist. The passenger records the gruesome affair on his personal IPHONE and the video is discovered and goes viral(5 millionviews and counting)
The MSM ( minus Fox ) ignores the story.
Those are the facts.
My opinion of the MSM neglect of the story( minus Fox) is because the perps are not white.
No one cares to offer another view of the neglect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 03:39:00 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 01:31:08 PM
So rejecting an asshole like Trump is a vote for driving Israel (you'd think a great supporter of Israel, such as yourself, could at least spell it correctly) into the sea? And a vote to "destroy" America?

You can't be as dimwitted as Trump, can you be? You don't have to answer that one.

Typo.
You know, posting from by bed, early am, half asleep, wearing no spectacles.

I usually stay away from Middle East politics, but in this case I think the policy of Jews in America of supporting 'separation of church and state', which has enabled them to thrive, , when applied to Israel is not doing it any good as a Jewish state and could lead to its demise as such.

Israel has a right to exist as the Jewish state, at one point part of Tasmania was being considered as a place to set it up after WW2...after the horrors of The Holocaust.
As I remember it, the Palestinians have been offered their own state, more than once, but have refused, intent on 'driving Israel into the sea.'
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 03:58:31 PM: And somehow rejecting Donald Trump's brand of politics makes the destruction of Israel more possible?

You have to stop listening to that asshole. Or don't. I'm glad you don't vote here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 04:38:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 03:58:31 PM
And somehow rejecting Donald Trump's brand of politics makes the destruction of Israel more possible?

You have to stop listening to that asshole. Or don't. I'm glad you don't vote here.

I'm glad I don't live there.
What would likely have happened to me in the past/ be happening to me today ...in the American system is too horrible to think about.
No high school graduation, I would've been doomed to failure from the start.
Maybe I might've survived the Vietnam war, maybe not.
No way I would've had the same opportunities as I had in 'backward' bambuworld.

Very difficult for men at the bottom in America to ever make it out of there, seems to me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 05:01:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 02:56:34 PM
So, to recap.

Two teenagers steal a car in Nevada and
go for a reckless joyride and deliberately run down a kill a bicyclist. The passenger records the gruesome affair on his personal IPHONE and the video is discovered and goes viral(5 millionviews and counting)
The MSM ( minus Fox ) ignores the story.
Those are the facts.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, that last is a lie. The story has been all over the mainstream media. Which makes the rest of your post even more disingenuous even more bull shit than is your norm. If such a thing ispossible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 05:31:38 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 05:01:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 02:56:34 PM
So, to recap.

Two teenagers steal a car in Nevada and
go for a reckless joyride and deliberately run down a kill a bicyclist. The passenger records the gruesome affair on his personal IPHONE and the video is discovered and goes viral(5 millionviews and counting)
The MSM ( minus Fox ) ignores the story.
Those are the facts.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, that last is a lie. The story has been all over the mainstream media.
No it has not. NBC filed a story on the web this morning without video.
CNN, MSNBC ,NY Times,and Washington Post still zilch.

I think it is because the killers were not white.(and the victim was retired policeman)
What do you think?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 06:52:44 PM: "US govt debt reaches new record...exceeds 33 trillion dollars" - Sky News

Makes you wonder how long US support of Ukraine can last now, if the US will be able to defend in any way Taiwan, Australia etc, and play a leading role in NATO.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 07:04:58 PM: Prince William has visited a fire station in NYC that was almost destroyed 9/11.
Seen in conversation with the firies.
He is the genuine article.
He'd be genuinely interested in hearing about the station, and the experiences 9/11.

Britain, said to be America's greatest ally today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 07:05:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 05:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 05:01:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 02:56:34 PM
So, to recap.

Two teenagers steal a car in Nevada and
go for a reckless joyride and deliberately run down a kill a bicyclist. The passenger records the gruesome affair on his personal IPHONE and the video is discovered and goes viral(5 millionviews and counting)
The MSM ( minus Fox ) ignores the story.
Those are the facts.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, that last is a lie. The story has been all over the mainstream media.
No it has not. NBC filed a story on the web this morning without video.
CNN, MSNBC ,NY Times,and Washington Post still zilch.

I think it is because the killers were not white.(and the victim was retired policeman)
What do you think?
As oil noted, the original reporting was carried on all the major news outlets. The real issue is why you and Faux News thinks the story is worth more coverage than that. I think it is because the killers were not white. What do you think?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 07:10:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 07:05:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 05:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 19, 2023, 05:01:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 19, 2023, 02:56:34 PM
So, to recap.

Two teenagers steal a car in Nevada and
go for a reckless joyride and deliberately run down a kill a bicyclist. The passenger records the gruesome affair on his personal IPHONE and the video is discovered and goes viral(5 millionviews and counting)
The MSM ( minus Fox ) ignores the story.
Those are the facts.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, that last is a lie. The story has been all over the mainstream media.
No it has not. NBC filed a story on the web this morning without video.
CNN, MSNBC ,NY Times,and Washington Post still zilch.

I think it is because the killers were not white.(and the victim was retired policeman)
What do you think?
As oil noted, the original reporting was carried on all the major news outlets.
No, it was not, and is still not.
Quote
The real issue is why you and Faux News thinks the story is worth more coverage than that. I think it is because the killers were not white. What do you think?
I have already stated my opinion more than once.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 20, 2023, 05:30:45 AM: "Global warming panic is dangerous" - Sky News

Indeed it is.
The climate is always changing.

xxx

Into bambuworld come millions of migrants over the next decade. lol
What a joke.
Totally unnecessary.

Too bad there's not enough water to service everyone in the country now...almost.
El Nino hot dry Spring and Summer ahead...65 fires burning in NSW already...dam levels falling.
Water restrictions soon to be increasing.
NSW in drought now...hand feeding cattle on the mrs bambu farm already.
The mice might be back before too long.
Bloody mice!
Someone should blow mice up!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 20, 2023, 06:02:21 AM: Sunak backflips after net-zero backlash.
Sunak cancels ban on new petrol and diesel car (from 2030?).

Sunak...British Prime Minister.

Well there you go.

Seems voters have had enough of "climate change" and all that comes with it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 09:23:47 AM: The second juvenile suspect has been arrested in the Las Vegas hit-and-run death of a former police officer.

MSM (minus Fox) still avoiding the story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 20, 2023, 10:41:14 AM: Quick google search finds NewsNation, ABC, CBS, NBC, Business Insider, AP News and dozens of newspapers all running the story.

(peeked around the Iggy box block, to see if the Lying POS was still at it)

Liar. Proven chronic liar. Back in the box you go.

You can type in almost any major newspaper and find the story there. I randomly typed in Houston Chronicle, for example...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/second-teenager-arrested-in-video-recorded-18376858.php

Liar. Proven fucking chronic liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 10:57:29 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 20, 2023, 10:41:14 AM
Quick google search finds NewsNation, ABC, CBS, NBC, Business Insider, AP News and dozens of newspapers all running the story.
But none of the MSM(minus Fox News)
It is probably best you keep me on ignore. You seem always to be two steps behind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:35:10 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 10:57:29 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 20, 2023, 10:41:14 AM
Quick google search finds NewsNation, ABC, CBS, NBC, Business Insider, AP News and dozens of newspapers all running the story.
But none of the MSM(minus Fox News)
Lord but you are a pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM: What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:52:36 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
But not NBC itself, or CBS. Or ABC. Or AP. Those? Not main stream. Got it. You pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:59:18 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
But not NBC itself, or CBS. Or ABC. Or AP. Those? Not main stream. Got it. You pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
I put you at three steps behind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 12:10:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
Okay.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 12:45:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:59:18 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
But not NBC itself, or CBS. Or ABC. Or AP. Those? Not main stream. Got it. You pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
I put you at three steps behind.
And I note your definition of "MSM" is based not on any rational definition of "Mainstream Media" but is instead strictly tailored to allow you to make the point you think you are making. Because you are an intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 01:41:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 12:45:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:59:18 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
But not NBC itself, or CBS. Or ABC. Or AP. Those? Not main stream. Got it. You pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
I put you at three steps behind.
And I note your definition of "MSM" is based not on any rational definition of "Mainstream Media" but is instead strictly tailored to allow you to make the point you think you are making. Because you are an intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Been using that term since 2017
Have a nice day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 01:51:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 01:41:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 12:45:46 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:59:18 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 11:42:09 AM
What do you define as "MSM (minus FOX News)", Red?
Do you read the posts here?
MSNBC, CNN,WaPost, NYT. Fox News(the leader)
But not NBC itself, or CBS. Or ABC. Or AP. Those? Not main stream. Got it. You pathetic PROVEN LIAR.
I put you at three steps behind.
And I note your definition of "MSM" is based not on any rational definition of "Mainstream Media" but is instead strictly tailored to allow you to make the point you think you are making. Because you are an intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
I

Been using that term since 2017
What difference does that make? You are redefining it now by tailoring it to your specific need. If NBC had not reported on the story, you would redefine the term to include them.

Not that you will ever admit that is what you are doing. Because you are an intellectually dishonest PROVEN LIAR.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 20, 2023, 04:41:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 19, 2023, 04:38:41 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 19, 2023, 03:58:31 PM
And somehow rejecting Donald Trump's brand of politics makes the destruction of Israel more possible?

You have to stop listening to that asshole. Or don't. I'm glad you don't vote here.

I'm glad I don't live there.
What would likely have happened to me in the past/ be happening to me today ...in the American system is too horrible to think about.
No high school graduation, I would've been doomed to failure from the start.
Maybe I might've survived the Vietnam war, maybe not.
No way I would've had the same opportunities as I had in 'backward' bambuworld.

Very difficult for men at the bottom in America to ever make it out of there, seems to me.

In America, Bambu, it is all about the content of your character, and you have good character, so you would do fine in the USA.

Here in California you could be a Butler for a wealthy family, and you could run their house for them, and they would treat you like a part of their family, you would be loved and respected. Mrs Bambu could be a Nanny for the same family where you run the house as the Butler, and She could take care of the children.

If you wanted to live in New York, you could work as a Banker at the Bank of New York, or you could work on Wall Street. You could live at the top of a tower in Manhattan, you could also attend plays on Broadway, you could attend the Metropolitan Opera, etc, and in the Winter you could go to Florida where it is nice and warm on vacations with Mrs Bambu.

You would do fine in America, Bambu.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 05:45:34 PM: In America, Bambu, it is all about the content of your character,

? It is?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 20, 2023, 06:13:37 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 05:45:34 PM
In America, Bambu, it is all about the content of your character,

? It is?

Methinks as a high school non-graduate I could've had all the good character content in the world and been last in the long queue for everything...jobs, housing, love etc.

With respect for Tony's opinion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 06:19:01 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 05:45:34 PM
In America, Bambu, it is all about the content of your character,

? It is?
I think he has roughly the character of a cube of wombat poo.

That fact will never not amuse me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 06:39:14 PM: Do clothes make the man?

Mark Twain opined they do but Naked people have little or no influence on society.
It turns out slobs can however.
Like Pennsylvania Senator Fetterman, a man with suspect brains and a dress code befitting Fred Flintstone
Which is now the norm in the Chuck Schumer Senate where he needs evert democrat vote he can sell his soul to get.

Too funny
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 07:54:34 PM: Great stuff, Red!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 20, 2023, 07:55:42 PM: Cool to see how easy it is to get the far right bubble's panties in a bunch nowadays.

Also funny to read this:

Quote
Which is now the norm in the Chuck Schumer Senate where he needs evert democrat vote he can sell his soul to get.

When the jagoffs on the other chamber cannot even bring a floor vote on a military spending bill it negotiated with itself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 08:45:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 07:54:34 PM
Great stuff, Red!
Yes, I think so, too.
Especially in a Senate with at least two missing brains trying to pass legislation supporting a President who is already in dementia.

I appreciate your support.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 09:45:17 PM: Yes!! Keep up the good work!!!! I love it when fans of the party of Jim Jordan and Tommy Tuberville question the intellect of other pols. Good stuff indeed!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 20, 2023, 09:56:13 PM: UK PM revokes country's green policies - Sky News

Al Gore thinks it's 'unfortunate'.

Seems the people having to live it, and pay for it, the People, do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 10:29:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 09:45:17 PM
Yes!! Keep up the good work!!!! I love it when fans of the party of Jim Jordan and Tommy Tuberville question the intellect of other pols. Good stuff indeed!!!
What that has to do withthe Senate dress code is beyond me.
Maybe you can explain it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 10:33:40 PM: Why bother?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 21, 2023, 12:09:23 AM: A well groomed man, in a stylish, well-fitting, suit...stylish, classic business shirt, matching tie (Windsor knot), (3 piece suit with a vest is my favourite), business shoes, matching belt, matching socks.....who speaks the relative language correctly and without profanity, and with a charming, kind, caring, manner...can be attractive to women (or men), employers, clients, mostly everyone.

How do I know this?
It worked for me.
Well I didn't have much else going for me ...no degrees to wave around, no fancy car to impress with, no money, no muscles, no height. lol
So I tried "nice". :)

"Dress/appear like you deserve an upgrade" - life expert.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 21, 2023, 12:45:17 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 10:33:40 PM
Why bother?
Gotcha
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on September 21, 2023, 03:33:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 21, 2023, 12:09:23 AM
A well groomed man, in a stylish, well-fitting, suit...stylish, classic business shirt, matching tie (Windsor knot), (3 piece suit with a vest is my favourite), business shoes, matching belt, matching socks.....who speaks the relative language correctly and without profanity, and with a charming, kind, caring, manner...can be attractive to women (or men), employers, clients, mostly everyone.

How do I know this?
It worked for me.
Well I didn't have much else going for me ...no degrees to wave around, no fancy car to impress with, no money, no muscles, no height. lol
So I tried "nice". :)

"Dress/appear like you deserve an upgrade" - life expert.

I dunno.

Short, stout East Village thrift attire and several reliable marijuana sources worked for me until I got a real job
with my local government as a political appointee.
I was always confident in myself.

I was always a bit of a charmer, what do I do? Im single, professional and I have all my teeth!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 21, 2023, 07:55:30 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 20, 2023, 08:45:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 20, 2023, 07:54:34 PM
Great stuff, Red!
Yes, I think so, too.
Especially in a Senate with at least two missing brains trying to pass legislation supporting a President who is already in dementia.

I appreciate your support.
What that has to do withthe Senate dress code is beyond me.
Maybe you can explain it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 12:53:46 PM: Walmart on Wednesday opened its first Pet Services center, offering grooming and veterinary care in the same place where shoppers can buy pet food and supplies, the retail giant announced.

---------

We can teach the people in our prisons how to groom dogs, they can learn by grooming the dogs from the Animal Control facilities, then when the people get out of prison they can go to work grooming dogs. The people who show aptitude and who rise to the top can keep rising to go to college to become Veterinarians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 01:40:17 PM: A lot of the reason why many people are in prison is because they are ignorant and they do not know how to work at an honest job and earn honest money, if we teach them how to work and how to earn honest money then I believe that many of the people from the prisons can be saved. A good dog groomer can earn $50,000 per year or more. And maybe we can give the Businesses such as Walmart a Tax Break if they hire ex cons.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 21, 2023, 02:58:33 PM: Looks like the fix was in in Texas, assuring Paxton s acquittal.

In July a campaign finance report revealed that a pro-Paxton political action committee, known as the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, had donated 1 million and made an additional 2 million loan to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who would preside over the impeachment trial.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 05:03:30 PM: Bambu, yes, I agree with you, it is nice to have some good suits, and I have had a few jobs where I have had to wear suits. When I was a Limousine Driver I had to wear suits, and when I was a Door Man, and when I escorted VIPs at Universal Studios, etc.

It is important for a man to have access to some nice suits. Here in Orange County we have the Saint Vincent De Paul Thrift Stores and they have brand new suits from Italy, they get suits from the manufacturers, and from the designers, and from the importers, they are all Catholic so they donate suits to the poor.

I have 5 Italian suits in my closet right now, with a nice Camel Hair. On the Camel Hair, a guy who was a cousin of Little Richard helped me to pick out my Camel Hair suit, always allow a gay black man to help you pick out a suit, he picked out the whole suit and the shoes and socks and tie, etc. He was a cool guy, and Little Richard was part of music history, it was cool that he was a cousin of Little Richard.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 10:28:46 PM: George W. Bush gave a lot of money to Churches and to Charities to help the homeless and to help the poor and the hungry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/bush-urges-more-money-for-religious-charities.html

And the best way that we can help the people from Iran in Los Angeles is to show them the love and charity of the Lord, it is good when people experience the charity and love of Christ. The Calvary Chapel can help the Persians of Los Angeles, etc, and the Catholics can help the Persians, etc. And we need to remember the wonderful people from the Philippines as we work to help our homeless, there are wonderful people who come from the Philippines to the USA and they spend their whole lives doing charity work and helping the homeless and the poor.

We also need to help our homeless people to make a connection with the United Farm Workers, and with the Teamsters, etc, to find jobs when they are able. And we need to connect the poor with the Small Business Administration to open their own Business when they are able, and I hope they can create jobs and opportunities for the poor. As people rise then they can help other people to rise.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 22, 2023, 05:48:35 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 10:28:46 PM
George W. Bush gave a lot of money to Churches and to Charities to help the homeless and to help the poor and the hungry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/bush-urges-more-money-for-religious-charities.html

And the best way that we can help the people from Iran in Los Angeles is to show them the love and charity of the Lord, it is good when people experience the charity and love of Christ. The Calvary Chapel can help the Persians of Los Angeles, etc, and the Catholics can help the Persians, etc. And we need to remember the wonderful people from the Philippines as we work to help our homeless, there are wonderful people who come from the Philippines to the USA and they spend their whole lives doing charity work and helping the homeless and the poor.

We also need to help our homeless people to make a connection with the United Farm Workers, and with the Teamsters, etc, to find jobs when they are able. And we need to connect the poor with the Small Business Administration to open their own Business when they are able, and I hope they can create jobs and opportunities for the poor. As people rise then they can help other people to rise.

Salute,

Tony V

And for his trouble he was mocked 24/7/365 and pelted with shoes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 22, 2023, 02:58:36 PM: Someone needs to bring back the "Weekly Reader" magazine for children. When I was a child we received the Weekly Reader in school and it told us News that children would be interested in, such as news about the Space Shuttle, etc, and the Weekly Reader also had a section where children could order and buy books, etc, it was great.

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

Select Graphics and Printing in Garden Grove could print the magazine.

Maybe Disney or someone could produce it, and they can have advertising, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 22, 2023, 03:18:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 22, 2023, 05:48:35 AM

Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 21, 2023, 10:28:46 PM
George W. Bush gave a lot of money to Churches and to Charities to help the homeless and to help the poor and the hungry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/bush-urges-more-money-for-religious-charities.html

And the best way that we can help the people from Iran in Los Angeles is to show them the love and charity of the Lord, it is good when people experience the charity and love of Christ. The Calvary Chapel can help the Persians of Los Angeles, etc, and the Catholics can help the Persians, etc. And we need to remember the wonderful people from the Philippines as we work to help our homeless, there are wonderful people who come from the Philippines to the USA and they spend their whole lives doing charity work and helping the homeless and the poor.

We also need to help our homeless people to make a connection with the United Farm Workers, and with the Teamsters, etc, to find jobs when they are able. And we need to connect the poor with the Small Business Administration to open their own Business when they are able, and I hope they can create jobs and opportunities for the poor. As people rise then they can help other people to rise.

Salute,

Tony V

And for his trouble he was mocked 24/7/365 and pelted with shoes.
Who, Tony?

If you mean Shrub, I am pretty sure his individual charitable donations were not why he was mocked.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 22, 2023, 04:01:31 PM: Peace Corps

Today marks 62 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Peace Corps Act, officially establishing the federal agency.

Since then, more than 240,000 Volunteers have served in 144 countries around the world. We've worked with thousands of partners and even through a global pandemic, we've persevered. Our partners, staff, and Volunteers have continued to support communities and in the last year, we've resumed projects in 57 countries and counting.

Now more than ever, our commitment to world peace and friendship is vital. We are thankful to all who have supported our mission and goals.

#PeaceCorps

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Blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 22, 2023, 04:24:23 PM: Well, obviously it is not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 22, 2023, 08:53:52 PM: Some ladies from Jalisco, Mexico, were on KTLA Channel 5 News inviting Americans to come tour Jalisco. Jalisco looks like a nice area, and we need to send Youth For Christ, and other Christian groups, from the USA to Jalisco, to spread the love of Christ, and to win Jalisco over for Jesus.

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

I have a restaurant in my neighborhood that specializes in food from the Guadalajara region, and I had an apartment manager from Guadalajara. And Jalisco also has the Tequila region, and Puerto Vallarta.

We need to work together as a team with Mexico to reduce crime and to improve the economy and conditions.

Mexico is also building new trains all over Mexico, etc, which will be nice.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 23, 2023, 04:11:59 AM: Was there a draft in America for the war in Iraq?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on September 23, 2023, 04:53:12 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 23, 2023, 04:11:59 AM
Was there a draft in America for the war in Iraq?

No draft since early 70s
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 23, 2023, 08:40:47 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on September 23, 2023, 04:53:12 AM
Quote from: bambu. on September 23, 2023, 04:11:59 AM
Was there a draft in America for the war in Iraq?

No draft since early 70s

Thanks for that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 23, 2023, 11:03:46 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 22, 2023, 04:24:23 PM
Well, obviously it is not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

I missed that - I was listening to the prophet talking about wicker v rattan, or was it raffia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 25, 2023, 11:43:59 AM: Helpful discussion of section 3, from legal expert Ruth Marcus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/25/disqualify-trump-14th-amendment/

Is it time to put Salmon P. Chase on full ignore?

https://archive.ph/fmIED

- paywall free screenshot
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 12:51:29 PM: Another entry of the millions of Good Guy With A Gun Stories.

Would be burglars armed with billy club pick the wrong farmer to try to rob: I will shoot!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-burglars-armed-billy-club-pick-wrong-farmer-rob-i-will-shoot
(https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-burglars-armed-billy-club-pick-wrong-farmer-rob-i-will-shoot)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2023, 01:33:10 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 12:51:29 PM

Another entry of the millions of Good Guy With A Gun Stories.

Would be burglars armed with billy club pick the wrong farmer to try to rob: I will shoot!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-burglars-armed-billy-club-pick-wrong-farmer-rob-i-will-shoot
(https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-burglars-armed-billy-club-pick-wrong-farmer-rob-i-will-shoot)
Here is one more!

https://phillipslaw.com/man-accidentally-shot-and-killed-in-phoenix-gun-accident/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2023, 01:58:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 25, 2023, 11:43:59 AM
Helpful discussion of section 3, from legal expert Ruth Marcus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/25/disqualify-trump-14th-amendment/

Is it time to put Salmon P. Chase on full ignore?

https://archive.ph/fmIED

- paywall free screenshot
Pretty good analysis of a couple of the reasons why the attempts to use the 14th Amendment are not going to work. The idea that the 14th somehow excludes the two highest offices is unlikely to fly for anyone who pays attention to origin intent which in other contexts would include conservative judges, though they have shown a marked willingness to disregard that type of principle when it is politically inconvenient, and the idea it needs congressional action is not even the most troublesome issue 9n how the provision gets enforced. I think applying the provision to someone who has never been convicted of a criminal offense that could be described as insurrection is highly problematical, and there are a whole lot of other issues, like standing or political questions that will likely lead to a.court noping out without even thinking of the merits. Diverting Trumpian attention and resources for amusement is about the only reason to try it.

I note RedDick's benefit since he has trouble understanding the concept that none of those reasons have anything to do with due process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 25, 2023, 08:37:39 PM: Jack Smith would need a verrry speedy trial. Section three is broad, broader than the more specific insurrection statute, and that's both a virtue and a weakness afaict. It seems clear to a casual observer that Trump would definitely qualify for the given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof clause, possibly in both of Jack Smith's actions - if that whole showing top secrets at Mara Lagoon pans out. OK, I'll let the typo stand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 08:51:01 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 25, 2023, 08:37:39 PM
Jack Smith would need a verrry speedy trial. Section three is broad, broader than the more specific insurrection statute, and that's both a virtue and a weakness afaict. It seems clear to a casual observer that Trump would definitely qualify for the given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof clause, possibly in both of Jack Smith's actions - if that whole showing top secrets at Mara Lagoon pans out. OK, I'll let the typo stand.
You need to broaden your research.
By the way, casual observers of the Constitution are invariably idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on September 25, 2023, 08:55:35 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 08:51:01 PM

By the way, casual observers of the Constitution are invariably idiots.

A startling moment of candid self-disclosure from Ward! Well done!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 09:10:05 PM: Quote from: Incontinentia Buttocks on September 25, 2023, 08:55:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 08:51:01 PM

By the way, casual observers of the Constitution are invariably idiots.

A startling moment of candid self-disclosure from Ward! Well done!
I thought so since you qualified.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2023, 10:18:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 08:51:01 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 25, 2023, 08:37:39 PM
Jack Smith would need a verrry speedy trial. Section three is broad, broader than the more specific insurrection statute, and that's both a virtue and a weakness afaict. It seems clear to a casual observer that Trump would definitely qualify for the given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof clause, possibly in both of Jack Smith's actions - if that whole showing top secrets at Mara Lagoon pans out. OK, I'll let the typo stand.
You need to broaden your research.
By the way, casual observers of the Constitution are invariably idiots.
Well you are.in a confessing mood, I see.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 10:39:53 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 25, 2023, 10:18:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 25, 2023, 08:51:01 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 25, 2023, 08:37:39 PM
Jack Smith would need a verrry speedy trial. Section three is broad, broader than the more specific insurrection statute, and that's both a virtue and a weakness afaict. It seems clear to a casual observer that Trump would definitely qualify for the given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof clause, possibly in both of Jack Smith's actions - if that whole showing top secrets at Mara Lagoon pans out. OK, I'll let the typo stand.
You need to broaden your research.
By the way, casual observers of the Constitution are invariably idiots.
Well you are.in a confessing mood, I see.
Okay , stick with the DNC talking points.
That way you dont have to think.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 01:30:39 AM: Red talks like a sticky sock puppet. I wonder what went wrong with him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 02:15:08 AM: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/staggering-green-growth-gives-hope-for-15c-says-global-energy-head (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/staggering-green-growth-gives-hope-for-15c-says-global-energy-head)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 26, 2023, 08:33:02 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 01:30:39 AM
Red talks like a sticky sock puppet. I wonder what went wrong with him.
Maybe he was born that way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 12:14:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on September 26, 2023, 08:33:02 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 01:30:39 AM
Red talks like a sticky sock puppet. I wonder what went wrong with him.
Maybe he was born that way.

It could have been mabeline. It is not made to be taken internally and Red does not have the capacity to read warning labels or instructions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 26, 2023, 02:32:32 PM: 31-year-old model Maleesa Mooney was found dead in her downtown LA apartment on September 12, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Two days before, on September 10, authorities found 32-year-old Nichole Coats dead in her apartment, less than a mile away. Sep 18, 2023

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While there has been some gentrification in Downtown Los Angeles, and while attempts are being made to make Los Angeles nicer, Downtown Los Angeles is still dangerous. I recommend that the young beautiful single models get together and share homes in Malibu, that would be the safest and the best. Also, there are nice luxury condominiums in West Hollywood at Empire West, where they have security guards, door men, valets, and cameras, Empire West is very safe. Hollywood is safe too, and Los Feliz, and lots of young models live there. While they try to trick the new people by calling the apartments in Downtown Los Angeles "Luxury" apartments, they are not really that nice, and the area is not very safe, there are other areas where the young beautiful women will be safer. And Orange County is safe, as well as Ventura County.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 26, 2023, 03:08:02 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 01:30:39 AM
Red talks like a sticky sock puppet. I wonder what went wrong with him.

Possibly best not to dwell on what made the sock sticky.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 04:14:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 26, 2023, 03:08:02 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on September 26, 2023, 01:30:39 AM
Red talks like a sticky sock puppet. I wonder what went wrong with him.

Possibly best not to dwell on what made the sock sticky.

Yes, similar to how one should not build condos on native burial grounds. Terrible fucking juju is what you get.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 02:19:16 AM: Backstage West used to have a Message Board on line where newbies could find out where the safe neighborhoods are in the Los Angeles area, but Backstage removed the forum. It would be great if Backstage could start a new Forum, it is important for actors and for people in the Entertainment Industry to be able to communicate. And lives can be saved as the young women are informed on the issue of safe housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 27, 2023, 12:58:50 PM: The neighborhoods that they absolutely cannot afford to live in tend to be a bit safer.

NYC is working on one end of the problem. The SEC will need to step in to deal with the other,

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/new-york-airbnb-renters-cities-law-ban-properties (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/new-york-airbnb-renters-cities-law-ban-properties)

Evict the housing profiteers from the real estate market. Money should never be safe in evil investments
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 03:07:11 PM: Some women are suing the Jail in Riverside, women have been getting raped and abused in the jail.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/legal-action-announced-after-riverside-county-correctional-deputy-accused-of-sextortion/

There is a movie named "Brubaker" with Robert Redford where he goes into prison undercover as a prisoner to see what conditions in the prison are like, and then he reveals himself as being the new warden, it is a great movie. And that is what we need right now, we need new wardens who care about the people. And we need to totally upgrade our prison system.

And we need to put the prisoners to work, we need to keep them all busy, and we need to teach them honest ways of making money when they get out of prison. They can learn how to Groom Dogs in the prisons, they can groom the dogs for the Animal Control Shelters in order to learn how to groom dogs, and then they can earn $50,000 per year honestly as a Dog Groomer when they get out of prison. We can also teach the prisoners other things. And the prisoners can do fire prevention work, etc. There are a lot of things the prisoners can do.

We need to reform our prisons, and we need new programs for the prisoners.

Suing the jails is a step in the right direction.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 03:17:37 PM: The Civil Rights Attorney who is suing the Riverside Jail on behalf of the abused women is a beautiful lawyer, Denisse Gastelum, and she has a great track record.

https://gastelumfirm.com/

The only way that things are going to get better is with good lawyers like Denisse forcing changes to happen at the jails and prisons.

And we are lucky to have a good honest nation where the good people are able to hire good lawyers like Denisse and go fight to improve human rights, and to fight to stop rape and corruption, etc.

We have made a lot of progress recently with busting corrupt people in our Government, and we need to keep stopping corruption, and we need to help our homeless people, and we need to reform our prisons, and we need new programs for the prisoners, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2023, 06:37:55 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 03:17:37 PM
The Civil Rights Attorney who is suing the Riverside Jail on behalf of the abused women is a beautiful lawyer, Denisse Gastelum, and she has a great track record.

https://gastelumfirm.com/

The only way that things are going to get better is with good lawyers like Denisse forcing changes to happen at the jails and prisons.

And we are lucky to have a good honest nation where the good people are able to hire good lawyers like Denisse and go fight to improve human rights, and to fight to stop rape and corruption, etc.

We have made a lot of progress recently with busting corrupt people in our Government, and we need to keep stopping corruption, and we need to help our homeless people, and we need to reform our prisons, and we need new programs for the prisoners, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Well said, Tony.
There is hope that the democrat slouch to Gomorrah is being reversed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 08:47:33 PM: A new train is being built between Los Angeles and Palm Springs...

https://ktla.com/news/california/passenger-train-project-from-los-angeles-to-coachella-valley-continues-to-move-forward/

Palm Springs is a nice area, where Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin lived, those guys could have lived anywhere in the world and they picked Palm Springs. Tell the refugees from Ukraine, Palm Springs is great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 27, 2023, 10:18:05 PM: I just toured Palm Springs (via Youtube).
Seems very 'touristy', great swimming pools, low-storey hotels, nice holiday destination.
Shop til you drop for souvenirs.
Large statue of Marilyn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 27, 2023, 11:00:11 PM: USSenate tells Schumer and Fetterman to shove their shorts and hoodies up their asses.
Thank you Peggy Noonan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on September 27, 2023, 11:29:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on September 27, 2023, 10:18:05 PM
I just toured Palm Springs (via Youtube).
Seems very 'touristy', great swimming pools, low-storey hotels, nice holiday destination.
Shop til you drop for souvenirs.
Large statue of Marilyn.

It is a shit hole, but it would be a huge step up for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 11:48:12 PM: Palm Springs is nice, it is a great area, I had family there, I remember playing putt putt Golf there as a kid, I wanted to ride the Tram but I was not able to. My Mother had an aunt who was a School Teacher in Palm Springs, and her uncle was a cop there, they loved Palm Springs.

Sonny Bono was Mayor of Palm Springs at one time, and he was also a Congressman and he wrote our Copyright Law.

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

Palm Springs is great, and the weather is fantastic in the Winter, it is hot in the Summer but great in the Winter. They swim, and they have great restaurants, and they have great Golf Courses and Country Clubs, and lots of rich and famous people live there. It is a great area.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 28, 2023, 12:23:03 AM: bambuworld to move troops from south to the heat and humidity of the north of the country.
No degree needed to figure out why.
The invasion is getting closer.
Not too sure thousands of troops will be able to fight millions of invading troops.
Needed are nuke missiles, nuke subs, million rounds a minute machine guns.
When the millions of invasion troops start landing...the boxing kangaroo flagged subs would start firing nuke missiles into the invading country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2023, 12:35:00 AM: Quote from: bambu. on September 28, 2023, 12:23:03 AM
bambuworld to move troops from south to the heat and humidity of the north of the country.
No degree needed to figure out why.
The invasion is getting closer.
Not too sure thousands of troops will be able to fight millions of invading troops.
Needed are nuke missiles, nuke subs, million rounds a minute machine guns.
When the millions of invasion troops start landing...the boxing kangaroo flagged subs would start firing nuke missiles into the invading country.

You are safe Bambu. Like I told you a million times, I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General, she loves Malibu, we are safe, they love us. I should have married her just for the sake of peace. We can have peace. We were just friends, I never dated her, we were just roommates, but she loves America. We are safe. And Blessed are the Peacemakers.

Send the Chinese food and import solar panels and put the solar panels on your roof-tops. Send the Chinese the premium beef from Australia and they will love you. Win them over with love, and they will send you solar panels.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2023, 01:32:06 AM: President Biden needs to invite the top Chinese officials to come play Golf in Palm Springs, it is time, and it is best to talk over a nice game of Golf instead of worrying about some unknown enemy. The Chinese do not have to be some mysterious people hiding in the shadows, we need to invite them to our parties and get to know them. Love is the only way we can go with the Chinese. It is time for Biden to play Golf with the Chinese in Palm Springs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 28, 2023, 02:50:12 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on September 27, 2023, 11:29:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on September 27, 2023, 10:18:05 PM
I just toured Palm Springs (via Youtube).
Seems very 'touristy', great swimming pools, low-storey hotels, nice holiday destination.
Shop til you drop for souvenirs.
Large statue of Marilyn.

It is a shit hole, but it would be a huge step up for you.

Thanks for that...but I live in one of the nicest places in Australia. A 'hidden gem' that I knew existed but only discovered it's true charm when we downsized and moved, found it by accident really.
Took a lot of hard work, a lot of suffering bullying and harassment in the workplace, a lot of holding my tongue and 'submitting' to keep a housing loan and pay off a home.
Now I'm reaping the rewards.

Palms Springs has a history, worth a look for tourists with plenty of time to tour America.
Reminds me a bit of the 'Route 66' tour drive. If I were those promoting Route 66 I'd make it more attractive...some of the places are not open all the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 28, 2023, 03:12:48 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2023, 01:32:06 AM
President Biden needs to invite the top Chinese officials to come play Golf in Palm Springs, it is time, and it is best to talk over a nice game of Golf instead of worrying about some unknown enemy. The Chinese do not have to be some mysterious people hiding in the shadows, we need to invite them to our parties and get to know them. Love is the only way we can go with the Chinese. It is time for Biden to play Golf with the Chinese in Palm Springs.

Salute,

Tony V.

True, Xi and his military might are shown on my tv every other day...in plain view, a military Australia would have not even the slightest chance of matching.
China not interested in playing golf, only interested in invading Taiwan, claiming the South China sea as its own, ... more interested in ruling the world by force, it seems.

'Australia announced Thursday a "major restructuring" of the army featuring a new long range capacity, as it adapts to China's growing military clout in the Asia Pacific region'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 28, 2023, 08:17:36 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on September 27, 2023, 08:47:33 PM
A new train is being built between Los Angeles and Palm Springs...

https://ktla.com/news/california/passenger-train-project-from-los-angeles-to-coachella-valley-continues-to-move-forward/

Palm Springs is a nice area...
It is no Battle Mountain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 28, 2023, 03:59:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2023, 11:00:11 PM
US Senate tells Schumer and Fetterman to shove their shorts and hoodies up their asses.
Thank you...

If they complied they would be even less dressed than they are now. Not really progress, even in your priggish worldview.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 28, 2023, 04:06:06 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 28, 2023, 03:59:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on September 27, 2023, 11:00:11 PM
US Senate tells Schumer and Fetterman to shove their shorts and hoodies up their asses.
Thank you...

If they complied they would be even less dressed than they are now. Not really progress, even in your priggish worldview.
Happy to be priggish. So does the Senate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 28, 2023, 04:08:28 PM: I bet Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin would have liked Battle Mountain, Nevada.

And sadly I never met Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. I met Bob Hope, and I escorted Phyllis Diller at Bob Hope's Birthday Party at Universal Studios in Hollywood, but I never met Frank and Dean. When I worked for Suzanne Pleshette I was invited to Sinatra's Funeral, but I did not attend the funeral, but I would have loved to have met Sinatra when he was alive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2023, 03:46:41 PM: Today is National Silent Movie Day, so here is my Silent Movie that I made at USC film school...

https://youtu.be/GJ2wBMgs-lQ

We shot it on 16 mm Black and White film, and the guy did a fantastic job on the Editing, and the whole team did a great job on the Sound. It is professional quality. The film student was from Turkey, and he entered our film in a contest where the winner got to be an Assistant for Spielberg, but our film did not win the contest. The film student, Bekir Serdar Cakir, wanted to open an American style movie studio in Turkey and he wanted to make movies for the Arabs, that was his dream. I lost contact with him after an earthquake in Turkey, I hope he survived the earthquake.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2023, 03:54:18 PM: If you want to win the hearts and minds of the Arabs then the best way is to be the ones who are making the movies and television shows for the Arabs. And also News and Magazines, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 29, 2023, 06:50:36 PM: Donald Trump is here in Anaheim today, he flew in during an air show on the beach and was seen by the crowd.

We need for some sane Republicans to speak truth to these zombies who are blindly following Trump. Condoleezza Rise is awesome, and she needs to speak up right now to the Republican party. George W. Bush needs to speak truth to the Republican Party, Jeb Bush needs to speak up, and others.

I went for a nice walk to the store today, and I think I saw David Hasselhoff while I waited to cross the street. That is a fun thing about Anaheim is stars come here, you see stars at the market and at the parks and on the sidewalks. Orange County has a lot of stars here, I need to find someone to help me make my movie and publish my book. Anyhow, it is fun, you never know who you will see. You might see Ariana Grande at the market, you just never know.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 29, 2023, 06:54:29 PM: Alexandra dishes out another Kevin nightmare...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/government-shutdown-kevin-mccarthy-republican-satire/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 29, 2023, 07:07:45 PM: Horrible floods in NYC.
I would never live in a basement apartment.
Guess you'd get enough warning about the rising water to be able to get out in time...and not have your life ended like the second class passengers locked below deck in the Titanic, the first class passengers having escaped in the life boats.
But, what if...the floodwater came at night when you were sound asleep, and the force of it stopped your door/s from opening.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 29, 2023, 09:40:18 PM: Who elects these clowns, exactly? As it turns out, almost none of us.

By Karen Tumulty

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/house-shutdown-primaries-voters/

Geting Americans to vote in primaries would be one of the most powerful reforms possible of our broken system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on September 29, 2023, 11:19:23 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on September 29, 2023, 09:40:18 PM
Who elects these clowns, exactly? As it turns out, almost none of us.

By Karen Tumulty

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/house-shutdown-primaries-voters/

Geting Americans to vote in primaries would be one of the most powerful reforms possible of our broken system.
So a broken system elected Biden and Harris?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on September 30, 2023, 03:17:48 AM: Today I toured the Southern Border in AZ with two different Sheriffs and a guy reporter...via Youtube.
The consensus?

The cartels are laughing...at how easy it is, and how much money they're making.
Bellylaughing....."HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

Who is law enforcement blaming?
Answer: Washington.

USD 7,000 per illegal immigrant the cartels are charging.
13+ yr olds are leaving Phoenix in Chargers, driving down to roads near the border, pulling off the roads at designated places and picking up illegals...and getting paid USD 3,000 per person picked up.
They sometimes get into high speed chases with the cops.
The cartels are also into sex trafficking.
Illegal immigrants are dying.
"Ask yourself why your hospital bills are so high?" said one Sheriff.
"$60million every week is being spent on the illegals."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on September 30, 2023, 10:15:56 AM: I lived in Anaheim in my youth right after college. Down the road from Disney. One of my favorite places. Learned Omaha hi-lo stayed at a place called Club Continental Apts. Beached at Newport.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on September 30, 2023, 10:26:54 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on September 29, 2023, 11:19:23 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on September 29, 2023, 09:40:18 PM
Who elects these clowns, exactly? As it turns out, almost none of us.

By Karen Tumulty

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/house-shutdown-primaries-voters/

Geting Americans to vote in primaries would be one of the most powerful reforms possible of our broken system.
So a broken system elected Biden and Harris?

No. Not what her analysis is finding. Read the column. She's talking about Congress. You know, those people who make laws and distribute the federal budget.
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 30, 2023, 03:01:19 PM: Quote from: luee on September 30, 2023, 10:15:56 AM
I lived in Anaheim in my youth right after college. Down the road from Disney. One of my favorite places. Learned Omaha hi-lo stayed at a place called Club Continental Apts. Beached at Newport.

Very cool, Anaheim is a great city, I am blessed here.

This apartment is nice, and I have good neighbors, and a swimming pool, and barbecues with natural gas piped in. There is a park in one direction that has tennis courts and an amphitheatre, and then there is a beautiful park in another direction with the original Carl's Jr next to it so I can buy food from Carl's Jr and I can eat in the park, it is great. We also have a Calvary Chapel Church in my neighborhood on the other side of the park. And we have great markets, etc.

My favorite house in my neighborhood is a simple Mid Century Modern, all white with lots of palm trees.

I saw Hugh Laury at the market, and lots of stars shop there, you never know who you will see at the market.

Anaheim has been a blessing for me.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 30, 2023, 06:11:23 PM: They caught the guy behind the murder of Tupac, and more information will come out, but here are a few thoughts...

It took decades to catch the guy behind the murder because it did not fit the narrative that people were trying to make in their efforts to cause a fight between the East Coast and the West Coast, they wanted for the killer to be from New York so that they could blame it on a fight between the East Coast and the West Coast, and so they could fight Americans against each other, but instead the killer was from Las Vegas and it all stemmed from a fight outside an elevator in Vegas, and it had nothing to do with New York. They were trying to find a New Yorker to charge with the crime, but the crime was committed by a guy in Vegas so they were looking in the wrong place and it took decades to solve the case.

Our enemies love it when we fight among ourselves. And some places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo never reach Actualization because they are always too busy fighting among themselves.

Here in the USA there was W who wanted to help the people of Latin America, and fucking Bin Laden stole the focus and stole the energy and resources. We should have been doing work in Latin America instead of fighting in Afghanistan and in Iraq. That money and effort should have went to help poor children in Latin America and to make things better here.

And right now during peacetime we need to be making television shows and movies, etc, for the Arabs, etc, and we need to teach them the ways of peace, and we need to teach them the value of peace. With peace you can reach Actualization, and we need to teach everyone that. And you cannot build with a gun, and you cannot win hearts and minds with a gun. Ariana Grande and Shakira can win the hearts and minds, and Dolly Parton, etc. We need to be involved with the entertainment in Afghanistan and in Iraq and in the Arab nations, etc.

Anyhow, the bad guy who killed Tupac was from Vegas and he was not a New Yorker, and that is why it took decades to solve, it did not fit their narrative as they sought to make the East Coast fight against the West Coast. And it shows you how we must be proactive in our efforts to keep the peace, and it supports the need for programs such as the Peace Corps, etc.

On the issue of gangs, we have Homeboy Industries and Father Boyle.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on September 30, 2023, 11:54:10 PM: Natalie Rubalcava

Extremely humbled to receive a recognition from California League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

Growing up in the great City of Anaheim I was always inspired by the tireless efforts LULAC made in ensuring Mexican Americans and Latinos were represented equitably. I pledge to continue the great work they have done in my community.

The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of the Latino(a) population of the United States.

It is important Latinas(o) have a seat at every table where decisions are being made so we can effectively represent the voices of our community!

So much gratitude @ca.lulac

---------------

We have Kiwanis International and Youth For Christ and other groups to help.

And for the gangs we have Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries.

Plus we have the Wellness Center in Orange, and the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana.

We are blessed.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 01, 2023, 09:40:41 AM: It's a chat forum, not your personal blog. I'm sure there's a way to set up a FB page or a blog for your many long rambling "we need to..." essays.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:19:16 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 01, 2023, 09:40:41 AM
It's a chat forum, not your personal blog. I'm sure there's a way to set up a FB page or a blog for your many long rambling "we need to..." essays.
You offered an alternative to be administered by you.
It has been rejected.
Deal with it.
In the meantime all of us are free to discuss what we want.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 01, 2023, 03:53:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:19:16 AM
You offered an alternative to be administered by you.
It has been rejected.

By you. Four members from other forums, including a couple from here have posted there. It's been, what, a couple weeks, so a little early for you to rule a forum YOU don't care for as "rejected."

Quote
In the meantime all of us are free to discuss what we want.

Tony rarely discusses. He soapboxes. I am free to criticize that activity, especially given that he rarely responds to fact-based
critiques of his comments. This drives out members who came for intelligent discussion. Why do you think half a dozen members departed here in the past couple years? Not all of them saw issues the way I do, but they were at least capable of real discussion.

I know I'm offering something that allows a better discussion than the trolling and soapboxing and partisan regurgitation that passes for it here. Whether or not people flock to that is up to them. I'm making no claim that it will work - online forums crash all the time, many people migrate to other social media.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 06:05:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 01, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:19:16 AM
You offered an alternative to be administered by you.
It has been rejected.

By you. Four members from other forums, including a couple from here[/quote
Rea
have posted there. It's been, what, a couple weeks, so a little early for you to rule a forum YOU don't care for as "rejected."
yes I am sure there are countless thousands yearning to join a forum where you ban anyonewho dissgrees with you.
Unless of course these new members are clones of you.
God understands your love of aliases.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 01, 2023, 10:04:06 PM: Liar. Even a guest can observe the headcount at Exelba, displayed bottom of homepage. Nine signed on, none are banned. Though if a chronic liar joined and started slandering or attacking members, reasonable forum rules would kick in as they do at any moderated forum. Rules of decorum are not predicated on whether the moderator agrees with members, but on having a friendly space for chatting where intellectual honesty is respected. I can well imagine thousands who yearn for any forum where such rules are enforced. Not necessarily mine, but we'll see I guess.

Interesting you omitted the rest of my post, "dickn."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 01, 2023, 10:14:42 PM: Danny Trejo is opening a taco restaurant in London, England...

https://www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2023/09/27/Hollywood-actor-Danny-Trejo-to-bring-Mexican-brand-Trejo-s-Tacos-to-London

I bet the people in England are going to love the tacos, and maybe Danny Trejo can spark a wave of new Mexican restaurants in England, and maybe Danny Trejo can help to improve relations between Mexico and England.

Cheech Marin made a movie with Emma Samms in Australia named "Shrimp on the Barbie" that brought the Mexican-American culture to Australia. Maybe Danny Trejo can help to bring the Mexican-American culture to England.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:29:45 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 01, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:19:16 AM
You offered an alternative to be administered by you.
It has been rejected.

By you. Four members from other forums, including a couple from here have posted there. It's been, what, a couple weeks, so a little early for you to rule a forum YOU don't care for as "rejected."

Quote
In the meantime all of us are free to discuss what we want.

Tony rarely discusses.
He soapboxes.
so what? You are free to ignore him. Others talk and argue with him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:33:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 01, 2023, 10:04:06 PM
Liar. Even a guest can observe the headcount at Exelba, displayed bottom of homepage. Nine signed on, none are banned.

I never said anyone was banned.
But they will be if you decide to censure opinion you do not like.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 01, 2023, 11:44:59 PM: I like Tony's posts here, they're very interesting to me, a foreigner.
Very informative.

Isn't that what forums are supposed to be about, caring and sharing?

Everyone has a different style of writing,

Reading Tony's posts is not compulsory.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM: There are topics here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 02, 2023, 02:28:56 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 06:05:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 01, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 10:19:16 AM
You offered an alternative to be administered by you.
It has been rejected.

By you. Four members from other forums, including a couple from here[/quote
Rea
have posted there. It's been, what, a couple weeks, so a little early for you to rule a forum YOU don't care for as "rejected."
yes I am sure there are countless thousands yearning to join a forum where you ban anyonewho dissgrees with you.
Unless of course these new members are clones of you.
God understands your love of aliases.
And his shame at showing his face in public
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 03:22:12 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM
There are topics here.

News in general...is a very broad topic/section.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:06:11 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 03:22:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM
There are topics here.

News in general...is a very broad topic/section.

A ton of his meanderings are not in the "News in General" thread and much of his postings about his days body-guarding Suzanne Pleshette, even if posted there, cannot be considered "news" by any definition of the word.

That said, I've made my peace with it and ignore it mostly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 11:22:27 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 01, 2023, 06:05:00 PM
God understands your love of aliases.
Well that is fucking hilarious, RedDickJimmEspn.

I suspect everyone here uses aliases, except me.

Actually I used my real first name for a while on the NYT until a rather deranged Baconian whose screen name was a 8 digit number - we called him bar code for short - used an accumulation of information from comments to dox me. Never doing that again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:30:53 AM: I've never used an alias.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 02:21:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:30:53 AM
I've never used an alias.
Not many people know your name is actually Yan Kguy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:39:55 PM: Yeah. I guess by definition everybody here is using an alias.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 02, 2023, 03:31:38 PM: Charmin is introducing a new brand of bathroom tissue that has tear lines and thus is easier to tear off the roll. ( the age old debate of the roll coming off the top or the bottom still rages)

Does this count as NEWS in GENERAL?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 02, 2023, 03:32:10 PM: My name, Bart Oilcan, and professional credentials, including my PhD dissertation on eel migration, are all matters of public record. A brief search is likely to find some photos of the hovercraft our research team used in our fieldwork on north Atlantic eel species. Peer review was especially harsh, as some rival marine zoologists claimed (falsely) that some of the eels, rather than migrating, basically hitched a ride in the hovercraft. Our documentation showed that the hovercraft was never, as one Hungarian skeptic put it, "full of eels."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 03:34:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 02, 2023, 03:31:38 PM
Charmin is introducing a new brand of bathroom tissue that has tear lines and thus is easier to tear off the roll. ( the age old debate of the roll coming off the top or the bottom still rages)

Does this count as NEWS in GENERAL?
As long as the estate of Suzanne Pleshette has a financial stake in Charmin.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 03:55:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 02, 2023, 03:31:38 PM
Charmin is introducing a new brand of bathroom tissue that has tear lines and thus is easier to tear off the roll. ( the age old debate of the roll coming off the top or the bottom still rages)

Does this count as NEWS in GENERAL?
Yes, if only because it will come in handy wiping up after all of your posts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:10:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:06:11 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 03:22:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM
There are topics here.

News in general...is a very broad topic/section.

A ton of his meanderings are not in the "News in General" thread and much of his postings about his days body-guarding Suzanne Pleshette, even if posted there, cannot be considered "news" by any definition of the word.

That said, I've made my peace with it and ignore it mostly.

It's 'just' Tony, ...nice, polite, caring, loving everyone in the world, Tony.
He posts stuff, ...yes, don't find anything that appeals to you, don't read it.
I'm sure Tony means well and doesn't intend to upset anyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 07:16:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:06:11 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 03:22:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM
There are topics here.

News in general...is a very broad topic/section.

A ton of his meanderings are not in the "News in General" thread and much of his postings about his days body-guarding Suzanne Pleshette, even if posted there, cannot be considered "news" by any definition of the word.

That said, I've made my peace with it and ignore it mostly.

It's 'just' Tony, ...nice, polite, caring, loving everyone in the world, Tony.
Except for African Americans moving in Antelope Valley.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:26:51 PM: Nick on Youtube says:

Heading ...Target, citing retail crime, set to shutter nine stores...in New York, California, Oregon and Washington

Nick says: "I guess it's hard to stay open when your ideological allies steal from you and your political allies refuse to prosecute them for it".

#####

Guess it is
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 07:30:09 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:26:51 PM
Nick on Youtube says:

Heading ...Target, citing retail crime, set to shutter nine stores...in New York, California, Oregon and Washington

Nick says: "I guess it's hard to stay open when your ideological allies steal from you and your political allies refuse to prosecute them for it".

#####

Guess it is
I am not sure either Nick or you thought about what Nick actually said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 02, 2023, 08:00:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 07:16:40 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 11:06:11 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 03:22:12 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 02, 2023, 02:03:15 AM
There are topics here.

News in general...is a very broad topic/section.

A ton of his meanderings are not in the "News in General" thread and much of his postings about his days body-guarding Suzanne Pleshette, even if posted there, cannot be considered "news" by any definition of the word.

That said, I've made my peace with it and ignore it mostly.

It's 'just' Tony, ...nice, polite, caring, loving everyone in the world, Tony.
Except for African Americans moving in Antelope Valley.
Whenever Harry is out of ammo he pulls out a race card.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 02, 2023, 10:20:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 02, 2023, 03:31:38 PM
Charmin is introducing a new brand of bathroom tissue that has tear lines and thus is easier to tear off the roll. ( the age old debate of the roll coming off the top or the bottom still rages)

Does this count as NEWS in GENERAL?

Only if it's 1880. Perforated tear lines been around for a while.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 10:47:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 02, 2023, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 02, 2023, 07:26:51 PM
Nick on Youtube says:

Heading ...Target, citing retail crime, set to shutter nine stores...in New York, California, Oregon and Washington

Nick says: "I guess it's hard to stay open when your ideological allies steal from you and your political allies refuse to prosecute them for it".

#####

Guess it is

I am not sure either Nick or you thought about what Nick actually said.

Yes he/we did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2023, 03:09:52 AM: Biggest outrage atm is the fact that Rocky Myers is still on death row.
He has spent nearly 30 years on death row.

Rocky was sentenced to death after a flawed trial tainted by racism, with no forensic evidence.
He also has an intellectual disability.

His lead defence counsel had links to the Ku Klux Klan, and jurors were heard using racial slurs.

The Governor of Alabama must commute his death sentence.

Amnesty International Australia.

#####

Sounds a lot like what happened to that Black man Joseph Spell in the movie I saw on the big screen at a cinema..."Marshall"...where lawyer Thurgood Marshall defended him.

You'd hope Rocky Myers isn't just another victim of the "grab any ...... , one of them did it" mentality that seems to exist.

What's Rocky Myers even still doing in prison, let alone on death row.

Would I like to have been/be a Black man in America?
No siree!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 03, 2023, 07:04:24 PM: Sparkle tried to get into the US Senate, but failed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 03, 2023, 10:36:27 PM: Duration: 27 Scaramuccis!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 04, 2023, 12:37:05 AM: Bambu, the Black people have good lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Birmingham, Alabama, etc, there are some nice places in America where the Black people have great lives. And while I have never been there, there is also Harlem, in New York, and I bet Harlem is nice for the Blacks. And also I have not been to New Orleans yet, but New Orleans would not be New Orleans without the Black people.

The first person who I drove as a Limousine Driver was Herbie Hancock, I drove Herbie from Hollywood to the Airport, Herbie has a great life here in Hollywood.

Things are good for the Blacks in America in a lot of ways. We have made a lot of progress, America is better now for everyone.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 04, 2023, 03:11:54 AM: I had a Black History professor in community college who is an amazing teacher, she is from Haiti, and she is an expert on American History. Her specialty is the Great Depression, she studied what caused the Great Depression, and about how life was like during the Great Depression, and about what was done to end it, and about what was done to make sure that we never have another Great Depression.

The name of the Professor is Professor Marks Ellis, and when I had her she was a Professor at Antelope Valley College, but now she is a Professor at Columbia University in New York.

They should put Professor Marks Ellis on the History Channel on television, and also on Public Broadcasting. She can teach everyone about History, plus she is a great role model for young Black girls.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 04, 2023, 09:45:03 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 04, 2023, 12:37:05 AM
Bambu, the Black people have good lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Birmingham, Alabama, etc, there are some nice places in America where the Black people have great lives. And while I have never been there, there is also Harlem, in New York, and I bet Harlem is nice for the Blacks. And also I have not been to New Orleans yet, but New Orleans would not be New Orleans without the Black people.

The first person who I drove as a Limousine Driver was Herbie Hancock, I drove Herbie from Hollywood to the Airport, Herbie has a great life here in Hollywood.

Things are good for the Blacks in America in a lot of ways. We have made a lot of progress, America is better now for everyone.

I think you should share this post with as many Black people as possible, and ask for some honest feedback. You know, just to constructively fine-tune your understanding. Maybe also share your earlier Antelope Valley posts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM: She is not a Professor at Columbia University.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 10:43:55 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She
So direct and to the point!

Cherchez La Femme?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 11:12:22 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 10:43:55 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She
So direct and to the point!

Cherchez La Femme?
See my edit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 12:07:06 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She is not a Professor at Columbia University.
Well, yes she is.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212)
The Columbia Teachers College is affiliated with Columbia while it is ruled by a separate Board of Directors.
And Ms Ellis credentials are very impressive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 04, 2023, 12:10:26 PM: What's the difference between Kevin McCarthy and a fetus?

None. Both are pushed out after nine months.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 04, 2023, 12:25:08 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 12:07:06 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She is not a Professor at Columbia University.
Well, yes she is.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212)
The Columbia Teachers College is affiliated with Columbia while it is ruled by a separate Board of Directors.
And Ms Ellis credentials are very impressive.
So... she is not a Professor at Columbia University, but rather Columbia Teachers College.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 12:34:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 12:07:06 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She is not a Professor at Columbia University.
Well, yes she is.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212)
The Columbia Teachers College is affiliated with Columbia while it is ruled by a separate Board of Directors.
And Ms Ellis credentials are very impressive.

Yes, she has an impressive resume but she's not a Professor at Columbia or anything affiliated with it. There is nothing in the Linked In site you link to that shows that she's teaching at Columbia Teachers College, dumbass, only that she received a Masters Degree there. All the site shows is that she's currently an Adjunct Professor at CUNY-Staten Island and was also an Adjunct at Wagner College.

I know you're a contentious SOB and you're bound and determined to prove that you're smarter than I am, and you might well be, but once again showing your inability to read isn't a good way of demonstrating it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 01:05:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 12:34:22 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 12:07:06 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
She is not a Professor at Columbia University.
Well, yes she is.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-marks-ellis-56232b212)
The Columbia Teachers College is affiliated with Columbia while it is ruled by a separate Board of Directors.
And Ms Ellis credentials are very impressive.

Yes, she has an impressive resume but she's not a Professor at Columbia or anything affiliated with it. There is nothing in the Linked In site you link to that shows that she's teaching at Columbia Teachers College, dumbass, only that she received a Masters Degree there. All the site shows is that she's currently an Adjunct Professor at CUNY-Staten Island and was also an Adjunct at Wagner College.
So what? How does that alter Tony Vs praise of her as a teacher?
The LinkedIn link confirms she was educated there and and you throw a fit because he may be wrong and she didn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 01:23:58 PM: How can one line, "she's not a Professor at Columbia University" constitute "throwing a fit"? It was merely me making a correction.

Just like you tried, and failed, to do to me. Was yours "throwing a fit"?

You know, it would have been easier for you to say: "I was wrong. I'm an asshole, I can't read and I don't know the meaning of many basic words."

I'm not holding my breath.

But I am done with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 02:01:55 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 01:23:58 PM
How can one line, "she's not a Professor at Columbia University" constitute "throwing a fit"? It was merely me making a correction.
Why? How did you making a needless correction ( that itself could be wrong) affect anything of substance that Tony posted?

You may need a time out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:24:56 PM: My correction might well have been needless because who really cares about Salute Tony V's biographical blather? Your "correction," "[w]ell, yes she is [a Professor at Columbia University]," in yet another fruitless attempt by you at proving that Yankguy is an idiot, was simply wrong. Who needs the time out?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 02:38:35 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:24:56 PM
My correction might well have been needless because who really cares about Salute Tony V's biographical blather? Your "correction," "[w]ell, yes she is [a Professor at Columbia University]," in yet another fruitless attempt by you at proving that Yankguy is an idiot, was simply wrong. Who needs the time out?
You.
You are criticizing Tony for Biographical Blather that you do not know to be incorrect.
But even if it is it had nothing to do with his message.
Are you really that insecure?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:41:58 PM: I actually don't care about Salute Tony V's biographical blather, correct or not, which is why I conceded that my correction of his mistake might well have been needless.

Meantime, you were still wrong, you're incapable of admitting it, and you still don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 02:47:55 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:41:58 PM
I actually don't care about Salute Tony V's biographical blather, correct or not, which is why I conceded that my correction of his mistake might well have been needless.

See, my therapeutic suggestions work.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:52:34 PM: What's interesting, in a therapeutic sense, is how you've made this about me. Tony made a statement. He was wrong and I corrected it. In attempting to correct me you were wrong, and I corrected it. So, it seems that, somehow, being correct is a problem in your view. That explains a lot of things about you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 04, 2023, 03:03:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 02:38:35 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:24:56 PM
My correction might well have been needless because who really cares about Salute Tony V's biographical blather? Your "correction," "[w]ell, yes she is [a Professor at Columbia University]," in yet another fruitless attempt by you at proving that Yankguy is an idiot, was simply wrong. Who needs the time out?
You.
You are criticizing Tony for Biographical Blather that you do not know to be incorrect.
Except he DID know it to be incorrect. You were the one confused on the issue, and as a result erroneously corrected his correction. And as always, you refuse to acknowledge your error. Because....
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Are you really that insecure?
...is a question you should direct inwards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM: Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/04/11-year-old-shoots-two-teens-fight-over-chips-football-practice/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/04/11-year-old-shoots-two-teens-fight-over-chips-football-practice/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:26:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 04, 2023, 03:03:44 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 02:38:35 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:24:56 PM
My correction might well have been needless because who really cares about Salute Tony V's biographical blather? Your "correction," "[w]ell, yes she is [a Professor at Columbia University]," in yet another fruitless attempt by you at proving that Yankguy is an idiot, was simply wrong. Who needs the time out?
You.
You are criticizing Tony for Biographical Blather that you do not know to be incorrect.
Except he DID know it to be incorrect.
He could not have
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:28:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:52:34 PM
What's interesting, in a therapeutic sense, is how you've made this about me. Tony made a statement. He was wrong and I corrected it.
How could you have?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:34:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:28:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:52:34 PM
What's interesting, in a therapeutic sense, is how you've made this about me. Tony made a statement. He was wrong and I corrected it.
How could you have?
Tony stated that she was a Professor at Columbia. I said she wasn't because I looked at the same place you did. The only difference being that I read it correctly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:40:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:34:22 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:28:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:52:34 PM
What's interesting, in a therapeutic sense, is how you've made this about me. Tony made a statement. He was wrong and I corrected it.
How could you have?
Tony stated that she was a Professor at Columbia. I said she wasn't because I looked at the same place you did. The only difference being that I read it correctly.
Then you made a mistake( as I did) because that was not the entire LinkedIn history of the professor.
To see that you had to join LinkedIn
But it still begs the question of why you would bother to correct something that had absolutely no bearing on Tony s message.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:46:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:40:07 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:34:22 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:28:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 02:52:34 PM
What's interesting, in a therapeutic sense, is how you've made this about me. Tony made a statement. He was wrong and I corrected it.
How could you have?
Tony stated that she was a Professor at Columbia. I said she wasn't because I looked at the same place you did. The only difference being that I read it correctly.
Then you made a mistake( as I did) because that was not the entire LinkedIn history of the professor.
To see that you had to join LinkedIn
But it still begs the question of why you would bother to correct something that had absolutely no bearing on Tony s message.

Hey dumbass, I already had a LinkedIn account. As soon as I read Salute Tony V's statement about her being a Professor at Columbia, I looked up her up and I found the same exact information that you did, specifically that she's not a professor at Columbia. Except, again, I read the information correctly. And allowing for a possible mistake there, I looked her up on the Columbia University website. She wasn't there either. Because I don't like to be wrong. Something, apparently, that doesn't bother you.

And you can keep begging away. Because being the clown you are, you seem far more concerned with why I posted then what I posted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2023, 03:55:10 PM: Looks like Kate has had enough of the antics of Sparkle and her man, so that's that...for the time being at least.
No more metaphorical blue beret wearing for her.

All praise to her for trying...and for lasting so long. She deserves a medal.
I know one woman who would've been done with them after that interview, and done with them permanently after that book was released.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:01:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Says the guy who reads (though I'm still not sure he can) a story about an 11-year shooting a couple of 13-year olds and still is comfortable with the idea that guns are great.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 04, 2023, 04:04:52 PM: The lady in the true story 'Lifetime' movie I watched on Youtube yesterday could've done with a gun strapped on and ready to fire, when the intruder who smashed his way into her home chased her wielding a knife, and murdered her with it.

"Never take just your hands to a knife fight" [in America, the land of "Guns and God"].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:18:37 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:01:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Says the guy who reads (though I'm still not sure he can) a story about an 11-year shooting a couple of 13-year olds and still is comfortable with the idea that guns are great.
You said guns were great.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:20:02 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:01:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Says the guy who reads (though I'm still not sure he can) a story about an 11-year shooting a couple of 13-year olds and still is comfortable with the idea that guns are great.
What are you talking about?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:23:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:18:37 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:01:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Says the guy who reads (though I'm still not sure he can) a story about an 11-year shooting a couple of 13-year olds and still is comfortable with the idea that guns are great.
You said guns were great.
Wow. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:24:33 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:20:02 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:01:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:50:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:43:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 03:06:47 PM
Guns are great! Cocked and ready to fire!!

Yes they are.

A recently reopened Philly cheesesteak joint hired armed security guards to protect customers and staff as the City of Brotherly Love faces an ongoing crime wave

"What we have become accustomed to in society is to react to issues once they happen," Victoria Wylie, co-owner of Jim
11 year olds shooting 13 year olds is "great!"
And extremely rare, unlike crime in democrat run big cities.
Yep!!! That long-standing big-city Democratic Party machine in Apopka, Florida is a disgrace.
Man you are one dude that needs some time off.
Says the guy who reads (though I'm still not sure he can) a story about an 11-year shooting a couple of 13-year olds and still is comfortable with the idea that guns are great.
What are you talking about?
Have a nice day. It's amazing I once thought you were a pretty smart guy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 04, 2023, 04:35:06 PM: I do not have a LinkedIn account, so the information that I am able to see is limited. From what I saw I was under the impression that Professor Marks Ellis is now teaching at Columbia in New York, but in any case, she is a wonderful professor, and the fact that she is a Black woman from Haiti may allow her to be a good role model for the young Black women. Regardless of her race, or sex, or where she is from, she is a great professor, and I enjoyed my time in her classes. Of note, she brought Rosa Parks to speak at Antelope Valley College.

On the issue of Think Tanks, and forums, it is best if we try to use the good ideas that people have to move society forward, instead of fighting against each other, and letting egos get involved, etc. I was really happy to join a group on Facebook to help the poor, the World Bank invited me to join an economic development forum for poor nations, and I was happy to join and I was happy to try to contribute. But, sadly they have a lot of people who just want to argue, they do not want to actually advance the poor nations, the people on the forum obviously studied hard but they just want to be important instead of helping the poor. They want to be important, instead of humbly helping the poor. On Think Tanks there are no bad ideas, and any idea might lead to a good idea, so you do not punish people for sharing ideas, but sadly on the World Bank forum they bash your ideas to show you how stupid you are while pointing out how great they are, and that is not the way that a Think Tank is supposed to work. I have thick skin, but I rarely share on the World Bank economic development forum now, and when I do I can expect to be bashed on whatever I say, it is not very fun, but if I have a great idea then I share it anyway.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 04, 2023, 06:55:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:23:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:18:37 PM

You said guns were great.
Wow. Have a nice day.

It gets kind of surreal when members try to call Ward out on his bullshit. One thing I'm certain of is that he does not get irony. Even when you put ironic quote marks around it.

Oh well, time for my ward meeting in Apopka - we're going to pick Joe's running mate!

Cheers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 08:15:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 04, 2023, 06:55:54 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:23:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:18:37 PM

You said guns were great.
Wow. Have a nice day.

It gets kind of surreal when members try to call Ward out on his bullshit. One thing I'm certain of is that he does not get irony. Even when you put ironic quote marks around it.
well one thing is certain about the conversation referenced.
IRONY was not a componnent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2023, 12:15:15 AM: Australia is not 95% empty.

Farms,, big farms, family farms are each thousands of acres.
Crops, cattle, sheep.

Ranches 10,000 cattle, 8 people for example, out in the middle.

'Empty' of people, but agriculture abounds.
No skyscrapers in rural areas and the outback...but there are thousands of wild cattle that are harvested on large Aboriginal owned land ranches in the Northern Territory.
Wild camels exported to America, Arabia for racing and meat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 05, 2023, 10:48:07 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 08:15:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 04, 2023, 06:55:54 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 04, 2023, 04:23:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 04, 2023, 04:18:37 PM

You said guns were great.
Wow. Have a nice day.

It gets kind of surreal when members try to call Ward out on his bullshit. One thing I'm certain of is that he does not get irony. Even when you put ironic quote marks around it.
well one thing is certain about the conversation referenced.
IRONY was not a componnent.

QED
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 12:40:40 PM: Good guy with a gun #50,401:

Armed Man Seeking Wisconsin Governor Arrested In State Capitol
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 02:27:58 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 12:40:40 PM
Good guy with a gun #50,401:

Armed Man Seeking Wisconsin Governor Arrested In State Capitol
What is interesting about that is the armed man was quickly let out on bail and returned later with an AK 47 demanding to see the Governor, again.

Which leads to the Chattanooga tragedy, where a father of three was murdered by a guy with 66 prior arrests. The city Mayor called it a senseless act of gun violence.
What it was was senseless that this predator was still on the streets.
That is not gun violence, that is criminal behavior sanctioned by the blind faith of an activist who holds political office.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM: The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.

No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 03:30:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM
The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.
And your point is what?
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No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
I think you are a little confused.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 04:19:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM
The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.
And your point is what?
That the idea that the Chattanooga killer was on the street due to some liberal coddling runs hard up against the reality of Tennessee politics.
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No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
I think you are a little confused.
You are correct. My bad, I transferred the guns of the Wisky miscreant to the killer from the land of whiskey. However, the point about a person with 66 prior arrests having a gun still stands.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2023, 07:07:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 12:40:40 PM
Good guy with a gun #50,401:

Armed Man Seeking Wisconsin Governor Arrested In State Capitol

More like 'bad man with a gun'...'hunting the Gov'.

The Gov should be armed with guns ready to fire...so he can protect himself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2023, 07:14:27 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 02:27:58 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 12:40:40 PM
Good guy with a gun #50,401:

Armed Man Seeking Wisconsin Governor Arrested In State Capitol
What is interesting about that is the armed man was quickly let out on bail and returned later with an AK 47 demanding to see the Governor, again.

Which leads to the Chattanooga tragedy, where a father of three was murdered by a guy with 66 prior arrests. The city Mayor called it a senseless act of gun violence.
What it was was senseless that this predator was still on the streets.
That is not gun violence, that is criminal behavior sanctioned by the blind faith of an activist who holds political office.

From what I learnt from watching a video yesterday of the history of bail in the US ...surely a man with a gun after the Gov qualifies him for no bail...absolutely no bail, kept in custody for a serious crime intent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 05, 2023, 08:00:51 PM: Across the seas, 'America' comes to bambuworld:

Daily Telegraph today:

WAR on the HOMEFRONT

'Everyday people' living in tents as homeless woman told to move on.

Homelessness in NSW has spiked to record highs as the cost of living crunch drives more people on to the streets - but even then some are facing eviction.

#####

Yes, it'll now be 'Waltzing Matilda' for many people [at least nice weather can always be found around the nation by moving around thru the seasons], assaults and robberies could be a problem, 'sitting ducks'... because federal and state govts have stuffed it all up.

Yesterday it was revealed that "Bowser Bandits" abound, people filling their cars with fuel then driving off without paying as the cost of living surges to a level where people can't afford to 'live'.

The top 10 suburbs for 'petrol theft' like this were listed yesterday...yes, not one 'wealthy suburb/district' on the list.
Where I live is on the list.
The "Serious Crime and Robbery" section of the police force is now involved.

There are cameras everywhere at 'Servos' [service stations/gas stations]...people are foolish, they'll never get away with it, but will get themselves into serious trouble with the law...get themselves a criminal record...no going to America etc with a criminal record.

No money for fuel?...you have to walk to work etc, or catch public transport. No driving to the mall/supermarket. No driving kids to school/sporting matches/training, no driving to visit the relatives. No phones and tablets for the kids, no vacations, no going anywhere...no buying anything.
When the kids say "are we poor now daddy"?...you have to answer truthfully "YES"! [then rattle off a list of those whose fault it is.]

"Daddy, my school bag has fallen apart, what shall I do?"
"Well, we'll have to make do with what we have...here, take this cabin bag, just wheel it along, it's good, you won't get a sore back, and it locks."
"But daddy, the principal won't like that, it doesn't have the school logo on it."
"If the principal objects, tell him to ring me".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 08:51:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 04:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM
The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.
And your point is what?
That the idea that the Chattanooga killer was on the street due to some liberal coddling runs hard up against the reality of Tennessee politics.
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No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
I think you are a little confused.
You are correct. My bad, I transferred the guns of the Wisky miscreant to the killer from the land of whiskey. However, the point about a person with 66 prior arrests having a gun still stands.
What point us that?,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 10:14:28 PM: Quote from: Incontinentia Buttocks on October 05, 2023, 09:39:31 PM

None.
Thanks
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2023, 01:20:20 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/5/2197624/-What-the-Hell-Just-Happened?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/5/2197624/-What-the-Hell-Just-Happened?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2023, 01:26:17 AM: Red is as persuasive now as any tobacco or asbestos lobbyist peddling other forms of cancer hiding as consumer products protected by novel and fictitious legal theories that never stand up well to serious scrutiny.

He will be on to a full throated defense of child traffickers in the republican congressional caucus with the same shitty dumbass approach next.

He knows he is beat on guns and the environment so it is time for loser Red to move on
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 08:14:02 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 08:51:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 04:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM
The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.
And your point is what?
That the idea that the Chattanooga killer was on the street due to some liberal coddling runs hard up against the reality of Tennessee politics.
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No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
I think you are a little confused.
You are correct. My bad, I transferred the guns of the Wisky miscreant to the killer from the land of whiskey. However, the point about a person with 66 prior arrests having a gun still stands.
What point us that?,
The point to my comment? It is the point everyone here understands, including you.

The point of trying to have a discussion with you? None. None at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 06, 2023, 10:23:58 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 08:14:02 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 08:51:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 04:19:38 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 05, 2023, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 05, 2023, 02:53:25 PM
The DA for Chattanooga is Coty Wamp, a Republican. That is whose "blind faith of an activist who holds political office" sanctioned the criminal conduct.
And your point is what?
That the idea that the Chattanooga killer was on the street due to some liberal coddling runs hard up against the reality of Tennessee politics.
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No thought on your part on the idea that someone with 66 prior arrests could buy a handgun and an AK 47?
I think you are a little confused.
You are correct. My bad, I transferred the guns of the Wisky miscreant to the killer from the land of whiskey. However, the point about a person with 66 prior arrests having a gun still stands.
What point us that?,
The point to my comment? It is the point everyone here understands, including you.

The point of trying to have a discussion with you? None. None at all.
Your discussions are usually based on your bigotry not facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2023, 02:11:37 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2023, 10:23:58 AM
Your discussions are usually based on your bigotry not facts.

That has a much stronger ring of truth if you substitute the clearly out of place second person pronoun for a first person pronoun that you have spent years convincing everyone is absolutely appropriate and accurate to the rest of your response
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 06, 2023, 02:15:41 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/06/us-cancel-student-lunch-debt-legislation (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/06/us-cancel-student-lunch-debt-legislation)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 06, 2023, 04:41:17 PM: Olvera Street in Los Angeles is having problems with homeless people, and with rats, and the problems are easy to solve.

People can go to the Animal Control Shelter and they can get the cats and they can turn the cats loose on Olvera Street, like they do in Rome, Italy. When you go to visit the Colosseum in Rome then you will see cats all over. Rome would rather have cats instead of rodents. Olvera Street can have cats instead of rats, like in Rome.

Also, on the issue of housing, Olvera Street can learn from Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles can have hostels where people can shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night. Instead of being homeless the people can shower and sleep in a hostel.

Olvera Street can learn from Rome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 04:42:42 PM: Yes, but then you have a cat problem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 06, 2023, 04:45:00 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 04:42:42 PM
Yes, but then you have a cat problem.

They can sterilize the cats before they turn them loose.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 04:56:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 06, 2023, 04:45:00 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 04:42:42 PM
Yes, but then you have a cat problem.

They can sterilize the cats before they turn them loose.

Salute,

Tony V.
Bastard. How would you like it if someone sis that to you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 06, 2023, 06:14:04 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 06, 2023, 02:11:37 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 06, 2023, 10:23:58 AM
Your discussions are usually based on your bigotry not facts.

That has a much stronger ring of truth if you substitute the clearly out of place second person pronoun for a first person pronoun that you have spent years convincing everyone is absolutely appropriate and accurate to the rest of your response
I just put it.down as one of the many, many words and phrases RedDick utters without knowing what they mean. Like "nihilist", someone called him that and he worked out it an insult and uses it that way without regard to actual definitions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 07, 2023, 06:12:23 AM: Israel declares "We are at war" "enemy Hamas will pay price"...after Hamas fired 5000 rockets from Gaza Strip...people dead.
...and has invaded.

One day, Israel is gonna do its nana and fire some big rockets into Gaza, turning it into ash.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on October 07, 2023, 11:53:22 AM: Israel reprisals kill far more people, probably most of them not part of Hamas. Every time these Hamas idiots do this, they condemn more of their own compatriots to death. In a sense, it's Hamas who brought an authoritarian like Bibi to power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 07, 2023, 01:43:02 PM: "Idiots" is kind to Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 07, 2023, 04:03:21 PM: Quote from: Oil Clone on October 07, 2023, 11:53:22 AM
Israel reprisals kill far more people, probably most of them not part of Hamas. Every time these Hamas idiots do this, they condemn more of their own compatriots to death. In a sense, it's Hamas who brought an authoritarian like Bibi to power.
Uh, no.
The Palestinians started this war in 1948 and never stopped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 07, 2023, 04:52:09 PM: It is just like the war white Christian nationalists have been carrying on without letup since the 1860s.

Red is saying we should not give bloodthirsty fanatics like him any foothold whatsoever.

At least that is what he would be saying if he were in any way consistent
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 07, 2023, 05:12:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 07, 2023, 04:03:21 PM
Quote from: Oil Clone on October 07, 2023, 11:53:22 AM
Israel reprisals kill far more people, probably most of them not part of Hamas. Every time these Hamas idiots do this, they condemn more of their own compatriots to death. In a sense, it's Hamas who brought an authoritarian like Bibi to power.
Uh, no.
The Palestinians started this war in 1948 and never stopped.

Uh, no. They lived there already. It's called PALESTINE for a reason. Then the new arrivals started shoving them off their lands and razing farms and generally treated them like garbage. (sound familiar?)

But thanks for that very Putinesque take on "ahh look what you made me do!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 07, 2023, 06:13:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 07, 2023, 05:12:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 07, 2023, 04:03:21 PM
Quote from: Oil Clone on October 07, 2023, 11:53:22 AM
Israel reprisals kill far more people, probably most of them not part of Hamas. Every time these Hamas idiots do this, they condemn more of their own compatriots to death. In a sense, it's Hamas who brought an authoritarian like Bibi to power.
Uh, no.
The Palestinians started this war in 1948 and never stopped.

Uh, no. They lived there already. It's called PALESTINE for a reason.
Palestine was partitioned to give the Jews a home after World War Two.
The Arabs never accepted it and have fought constantly, and always (ALWAYS lose).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 07, 2023, 07:05:58 PM: Nuance causes Red extra horrendous hemorrhoid flare ups.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 07, 2023, 07:19:41 PM: Scumbags like Arafat profited from the conflict in the Middle East, and Saddam, and others, and we have made progress in the Middle East in the last 20 years. Israel used to have people blowing themselves up at bus stops in Israel and then Saddam and Arafat would give money to the families of the suicide bombers.

That is a fucked up life if you are so miserable and poor that you blow yourself up at a bus stop. By alleviating extreme poverty and suffering and by teaching the people peace then we can make progress towards a healthier civilization, and you cannot do that with a gun. It takes more than a gun to create a peaceful world. You feed them, and you tell them this food I give to you out of love for you, and you teach them to treat other people the same way that you want to be treated. I am a Christian and I am a crusader, and as I feed people then I would tell them that God loves them. And the Peacetime is the time to be sending in the teachers and the priests and the business leaders, etc.

My friend who I made a student film with at USC film school wanted to open an American style movie studio in Turkey to make movies and television shows for the Arabs, and that is the way to reach their hearts and minds. Movies, music, television shows, etc, all have the power to change how people think, feel, and behave.

Blessed are the Peacemakers, and Pope Francis is a great man of peace, and we need to fully fund the Peace Corps, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 07, 2023, 07:49:15 PM: Bambu and ilk are giving momentum to the Yes vote. I am sure this makes them very happy,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamvy/why-leaders-of-indigenous-progressive-no-campaign-switch-to-yes-vote-voice-to-parliament-referendum (http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamvy/why-leaders-of-indigenous-progressive-no-campaign-switch-to-yes-vote-voice-to-parliament-referendum)

Fuck all conservative scumbags. They have already damned themselves to hell
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 01:56:43 AM: Wrong!
According to the polls the Yes vote continues to drop in popularity...as the Leftist 'trickery', abuse, BS and untruths are discovered by more people.
It's not about what Albo keeps insisting it is...Hollywood stars climbing on the Yes bandwagon should study it more deeply.
"Dinosaurs and dickheads" one Yes camp media star called No voters the other night.
"KKK members" was another insult hurled by the Yes camp recently...along with "idiots" etc.

It's been shown clearly that it's all about "Voice, Treaty, Truth"...get the Voice 21 member advisory group enshrined in the Constitution so it can never be disbanded, then demand a Treaty, then demand Truth (reparations, then sovereignty (absolute power/authority).

"Voice, Treaty, Truth" on Albo's T shirt...for the world to see. LOL

The Right is not dumb, nor stoopid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 02:21:51 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 07, 2023, 07:49:15 PM
Bambu and ilk are giving momentum to the Yes vote. I am sure this makes them very happy,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamvy/why-leaders-of-indigenous-progressive-no-campaign-switch-to-yes-vote-voice-to-parliament-referendum (http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamvy/why-leaders-of-indigenous-progressive-no-campaign-switch-to-yes-vote-voice-to-parliament-referendum)

Fuck all conservative scumbags. They have already damned themselves to hell

You should read your link carefully.

Google NIAA
'National Indigenous Advisory Agency"...already exists, billions in funding every year.
There's plenty of advice to govt, no more is needed.

Is 'race' enshrined in the U S Constitution?
What about a new Amendment, "Native American Voice to Congress."
Special 21 person group advising Congress of the needs of Native American people, its powers etc to be decided after the Amendment is passed.
The 21 person group possibly running off to the Supreme Court every time it doesn't get what it wants.

"What about an African American Voice to Congress" new Amendment?
A "Korean Voice to Congress" etc etc etc Amendment?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 08, 2023, 12:21:23 PM: It just happened in Alabama. It probably means one less republican terrorist will find his way to Congress from that state through a gerrymandered district. The Supreme Court upheld it because it is enshrined in the US Constitution.

It is part of how our country keeps getting better and better while your country still has no nukes.

I am sure your boys would make excellent cannon fodder should we ever want to stage another Gallipoli. Or if that sounds like a shitty backwater of history to be stuck in, perhaps some Voice, treaty, truth could be your ticket out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 02:22:49 PM: "with some supporters of the Palestinians taking to the streets of Berlin to celebrate the attack."

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Yes, 'dancing' in the streets in Germany in celebration as Jews are slaughtered in Israel...and it's all just allowed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 08, 2023, 02:55:16 PM: Your hemorrhoids flare up at the though of more carnage. Keep your drool in your mouth, Bambi. This is a public forum.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 08, 2023, 03:40:27 PM: The Fast Food Workers in California are going to earn $20 per hour...

https://time.com/6318512/california-minimum-wage-fast-food-workers/

Times have changed, and Fast Food Jobs are no longer just for teens, and now a huge percentage of Fast Food Workers are parents with children who are Bread Winners for their families, so the Fast Food Workers are now going to earn $20 per hour.

The jobs for adults have always paid more than the jobs for teens, and now that adults are doing Fast Food then they need to be paid more.

There are no more jobs for teens, the jobs have all went to China, and then the Mexicans come here and do all of the labor, so there are not any jobs for the teens like there used to be. Adults are doing the jobs that the teens used to do, and so the wages are going up for the adults who are doing Fast Food.

In N Out Burger has always paid well, and the Managers at In N Out make $120,000 per year, and now the wages are going up at all of the Fast Food Restaurants.

The teens need to stay in school, and they need to become Leaders, and Bosses, and Professionals, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 04:52:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 02:22:49 PM
"with some supporters of the Palestinians taking to the streets of Berlin to celebrate the attack."

#####

Yes, 'dancing' in the streets in Germany in celebration as Jews are slaughtered in Israel...and it's all just allowed.
It
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 05:07:45 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 04:52:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 02:22:49 PM
"with some supporters of the Palestinians taking to the streets of Berlin to celebrate the attack."

#####

Yes, 'dancing' in the streets in Germany in celebration as Jews are slaughtered in Israel...and it's all just allowed.
It
Do not ever change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:17:23 PM: Okay.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 05:40:15 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:17:23 PM
Okay.
I mean,how long does it take to check your own work?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:52:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 05:40:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:17:23 PM
Okay.
I mean,how long does it take to check your own work?
There should be a space after the comma.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 06:06:13 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:52:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 05:40:15 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 05:17:23 PM
Okay.
I mean,how long does it take to check your own work?
There should be a space after the comma.
Way to avoid your responsibility.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:29:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 08, 2023, 02:55:16 PM
Your hemorrhoids flare up at the though of more carnage. Keep your drool in your mouth, Bambi. This is a public forum.

Oh, and in SW Sydney...much celebration...a sheik and a crowd of hundreds going off like Saturn rockets with jubilation as Jews are slaughtered in Israel.
We'll see how long his/their 'victory' party lasts.

It's time something effective was done about Hamas, Hezbollah and their masters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:34:39 PM: America was 'asleep'... 9/11 happened...Islamic terrorists struck.

Israel was 'asleep'...its 9/11 has happened...Islamic terrorists struck.

US said "never again"... and went after the terrorists.
Israel must do the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:41:31 PM: A lady in the NYT M.E. forum taught me;

DEAD TERRORISTS DO NOT KILL ANYONE
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 08, 2023, 06:54:46 PM: Self rapture at any time. We will all breathe a sweet sigh of relief
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 07:35:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:41:31 PM
A lady in the NYT M.E. forum taught me;

DEAD TERRORISTS DO NOT KILL ANYONE
Why can't you make this same argument for the death penalty, something you're so vehemently (rightfully so in my opinion) against?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 08:09:32 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 07:35:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:41:31 PM
A lady in the NYT M.E. forum taught me;

DEAD TERRORISTS DO NOT KILL ANYONE
Why can't you make this same argument for the death penalty, something you're so vehemently (rightfully so in my opinion) against?
How are the two even remotely connected?
The Hamas Charter of 1988 calls for obliteration of Israel.
After last week how would anyone argue against the obliteration of Hamas?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 08:13:10 PM: Okay, Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 08:18:09 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 08:13:10 PM
Okay, Red.
Thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 08, 2023, 08:38:50 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 08:09:32 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 07:35:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:41:31 PM
A lady in the NYT M.E. forum taught me;

DEAD TERRORISTS DO NOT KILL ANYONE
Why can't you make this same argument for the death penalty, something you're so vehemently (rightfully so in my opinion) against?
How are the two even remotely connected?
The Hamas Charter of 1988 calls for obliteration of Israel.
After last week how would anyone argue against the obliteration of Hamas?

Israeli policy is steadily annexing and subjugating Palestine.

Hamas is less of an imminent threat to the United States than the republican party. More wise Americans are coming to the conclusion that the republican party should be obliterated utterly before it starts the civil war it is planning. If anyone is going to be obliterating anything, it should start with the GOP.

There is a good chance this is Russian instigated to distract the west from finishing Russia in Ukraine. That would make the correct response to finish Russia in Ukraine. Aside from getting a sane government in Israel, with a leader not on the run from the law, this is the best option for taking the impetus to attack from Hamas
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 09:19:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 07:35:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 06:41:31 PM
A lady in the NYT M.E. forum taught me;

DEAD TERRORISTS DO NOT KILL ANYONE
Why can't you make this same argument for the death penalty, something you're so vehemently (rightfully so in my opinion) against?

With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

America fire bombed Tokyo...and nuked Japan twice...to save the lives of American military personnel, and other people in the world.

If the war had been lost, America would've been charged with war crimes...it is said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM: With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 09:53:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?

Gotta capture them first
I can see it now, Israeli soldiers walking into Gaza saying..."we are here to take terrorists back to Israel for trial, please surrender."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:01:01 PM: So once they're captured, you're fine with a prison cell for them?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 10:12:46 PM: When the invasion of Australia comes, it will just like what happened in Israel, people with machine guns going door to door murdering the occupants.
Rape, torture, murder...as in Israel.

Team bambu will be sitting ducks.

No wonder Americans want to arm themselves with auto guns!

Machine guns for all, for protection from invading terrorists/foreign armies!

As you can't fight a firestorm with a garden hose...you can't fight invading terrorists with your bare hands or knives.
Auto guns for all Jews in Israel.

__________

Just got back from shopping...sat down, switched on tv, saw a white pick up truck with a 'rocket launcher' in the back firing 'rockets'.
Palestinians in Gaza firing 'rockets' in celebration of their attacks on Israel...
...wrong!
It was in Sydney!
Firing flares or something from a launcher of some type, the flares rapid firing. Last night.

Where are the cops, ASIO, AFP?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 10:15:26 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:01:01 PM
So once they're captured, you're fine with a prison cell for them?

Yes...no luxuries.
Gitmo style sounds about right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 08, 2023, 10:16:40 PM: Will Netanyahu try to bury his legal problems in among all the fogs of war and the handwringing from the West? Seems like this attack has some convenient aspects for him and his Zionist far-right entourage.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:20:14 PM: One can be a Zionist and not far right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 10:21:53 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:20:14 PM
One can be a Zionist and not far right.

What is a Zionist?
I must research it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 10:47:43 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?
Because they are equal
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:53:07 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 10:47:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?
Because they are equal
They are equal?

"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 11:04:50 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:53:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 10:47:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?
Because they are equal
They are equal?

"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
sorry. Because they are not equal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 08, 2023, 11:17:34 PM: Zionism;

"Zionism is a nationalist movement that emerged in the 19th century to espouse support for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition."

Nothing wrong with that at all.
All good being a Zionist.

But of course, in the woke world we inhabit today, patriotism and nationalism are 'dirty' words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 01:48:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on May 18, 1975, 05:55:45 PM
But of course, in the woke world we inhabit today, patriotism and nationalism are 'dirty' words.

http://youtu.be/0qwehv3xfr0?si=diNQQ64VSwirBhRO (http://youtu.be/0qwehv3xfr0?si=diNQQ64VSwirBhRO)

http://youtu.be/71pFzW-x8IY?si=b3OArurhA9FREG38 (http://youtu.be/71pFzW-x8IY?si=b3OArurhA9FREG38)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 09, 2023, 02:14:05 AM: The USA is a special place in that we have all of the people of the world all living as equals in peace. Los Angeles has almost 1 million Persians in Los Angeles living in peace with the Jews. And it is amazing, everyone has guns, and still we have peace for the most part. I always thought that if the whole world can get along peacefully here in the USA as equals then we can do it as a planet.

And when I worked for the Government then a lot of work that I did was for Missile Defense, and my Mother also did a lot of work for Missile Defense, we have made a lot of progress on Missile Defense and it would have been a lot worse in Israel without the Iron Dome System.

The CIA also needs to be busy, and Mossad needs to be busy. And at the same time the Peace Corps needs to be busy.

My friends were managing homeless shelters that had both Persians and Jews living together, we can have peace.

Israel needs to make a deck of playing cards like W did with the pictures of the bad guys on the cards and then Israel needs to go kill the bad guys on the deck of cards. The world is a more peaceful place now because W removed a lot of bad guys, and Obama did too. A lot of bad guys are gone now.

I pray for peace, and I know there must be justice as well, and some bad guys need to be removed. Some people are evil and they need to be removed, then there can be peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 02:19:55 AM: Bibi is the ace of spades.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 05:50:27 AM: In the Daily Telegraph today:

"Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh says the current attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip - Operation Al-Aqsa Flood- will expand to the West Bank and Jerusalem."

There's a photo of him.
This could be the end of Israel and the Jews there if US warships don't soon arrive and stop Hamas and Hezbollah.
There's no one else willing (or able), it seems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 06:04:41 AM: DT:

"Hamas does not recognise Israel's right to exist:"

" Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" - Hamas charter

#####

Well there you go.
Crystal clear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 09, 2023, 09:51:30 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:20:14 PM
One can be a Zionist and not far right.

True, and I did not intend to say otherwise. The Bibi brand seems more abrasive than some.

And it looks like Hamas and PIJ were bright enough to take a lot of hostages, which means some serious limitations on Israel's military response. Leveling Gaza might be off the table.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 09, 2023, 09:54:03 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 11:04:50 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 10:53:07 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 08, 2023, 10:47:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 08, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
With the death penalty there is a safe and viable alternative.
With terrorists there is no viable alternative.

Why shouldn't terrorists, who are murderers too, be punished with this "safe and viable alternative"?
Because they are equal
They are equal?

"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
sorry. Because they are not equal.

Holy shit. The seventh seal has been cracked open!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 09, 2023, 02:49:09 PM: Israel will be fine, Israel is strong, and they have Apache helicopters, along with Missile Defense, etc.

And the Christians will come to the aid of Israel.

Biden has already went on television and he promised support for Israel.

The CIA, Mossad, and the Peace Corps, need to all be busy.

And there are Christians in Lebanon, etc.

We need to have peace, and we need to remove a few bad apples so that everyone else can have peace.

And with Russia, they are a very poor nation and we have the World Bank and unlimited funds, and the meek shall inherit the Earth, we need to use money to help the poor Christians in Russia to take control of Russia and to run Russia after the United Nations removes Putin and puts him in Guantanamo Bay.

We can restore peace, but it will take team-work.

And Pope Francis is a great man of peace, he can help. And Kiwanis can help, and Youth For Christ can help, etc.

Also, we need to strengthen France and the French Foreign Legion, we need for Colombians, and Mexicans, and Bolivians, and Peruvians, etc, to join the French Foreign Legion.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 09, 2023, 04:10:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 02:19:55 AM
Bibi is the ace of spades.

Bibi is going to slaughter people, he wants revenge, he said that he is going to punish them so bad that they will remember it for generations, he wants to teach them a lesson. It is their own fault, they brought it on themselves, and now Bibi is going to administrate justice on those who attacked Israel.

Meanwhile, the poor Palestinians can go be essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and the Arabs are rich now and they want peace, they want tourists, etc, and they are into playing Golf now, etc. There is no need for bitter poverty and suffering and war for the poor Palestinians, they can go live a good life as an essential worker in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai. UNICEF needs to transport refugees to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. The people who want peace can escape to Abu Dhabi and Dubai before Bibi deals out the punishment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 07:28:44 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 07:55:36 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 07:28:44 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law)

Sorry, no money left for climate change.
Climate change money must now be used for sending weapons, anti-glider missiles, pick ups with machine guns on the back, and wall building materials to Israel. [and Ukraine]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 08:05:43 PM: http://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty (http://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 08:07:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 07:55:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 07:28:44 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law)

Sorry, no money left for climate change.
Climate change money must now be used for sending weapons, anti-glider missiles, pick ups with machine guns on the back, and wall building materials to Israel. [and Ukraine]

This is the best argument for conservatorship for all conservatives that anyone could possibly make.

There is still no money for you and your stupid monkey anxieties. No wonder they stuck you with the nickels for so long
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 09, 2023, 09:56:02 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 08:07:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 07:55:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 07:28:44 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law)

Sorry, no money left for climate change.
Climate change money must now be used for sending weapons, anti-glider missiles, pick ups with machine guns on the back, and wall building materials to Israel. [and Ukraine]

This is the best argument for conservatorship for all conservatives that anyone could possibly make.

There is still no money for you and your stupid monkey anxieties. No wonder they stuck you with the nickels for so long

Paleo conservatives have trouble understanding that green energy is scalable in a way that fossil fuel generation is not. Much easier for individual companies to erect a wind turbine or put solar panels on the roof than a fossil fuel plant.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 10:24:39 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 08:05:43 PM
http://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty (http://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty)

All good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 10:37:41 PM: Just saw on my tv the leader of Hamas being kissed on the cheek by, and having something whispered in his ear by, an ayatollah in Iran.

Wonder what was whispered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 10:47:42 PM: I think they were having a laugh at how Australia will never get nukes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 04:33:03 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 10:47:42 PM
I think they were having a laugh at how Australia will never get nukes.

Probably.
Wouldn't be the only ones laughing at "goodie two shoes" Australia and its
basically useless military defences.

Got conned by some.
Got lied to by others.
Should've made Britain arm it with nukes in return for the use of the outback for atomic testing.
Tricked on trade, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 10:19:11 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 09, 2023, 09:56:02 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 08:07:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 09, 2023, 07:55:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 09, 2023, 07:28:44 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/california-carbon-emissions-law)

Sorry, no money left for climate change.
Climate change money must now be used for sending weapons, anti-glider missiles, pick ups with machine guns on the back, and wall building materials to Israel. [and Ukraine]

This is the best argument for conservatorship for all conservatives that anyone could possibly make.

There is still no money for you and your stupid monkey anxieties. No wonder they stuck you with the nickels for so long

Paleo conservatives have trouble understanding that green energy is scalable in a way that fossil fuel generation is not. Much easier for individual companies to erect a wind turbine or put solar panels on the roof than a fossil fuel plant.
Is that your idea humor?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 01:45:34 PM: On my tv, former Israeli ambassador to Australia said:

"What was, will never be again".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on October 10, 2023, 02:11:38 PM: But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war. And his job cuts since taking over Twitter last year have left fewer people responsible for taking action on posts that violate the platform s policies.
-- AP report

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 03:02:33 PM: Quote from: Oil Clone on October 10, 2023, 02:11:38 PM
But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war. And his job cuts since taking over Twitter last year have left fewer people responsible for taking action on posts that violate the platform s policies.
-- AP report

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?
This one is one too many.
Not that a sick group like Hamas and its sponsors(Iran et al) does not love to find new and more horrendous ways to kill innocent civilians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 03:27:32 PM: Quote from: Oil Clone on October 10, 2023, 02:11:38 PM
But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war. And his job cuts since taking over Twitter last year have left fewer people responsible for taking action on posts that violate the platform s policies.
-- AP report

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?

If memory serves, you had no problem believing that Assad was dropping barrel bombs on women and children. I'm not sure why you're skeptical that there are some genuinely evil people out there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 10, 2023, 03:31:58 PM: The people in Gaza and on the West Bank are never going to enjoy the freedom that they once enjoyed, everything changed and now they are much worse off. Attacking Israel was the stupidest thing they ever did.

The Palestinians who want peace can go live in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and Bibi is going to slaughter people in Gaza, Gaza is going to be punished bad, Bibi wants for them to remember for decades and to learn the lesson not to attack Israel. The people who want peace can go be essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai.

There are only a small hand full of terrorists who make it bad for everyone else. We could have a great world if we would put Putin in Prison and if we would stop Hamas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 10, 2023, 03:40:13 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 03:27:32 PM
Quote from: Oil Clone on October 10, 2023, 02:11:38 PM
But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war. And his job cuts since taking over Twitter last year have left fewer people responsible for taking action on posts that violate the platform s policies.
-- AP report

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?

If memory serves, you had no problem believing that Assad was dropping barrel bombs on women and children. I'm not sure why you're skeptical that there are some genuinely evil people out there.

I didn't say corpses we're not desecrated. Not skeptical at all on that. I said that wars are fueled by focusing on the most outrageous atrocities and suggesting they are the norm and ergo the enemy is evil incarnate. I am sure there are evils from both sides, as Hamas militants kill innocent civilians, and then Israeli reprisals that also...kill innocent civilians. Is that clearer?

Native Americans, where I live, faced the same disparity of reporting. In truth, the US Cavalry was as savage to tribal peoples as they were to US soldiers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 10, 2023, 03:43:59 PM: Bambu, China needs food, so Australia can send food to China, and in return China can send solar panels to Australia. And we can be friends and allies with China. The Chinese can vacation in Australia, etc.

And remember to always be friends with the Philippines, and to include them, they are good Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 03:49:36 PM: Guns are great..for defending against invading Islamic etc terrorists intent on gang raping to death, burning to death, your family...including beheading your babies/children.
The more and bigger guns the better.
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2023, 04:13:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 03:02:33 PM
Quote from: Oil Clone on October 10, 2023, 02:11:38 PM
But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war. And his job cuts since taking over Twitter last year have left fewer people responsible for taking action on posts that violate the platform s policies.
-- AP report

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?
This one is one too many.
Not that a sick group like Hamas and its sponsors(Iran et al) does not love to find new and more horrendous ways to kill innocent civilians.
I think the point is it is the type of blood libel that pops up in the course of the conduct of any war, and while it certainly may have happened, it is also the type of claim people make up to fuel outrage. So, yes, I will be skeptical of the allegation until I see a reputable source for it.

What Hamas did is atrocity enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 04:32:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 03:49:36 PM
Guns are great..for defending against invading Islamic etc terrorists intent on gang raping to death, burning to death, your family...including beheading your babies/children.
The more and bigger guns the better.
.
Wonderful!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/10/guns-schools-us-increased-prevention-violence/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 10, 2023, 04:43:39 PM: A great photo popped up in my feed on Facebook of a group of World War II soldiers drinking ice cold milk at a bar, the American farm men loved the cold milk better than beer and whiskey. The Christian farm men just wanted a cold glass of milk and the company of women.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:02:10 PM: How do you know they were Christian(?)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 05:16:44 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:02:10 PM
How do you know they were Christian(?)
what else would they be?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 05:48:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 10, 2023, 03:40:13 PM

And always there are the propaganda classics, like disemboweling babies. How many wars have involved fueling outrage with a disemboweled baby story?

If memory serves, you had no problem believing that Assad was dropping barrel bombs on women and children. I'm not sure why you're skeptical that there are some genuinely evil people out there.

I said that wars are fueled by focusing on the most outrageous atrocities and suggesting they are the norm and ergo the enemy is evil incarnate. I am sure there are evils from both sides, as Hamas militants kill innocent civilians, and then Israeli reprisals that also...kill innocent civilians. Is that clearer?
Jesus, what fucking stupidity
Hamas takes EVIL to new and extreme heights( we now know many of the slaughtered Israeli babies were beheaded.) Hamas strategy is to allow for the reprisal deaths of their own to paradoxically count themselves as victims. in fact Hamas respects no lives, including their own.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2023, 05:52:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 05:16:44 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:02:10 PM
How do you know they were Christian(?)
what else would they be?

Rational, moral people with a functioning ethical code. They could be unchurched. It was and remains more common than you would like to believe
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:55:41 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 05:16:44 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:02:10 PM
How do you know they were Christian(?)
what else would they be?
Okay, Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 06:00:19 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:55:41 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 05:16:44 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 05:02:10 PM
How do you know they were Christian(?)
what else would they be?
Okay, Red.
Records from the Great Lakes Naval Center found that in 1944, 74.7 percent of the men in battle were Protestant, 23 percent Catholic, and 1.7 percent Jewish. But professing atheists were quite rareperhaps not one in a thousand. (Sperry 45).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 06:06:10 PM: Well there is your answer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 06:26:17 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 06:06:10 PM
Well there is your answer
You mean your answer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 06:32:16 PM: You asked what else they could be. The statistics you provided answered your question. I asked how Salute Tony V knew the soldiers were Christian. The answer is he did not know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 06:55:37 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 06:32:16 PM
You asked what else they could be. The statistics you provided answered your question. I asked how Salute Tony V knew the soldiers were Christian. The answer is he did not know.
they answered the question I asked.?
I responded to your question by asking what else could they be.

You flunked it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 07:10:17 PM: Just put me on Ignore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 10, 2023, 08:03:08 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2023, 04:13:52 PM
I think the point is it is the type of blood libel that pops up in the course of the conduct of any war, and while it certainly may have happened, it is also the type of claim people make up to fuel outrage. So, yes, I will be skeptical of the allegation until I see a reputable source for it.

What Hamas did is atrocity enough.

Agree. Well put. Not impossible to hold two ideas in one's head, that Hamas has acted brutally and in gross violation of Geneva, and also that each side wants to magnify the actions of the enemy to build support. TBH I may post less here, due to the endless heavy lifting of clarifying the bloody fucking obvious. Most people want to pick a side, then howl out their blood lust, and cheer when the bodies of the bad guys are piled high.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2023, 08:11:44 PM: I prefer the non shooting solutions, but there has to be some basis to form an agreement from each side.

That time of work faces new headwinds in the current media environment and that is to the detriment of everyone in and out of conflict zones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 08:22:45 PM: After 9/11 did America say:
"What Al Qaeda did is atrocity enough"?

No, it went after Al Qaeda, and then blew half bin Laden's head off and turned him into fish food.

Same must be done to Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 08:25:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 10, 2023, 08:03:08 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2023, 04:13:52 PM
I think the point is it is the type of blood libel that pops up in the course of the conduct of any war, and while it certainly may have happened, it is also the type of claim people make up to fuel outrage. So, yes, I will be skeptical of the allegation until I see a reputable source for it.

What Hamas did is atrocity enough.

Agree. Well put. Not impossible to hold two ideas in one's head, that Hamas has acted brutally and in gross violation of Geneva, and also that each side wants to magnify the actions of the enemy to build support. TBH I may post less here, due to the endless heavy lifting of clarifying the bloody fucking obvious. Most people want to pick a side, then howl out their blood lust, and cheer when the bodies of the bad guys are piled high.
Please, for your own personal safety , do not let the door hit your candy ass on the way out.
No one, though, will miss you.
But then you have taken you BAWL and left more times on here, by far, than Mister Dithers ever fired Bumstead.

ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 08:29:31 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 07:10:17 PM
Just put me on Ignore.
No.
Your ignorance needs to be exposed.
Especially when you lie about other poster comments
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 10:27:41 PM: Hah. I will add lie to the list of words you do not know the meaning of.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 10, 2023, 10:32:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 08:29:31 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 07:10:17 PM
Just put me on Ignore.
No.
Your ignorance needs to be exposed.
Especially when you lie about other poster comments

It is not just your ignorance that gets exposed here, Red.

Your deep stupidity and faulty distasteful character also get a good airing out.

You might have more luck pointing fingers if you take your thumb out of your own ass first
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 02:54:44 AM: Aussie journalist Cheng Lei has returned to her home to Melbourne [pron Melb'n], after being detained for years in China!

That is wonderful news, and very unexpected.

Wisdom dictates that she remains home from now on and does all her journalist work in Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 11, 2023, 08:34:15 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 10, 2023, 08:22:45 PM
After 9/11 did America say:
"What Al Qaeda did is atrocity enough"?

No, it went after Al Qaeda, and then blew half bin Laden's head off and turned him into fish food.

Same must be done to Hamas.
Yes, lots of people said words to that effect, which is why we went after bin Laden. Although of course they can speak, read and understand in context and you quite clearly cannot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 11, 2023, 08:44:12 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 08:29:31 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 10, 2023, 07:10:17 PM
Just put me on Ignore.
No.
Your ignorance needs to be exposed.
Especially when you lie about other poster comments
Lest we forget, RedDick is a PROVEN LIAR who, having been teased about an obvious mistake, corrected that mistake and then accused the people who accurately quoted his original post of altering his post. An obvious lie that got him banned for a week. He is a PROVEN LIAR and anyone who takes what he says on faith are fucking idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 11, 2023, 10:31:27 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 10, 2023, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 10, 2023, 08:03:08 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 10, 2023, 04:13:52 PM
I think the point is it is the type of blood libel that pops up in the course of the conduct of any war, and while it certainly may have happened, it is also the type of claim people make up to fuel outrage. So, yes, I will be skeptical of the allegation until I see a reputable source for it.

What Hamas did is atrocity enough.

Agree. Well put. Not impossible to hold two ideas in one's head, that Hamas has acted brutally and in gross violation of Geneva, and also that each side wants to magnify the actions of the enemy to build support. TBH I may post less here, due to the endless heavy lifting of clarifying the bloody fucking obvious. Most people want to pick a side, then howl out their blood lust, and cheer when the bodies of the bad guys are piled high.
Please, for your own personal safety , do not let the door hit your candy ass on the way out.
No one, though, will miss you.
But then you have taken you BAWL and left more times on here, by far, than Mister Dithers ever fired Bumstead.

ROFL!

Your reading comprehension difficulties persist, I see. Posting less is not the same as leaving. Also, you seem to confuse posts saying I will leave that day's discussion, which I will do when it's pointless to continue, with some sort of permanent farewell. As for taunting people who withdraw from conversation with you, that's a good way to duck your own toxic dishonesty which is the root cause of said withdrawal. Keep it up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 11:27:10 AM: News Item

A Free Palestine rally held in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday with elected officials and community organizations from across the Detroit area featured cheers for the Hamas terrorist organization and chants for the destruction of the State of Israel.

The rally, held at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center, was ostensibly a show of solidarity for Palestiniants.
The participants form the base of voters for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 12:03:27 PM: Former Harvard President Lawrence Summer on the non response of Harvard to the Hamas atrocities.

In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today. The Harvard silence, coupled with the student coalition letter has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel.

George Orwell once noted

some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2023, 12:34:59 PM: When Red types Hasas, it evidences how he does not take the issues he parrots false talking points for very seriously at all.

Red hates America and he hates America first. Everything else he posts is either his way of saying that or him being completely insincere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 11, 2023, 02:13:44 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 11:27:10 AM
News Item

A Free Palestine rally held in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday with elected officials and community organizations from across the Detroit area featured cheers for the Hamas terrorist organization and chants for the destruction of the State of Israel.

The rally, held at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center, was ostensibly a show of solidarity for Palestiniants.
The participants form the base of voters for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
LOL. Never change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2023, 02:26:48 PM: http://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history (http://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history)

The right wing always fails and right wing governments often fail in the same way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 11, 2023, 03:12:54 PM: While the percentage of people in the USA who are Christians has went down, back during World War II most Americans were Christians, and when you see a group of Americans sitting in a bar drinking cold milk while other people are drinking beer and whiskey then there is a good chance that the men are Christians, although the men who grew up on farms may have really loved a cold glass of milk.

I would love to see a resurgence of the Christian faith here in America, and I was hoping that movies such as "The Jesus Revolution" would help to draw people to Church. And I was hoping the churches would reach out to invite the homeless people to Church, and if the Churches help the homeless, and the orphans, and if the churches minister to the people in prison, etc, like the Bible asks us to do, then we can bring more people to Christ. And also the Christian Youth can help the poor people in Mexico, etc.

I invited Marli Buccola to attend my local church if she is ever in Anaheim, it might seem silly but that is how Churches grow, and if you get a famous Social Media Model to attend your local church then you can make progress towards growing the church. And it would be great if Mahlagha Jaberi and the Persians would attend the local Calvary Chapel Church, etc.

The Churches need to help the poor and the homeless and the orphans and the abused women, and the churches need to reach out to the people in prison, etc, and we need to start bringing people to Christ.

Anyhow, on the photo of the World War II soldiers drinking cold milk in the bar, there is a good chance that they were Christians, statistically.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 11, 2023, 03:32:10 PM: Oh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:00:39 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 11, 2023, 03:32:10 PM
Oh.
Oh, yeah.

Thank you Tony
Well said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:10:48 PM: All Israelis Near Gaza Given Right To Bear Arms.

Pity all the murdered people in their homes hadn't been heavily armed...instead of being 'sitting ducks'.
Guns ready to fire are great for killing invading terrorist 'animals' intent on evil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:18:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:10:48 PM
All Israelis Near Gaza Given Right To Bear Arms.

Pity all the murdered people in their homes hadn't been heavily armed...instead of being 'sitting ducks'.
Guns ready to fire are great for killing invading terrorist 'animals' intent on evil.
Hear, hear.
Not to mention the college kids.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:30:20 PM: At one kibbutz, young woman security officer thought the noises weren't the same as the usual rockets, sensed trouble, ran to the open armoury, grabbed guns to arm 12 others ..so when the invaders arrived the residents were ready.
She killed 5, the other residents killed 20...no residents were harmed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:44:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:30:20 PM
At one kibbutz, young woman security officer thought the noises weren't the same as the usual rockets, sensed trouble, ran to the open armoury, grabbed guns to arm 12 others ..so when the invaders arrived the residents were ready.
She killed 5, the other residents killed 20...no residents were harmed.
Yank Guy will be depressed when he learns.
https://youtu.be/3UMbC-JJBkQ?si=ESJgovf-IiFzKLsn (https://youtu.be/3UMbC-JJBkQ?si=ESJgovf-IiFzKLsn)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 11, 2023, 05:52:01 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:18:39 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:10:48 PM
All Israelis Near Gaza Given Right To Bear Arms.

Pity all the murdered people in their homes hadn't been heavily armed...instead of being 'sitting ducks'.
Guns ready to fire are great for killing invading terrorist 'animals' intent on evil.
Hear, hear.
Not to mention the college kids.
RedDick advocates killing college kids!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:54:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:30:20 PM
At one kibbutz, young woman security officer thought the noises weren't the same as the usual rockets, sensed trouble, ran to the open armoury, grabbed guns to arm 12 others ..so when the invaders arrived the residents were ready.
She killed 5, the other residents killed 20...no residents were harmed.
https://youtu.be/3UMbC-JJBkQ?si=ESJgovf-IiFzKLsn (https://youtu.be/3UMbC-JJBkQ?si=ESJgovf-IiFzKLsn)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 11, 2023, 06:38:05 PM: Are you this much of an asshole in real life, Red?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 07:28:09 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 11, 2023, 06:38:05 PM
Are you this much of an asshole in real life, Red?
I just report facts
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 07:58:11 PM: The truth never lies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 08:07:20 PM: Seems to me, that in much of the West today there is much hatred of Israel and "the Jews"...anti-semitism *everywhere*.
Sky News:
"Left struggles to condemn Hamas"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2023, 08:51:58 PM: Seems to me you have stuffed your head well up your asshole and have now idea how or if you will ever get it out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 11, 2023, 08:54:28 PM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkam9v/millions-of-homes-still-being-kept-vacant-as-housing-costs-surge-report-finds (http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkam9v/millions-of-homes-still-being-kept-vacant-as-housing-costs-surge-report-finds)

For the next time Luee throws his favorite tantrum
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 08:57:58 PM: How does Harvard get away with Jew hatred?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 11, 2023, 09:54:01 PM: Oprah needs to do a special about what is happening in Israel, and about what is happening in Iran, and she can have Mahlagha Jaberi on to interview her, etc. And Natalie Portman and other Jews can speak up about what is happening in Israel. Oprah needs to be given some airtime for a special about Israel and the Middle East.

We also need to fully fund the Peace Corps.

And I am sure that Pope Francis is doing his best to promote peace and good human rights.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 11, 2023, 10:23:41 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 11, 2023, 05:52:01 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 05:18:39 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 05:10:48 PM
All Israelis Near Gaza Given Right To Bear Arms.

Pity all the murdered people in their homes hadn't been heavily armed...instead of being 'sitting ducks'.
Guns ready to fire are great for killing invading terrorist 'animals' intent on evil.
Hear, hear.
Not to mention the college kids.
RedDick advocates killing college kids!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 11, 2023, 10:27:15 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 08:57:58 PM
How does Harvard get away with Jew hatred?

Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 11, 2023, 06:38:05 PM
Are you this much of an asshole in real life, Red?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 12:00:54 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 08:57:58 PM
How does Harvard get away with Jew hatred?

Same way some unis in my world seem to?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2023, 12:17:09 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 11, 2023, 08:57:58 PM
How does Harvard get away with Jew hatred?

The same way the GOP does, but with more class and wordier reasons
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 12, 2023, 12:54:34 AM: Natalie Portman is a Jew who attended Harvard, Natalie inspired me a lot, she was in Star Wars, and she went to Harvard, plus she is beautiful and talented, Natalie Portman is great. I read that Natalie Portman plans to act in future Star Wars movies with Disney.

Natalie Portman would be great to have on an Oprah Winfrey special pertaining to Israel and the Middle East, along with Mahlagha Jaberi who can represent the Persians, etc.

You would think just being in Star Wars would be enough, but Natalie Portman went beyond that and she received a Harvard Degree. Natalie has a lot to give to the world. And now Disney owns Star Wars, so maybe that will bring Natalie to Anaheim, she can be a role model for the little girls here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 12, 2023, 02:03:36 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 11, 2023, 07:58:11 PM
The truth never lies.
No, but PROVEN LIAR RedDick does.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 12, 2023, 03:07:26 AM: Natalie Portman shows the young men what a real woman looks like, and it raises all of civilization to a higher level. Beautiful and educated free women elevate society. Natalie Portman is a great Jew who is a benefit to society.

And Bambu, tell the Australian women who want good American husbands to meet the men in CHURCH and not in a bar. The women meet drunks in the bars, that is not good, it is better if they go to the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church in Anaheim and meet Christian people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2023, 04:37:40 AM: I hope this century is kind to you, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM: https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 04:11:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.
Solid?
Any such advice relying on UN Experts[ is worthless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:24:06 PM: Sky News:
"Climate change makes wine taste better.
...hot summers, wet winters."

"Increased CO2 in the atmosphere is a good thing...more plant food, can feed more people worldwide."
Warmer climate, less people die from the cold."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2023, 04:36:05 PM: Bambi gives Red a run for his money for the title of most deeply damaged dipshit to post here.

For the first few minutes, setting your house on fire takes the chill out of the night air. It does not take long after that to discover burning the house down was not really such a good idea.

Sky new remains the firebug outlet of choice where soft lies for soft heads out sell honest reporting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 05:09:17 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 12, 2023, 04:36:05 PM
Bambi gives Red a run for his money for the title of most deeply damaged dipshit to post here.

For the first few minutes, setting your house on fire takes the chill out of the night air. It does not take long after that to discover burning the house down was not really such a good idea.

Sky new remains the firebug outlet of choice where soft lies for soft heads out sell honest reporting.

Sky News reports things many leftists hate hearing.
Everything from the joke that is Albo's "Indigenous Voice to parliament" to the 'violent' flare firing "gas the Jews" "F... the Jews" shouting rally by "Palestinian" ( some say Hamas supporting, atrocities by Hamas supporting) protesters in front of the Opera House.

They intend having another rally on Sun.
They've been told by my Leftist state govt not to, that they don't have a permit, so any protest rally would be illegal. Protesters say they're going to hold the rally anyway.
1000 cops are waiting, but given my leftist state govt's worshipping of "diversity", "tolerance", and "multiculturalism"...the cops will probably just provide an escort service like they did last Mon with the Opera House protest rally.
No tear gas, no water cannon, no rubber bullets, no riot shields and batons, just appeasement.

They have a water cannon, but never use it on protesters, they use it for firefighter training.
They could use it on protesters, just set it to "gentle" and fire it into the air, soaking all the protesters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 12, 2023, 06:14:52 PM: Cannot trust a country that cannot manage a single nuke to handle equipment as complicated as a water cannon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 12, 2023, 06:39:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.

Denying humanitarian aid to noncombatants is a violation of international law. It is a war crime. People who have nothing to do with the attack, who have been injured in bombings, are dying in hospitals and clinics because medical supplies are being blocked from reaching them. Also, electric power is shut off, and diesel fuel which would provide those hospitals with their generator backup power.

Those of you with a conscience may wish to reflect on this strategy. Red can skip to the next post, of course.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 08:43:06 PM: If Hamas and Islamic Jihad or whoever care about the welfare of THEIR people, all they have to do is release the hostages...which THEY should do seeing as how THEY caused everything that has happened.
Simple really.
Israel is playing its bargaining card...a wise player would take it while it's on the table.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 09:42:35 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 06:39:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.

Denying humanitarian aid to noncombatants is a violation of international law.

Hamas ,Guilty
Quote
It is a war crime.
hamas,Guilty

Quote
People who have nothing to do with the attack, who have been injured in bombings, are dying in hospitals and clinics because medical supplies are being blocked from reaching them.
Hamas, Guilty
Quote

Also, electric power is shut off, and diesel fuel which would provide those hospitals with their generator
backup power
Hamas, Guilty
Quote
Those of you with a conscience may wish to reflect on this strategy.
It is an Arab strategy that dates back to 1948 that has purposedly sarificed Palesintians for no known reason
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 01:45:25 AM: According to RedDick reasoning, 80% of Israelis are antisemites who blame themselves.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767880
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 04:21:23 AM: Sky News:

"BLM Chicago stands with HAMAS and Palestine"

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 04:24:38 AM: The Chicago Black Lives Matter organization that posted a since-deleted graphic seemingly celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis partially walked back the inflammatory post on Wednesday.

- New York Post
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 08:15:06 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 09:42:35 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 06:39:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.

Denying humanitarian aid to noncombatants is a violation of international law.

Hamas ,Guilty
Quote
It is a war crime.
hamas,Guilty

Quote
People who have nothing to do with the attack, who have been injured in bombings, are dying in hospitals and clinics because medical supplies are being blocked from reaching them.
Hamas, Guilty
Quote

Also, electric power is shut off, and diesel fuel which would provide those hospitals with their generator
backup power
Hamas, Guilty
Quote
Those of you with a conscience may wish to reflect on this strategy.
It is an Arab strategy that dates back to 1948 that has purposedly sarificed Palesintians for no known reason
The existence of a valid casas belli is not a license to commit war crimes. Hamas is not legally or morally responsible for any Israeli war crimes comitted in Israel's legitimate use of force. Israel is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 02:03:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 08:15:06 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 09:42:35 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 06:39:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.

Denying humanitarian aid to noncombatants is a violation of international law.

Hamas ,Guilty
Quote
It is a war crime.
hamas,Guilty

Quote
People who have nothing to do with the attack, who have been injured in bombings, are dying in hospitals and clinics because medical supplies are being blocked from reaching them.
Hamas, Guilty
Quote

Also, electric power is shut off, and diesel fuel which would provide those hospitals with their generator
backup power
Hamas, Guilty
Quote
Those of you with a conscience may wish to reflect on this strategy.
It is an Arab strategy that dates back to 1948 that has purposedly sarificed Palesintians for no known reason
The existence of a valid casas belli is not a license to commit war crimes. Hamas is not legally or morally responsible for any Israeli war crimes comitted in Israel's legitimate use of force. Israel is.

Hamas (Islamic Arabs?)...invaded Israel by land, sea, and air...fired thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza.
Then proceeded to massacre Jews in their homes, in the streets, and at a concert for peace. Took hostages.
All war crimes.

Hamas terrorists from Gaza started this war, so everything that has happened since...IS...their fault...plain and simple.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 03:40:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 02:03:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 08:15:06 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 09:42:35 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 06:39:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 12, 2023, 04:29:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 12, 2023, 10:03:48 AM
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-experts-say-israels-strikes-gaza-amount-collective-punishment-2023-10-12/

Solid non hyperventilating summary of the war crimes on both sides. Israel needs to allow humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.

It says it will, when Hamas releases the hostages...but until then, well, NO.

Denying humanitarian aid to noncombatants is a violation of international law.

Hamas ,Guilty
Quote
It is a war crime.
hamas,Guilty

Quote
People who have nothing to do with the attack, who have been injured in bombings, are dying in hospitals and clinics because medical supplies are being blocked from reaching them.
Hamas, Guilty
Quote

Also, electric power is shut off, and diesel fuel which would provide those hospitals with their generator
backup power
Hamas, Guilty
Quote
Those of you with a conscience may wish to reflect on this strategy.
It is an Arab strategy that dates back to 1948 that has purposedly sarificed Palesintians for no known reason
The existence of a valid casas belli is not a license to commit war crimes. Hamas is not legally or morally responsible for any Israeli war crimes comitted in Israel's legitimate use of force. Israel is.

Hamas (Islamic Arabs?)...invaded Israel by land, sea, and air...fired thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza.
Then proceeded to massacre Jews in their homes, in the streets, and at a concert for peace. Took hostages.
All war crimes.

Hamas terrorists from Gaza started this war, so everything that has happened since...IS...their fault...plain and simple.
The war may be their fault, but any violations of international law pertaining to war committed by Israel are not. It is easy to root on tit for tat from your mother's basement in Alice Springs, but that is not how international works. Every country is responsible for their conduct of even a just war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 13, 2023, 04:25:17 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 12, 2023, 09:42:35 PM

It is an Arab strategy that dates back to 1948 that has purposedly sarificed Palesintians for no known reason

"...no known reason."

LMAO!!! Whew! Good one!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 05:05:19 PM: The peaceful people from Gaza can escape to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai and they can work as essential workers, etc.

The Arabs want peace, and they want to play Golf.

Here in the USA I was a bit nervous because Hamas asked the Muslims to have a day of anger, but so far today everything has been peaceful.

I have been reaching out to Mahlagha Jaberi, and to Marli Buccola, and to Oprah Winfrey, trying to promote peace and conversation, and trying to bring peace between the Muslims and the Jews and the Christians. And maybe the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church in Anaheim can help.

Anyhow, everything is peaceful here in the USA according to my local news, and that is what we need. Peace and love are worth working for, and we must fully fund the Peace Corps, etc.

A while back I also reached out to Goldie Hawn, she is a wonderful woman of peace, maybe she can help in the Middle East, etc, Kurt Russel liked my post.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 13, 2023, 05:21:24 PM: I think some people might find offensive the notion that historical and brutal conflict can be ended by platitudes and a pep talk by mediocre celebrities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 05:29:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 05:05:19 PM
The peaceful people from Gaza can escape to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai
Fucking HOW?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 06:03:18 PM: "International law" is a joke.
Today if you're a terrorist organisation you can do whatever you like.
Russia, who seems to control the UN, does what it likes.
If you're a sponsor of terrorism you can obviously do whatever you like, but your victims are told to obey "International law".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 06:51:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 13, 2023, 05:21:24 PM
I think some people might find offensive the notion that historical and brutal conflict can be ended by platitudes and a pep talk by mediocre celebrities.

But it is Hamas, not Israel, that fights with wanton disregard for Palestinian life.
Hamas launches offensives against Israel,from inside schools, next to hospitals, etc. all war crimes against both Israeli civilians and its own.

Hamas treats Palestinian women and children as propaganda assets that are most valuable when they are DEAD, hoping to turn Israeli concern for human rights into a weakness.

Representative Omar lamented Gaza does not have shelters, please pray for them.

Perhaps somebody could tell Omar that Gaza certainly does have shelters.

But Hamas uses them to store their rockets and bombs in.

If it wanted to protect the citizens of Gaza, Hamas could have spent more time building bunkers for its citizens and less time digging tunnels to try to break into Israel and murder Jews.

Omar must know this.

Just as she must know what she is doing when along with Tlaib and Rep. Cori Bush she used the massacre of Israelis to again call for cutting off US aid to Israel.

Everywhere, across America, other people have also given away precisely where they stand.

Think of the BLM group in Chiacgo that sent out a tweet praising the sick terrorists who flew into the Israeli music festival on hang-gliders.

Who could have imagined that anyone involved with BLM could be pro-violence?

Oh, another thing.

Hamas kills Palestinians it suspects of being gay.

And it spent the past weekend raping women beside the bodies of their dead friends.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 07:15:15 PM: DT today:

"UN urges Aussies to vote Yes in today's 'Voice' referendum."

LOL

UN, clueless as usual.

Vote Yes to what, exactly?
Albo's 'pig in a poke', "vote Yes and we'll work out all the details later' Indigenous "Voice" to Parliament?
Wise people will be voting NO.
bambu-wisdom will be NO.
Hopefully the majority of voters will too.

Federal (Indigenous woman) Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price .....( whose mother Bess Nungarrayi Price AM, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, met Obama in the White House).....is a leading NO vote campaigner.

Nyunggai Warren Stephen Mundine AO (Order of Australia medal)...former Chairman of the rightist federal govt of Tony Abbott's ("The Monk") Indigenous Advisory Council....is a leader of the NO vote campaign.

Wise people, bambu-ilk stand with them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 07:16:11 PM: Our stars have power, remember Edward James Olmos after the Rodney King riots when he came out with a push broom and started sweeping up signaling that the riots were over and it was time for peace and it was time to clean up the mess. The image of Edward James Olmos sweeping up after the riot had a lot of power with the community in Los Angeles.

Peaceful celebs such as Goldie Hawn have a lot of power, and should not be dismissed. And beautiful women such as Marli Buccola, and Mahlagha Jaberi, have some power. And Natalie Portman is a Jew with a Degree from Harvard, she can help in this crisis. Oprah Winfrey also has a lot of power in America.

And Pope Francis can help, and it would be great if the Saudis denounced Hamas and pleaded for peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 07:16:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 06:03:18 PM
"International law" is a joke.
Today if you're a terrorist organisation you can do whatever you like.
Russia, who seems to control the UN, does what it likes.
If you're a sponsor of terrorism you can obviously do whatever you like, but your victims are told to obey "International law".
Terrorists cannot do whatever they like. Terrorism is a crime against International Law when it crosses national borders. They are hostis humani generis.

And civilized countries are required abide by the law even when faced with lawlessness for the same reason you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 07:22:23 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 06:51:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 13, 2023, 05:21:24 PM
I think some people might find offensive the notion that historical and brutal conflict can be ended by platitudes and a pep talk by mediocre celebrities.

But it is Hamas, not Israel, that fights with wanton disregard for Palestinian life.
For the record, Israel just bombed three convoys of evacuees from Northern Gaza, killing 70 Palesintian internal refugees. Maybe insert the word "more" in there, because there do seem to be times.whe. Israel has taken a "let God.sort them out" approach to civilian casualties.
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Hamas launches offensives against Israel,from inside schools, next to hospitals, etc. all war crimes against both Israeli civilians and its own.

Hamas treats Palestinian women and children as propaganda assets that are most valuable when they are DEAD, hoping to turn Israeli concern for human rights into a weakness.

Representative Omar lamented Gaza does not have shelters, please pray for them.

Perhaps somebody could tell Omar that Gaza certainly does have shelters.

But Hamas uses them to store their rockets and bombs in.

If it wanted to protect the citizens of Gaza, Hamas could have spent more time building bunkers for its citizens and less time digging tunnels to try to break into Israel and murder Jews.
That does not make the humanitarian tragedy less acute.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 07:37:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 07:22:23 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 06:51:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 13, 2023, 05:21:24 PM
I think some people might find offensive the notion that historical and brutal conflict can be ended by platitudes and a pep talk by mediocre celebrities.

But it is Hamas, not Israel, that fights with wanton disregard for Palestinian life.
For the record, Israel just bombed three convoys of evacuees from Northern Gaza, killing 70 Palesintian internal refugees. Maybe insert the word "more" in there, because there do seem to be times.whe. Israel has taken a "let God.sort them out" approach to civilian casualties.
Quote
Hamas launches offensives against Israel,from inside schools, next to hospitals, etc. all war crimes against both Israeli civilians and its own.

Hamas treats Palestinian women and children as propaganda assets that are most valuable when they are DEAD, hoping to turn Israeli concern for human rights into a weakness.

Representative Omar lamented Gaza does not have shelters, please pray for them.

Perhaps somebody could tell Omar that Gaza certainly does have shelters.

But Hamas uses them to store their rockets and bombs in.

If it wanted to protect the citizens of Gaza, Hamas could have spent more time building bunkers for its citizens and less time digging tunnels to try to break into Israel and murder Jews.
That does not make the humanitarian tragedy less acute.
Of course it does. Hamas gives a shit about its citizens. Same as Hitler.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 07:58:03 PM: Whoops.
Now Biden is getting cold feet.
He may wind up on the wrong side of history.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 13, 2023, 08:13:49 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 13, 2023, 07:58:03 PM
Whoops.
Now Biden is getting cold feet.
He may wind up on the wrong side of history.

Which is exactly why Ukraine, Taiwan, and Australia etc should be seriously worried.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 13, 2023, 08:22:43 PM: Red has not lost his adolescent dream of being Russia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2023, 04:43:45 PM: 40% of our children in the public schools in Beverly Hills, California, are from Iran.

We need to bring our communities together all as Americans. We have some all inclusive groups that accept people of all religions, such as the Cub Scouts, and the Girl Scouts, and then there is the Key Club for the teens, and as people get older then there is Kiwanis, etc, we have some good clubs that accept people of all faiths. We have some great all inclusive clubs. We need to reach out to our new arrivals, and we need to invite them to join our clubs.

Steven Spielberg lives in Santa Monica, and Santa Monica has Kiwanis International, and Kiwanis is all inclusive, everyone is welcome to join Kiwanis International.

https://www.kiwanisclubsm.org/Page/15658

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2023, 06:26:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 05:29:37 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 05:05:19 PM
The peaceful people from Gaza can escape to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai
Fucking HOW?

Kiwanis already has a GLOBAL network of over six million people, including having clubs in Egypt, guys like Elon Musk can fund Kiwanis to smuggle the people from Gaza to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. And the UN can help, and UNICEF, etc. The children for sure must be helped to escape. The children are innocent.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2023, 07:52:45 PM: It is a bad time for the House to be shut down, they are idiots. They need to put the people first and they can fuck off with their partisan bullshit.

And guys like Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, and other rich people, can fund Kiwanis to help the children to escape from Gaza to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. And UNICEF and the UN can help.

Pope Francis can help, and the Saudis can help, and the Saudis can plead for peace and they can denounce Hamas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 15, 2023, 12:19:38 PM: Last year, George Clooney pushed an idea that could help make Hollywood production crews more diverse. That dream became a reality this year in the Roybal School of Film and Television Production Magnet, which opened last month with 150 ninth- and 10th-grade students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

---------

We need to train the Youth of Los Angeles how to run the movie and television studios, I support opening new schools to train the Youth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 15, 2023, 12:27:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2023, 06:26:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 05:29:37 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 05:05:19 PM
The peaceful people from Gaza can escape to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai
Fucking HOW?

Kiwanis already has a GLOBAL network of over six million people, including having clubs in Egypt, guys like Elon Musk can fund Kiwanis to smuggle the people from Gaza to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. And the UN can help, and UNICEF, etc. The children for sure must be helped to escape. The children are innocent.

Salute,

Tony V.

The botders of Gaza are the most heavily guarded and sealed up in the world, with troops from two nations. We need a political solution where US et al put pressure on Israel to allow a Palestinian state and protect West Bank Palestinians from attacks by Jewish settlers and theft of lands which support their livelihoods. You can't "smuggle" one million people, presently struggling to go south out of North Gaza, to Dubai.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 15, 2023, 02:17:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 15, 2023, 12:27:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 14, 2023, 06:26:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 13, 2023, 05:29:37 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 13, 2023, 05:05:19 PM
The peaceful people from Gaza can escape to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai
Fucking HOW?

Kiwanis already has a GLOBAL network of over six million people, including having clubs in Egypt, guys like Elon Musk can fund Kiwanis to smuggle the people from Gaza to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. And the UN can help, and UNICEF, etc. The children for sure must be helped to escape. The children are innocent.

Salute,

Tony V.

The botders of Gaza are the most heavily guarded and sealed up in the world, with troops from two nations. We need a political solution where US et al put pressure on Israel to allow a Palestinian state and protect West Bank Palestinians from attacks by Jewish settlers and theft of lands which support their livelihoods. You can't "smuggle" one million people, presently struggling to go south out of North Gaza, to Dubai.
There is no political solution. Hamas has only one intention, to destroy Israel, it could care less about making Gaza livable for the Palestinians.
Israel controlled Gaza Strip since the six day war in 1967, ended governing 25 years later, then pulled out all its military forces and thousands of settlers in 2005.
Now Israel has one new purpose, to destroy Hamas.
Once that is complete it will worry about who takes over.
It will not be Israel. And the Arab world seems to have no love for the residents of Gaza,especially not as immigrants.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 02:20:37 AM: A two state solution has been offered more than once, but has always been rejected by the Palestinians and their Arab supporters?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 16, 2023, 07:58:21 AM: That's not quite true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 16, 2023, 10:47:22 AM: Google Oslo Accord West Bank Area C.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 12:47:30 PM: My wife spent a lot of time talking to her family over the weekend and kept mentioning the "Peace" party. It took me a while to realize I had been mentally pronouncing PiS, the Law and Justice party, in a amusing yet very non-Polish way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 02:08:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 16, 2023, 10:47:22 AM
Google Oslo Accord West Bank Area C.
Irrelevant, immaterial, incorrect
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 16, 2023, 02:19:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 02:08:41 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 16, 2023, 10:47:22 AM
Google Oslo Accord West Bank Area C.
Irrelevant, immaterial, incorrect

Meaning it is true and to the point but does not fit Reds narrative.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM: According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 16, 2023, 04:28:44 PM: Each person is responsible for their own actions, and we have justice for all.

The attack on the little boy and his mother was done by a criminal who has been arrested and who will be punished after he stands trial. The attack was the action of one bad man, and in no way reflects the feelings of the larger society.

There was a deranged Muslim on the news saying that the attack on the 6 year old boy was an attack on all Muslims, and he is trying to use this case to instigate more violence, and it is all bullshit. The attack was done by 1 bad man, and the bad man has been arrested and he will stand trial and he will be punished.

I refuse to be attacked by some asshole Muslim because of what the asshole criminal did in Illinois. We need peace and we have justice for all. The actions of the fuckhead criminal in Illinois does not reflect what I stand for, and I support justice for all.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 16, 2023, 04:46:03 PM: 40% of the children in the public schools in Beverly Hills, California, are from Iran. We need to teach them what we stand for, and what we are about, and we need to teach them the good things in our history, and the blessings that America has brought to the world. And we need bring the American flags back into the classrooms and the students need to start each day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America like I did when I was a child. The immigrants need to be reminded what we stand for, including standing for justice for all.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all.

The immigrant children need to say the pledge in school every morning, and they need to understand what our pledge means.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 05:28:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 16, 2023, 04:28:44 PM

I refuse to be attacked by some asshole Muslim because of what the asshole criminal did in Illinois.
I am not sure consent enters into the equation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 05:41:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 16, 2023, 04:28:44 PM
Each person is responsible for their own actions, and we have justice for all.

The attack on the little boy and his mother was done by a criminal who has been arrested and who will be punished after he stands trial. The attack was the action of one bad man, and in no way reflects the feelings of the larger society.

There was a deranged Muslim on the news saying that the attack on the 6 year old boy was an attack on all Muslims, and he is trying to use this case to instigate more violence, and it is all bullshit. The attack was done by 1 bad man, and the bad man has been arrested and he will stand trial and he will be punished.

I refuse to be attacked by some asshole Muslim because of what the asshole criminal did in Illinois. We need peace and we have justice for all. The actions of the fuckhead criminal in Illinois does not reflect what I stand for, and I support justice for all.

Salute,

Tony V.
Thanks for not taking the bait.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:51:34 PM: Bet Americans are happy they have guns ready to fire in case it all becomes crazy violent there.
Guns are great, for self defence in America against violence caused by overseas religious wars.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:27:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
What if Hamas's war crimes of last Sunday were in retaliation to a provocation by Israel? Wouldn't that make the massacre Israel's fault? That is Hamas's view of the case. They were responding to Israeli provocations, who was responding to Palesintians provocation who was responding to Israeli provocation and on and on back to the mandate creating Israel against the express wishes of 61% of the people then living in the area, and in reality dating back to Sarah forcing Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. It is a very very slippery slope to start excusing barbaric and illegal conduct because it was triggered by prior barbaric and criminal conduct.

In reality Israel will be responsible for any war crimes it commits, regardless of provocation. Just as Hamas is. Israel's war crimes are not Hamas's fault any more than Hamas's are Israel's. Tony is correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:32:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:51:34 PM
Bet Americans are happy they have guns ready to fire in case it all becomes crazy violent there.
Guns are great, for self defence in America against violence caused by overseas religious wars.
Well, I know three people who might not be.

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/10/14/three-killed-three-injured-denver-shooting/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 06:46:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
What if Hamas's war crimes of last Sunday were in retaliation to a provocation by Israel?
Wouldn't that make the massacre Israel's fault? That is Hamas's view of the case.
They were responding to Israeli provocations, who was responding to Palesintians provocation who was responding to Israeli provocation and on and on back to the mandate creating Israel against the express wishes of 61% of the people then living in the area, and in reality dating back to Sarah forcing Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. It is a very very slippery slope to start excusing barbaric and illegal conduct because it was triggered by prior barbaric and criminal conduct.
Except , of course, the original sin of the 1948 partition of Palestine was the Arab refusal
to co exist with Israel.
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In reality Israel will be responsible for any war crimes it commits, regardless of provocation.
Just as Hamas is. Israel's war crimes are not Hamas's fault any more than Hamas's are Israel's.
Not true. It is not a war crime to respond to an attack.( see Hiroshima, Dresden) And the history of this
conflict is replete with acts of war by Arabs. If Hamas puts missiles into schools, for example, to kill Jews, Israel is justified in demolishing the school.
Period.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 07:02:06 PM: Jewish Lives Matter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 16, 2023, 07:26:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.

You are and remain an ignorant savage. No surprise there either.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 16, 2023, 07:29:27 PM: And Red remains as ever a blinkered ass, ready to stumble through shit for whatever war pig holds his lead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 07:36:22 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 06:46:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
What if Hamas's war crimes of last Sunday were in retaliation to a provocation by Israel?
Wouldn't that make the massacre Israel's fault? That is Hamas's view of the case.
They were responding to Israeli provocations, who was responding to Palesintians provocation who was responding to Israeli provocation and on and on back to the mandate creating Israel against the express wishes of 61% of the people then living in the area, and in reality dating back to Sarah forcing Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. It is a very very slippery slope to start excusing barbaric and illegal conduct because it was triggered by prior barbaric and criminal conduct.
Except , of course, the original sin of the 1948 partition of Palestine was the Arab refusal
to co exist with Israel.
Yeah, for some reason the Arab majority objected to having a settlement imposed on them, with no regard to any right of self-determination despite the UN Charter, that gave 1/3.of the population 2/3 of the land, most of which they owned. Weird they objected to that.
Quote
Quote

In reality Israel will be responsible for any war crimes it commits, regardless of provocation.
Just as Hamas is. Israel's war crimes are not Hamas's fault any more than Hamas's are Israel's.
Not true. It is not a war crime to respond to an attack.( see Hiroshima, Dresden) And the history of this
conflict is replete with acts of war by Arabs. If Hamas puts missiles into schools, for example, to kill Jews, Israel is justified in demolishing the school.
Period.
You are correct. Responding is not in and of itself a war crime. How you respond may be. If Israel does commit war crimes, regardless of who started it, Israel will bear the legal and moral responsibility for those crimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 07:50:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 06:46:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
What if Hamas's war crimes of last Sunday were in retaliation to a provocation by Israel?
Wouldn't that make the massacre Israel's fault? That is Hamas's view of the case.
They were responding to Israeli provocations, who was responding to Palesintians provocation who was responding to Israeli provocation and on and on back to the mandate creating Israel against the express wishes of 61% of the people then living in the area, and in reality dating back to Sarah forcing Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. It is a very very slippery slope to start excusing barbaric and illegal conduct because it was triggered by prior barbaric and criminal conduct.
Except , of course, the original sin of the 1948 partition of Palestine was the Arab refusal
to co exist with Israel.
Yeah, for some reason the Arab majority objected to having a settlement imposed on them, with no regard to any right of self-determination despite the UN Charter, that gave 1/3.of the population 2/3 of the land, most of which they owned. Weird they objected to that.
Quote
Quote

In reality Israel will be responsible for any war crimes it commits, regardless of provocation.
Just as Hamas is. Israel's war crimes are not Hamas's fault any more than Hamas's are Israel's.
Not true. It is not a war crime to respond to an attack.( see Hiroshima, Dresden) And the history of this
conflict is replete with acts of war by Arabs. If Hamas puts missiles into schools, for example, to kill Jews, Israel is justified in demolishing the school.
Period.
You are correct. Responding is not in and of itself a war crime. How you respond may be. If Israel does commit war crimes, regardless of who started it, Israel will bear the legal and moral responsibility for those crimes.
Nice dodge.
Hamas has already forfeited anything moral about its actions.
Israel is thus justified in the absolute annihilation of Hamas since anything less is a threat to the existence of Israel.
Israel uses its missiles to protect its citizens.
Hamas uses its citizens to protect its missiles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 16, 2023, 08:37:15 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 16, 2023, 07:29:27 PM
And Red remains as ever a blinkered ass, ready to stumble through shit for whatever war pig holds his lead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 12:36:08 AM: Oct 12 2023
The Missed Chance for Peace

David Brooks
New York Times

Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, President Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat at Camp David in 2000.

But this offer pointed the way to the sort of fair solution negotiators had been struggling toward for years. It is hard to see this kind of option ever being on the table again. And the Palestinians let it slip away.

#####

Indeed.
Seems a big waste of time trying to talk with the Palestinians and their allies, the Arab states.
A big waste of time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 12:47:25 AM: Not nearly as much as a waste as it would be talking to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 01:44:39 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 12:47:25 AM
Not nearly as much as a waste as it would be talking to you.

LOL

Unfortunately the Palestinians didn't consult me.
I would've advised them to take the deal, as it was a good and fair one, the best deal they'd ever get.
They didn't take the Bill Clinton/Israel deal....and now look at Gaza!...basically rubble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 01:56:38 AM: Do Palestinians use their children and other family members as suicide bombers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 02:07:59 AM: Do Australians die of autoerotic asphyxiation?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 02:19:42 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 02:07:59 AM
Do Australians die of autoerotic asphyxiation?

Well, do Palestinians use their children and other family members as suicide bombers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 02:22:24 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 07:02:06 PM
Jewish Lives Matter

You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given what's on show in the West today, including in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 07:50:29 PM
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Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 06:46:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 16, 2023, 05:39:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 16, 2023, 03:12:55 PM
According to RedDick and bambu, Hamas's fault:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

It is Hamas' fault.
Hamas invaded Israel, its atrocities sent some people's minds off-centre.
Then there are people in America celebrating the horrors of Hamas.
Next minute a boy is dead.
Of course that is horrible.
But no surprise to me.
What if Hamas's war crimes of last Sunday were in retaliation to a provocation by Israel?
Wouldn't that make the massacre Israel's fault? That is Hamas's view of the case.
They were responding to Israeli provocations, who was responding to Palesintians provocation who was responding to Israeli provocation and on and on back to the mandate creating Israel against the express wishes of 61% of the people then living in the area, and in reality dating back to Sarah forcing Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. It is a very very slippery slope to start excusing barbaric and illegal conduct because it was triggered by prior barbaric and criminal conduct.
Except , of course, the original sin of the 1948 partition of Palestine was the Arab refusal
to co exist with Israel.
Yeah, for some reason the Arab majority objected to having a settlement imposed on them, with no regard to any right of self-determination despite the UN Charter, that gave 1/3.of the population 2/3 of the land, most of which they owned. Weird they objected to that.
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In reality Israel will be responsible for any war crimes it commits, regardless of provocation.
Just as Hamas is. Israel's war crimes are not Hamas's fault any more than Hamas's are Israel's.
Not true. It is not a war crime to respond to an attack.( see Hiroshima, Dresden) And the history of this
conflict is replete with acts of war by Arabs. If Hamas puts missiles into schools, for example, to kill Jews, Israel is justified in demolishing the school.
Period.
You are correct. Responding is not in and of itself a war crime. How you respond may be. If Israel does commit war crimes, regardless of who started it, Israel will bear the legal and moral responsibility for those crimes.
Nice dodge.
Hamas has already forfeited anything moral about its actions.
Israel is thus justified in the absolute annihilation of Hamas since anything less is a threat to the existence of Israel.
Israel uses its missiles to protect its citizens.
Hamas uses its citizens to protect its missiles.
Nice dodge. The issue under discussion is not whether Israel is justified in going after Hamas with a vengeance (yes). The issue is whether Israel bears the moral and legal responsibility for acts taken 8n the conduct of the war that violate the laws of war (also yes).

We have an upside down little unwiped bottom of sociopath who feels Israel has no moral obligation at all, because Hamas "started it". It is far too complex a situation to talk of anyone starting it. After all, if an act of war allowed you to violate international law with impunity in retaliation, Israel has blockaded Gaza for over 15 years, and a blockade, by definition, is an act of war.

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:36:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 12:36:08 AM
Oct 12 2023
The Missed Chance for Peace

David Brooks
New York Times

Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, President Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat at Camp David in 2000.

But this offer pointed the way to the sort of fair solution negotiators had been struggling toward for years. It is hard to see this kind of option ever being on the table again. And the Palestinians let it slip away.

#####

Indeed.
Seems a big waste of time trying to talk with the Palestinians and their allies, the Arab states.
A big waste of time.
My guess is that you know absolutely nothing about the Camp David negotiations of 2000 and had never even heard of them before reading Brooks's article. Anyone who claims Palestinians should have taken an offer there is going to run hard into figuring out what any offer was, since nothing was in writing. Although it is pretty clear that Israel's offer involved seizing or retaining more land than previous agreements, and a disjointed, non-contiguous Palestine at the mercy of Israel for things like water, electricity and even travel from one part to another.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 09:39:28 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

It is far too complex a situation to talk of anyone starting it. After all, if an act of war allowed you to violate international law with impunity in retaliation, Israel has blockaded Gaza for over 15 years, and a blockade, by definition, is an act of war.

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best...but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 10:13:46 AM: Do Palestinians use their children and other family members as suicide bombers?
Yes or No?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 10:25:51 AM: Why don't you research the issue since you're not getting any satisfaction here?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:58:50 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Israel has blockaded Gaza for over 15 years, and a blockade, by definition, is an act of war.

Incorrect.
The blockade is a joint effort by Israel and Egypt to stop Hamas from smuggling in weapons.
It violates no international Law and was enforced after Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:28:02 AM: In the asbsence of a "No" answer I'll assume the answer is "Yes".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:41:13 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:28:02 AM
In the asbsence of a "No" answer I'll assume the answer is "Yes".
You would have made the same assumption had someone said no, instead of just ignoring your worthless ass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:42:48 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 02:22:24 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 16, 2023, 07:02:06 PM
Jewish Lives Matter

You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given what's on show in the West today, including in America.
Indeed, right wing antisemitic violence has been a growing problem in this country for a while. But I suspect you have something else in mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:44:25 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:28:02 AM
In the asbsence of a "No" answer I'll assume the answer is "Yes".
You'll assume it anyway.

One day you might figure out that all Palestinians are not Hamas, but I'm not holding my breath.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:50:50 AM: Rockets/missiles are stil being fired from Gaza into Israel...also from Lebanon into Israel.
Iran seems like it can't wait to start blowing up Israel.

A total clean out of Gaza seems the only way Israel can prevent being attacked from there again.
Total clean out and total control of exactly who lives there and what is imported to there, wouldn't want more weapons being stockpiled, rockets/missiles, automatic weapons and explosives (wouldn't want and more barbaric invasions from Gaza into Israel.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 12:03:20 PM: Wikipedia says Yes.
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Why, with 2 million people crammed into Gaza, is the birthrate there 4.5 if there's reportedly little water and food always, and life there is miserable/horrible reportedly?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 02:07:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.

Of course Red sees schools as military targets. Any education is an existential threat to the lives of malicious fucktards like Red.

That is why his type attacks schools at home and cheers for their destruction in places like Palestine, Israel and Ukraine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:28:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 12:03:20 PM
Wikipedia says Yes.
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Why, with 2 million people crammed into Gaza, is the birthrate there 4.5 if there's reportedly little water and food always, and life there is miserable/horrible reportedly?
Miserable people still fuck.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:40:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
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Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:41:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:50:50 AM
Rockets/missiles are stil being fired from Gaza into Israel...also from Lebanon into Israel.
Iran seems like it can't wait to start blowing up Israel.

A total clean out of Gaza seems the only way Israel can prevent being attacked from there again.
Total clean out and total control of exactly who lives there and what is imported to there, wouldn't want more weapons being stockpiled, rockets/missiles, automatic weapons and explosives (wouldn't want and more barbaric invasions from Gaza into Israel.)
Excellent. So your response is ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 03:00:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:28:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 12:03:20 PM
Wikipedia says Yes.
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Why, with 2 million people crammed into Gaza, is the birthrate there 4.5 if there's reportedly little water and food always, and life there is miserable/horrible reportedly?
Miserable people still fuck.

All over the world in poorer societies where mortality, especially child mortality, is high the birth rate tends to be high because parents cannot assume all their children will survive to adulthood. Economic development and social stability correlates strongly with decline in birth rate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 03:03:59 PM: Sure, Israel is only fighting Hamas soldiers. And they honor the Geneva Convention!

BBC, today:

Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it's investigating the incident.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 03:10:12 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:41:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:50:50 AM
Rockets/missiles are stil being fired from Gaza into Israel...also from Lebanon into Israel.
Iran seems like it can't wait to start blowing up Israel.

A total clean out of Gaza seems the only way Israel can prevent being attacked from there again.
Total clean out and total control of exactly who lives there and what is imported to there, wouldn't want more weapons being stockpiled, rockets/missiles, automatic weapons and explosives (wouldn't want and more barbaric invasions from Gaza into Israel.)
Excellent. So your response is ethnic cleansing and genocide.

No.
Obviously Gaza has to be evacuated completely and then searched thoroughly for tunnels, weapons, and terrorists.
Trouble is, terrorists don't walk around with signs on them.
The rubble removed, then only people who are not terrorists allowed to return.
The people evacuated to the Arab states that support them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 03:12:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 03:10:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:41:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 11:50:50 AM
Rockets/missiles are stil being fired from Gaza into Israel...also from Lebanon into Israel.
Iran seems like it can't wait to start blowing up Israel.

A total clean out of Gaza seems the only way Israel can prevent being attacked from there again.
Total clean out and total control of exactly who lives there and what is imported to there, wouldn't want more weapons being stockpiled, rockets/missiles, automatic weapons and explosives (wouldn't want and more barbaric invasions from Gaza into Israel.)
Excellent. So your response is ethnic cleansing and genocide.

No.
Obviously Gaza has to be evacuated completely and then searched thoroughly for tunnels, weapons, and terrorists.
Trouble is, terrorists don't walk around with signs on them.
The rubble removed, then only people who are not terrorists allowed to return.
The people evacuated to the Arab states that support them.
Exactly. Ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 03:25:12 PM: He's obfuscating now by saying evacuated.

Funny, if he was driven from his home by an invading army, then pushed into a concentration camp, I don't think he would call it evacuation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 03:31:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:40:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Quote

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 03:40:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 03:31:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:40:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Quote

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point. You just pretend there was not one. It is the only card in your hand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 04:07:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 03:40:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 03:31:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:40:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Quote

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point. You just pretend there was not one. It is the only card in your hand.
But then you should revisit the discussion.
If you maintain Israel is morally responsible for its actions that is not a point in dispute.
Collateral damage when destroying military targets in war is not a War crime.
This is the point you refuse to acknowledge, as do nearly all Palestinian sympathizers.
American, Israeli, and other Western military forces do not wage war by targeting and terrorizing civilians, including raping women, murdering the defenseless, or taking hostages and using them as human shields.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 04:13:15 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 03:03:59 PM
Sure, Israel is only fighting Hamas soldiers. And they honor the Geneva Convention!

BBC, today:

Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it's investigating the incident.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 04:16:06 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 04:07:16 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 03:40:32 PM
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Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Quote

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point. You just pretend there was not one. It is the only card in your hand.
But then you should revisit the discussion.
If you maintain Israel is morally responsible for its actions that is not a point in dispute.
You need to review bambu's comments. And your own, then. Because you have both disputed that.
Quote
Collateral damage when destroying military targets in war is not a War crime.
This is the point you refuse to acknowledge,
It is in fact a point i have always acknowledged.
Quote
as do nearly all Palestinian sympathizers.
American, Israeli, and other Western military forces do not wage war by targeting and terrorizing civilians, including raping women, murdering the defenseless, or taking hostages and using them as human shields.
Unfortunately, sometimes they do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 04:41:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 04:13:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 03:03:59 PM
Sure, Israel is only fighting Hamas soldiers. And they honor the Geneva Convention!

BBC, today:

Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it's investigating the incident.

Red got his first and last ever hardon watching frothy Fox coverage of the post 9-11 misinvasion of Iraq.

The mindset, whether stroke induced or stroke inducing, has stuck with him ever since.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 05:15:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 03:03:59 PM
Sure, Israel is only fighting Hamas soldiers. And they honor the Geneva Convention!

BBC, today:

Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it's investigating the incident.

Maybe rockets were being fired from the hospital or next door, near it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 05:23:06 PM: Maybe it was Maybelline.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 05:24:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 05:15:41 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 03:03:59 PM
Sure, Israel is only fighting Hamas soldiers. And they honor the Geneva Convention!

BBC, today:

Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it's investigating the incident.

Maybe rockets were being fired from the hospital or next door, near it.
Maybe they fucked up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 17, 2023, 06:47:29 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/17/2199998/-Pro-democracy-parties-oust-Poland-s-hard-right-government-in-historic-victory?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/17/2199998/-Pro-democracy-parties-oust-Poland-s-hard-right-government-in-historic-victory?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 17, 2023, 09:31:48 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/israel-gaza-mass-evacuation-ethnic-cleansing

Human rights expert Kenneth Roth comments on what motivates the present Israeli government.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:15:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 09:31:48 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/israel-gaza-mass-evacuation-ethnic-cleansing

Human rights expert Kenneth Roth comments on what motivates the present Israeli government.
What credibility does Kenneth Roth, an avowed hater of Israel, have?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 17, 2023, 10:19:44 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 17, 2023, 09:31:48 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/israel-gaza-mass-evacuation-ethnic-cleansing

Human rights expert Kenneth Roth comments on what motivates the present Israeli government.

How else is Israel going to clean out from Gaza all the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants who invaded Israel and committed all the atrocities...and are still firing rockets into Israel?
And find and destroy all the Hamas rockets/weapons to stop them from attacking Israel?
Find all the tunnels.

Israel denies bombing the hospital, says it was a failed rocket launch by Hamas/PIJ.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:28:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 04:16:06 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 04:07:16 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 03:40:32 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 03:31:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 02:40:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 17, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 11:14:36 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 17, 2023, 10:42:40 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 17, 2023, 08:19:26 AM

Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Quote

Andrew McCarthy in National Review

in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point. You just pretend there was not one. It is the only card in your hand.
But then you should revisit the discussion.
If you maintain Israel is morally responsible for its actions that is not a point in dispute.
You need to review bambu's comments. And your own, then. Because you have both disputed that.
Quote
Collateral damage when destroying military targets in war is not a War crime.
This is the point you refuse to acknowledge,
It is in fact a point i have always acknowledged.
Quote
as do nearly all Palestinian sympathizers.
American, Israeli, and other Western military forces do not wage war by targeting and terrorizing civilians, including raping women, murdering the defenseless, or taking hostages and using them as human shields.
Unfortunately, sometimes they do.
Sometimes?
Name them
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 02:54:57 AM: Blessed are the peacemakers, we must fully fund the Peace Corps and we must always work for peace in the world.

Certainly I approve of improving human rights, as was the case when Poland obtained freedom from the USSR, but it must be done peacefully as was the case with Poland and Lech Walesa.

We can improve China peacefully with healthy evolution, and we can improve Iran peacefully.

40% of the children in public schools in Beverly Hills are from Iran, we need for them to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America every morning and we need for them to understand what our pledge means. We also need to teach them all of the good things that America has done for the world, with good human rights, and worker's rights, and inventions, and a huge middle class, and we stopped Hitler, etc. We need to teach the people from Iran about the good things that the USA has done, they have heard all of the bad things and now is our chance to teach them the good things about America. We have them here now, so now is our chance to teach them about the beauty of America and about the good things that we stand for.

God gave me the daughter of a Chinese general as a roommate and we made peace. Now we have the Persians coming to California in droves and now is our chance to teach them about the beauty of America and to make the peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and we must always invest in peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 03:54:35 AM: What if the Palestinians wanted to move to Illinois? What if 1 million Palestinians moved to Illinois?

We have almost 1 million Persians in Los Angeles.

We need to teach people the ways of peace.

For me, I have Jesus as my savior, and I am a crusader, and when the Persians come to Hollywood then they are on my Turf. We need to teach them to love America the way that my Mother loves America.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and we can bring the Palestinians right to the doorstep of Americans, what happens if the Palestinians all want to move to Illinois?

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 07:39:55 AM: Experts in my world said today that with the US stretched by the wars in Israel and Ukraine, China will strike in Asia Pacific in 5 or 6 weeks time, first attacking Taiwan, then other countries.
Oh well, it was always going to happen...not like there was't any warning.
It's good that I have been able to enjoy living down here for the nearly 8 decades I have.
Sad it will be ending with a war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 08:02:04 AM: Oh dear, Arab states seem to have snubbed Joe, won't be meeting him.
He should take note, and next time they want something, snub them right back.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 08:08:33 AM: If your world is about to end why are you posting here? Run!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 18, 2023, 10:12:52 AM: The whole criticize Israel = Antisemitism argument is a lame substitute for actual thought on a complex issue. Ward trying to discredit Roth on that basis, rather than engage with Roth s points was BAE.

Break time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 10:40:13 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 18, 2023, 10:12:52 AM

The whole criticize Israel = Antisemitism argument is a lame substitute for actual thought on a complex issue. Ward trying to discredit Roth on that basis, rather than engage with Roth s points was BAE.

Break time.
Oh, dear(as YankGuy would say, Oilcan is taking his BAWL and going home(again)
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 10:47:24 AM: I'm pretty confident I've never said "oh dear" nor have I used the taking the ball and going home expression. But I am sorry to see him leave.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2023, 11:03:15 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 18, 2023, 10:12:52 AM

The whole criticize Israel = Antisemitism argument is a lame substitute for actual thought on a complex issue. Ward trying to discredit Roth on that basis, rather than engage with Roth s points was BAE.

Break time.
https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 11:23:37 AM: More than coincidental that Oilcan runs away before acknowledging the Hamas lie about Israel bombing a Gaza Hospital.

He joins a not surprising list of other Israel haters like Trudeau and Taib.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 11:27:13 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 10:40:13 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 18, 2023, 10:12:52 AM

The whole criticize Israel = Antisemitism argument is a lame substitute for actual thought on a complex issue. Ward trying to discredit Roth on that basis, rather than engage with Roth s points was BAE.

Break time.
Oh, dear(as YankGuy would say, Oilcan is taking his BAWL and going home(again)
LOL!
Sorry. Oh dear belongs to BamBu.
Oilcan leaving does damage to Hamas in that it is one less voice defending the indefensible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 11:45:57 AM: Sorry. Oh dear belongs to BamBu.

An understandable mix-up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2023, 12:16:59 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 11:27:13 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 10:40:13 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 18, 2023, 10:12:52 AM

The whole criticize Israel = Antisemitism argument is a lame substitute for actual thought on a complex issue. Ward trying to discredit Roth on that basis, rather than engage with Roth s points was BAE.

Break time.
Oh, dear(as YankGuy would say, Oilcan is taking his BAWL and going home(again)
LOL!
Sorry. Oh dear belongs to BamBu.
Oilcan leaving does damage to Hamas in that it is one less voice defending the indefensible.
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 18, 2023, 12:33:21 PM: Hamas, Hezbollah and dominionist Christianity need to all be buried and sealed in the same tar pit for the sake of the future of humanity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 02:14:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 08:08:33 AM
If your world is about to end why are you posting here? Run!!!

Run to where?
I'd be happy to stay and fight the invaders, push some buttons and turn their homeland into ash...if we had something to fight with.

It's what happens to you when you go around signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties instead or arming yourself properly.

It's time Britain and France declared they stand with us and will nuke anyone who attacks us...but so far nothing.
America shouldn't have to be the one trying to save the western world by itself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 02:45:45 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 18, 2023, 12:33:21 PM
Hamas, Hezbollah and dominionist Christianity need to all be buried and sealed in the same tar pit for the sake of the future of humanity.

China is non Christian.
You won't like living under their rule...which, the way things are looking, you will be.
China/Russia/Iran/Nth Korea ...the CRIN alliance is about to take over the world by force...America won't be able to beat them. So you will either be dead or enslaved.
Nothing more certain.
Where is the USGA?...US Global Alliance?
CRIN versus USA...CRIN wins.

High time USGA is formed...each country having to choose now whether they're IN or OUT...no fence-sitting.
"Neutral" is OUT....so is "We'll consider, and get back to you".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 02:51:40 PM: You've spent the last several years telling us that China is already winning the war. Why would they bother attacking you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 03:02:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 02:51:40 PM
You've spent the last several years telling us that China is already winning the war. Why would they bother attacking you?

Land, food producing farlmand, deep water ports, natural resources...and 26 million slaves as free labour.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 03:06:12 PM: You do far too much doomscrolling. Go outside (before you're not able to anymore).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2023, 03:17:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 03:02:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 02:51:40 PM
You've spent the last several years telling us that China is already winning the war. Why would they bother attacking you?

Land, food producing farlmand, deep water ports, natural resources...and 26 million slaves as free labour.
They do not want you for slaves. They want you for customers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 18, 2023, 03:23:54 PM: Pretty amusing and typical of Ward that he thought break time referred to me. Nope, just dropped the Iggy Box on him for a relaxing pause in the septic flow of loose mind-stools. Pretty sure he will frame anything as me retreating or surrendering - it is all about the zero sum game with that unconvoluted lizard brain of his. Rattling in the far interior of his skull like a piece of angry candy.

I did see one of his neuro-turds quoted in Limes post, so no surprise that he still persists in thinking any critcism of Israel is equivalent to defending Hamas. Is there any point in my repeating again that I see Hamas as evil? That they are monumentally destructive to the Palestinians and a gang of brutal sociopaths with no respect for human life? (and yes, I'm aware it is likely Hamas rockets may have caused the hospital explosions and deaths)

The Onion column (thanks, Hairy) was great.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 04:33:26 PM: Christina Pascucci is running to replace Diane Feinstein, she is a great reporter who worked for the KTLA Channel 5 News in Los Angeles, before going to work at Channel 11. Christina is a Roman Catholic, and she is involved with Big Sisters, and she cares. Christina liked my ideas, and she wants to help the homeless, and she wants to help the children, I think she would make a wonderful Senator.

Though too, running for the same seat in the Senate is Steve Garvey who played 1st Base for the Dodgers. Los Angeles loves Steve Garvey, and it will be interesting to hear his ideas in the race.

Los Angeles will win with either Christina or Steve, they are both winners. It will be a good race.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 04:40:46 PM: Bambu, it is going to be okay, China does not want war, they want customers. They want world trade and money. Australia can send food to China, and in return China can send solar panels to Australia, etc.

Who is your biggest star? Margot Robbie? In the old days they had the royals marry someone from the enemy land to make the peace, the daughter of the King of France would marry the son of the King of Spain, etc, to make peace and to strengthen ties. Have Margot Robbie date a rich and famous and handsome man from China. Margot Robbie can help to bring Australia together with China. Have the biggest star in Australia date the biggest star in China to improve relations between the nations.

It will be okay, enjoy your Golden years. And support the Peace Corps, and Kiwanis International, and support Youth For Christ, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 04:46:43 PM: Have Margot Robbie date a rich and famous and handsome man from China. Margot Robbie can help to bring Australia together with China. Have the biggest star in Australia date the biggest star in China to improve relations between the nations.

?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 05:46:18 PM: no
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 04:46:43 PM
Have Margot Robbie date a rich and famous and handsome man from China. Margot Robbie can help to bring Australia together with China. Have the biggest star in Australia date the biggest star in China to improve relations between the nations.

?

Yes.
Good idea.
Saw on the news last night that Aust wine exports to China might be resuming soon.
Chinese folk in China seem to like Aust wines.
Maybe Margot could convince China to drink good wine 24/7/365 instead of invading.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2023, 05:51:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 04:33:26 PM
Christina Pascucci is running to replace Diane Feinstein, she is a great reporter who worked for the KTLA Channel 5 News in Los Angeles, before going to work at Channel 11. Christina is a Roman Catholic, and she is involved with Big Sisters, and she cares. Christina liked my ideas, and she wants to help the homeless, and she wants to help the children, I think she would make a wonderful Senator.

Though too, running for the same seat in the Senate is Steve Garvey who played 1st Base for the Dodgers. Los Angeles loves Steve Garvey, and it will be interesting to hear his ideas in the race.

Los Angeles will win with either Christina or Steve, they are both winners. It will be a good race.

Salute,

Tony V.
The whole state will win with Katie Porter. Or Barbara Lee or Adam Schiff. And as loathe as I am to slag a fellow Spartan, there is literally no reason for Steve Garvey to run except name recognition and Republican desperation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 18, 2023, 06:44:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 05:46:18 PM
no
Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 04:46:43 PM
Have Margot Robbie date a rich and famous and handsome man from China. Margot Robbie can help to bring Australia together with China. Have the biggest star in Australia date the biggest star in China to improve relations between the nations.

?

Yes.
Good idea.
Saw on the news last night that Aust wine exports to China might be resuming soon.
Chinese folk in China seem to like Aust wines.
Maybe Margot could convince China to drink good wine 24/7/365 instead of invading.
If you and tony are really going to whore out Margot Robbie, let me know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 06:53:06 PM: Though there have been many candidates over the years, I think the two Margot Robbie posts win the Dumbest Posts Ever prize. Congratulations to both winners!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 18, 2023, 08:30:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan link=topic=223.msg235635#msg235635 date=1697657034

The Onion column (thanks, Hairy) was great.
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Great in the sense that both Lime and Oilcan completely misunderstood the Onion Post.
So much for their understanding of satire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 08:33:32 PM: Matchmaking among royals for strategic purposes has always occurred, and the stars are the modern royals.

On the issue of stars, Gwyneth Paltrow has announced her retirement, and sadly she sounds sad and disillusioned, she said the fame and fortune never meant much to her, and she just wants to disappear from view. In my opinion the source of her disillusionment is that she is selfish, and she is only thinking about herself instead of looking at the joy that movies such as "Great Expectations" bring to people, and instead of looking at how she can serve the people, like Bob Hope all of his life serving the troops, etc, and instead of serving the poor and helping the people like the Bible asks us to do in Matthew 25: 31-46. If she saw the good that her movies did for people, and if she spent her time serving the people like Bob Hope did, and if she served God, then she would be more fulfilled. And if Gwyneth could improve relations between the USA and Mexico, and with the USA and China, then she should do it, and she would be more fulfilled. Arnold wrote a new book that is about helping others, and Gwyneth needs to read Arnold's book.

And Margot Robbie is in a special position to be able to serve the people of Australia as a star. If she is single, then what would it hurt for her to go on a date with a rich and famous and powerful Chinese man? And what would it hurt to improve relations between Australia and China? Margot can do great things, she is in a special position, and she can help the people of Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 08:59:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 18, 2023, 06:53:06 PM
Though there have been many candidates over the years, I think the two Margot Robbie posts win the Dumbest Posts Ever prize. Congratulations to both winners!

Might as well see if Margot could do something ... there's nothing else...no nukes, no mighty military.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 09:15:16 PM: Biden had a successful trip to Israel, and he got Egypt to open their border, so the people can escape from Gaza into Egypt, and then from Egypt they can go to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai, and to Illinois, etc. Kiwanis is global, and they have Kiwanis clubs in Egypt which can help the children, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 09:54:07 PM: Yes, barbarians from inside Gaza bombed Israel with thousands of rockets, then invaded Israel by land, sea and air and massacred Jews and their children, took hostages.
The barbarians are now the good guys in the eyes of many in the West and Islamia....with Israel the bad guy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 18, 2023, 09:59:56 PM: Please, enough with the posts on plans to pimp out Margot Robbie. She is a great lady and could kick both your asses into a trans-Jovian orbit.

In addition to the Stupidest Posts Ever prize, I would also like to see them in the running for the Jackie Treehorn Prize.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 18, 2023, 10:05:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 09:54:07 PM
Yes, barbarians from inside Gaza bombed Israel with thousands of rockets, then invaded Israel by land, sea and air and massacred Jews and their children, took hostages.
The barbarians are now the good guys in the eyes of many in the West and Islamia....with Israel the bad guy.
You should, at some point in your life, start to try telling the difference between various groups of people. I know that sounds like hard work, but all your proclamations sound that much more idiotic every time you fail to do so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 10:40:40 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 18, 2023, 10:05:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 09:54:07 PM
Yes, barbarians from inside Gaza bombed Israel with thousands of rockets, then invaded Israel by land, sea and air and massacred Jews and their children, took hostages.
The barbarians are now the good guys in the eyes of many in the West and Islamia....with Israel the bad guy.
You should, at some point in your life, start to try telling the difference between various groups of people. I know that sounds like hard work, but all your proclamations sound that much more idiotic every time you fail to do so.

Israel will make sure the bad guys are punished.

Meanwhile, Kiwanis International can help the children to escape to safe places, etc.

And life will be hard for the refugees, they will work as essential workers at any job they can get, and many will live their whole lives in poverty. Truck driving would be a blessing for the poor refugees, if they can join the Teamsters in Illinois and drive a truck then they can raise a family and they can buy a home and they can have a good life. The United Farm Workers also have hard lives, though they are blessed to have the UFW and many people love to work in the fields, some people would rather work in the vineyards instead of in an office, etc, and they can pick oranges for Sunkist, etc.

Kiwanis will help the children. But, life will be hard for the refugees. It is hard out there in the world when you have to start out with nothing in a strange land.

The people of Gaza are having hard lives, and it is only going to get harder for them. They are not being rewarded for the acts of the terrorists. It is a hard life out there poor and alone in a strange land, even with Kiwanis to help the children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM: Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 01:47:22 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM
Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only Hamas/Islamic jihadist barbarians hadn't blown up and invaded Israel, and torture-massacred-kidnapped Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 08:39:55 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 10:40:40 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 18, 2023, 10:05:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 18, 2023, 09:54:07 PM
Yes, barbarians from inside Gaza bombed Israel with thousands of rockets, then invaded Israel by land, sea and air and massacred Jews and their children, took hostages.
The barbarians are now the good guys in the eyes of many in the West and Islamia....with Israel the bad guy.
You should, at some point in your life, start to try telling the difference between various groups of people. I know that sounds like hard work, but all your proclamations sound that much more idiotic every time you fail to do so.

Israel will make sure the bad guys are punished.

Meanwhile, Kiwanis International can help the children to escape to safe places, etc.
I was going to mock you for this, but then I came across an Article, "Kiwanis and the Tradition of Human Trafficking " by Ida Noschidt, in the most recent edition of The Journal of Stupid and Insane Ideas, so maybe.
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And life will be hard for the refugees, they will work as essential workers at any job they can get, and many will live their whole lives in poverty.

***

Salute,

Tony V.
It already is, they already are, they already do, and they already will.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 08:44:22 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 01:47:22 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM
Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only Hamas/Islamic jihadist barbarians hadn't blown up and invaded Israel, and torture-massacred-kidnapped Jews.
Or, and hear me out on this, 60 % of the people had not been kicked out of 80% of the land.

One of the many bad things about Hamas is their tactics obscure a very real issue and prevent it from being addressed. But it exists nonetheless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 10:37:08 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 08:44:22 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 01:47:22 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM
Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only Hamas/Islamic jihadist barbarians hadn't blown up and invaded Israel, and torture-massacred-kidnapped Jews.
Or, and hear me out on this, 60 % of the people had not been kicked out of 80% of the land.

One of the many bad things about Hamas is their tactics obscure a very real issue and prevent it from being addressed. But it exists nonetheless.

Guess it's too late to abolish Gaza, West Bank etc, and just have "New Palestine"...no borders...and have Jews, Muslims, Christians etc living there in peace, love and harmony...like in the past.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 11:07:01 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 10:37:08 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 08:44:22 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 01:47:22 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM
Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only Hamas/Islamic jihadist barbarians hadn't blown up and invaded Israel, and torture-massacred-kidnapped Jews.
Or, and hear me out on this, 60 % of the people had not been kicked out of 80% of the land.

One of the many bad things about Hamas is their tactics obscure a very real issue and prevent it from being addressed. But it exists nonetheless.

Guess it's too late to abolish Gaza, West Bank etc, and just have "New Palestine"...no borders...and have Jews, Muslims, Christians etc living there in peace, love and harmony...like in the past.
What past?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 11:18:35 AM: "From the river to the sea" the hundreds of thousands of protesters in America, Britain...rest of world chant as they march in the streets.
"End US imperialism"..."end colonialism".
In other words "no more Israel", "all Palestine".

"Texas turns out for Palestine" YouTube video.

And violent pro-Palestine protests in NYC.
Petrol bombs thrown at a synagogue in Germany...luckily no damage.

Leaders of Western countries should take careful note.

Maybe there is silent support for Jews in Israel and worldwide, because there doesn't seem to be much public support.
See any Palestinian flag waving marches for the Jewish victims of the barbarians who emerged from Gaza and invaded Israel?
Are there Palestinians in Gaza happy to have armed Hamas/jihadist barbarians living there and attacking Israel?
If not, then why haven't Palestinians in Gaza armed themselves and driven out the Hamas/jihadist barbarians?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 11:43:14 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 11:07:01 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 10:37:08 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 19, 2023, 08:44:22 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 01:47:22 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 18, 2023, 11:12:57 PM
Women abort their babies because of poverty, and people commit suicide because of poverty, the refugees from Gaza are going to have hard lives as refugees, even if Kiwanis and UNICEF, etc, helps the children.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only Hamas/Islamic jihadist barbarians hadn't blown up and invaded Israel, and torture-massacred-kidnapped Jews.
Or, and hear me out on this, 60 % of the people had not been kicked out of 80% of the land.

One of the many bad things about Hamas is their tactics obscure a very real issue and prevent it from being addressed. But it exists nonetheless.

Guess it's too late to abolish Gaza, West Bank etc, and just have "New Palestine"...no borders...and have Jews, Muslims, Christians etc living there in peace, love and harmony...like in the past.
What past?

Oh, I re read it, seems the Muslims and Christians got along, but not the three, Muslims, Christians and Jews.
"The Muslim majority and Christian minority share a history of tolerance and respect".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 19, 2023, 04:34:15 PM: The irony of the Gaza Hospital bombing, now that we know the details instead of the news media regurgitating
Hamas propaganda, is that Israel would have had legitimacy had they fired.

The Islamic Jihad was set up and firing from the hospital perimeter making the area a military target.

To Hamas et al death is not a tragedy but a STRATEGY[/] no matter who dies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 19, 2023, 05:50:56 PM: Death as a strategy not a tragedy no matter who dies is also evident in the way republicans like trump send assassins after people over social media. It ties together so many of their least logical efforts such as J6, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant and anti-trans campaigns. It makes them so ugly they even dislike themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 06:12:52 PM: Here's another idea:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad release the hostages, leave Gaza and go live somewhere else...like Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria etc.
You know, to save the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 06:20:51 PM: Sky News;

" US Navy shoots down missiles over the Red Sea."

Radio reports the missiles were fired from Yemen, in the direction of Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 19, 2023, 10:51:23 PM: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) stated that the disgusting display of anti Israel, anti Zionism, and antisemitism from the international media around the world in taking Hamas word for it on the Gaza hospital blast caused riots and noted that Hamas had their word believed, while Israel had to provide reams of evidence to be believed.
When Israel said it was not true, they had to show satellite imagery, they had to show trajectory of the bomb, they had to explain the crater size, they had to show all sorts of audio intelligence.
So, look, this just shows how dangerous it is to be listening to a terrorist organization when they put out numbers, when they put out facts and figures, and they put out statements. And it is a lesson for the media and elected officials that this is an active war zone, and we have to be careful before we take stuff and weaponize it, because look what it caused in the Arab world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2023, 02:09:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 19, 2023, 06:12:52 PM
Here's another idea:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad release the hostages, leave Gaza and go live somewhere else...like Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria etc.
You know, to save the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.

Australia would be good. There is no one important there who would be bothered at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM: "9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!

Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2023, 01:36:02 PM: That would be since the Good Friday accords where the sides were able to sit down and work out a solution that included a cessation of hostilities. It had more to do with the accords than subsequent events.

You are a twisted fuck who likes to twist things till they are forever fucked, so no one expects you to do any better.

For every refugee in the Middle East one way tickets straight to Oz.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

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Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM: Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.

Perhaps history will come to look on Israel's treatment of Palestinians the way it now regards American treatment of tribal peoples. There are some parallels. Every atrocity by the native people pushed onto marginal lands and means of sustenance undermined is whipped up by media for maximum shock and outrage, while the brutal responses (often including wholesale slaughter) are glossed over with logistics and appeals to necessity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 04:09:43 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM
Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.
Israel is above criticism?
It killed 500 Palestinians according to the NewYork Times, Washington Post, the AP, MSNBC, and the entire democrat contingent to Congress.
Oh wait.
That was before any legitimate investigation after regurgitating Hamas propaganda.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 20, 2023, 04:47:25 PM: Red loves this. He got his neocon drag out of his closet and everything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

Quote
Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.

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Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 05:41:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

Quote
Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.
What, precisely, is your problem with Hamas, then? They are using the weapons at their disposal, after all.
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Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
I am sure you needed the history lesson.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 05:48:03 PM: Seems the AUKUS pact is dead in the water, so to speak. 'Albo' is going to America. "Mr 'Albo' goes to Washington".

Looks like 'no nukes for bambu' is coming true.

Such a pity Australia is not nuke-armed, bristling with the latest weapons of all kinds, and willing to use them when its citizens are harmed...might have some chance of getting Hamas to release the Aussie hostages/hostages of Aussie relatives then.

Mmm, maybe a Sydney mosque being allowed to commemorate today the deaths of three Hezbollah fighters killed by the Israeli army in recent days, 'honour jihadists'[DTele] might help.
Maybe not.

Anything goes in Australia today, basically....for some people anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 06:09:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 05:41:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

Quote
Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.
What, precisely, is your problem with Hamas, then? They are using the weapons at their disposal, after all.
Quote
*

Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
I am sure you needed the history lesson.

Hamas, a terrorist organisation, who would kill me in an instant given the chance, likely cook me alive in a bread oven, can and will, do whatever it likes.
You have a problem with Israel's reply to its barbaric attacks on Jews in Israel, I don't.

I needed the exact history, I'm a long way from the Middle East...always have been.
A long way from anywhere really.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 06:19:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 06:09:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 05:41:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

Quote
Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.
What, precisely, is your problem with Hamas, then? They are using the weapons at their disposal, after all.
Quote
*

Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
I am sure you needed the history lesson.

Hamas, a terrorist organisation, who would kill me in an instant given the chance, likely cook me alive in a bread oven, can and will, do whatever it likes.
You have a problem with Israel's reply to its barbaric attacks on Jews in Israel, I don't.

I needed the exact history, I'm a long way from the Middle East.
You did not get one yet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 07:01:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 06:19:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 06:09:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 05:41:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

Quote
Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
Quote
Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.
What, precisely, is your problem with Hamas, then? They are using the weapons at their disposal, after all.
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Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
I am sure you needed the history lesson.

Hamas, a terrorist organisation, who would kill me in an instant given the chance, likely cook me alive in a bread oven, can and will, do whatever it likes.
You have a problem with Israel's reply to its barbaric attacks on Jews in Israel, I don't.

I needed the exact history, I'm a long way from the Middle East.
You did not get one yet.

Close enough.
Maybe the Zionist militias thought Palestine was being taken over by Muslims.
Maybe they just wanted somewhere safe for the Holocaust surviving Jews to live.
Who knows.

I know one thing...in the here and now, all invading Israel and massacring Jews is going to get you is exactly what there is today.
Even someone with only 1/4 of their brain working should know that.

If the Palestinians today thought their Arab friends in nations near and far would take them in as refugees, seems they were sorely mistaken.
Hamas has caused all their problems...they keep electing Hamas to rule them...bad choice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 20, 2023, 08:02:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 04:09:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM
Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.
Israel is above criticism?
It killed 500 Palestinians according to the NewYork Times, Washington Post, the AP, MSNBC, and the entire democrat contingent to Congress.

Liar. I read AP and WaPo. Both reported the explosion, and that Hamas claimed it was an Israeli attack, and that it was being investigated. Period.

And somewhat irrelevant to the Amnesty International report that I link here....

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/

which you probably don't want to face, because it would spoil your righteous cheerleading for Israel.

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Oh wait.
That was before any legitimate investigation after regurgitating Hamas propaganda.

Both the sources I mentioned indicated that Israeli attack was a Hamas claim, and by no means certain.

Maybe you should take a break from your own propaganda feeds and listen to some Neil Young. He was a brilliant old soul in his twenties.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 08:31:53 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 08:02:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 04:09:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM
Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.
Israel is above criticism?
It killed 500 Palestinians according to the NewYork Times, Washington Post, the AP, MSNBC, and the entire democrat contingent to Congress.

Liar. I read AP and WaPo. Both reported the explosion, and that Hamas claimed it was an Israeli attack, and that it was being investigated.
LOL Not at first. Eventually when real news sources investigated they got the story right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 09:49:48 PM: News Item

The International Energy Agency said this week that 49.7 million miles of transmission lines enough to wrap around the planet 2,000 times will have to be built or replaced by 2040 to achieve the climate lobby net zero emissions goal.
This amounts to a plan for everyone to buy more metals from coal-fired plants in China.

No wonder Greta has moved on to lying about Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 10:06:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 07:01:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 06:19:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 06:09:01 PM
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Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 04:54:11 PM
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Quote from: bambu. on October 20, 2023, 01:17:03 PM
"9 Palestinians dead and 20 injured"..... (in an IDF ground raid in Gaza targeting jihadist militants planning attacks on Israel)...screams the headline today.
"In a 3 hour gun battle" the report continues.

Excuse me! 3 hour gun battle?

Hardly "innocent Palestinian civilians"!
Getting invaded can turn you into a combatant pretty quickly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw

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Report continues..."young men, seeing no future in occupation, burnt tires and threw rocks at Isreali troops".

Israelis are fighting now for their very existence...the majority of the world seemingly cheering for "free Palestine", and seemingly supporting the attacks on Israel as part of "the struggle" (sounds like the IRA and Northern Ireland).
Actually, that is a good analogy on how being made into a refugee and second class citizen in your own land can echo down through time. And how to end it. Because...
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Irish America seemed to lose its desire for funding and supporting the IRA, when it got a taste of what terrorism is like first hand on 9/11.
Your time line and attempted causal connection are utter bull shit.

Their own land?

He who has the best weapons/army rules Palestine...it has ever been so.
This time around it's not the current "Palestinians".

He who has the best weapons/army rules has always been, everywhere in the world.
Guns beat spears.
What, precisely, is your problem with Hamas, then? They are using the weapons at their disposal, after all.
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Strategically situated between three continents, the region of Palestine (also known as the Land of Israel and the Holy Land) has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
In modern times, the area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire and since 1948 it has been divided into Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
I am sure you needed the history lesson.

Hamas, a terrorist organisation, who would kill me in an instant given the chance, likely cook me alive in a bread oven, can and will, do whatever it likes.
You have a problem with Israel's reply to its barbaric attacks on Jews in Israel, I don't.

I needed the exact history, I'm a long way from the Middle East.
You did not get one yet.

Close enough.
Maybe the Zionist militias thought Palestine was being taken over by Muslims.
Dig a little deeper. What percentage of the population was Muslim at the time of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War? At the time of the UN mandate in 1948?
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Maybe they just wanted somewhere safe for the Holocaust surviving Jews to live.
Who knows.
Actually, we do know. Again, dig deeper.
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I know one thing...in the here and now, all invading Israel and massacring Jews is going to get you is exactly what there is today.
Even someone with only 1/4 of their brain working should know that.
But those with more see more.
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If the Palestinians today thought their Arab friends in nations near and far would take them in as refugees, seems they were sorely mistaken.
Hamas has caused all their problems...they keep electing Hamas to rule them...bad choice.
You focus on October 7 out of context
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 10:07:57 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 08:31:53 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 08:02:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 04:09:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM
Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.
Israel is above criticism?
It killed 500 Palestinians according to the NewYork Times, Washington Post, the AP, MSNBC, and the entire democrat contingent to Congress.

Liar. I read AP and WaPo. Both reported the explosion, and that Hamas claimed it was an Israeli attack, and that it was being investigated.
LOL Not at first. Eventually when real news sources investigated they got the story right.
Liar. They reported it as a Hamas claim, which is accurate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 10:14:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 20, 2023, 10:07:57 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 08:31:53 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 08:02:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 20, 2023, 04:09:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 20, 2023, 03:57:33 PM
Interesting how Israel doing "whatever is necessary" (see today's eye opening report from Amnesty International) to defend its interests is held to be above criticism.
Israel is above criticism?
It killed 500 Palestinians according to the NewYork Times, Washington Post, the AP, MSNBC, and the entire democrat contingent to Congress.

Liar. I read AP and WaPo. Both reported the explosion, and that Hamas claimed it was an Israeli attack, and that it was being investigated.
LOL Not at first. Eventually when real news sources investigated they got the story right.
Liar. They reported it as a Hamas claim, which is accurate.
Which, of course,is the problem..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 12:00:30 AM: Red is paraphrasing the emails he gets from speaker jordan. I will not tell him. It would break his poor little heart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 21, 2023, 12:10:36 AM: There were 13.2 million people employed in Texas in 2020, a 17.1 percent rise from 2010 according to data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. By employment levels, restaurants, education, and health care are the three largest industries in the state. Feb 4, 2023

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While I would recommend Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the refugees, they all appear to be going to Texas, Texas is the fastest growing state, and the jobs seem to be in food, education, and health care.

So, the Baby Boomers in Texas can have beautiful blonde nurses from Ukraine at the hospitals.

I would recommend pig farming outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada, and then selling pork and bacon to San Francisco, you can sell pork to China Town in San Francisco, etc.

But, you can raise pork and beef and chicken in Texas too, and they can supply the restaurants with food, etc. And I read that Texas is growing grapes and is making wine now, the Texas wine is supposed to be good wine, I wish them the best with that. Texas can sell cheap wine to Chicago and Detroit and to Saint Louis, etc.

And yes Bambu, it would be great if Australia could sell more wine to China, that would be awesome, Australia can send wine and beef and other good stuff to China, and in return China can send Australia solar panels, etc.

On the issue of helping the refugees, it is not human trafficking when UNICEF and Kiwanis International and when the Catholic Church, etc, helps the poor refugees to reach safe new homes. Charity and human kindness is not human trafficking. Kiwanis is great, and UNICEF is great, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 12:46:06 AM: Go the Republicans!
Republicans strike back to protect their state and America!

Youtube:

"BREAKING: Gov. Sarah Sanders Announces Chinese State-Owned Company Must Give Up"

give up land. Seed co. The lovely and wise Sarah explains perfectly...as does her Attorney General.
Go Arkansas!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 04:31:33 AM: Sky News:

"Pro-Hamas Harvard students cop backlash".

#####

No surprise.
Would anyone want students like that in their organisations?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 04:50:09 AM: "Palestinian protesters storm Capitol building".
LOL
What a joke.
Jan 6 minus Viking horns.

Terrorists have eyes!
One day, if security at the Capitol is not made absolute, terrorists will simply storm it, and blow it to bits.

As luck would have it, today's protesters were not terrorists - suicide bombers, military level bombers...in disguise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 12:15:02 PM: Bambu, you were last terrorized by a goldfish. Before that it was a butterfly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 21, 2023, 01:58:48 PM: Bill Maher,
Do not Go to an Elite College Like I Did,
They are Bigoted North Korean Re-Education Camps
That Make You Dumb

As an Ivy League graduate who knows the value of a liberal education, I have one piece of advice for the youth of America, Do not go to college, and if you absolutely have to go, do not go to an elite college, because, as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid.
There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening American eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone either an oppressor or oppressed.
In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbes.
The same students who will tell you that words are violence, and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered.
And then it was off to ethics class.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/maher-dont-go-to-an-elite-college-like-i-did-theyre-bigoted-north-korean-re-education-camps-that-make-you-dumb/
(https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/maher-dont-go-to-an-elite-college-like-i-did-theyre-bigoted-north-korean-re-education-camps-that-make-you-dumb/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:08:57 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 12:15:02 PM
Bambu, you were last terrorized by a goldfish. Before that it was a butterfly.

My mind is terrorised by terrorists.
If the Capitol building is not secured absolutely...terrorists ...will...blow it up, just like they did to the twin towers.
Hijacked commercial airliners, mind you, and flew them into the buildings...and into the Pentagon!

Blowing up an unsecured Capitol building, the way things are now, would be simple even for trainee terrorists.
The movies "White House Down" and "Olympus Has Fallen" are indicative.

You'd think that given what happened before, yesterday's invasion of the Capitol building would've been impossible.
Obviously not.
Honestly, some people in charge of securing America are obviously asleep (and I don't mean Joe).
Asleep, dozing at the wheel.
Sleeping on the job.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:14:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 21, 2023, 01:58:48 PM

Bill Maher,
Do not Go to an Elite College Like I Did,
They are Bigoted North Korean Re-Education Camps
That Make You Dumb

As an Ivy League graduate who knows the value of a liberal education, I have one piece of advice for the youth of America, Do not go to college, and if you absolutely have to go, do not go to an elite college, because, as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid.
There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening American eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone either an oppressor or oppressed.
In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbes.
The same students who will tell you that words are violence, and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered.
And then it was off to ethics class.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/maher-dont-go-to-an-elite-college-like-i-did-theyre-bigoted-north-korean-re-education-camps-that-make-you-dumb/
(https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/maher-dont-go-to-an-elite-college-like-i-did-theyre-bigoted-north-korean-re-education-camps-that-make-you-dumb/)

Well there you go!

Seems about correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM: Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 02:51:06 PM: How does one keep tight control without a degree of occupation? Asking for a friend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 02:57:04 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 21, 2023, 01:58:48 PM

Bill Maher,
Do not Go to an Elite College Like I Did,
They are Bigoted North Korean Re-Education Camps
That Make You Dumb

You cannot live your life with the mummified cock of Raygun up your ass without hating education.

The central pillar of reaganomics was to destroy the education system and national fabric that won the Cold War in order to degrade the population into dupes and victims to be cannibalized by the wealthy so they can get more of their depraved jollies off as we see them doing more and more each day.

Red likes to find ways to attack education and the social fabric though he is a victim and a dupe who will live forever impoverished in terms of brains, values, love and genuine self esteem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 03:32:11 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 02:51:06 PM
How does one keep tight control without a degree of occupation? Asking for a friend.

Good question.
Tell friend that the tight control can be exercised from outside the physical borders.
Tell friend that didn't work, was taken advantage of...so something different will likely be tried now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 21, 2023, 04:15:33 PM: Playboy magazine just is not the same without Hugh Hefner, it is sad. Maybe Barbi Benton can help to save Playboy, they can put Barbi Benton in charge and Barbi can hire a bunch of young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard University to save Playboy. I have some ideas to save Playboy. And of course Playboy needs beautiful Playmates like Marli Buccola to save the magazine. Hopefully Playboy can be saved.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 21, 2023, 05:29:19 PM: Texas is 5th in the nation now for wine making, so the new refugees can go to Texas and they can work in the vineyards in Texas, and Texas can provide good cheap wine for Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, New Orleans, Memphis, Harlem, etc. The workers can join the United Farm Workers and they can have good lives, we can also have schools and libraries for the workers, etc.

Here is an article, but you can only read it once for free and then they want for you to subscribe.

https://www.dallasnews.com/food/drinks/2022/05/18/13-billion-boom-5-reasons-texas-wine-is-entering-its-best-era-yet/

I am sure you can find other free articles on the web about the wine in Texas.

Texas is our fastest growing state now, it is where all of the refugees are going. They can join the Teamsters and they can drive trucks, they can also join the United Farm Workers, and we need to have libraries and schools and job training for the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 06:02:46 PM: I''m not in favour of a ground invasion of Gaza by Israel, just yet.
The Israelis who'll be fighting and dying are kids in their teens and early 20s.
Why use your troops as cannon fodder, when you don't have to.
All that will do is create more grieving Jewish families.

Three senior Hamas officials/commanders have been blown up and killed in their own homes recently.
I'd just keep doing that for a while, (might be able to kill some more Hamas big wigs).

Wait and see what the Arab Peace Conference (including Spain) comes up with.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 10:25:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 03:32:11 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 02:51:06 PM
How does one keep tight control without a degree of occupation? Asking for a friend.

Good question.
Tell friend that the tight control can be exercised from outside the physical borders.
Tell friend that didn't work, was taken advantage of...so something different will likely be tried now.

Occupation through remote via mechanical intermediaries.

That sounds nice.

Probably how China governs Australia in a few years.

Sleep well Bambu my son.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 10:28:07 PM: Nukes wont help you now. Nukes aint gonna help you now

Shamalamalama

Nukes wont help you now. Nukes aint gonna help you now
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 22, 2023, 12:00:44 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 10:25:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 03:32:11 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 21, 2023, 02:51:06 PM
How does one keep tight control without a degree of occupation? Asking for a friend.

Good question.
Tell friend that the tight control can be exercised from outside the physical borders.
Tell friend that didn't work, was taken advantage of...so something different will likely be tried now.

Occupation through remote via mechanical intermediaries.

That sounds nice.

Probably how China governs Australia in a few years.

Sleep well Bambu my son.

Albo is leaving this afternoon for Washington to meet with Joe, Kamala and Co, including about AUKUS.
Totally understandable if the US doesn't wan't its nuke sub treasured technology in the hands of others, especially with Albo the other day doing nothing about China's now 'owning' the port of Darwin in Australia.
ScoMo was going to tell China NO...Albo's leftist govt sure seems to be cosying up to China.
Your leftist hero Albo.
Your leftist hero govt.

Chinese warships on one side of Darwin port
and US Marines, and US nuke subs on the other.
Totally ridiculous.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 22, 2023, 01:49:47 AM: How things work in a currently civilized sector of the world order, despite what some cringy bitches have to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 22, 2023, 03:35:42 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 22, 2023, 01:49:47 AM
How things work in a currently civilized sector of the world order, despite what some cringy bitches have to say.

Obama had a problem with it, ScoMo did, I certainly do, and so do millions of other people in bambuworld.
It's nutz!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 22, 2023, 11:34:21 PM: Sky News:

Israel President Herzog: "Hamas had chemical weapons instructions."
President showed the instructions.(Found on one of Hamas' dead fighters.)

Does Israel have chemical weapons to fire back?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 23, 2023, 10:30:31 AM: Happy 25th anniversary, Wye River memorandum!

https://peacemaker.un.org/israelopt-wyerivermemorandum98
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 12:13:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.

That kind of endorsement from you puts someone immediately on the terrorist watch list.

Bambu thanks you, I am sure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 02:40:47 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.
Even if bambu was it 100% right my comment would remain accurate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 05:12:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 02:40:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.
Even if bambu was it 100% right my comment would remain accurate.
Your comment had no facts, just insults.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 05:15:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 05:12:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 02:40:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.
Even if bambu was it 100% right my comment would remain accurate.
Your comment had no facts, just insults.
That is correct except for the plural. The supporting facts would be the entirety of bambu's Elba posting history.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 05:23:00 PM: Last night I went down into and along a Hezbollah terrorist tunnel...via my tv.
Made of rock, solid, electricians have been employed.
Hamas tunnels are made of dirt, collapse easily with bombing, but not Hezbollah ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 05:40:00 PM: Hamas should not use Australian contractors no matter how cheaply Australians sell themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 06:34:57 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 05:15:55 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 05:12:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 02:40:47 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 23, 2023, 08:55:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on October 21, 2023, 02:31:45 PM
Israel has not occupied Gaza militarily since 2005....though it has kept tight control of it.
Given recent events, obviously not tight enough.
Israel was tricked by the terrorists in Gaza. Israel thought its security was absolute...it wasn't.
That needs to be fixed, properly.
You need to be fixed, like a cat. Just in case.
Bambu is mostly right.
Even if bambu was it 100% right my comment would remain accurate.
Your comment had no facts, just insults.
That is correct except for the plural. The supporting facts would be the entirety of bambu's Elba posting history.

The. You have none.
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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on October 23, 2023, 07:30:02 PM: I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you dont like our religion (which a lot of them dont), if you sympathize with jihadists, then we dont want you in our country and you are not getting in.

- DJT

Take that founding principles of America! Suck on this, First Amendment! OUR RELIGION!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 08:10:52 PM: Quote from: Oil Clone on October 23, 2023, 07:30:02 PM
I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you dont like our religion (which a lot of them dont), if you sympathize with jihadists, then we dont want you in our country and you are not getting in.

- DJT

Take that founding principles of America! Suck on this, First Amendment! OUR RELIGION!
Whoosh! Squared.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM: So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 09:33:04 PM: DJT is best for having a secure immigration and border system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 09:52:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 09:33:04 PM
DJT is best for having a secure immigration and border system.

He will be hung along with a bunch of Australians for spying. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 09:54:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

The United States cannot call itself a Christian country while rape factories like Liberty University still stand.

It would be like calling Baptists or Catholics Christians, ridiculous on its face.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 10:00:51 PM: http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/)

Jesus says he is tired of being used as the lever in right wing cons.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 10:05:33 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 10:00:51 PM
http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/)

Jesus says he is tired of being used as the lever in right wing cons.

Well, it's Jesus or Allah...your choice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 23, 2023, 10:11:50 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 09:54:32 PM

The United States cannot call itself a Christian country while rape factories like Liberty University still stand.

It would be like calling Baptists or Catholics Christians, ridiculous on its face.

You may find Lime knocking on your coconut for that last comment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 10:12:01 PM: Instead of Palestinians in Gaza embracing Hamas, they should've armed themselves and killed every Hamas terrorist they saw.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 24, 2023, 12:14:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 23, 2023, 10:05:33 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 10:00:51 PM
http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/ (http://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/looks-for-jesus-to-take-the-wheel-in-the/)

Jesus says he is tired of being used as the lever in right wing cons.

Well, it's Jesus or Allah...your choice.

Father and son.

Allah is tired of that shit as well. So is Mohammed and Buddha. The whole pantheon is sick of it. That is why right wingers have curse after curse heaped upon them so their fragile girp on culture steadily slips away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 12:17:18 AM: Bambu, the American soldiers are wearing uniforms that were made in China.

We can have peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 24, 2023, 12:27:47 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:11:50 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 23, 2023, 09:54:32 PM

The United States cannot call itself a Christian country while rape factories like Liberty University still stand.

It would be like calling Baptists or Catholics Christians, ridiculous on its face.

You may find Lime knocking on your coconut for that last comment.

True. I should separate Catholics into nonchristian Catholics like Opus Dei, paedophile priests, their protectors and apologists and Christian Catholics like the Liberation Theology types.

There are probably similar distinctions among Baptists, but the factions and the distinctions between them are less publicized. Anything Christian in that religion has to fall outside the SBC at least.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 24, 2023, 02:56:32 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 12:17:18 AM
Bambu, the American soldiers are wearing uniforms that were made in China.

We can have peace.

Salute,

Tony V.

The West should itself be manufacturing more of the products it needs.
Today in bambuword it was declared there is a national security concern about solar
panels made in China, as they are connected to the internet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 24, 2023, 03:52:22 AM: Now Iran wants an oil embargo on Israel.
Can't do it by itself, needs OPEC to do it.
The Arab world has done it before.
Time for Joe to tell the Saudis..."don't do it".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 11:24:34 AM: The Day the Delusions Died

Prior to the October 7 massacre, many students, alumni, and donors with the unconstrained vision trusted that the university, for all its many problems,remained the best environment for civil discourse.

But then they watched university presidents who were quick to issue statements condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the killing of George Floyd fall silent, or offer the most slippery, equivocal statements carefully crafted to avoid offending anti Israel groups.
They watched an Israeli at Columbia get beaten with a stick, and heard reports about the physical intimidation of students on campuses across the country. They read about dozens of student organizations at Harvard signing a letter holding Israel entirely responsible for the massacre of Israelis.

The events of the last two weeks have shattered the illusion that wokeness is about protecting victims and standing up for persecuted minorities. This ideology is and has always been about the one thing many of us have told you it is about for years:power.
And after the last two weeks, there can be no doubt about how these people will use any power they seize
they will seek to destroy, in any way they can, those who disagree.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisi (https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisi)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 24, 2023, 02:32:14 PM: Authoritarians need simps like Red to wage oppression.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 24, 2023, 03:05:01 PM: The religious test is the foundation of the pogroms trump has planned and republicans support if he or someone similar slime their way into power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 24, 2023, 04:31:10 PM: A cardinal with a funny name, but a sharp understanding speaks out...

(quotation marks sprinkled all through this, were deleted)

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, published a letter to his diocese stating that his conscience and moral duty require him to condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. With the same conscience, he states with equal clarity that the cycle of violence has brought more than 5,000 deaths in Gaza.

The continuous bombing in Gaza will only cause more death and destruction and will only increase hatred and resentment. It will not solve any problem, he said, calling for an end to the war. It is only by ending decades of occupation and its tragic consequences, as well as giving a clear and secure national perspective to the Palestinian people that a serious peace process can begin.

Amen.

And I like his pepperoni colored hat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 04:41:00 PM: When I traveled across the USA and back in 1991 then I noticed that all of the factories were boarded up, and in Saint Louis while having Bic Macs I asked Bruce Willis what everyone was doing for a living now that the factories were boarded up, and Bruce Willis told me that in many areas the only opportunities are with the United States Military. It is sad, the only jobs in some areas are to join the Military.

And the same is true in many areas, Colombia even had child soldiers when they were living like shit 30 years ago.

We need to provide peaceful opportunities for people instead of just having jobs as soldiers. And in Colombia we educate the children now, and the children go to school instead of working and instead of being soldiers, and we have created lots of new opportunities in Colombia with coffee, etc. World trade and education has helped Colombia a lot, and world trade and education can help people all around the world.

We also need to have Peace Corps offices all over the United States, the poor people in Saint Louis need to be able to join the Peace Corps. And we can send the Peace Corps to Colombia, etc.

And we need to build more schools and libraries, etc.

When the USA first started the first things we did was to create Harvard, and the Bank of New York, and the New York Stock Exchange, etc, and we have the Library of Congress, and we have Copyrights and Patents, etc. We need to get back to the basics, instead of turning all of our people into soldiers.

I support having a good defense, etc, but blessed are the Peacemakers, and we need to fully fund the Peace Corps, etc. The poor people need to have the option to join the Peace Corps.

I also support Habitat for Humanity for housing. And people can bring in the fun architects from Santorini, Greece, etc. And people need swimming pools and tennis courts.

P.S. - I encourage everyone to get out there on Greyhound Buses when you get the chance and see the USA, Greyhound stops at McDonald's restaurants all over the USA, and they stop at little cafes, etc. Greyhound is a great way to see the USA, and you can just enjoy the ride and let other people do the driving. Even Battle Mountain, Nevada, has a Greyhound station, if you visit Battle Mountain on Greyhound then you can stay at the Colt, they have an Inn and a Restaurant and a Casino, etc. Battle Mountain also has the Calico Club which is a legal bordello. Anyhow, Greyhound is a great way to see the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 04:47:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 04:52:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 04:47:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
Quote
Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 05:18:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 04:41:00 PM
When I traveled across the USA and back in 1991 then I noticed that all of the factories were boarded up, and in Saint Louis while having Bic Macs I asked Bruce Willis what everyone was doing for a living now that the factories were boarded up, and Bruce Willis told me that in many areas the only opportunities are with the United States Military. It is sad, the only jobs in some areas are to join the Military.

And the same is true in many areas, Colombia even had child soldiers when they were living like shit 30 years ago.

We need to provide peaceful opportunities for people instead of just having jobs as soldiers. And in Colombia we educate the children now, and the children go to school instead of working and instead of being soldiers, and we have created lots of new opportunities in Colombia with coffee, etc. World trade and education has helped Colombia a lot, and world trade and education can help people all around the world.

We also need to have Peace Corps offices all over the United States, the poor people in Saint Louis need to be able to join the Peace Corps. And we can send the Peace Corps to Colombia, etc.

And we need to build more schools and libraries, etc.

When the USA first started the first things we did was to create Harvard, and the Bank of New York, and the New York Stock Exchange, etc, and we have the Library of Congress, and we have Copyrights and Patents, etc. We need to get back to the basics, instead of turning all of our people into soldiers.

I support having a good defense, etc, but blessed are the Peacemakers, and we need to fully fund the Peace Corps, etc. The poor people need to have the option to join the Peace Corps.

I also support Habitat for Humanity for housing. And people can bring in the fun architects from Santorini, Greece, etc. And people need swimming pools and tennis courts.

P.S. - I encourage everyone to get out there on Greyhound Buses when you get the chance and see the USA, Greyhound stops at McDonald's restaurants all over the USA, and they stop at little cafes, etc. Greyhound is a great way to see the USA, and you can just enjoy the ride and let other people do the driving. Even Battle Mountain, Nevada, has a Greyhound station, if you visit Battle Mountain on Greyhound then you can stay at the Colt, they have an Inn and a Restaurant and a Casino, etc. Battle Mountain also has the Calico Club which is a legal bordello. Anyhow, Greyhound is a great way to see the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5NkEkaXHQ
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 24, 2023, 05:40:38 PM: Trump says that if he becomes President he will remove the US from NATO.
No surprise, US can't keep paying for everything.
Time Europe spent more money on its own defences.

Given PM Albo's seeming reluctance to spend money on defence, especially with AUKUS, ANZUS could well become ANZ.
A frightening prospect.

Al least Albo won't be speaking in Congress, that's one good thing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 05:52:58 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 04:31:10 PM
A cardinal with a funny name, but a sharp understanding speaks out...

(quotation marks sprinkled all through this, were deleted)

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, published a letter to his diocese stating that his conscience and moral duty require him to condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. With the same conscience, he states with equal clarity that the cycle of violence has brought more than 5,000 deaths in Gaza.

The continuous bombing in Gaza will only cause more death and destruction and will only increase hatred and resentment. It will not solve any problem, he said, calling for an end to the war. It is only by ending decades of occupation and its tragic consequences, as well as giving a clear and secure national perspective to the Palestinian people that a serious peace process can begin.

Amen.

And I like his pepperoni colored hat.
Sad commentary on the backbone the Catholics had in WWII.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 06:01:15 PM: I support NATO, and I support the United Nations, and I support the Peace Corps, etc.

My hometown is building all of the fighter jets and bombers and satellites, etc. We built the Space Shuttles, which brought over $100 billion to the Antelope Valley.

They are all stupid, and we are selling all of our best stuff to the Arabs as well as to Israel. We are selling F-16 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia, and to Israel. And the stuff that they are buying is not as cool as the stuff that was around 50 years ago. We have planes from 50 years ago that are way faster than the new planes, that we can use for interceptors, for instance none of the new planes can out run an F-104 Starfighter, the Starfighter armed with Sidewinder missiles could catch any of the new fighter planes and shoot it down. So, we just need to upgrade and update and modify the F-104 Starfighters, we can vector the thrust to help them to steer better and to pull out of spins, and we can update everything, and an F-104 Starfighter can catch any new plane out there. So, we are selling the planes to everyone, to all sides, and we have planes from 50 years ago that are better than the new stuff.

I want peace, blessed are the Peacemakers. And war is all about money, and soldiers are just poor guys who needed a job, it is all sad. Certainly we need a good defense, but only for the most pure defense. We need peace if we can have peace.

We need to invite China to our parties, etc, and world trade and education are wonderful achievements. We can work together to cure Cancer, etc.

We need peace, and we need to stop Putin, Putin needs to be placed in Guantanamo Bay.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 06:10:51 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 04:52:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 04:47:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
Quote
Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
I think you should direct that comment to OilCan. He is the one who does not understand hubris.
I always find it interesting and revealing when you try to change the meaning of posts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 06:34:24 PM: Bambu, during the Civil War in Nicaragua the United States supported both sides, and we sold weapons to both sides, it was all BULLSHIT. Jimmy Carter supported the Sandinistas, while Ronald Reagan supported the Contras, and meanwhile they sold cocaine on the streets of America to make money to fund the war in Nicaragua. They also sold weapons to Iran to support the Contras in Nicaragua. War is stupid, the rich people sell weapons to all sides while the poor people die. And the fuckers were so ignorant that they had to sell cocaine to make money to fund their war, the ignorant fuckers.

So, we have guys like George Orwell who wrote "Animal Farm" in 1945 about the fall of Russia to communism, Orwell was teaching people, and people can still learn from reading that book, we need to make the book available in Spanish to everyone in Latin America. And Libraries have power, and education has power.

And movies and television shows have power, and magazines like Playboy had power, etc. And if you can change how people think and feel then you can change how they behave.

Blessed are the teachers, and blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 06:45:59 PM: On the issue of the behavior of the Vatican during World War II then there is the movie "The Scarlet and the Black" starring Gregory Peck.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 07:03:20 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 06:10:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 04:52:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 04:47:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
Quote
Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
I think you should direct that comment to OilCan. He is the one who does not understand hubris.
I always find it interesting and revealing when you try to change the meaning of posts.
LOL There are times when I cannot figure out if it is your utter inability to read or complete intellectual dishonesty that drives your posts. I recognize the possibility that those are not mutually exclusive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 07:11:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 07:03:20 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 06:10:51 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 04:52:51 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 04:47:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 24, 2023, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 10:31:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
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Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
I think you should direct that comment to OilCan. He is the one who does not understand hubris.
I always find it interesting and revealing when you try to change the meaning of posts.
LOL There are times when I cannot figure out if it is your utter inability to read or complete intellectual dishonesty that drives your posts. I recognize the possibility that those are not mutually exclusive.
You and oilcan are the idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 07:53:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 07:11:06 PM
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So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
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Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
I think you should direct that comment to OilCan. He is the one who does not understand hubris.
I always find it interesting and revealing when you try to change the meaning of posts.
LOL There are times when I cannot figure out if it is your utter inability to read or complete intellectual dishonesty that drives your posts. I recognize the possibility that those are not mutually exclusive.
You and oilcan are the idiots.
So... both.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 08:18:36 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 24, 2023, 07:53:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 07:11:06 PM
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Quote from: Espnthree on October 24, 2023, 06:10:51 PM
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Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on October 23, 2023, 09:16:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on October 23, 2023, 08:58:56 PM
So enlighten us, scholar. What DID Trump mean by if you don't like our religion...? What religion is that, hmm?
I would assume Christianity.

whooosh.
Thenpick another one.
Islam.

The whole point is that pick one is what Americans can do freely. Because there is no American "our religion." Trump s thinly veiled suggestion of a Christian litmus test for immigrants runs contrary to both the First Amendment and the founding principles of a secular democracy.
If I were you I would not vote for him.
But the same founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion.
Tell that to Trump. He is the one who talked about banning people who do not like "our religion".
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Try to distinguish between hubris and the law.
Try to distinguish between what a poster is actually saying and your desire to argue over every damned thing. Because if you meant what you said when you posted "founding principles and Constitution makes it impossible for any President to call for a national religion" you were agreeing with oil.
I think you should direct that comment to OilCan. He is the one who does not understand hubris.
I always find it interesting and revealing when you try to change the meaning of posts.
LOL There are times when I cannot figure out if it is your utter inability to read or complete intellectual dishonesty that drives your posts. I recognize the possibility that those are not mutually exclusive.
You and oilcan are the idiots.
So... both.
Yes.Like I said.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 09:08:21 PM: Bambu, one of my heroes is Shakira, she started schools for the child soldiers in Colombia. The kids should be in school, they should not be soldiers, and they can grow up to cure Cancer. And meanwhile I drink my morning coffee from Colombia every morning, I love the Colombian coffee.

Shakira is single, I could show her a good time here in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 12:34:02 AM: "Showing a good time" sounds expensive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 12:41:07 AM: Sky News

"US wary of China cutting supply chains."

#####

As a result US is ramping up manufacturing on its shores.
Good.
Other countries should do the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 25, 2023, 09:57:10 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 24, 2023, 09:08:21 PM

Shakira is single, I could show her a good time here in Anaheim.

Too much car for you, buddy.

If you lowered your standards slightly you might not die alone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 25, 2023, 11:25:53 AM: http://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bxgp/disobedient-women-book-excerpt-ohio-churches-abuse (http://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bxgp/disobedient-women-book-excerpt-ohio-churches-abuse)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2023, 03:30:38 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 12:34:02 AM
"Showing a good time" sounds expensive.

I would have to talk with her to see what she is into, Anaheim has everything, and Los Angeles is only 45 minutes away.

In Hollywood I could take Shakira to see a Company play at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where I attended, we could watch a play and see the stars of the future. And that would be cheap. For dinner after the play, I would have to see what Shakira wants. There is Oki Dog in Hollywood where the Punk Rockers all eat, that is very casual, and historical, Germ and all of those guys used to hang out there. Or there are a few good restaurants in Malibu that are nicer. Or there is the Odyssey Restaurant in Granada Hills that is awesome. Or there is Chef Bruno and the Anaheim White House Restaurant where the stars in Anaheim go. Or there is Club 33 at Disneyland. I would have to talk with her and find out what she is into.

I invited Marli Buccola to go to church with me here in Anaheim, she is a Christian from here in California, we could go to the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church on Sunday and then have lunch from Carl's Jr and we can eat in the park at La Palma Park. Going to church is a great first date, and it is cheap. Marli Buccola loved the post on her Facebook page.

I have a friend who is a rock star, he was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Suicidal Tendencies, and other bands, and he told me that after I get my movie made I will be able to get any woman I want. When I was young I was handsome, and smart, but I was poor, and in California the women want money. If I was a successful movie producer then I would be able to get any woman I want.

My Mother has been telling me that the right woman will not care how much money I have and that I can work together as a team with the right woman and we can make our own money, we will see. It would be great to have a woman who wants to write and produce movies and television shows with me, and maybe buy Universal Studios, etc, and own a night club in Rome, and maybe own a winery in Tuscany. And I would like to own a beach house in Malibu. We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2023, 06:28:12 PM: Talk about good security? At Universal we had our own police department, we had our own cops. Universal is very safe, and I am sure the Universal in Florida is just as safe as the one here in Hollywood.

And in Malibu we had 2 security gates, plus cameras, dogs, and flood lights with motion detectors, and it had to be safe because I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General. And there is also Latigo Beach where I learned how to surf, James Caan was there on the day when I learned how to surf, Latigo Beach is very safe and lots of stars have hung out there over the years. And James Garner hung out at Paradise Cove. Malibu is very safe.

I am lucky in Anaheim, this is a great area, and we have beautiful women and a good neighborhood church and good parks and good restaurants, we are blessed, and plus we have a swimming pool, and tennis courts, and Disneyland, we are blessed. And more women are moving to Anaheim every new day. Anaheim is a top destination for people who are looking to locate to and start a new life, like New York, and Hollywood. And I have a nice rent controlled apartment in Anaheim, I am so lucky, when I got this apartment my richest friend told me that I scored, she said this is top real estate and to keep this apartment forever and never give it up. I would only leave to go somewhere better like to a Beach House in Malibu, or to a Condo at Empire West in West Hollywood where Suzanne Pleshette lived, the building has always been full of stars and you can make movies with your neighbors, and when I worked there Hal Needham lived there and he was one of my heroes having directed "Smokey and the Bandit." All of the old timers are gone now, and I am not sure who the new young people are who live at Empire West, but Empire West I am sure has lots of stars like it always did.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 06:29:35 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 25, 2023, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 12:34:02 AM
"Showing a good time" sounds expensive.

I would have to talk with her to see what she is into, Anaheim has everything, and Los Angeles is only 45 minutes away.

In Hollywood I could take Shakira to see a Company play at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where I attended, we could watch a play and see the stars of the future. And that would be cheap. For dinner after the play, I would have to see what Shakira wants. There is Oki Dog in Hollywood where the Punk Rockers all eat, that is very casual, and historical, Germ and all of those guys used to hang out there. Or there are a few good restaurants in Malibu that are nicer. Or there is the Odyssey Restaurant in Granada Hills that is awesome. Or there is Chef Bruno and the Anaheim White House Restaurant where the stars in Anaheim go. Or there is Club 33 at Disneyland. I would have to talk with her and find out what she is into.

I invited Marli Buccola to go to church with me here in Anaheim, she is a Christian from here in California, we could go to the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church on Sunday and then have lunch from Carl's Jr and we can eat in the park at La Palma Park. Going to church is a great first date, and it is cheap. Marli Buccola loved the post on her Facebook page.

I have a friend who is a rock star, he was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Suicidal Tendencies, and other bands, and he told me that after I get my movie made I will be able to get any woman I want. When I was young I was handsome, and smart, but I was poor, and in California the women want money. If I was a successful movie producer then I would be able to get any woman I want.

My Mother has been telling me that the right woman will not care how much money I have and that I can work together as a team with the right woman and we can make our own money, we will see. It would be great to have a woman who wants to write and produce movies and television shows with me, and maybe buy Universal Studios, etc, and own a night club in Rome, and maybe own a winery in Tuscany. And I would like to own a beach house in Malibu. We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.

If it doesn't work out with her, there are other options...'gold diggers', 'princesses', and 'perfectly reasonable' women.
One 'princess' said in a video that "the man should spend $200 to $300 on a first date."

One 'perfectly reasonable' young woman (who happened to be attractive), when asked, said that she'd be happy to go to 'anywhere' on a date, low cost or whatever, 'to get to know the man'.
I know which ones I'd be 'courting'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 25, 2023, 07:45:19 PM: I think there is a high likelihood of multiple TROs in Tony's future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 25, 2023, 07:47:07 PM: And past
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 08:05:51 PM: For a woman, a date with Tony could be what they've been missing.
Would be interesting seeing the sights and having an affordable meal...if one were genuine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 25, 2023, 08:51:30 PM: Achtung, bitches!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/25/dangerous-mike-johnson-house-speaker/

(Larry hasn't been round much, but I feel his apt phrase should be deployed now and then.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 01:54:23 PM: Over the line!

Manhunt Underway For Suspect After Maine Mass Shootings
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maine-mass-shooting-person-of-interest_n_6539f879e4b0783c4b9fc95e

Locked and loaded!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 26, 2023, 03:13:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 01:54:23 PM
Over the line!

Manhunt Underway For Suspect After Maine Mass Shootings
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maine-mass-shooting-person-of-interest_n_6539f879e4b0783c4b9fc95e

Locked and loaded!

No absolute security prevented such attacks by assault rifle armed shooter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:18:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 25, 2023, 08:05:51 PM
For a woman, a date with Tony could be what they've been missing.
Would be interesting seeing the sights and having an affordable meal...if one were genuine.

Thanks Bambu.

When you are young it is easy, and when I lived on the beach in Florida when we were there with the Space Shuttle Program, I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days. But, then as one gets older it becomes about money, etc, and things become more difficult.

I worked and studied in order to try to improve my chances of attaining success, and making money, etc, so I can have a bride, but sadly I was not able to make any money, and thus, no bride. But, I rubbed elbows with the rich and famous on various jobs that I had, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette who was a beautiful and huge star, and I escorted stars when I worked at Universal Studios, etc.

The Bible says we should seek out a good woman like a fine treasure and she will bring blessings to your whole family.

Republic Studios hooked Roy Rogers up with Dale Evans from what I understand, for the movie "The Cowboy and the Senorita" I think, and then Roy and Dale spent their whole lives together.

It would be good to have a woman who could work in the Entertainment Industry with me as a team. We could be a Hollywood Power Couple. ( But I could be a cool Hollywood player like Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges is cool and mellow and you would never guess that he is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. )

My friend told me to make a list of everything that I want in a wife, and then pray on it until God sends me a wife. He also told me to make a list about my Production Company, etc. I am writing stuff down and I am praying on it.

When I get around the right people, then the women love me. I went to a Hollywood Party on Melrose one night, and I showed up all alone, and there was a beautiful woman there who grabbed me right when I walked in, and she took me around and introduced me to all of the people there, and she kept saying "Isn't he beautiful?" She thought I was beautiful.

There is a quote from Sanford Meisner...

"... And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which before he had only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women."

And I plan to help orphans and stuff after I become successful.

It will get easier after I achieve some success, as you get older the women want money, and the women want nice and safe homes, etc, but my Mom says a good woman will work with me as a team to gain success, we can work together to help each other.

The Asian women like me, I think I am part French and the Asian women like the French men. And Natalie Portman married a French guy. The women love the French guys. I need to do a DNA test, but my last name is French, I think. There are stars in France with my last name, Bernard Verley, Renaud Verley, etc, Bernard dated Brigitte Bardot.

And my Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter Kristen.

Part of being an adult is making money, and as I make money then I will be more attractive to the women, while at the same time I can find a good woman and we can work together as a team to make money and to help the orphans, etc. And I want to have at least 1 child, I would be a great Father.

Thanks Bambu for the vote of confidence, and thanks for the optimism. God is going to send me a great woman, and I will be just what she needs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 03:28:55 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:18:43 PM

When you are young it is easy, and when I lived on the beach in Florida when we were there with the Space Shuttle Program, I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days.
Henry Winkler is a WOMAN?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:46:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 03:28:55 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:18:43 PM

When you are young it is easy, and when I lived on the beach in Florida when we were there with the Space Shuttle Program, I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days.
Henry Winkler is a WOMAN?

?

I am a man, and as a young teen in Florida I made out with the women like the Fonz did on Happy Days. Henry is a man, and I never implied that he was not one. I too am a man, like Henry, and I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days as a teen on the beach in Florida.

Of note, my friend Drew worked with Henry on some projects when Drew was a studio executive at Universal and at Paramount, and they got along great, Drew and Henry both descended from German Jews and their families escaped to the USA to escape the Holocaust. I used to drink coffee with Drew and Drew used to tell me stories. Drew loved Henry Winkler.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 04:03:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:46:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 03:28:55 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:18:43 PM

When you are young it is easy, and when I lived on the beach in Florida when we were there with the Space Shuttle Program, I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days.
Henry Winkler is a WOMAN?

... I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days as a teen on the beach in Florida....

Salute,

Tony V.
The Fonz was a WOMAN?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 04:26:30 PM: Okay, let me try again...

As a teen I made out with the women in the same manner as the character the Fonz on Happy Days.

And I was cool as a teen, in Florida I was only 12, so I was not very old, but I used to kiss the girls on the beach. I was cool like Matt Dillon, and then later I smoked cigarettes and hung out with the stoners and we were like the guys from "The Outsiders." Only instead of being greasers we were rockers, we grew our hair long and we listened to Rock and Roll music. And we had parties out in the desert with bon fires, and with all of the teens who had parents who were working on the Space Shuttles, etc.

As a cool teen like Matt Dillon I made out with the women in the same manner as the Fonz on Happy Days.

But it gets harder when you get older, though if you get lucky then you can find a good woman to help you, like Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and like Sonny and Cher, and like Lucy and Desi, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 26, 2023, 04:29:41 PM: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Aboullahian warned the U.S. that it would not be spared if it continues to manage what he called the genocide in Palestine,while speaking to the United Nations on Thursday.

Today in New York and the United Nations, I say frankly to the American statemen who are now managing the genocide in Palestine that we do not welcome the expansion of the war in the region. But I warn, if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire. It is our home and West Asia is our region.

Thanks Obama/Biden for cuddling up to thugs like the Iranis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 05:00:42 PM: 40% of the children in the public schools in Beverly Hills are from Iran.

We need to teach these children the ways of peace. We need for these children to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America every morning, and we need to teach these children how wonderful the USA is and how special freedom is, and the Persian women here can wear swimsuits on the beach. I had a Persian boss at the Broadway Department Store in Pasadena and she loved Fashion and she loved to go to Malibu in her swimsuit. Women also have good rights here in the USA, and women are allowed to be bosses here, the Persian women make great bosses.

Mahlagha Jaberi is a new leader on Social Media for the Persians, maybe Biden can meet with her and with the other good Persians here in Beverly Hills. There are good Persians who need to have their voices heard, instead of only hearing bad voices, we also need to hear the good voices.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 26, 2023, 08:55:30 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 26, 2023, 04:29:41 PM

Thanks Obama/Biden for cuddling up to thugs like the Iranis.

Red is still spanking it to clips of donnie doing the sword dance with some very good people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 10:12:51 PM: We want for Biden to cozy up with Iran, but not with the bad guys.

And in California we need "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies instead of "Blood In and Blood Out" movies. Teach the kids to surf and to dance and to eat cheeseburgers, etc.

And we still have Sammy Hagar to keep the party going.

Bambu, tell the women from Australia to come to the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church in Anaheim to find single Christian men.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 26, 2023, 10:41:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 26, 2023, 03:28:55 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 03:18:43 PM

When you are young it is easy, and when I lived on the beach in Florida when we were there with the Space Shuttle Program, I made out with the women like the Fonz on Happy Days.
Henry Winkler is a WOMAN?

Some days ambiguous sentence structure is a gift.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 27, 2023, 02:19:16 PM: Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the world, which is a blessing as the Entertainment Capital of the world. And we need to always be inclusive, as is insured by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and our Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Of note, West Hollywood is all inclusive, with a lot of Gays, and when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette then Barry Manilow tried to pick me up, if I was Gay I could have dated Barry Manilow. But, I am not Gay, but I told Barry that it was a compliment and that I was honored that he found me attractive. I would never insult Barry, and it was a compliment.

Los Angeles is very diverse, and we need to be inclusive. We also need to stop the violence and race riots, etc, at the public schools, we need to make the public schools safe like the Christian schools are.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 27, 2023, 02:48:00 PM: To those whom much is given, then much is expected from.

My richest friend spent her whole life doing charity work to help the homeless people.

When I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ then we had all of the most beautiful women from my high school with us, we had cheerleaders, and we had the rich teens with us, we had the best and the brightest with us on our trip to help the children in Mexico. And that needs to be continued, the Youth of today need to go to Mexico like I did, and the tradition of helping the children in Mexico needs to be expanded. We do not need walls, instead we need teamwork, teamwork makes the dream work.

And we must teach our youth how to open hostels for the homeless, etc, like in Rome, Italy, where the people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night.

We need for the best and the brightest to help the poor and the needy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 27, 2023, 05:15:46 PM: Apparently mass shootings result from the teaching of evolution, and no-fault divorces, per one of Speaker Mike's sermons in 2016.

Makes you wonder what would result from, say, drag storytime or same-sex marriage, in Mike's worldview.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 27, 2023, 05:45:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 27, 2023, 05:15:46 PM

Apparently mass shootings result from the teaching of evolution, and no-fault divorces, per one of Speaker Mike's sermons in 2016.

Makes you wonder what would result from, say, drag storytime or same-sex marriage, in Mike's worldview.
Quite a topic for your new web page.
How is it going?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 27, 2023, 07:16:28 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 26, 2023, 10:12:51 PM
We want for Biden to cozy up with Iran, but not with the bad guys.

And in California we need "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies instead of "Blood In and Blood Out" movies. Teach the kids to surf and to dance and to eat cheeseburgers, etc.

And we still have Sammy Hagar to keep the party going.

Bambu, tell the women from Australia to come to the Calvary Chapel Open Door Church in Anaheim to find single Christian men.

Salute,

Tony V.

Many single men in my world seem to be running away from women and marriage at express pace.
"Say goodbye to half your stuff" seems to be scaring them.
Marriage, children, divorce, bitter custody disputes (Family Court nightmares) bitter property settlements (the man losing out a lot of the time)...misery.

If I were young again, no way I'd be signing up for it, unless the happy couple were both starting with nothing, and the young woman were 'special'.
Christian, Right wing politics, pretty, good work ethic, quality morals, modest, demure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 27, 2023, 07:29:19 PM: San Bernardino was nice in the 1950s. Now San Bernardino looks like a wasteland. San Bernardino needs to give out lots of redevelopment money, and business loans, etc, and they need to bring in the new immigrants from Ukraine, etc. San Bernardino can also expand trade with Mexico, etc.

Bambu, I rented a room from a rich ex wife in Malibu, the ex wife of Sammy Hagar's family doctor. We lived like Royalty. Princess Diana was going to be living around the corner next door to Olivia Newton John.

I would like to live in Malibu again someday, I enjoyed living in Malibu, I need to find a wife who wants to live in Malibu. With some properties in Italy. And maybe eventually owning Universal Studios, we will see what happens.

By the way, Biden needs to have a special meeting with the President of China, they need to spend the weekend playing Golf in Palm Springs, and they can have other dignitaries show up, we need to make peacetime progress and strengthen the peace.

And we need to expand the Peace Corps in China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 27, 2023, 08:00:55 PM: Ah yes, the lives of the past, when life in the West was sane, and affordable.
Today in the West, for average joe, nothing much is affordable, let alone the life you seek.
But, "you never know your luck in a big city".
A rich divorcee is maybe your best bet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 28, 2023, 03:42:44 AM: Australian PM has departed the US...and already there's a problem with the AUKUS pact...the US Navy short of Virginia class submarines for itself, America's defence.
Any attempted increase in manufacture could cause problems...as the subs have to be made properly, no rushing.
Yes, rushing is where mistakes get made.

Also mentioned on my news was the fact that once delivered to Australia the subs would be owned and sailed by Australia.
The "crown jewels" of 'America's nuclear defence' then in the hands of others.

Simple solution :
America rotates some of its nuclear subs thru Australian ports, Indian ocean, Pacific Ocean, South China Sea etc.
That way America still owns the subs, owns the technology, the subs totally sailed by Americans.
...with Australia contributing the cost.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 28, 2023, 12:18:40 PM: It is a better idea than giving you tech you do not understand and cannot learn to use.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2023, 02:59:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 28, 2023, 03:42:44 AM
Australian PM has departed the US...and already there's a problem with the AUKUS pact...the US Navy short of Virginia class submarines for itself, America's defence.
Any attempted increase in manufacture could cause problems...as the subs have to be made properly, no rushing.
Yes, rushing is where mistakes get made.

Also mentioned on my news was the fact that once delivered to Australia the subs would be owned and sailed by Australia.
The "crown jewels" of 'America's nuclear defence' then in the hands of others.

Simple solution :
America rotates some of its nuclear subs thru Australian ports, Indian ocean, Pacific Ocean, South China Sea etc.
That way America still owns the subs, owns the technology, the subs totally sailed by Americans.
...with Australia contributing the cost.

We will sell you some submarines and we will teach you how to use them.

But, the United States Military is not a Mercenary Force. We do not fight for money, we fight only when it is necessary and only when we consider it to be the right thing to do.

In Kuwait when we ran Saddam out, the Government of Kuwait wanted to pay the USA money for saving them, and President George H.W. Bush told them that the United States Military is not a Mercenary Force, we removed Saddam because it was the right thing to do, and we did not do it for money.

We are not mercenaries. But, we will sell you weapons. And we are your allies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 28, 2023, 03:10:27 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 28, 2023, 12:18:40 PM
It is a better idea than giving you tech you do not understand and cannot learn to use.

LOL
It's a good idea because subs could be in the region ...now, not in a decade plus from now.
Renting "fully furnished" is often better than buying.
If I were the US, no way I'd be selling my nuke subs to anyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2023, 03:37:03 PM: We have it all under control.

But, we need to watch people, and we need to be wise.

When I was 13 the streets here were flooded with cocaine to support the Civil War in Nicaragua, etc, the stupid fuckers were selling cocaine on the streets of America to support their war. Teens were doing cocaine.

We need to support the Peace Corps, and we need to be wise, and we need to be smarter than the fuckers in the past.

We can help to fund peace, and aid to the poor, and education, and healthcare, etc, by selling oranges to China.

And Biden needs to be playing Golf with the President of China right now, they need to spend a weekend in Palm Springs playing Golf and making peace and building a friendship.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 28, 2023, 03:53:06 PM: Maybe Xi and Biden can get a moss bath together at Two Bunch Palms, just like Tim Robins and Greta Scaachi.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2023, 04:15:50 PM: It is a perfect 81 degrees Fahrenheit in Palm Springs right now, Xi and Biden need to have an emergency meeting in Palm Springs, and they can enjoy the best that Palm Springs has to offer, while they strengthen peace and strengthen the friendship between China and the USA. They can drink mimosas with Sunkist orange juice.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 28, 2023, 04:19:00 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2023, 04:15:50 PM
It is a perfect 81 degrees Fahrenheit in Palm Springs right now, Xi and Biden need to have an emergency meeting in Palm Springs, and they can enjoy the best that Palm Springs has to offer, while they strengthen peace and strengthen the friendship between China and the USA. They can drink mimosas with Sunkist orange juice.

Salute,

Tony V.

If only that could be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 28, 2023, 04:35:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2023, 03:37:03 PM
We have it all under control.

But, we need to watch people, and we need to be wise.

When I was 13 the streets here were flooded with cocaine to support the Civil War in Nicaragua, etc, the stupid fuckers were selling cocaine on the streets of America to support their war. Teens were doing cocaine.

We need to support the Peace Corps, and we need to be wise, and we need to be smarter than the fuckers in the past.

We can help to fund peace, and aid to the poor, and education, and healthcare, etc, by selling oranges to China.

And Biden needs to be playing Golf with the President of China right now, they need to spend a weekend in Palm Springs playing Golf and making peace and building a friendship.

Salute,

Tony V.

That would be wonderful.
Then I could relax again, and only have to concern myself with a bushfire escape plan instead of also having to work out the shortest route to the 'billabong'...death before capture by the evil invaders.

Several people have already died as fires ravage parts of Queensland state.
"You can't fight a firestorm with a garden hose".
One lady had a heart attack while being evacuated.
I never want to hear "it's too late to leave".
.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 28, 2023, 09:19:00 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 28, 2023, 03:53:06 PM
Maybe Xi and Biden can get a moss bath together at Two Bunch Palms, just like Tim Robins and Greta Scaachi.

It was moss, wasn't it? I remember it as mud, but I think that's wrong.

I was smitten by Scachi. Was sorry she turned down the lead in Basic Instinct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 08:45:59 AM: Seems Israel is the only country not "allowed" to win a war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on October 29, 2023, 09:08:44 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 28, 2023, 09:19:00 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 28, 2023, 03:53:06 PM
Maybe Xi and Biden can get a moss bath together at Two Bunch Palms, just like Tim Robins and Greta Scaachi.

It was moss, wasn't it? I remember it as mud, but I think that's wrong.

I was smitten by Scachi. Was sorry she turned down the lead in Basic Instinct.
I think it was moss. They have both.

And Greta Scaachi bursting out of a Santa Claus suit in an explosion of.feathers in Coca Cola Kid is the scene i replayed on a VHS tape.more than any other.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 12:07:50 PM: There's talk online that the US govt is going to draft young men into the military again.
With everyone being equal, why only young men and not young women.

If all males, and all females, of all races and religions, of all occupations, are not drafted then it's total discrimination against those who are drafted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 29, 2023, 12:24:04 PM: Nobody who matters has discussed resurrection of the draft
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 29, 2023, 01:24:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 12:07:50 PM
There's talk online that the US govt is going to draft young men into the military again.
With everyone being equal, why only young men and not young women.

If all males, and all females, of all races and religions, of all occupations, are not drafted then it's total discrimination against those who are drafted.

Almost all men who are 18 to25 years old and live in the United States must register for Selective Service.

This includes:

U.S. citizens (U.S. born, dual citizens, and naturalized)
U.S. citizens who live outside of the country
Immigrants (legal permanent residents and undocumented immigrants)
Refugees and asylum seekers
Transgender people who were assigned male gender at birth
People with disabilities
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 04:45:51 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on October 29, 2023, 01:24:23 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 12:07:50 PM
There's talk online that the US govt is going to draft young men into the military again.
With everyone being equal, why only young men and not young women.

If all males, and all females, of all races and religions, of all occupations, are not drafted then it's total discrimination against those who are drafted.

Almost all men who are 18 to25 years old and live in the United States must register for Selective Service.

This includes:

U.S. citizens (U.S. born, dual citizens, and naturalized)
U.S. citizens who live outside of the country
Immigrants (legal permanent residents and undocumented immigrants)
Refugees and asylum seekers
Transgender people who were assigned male gender at birth
People with disabilities

Not women too.
So much for equality.

Only "toxic masculinity" people have to register. LOL

Women get special treatment...obviously...not forced to do anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 08:47:53 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on October 29, 2023, 12:24:04 PM
Nobody who matters has discussed resurrection of the draft

Maybe someone's testing the waters. :)

No need for a draft anyway...cannon fodder troops is oh so "yesterday".
As mommy dearest told a younger bambu..."The next war will be 'one flash and you're ash'".

300 million Americans in their homes, heavily armed, expertly trained, ready and willing to slaughter any invading armies...good for national defence...better than any draft.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on October 29, 2023, 09:03:04 PM: And for shooting kids!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 29, 2023, 09:13:00 PM: Ron DeSantis lax gun stance leads to a mass shooting in Tampa to the surprise of no one.

Our silver lining is that Bambu is too terrified to visit the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 29, 2023, 10:31:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on October 29, 2023, 09:13:00 PM
Ron DeSantis lax gun stance leads to a mass shooting in Tampa to the surprise of no one.

Our silver lining is that Bambu is too terrified to visit the US.

The most terrifying thing is that I would basically have to throw $35 of every $100 of my money away in the process.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 12:21:27 AM: Bambu, I was just looking, and it is only $150 to ride a Greyhound Bus from Los Angeles to New York City...

https://www.greyhound.com/en-us/bus-from-los-angeles-to-new-york

You can spend a couple of weeks in Los Angeles seeing Hollywood and the museums and studios, etc, and the beaches, etc, and then ride Greyhound across the nation getting to see the whole USA as you travel across the nation, and then you can spend a couple of weeks in New York seeing Broadway and the Russian Tea Room, and Central Park, and the Statue of Liberty, and the Metropolitan Opera, etc. Give yourself 6 weeks to come see L.A. then see the whole nation as you travel by Greyhound from one coast to the other coast and then spend a couple of weeks in New York. If money were no object, you could stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel in a Bungalow like Howard Hughes while in Los Angeles, they call it the "Pink Palace" as the hotel is famously painted pink. I do not know where to stay in New York, I will have to learn.

https://www.dorchestercollection.com/los-angeles/the-beverly-hills-hotel/rooms-suites/beverly-hills-bungalow-suite

Maybe some of the people on here from New York can recommend cool hotels to stay at in New York City.

Here is a hotel on Mulberry Street, in Manhattan, that sounds like a safe hotel, and it is $200 per night.

https://www.hotelmulberry.com/

By the way, when I went to the Beverly Hills Hotel to apply for a job then Hugh Hefner was there that day, it was cool, Hef used to hang out at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 03:01:35 AM: I heard that Little Italy in NYC is getting smaller, while China Town is growing by leaps and bounds.

We still have Italians coming to the USA but I think a lot of them are coming to California now, the Italians love San Diego, etc.

Meanwhile, San Bernardino, California looks like a wasteland, after having been beautiful in the 1950s. Maybe we can invite the Chinese to have an enclave in San Bernardino to help to save San Bernardino. Real Estate is cheap in San Bernardino by California standards, and they can work to improve the schools, etc. There is the California State University in San Bernardino, and they have other schools. The Chinese are welcome to come to San Bernardino and to help to save the city. The most powerful politician in the region is Sabrina Cervantes who is a Democrat. The people from the Philippines are also welcome to help to save San Bernardino, and the city can also expand trade with Mexico, etc. San Bernardino needs helpers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 03:26:59 AM: A new trade center is being built in San Bernardino County and Mexico is our number one trade partner, the refugees from Ukraine, and also the Chinese, and Filipinos, and others, and Russians, and others, can join the Teamsters and they can drive trucks, and they can ship goods all over the USA on a trucking and rail network.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-mexico-china-us-trade-opportunity/

The Chinese, and the Filipinos, and the people from Ukraine, and the Russians, are all welcome to help to save San Bernardino, California.

And the California State University in San Bernardino can help to organize and aid improvement in San Bernardino, along with help from Sabrina Cervantes, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 03:57:18 AM: I keep getting an error message 1016.
My time here could be shortlived, by things out of my control.
I deleted duck duck go browser from my device and reloaded it.
That works for now.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Message said something about this site being in/on 'cloudfare' or something.
exelba worked fine, but it seems to have been closed.
Could this site be moved to that platform?

Oh well, such is life, not everything that should be simple is.

If this forum doesn't work out,..... looks like I could be blocked from here by the cloudfarians and their "error 1016" .....I'll be at US Message Boards.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 04:13:21 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 03:57:18 AM
I keep getting an error message 1016.
My time here could be shortlived, by things out of my control.
I deleted duck duck go browser from my device and reloaded it.
That's worked for now.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Message said something about this site being in/on 'cloudfare' or something.
exelba worked fine, but it seems to have been closed.
Could this site be moved to that platform?

Oh well, such is life, not everything that should be simple is.

If this forum doesn't work out,..... looks like I could be blocked from here by the cloudfarians and their "error 1016" .....I'll be at US Message Boards.

Firefox works for me just fine, here is a link for the Firefox Browser...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 04:39:39 AM: Thanks Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 04:45:59 AM: Quote from: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 04:39:39 AM
Thanks Tony.

You are welcome. I hope you can stay, you are a very important part of Elba.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 05:02:58 AM: Anaheim is rich because of Disneyland and also from having sports teams and stadiums, and a convention center, etc. We receive 50,000 new tourists every new day and they all come here and spend money. The tourists sleep in the hotels, and they eat at the restaurants, etc.

Vegas has Tourism too.

And the USA has Hoover Dam, which provides water and power for a huge number of people, plus it supports agriculture, etc. The USA has benefited from dams.

And we need to build new libraries and bookstores, etc, and here we even have an old fashion record store, they have vinyl, and DVDs, and CDs, etc. The name of the store is "For Your Entertainment" and these wonderful stores need to be in every neighborhood. And the bands and the movie studios and everyone makes money from the Entertainment stores. We can sneak educational videos into the Entertainment stores. I have bought DVDs on History for example, we have entertainment that teaches us.

I look forward to seeing New York City someday. I love Florida, and I am sure New York is great, Florida is full of New Yorkers. New York is amazing with 8.2 million people, New York is the largest city in the USA. I have had a lot of friends and bosses from New York, and I love the Italians, and I love the Jews, and I love the Chinese, I will be fine in New York. I might even go listen to some jazz in Harlem like Sinatra used to do. I am sure that New York is a great City.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 06:26:07 AM: Mrs bambu loved New York City...she and her small travel group walked everywhere.
Winter it was.
A true winter wonderland, just like in the movies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 30, 2023, 07:52:28 PM: OK. You have to stop the Q tip when there is resistance.

- Chandler Bing

RIP Matt Perry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 08:02:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 06:26:07 AM
Mrs bambu loved New York City...she and her small travel group walked everywhere.
Winter it was.
A true winter wonderland, just like in the movies.

I am sure that I am going to love New York City, I look forward to traveling there eventually.

I attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts which is the oldest professional acting school in the world, with a campus in New York City, as well as a campus at the Charlie Chaplin Studio here in Hollywood, California. I had a lot of great teachers from New York. My favorite teacher was born in Buffalo, and she attended NYU while living in the Village, and she studied with Uta Hagen and Sanford Meisner and all of the great acting teachers in New York City.

I went to college with a guy who owns a Crazy Otto's restaurant in New York City, and he also owns a couple of restaurants in Lancaster, California.

If I was rich I would go see see New York right now. But, I need to earn the money first. After I earn some money I want to travel. I am sure New York will be great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 09:36:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 08:02:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 06:26:07 AM
Mrs bambu loved New York City...she and her small travel group walked everywhere.
Winter it was.
A true winter wonderland, just like in the movies.

I am sure that I am going to love New York City, I look forward to traveling there eventually.

I attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts which is the oldest professional acting school in the world, with a campus in New York City, as well as a campus at the Charlie Chaplin Studio here in Hollywood, California. I had a lot of great teachers from New York. My favorite teacher was born in Buffalo, and she attended NYU while living in the Village, and she studied with Uta Hagen and Sanford Meisner and all of the great acting teachers in New York City.

I went to college with a guy who owns a Crazy Otto's restaurant in New York City, and he also owns a couple of restaurants in Lancaster, California.

If I was rich I would go see see New York right now. But, I need to earn the money first. After I earn some money I want to travel. I am sure New York will be great.

Salute,

Tony V.

Travel?
Don't forget travel insurance...good travel insurance.

When travelling, best to stay right away from alcohol, apparently many "travel insurance companies" are denying claims where alcohol is/could be the cause of an accident.
Apparently they go searching for your bar receipt, other evidence of alcohol consumption.
Overseas, miss the last step, fall flat on your face, get a brain injury...that is hundreds of thousands of dollars you'll have to find to get back home, if the travel insurance company denies your claim.
A real case lately.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 09:43:27 PM: If I were:

...Bibi...I'd be exchanging all my prisoners for the hostages.
Then I'd keep right on blowing up Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 10:28:52 PM: People are lined up buying guns from the gun stores. The criminals are not going to get far, they will get shot, or they commit suicide. The criminals will never win. So, we need to give people honest opportunities such as working in the vineyard and we need to keep people honest. The criminals can run the clubs, bars, bordellos, etc, like they do in San Francisco. And when they had Gambling Ships they had 50 guys with machine guns guarding the casinos. The bad guys are not going to get far. And I have neighbors who are Boxers, I would not mess with these guys, we have some strong people in America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on October 30, 2023, 11:11:58 PM: Financial Times;

Israelis queue to buy guns in aftermath of Hamas attacks

Firearms store owners say there has been unprecedented rise in sales in wake of fears of more unrest.

In a suburb of the Israeli city of Kefar Sava, gunshots rang out on a quiet Friday from firearms practice at a nearby shooting range. And in the city of Holon, a queue snaked around a building as Israelis lined up to buy guns.

Firearms sales have surged among Jewish Israelis since October 7, when civilians were forced to fight off Palestinian Hamas militants while waiting for the army to respond to a cross-border raid that claimed 1,400 Israeli lives, according to Israeli authorities.

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 30, 2023, 11:51:38 PM: Bambu, if I was making my movie right now with Universal, then I would not be allowed to travel because of the high cost of insurance.

And the stars are not allowed to ski, nor can they ride motorcycles.

Sonny Bono died while skiing, he hit a tree, so sad. Sonny Bono was a great man.

And Vice President Harris asked Firefox to always be free for the poor people of the world, Harris mentioned Firefox specifically, she wants Firefox to be free for all.

On the issue of Gambling Ships, the House always wins, and you could put Gambling Ships off of the coasts of places all around the world, and you can use the money to buy vineyards and farms to put the refugees to work as farm workers, etc. You could use the Gambling Money to help the Homeless People by putting them to work as Farm Workers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on October 31, 2023, 12:41:37 AM: Thoughts and prayers go out to you, Bambu. Maybe you can get a squirt gun to replace your broken penis. Do they allow squirt guns in Australia?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on October 31, 2023, 11:28:23 AM: It is rare but it happens now and then.

Hillary is spot on.

People who are calling for a ceasefire now, do not understand Hamas, That is not possible.
It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a ceasefire in effect rebuilding their armaments, creating stronger positions to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the Israelis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 31, 2023, 03:57:50 PM: Happy Halloween everyone!

Here in Los Angeles the best place to go for Halloween is West Hollywood, there are many great clubs there, the Whisky, the Roxy, the Troubadour, the Rainbow, the Viper Room, etc, and there are street parties happening on both Sunset Blvd and on Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica Blvd is a safe spot for the Gays, but straight people party there too, and the Troubadour is a straight club on Santa Monica Blvd.

And I bet Empire West will have a cool rooftop party at the swimming pool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on October 31, 2023, 06:48:55 PM: Outlaw Jersey whale predicts the end of Trump....

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4285008-christie-trump-conviction-legal-battles/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 01, 2023, 06:47:00 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on October 31, 2023, 06:48:55 PM
Outlaw Jersey whale predicts the end of Trump....

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4285008-christie-trump-conviction-legal-battles/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 07:28:25 AM: Halloween is scary, a recipe for disaster.
Everyting from trick or treating kids being preyed upon, to fatal shootings.

Best/safest place on Halloween is at home, all the lights off and the doorbell switched off.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 07:53:11 AM: But make sure to have your guns cocked and ready to fire at a kid who rings your door bell.

With the world such a scary place, how do you get out of bed in the morning?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 01, 2023, 10:16:57 AM: I arise to the hope of reading news like this....

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-determine-legality-trump-too-small-trademark-2023-11-01/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 03:56:50 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 07:53:11 AM
But make sure to have your guns cocked and ready to fire at a kid who rings your door bell.

With the world such a scary place, how do you get out of bed in the morning?

Nah.
The lights would be out, and the doorbell 'not working'.
Don't believe in Halloween? protest.

Bet the loved ones of the shooting victims/other victims wish the victims had stayed home in the dark, ...and they'd never heard of Halloween.

"Child attacked by dog in north Spokane Halloween night."

"More American child pedestrians die on Halloween from cars than any other day of the year."

Public Health: "Eye injuries from flying eggs".

. Unsafe costumes.
. Distracted drivers
. Demon allergies
. Trick ot trip
. Fire hazards
. Pumpkin carving, many knife injuries
. Falling off ladders
. Electrical hazards
. Pokes in the eye
. Cheap costume contact lenses that could contain chlorine, iron, and other harmful chemicals - American Academy of Opthalmology.
. There goes the dental work...American Dental Association- "Be picky if it's sticky".
Sticky pulling out fillings and crowns, and with braces, what a mess.
. Face paint, reactions with skin.

Halloween.......baaaah!
I object!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 04:18:12 PM: That actually doesn't answer my question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 05:48:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 04:18:12 PM
That actually doesn't answer my question.

One man allegedly put a gun to the face of a 6 yr old boy who dropped off a bag of Halloween goodies to the wrong address.

That would not be me.
I would do nothing, or from behind my heavy metal mesh security door I would've told the boy he had the wrong house.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 05:51:58 PM: Still does not answer my question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 06:25:00 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 05:51:58 PM
Still doesn

The world is a scary place...totally scary.
Wars, fires, floods, starvation, hime invasions, murders, muggings, thieves, diseases, vehicle accidents, everywhere.

Mommy dearest told me not to worry. that..."when your number's up, your number's up."
I believe that...but also that we should do everything in our power to keep ourselves and ours safe from harm...and safe from harming others.

I happily get out of bed every morning, ready to live every day as if it could be my last.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 01, 2023, 06:28:13 PM: The world is a beautiful place where sometimes bad things or bad people happen.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 01, 2023, 07:07:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 03:56:50 PM

Demon allergies

???
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 07:28:14 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 01, 2023, 07:07:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 03:56:50 PM

Demon allergies

???

I'm guessing peanut etc allergies that can be fatal.
'Scorched Peanut Bars' for example, (mrs bambu's favourite), could make their way to an allergic child's mouth on Halloween night, and get missed in all the excitement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 08:24:29 PM: Bolivia has broken off diplomatic relations with Israel.
Just one in a long list of countries now lining up to 'bash' Israel.

Pity they all, including the Arab nations...hadn't been/aren't lining up to literally bash Hamas, Hezbollah, and their funder/s.
Had they, things could well be a lot different in Gaza/Israel/the region today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 02, 2023, 02:07:45 AM: Meanwhile, in the 'global village', this time in North Carolina;

On a basketball court at Winston-Salem Christian School, DeJohn (DJ) Blunt hit the floor.

"It was utter chaos - everyone was there running around with their heads in their hands...consoling one another".
"One of my friends ran in ... he's just beside himself crying, sobbing. And he's like, 'James, James, he's dead. We don't know what to do".

As luck would have it, CPR and first aid trained at school fellow students James Downie [Australia] and Szymon Koszyca [Poland] were around.

James Downie; " My first diagnosis was that he'd probably has a seizure because he was vomiting - he also had a locked jaw and there was bit of blood on the floor because he smacked his head."

"I brought him back after about one and a half rounds of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth. That was a massive relief" he said.

"On the second round of mouth to mouth, he pushed the air back into me [and] I realised, 'oh he's back'" he said.

"I was telling (DJ), 'I'm going to get you through this, you're going to see your family again, you're going to see your mum again.'"

Paramedics arrived just as Mr Blunt regained consciousness for a third time.

Polish student and basketball player Szymon Koszyca started the chest compressions while Mr Downie sought a teacher' help.

"In Poland, every kid at every school has lessons in CPR so I think it should be an international thing", Mr Koszyca said.

*

Mr Blunt, who had suffered a heart attack linked to an undiagnosed heart condition, was visited by his lifesavers in hospital one week later.
Nice photo.

Mr Downie said he spoke with Winston-Salem Christian School principal Bryan Wolf as he drove him to the hospital visit.
"I suggested to him that we should put up CPR posters and have a mandatory CPR class" he said.
He agreed straight away.

amp dot abc dot net dot au / article / 103048272
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 02, 2023, 12:56:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 07:28:14 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 01, 2023, 07:07:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 01, 2023, 03:56:50 PM

Demon allergies

???

I'm guessing peanut etc allergies that can be fatal.
'Scorched Peanut Bars' for example, (mrs bambu's favourite), could make their way to an allergic child's mouth on Halloween night, and get missed in all the excitement.

Well that's sort of a relief. I was concerned that children had become allergic to Azazel and Belphegor.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 02, 2023, 03:01:06 PM: There are good and bad places and good and bad people.

Places like Malibu tend to be nicer because people had to work hard and study in order to be able to afford to live there, and you have to have a clean record and a good job.

And in Battle Mountain, Nevada, there are good and bad people, but the town is small, with a population of only 5,000 people, so everyone knows everyone. To put that in perspective, when I worked at Universal Studios here in Hollywood we used to have 25,000 guests per day, so we had 5 times as many guests per day at Universal than the whole population of Battle Mountain.

But, San Bernardino is bad, dirty, and dangerous. San Bernardino has the highest crime rate in California. My Mother was born in San Bernardino, and San Bernardino was great in the 1950s, but then San Bernardino went downhill, and now San Bernardino is a ghetto with the highest crime in California. We need to work together with the California State University in San Bernardino to improve the situation in San Bernardino. And the most powerful politician in the area is Sabrina Cervantes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 02, 2023, 04:58:48 PM: Average life span in America is 79.
With mid-life being age 39.
Yes, 40 is the new age given to 'old' today...universally.

On my radio yesterday, when no 1 morning (9am till noon) host was interviewing the Police Commissioner, "abuse of elderly parents by their children" was detailed.
Children angry that they now have to wait longer for their inheritances than in times past as parents are on average till 80 for men and 83 for women.
Used to get said inheritances when they were 50, but now have to wait until 60plus.
Not all children, but enough to make it a thing, and be causing a problem for police numbers.
Financial abuse, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 02, 2023, 05:19:00 PM: I love my Mother, I lost my father when I was 9 years old, and so my Mother was on her own with 3 children, it was hard, but she loved us and she did her best. It is hard watching her get old, she is a wonderful person who lives in a world that does not exist anymore. For Halloween she bought candy and she was all excited to pass candy out to the children and to see their costumes, and no children came. I cried for her. She lives in a kind and loving world that is gone now. Luckily she has a good strong husband to protect her now, she is doing okay.

I hope my Mother lives forever.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 02, 2023, 05:21:50 PM: When I visit New York, then it would be nice to see Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, and it might be nice to visit a famous club in Harlem to enjoy some jazz, etc. I do not like rap, but I love jazz. The first person who I drove as a Limousine Driver was Herbie Hancock, Herbie is great, and we had art work that was done by Miles Davis on the walls of our home in Malibu, the owner of the house was the ex wife of his doctor. Jazz is great. We will see, I will make it to visit New York eventually.

I am not afraid to travel. And someday I hope to have a good wife who loves to travel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 02, 2023, 07:05:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 02, 2023, 05:21:50 PM
When I visit New York, then it would be nice to see Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, and it might be nice to visit a famous club in Harlem to enjoy some jazz, etc. I do not like rap, but I love jazz. The first person who I drove as a Limousine Driver was Herbie Hancock, Herbie is great, and we had art work that was done by Miles Davis on the walls of our home in Malibu, the owner of the house was the ex wife of his doctor. Jazz is great. We will see, I will make it to visit New York eventually.

I am not afraid to travel. And someday I hope to have a good wife who loves to travel.

Salute,

Tony V.

Please enjoy this song from Rita Wilson, Ms. Tom Hanks.

https://youtu.be/xtkN8n3idTM?si=sVAsFdmRlIWNrSUK
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 02, 2023, 07:15:40 PM: There is a good case these days for travelling 'at home'.
An unlimited number of 'lovely places' in America for Americans to visit and enjoy...summer, autumn, winter and spring. No need to risk death, injury/financial ruin, misery, worry etc by travelling overseas.
Some places in the world are safe to visit, but many are not.

If you're not in the Middle East, for example...you can't get blown up or kidnapped by terrorists there.
Overseas travel today, depending on your level of bravery, could best be done via Youtube.
Travell via Youtube sees you not having to suffer long lines of people at almost every attraction.
No plane delays, no long and uncomfortable flights, no rain, no heat, no walking for miles and miles and miles.
Not to mention the cost.

Got family overseas?
No worries, bring them to America for a visit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM: Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:36:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 02, 2023, 07:15:40 PM
There is a good case these days for travelling 'at home'.
An unlimited number of 'lovely places' in America for Americans to visit and enjoy...summer, autumn, winter and spring. No need to risk death, injury/financial ruin, misery, worry etc by travelling overseas.
Some places in the world are safe to visit, but many are not.

If you're not in the Middle East, for example...you can't get blown up or kidnapped by terrorists there.
Overseas travel today, depending on your level of bravery, could best be done via Youtube.
Travell via Youtube sees you not having to suffer long lines of people at almost every attraction.
No plane delays, no long and uncomfortable flights, no rain, no heat, no walking for miles and miles and miles.
Not to mention the cost.

Got family overseas?
No worries, bring them to America for a visit.

There was an attraction at Walt Disney World where you were surrounded by a 360 degree movie screen and they showed us places all over America, it was great.

I like Florida, it is a great state, in my opinion, and the Walt Disney World there is great, and they also have Universal Studios in Orlando where they plan to make more movies and television shows, etc. Cocoa Beach is fantastic. That whole area is nice.

California is a hard state, we have lots of gangs and crime, and 33% of our people are new immigrants who were born outside the USA, so you have people from all over the world coming here and competing for the jobs. Plus, Hollywood was stupid and some of our studios were sold to the Japanese, and the Japanese business model sucks and they work themselves to death and they do not want to pay the workers fair. I would rather work for the Italians, or the French, instead of working for the Japanese.

When I worked at Universal Studios here in Hollywood then the studio was owned by the Japanese, and they paid everyone minimum wage, I was starving. It was a great job, I loved my job, but the company was paying me minimum wage and I was starving. I would rather work for the Italians, or the French, instead of the Japanese. But, anyway, my fellow employees kept telling me to buy Universal Studios, they saw something in me and they told me to buy Universal. I would love to own Universal, and the studio is great here in Hollywood, and they have a Universal Studios in Florida and Florida is great.

I had a step-dad who was a Supervisor on the Space Shuttle Program and it was over a $100 Billion dollar project which brought jobs and money to the Antelope Valley in California as well as to Cape Canaveral in Florida. Running Universal would be cheaper than the Space Shuttle Program, and I could help create jobs in California as well as in Florida.

I would also work to improve relations between the USA and Mexico. And I would help the orphans in Mexico, etc.

We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 03:47:25 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:36:01 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 02, 2023, 07:15:40 PM
There is a good case these days for travelling 'at home'.
An unlimited number of 'lovely places' in America for Americans to visit and enjoy...summer, autumn, winter and spring. No need to risk death, injury/financial ruin, misery, worry etc by travelling overseas.
Some places in the world are safe to visit, but many are not.

If you're not in the Middle East, for example...you can't get blown up or kidnapped by terrorists there.
Overseas travel today, depending on your level of bravery, could best be done via Youtube.
Travell via Youtube sees you not having to suffer long lines of people at almost every attraction.
No plane delays, no long and uncomfortable flights, no rain, no heat, no walking for miles and miles and miles.
Not to mention the cost.

Got family overseas?
No worries, bring them to America for a visit.

There was an attraction at Walt Disney World where you were surrounded by a 360 degree movie screen and they showed us places all over America, it was great.

I like Florida, it is a great state, in my opinion, and the Walt Disney World there is great, and they also have Universal Studios in Orlando where they plan to make more movies and television shows, etc. Cocoa Beach is fantastic. That whole area is nice.

California is a hard state, we have lots of gangs and crime, and 33% of our people are new immigrants who were born outside the USA, so you have people from all over the world coming here and competing for the jobs. Plus, Hollywood was stupid and some of our studios were sold to the Japanese, and the Japanese business model sucks and they work themselves to death and they do not want to pay the workers fair. I would rather work for the Italians, or the French, instead of working for the Japanese.

When I worked at Universal Studios here in Hollywood then the studio was owned by the Japanese, and they paid everyone minimum wage, I was starving. It was a great job, I loved my job, but the company was paying me minimum wage and I was starving. I would rather work for the Italians, or the French, instead of the Japanese. But, anyway, my fellow employees kept telling me to buy Universal Studios, they saw something in me and they told me to buy Universal. I would love to own Universal, and the studio is great here in Hollywood, and they have a Universal Studios in Florida and Florida is great.

I had a step-dad who was a Supervisor on the Space Shuttle Program and it was over a $100 Billion dollar project which brought jobs and money to the Antelope Valley in California as well as to Cape Canaveral in Florida. Running Universal would be cheaper than the Space Shuttle Program, and I could help create jobs in California as well as in Florida.

I would also work to improve relations between the USA and Mexico. And I would help the orphans in Mexico, etc.

We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
I would trade all of Florida and everything in it for the 90 miles of shoreline from San Simeon to Carmel and consider myself the winner. And I would far rather deal with immigrants in Cali then a Florida full of meth heads and syphlitic seniors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet... relationships are now seen, in many developed countries, as a two-way street, in which both parties learn about living with the other. And some vets are now....you may wish to sit down for a sec...women. Anyway, let's get that time machine grime washed off and then we can continue with your orientation session!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 03, 2023, 04:41:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 03:47:25 PM
would trade all of Florida and everything in it for the 90 miles of shoreline from San Simeon to Carmel and consider myself the winner. And I would far rather deal with immigrants in Cali then a Florida full of meth heads and syphlitic seniors.

Florida is not far from where the Europeans first caught syphilis from New World native peoples. Disease transmission, unfortunately, was much greater going the other direction.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 04:52:46 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet[/ ]...
Considering Tony seems to think women are sort of a superior version of a therapy dog, are we entirely certain what he means by "vet"?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 03, 2023, 05:30:03 PM: 😂

I should vet his posts more carefully...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:05:08 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ah yes, foreign brides/any brides.
Some of the said brides in bambuworld were marrying older men, claiming domestic violence, having the older men removed from the nice homes [theirs, well were theirs until they married the foreign brides/any brides.]
The brides then sitting pretty in nice homes, driving nice cars, having grand ol' lives!

After it was all exposed on my current affairs programs and in the print media, the persecution of older/old innocent men was stopped.

Yes, the words of the foreign brides/any brides were taken as 'gospel'.
No evidence of true domestic violence whatsoever, and the older/old men were basically tossed out of their homes, divested of their vehicles and made to live in misery.

Mrs bambu's motto is "Marry well". "Well" not meaning 'rich'.
Rather, "well" meaning "the whole package must be good". Things like race, religion, temperament, morals/honesty, modesty, fingernails, how they treat waiters and other hospitality staff, appearance/grooming/bathing, how they treat people in general, manners, weird and /or creepy, etc.

Marrying foreign nationals...can have major repercussions if things go wrong...like divorce, relationship breakups, especially if children are involved...in addition to the usual "say goodbye to half your stuff".

The movie "Not Without My Daughter" is instructive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:15:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet[/ ]...
Considering Tony seems to think women are sort of a superior version of a therapy dog, are we entirely certain what he means by "vet"?

They can be.
Love you unconditionally, always smiling and happy to see you, explain things to you, inform you where you're going wrong, show you the correct way to move so you're not always treading on their feet etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 03, 2023, 06:27:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:15:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet[/ ]...
Considering Tony seems to think women are sort of a superior version of a therapy dog, are we entirely certain what he means by "vet"?

They can be.
Love you unconditionally, always smiling and happy to see you, explain things to you, inform you where you're going wrong, show you the correct way to move so you're not always treading on their feet etc.
And you are still married?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:42:05 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 03, 2023, 06:27:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:15:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet[/ ]...
Considering Tony seems to think women are sort of a superior version of a therapy dog, are we entirely certain what he means by "vet"?

They can be.
Love you unconditionally, always smiling and happy to see you, explain things to you, inform you where you're going wrong, show you the correct way to move so you're not always treading on their feet etc.
And you are still married?

Yes.
A good woman is worth her weight in gold.
Good ones are happy to provide therapy. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 03, 2023, 07:01:28 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 03, 2023, 06:27:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 03, 2023, 06:15:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 03, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 03, 2023, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 03, 2023, 03:15:01 PM
Instead of connecting veterans with dogs to save their lives, we could set them up with a Russian Dating Service. Lots of Veterans marry the Russian Brides. The Brides can all be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a Veteran, etc. I think the Veterans would be better off with a good Bride instead of just giving them a dog.

I had a neighbor who found his Bride with a Colombian Dating Service in Pasadena that set him up with a Colombian Bride. He was very happy. He was an old man but he was happy like a little kid. He was so in love with his new Bride and he was happy about life.

Instead of just giving the guys a dog, it would be better if people helped them to find a Bride, and then worked to train the Brides on issues which Vets face.

Salute,

Tony V.

Welcome, time traveler! In this century we now have a global computing network which allows ordinary people to find partners on their own. Also, regarding brides can be trained on the issues pertaining to living with a vet[/ ]...
Considering Tony seems to think women are sort of a superior version of a therapy dog, are we entirely certain what he means by "vet"?

They can be.
Love you unconditionally, always smiling and happy to see you, explain things to you, inform you where you're going wrong, show you the correct way to move so you're not always treading on their feet etc.
And you are still married?

Bambu has a keeper. Australia decided long ago it was far too dangerous to leave him on his own. She will get a statue one day for her service to the nation
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 04, 2023, 12:43:57 PM: Dear Ann,

My wife does not always smile at me. She also fails to provide therapy on demand. Should I replace her with a service dog?

Perplexed in Provo
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 05:24:06 PM: skynews dot com dot au
Douglas MacKinnon
November 5, 2023

Evil walking the streets of our cities and the Middle East is a crisis entirely of the left's making.

/cont
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 05:34:09 PM: /cont

Despite the leftist establishment trying as hard as they can to keep us in the dark about our own safety and welfare, the people - be they in Australia or the

United States - are finally waking to the reality that supposedly progressive policymaking is destroying their nations.

More importantly, many of that political persuasion are coming to that same conclusion.

#####

Well there you go. Sure seems correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 04, 2023, 05:35:04 PM: Nobody appreciates a hot take like Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 05:46:00 PM: New York Post
November 4

'LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA'

Pro-Palestinian marchers flood DC, say 'racist state' Israel 'does not have the right to exist'.

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", the crowd dotted with Palestinian flags and signs cried at the beginning of the event.

#####

Oh dear.

Isn't that what Hamas says?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 05:54:41 PM: New York Post
October 21 2023

Anti-Hamas billboard taken down in New Jersey

A billboard in Bergen County, N.J. that read, "Hamas would chop your head off too", was taken down after police received over 100 complaints."

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:17:39 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 04, 2023, 05:35:04 PM
Nobody appreciates a hot take like Bambu.

Doug at sky news, conrtinues;

"Suddenly, the weekly news cycle here in the US is filled with the stories of activists of left-leaning politicians falling victim to crime that is entirely of their own making.
Be it the murder of an activist in the street in New York City, a violent carjacking of a politician in Washington, DC, or the killing of an activist in Philadelphia.

The monster the far-left created is now coming for its creator.
And in more ways than one.

The more the far-left chanted to defund the police; to discount the need for a strong military; to weaken borders and sovereignty; to institute no-cash bail; to release violent criminals hours after their arrests; and to continually blame the victims, the louder the monsters celebrated their good fortune."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 04, 2023, 06:37:07 PM: Billy Graham's son Franklin Graham is doing some good things, he is helping in Mexico after the hurricane hit Acapulco, and he is spreading the love of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham was involved with Youth For Christ, and it is important for Youth For Christ to be involved in Mexico, I hope Franklin will continue the good service that Billy once did.

And we need to donate libraries for the poor villages in Mexico, etc, and it would be great if we could teach the poor people in Mexico how to speak English so they can do trade with the USA, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:46:06 PM: "When people show you who they are, believe them".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 04, 2023, 06:52:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:46:06 PM

"When people show you who they are, believe them".

That is how I know you are a fascist thug for all your mouselike cowardice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:12:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 04, 2023, 06:52:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:46:06 PM

"When people show you who they are, believe them".

That is how I know you are a fascist thug for all your mouselike cowardice.

Says he who's allowed to own and carry big and small guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM: Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Some people seem to be getting all excited and emboldened by the protests worldwide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 04, 2023, 10:34:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:12:52 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 04, 2023, 06:52:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:46:06 PM

"When people show you who they are, believe them".

That is how I know you are a fascist thug for all your mouselike cowardice.

Says he who's allowed to own and carry big and small guns.

Only if I am part of a well regulated militia as any good constitutionalist will tell you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 05, 2023, 10:09:21 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 06:17:39 PM

Suddenly, the weekly news cycle here in the US is filled with the stories of activists of left-leaning politicians falling victim to crime that is entirely of their own making.

She was asking for it! Did you see the dress she was wearing?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 11:39:55 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
No you are not or you would not have made such a stupid post.
I see you made a quick google search.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2023, 12:20:04 PM: Bambu, on the history of the Holy War, after the Roman Empire collapsed then the Muslims took over, finally the Italians and Spaniards ran the Muslims out of Europe. That is what the Italian Mafia is all about, is they are soldiers in the Holy War, they are all Catholic and they go to church every Sunday. The King of Spain and the Pope funded Columbus to come find the new land to win the new land over for Christianity in the Holy War. From the top of Alaska to the bottom of Chile we are all Christian. Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and all of Latin America is on our team in the Holy War. The Philippines is on our team, and the King of Spain made sure that the Philippines is a Christian nation.

Pope Francis and the King of Spain are very powerful.

And here in the USA we have the Knights of Columbus, etc, no one is trying to hide the Holy War.

The communists are atheists, but we are slowly winning China and Russia over for Christ. Pope Francis has good relations with China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2023, 12:33:34 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 11:39:55 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
No you are not or you would not have made such a stupid post.
I see you made a quick google search.

Good to see you basking in your ignorance, Red. Lime could educate you, but, as usual, you are too dumb to know that you do not know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 05, 2023, 02:32:57 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 05, 2023, 12:33:34 PM
Lime could educate you, but, as usual, you are too dumb to know that you do not know.

Quicklime is more educational in his world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 02:58:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?

Yes.
But, the ranting Hamas leader, and the ranting Sheik/Ayatollah type guy, shown in the tapes...were real.
They are real.
Their words real.
Spain is next on their list, after they've finished with Israel and the Jews.

Then, when they've finished with Spain, and it's an Islamic state...who then in the "First they came" scenario will be next? Australia?...me?
Me roasted to death in their bread oven?
NO thank you!
I need Israel and its allies to kill Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest of the Islamic terrorists in the world, stone dead. [Islamic terrorists blew up NYC 9/11, Islamic terrorists are real, not some myth to be ignored.]
Dead terrorists do not kill anyone", a lady in the old NYT forums told me so...and I believe her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 03:04:11 PM: Speaking of Islamic terrorists;

Hamas killers 'roasted babies in an oven' during October 7 terror attack, Israeli first responder claims

An Israeli first responder to the October 7 terror attack has claimed that Hamas terrorists roasted a baby in an oven in shocking video testimony.

Asher Moskowitz, of the United Hatzalah first responder group, published a video of himself speaking to a camera, delivering his witness account.

In it, he claims he saw the remains of a baby who had been baked to death in an oven at kibbutz Kfar Aza, where more than 100 civilians were killed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 03:15:58 PM: the above report by Asher Moskowitz, story/article, was published in the Daily Mail Australia 3 Nov 2023.

______________________________________
Daily Mail Australia
31 Oct 2023

A lauded Palestinian professor sparked fury by tweeting a warped joke about claims Hamas terrorists baked an Israeli baby to death in an oven.

Gaza-based professor Refaat Alareer - who was once glorified by the New York Times - responded to a paramedic's testimony that they'd found an infant who'd been cooked to death by tweeting: 'With or without baking powder?.'
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 05, 2023, 05:16:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 02:58:59 PM
a lady in the old NYT forums told me so...and I believe her.

Luee or Red?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2023, 06:58:38 PM: Australia has to worry about Indonesia, and as you know when Indonesia attacked East Timor when Portugal gave East Timor their independence then Australia had to save the Christians of East Timor. Indonesia is a real threat to Australia.

The only way we can have peace is through strength. We have to be stronger than them so they will not attack us.

Meanwhile the Arabs are all flying American F-16 fighter jets, etc.

We even let Pakistan have nukes. That was stupid, Pakistan should never have been allowed to have nukes. And Pakistan was where they found Bin Laden.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2023, 07:20:15 PM: Of note, why do we have so many doctors from the Middle East? Why aren't we training Americans to become doctors? We have doctors here from Pakistan, why? We need for American Christians to become doctors.

We have Loma Linda University Medical Center where they are training Christian doctors, and it is a great school.

I allowed a Chinese doctor to do surgery on me, but I do not think I would want a doctor from Pakistan to do surgery on me.

And the Shriners are Arabs, I understand that, and they are connected to the Freemasons, etc. So, the Shriner hospitals have Arab doctors, I understand all of that.

I just think we need to train more homegrown American doctors, we can build a new Medical School in the poorest part of Kentucky and we can start training doctors in Kentucky, etc. The descendant of a coal miner can learn to become a doctor just as easy as anyone else if given the proper support system.

I live by California State University in Irvine Medical Center, and they are great.

And I have had good doctors from the Philippines.

I just feel like we need for more of our local homegrown people to rise to become doctors, and lawyers, and other positions of power, instead of seeing all of those jobs go to people from Pakistan, etc. I would rather have a doctor from Kentucky than from Pakistan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 05, 2023, 08:42:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 02:58:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?

Yes.
But, the ranting Hamas leader, and the ranting Sheik/Ayatollah type guy, shown in the tapes...were real.
They are real.
Their words real.
Spain is next on their list, after they've finished with Israel and the Jews.

Then, when they've finished with Spain, and it's an Islamic state...who then in the "First they came" scenario will be next? Australia?...me?
Me roasted to death in their bread oven?
NO thank you!
I need Israel and its allies to kill Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest of the Islamic terrorists in the world, stone dead. [Islamic terrorists blew up NYC 9/11, Islamic terrorists are real, not some myth to be ignored.]
Dead terrorists do not kill anyone", a lady in the old NYT forums told me so...and I believe her.

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Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2023, 07:20:15 PM
Of note, why do we have so many doctors from the Middle East? Why aren't we training Americans to become doctors? We have doctors here from Pakistan, why? We need for American Christians to become doctors.

We have Loma Linda University Medical Center where they are training Christian doctors, and it is a great school.

I allowed a Chinese doctor to do surgery on me, but I do not think I would want a doctor from Pakistan to do surgery on me.

And the Shriners are Arabs, I understand that, and they are connected to the Freemasons, etc. So, the Shriner hospitals have Arab doctors, I understand all of that.

I just think we need to train more homegrown American doctors, we can build a new Medical School in the poorest part of Kentucky and we can start training doctors in Kentucky, etc. The descendant of a coal miner can learn to become a doctor just as easy as anyone else if given the proper support system.

I live by California State University in Irvine Medical Center, and they are great.

And I have had good doctors from the Philippines.

I just feel like we need for more of our local homegrown people to rise to become doctors, and lawyers, and other positions of power, instead of seeing all of those jobs go to people from Pakistan, etc. I would rather have a doctor from Kentucky than from Pakistan.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 05, 2023, 08:49:42 PM: Imagine if Bibi told the people of Israel to become Welders instead of going to college, as the Republicans in Florida are telling Americans, the Jews would run Bibi out, and Americans need to be the same way, we need to bring back American greatness and we need to train and educate our people as best as we can.

We need to build schools and libraries, and we need to educate our people, including educating the poor people of Kentucky. We need to train doctors and scientists in Kentucky, etc.

If I ever have a son I would want him to help to run this country someday instead of being a Welder. And an education is never a waste, if you pick good subjects to study.

Of note, the Navy trains doctors in Pennsylvania, and that is awesome, we need to expand on that. And maybe the Peace Corps can help to train doctors, etc.

We need to train more scientists and doctors, including having schools in the poorest part of Kentucky, and we need to foster American greatness. And our greatness is how we can help to make the world a better place, as a super power, and as a nation of wealth and knowledge, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 06, 2023, 09:05:26 AM: Liars, as we know, are prevalent in Ohio.

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/06/ohio-use-taxpayer-funds-to-boost-absolutely-false-anti-abortion-claims-ahead-of-vote/

Fibs include those classic Right-wing strawmen, late-term abortion and no parental rights.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:45:44 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 11:39:55 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
No you are not or you would not have made such a stupid post.
I see you made a quick google search.
Yeah, just because you needed to do a Google search to learn the Ottoman Empire was not the second largest footstool emporium in the tri state area does not mean anyone else had to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 05, 2023, 02:58:59 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?

Yes.
But, the ranting Hamas leader, and the ranting Sheik/Ayatollah type guy, shown in the tapes...were real.
They are real.
No doubt. You can find someone saying pretty much any barbaric, stupid and bloodthirsty thing you want on Youtube. I guarantee you I could find some Jewish claric calling for Israel to kill most of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza and forcibly deport the rest. The use of that sort of propaganda lies not in inventing stories but getting weak minded idiots like you to believe they represent in this case Islam at large and are a threat. They do not and they are not but Sky has you pissing your pants in fear.
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Their words real.
Spain is next on their list, after they've finished with Israel and the Jews.

Then, when they've finished with Spain, and it's an Islamic state...who then in the "First they came" scenario will be next? Australia?...me?
Me roasted to death in their bread oven?
NO thank you!
I need Israel and its allies to kill Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest of the Islamic terrorists in the world, stone dead. [Islamic terrorists blew up NYC 9/11, Islamic terrorists are real, not some myth to be ignored.]
Dead terrorists do not kill anyone", a lady in the old NYT forums told me so...and I believe her.
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them. Try believing that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 06, 2023, 01:55:39 PM: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711071/MP-sex-prostitute-Tory-MPs-cheered-on.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711071/MP-sex-prostitute-Tory-MPs-cheered-on.html)

The world over, conservative politicians are all the same. All entitlement, no character
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words. Pretty much blanket bombing and hope you hit a Hamas pocket. I'm starting to think Bibi let border security go slack purposely - tempt Hamas to attack and provide an excuse for war, use that war to distract from his legal woes and public disapproval. Wag the dog.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 06, 2023, 07:02:23 PM: We need to be careful who we allow to make our entertainment for the USA and who owns our movie and television studios. If you can change how people think and feel, then you can change how they behave; movies, television shows, music, poetry, books, etc, all have the power to change how people think and feel, and thus they have the power to change how people behave.

We cannot allow the enemies of America to create our entertainment, or they will teach people to have nothing but disdain for the founders of America, and nothing but disdain for the pioneers, and nothing but disdain for the cowboys, etc.

The entertainment that people consume effects society.

And for instance, the streets of Hollywood are full of homeless people now, which is not the case in Rome, Italy. Rome has hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night, so people do not need to be homeless in Rome, and we can do the same thing in Los Angeles as we can have cheap hostels here where people can shower and sleep for $15 per night. So, the culture in Rome is different, and maybe we could prosper by making movies and television shows in Rome.

The original Americans had entertainment that showed the characteristics that Americans wanted from our people, such as bravery, honesty, beauty, etc. But, now we have assholes making movies where the villains are the good guys, such as the Joker, and other bad movies like that. We cannot make movies that glorify evil, or that is the society that you will foster. We need to glorify the behavior we desire. And when you do bad things, then there are bad consequences and it needs to be the same way in the movies.

You guys should let me own Universal Studios, and I will make the movies and television shows, and we can keep Spielberg and Ron Howard and Rob Zombie. We could make movies and television shows here in California, as well as at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. And I would also hire Oliver Stone.

We had the Space Shuttle Program that brought over $100 Billion to the Antelope Valley here in California, as well as to Cape Canaveral in Florida, and we can bring money to our areas with Universal Studios. And we can buy and operate Universal Studios in California and in Florida for less than the Shuttle Program cost.

We need for good Americans to own and run our movie studios, and I could do it. And I just get depressed when I see the bad stuff they are producing now.

Maybe I can find a rich woman to buy Universal Studios, and then we can help her to run the studios. Sometimes you can do great things if you do not care who gets the credit.

We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 06, 2023, 08:04:38 PM: When parts of the Skylab fell on Balladonia town South Australia state, bambuworld...the town issued NASA with a $400 fine for littering". :)

President Jimmy Carter rang the roadhouse to apologise for the crashing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 09:41:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:45:44 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 11:39:55 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
No you are not or you would not have made such a stupid post.
I see you made a quick google search.
Yeah, just because you needed to do a Google search to learn the Ottoman Empire was not the second largest footstool emporium in the tri state area does not mean anyone else had to.
Obviously the Ottoman Empire is a mystery to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 06, 2023, 11:15:29 PM: Euclid was born in 323 AD and he sat on an island in Greece and studied and wrote books, and when Columbus sailed in 1492 he used information that he learned from studying the work of Euclid, and then when the United States sent men to the Moon we used information from studying Euclid.

If you ever think that it is worthless to study and to write, then one simply must learn about Euclid. The pen is mighty.

Another great man from America who sat by a pond and thought about philosophy and wrote was Henry David Thoreau, and Henry changed the world, lots of great men studied the work of Thoreau, including Gandhi.

Sometimes I think it would be great to just go live on an island in Greece and study and drink wine and write, like Euclid, and Aristotle, and Aristophanes, and Sophocles, etc. I could have a beautiful young muse to keep me company. They do not have drive by shootings on an island in Greece, I doubt Greece has gang violence. I could just grow old peacefully.

Anyhow, you can change the world by studying and writing, and by just pondering the mysteries of life. Euclid was a cool guy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 07, 2023, 01:10:57 AM: Dave Mustaine is great, and he wrote and recorded a song "Peace sells, but who's buying?" And he is right. Everyone makes money from war, but the great men of peace like Pope Francis are poor men.

But, wise men appreciate times of peace and prosperity with times of plenty. When we have have peace, and prosperity, and plentiful products in our stores, then those are good times.

In Rome one of the greats was Augustus and he led Rome during a great time of peace and prosperity so he was considered a great leader, the wise men recognized the ability to make peace and prosperity as being good qualities in a leader, instead of just being a warrior like Napoleon.

People make trillions from defense projects, but sadly not as much is spent on the Peace Corps. No one is investing in peace.

In Colombia they used to have child soldiers 30 years ago, but then Shakira and others donated schools in Colombia, and the children were made to go to school instead of working or being child soldiers. With the peace in Colombia we have expanded trade, including buying coffee from Colombia, etc, and so everyone is benefiting from the peace and trade and prosperity.

Building schools, and increasing trade, etc, are ways that we can benefit from peace and prosperity. And the children can go to school, instead of being child soldiers.

Dave Mustaine is a genius, and he is right that a lot of people make money from war, but the wise men will appreciate the times of peace and prosperity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 01:50:22 AM: Older Jewish man beaten to DEATH...allegedly by a Palestinian protestor....in America!
What's Joe gonna DO about the hatred of Jews in America NOW!
Anything?
or Nothing?

If I were a Jewish person in America today I'd be rushing out at express pace now and buying guns, and plenty of ammo!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 05:17:07 AM: US has announced that one of its most secretive assets ...of the Four Horsemen of Tomahawkalypse...USS Florida...has arrived in the Persian Gulf.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:02:48 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 09:41:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:45:44 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 11:39:55 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 05, 2023, 10:41:41 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 05, 2023, 09:10:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 04, 2023, 09:19:55 PM
Saw video on Sky News of a Hamas leader and Sheik/Ayatollah type guy promising, well, horror.
Guess who's next on the hit list of the Ayatollah type guy's horror [maybe a global Muslim world?].
Spain! He angrily said Spain is on Islamic land.

Well, it was Islamic land, far more recently than Israel was Jewish land when Israel was.created.

Has it ever occurred to you that your major news source cherry picks stories to frighten you into sharing their politics?
It occurs to most of us you are totally ignorant of the history of Israel.
Hardly surprising.
The only way "most of us" makes sense is if you are Tyler Durden.

I am familiar with the history of Israel. And unlike you, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.
No you are not or you would not have made such a stupid post.
I see you made a quick google search.
Yeah, just because you needed to do a Google search to learn the Ottoman Empire was not the second largest footstool emporium in the tri state area does not mean anyone else had to.
Obviously the Ottoman Empire is a mystery to you.
This from someone who thinks Suleiman the Magnificent is a WWF villain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 11:09:52 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 01:50:22 AM
Older Jewish man beaten to DEATH...allegedly by a Palestinian protestor....in America!
What's Joe gonna DO about the hatred of Jews in America NOW!
Anything?
or Nothing?
The Biden Administration had been making combatting antisemitic violence a policy point from before 10/7 and continues to do so.
Quote

If I were a Jewish person in America today I'd be rushing out at express pace now and buying guns, and plenty of ammo!
Yeah, but there have been brutal attacks on Palestinians in the US too. What if both groups "rush[] out at express pace now and buying guns, and plenty of ammo!" Then what?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 11:10:38 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 05:17:07 AM
US has announced that one of its most secretive assets ...of the Four Horsemen of Tomahawkalypse...USS Florida...has arrived in the Persian Gulf.
We clearly suck at keeping secrets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 01:31:38 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
LOL!
Gotcha,again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 02:29:36 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
LOL!
Gotcha,again.
40 - love. Game point!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 03:21:34 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 02:29:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
LOL!
Gotcha,again.
40 - love. Game point!
Game,set,match.
Thanks for playing.
Better luck next time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 04:24:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 11:10:38 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 05:17:07 AM
US has announced that one of its most secretive assets ...of the Four Horsemen of Tomahawkalypse...USS Florida...has arrived in the Persian Gulf.
We clearly suck at keeping secrets.

Great at giving warnings though.
And being ...serious...about it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 04:51:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 03:21:34 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 02:29:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
LOL!
Gotcha,again.
40 - love. Game point!
Game,set,match.
No, just Game so far is all you have lost. Obviously you are not a golfer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 05:06:22 PM: "Let's have a cashless society".

Let's not!

In bambuworld today a major telco's systems have "blown up".
No, not bombed or anything, just busted wires or the software slept in and didn't arrive for work.
Or hackers hit the jackpot.

Businesses and business owners are "blowing up deluxe" in their minds as no one can phone them, etc.
Anger is filling the atmosphere.

Cashless society? baaah!

Cash is king!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 05:31:29 PM: Somehow I picture Crocodile Dumbdee here with hundreds of Australian... Matildas? Koalas? What do Aussies use as currency? ... stuffed in his mattress.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 05:54:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 04:51:19 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 03:21:34 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 02:29:36 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 01:19:12 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 12:01:29 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 10:03:52 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 06, 2023, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 06, 2023, 03:47:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 06, 2023, 09:54:40 AM
Someone from this forum used to note that killing your enemy tends to just make more of them.

I've noted that many times but I would guess you refer to Bo. Who had that as a tagline.

Over ten thousand today, about 40% children. Indicates Israeli talk about trying to minimize collateral damage is empty words.

I dont remember Oilcan expressing similar criticism when Obama used the same words.
Non sequitur! 15 - love!
Guess you missed the Drones of Obama and his CIA hatchet man John Brennan.
Collateral damage was dismissed by them as part of the overall goal of killing the bad guys who are trying to kill us.
10,000. 40%. Another non sequitor! 30 - love!
LOL!
Gotcha,again.
40 - love. Game point!
Game,set,match.
No, just Game so far is all you have lost. Obviously you are not a golfer.
LOL!

Actually I am.
What is your point?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 06:58:58 PM: That you have not watched The Big Lebowski enough. And that 50 - love is a game in tennis. Not a set or match.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 07, 2023, 07:25:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 06:58:58 PM
That you have not watched The Big Lebowski enough. And that 50 - love is a game in tennis. Not a set or match.
There is no 50 love in tennis.
Again when facts are entered into your debate comebacks you consistently show your ignorance
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 08:31:08 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 07, 2023, 05:31:29 PM
Somehow I picture Crocodile Dumbdee here with hundreds of Australian... Matildas? Koalas? What do Aussies use as currency? ... stuffed in his mattress.

LOL

After today's debacle, cash will be king again...to some extent.
Got no cash and the banks close for any reason, or the electronic system goes kaput for a day, 2 or 3...or more, try buying food, petrol/gasoline, anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 07, 2023, 08:38:02 PM: Elon Musk wants X to be the center of your financial world, handling anything in your life that deals with money. He expects those features to launch by the end of 2024, he told X employees during an all-hands call on Thursday, saying that people will be surprised with "just how powerful it is."

"When I say payments, I actually mean someone's entire financial life," Musk said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by The Verge. "If it involves money.
It'll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it's not just like send $20 to my friend. I'm talking about, like, you won't need a bank account."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 02:47:59 AM: Japanese population is so sure NK will be firing missiles at them soon... now that Trump is no longer in office...that they're having drills.
"Rocket Man" is taking liberties and firing missiles in Japan's direction regularly.

Thanks to their severely misguided ancestors, the Japanese people now are unarmed, sitting ducks, cowering and seeming praying during the drills in train stations etc...waiting for the missiles to land.

Nutjob now has missiles that can reach Australia, he proudly declared not so long ago.
After he's finished with Japan, who'll be next? seemingly the Philippines, then probably Australia.

I'm praying Trump will win the election. He seems to be the only one "Rocket Man" is wary of.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 08, 2023, 03:04:50 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 06, 2023, 08:04:38 PM
When parts of the Skylab fell on Balladonia town South Australia state, bambuworld...the town issued NASA with a $400 fine for littering". :)

President Jimmy Carter rang the roadhouse to apologise for the crashing.

I made a mint of that!

Went to Kmart and bought four gross of factory seconds T shits they were selling in the auto depart as fancy
rags.

Went to the graphics lab (Art major) and printed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 08, 2023, 03:10:55 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 02:47:59 AM
Japanese population is so sure NK will be firing missiles at them soon... now that Trump is no longer in office...that they're having drills.
"Rocket Man" is taking liberties and firing missiles in Japan's direction regularly.

Thanks to their severely misguided ancestors, the Japanese people now are unarmed, sitting ducks, cowering and seeming praying during the drills in train stations etc...waiting for the missiles to land.

Nutjob now has missiles that can reach Australia, he proudly declared not so long ago.
After he's finished with Japan, who'll be next? seemingly the Philippines, then probably Australia.

I'm praying Trump will win the election. He's seems to be the only one "Rocket Man" is wary of.

Trump and GOP gonna get hosed next year.

As I posted last time I dropped by the majority of White women have voted Republican for decades.
White women now want their bodies back.
SCOTUS fucked you hard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 07:52:42 AM: Learned former US diplomat on Youtube suggested that:

"US has been told by Saudi Arabia...to stop Israel from bombing/invading Gaza, or else."
"To be confirmed : Russian troops to Gaza to fight Israel, Chinese warships to the Middle East , and Saudi Arabian Prince and Iran speaking by phone."

If only US had formed a global alliance...that could join it in the Middle East now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 08, 2023, 08:43:59 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 07:52:42 AM
Learned former US diplomat on Youtube suggested that:

"US has been told by Saudi Arabia...to stop Israel from bombing/invading Gaza, or else."
"To be confirmed : Russian troops to Gaza to fight Israel, Chinese warships to the Middle East , and Saudi Arabian Prince and Iran speaking by phone."

If only US had formed a global alliance...that could join it in the Middle East now.
Stop indiscriminately believing the shit you watch on Youtube and try to think about what you view. For instance, ask yourself these three questions:

1. Why would Russia send troops to Gaza?
2. How would Russia send troops.to Gaza?
3. How long would it take to send any appreciable number of troops there?
3. Given they are already engaged in a major land war, what troops could they send?

Is that more than three? OK!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 08, 2023, 12:56:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 07:52:42 AM
Learned former US diplomat on Youtube suggested that:

"US has been told by Saudi Arabia...to stop Israel from bombing/invading Gaza, or else."
"To be confirmed : Russian troops to Gaza to fight Israel, Chinese warships to the Middle East , and Saudi Arabian Prince and Iran speaking by phone."

If only US had formed a global alliance...that could join it in the Middle East now.

YouTube knows you are a rube and a racist fool. It only sends you the most deviant and deranged content it can algorithmically identify. As a result you know less and less each day as you drift further from reality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 08, 2023, 01:00:00 PM: http://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/08/election-day-2023-results-takeaways-00126035 (http://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/08/election-day-2023-results-takeaways-00126035)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 08, 2023, 02:03:01 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204510/-Texas-officials-issue-shelter-in-place-order-after-chemical-plant-explosion-that-injured-worker?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204510/-Texas-officials-issue-shelter-in-place-order-after-chemical-plant-explosion-that-injured-worker?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web)

Red state conservative code enforcement working as designed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 08, 2023, 03:06:56 PM: Congrats to Texas Voters who okayed a ballot issue to expand Natural Gas energy and shore up their statewide electric grid.

The issue got 65% approval.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2023, 04:16:15 PM: Japan is rich, and they could fund Peace Corps type programs, etc. There is stuff that Japan can do to promote peace in the world. Japan can reach out to the poor of North Korea and can offer a more prosperous future and a better standard of living, etc.

And Japan can learn from Italy and Spain and France when it comes to their Business Model, the Japanese Business Model sucks, the Japanese work themselves to death, they sacrifice everything for the corporation, many do not find wives because they are too busy working, and many couples do not have children because they are working all of the time. Japan is closing schools because they have a declining birthrate. So, my advice is for Japan to learn from the Italians with their big Italian families, and the Japanese need to start drinking Chianti like the Italians, and the Japanese need to find the beauty in life and the Italians know that life is all about LOVE. The Japanese need to learn from the Italians on how to have a better quality of life, and on how to have a better business model, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 08, 2023, 04:26:12 PM: Japan can also be active with the United Nations, and with the World Bank, and with UNICEF, etc. Along with Peace Corps type programs, etc.

And research and development on Missile Defense is always welcome on our planet.

Iron Dome is great, and it can be expanded.

And we need to have a kind and loving world where people have food and shelter and some sort of happiness and love, so that people are not miserable and violent.

Of note, Rocket Man likes Dennis Rodman, they like each other, maybe Dennis Rodman can help in North Korea.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 08, 2023, 07:29:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 08, 2023, 03:06:56 PM
Congrats to Texas Voters who okayed a ballot issue to expand Natural Gas energy and shore up their statewide electric grid.

The issue got 65% approval.

They will get earthquakes to go with their rate hikes and rolling blackouts as the corrupt republicans in Texas state government turn this into another boondoggle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 08:34:09 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 08, 2023, 03:06:56 PM
Congrats to Texas Voters who okayed a ballot issue to expand Natural Gas energy and shore up their statewide electric grid.

The issue got 65% approval.

Looks like Britain will be doing much the same, shoring up its energy grid...whatever it takes.
Think 'oil' got a mention in the King's Speech yesterday.
Bonnie Prince Charlie, now King Charles, dressed in Monarch's gown and Crown, seemed very sad when reading/making his speech.
Thought he was going to cry as he could hardly speak the words.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 08:40:39 PM: Don't throw away your MAGA hats, Trump's baaack!

"Make America Great Again
2024"

Just saw on my tv his rally in Florida.
"America first"...the crowd went nutz!
"USA"! "USA"! they cheered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 08, 2023, 08:44:13 PM: Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 08:50:37 PM: US Secretary of State Blinken says post-conflict Gaza can't be run by Israel.

#####

Lovely.
Wonder what Mr Blinken's plan is for post-conflict Gaza to stop Hamas from taking over again, and attacking Israel again?

Wait a minute, Hamas is still firing rockets into Israel, and still operating from their tunnels.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 09, 2023, 01:14:27 AM: (http://images.dailykos.com/images/1244941/story_image/CjonesRGB11092023.jpg?1699455247)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:18:25 AM: Exposed just now on Sky News:

Christmas ham bags on sale in a major store.

Cream coloured cloth, red and green decoration.
with printed on them:
On one line...HAM
next line, ..........AS.

'Cute'.
Obviously people managing the large store chain were 'asleep'.
bambu-ilk were/are not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:16:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 08:50:37 PM
US Secretary of State Blinken says post-conflict Gaza can't be run by Israel.

#####

Lovely.
Wonder what Mr Blinken's plan is for post-conflict Gaza to stop Hamas from taking over again, and attacking Israel again?

Wait a minute, Hamas is still firing rockets into Israel, and still operating from their tunnels.
Israel has zero desire to be among term occupying force in Gaza. Zero. There is a reason they left in the first place. And "After Hamas, what?" is an issue Israel should have considered a month ago, and hopefully has.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:17:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:18:25 AM
Exposed just now on Sky News:

Christmas ham bags on sale in a major store.

Cream coloured cloth, red and green decoration.
with printed on them:
On one line...HAM
next line, ..........AS.

'Cute'.
Obviously people managing the large strore chain were 'asleep'.
bambu-ilk were/are not.
It was meant as a tribute to you. They just left off the second s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 09, 2023, 12:35:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:16:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 08, 2023, 08:50:37 PM
US Secretary of State Blinken says post-conflict Gaza can't be run by Israel.

#####

Lovely.
Wonder what Mr Blinken's plan is for post-conflict Gaza to stop Hamas from taking over again, and attacking Israel again?

Wait a minute, Hamas is still firing rockets into Israel, and still operating from their tunnels.
Israel has zero desire to be among term occupying force in Gaza. Zero. There is a reason they left in the first place. And "After Hamas, what?" is an issue Israel should have considered a month ago, and hopefully has.

Israel has considered it. The leadership in Israel has been laser focused on staying out of prison.

In any nation, conservative crooks are a cancer on national security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:50:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:17:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:18:25 AM
Exposed just now on Sky News:

Christmas ham bags on sale in a major store.

Cream coloured cloth, red and green decoration.
with printed on them:
On one line...HAM
next line, ..........AS.

'Cute'.
Obviously people managing the large strore chain were 'asleep'.
bambu-ilk were/are not.
It was meant as a tribute to you. They just left off the second s.

LOL

No degree from Harvard needed to see what's going on with those ham bags..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 02:37:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:50:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:17:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:18:25 AM
Exposed just now on Sky News:

Christmas ham bags on sale in a major store.

Cream coloured cloth, red and green decoration.
with printed on them:
On one line...HAM
next line, ..........AS.

'Cute'.
Obviously people managing the large strore chain were 'asleep'.
bambu-ilk were/are not.
It was meant as a tribute to you. They just left off the second s.

LOL

No degree from Harvard needed to see what's going on with those ham bags..
Yes, those ham bags over at Sky News are feeding the fear and outrage machine and jumping on coincidence to keep you hiding under the couch, quietly wetting yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 09, 2023, 03:21:29 PM: Joe Manchin not seeking reelection.
Dem hold on the Senate in jeopardy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 03:35:04 PM: It would take a miracle.for.Dems to hold the Senate in2024, even with Manchin. Every possible state for a switch has a Dem incumbent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 09, 2023, 03:48:30 PM: Manchin says he is considering running President as an Independent.
Dems are very nervous
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2023, 03:56:21 PM: Today is my Birthday, I am 56 today.

The SAG strike ended today, so that is good, maybe I can get my movie script made into a film now, and I have a lot of other good ideas.

And I still want to get my book published.

I have a feeling that 56 is going to be a great year.

And maybe God will send me a good wife this year, I have been praying for a wife and a helper.

Anyhow, I feel close with God right now, and I count my blessings as I move into a new year of life.

The only downside today is that my Passport expires today, so I need to get a new Passport.

Lots to be grateful for as I enter a new year of life.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2023, 05:17:58 PM: Universal Studios in Hollywood is having a special day today for the homeless children of Hollywood, the children get to have a fun day at Universal and they will be given gifts, etc. Universal has held this charity event to help the poor children of Hollywood every year for the last 18 years on my Birthday. That is very cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 06:02:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2023, 05:17:58 PM
Universal Studios in Hollywood is having a special day today for the homeless children of Hollywood, the children get to have a fun day at Universal and they will be given gifts, etc. Universal has held this charity event to help the poor children of Hollywood every year for the last 18 years on my Birthday. That is very cool.

Salute,

Tony V.

Happy day to the homeless children of Hollywood...(are they in shelters or wandering the streets?)...and happy birthday to you!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 06:31:42 PM: New York Post

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters accuse Biden of backing 'genocide' as they swarm NYTimes building.
#####

Charming.
Maybe NY times building could get itself some absolute security...it was only unarmed protesters this time.

Is MoDo safe?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2023, 08:11:06 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 06:02:48 PM

Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 09, 2023, 05:17:58 PM
Universal Studios in Hollywood is having a special day today for the homeless children of Hollywood, the children get to have a fun day at Universal and they will be given gifts, etc. Universal has held this charity event to help the poor children of Hollywood every year for the last 18 years on my Birthday. That is very cool.

Salute,

Tony V.

Happy day to the homeless children of Hollywood...(are they in shelters or wandering the streets?)...and happy birthday to you!

Thank you!

And the children are being helped, and they go to school, etc, and they are placed in Housing, etc.

Universal is becoming more altruistic, I love it. I love to see Universal helping the poor children of Hollywood, and the fact that Universal is helping the poor children every year on my Birthday warms my heart.

I might end up owning Universal someday, with the help of the right woman, we will see what happens. God might send me helpers, and then we can help the poor children, etc. And we can make great movies and television shows, and we can produce great music, etc. Universal Music is the largest music label in the world. We will see what happens.

56 is going to be a great year, I can tell.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 09, 2023, 08:13:13 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 09, 2023, 03:48:30 PM
Dems are very nervous

Are you practicing to audition for Porgy and Bess?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 09, 2023, 10:27:04 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 09, 2023, 08:13:13 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 09, 2023, 03:48:30 PM
Dems are very nervous

Are you practicing to audition for Porgy and Bess?
I was thinking more of Doctor Doliille
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2023, 02:35:09 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 02:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:50:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 09, 2023, 10:17:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 09, 2023, 01:18:25 AM
Exposed just now on Sky News:

Christmas ham bags on sale in a major store.

Cream coloured cloth, red and green decoration.
with printed on them:
On one line...HAM
next line, ..........AS.

'Cute'.
Obviously people managing the large strore chain were 'asleep'.
bambu-ilk were/are not.
It was meant as a tribute to you. They just left off the second s.

LOL

No degree from Harvard needed to see what's going on with those ham bags..
Yes, those ham bags over at Sky News are feeding the fear and outrage machine and jumping on coincidence to keep you hiding under the couch, quietly wetting yourself.

bambu-ilk have had enough of ranting sheiks, rampant anti semitism, and terrorists being turned into "freedom fighters"....and are demanding change!

Herald Sun (Victoria):

"Kmart pulls product with controversial 'Hamas' slogan".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2023, 03:14:22 PM: As I am growing older I am the same age as Julia Roberts, and I am watching how she handles growing older and she is handing it well. She seems like a cool person.

Julia's parents owned an acting school in Georgia, and a lot of the students came here to California and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts here in order to prepare to break into the scene here in Hollywood. They all loved Julia Roberts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 10, 2023, 04:07:05 PM: I went to community college with a guy who owns the Crazy Otto's restaurants in Lancaster, California, and he was telling me that once you learn the keys to success then you can succeed anywhere on earth, he said that you could drop him naked into the middle of any city in the world and he would become wealthy again. Since then he opened a Crazy Otto's in New York City and he is a huge success there. His name is Scott, and he is a smart guy, you could put him anywhere and he will become rich again.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 10, 2023, 08:50:42 PM: https://www.theonion.com/free-speech-absolutists-explain-why-people-they-disagre-1850981202

Enjoyed the way they slipped one non-fictitious person in there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2023, 08:53:50 PM: So, an expert based in Canberra has told Sky News that...in his opinion:

. ME Arab nations won't be interested in forming a coalition to 'rule' Gaza to make sure Hamas does not rise again (if it is ever killed off in Gaza that is).
. Hamas' top leaders (billionnaires living in luxury in Qatar) won't return to Gaza but will likely promote/recruit new senior leaders there.

#####

Well, looks like it's going to have to be Israel doing it.
So, if that's the case, the rest of the world should butt out, and let Israel do "whatever it takes" to protect itself...install "absolute security"...which is possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 10, 2023, 08:57:58 PM: News about somewhat more intelligent Australians...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/the-crocodiles-bellowed-at-the-sky-then-mated-like-mad-the-sex-frenzy-sparked-by-helicopters

Yes, it's click bait. But it's very good click bait.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 10, 2023, 09:08:17 PM: Just saw on my tv, people ( who appeared to belong to Hezbollah) in Lebanon chanting "death to Israel" and looking like they can't wait to join the war.

Last time Hezbollah attacked Israel, south Lebanon was turned into rubble?
If so, only 'slow learners' would try it again, surely.

Not much peace, love, tolerance and understanding in Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 03:17:06 AM: Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in from somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the fourth of July

Lyrics from 'The Angry American' - Toby Keith

Could be 'The Angry Israeli', sounds much the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 11, 2023, 12:32:30 PM: Bambu thinks he is on to something.

He may have a point that Toby Kieth and his world view have helped Bibi stay out of prison by starting this war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 11, 2023, 01:08:29 PM: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/11/top-five-worst-uses-for-crystals-in-the-world-of-wellness-and-pseudoscience/

Hairy Lime will appreciate the number four usage. Jimdick probably uses them to help his "romantic" evenings. Tony V just believes, because he's all about belief.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 11, 2023, 01:48:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 10, 2023, 09:08:17 PM
Just saw on my tv, people ( who appeared to belong to Hezbollah) in Lebanon chanting "death to Israel" and looking like they can't wait to join the war.

Last time Hezbollah attacked Israel, south Lebanon was turned into rubble?
If so, only 'slow learners' would try it again, surely.

Not much peace, love, tolerance and understanding in Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.
A lot of rhetoric but no action, Hamas too crazy evil to believe or support.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 02:20:38 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 11, 2023, 12:32:30 PM
Bambu thinks he is on to something.

He may have a point that Toby Kieth and his world view have helped Bibi stay out of prison by starting this war.

But, Bibi didn't start this war, Hamas did.
Islamic terrorists did, Islamic terrorists said by some to be the same as depraved ISIS.
Bibi or one of his politicians said that Israel is going to finish it, and finish it once and for all it must... "never again".

Looks like Jewish folk in Australia have had enough of being "frightened", "cowering in their homes" while the ranting sheiks and violent protesters 'march' 'outside' shouting anti-Semitism...including "gas the Jews".
Seems the Jewish folk have decided to 'fight'.

The other day in Melbourne (pron "Melb'n)...Jewish sabbath, worshippers in a synagogue.
In the area a burger shop belonging to ...someone with something to do with Palestinians was blown up, not a little bit, but totally destroyed.
Guess who got the blame, even though the cops insist the bombing was not politically or racially motivated.
Two men were caught on CCTV running from the scene and getting into a ute.

So, large group of Palestinian flag people arrived on the street outside the synagogue.
Jewish folk were told to evacuate the building for their own safety.
Cops and Palestinian protesters now on the street outside.
Next minute a largish group of mostly young Jewish men waving their flag arrived.
Palestinians on one side of the street, Jews on the other...cops in the middle.
Lots of shouting and fist shaking going on.
Then some on the Palestinian side started throwing stones at the cops and punching into them.
Not sure where they got the stones from.
Arrests were made.
Punching into cops...gee, that might not end well for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 02:41:38 PM: Then in Sydney yesterday (Sat) afternoon late, a motorcade of Palestinian flag wavers from SW Sydney , led by bikers, left there to travel to the heart of Sydney's Jewish community at Coogee beach in the 'Eastern Suburbs'.
Why?
Jewish community leader said "straight out intimidation"...more than one person seemed to agree.
When the motorcade (with a police escort) arrived at the beach...about 100 non-intimidated Jewish supporters were there waving their flags...police also present.
After the "gas the Jews" violent protest at the Opera house some weeks ago, and the public outrage, the cops and politucians are no longer 'asleep'.
The ranting sheiks are now "being watched".
Govt hasn't said, but not too many guesses are needed as to who is doing the watching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 11, 2023, 03:43:26 PM: Strange how anti-semitism has reared it's ugly head. `Not anti-Israel but anti-jewish. Ayatollah spreading the dough to hate groups around the globe?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 03:59:05 PM: Quote from: luee on November 11, 2023, 03:43:26 PM
Strange how anti-semitism has reared it's ugly head. `Not anti-Israel but anti-jewish. Ayatollah spreading the dough to hate groups around the globe?

Multicultural immigration...don't ya just love it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 11, 2023, 04:10:49 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/11/2205002/-Another-earthquake-shows-seismic-activity-continues-to-increase-in-West-Texas-Fracking-linked?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/11/2205002/-Another-earthquake-shows-seismic-activity-continues-to-increase-in-West-Texas-Fracking-linked?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 11, 2023, 04:31:00 PM: Quote from: luee on November 11, 2023, 03:43:26 PM
Strange how anti-semitism has reared it's ugly head. `Not anti-Israel but anti-jewish. Ayatollah spreading the dough to hate groups around the globe?

You are overestimating the reach of the ayatollah and underestimating the effect of apartheid policies and land grabs at gun point on public perception around the globe.

Though the backlash hits the Jewish people in Israel and elsewhere it reflects on the bad conduct of its right wing leadership just as when American leaders invade the wrong country or spill secrets to whichever dictator has the most explicit pussy grabbing pee pee tape American public image erodes to the point of drawing protests.

Remember that Jews will not replace us has long been a central plank of the diversity of republican opinion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM: What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:38:38 PM: The Times of Israel;

300,000 march against Israel in London on Armistice Day, demand Gaza ceasefire

Anti-Israel "From the river to the sea' slogan chanted; some wear Hamas headbands; 82 counter-protesters arrested amid scuffles; police out in force to keep peace on sensitive date.

#####

Enoch Powell warned Britons long ago in his "Rivers of Blood" speech what would happen if they basically went down the multicultural road...but nobody much listened and he was run out of town as a 'racist'.

Tommy Robinson [EDL] in recent times tried to tell them also.
He met the same fate as Enoch Powell.

Sky News says 'Christian' Western society is being attacked at every turn and taken over by people who want to change it into something else.
Seems to be.
Women in the 'Christian' West have no real idea what will be happening to them when western culture is replaced by the alternative.
Atheists in America and the rest of the West seem to think they'll be exempt from the new world order, and will be allowed to be 'neutral', lol.

Ranting sheiks are promising a global Islamic caliphate more than ever now...starting with Spain after Israel.
Barbie in a burqua, and it'll be all her own fault, and her ilk's fault.
And Ken in a Hamas headband [forcibly].

Luckily I won't be around to see and live it [or be cooked alive in a Hamas oven like the Jewish babies were.]
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 07:25:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

I'm happy for you to inform me exactly what she is, who she is, and what she means.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 11, 2023, 07:31:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

PIMP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 07:51:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 07:25:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

I'm happy for you to inform me exactly what she is, who she is, and what she means.
You are unbelievably stupid. Seriously. Unbelievably stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 11, 2023, 07:57:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 07:25:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

I'm happy for you to inform me exactly what she is, who she is, and what she means.
In the name of satire it's a made-up quote from Representative Tlaib who has been accused of anti-Semitism. That you spend all day in front of screens and profess to not knowing who she is is incredibly surprising.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 08:14:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 11, 2023, 07:57:01 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 07:25:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

#####

Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

I'm happy for you to inform me exactly what she is, who she is, and what she means.
In the name of satire it's a made-up quote from Representative Tlaib who has been accused of anti-Semitism. That you spend all day in front of screens and profess to not knowing who she is is incredibly surprising.

I missed her, until her quote was on Sky News this morning.

I've been busy sailing around in NY harbour, dodging all the kayaks, motor boats, container ships, yachts, ferries etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 08:36:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 08:14:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 11, 2023, 07:57:01 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 07:25:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:37:14 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 11, 2023, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 11, 2023, 06:12:00 PM
What's the go with that Rashida Tlaib woman?

Tlaib came under fire for posting a video of crowds of anti-Jewish protestors chanting "Heil Hitler" at an event in Michigan. After some online pointed out that "Heil Hitler" might have a lengthy antisemitic history, Tlaib took to social media to defend the phrase and call anyone who disagreed with her an Islamaphobe.

"Heil Hitler is a beautiful phrase rooted in freedom and unity, just like 'death to infidels' and 'gas the Jews'," Tlaib explained.

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Is she joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

Just asking.
'Babylon Bee' is like the Onion.

Is she serious, joking, or has she been misquoted?
You are unbelievably stupid.

I'm happy for you to inform me exactly what she is, who she is, and what she means.
In the name of satire it's a made-up quote from Representative Tlaib who has been accused of anti-Semitism. That you spend all day in front of screens and profess to not knowing who she is is incredibly surprising.

I missed her, until her quote was on Sky News this morning.

I've been busy sailing around in NY harbour, dodging all the kayaks, motor boats, container ships, yachts, ferries etc.
If Sky News reported that as an actual quote Sky News is also unbelievably stupid. And if you took it as one you are not only unbelievably stupid but gullible beyond human comprehension.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 11, 2023, 10:38:11 PM: My abortive website could never in a thousand years have been this entertaining.

And container ships go to Newark Bay, not NY Harbor. But keep dodging those kayaks, Bambi!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 12, 2023, 01:11:39 AM: ---House votes to censure Rep. Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a stunning rebuke.---

Big fan of hamas and Sleepy Joe. From a family of 14.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 12, 2023, 02:17:43 AM: Women like her make wannabe dictators tremble and hide under their desks. We should be sending more folks like Representative Tlaib to congress.

With Tory republicans getting uglier and stupider by the day, we will.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 12, 2023, 02:45:46 AM: http://www.vox.com/politics/2023/11/9/23953902/rashida-tlaib-censure-palestine-statement (http://www.vox.com/politics/2023/11/9/23953902/rashida-tlaib-censure-palestine-statement)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 03:24:29 AM: Hezbollah Martyrs Day today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 12, 2023, 09:32:59 AM: I guess her brood came in with Clinton. Transformed the midwest and now the entire country. Back to the dark ages with xenophobia and violence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 10:36:12 AM: Quote from: luee on November 12, 2023, 09:32:59 AM
I guess her brood came in with Clinton. Transformed the midwest and now the entire country. Back to the dark ages with xenophobia and violence.
Your kind has epitomized xenophobia and violence in this country for 400 years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 12, 2023, 11:42:28 AM: Here ya go luee! Should give you the warm and fuzzies

I wonder what happened to bankshot who use to freak out whenever I called Trump and company a bunch of fucking Nazis.

He plans to scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.

To help speed mass deportations, Mr. Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due process hearings. To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.

To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Mr. Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.90w.vp8T.wSzau6drFkcw&smid=url-share
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 12, 2023, 11:49:40 AM: Trump already had Luees vote. This news makes all the little bristles in his Hitler mustache stand up
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 12, 2023, 01:12:37 PM: Representative Tlaib has been censured by a vote of democrats and republicans for her comments supporting hamas do you disagree?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 01:29:37 PM: Quote from: luee on November 12, 2023, 01:12:37 PM
Representative Tlaib has been censured by a vote of democrats and republicans for her comments supporting hamas do you disagree?

Read her actual comments and think for yourself on whether censure was deserved or not. The comments are pro Palestinian state, not anti Israel (only anti Bibi-style war crimes and oppression). Just one example is the tweet where she makes clear what is meant by from river to sea -

Quote
From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.

Look at original source not distortions by opponents looking to capitalize politically.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 01:48:10 PM: https://globalnews.ca/news/1173152/awkward-photo-of-german-chancellor-angela-merkels-hitler-moustache-goes-viral/

Fac's moustache mention made me think of this. There are several similar photo illusions with Nigel Farage, a RW British MP. The best one, which I couldn't find, involved an unfortunate nose shadow from studio lighting right overhead Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 01:29:37 PM

From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.

Look at original source not distortions by opponents looking to capitalize politically.

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version RashidaTailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Hakeem Jeffries criticized the phrase as something which is widely understood as calling for the complete destruction of Israel

The White House official response

when it comes to the phrase from the river to the sea, it is divisive, it is hurtful, many find it hurtful and many find it antisemitic, adding that the White House categorically rejects applying the term to the Israel/Hamas] conflict

On 9 November 2023, Harvard University president, Claudine Gay, condemned the phrase.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 02:56:24 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version Alice Tailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Who is Alice Tlaib? Is she related to US Congress member Rashida Tlaib?

In any case, I don't care if the White House, Harvard or the House Minority Leader think it is insulting. I read Tlaib and understood her original words to mean the rights of Palestinians to a sovereign state on land that was theirs, and then stolen from them. I take her intent as favoring longterm peace through justice and freedom for Palestinians, and in no way supporting the vicious violence of Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 12, 2023, 03:16:04 PM: Today the message of Dr Charles Stanley made sense to me as a message to our nation, and about Matthew 25; 31-46.

And instead of spending money to build a fence between us and Mexico, the Christian way to behave would be to spend the money on schools for poor children, and hospitals in poor villages, and libraries for poor villages, etc. We can win allies, and we can tell them not to praise us but instead to thank God for blessing us so that we may bless you.

We need to pass blessings onto Mexico, and we can win Mexico over for Christ.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 03:21:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version RashidaTailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Who is Alice Tlaib? Is she related to US Congress member Rashida Tlaib?

In any case, I don't care if the White House, Harvard or the House Minority Leader think it is insulting. I read Tlaib and understood her original words to mean the rights of Palestinians to a sovereign state on land that was theirs, and then stolen from them. I take her intent as favoring longterm peace through justice and freedom for Palestinians, and in no way supporting the vicious violence of Hamas.
I do not think you qualify as an idiot.
But you certainly are ignorant of the history of Israel.
You are also anti semetic and embarrassing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 04:08:06 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 01:29:37 PM
Quote from: luee on November 12, 2023, 01:12:37 PM
Representative Tlaib has been censured by a vote of democrats and republicans for her comments supporting hamas do you disagree?

Read her actual comments and think for yourself on whether censure was deserved or not. The comments are pro Palestinian state, not anti Israel (only anti Bibi-style war crimes and oppression). Just one example is the tweet where she makes clear what is meant by from river to sea -

Quote
From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.

Look at original source not distortions by opponents looking to capitalize politically.
Just so the Twain shall meet...

TMWCH is my second favorite short story ever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 12, 2023, 04:29:42 PM: We can have 130 Million Christian allies in Mexico on our team.

My Grandmother opened Gold Mines in Mexico, and she helped to bring Electricity, Running Water, Paved Roads, Radio, Television, Telephones, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico and they loved her. My Grandmother helped to bring Civilization to some very poor parts of Mexico.

We are lucky to have Mexico here, Mexico is only 100 miles away from where I live, the border is close to Anaheim. We can win Mexico over for Christ and we can have wonderful Christian neighbors. Mexico is great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 12, 2023, 04:30:18 PM: Tlaib supports and defends a terrorist organization. Suicide and murder is unacceptable under any circumstance. The major sin in both the old and new testiment. Value of life is of the utmost importance. Israel is the only modern democracy in the area. Enough theocracies. Israel left Gaza in 2005? This is a part of their never ending war against Jews and Christians.
This is what happens when you open borders with little or no control. Let in all the crazies and fanatics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 12, 2023, 04:58:27 PM: The only thing dumber than your ass is your face, Luee.

Israel did not open borders to Palestinians. It moved to where they were and started kicking them out. Israel is still kicking them out today.

Hamas is all the things you say it is. The Likud government prevented Palestinians holding an election, keeping Hamas in power to prevent a legitimate Palestinian government from emerging that might have power to oppose likud land grabs and apartheid policies through diplomacy or a peaceful civil rights movement. Then Likud took its eye of Hamas while its leaders were trying to end democracy, overthrow the courts and bury their individual crimes. Now that Likud is spurring world wide antisemitism with a crack down it hopes will be a fig leaf to cover its failure to maintain security in Israel, much like Bush Jr. invaded Iraq to distract from his total failure on 9-11, Likud is endangering all Jews world wide in and outside of Israel.

You applaud this because you are a fucktard who lacks all values and any good sense
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 05:05:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version Alice Tailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Who is Alice Tlaib? Is she related to US Congress member Rashida Tlaib?

In any case, I don't care if the White House, Harvard or the House Minority Leader think it is insulting. I read Tlaib and understood her original words to mean the rights of Palestinians to a sovereign state on land that was theirs, and then stolen from them. I take her intent as favoring longterm peace through justice and freedom for Palestinians, and in no way supporting the vicious violence of Hamas.

But it wasn't their land, the Israelites have always been there.
There wasn't an homogenous state with only pure "Palestinians" in it.
Anyway, the UN that everyone except Trump and bambu-ilk seem to love with 'all' thei souls, divided Palestine.
If the "Palestinians" had accepted the original division and set up a state, instead of starting wars over it, they'd be a lot better off than they are today.
Look at Gaza today, that's the result of their foolishness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 06:49:25 PM: Pro-Palestine activists have desecrated the Montrose War Memorial in Victoria, spraying graffiti on the concrete structures. The site on Mt Dandenong.The graffiti was cleaned up in time for Saturday's Remembrance Day service. Victoria Police are appealing for information to track down the culprits. 1 day ago

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Anti-Israel graffiti.

Pro-Palestine activists are in plain sight.

Respected journalist just told my no1 morning radio host that ....."25% of people in Gaza support Hamas".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 07:38:49 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 05:05:07 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version Alice Tailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Who is Alice Tlaib? Is she related to US Congress member Rashida Tlaib?

In any case, I don't care if the White House, Harvard or the House Minority Leader think it is insulting. I read Tlaib and understood her original words to mean the rights of Palestinians to a sovereign state on land that was theirs, and then stolen from them. I take her intent as favoring longterm peace through justice and freedom for Palestinians, and in no way supporting the vicious violence of Hamas.

But it wasn't their land, the Israelites have always been there.
You stupid stupid stupid man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#Early_Ottoman_period
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There wasn't an homogenous state with only pure "Palestinians" in it.
Anyway, the UN that everyone except Trump and bambu-ilk seem to love with 'all' thei souls, divided Palestine.
If the "Palestinians" had accepted the original division and set up a state, instead of starting wars over it, they'd be a lot better off than they are today.
Look at Gaza today, that's the result of their foolishness.
Oddly, they objected and continue to object to having their land, where they had lived for centuries, taken from them by an imposed mandate. So would you if most of Australia was given over to China. And 75 years would not be enough to forget it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 07:42:36 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 12, 2023, 04:58:27 PM
The only thing dumber than your ass is your face, Luee.

Israel did not open borders to Palestinians. It moved to where they were and started kicking them out. Israel is still kicking them out today.

Hamas is all the things you say it is. The Likud government prevented Palestinians holding an election, keeping Hamas in power to prevent a legitimate Palestinian government from emerging that might have power to oppose likud land grabs and apartheid policies through diplomacy or a peaceful civil rights movement. Then Likud took its eye of Hamas while its leaders were trying to end democracy, overthrow the courts and bury their individual crimes. Now that Likud is spurring world wide antisemitism with a crack down it hopes will be a fig leaf to cover its failure to maintain security in Israel, much like Bush Jr. invaded Iraq to distract from his total failure on 9-11, Likud is endangering all Jews world wide in and outside of Israel.

You applaud this because you are a fucktard who lacks all values and any good sense
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 07:58:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 04:08:06 PM
Just so the Twain shall meet...

TMWCH is my second favorite short story ever.

Cool! One of my favorites as well. Twain occupies my classic short story pantheon that also includes Harte, James, Bierce, Hemingway, Cather, Melville, Wells, Poe and O Henry.

I advise having emotional support, and maybe alcohol, handy if you read Twain's A Dog's Tale, btw.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 08:33:19 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 03:21:57 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 12, 2023, 02:41:49 PM

That is not the original source, it is the insulting version RashidaTailib uses to hide what it is and always has been, the elimination of Israel.

Who is Alice Tlaib? Is she related to US Congress member Rashida Tlaib?

In any case, I don't care if the White House, Harvard or the House Minority Leader think it is insulting. I read Tlaib and understood her original words to mean the rights of Palestinians to a sovereign state on land that was theirs, and then stolen from them. I take her intent as favoring longterm peace through justice and freedom for Palestinians, and in no way supporting the vicious violence of Hamas.
I do not think you qualify as an idiot.
But you certainly are ignorant of the history of Israel.
You are also anti semetic and embarrassing.

Back to your usual thing, not actually engaging in a discussion or challenging specific points, just firing ad hominems. Boring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 08:40:08 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 07:58:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 04:08:06 PM
Just so the Twain shall meet...

TMWCH is my second favorite short story ever.

Cool! One of my favorites as well. Twain occupies my classic short story pantheon that also includes Harte, James, Bierce, Hemingway, Cather, Melville, Wells, Poe and O Henry.

I advise having emotional support, and maybe alcohol, handy if you read Twain's A Dog's Tale, btw.
Yes. Also Vlad the Enthraller. Signs and Symbols is my favorite short story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 12, 2023, 08:58:13 PM: Well, my list would triple if I were doing all masters of the short form. Vlad the Enthraller, yes. Flannery O'Connor (and not just because she strongly looked like me mum). Kafka, Chekhov, Cheever, Borges, Dick, Barthelme, Malamud, Bradbury, many others.

OK, added Signs and Symbols to my priority reading list. Will report back in some topic appropriate forum.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 12, 2023, 09:17:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 08:58:13 PM
Well, my list would triple if I were doing all masters of the short form. Vlad the Enthraller, yes. Flannery O'Connor (and not just because she strongly looked like me mum). Kafka, Chekhov, Cheever, Borges, Dick, Barthelme, Malamud, Bradbury, many others.

OK, added Signs and Symbols to my priority reading list. Will report back in some topic appropriate forum.
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/signs-and-symbols/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 11:33:33 PM: If Palestinian activists keep desecrating war memorials in Australia...there'll be drama.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2023, 12:05:52 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 12, 2023, 11:33:33 PM
If Palestinian activists keep desecrating war memorials in Australia...there'll be drama.

You will shit your pants as usual. I guess in your world that is dramatic.

I would put Robert Graves and Rudyard Kipling up there with the masters of the short story.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 13, 2023, 01:08:22 AM: Quote from: luee on November 12, 2023, 01:12:37 PM
Representative Tlaib has been censured by a vote of democrats and republicans for her comments supporting Hamas do you disagree?

No. Her comment supported the people in Gaza. Palestinians.

Hamas is a barbaric terrorist network much like the White Supremacy networks of the 1910-1960 era in the U.SA.

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/30

You never hear of the Pogroms here in the USA because some are told Never Forget Black folks are told Get Over It!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 13, 2023, 01:11:19 AM: Speaking of barbarism

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/19
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM: My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 13, 2023, 10:06:12 AM: Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.Gaza

Bibi who sought the presidency in order to stay out of prison for corruption and formed a coalition of Kahanists who think like luee was so busy try to remove the societal guardrails just like Trumps wants here, was so busy demoralizing the population he let Hamas plot and then wreak BARBARISM on Israel on the scale of Attila the Hun.

If you had relatives in Gaza who have now suffered casualties in an order of magnitude at least five times 10/7 you would be bitching about Israel, too. Also, to make someone toe the line in support of those blowing your people to bits is indicative of the hate you have for the hordes of primitive brown people the world over.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 10:44:38 AM: Interesting to remember 20 per cent of Israel population is Arab.
All with equal citizenship rights as the Jews.

From Land ro Seawoulld wpie them out,too.
Barbaric!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM: Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2023, 12:23:16 PM: Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.

A terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers is the most complete and concise definition of the republican party that I have yet heard. It is unacceptable for Christians and Jews to support the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 12:47:11 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailibe.

55% of the House agreed she deserved it, nearly a landslide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:53:25 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 12:47:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailibe.
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:58:59 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 12, 2023, 08:58:13 PM
Well, my list would triple if I were doing all masters of the short form. Vlad the Enthraller, yes. Flannery O'Connor (and not just because she strongly looked like me mum). Kafka, Chekhov, Cheever, Borges, Dick, Barthelme, Malamud, Bradbury, many others.

OK, added Signs and Symbols to my priority reading list. Will report back in some topic appropriate forum.
Before leaving this off topic topic I wanted to note that there is a sentence in TMWCH I laughed at harder than anything else I have ever read: "And at this point he remembered he couldn't swim."

In context, of course.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:00:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 12:47:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 01:09:14 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 12:47:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:23:50 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 01:09:14 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 12:47:11 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 10:45:20 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 01:30:38 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:23:50 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you cannot and will not answer the question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:41:30 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 01:30:38 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you
cannot and will not answer the question.
The question was answered by the House members.
It was directed to them, specifically.
If you disagree with them call your Congress person.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2023, 02:03:24 PM: Red does not understand the question. Red loves being hoodwinked. It makes him feel smug
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 13, 2023, 02:49:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 12:58:59 PM
Before leaving this off topic topic I wanted to note that there is a sentence in TMWCH I laughed at harder than anything else I have ever read: "And at this point he remembered he couldn't swim."

In context, of course.

Yes that was funny. Richards is trying to recall what great service he might have done the late Mr Goodson. He fantasizes that he saved the man from drowning but...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 13, 2023, 03:01:17 PM: Please stop playing the race card already. Brown people the world over!
Quote from: LarryB! on November 13, 2023, 10:06:12 AM
Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:13:25 AM
My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.Gaza

Bibi who sought the presidency in order to stay out of prison for corruption and formed a coalition of Kahanists who think like luee was so busy try to remove the societal guardrails just like Trumps wants here, was so busy demoralizing the population he let Hamas plot and then wreak BARBARISM on Israel on the scale of Attila the Hun.

If you had relatives in Gaza who have now suffered casualties in an order of magnitude at least five times 10/7 you would be bitching about Israel, too. Also, to make someone toe the line in support of those blowing your people to bits is indicative of the hate you have for the hordes of primitive brown people the world over.
Israeli destruction of the terrorist group hamas has nothing to do with the censure. I love me the brown and black people of the world. I just do not like terrorists or supporters of terrorists. I am also against suicide and murder and religious brands that actually make rape and pillage their number one selling point. If you are a primitive you do not attack a modern democracy. Should be on the first page of your holy book.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:13:46 PM: So, if 25% of 'Palestinians' in Gaza support Hamas, as the respected journalist says, then 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas.

That's not good, no wonder much of the place has now turned into rubble.
Terrorists within have a bad habit of doing that to places in which they live. Lebanon is another perfect example.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:18:08 PM: Ah yes, 'Palestine';

Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:22:42 PM: Archaeologic and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptians, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian peoples in ancient times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:24:58 PM: "Land only belongs to you...if you can defend it" - bambu
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:30:41 PM: One DNA study by Nebel found substantial genetic overlap among Israeli/Palestinian Arabs and Jews. Nebel proposed that part, or perhaps the majority" of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD".

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Well there you go.

It gets even more interesting when you go into the 'Philistines'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 04:10:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 01:41:30 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you
cannot and will not answer the question.
The question was answered by the House members.
It was directed to them, specifically.
No, it was directed to luee and later you. You choose not to respond because you know there is nothing you can legitimately defend as "actual support for a terrorist organization." Luee.does not answer because he is incapable of it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 04:13:09 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:24:58 PM
"Land only belongs to you...if you can defend it" - bambu
Then it belongs to the Palestinians if they can take it. What is your objection to Hamas again?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 04:30:34 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 04:10:11 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you
cannot and will not answer the question.
The question was answered by the House members.
It was directed to them, specifically.
No, it was directed to luee and later you. You choose not to respond because you know there is nothing you can legitimately defend as "actual support for a terrorist organization." Luee.does not answer because he is incapable of it.
And you are incapable of an honest debate.
Tailib support of Hamas( terrorists) came in a video she posted FromThe River To The Seawhich was used in the House debate on Censuring her.
Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar of California said leadership had encouraged rank and file Democrats to vote to table the censure resolution against Tlaib. The House rejected that motion in a 208-213 vote. Aguilar condemned Tlaib and said the phrase is used by Hamas to advocate destruction of Israel, a phrase he considers offensive.

Censure was passed on a bi partisan basis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 04:48:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 04:13:09 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 03:24:58 PM
"Land only belongs to you...if you can defend it" - bambu
Then it belongs to the Palestinians if they can take it. What is your objection to Hamas again?

And it will belong to Israel if it can take it...in today's world, look at Russia.
Hamas? Loved by many Palestinians.

Israel has a right to exist.
There could've been two states, Israel and Palestine, but the Palestinians didn't want that.

Anyone supporting Hamas should also be supporting Israel's reply.

Iran hates me.
Hamas hates me.
So I feel entitled to hate them, that is only fair.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 05:00:10 PM: Happy birthday King Charles!
75.

Long live the King.

He made former Prime Minister David Cameron, Lord Cameron, which means he can sit in parliament without being elected.
Current Prime Minister Sunak has made "explosive cabinet changes", one being appointing Lord Cameron Foreign Secretary.
bambu is pleased.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 13, 2023, 05:07:07 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 04:10:11 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you
cannot and will not answer the question.
The question was answered by the House members.
It was directed to them, specifically.
No, it was directed to luee and later you. You choose not to respond because you know there is nothing you can legitimately defend as "actual support for a terrorist organization." Luee.does not answer because he is incapable of it.

Everyone but you seems to understand what a censure vote means.

The House voted 234-188 to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her remarks related to Israel and Palestinians. Twenty-two Democrats joined Republicans in voting to formally rebuke Tlaib for her comments.

The measure, sponsored by Georgia Republican Rich McCormick, accuses Tlaib of "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 05:18:23 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 05:00:10 PM
Happy birthday King Charles!
75.

Long live the King.

He made former Prime Minister David Cameron, Lord Cameron, which means he can sit in parliament without being elected.
Current Prime Minister Sunak has made "explosive cabinet changes", one being appointing Lord Cameron Foreign Secretary.
bambu is pleased.
75 years unjustly avoiding the tumbil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:20:21 PM: I think everyone understands what a censure vote is, Luee, but you and Red have both been asked what the false narrative was and where she specifically called for the destruction of Israel.

For the record, I believe that Tlaib is right on the edge of being an anti-Semite (and since I'm equal opportunity in such judgment, I view Trump as an anti-Semite) and in another context, and in other situations, such provocative statements such as "from the river to the sea" would be viewed by some as "dog whistles". That said, I view her censure as clearly political and not nearly specific enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 05:21:48 PM: Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 05:07:07 PM
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My feeling is the House got it right. Actual support for a terrorist organization that kills babies and rapes mothers should be unacceptable to Christians and Jews.
What do you think constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
There was only one person subject to censure.
Rashida Tailib?
Jumping in to answer a question and not answering it is a little rude, don't you think? As is not bothering to correctly spell a name.

But since you jumped in, what do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically.
Read the Censure motion.

The resolution censures Tlaib, D-Mich., for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Which does not answer this question: What do you think Tlaib said that constituted that "actual suppprt for a terrorist organization"? Specifically. If you prefer, what, specifically was the false 10/7 narrative she promoted, and how, specifically did she call for the destruction of the State of Israel?

Not that I expect you to ever answer the actual question. Or for that matter any question.
The Censure motion was specific to that question, an answered to the satisfaction of 234 House Members after debate.
What is your point?
That you
cannot and will not answer the question.
The question was answered by the House members.
It was directed to them, specifically.
No, it was directed to luee and later you. You choose not to respond because you know there is nothing you can legitimately defend as "actual support for a terrorist organization." Luee.does not answer because he is incapable of it.

Everyone but you seems to understand what a censure vote means.

The House voted 234-188 to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her remarks related to Israel and Palestinians. Twenty-two Democrats joined Republicans in voting to formally rebuke Tlaib for her comments.

The measure, sponsored by Georgia Republican Rich McCormick, accuses Tlaib of "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel."
I know what a censure vote is, but it is not relevant to what I asked. I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:41:34 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:20:21 PM
I think everyone understands what a censure vote is, Luee, but you and Red have both been asked what the false narrative was and where she specifically called for the destruction of Israel.
Those questions were answered overwhelmingly in the house vote.
The political vote was to table.
The vote on the issue itself was a near landslide against anti semites.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:46:19 PM: Those questions were answered overwhelmingly in the house vote

The only question that was answered by the vote is that they had enough votes to censure her. Which is your same old riff: SCOREBOARD!

And again, for the record, I have no great love for her.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:52:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 1969, 07:02:49 PM
I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
You only asked that question because you did not like the answer the House gave Tailib on the same questions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:55:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:46:19 PM
Those questions were answered overwhelmingly in the house vote

The only question that was answered by the vote is that they had enough votes to censure her. Which is your same old riff: SCOREBOARD!
Exactly how else can an issue be decided in our democracy.?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:59:54 PM: As I said the numbers were sufficient to censure her. Not to answer the questions asked.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 06:02:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:59:54 PM
As I said the numbers were sufficient to censure her. Not to answer the questions asked.
Now it is you that cannot answer a question .
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 06:02:37 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 05:18:23 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 13, 2023, 05:00:10 PM
Happy birthday King Charles!
75.

Long live the King.

He made former Prime Minister David Cameron, Lord Cameron, which means he can sit in parliament without being elected.
Current Prime Minister Sunak has made "explosive cabinet changes", one being appointing Lord Cameron Foreign Secretary.
bambu is pleased.
75 years unjustly avoiding the tumbil.

In the world today it's fast becoming "Long live the King" or "Long live the Ayatollah".
I choose the King.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 06:10:02 PM: The question answered by the House was whether there were enough votes to censure her. A vote is the only way to answer that narrow question. Not the questions posed to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 06:18:06 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 06:10:02 PM
The question answered by the House was whether there were enough votes to censure her.
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That is Not the question asked in the House.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 06:19:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:52:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 1969, 07:02:49 PM
I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
You only asked that question because you did not like the answer the House gave Tailib on the same questions.
I asked liee and then you for your basis for the assertion Tlaib supported a terrorist organization. Not what the House did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 13, 2023, 06:58:23 PM: It is very important for our schools to teach children right from wrong, and we need for the public schools to be just as safe as the Christian Schools, and we need for all children to learn to treat other people the same way that they themselves wish to be treated, we need to teach our children empathy.

Christians are taught the 10 Commandments, along with the Golden Rule to Love Our Neighbors, and we need to teach the same basic principles to all children, they need to be taught not to lie, and not to steal, and not to sleep with someone else's wife, and not to kill, etc, etc, etc, and to love your neighbors and to treat other people as you wish to be treated yourself.

We have 33% of our population in California who moved here from other nations, and we need to teach them what type of behavior is acceptable in America. 40% of the children in the public schools in Beverly Hills are Persian, and it is up to us to teach them all of the wonderful things about America, and about what makes America special, and we need to teach the children to love America and to be grateful to have America.

Right now we have people stealing so bad that the stores cannot even keep toilet paper on the shelves because people steal it...

https://nypost.com/2023/11/12/news/washington-dc-cvs-replaces-shelves-of-toilet-paper-with-photos-of-products-amid-rising-thefts/

And we have the Cub Scouts for the young boys that teaches the boys many wonderful things, we need for the Persian boys to join the Cub Scouts here with the other boys. You do not have to be Christian to be a scout, the Persians are welcome in the Scouts.

And Kiwanis International is a welcoming organization, and they have the Key Club, and there is Circle K, etc. The Persians can do charity work with Kiwanis, they are welcome.

We need to raise better children, and I would rather spend more money on teachers, and less money on prisons. Plus, we want a good society to live in, we need to raise better children.

Hillary said it takes a village to raise a kid, and that is true, we need to raise better children who grow up to be better adults.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:11:47 PM
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 07:18:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 06:19:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:52:33 PM
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I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
You only asked that question because you did not like the answer the House gave Tailib on the same questions.
I asked liee and then you for your basis for the assertion Tlaib supported a terrorist organization. Not what the House did.
And I responded that the House answered the question.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2023, 08:00:35 PM: Quote from: luee on November 13, 2023, 07:11:47 PM

Most sensible post you have made in years
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 13, 2023, 09:11:03 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 05:20:21 PM
I think everyone understands what a censure vote is, Luee, but you and Red have both been asked what the false narrative was and where she specifically called for the destruction of Israel.

For the record, I believe that Tlaib is right on the edge of being an anti-Semite (and since I'm equal opportunity in such judgment, I view Trump as an anti-Semite) and in another context, and in other situations, such provocative statements such as "from the river to the sea" would be viewed by some as "dog whistles". That said, I view her censure as clearly political and not nearly specific enough.

Anti Israel possibly Anti Jew but Palestinians are Semites

As aPalestinian is being anti Israel a anomaly?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 09:25:25 PM: While Palestinians are a Semitic people the use of the term anti-Semitic has come to be understood as anti-Jewish. If you prefer to use that term, go right ahead.

And again, it's certainly understandable that Palestinians have less than warm feelings about Israel, but the use of the term "from river to sea" is understood by many people as code words for violence and annihilation, in a way that as I suggested, in other contexts and situations, similar inciting language would be called a "dog whistle".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 09:33:54 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 07:18:28 PM
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Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:52:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 1969, 07:02:49 PM
I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
You only asked that question because you did not like the answer the House gave Tailib on the same questions.
I asked liee and then you for your basis for the assertion Tlaib supported a terrorist organization. Not what the House did.
And I responded that the House answered the question.
Yes you responded with a unresponsive response. As expected.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 09:36:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 09:25:25 PM
While Palestinians are a Semitic people the use of the term anti-Semitic has come to be understood as anti-Jewish. If you prefer to use that term, go right ahead.

And again, it's certainly understandable that Palestinians have less than warm feelings about Israel, but the use of the term "from river to sea" is understood by many people as code words for violence and annihilation, in a way that as I suggested, in other contexts and situations, similar inciting language would be called a "dog whistle".
I will yield to your greater knowledge on that. But two things it is not are 10/7 disinformation, and a call for the destruction of Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 10:03:08 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 09:25:25 PM
While Palestinians are a Semitic people the use of the term anti-Semitic has come to be understood as anti-Jewish. If you prefer to use that term, go right ahead.
Nothing like stating the obvious.

Quote

And again, it's certainly understandable that Palestinians have less than warm feelings about Israel, but the use of the term "from river to sea" is understood by many people as code words for violence and annihilation, in a way that as I suggested, in other contexts and situations, similar inciting language would be called a "dog whistle".
All Lives Matter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 10:06:11 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 09:33:54 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 07:18:28 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 13, 2023, 06:19:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 13, 2023, 05:52:33 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 31, 1969, 07:02:49 PM
I asked you for your support that Tlaib provided "actual support for a terrorist organization." You have none, and nothing you cite provides that basis.
You only asked that question because you did not like the answer the House gave Tailib on the same questions.
I asked liee and then you for your basis for the assertion Tlaib supported a terrorist organization. Not what the House did.
And I responded that the House answered the question.
Yes you responded with a unresponsive response. As expected.
It just happens to be the ONLY response that matters.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 13, 2023, 11:04:41 PM: Red makes a compelling case to remove gerrymandering that favors conservatives in any jurisdiction.

Remind him of his utter submission to the will of The House of Representatives when his inbred rapey fascist crew are back in the minority.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 14, 2023, 04:47:11 AM: CEO of major bank in bambuworld;

"The dream of home ownership is now the preserve of the rich."

xxx

Sky News commentator:

"Demand [for housing] is thru the roof" [extremely high], "driven by [massive] immigration".

Para; "High demand, up go the prices [skywards at express pace]".

#####

Well there you go.
It's all very true, and was warned about by more than one expert and average Joe over the last few years.

Yes, the Aussie dream for average Joe of owning one's own home is basically over.
Not enough rental properties for everyone either.
Gonna be lots of people 'waltzing matilda', 'couch surfing', 'living with their parents forever', and living in cars/vans/caravans/mobile homes etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 06:35:19 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 13, 2023, 09:25:25 PM
While Palestinians are a Semitic people the use of the term anti-Semitic has come to be understood as anti-Jewish. If you prefer to use that term, go right ahead.

And again, it's certainly understandable that Palestinians have less than warm feelings about Israel, but the use of the term "from river to sea" is understood by many people as code words for violence and annihilation, in a way that as I suggested, in other contexts and situations, similar inciting language would be called a "dog whistle".

What did you think Defund the Police meant?

Full disclosure

My maternal grandfather was Jewish
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM: I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 14, 2023, 10:21:16 AM: I would have thrown her in jail for life for inciting a massacre. Does that answer your question?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 14, 2023, 11:36:53 AM: Only if the question is

what spin will Luee put on a US congressperson who criticizes Israeli violence against civilians and obstruction of a peaceful two state solution that respects Palestinian sovereignty and land rights, especially if said congressperson is Muslim?

She didn't incite a massacre, she is speaking out against the bigotry and injustice that keeps causing massacres. And holding Israel responsible for their part in the ongoing cycles of violence and revenge. Fuck yes, we all know Hamas is responsible, no one is absolving them for their amoral savagery. But that doesn't mean Israel's shit don't stink.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2023, 11:46:10 AM: Quote from: luee on November 14, 2023, 10:21:16 AM
I would have thrown her in jail for life for inciting a massacre. Does that answer your question?

The question was will you be voting for KKK endorsed candidates. Your answer is clearly yes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 14, 2023, 12:06:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 14, 2023, 11:36:53 AM
Only if the question is

what spin will Luee put on a US congressperson who criticizes Israeli violence against civilians and obstruction of a peaceful two state solution that respects Palestinian sovereignty and land rights, especially if said congressperson is Muslim?

She didn't incite a massacre, she is speaking out against the bigotry and injustice that keeps causing massacres. And holding Israel responsible for their part in the ongoing cycles of violence and revenge. Fuck yes, we all know Hamas is responsible, no one is absolving them for their amoral savagery. But that doesn't mean Israel's shit don't stink.
But yours does.
The Censure of Taihib came from the U S House of Representatives in a lop sided bi partisan vote that amplified and reaffirmed US support for Israel as forcefully stated by President Biden.
At the core of the debate the representatives strongly indicated that the US Government identifies Hamas as a terrorist organization and interpreted the phrase FromThe River To The Sea as calling for the destruction of Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 12:37:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM
I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.

It is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Put that on a bumper sticker.

It was co-opted and weaponized to mean whatever White folks said it means.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-myths-about-defunding-the-police-debunked/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2023, 01:18:03 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 12:37:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM
I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.

It is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Put that on a bumper sticker.

It was co-opted and weaponized to mean whatever White folks said it means.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-myths-about-defunding-the-police-debunked/
That is my worry with the interpretation of River to the Sea, which is facially anodyne but may have acquired a secondary meaning. On the other hand, it could just be co-opted in order to limit legitimate discussion of Palestinian desires for statehood. I mean, if you look at the standard maps.of two state solutions, you can see why that slogan might have an appe to Palestinians who always seem to have a disconnected country at the mercy of Israel for inter country communications and travel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 01:18:38 PM: I have no interest in making this a racial discussion.
Quote from: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 12:37:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM
I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.

It is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Put that on a bumper sticker.

It was co-opted and weaponized to mean whatever White folks said it means.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-myths-about-defunding-the-police-debunked/
I have no interest in making this a racial discussion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2023, 01:29:06 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 14, 2023, 01:18:03 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 12:37:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM
I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.

It is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Put that on a bumper sticker.

It was co-opted and weaponized to mean whatever White folks said it means.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-myths-about-defunding-the-police-debunked/
That is my worry with the interpretation of River to the Sea, which is facially anodyne but may have acquired a secondary meaning. On the other hand, it could just be co-opted in order to limit legitimate discussion of Palestinian desires for statehood. I mean, if you look at the standard maps.of two state solutions, you can see why that slogan might have an appe to Palestinians who always seem to have a disconnected country at the mercy of Israel for inter country communications and travel.

You raise some very good points. Most slogans are offered with varying connotations depending on the context and world views of their users.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 01:33:12 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 01:18:38 PM
I have no interest in making this a racial discussion.
Quote from: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 12:37:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 06:49:42 AM
I thought that people should have come up with a better slogan for their policy ideas.

It is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Put that on a bumper sticker.

It was co-opted and weaponized to mean whatever White folks said it means.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-myths-about-defunding-the-police-debunked/
I have no interest in making this a racial discussion.

Whether you like it or not, it is..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 01:40:50 PM: Only if more than one person participates.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 02:36:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 01:40:50 PM
Only if more than one person participates.

Which is why there may never be a rssolution.

Fingers in ears LALALALA
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 02:38:35 PM: If you say so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2023, 03:27:07 PM: The thing the right wing gains from the Tailb censure is that it allows them to construct a false equivalence between her words and actions and the words and actions of MTG and Paul Gosar who probably has a cabinet position in the next republican administration, should something so awful ever be allowed to come to pass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 14, 2023, 03:34:46 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/14/2205826/-Right-wing-comparisons-of-violence-in-law-n-order-Florida-vs-lawless-California-are-100-phony?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/14/2205826/-Right-wing-comparisons-of-violence-in-law-n-order-Florida-vs-lawless-California-are-100-phony?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 14, 2023, 04:59:12 PM: Biden is doing some good things, the economy is getting better, and President Biden is meeting with President Xi of China in San Francisco. That is wonderful.

China Town in San Francisco is a great area, I hope the President of China will tour China Town with Biden, and I hope they can eat at the restaurants, etc.

It would be nice if they could spend a few days together discussing things.

China wants peace and trade, and they want happy customers, etc.

It is good that Biden and Xi are meeting in San Francisco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 14, 2023, 07:39:28 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 02:38:35 PM
If you say so.

Not talking about the subject just makes it go awa, huh?

Sounds about white
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 08:11:57 PM: The discussion was about Representative Tlaib. If you want to turn it into a monologue about defunding the police, have at it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 15, 2023, 12:37:56 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 08:11:57 PM
The discussion was about Representative Tlaib. If you want to turn it into a monologue about defunding the police, have at it.

Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 14, 2023, 08:11:57 PM
The discussion was about Representative Tlaib. If you want to turn it into a monologue about defunding the police, have at it.

It as a dialogue about taking slogans and interpreting them only from one point of view..

Your dismissal of the subject by saying you were not interesting in having a racial discussion and saying it twice illustrated the point.

YOU emphatically defined it as a racial discussion not worthy of visiting, just as people ignore what PALESTINIANS say the slogan, From the River to the Sea, means to THEM.

https://forward.com/opinion/415250/from-the-river-to-the-sea-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM: A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2023, 01:59:23 PM: Lots of good things are happening, the SAG and WGA strikes are over and the workers won the improvements they wanted, and other unions are winning improvements for workers, and even McDonald's is a good place to work now with workers earning $20 an hour, etc, etc, etc.

Also, President Biden is meeting with President Xi of China in San Francisco. That is wonderful. They need to spend a few days together discussing things, and they can eat at the restaurants in China Town in San Francisco, etc. San Francisco has some nice hotels, etc, and great restaurants, etc, San Francisco is a great place for the leaders to meet.

And as we gain, then we need to spend money to build libraries, schools, and Universities, in our poorest areas.

We also need to pump redevelopment money into our ghettos, and we need to give people business loans, etc.

As we get rich, then we need to give back and we need to help our poor. We need to clean up our ghettos, and we need to help our poor people, and we need schools, parks, libraries, Universities, etc.

We can also be good neighbors and we can donate schools, libraries, hospitals, etc, to some poor parts of Mexico, and we can be friends and allies with Mexico.

As we get rich then we need to help the poor.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 04:03:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
Jennifer Jones was married to Robert Walker. He was so great in "Strangers on a Train." Hard to believe he was on 32 when he died.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 15, 2023, 04:37:54 PM: By that logic, since Judaism is a late splinter sect of Zoroastrianism and both Christianity and Islamare splinters of that, control of the whole question should go to whoever has the biggest piece left intact of the late lamented Persian empire.

More modern and sensible practice is to hold elections. Perhaps the more than 70 percent of Israelis who are eager to be done with Bibi and Likud can get together with the more than 70 percent of Palestinians who are done with Hamas and sit down at a table and work toward a stable nonviolent solution
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 04:43:35 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Fertile Crescent is not in the Bible. The term would include Mesopotamia as well, all the way down to Basra.

But the point which you also make is, the Levant is the "original home" of multiple people and faiths. Whether Jennifer Jones acknowledges that or not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:22:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 04:43:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Fertile Crescent is not in the Bible.
It certainly is. Unless you omit the Garden of Eden. You might need a refresher course in biblical history.
And I have no idea why Jennifer Jones has anything to do with the discussion.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 05:46:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:22:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 04:43:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Fertile Crescent is not in the Bible.
It certainly is. Unless you omit the Garden of Eden. You might need a refresher course in biblical history.
And I have no idea why Jennifer Jones has anything to do with the discussion.
Nope, the term arose out of archeological work done in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It refers to areas where settled planned agriculture first arose. The history of agriculture is not something that would have been within the knowledge of the authors of the Bible. They simply would not have thought about their homeland in that way.

Or, you can cite me chapter and verse and I will admit my error.

Also, you could read the bloody thread you are replying to. I bolded for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:55:58 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 05:46:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:22:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 04:43:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Fertile Crescent is not in the Bible.
It certainly is. Unless you omit the Garden of Eden. You might need a refresher course in biblical history.
And I have no idea why Jennifer Jones has anything to do with the discussion.
Nope, the term arose out of archeological work done in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It refers to areas where settled planned agriculture first arose. The history of agriculture is not something that would have been within the knowledge of the authors of the Bible. They simply would not have thought about their homeland in that way.

Or, you can cite me chapter and verse and I will admit my error.
There are hundreds of citations on the fertile land in the Bible , if not the exact sequence of Fertile Crescent. And all the history courses I took in school and college equated to the term. And the Bible authors did think of their land that way if not in the literal sequence. My point is Palestinians, Jews, and Christians all have claims to having lived there.

Also, you could read the bloody thread you are replying to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 15, 2023, 06:17:56 PM: That was a very mealy mouthed way to admit you were wrong, Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:55:58 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 05:46:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 05:22:45 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 04:43:35 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 04:22:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
You continue to be one of the stupidest humans on the planet.

"The original home of the Jews" is true though.
Yeah. What is the original home of the Palestinians?
You mean the place where Judaism and Christianity were born, the biblical term the Fertile Crescent?
Fertile Crescent is not in the Bible.
It certainly is. Unless you omit the Garden of Eden. You might need a refresher course in biblical history.
And I have no idea why Jennifer Jones has anything to do with the discussion.
Nope, the term arose out of archeological work done in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It refers to areas where settled planned agriculture first arose. The history of agriculture is not something that would have been within the knowledge of the authors of the Bible. They simply would not have thought about their homeland in that way.

Or, you can cite me chapter and verse and I will admit my error.
There are hundreds of citations on the fertile land in the Bible , if not the exact sequence of Fertile Crescent. And all the history courses I took in school and college equated to the term. And the Bible authors did think of their land that way if not in the literal sequence. My point is Palestinians, Jews, and Christians all have claims to having lived there.
Which is as I noted the same point I was making to the upside down little fool who gets his history from Jennifer Jones movies.

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Also, you could read the bloody thread you are replying to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 15, 2023, 08:09:43 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 04:03:17 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 15, 2023, 03:40:18 AM
A Jennifer Jones movie...in the classroom:

"We will consider the country of Palestine...the original home of the Jews".

#####

Well there you go.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
Jennifer Jones was married to Robert Walker. He was so great in "Strangers on a Train." Hard to believe he was on 32 when he died.

Great movie, and sad loss for American film. Murdered by malpractice by his psychiatrist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 08:15:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
If you need directions from Moronvia let us know.

LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:28:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 08:15:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
If you need directions from Moronvia let us know.

LOL!
Thanks for playing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 15, 2023, 08:47:02 PM: Trivia question for ya in Movies thread, Yank. Though Lime may beat you to it, if he's not out canvasing Phoenix for the Q Anon Shaman campaign.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 08:48:52 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:28:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 08:15:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
If you need directions from Moronvia let us know.

LOL!
Thanks for playing.
Dammit! I thought I was going to get one of your patented "Say 'goodnight' Gracie" as your snappish response. I just lost $20.00 in the pool.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 15, 2023, 08:51:14 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 15, 2023, 08:47:02 PM
Trivia question for ya in Movies thread, Yank. Though Lime may beat you to it, if he's not out canvasing Phoenix for the Q Anon Shaman campaign.
I got that one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 15, 2023, 09:54:33 PM: Indeed. Maybe Hairy can catch the bonus questions. At least one, if he doesn't fiddle around.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 10:23:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 15, 2023, 08:09:43 PM
Murdered by malpractice by his psychiatrist.
I told my Psychiatrist I had suicidal thoughts.
Since then he makes me pay in advance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 16, 2023, 12:09:48 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 10:23:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 15, 2023, 08:09:43 PM
Murdered by malpractice by his psychiatrist.
I told my Psychiatrist I had suicidal thoughts.
Since then he makes me pay in advance.

That seems totally in character with everyone who follows Steve Bannon and Steve Miller into every open sewer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 16, 2023, 10:37:16 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 10:23:02 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on November 15, 2023, 08:09:43 PM
Murdered by malpractice by his psychiatrist.
I told my Psychiatrist I had suicidal thoughts.
Since then he makes me pay in advance.

An oldie but a goodie.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 16, 2023, 10:41:05 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is stupid. And it is pretty obvious where you come down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 16, 2023, 12:31:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 16, 2023, 10:41:05 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 15, 2023, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 15, 2023, 06:18:46 PM

As for the rest... I did not expect any better of you. Yes, the word fertile is in the Bible. But the concept of a fertile Crescent running from Basra to, depending on your source, down the Nile is not.

Were you and YankGuy separated at birth in the Fertile Land of Esoteria?

LOL!
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge,
Thanks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 16, 2023, 06:55:30 PM: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xeg3/gop-ghost-bus

Another crackpot theory. With a cool-sounding name. The Right wants so badly not to have to own their actions on January 6. Ghost bus to the rescue!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 16, 2023, 07:59:15 PM: Amanda breaks down the Trump technique of using sexism and misogyny to con people. And how Ivanka helps.

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/10/i-am-not-a-misogynist-ivankas-testimony-shows-how-the-exploit-sexism-to-defraud-people/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 17, 2023, 07:02:53 PM: Bamboozling lenders?
Excuse me, the lenders should've done their homework properly.
Lenders are supposed to have expert valuers, expert accountants...margin rules, security rules, qualification rules.
Not supposed to just believe what loan applicants say...no matter their manner...ranters, ravers, BS artists, sweet, calm, demure..."good cop, bad cop" routines, braggers, and the "don't you know who I am" brigade.
Wise lenders never get themselves into trouble.
Investors...ditto.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 17, 2023, 07:06:36 PM: Sky News:
"Chinese vessel uses sonar on HMAS (His Majesty's Australian Ship) Toowoomba.

#####

Charming.
All that diplomacy....LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 17, 2023, 07:13:48 PM: A baby-a inna the womb-a,
scared by sonar on the Toowoomba...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 17, 2023, 07:37:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 17, 2023, 07:13:48 PM
A baby-a inna the womb-a,
scared by sonar on the Toowoomba...

LOL
Cyber attacks everywhere in bambuworld...most allegedly emanating from China.
Chinese warships cruising Australia's coastline.
Oh well, at least Xi called Albo "handsome boy". lol

Baby kangaroo when born is 1/2 inch long...lives in pouch-a.

Toowoomba - Aboriginal word meaning:
"reeds in the swamp".

Suburb in Sydney:
Woolloomooloo....
Aboriginal word meaning:
young black kangaroo.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 17, 2023, 09:22:58 PM: Looks like everything went well in San Francisco, Xi had a good meeting with Biden, and with the President of Mexico, so that is good.

It is a huge blessing to be able to have peace and trade with China, especially at this time.

And Tik Tok is good, let the teens from China talk with the teens from the USA, etc, it can help to improve international relations.

Inflation is under control, and the economy is doing great, lots of good things are happening.

New housing is being built all over, and getting the poor into housing is a priority. Tax free hostels would help, where people could take a shower and sleep in a bed for $15 per night. And meanwhile we have Sober Living Homes for $150 per week.

We also have a new program in Los Angeles to pay former incarcerated teens to do landscaping and gardening for the public to beautify the neighborhoods, I recommend planting trees, plants, flowers, and putting in fountains, cobblestones, bricks, etc. And they can paint the buildings bright cheerful colors, etc. Wendy Carrillo is involved with that.

Christina Pascucci is doing well in her Senate run, but she needs big helpers like Rick Caruso, she needs funds for advertising.

And as the strikes end then things can move forward in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on November 17, 2023, 10:06:05 PM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 17, 2023, 11:14:14 PM: We can continue to help the people from Ukraine so that civilization and empathy win out over the cruelties of war.

https://www.kiwanis.org/kiwanis-unites-to-support-ukrainians-struck-by-war/?locale=en

Kiwanis is helping people all around the world, in Ukraine, as well as in Egypt, etc.

UNICEF is also helping the refugees.

And we need to always support good women's rights in the world, and good rights for all humans.

And we have the Key Club, Circle K, etc, for the youth, and Scouting for the children, etc.

I also support helping the poor people of Mexico, with Youth For Christ, and with Samaritan's Purse, etc, we need to donate schools, libraries, and hospitals, to poor parts of Mexico.

And the Mexican truck drivers need to be able to join the Teamsters Union, etc, and we need to invest in the Ports in Mexico, etc.

I see lots of good things happening in the world right now, and more good things can happen.

There is also more help for housing for Veterans, and there is "From Tunnels to Towers" and there are other groups helping the Veterans. And I support setting the Veterans up with Russian Brides, etc, and the Brides can go to school to train on how to deal with issues which Veterans face. A friend who served in Afghanistan married a Russian Bride and she went to school to become a nurse, and the Government pays her to be a nurse for my friend who suffers from PTSD, so his Russian Bride is his nurse, it is great, and he loves her very much, and they have children. We can set the Veterans up with trained Brides.

And 33% of the people in California are immigrants from other nations, and 40% of the children in the public schools in Beverly Hills are Persian, so we need to get the people into Scouting, and the Key Club, and Circle K, and Kiwanis International, etc, and we need to teach the people how to be good Americans, and we need to instill in them all that is great about America.

Also, we can put a fresh coat of paint on our ghettos, and we can plant trees, plants, flowers, and we can have cobblestones, and fountains, and bricks, etc, and we can clean things up and make it nicer. And we need to give redevelopment money and business loans to our ghettos, etc. And we need to build more schools, and libraries, etc, including in the poorest parts of Kentucky.

We also need to write a new immigration law, we need to make our immigrants legal so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency and so that they can join labor unions, etc, and we need to write a new Good Neighbor Policy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2023, 09:38:54 PM: Bambu, here is what the new housing looks like that they are building down the street from me, Townhomes and Duplexes for under one million dollars, with a swimming pool, etc, next to a dog park and La Palma Park, close to the Northgate Mexican Market where they can buy food, etc.

https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/la-orange-county/promo/ochlen_lapalma

I hope nice people move into the new housing.

Lots of new building is happening as we work to get all of the homeless people into housing, etc, plus we have new refugees and immigrants arriving everyday.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 19, 2023, 12:52:49 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2023, 09:38:54 PM
Bambu, here is what the new housing looks like that they are building down the street from me, Townhomes and Duplexes for under one million dollars, with a swimming pool, etc, next to a dog park and La Palma Park, close to the Northgate Mexican Market where they can buy food, etc.

https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/la-orange-county/promo/ochlen_lapalma

I hope nice people move into the new housing.

Lots of new building is happening as we work to get all of the homeless people into housing, etc, plus we have new refugees and immigrants arriving everyday.

Salute,

Tony V.

Homeless and refugees will be living in these homes?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 19, 2023, 01:37:50 AM: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/18/ohio-priest-sentenced-life-imprisonment-sex-trafficking-minors (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/18/ohio-priest-sentenced-life-imprisonment-sex-trafficking-minors)

One less conservative thought leader free to make the rounds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 19, 2023, 01:57:54 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 19, 2023, 12:52:49 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2023, 09:38:54 PM
Bambu, here is what the new housing looks like that they are building down the street from me, Townhomes and Duplexes for under one million dollars, with a swimming pool, etc, next to a dog park and La Palma Park, close to the Northgate Mexican Market where they can buy food, etc.

https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/la-orange-county/promo/ochlen_lapalma

I hope nice people move into the new housing.

Lots of new building is happening as we work to get all of the homeless people into housing, etc, plus we have new refugees and immigrants arriving everyday.

Salute,

Tony V.

Homeless and refugees will be living in these homes?

Yes, homeless people and refugees will be living in these homes.

And Veterans and Seniors, and homeless children, will live in the homes, these homes will be a God Send for these poor people.

These are nice homes, the people will be very grateful. This is a great neighborhood, and this is prime real estate.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 19, 2023, 02:44:42 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 17, 2023, 07:13:48 PM
A baby-a inna the womb-a,
scared by sonar on the Toowoomba...

Navy divers were injured by sonar from Chinese warship.
Best bambuworld doesn't get lulled into a false sense of security by smiling China.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 19, 2023, 11:10:10 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 17, 2023, 07:06:36 PM
Sky News:
"Chinese vessel uses sonar on HMAS (His Majesty's Australian Ship) Toowoomba.

#####

Charming.
All that diplomacy....LOL

Standard operating procedure
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 19, 2023, 11:11:10 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 19, 2023, 01:37:50 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/18/ohio-priest-sentenced-life-imprisonment-sex-trafficking-minors (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/18/ohio-priest-sentenced-life-imprisonment-sex-trafficking-minors)

One less conservative thought leader free to make the rounds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 19, 2023, 12:08:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 19, 2023, 12:52:49 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 18, 2023, 09:38:54 PM
Bambu, here is what the new housing looks like that they are building down the street from me, Townhomes and Duplexes for under one million dollars, with a swimming pool, etc, next to a dog park and La Palma Park, close to the Northgate Mexican Market where they can buy food, etc.

https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/la-orange-county/promo/ochlen_lapalma

I hope nice people move into the new housing.

Lots of new building is happening as we work to get all of the homeless people into housing, etc, plus we have new refugees and immigrants arriving everyday.

Salute,

Tony V.

Homeless and refugees will be living in these homes?

Bambu shows critical thinking skills! Let joy be unconfined!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 19, 2023, 02:38:27 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/19/2206390/-Massachusetts-millionaire-tax-will-pay-for-free-public-higher-education-for-25-000-students?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/19/2206390/-Massachusetts-millionaire-tax-will-pay-for-free-public-higher-education-for-25-000-students?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 19, 2023, 04:52:29 PM: Rosalynn Carter died, may she rest in peace, she was married to Jimmy Carter for over 70 years, and she served our nation well.

Jimmy Carter said he always felt loved and supported by Rosalynn. They had such a wonderful love for each other.

Jimmy and Rosalynn were a shining example of a great American couple and they lived the American Dream in all its glory.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 19, 2023, 11:12:44 PM: Napoleon's hat has sold at auction for $3.1m.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 20, 2023, 02:33:47 PM: I like to get out and walk around Anaheim, like the Europeans in Europe, and I saw something interesting, there was an open house at an apartment complex and the real estate agent had Berkshire Hathaway signs, so I guess Berkshire Hathaway is involved with real estate here in Anaheim. Interesting.

And I spent an hour at the Pharmacy waiting, and Anaheim has good diversity with our population, we have people here from all over the world, the people at the Pharmacy were of every race. And the lady at the Pharmacy was so good and patient with the people, she had a never ending line of customers and she kept a smile on her face and she was polite and nice with every client.

We have some problems with drunks and homeless people in the area around the pharmacy, I need to send a message to my local Representative at City Hall and have her address the issue. We have housing for the homeless now, and she can help them to get into housing. She can send Social Workers to the area to help the people. And meanwhile, we cannot have rude drunks harassing our good citizens, so the police can patrol the area, etc, being drunk in public is a crime here.

Anaheim is a great city, with lots of diversity, and it is still safe to walk the streets here, like in Paris and in Rome. We have some work to do to make it nicer, but I will send a message to my Representative, and it looks like we have Berkshire Hathaway here to help with housing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 20, 2023, 03:11:57 PM: B Hathaway has a real estate company all over the US, especially the West and Midwest. Their reputation is not real great atm....

Quote
On November 1, 2023, a federal jury in Kansas City, Missouri found Berkshire Hathaway and the National Association of Realtors liable to pay 1.78 billion in damages. The verdict came as the Warren Buffett led brand, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, along with National Association of Realtors were found guilty of manipulating and artificially inflating the commissions on numerous home sales....

According to the jury in Kansas City, the manipulation resulting in inflated commissions caused an artificial rise in mortgage rates and property prices in the housing market...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 20, 2023, 04:00:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 20, 2023, 03:11:57 PM
B Hathaway has a real estate company all over the US, especially the West and Midwest. Their reputation is not real great atm....

Quote
On November 1, 2023, a federal jury in Kansas City, Missouri found Berkshire Hathaway and the National Association of Realtors liable to pay 1.78 billion in damages. The verdict came as the Warren Buffett led brand, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, along with National Association of Realtors were found guilty of manipulating and artificially inflating the commissions on numerous home sales....

According to the jury in Kansas City, the manipulation resulting in inflated commissions caused an artificial rise in mortgage rates and property prices in the housing market...

Sad.

We need for people to have good ethics and to earn their money honestly, and for real estate we need to have value added to our communities, with nicer housing, and with nice public landscaping, and we need attractive businesses in the area that meet the needs of the community, and we need to help the homeless and we need to reduce crime, etc. Gentrification due to crime is a sin, and shame on the bad actors, I hope the punishment in court taught them a lesson.

It is sad that we have people who only care about money, instead of caring about the communities and the people. When my Mother did Real Estate she used to care about the people and the communities, and they loved her, she had television commercials and everything, her mistake was to marry a guy who was a part owner of the real estate company and then when she divorced him she left the company. But, she was great because she really cared about the people and about the communities. And that is what we need in Anaheim, we need real estate companies that care about the people and that care about the communities.

Greedy companies that just raise prices with crime are not the kind of companies that I want in my City. I hope Berkshire Hathaway learned their lesson, and I hope they can be a good part of our City, they are rich and they have the power to help our City to become nicer and to help our people, but we do not want crime and we do not want people who only care about money and who do not care about the people and about our communities.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 21, 2023, 10:54:29 AM: https://apnews.com/article/rolling-stones-2024-north-american-tour-1c8fcfedb1b44c1a5b1d54ede5ca24c0

The word phenomenal is overused but I think it fits these lads. Ronnie Wood 76, Mick 80, and Keith turns 80 in a few weeks. And Wyman, 87, sat in this year for one of the tracks on their new album.

Anyway, happy 81 Mr President.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM: New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.

"On May 31, 2020, Sweasy said that Baker shared the results of toxicology tests with prosecutors, which showed that Floyd, 46, had "a fatal level of fentanyl" in his blood, along with methamphetemine".
"Floyd also had Covid and severe "arteriosclerosis heart disease", with one artery 75% obstructed, and "hypertensive heart disease".

"George Floyd was a healthy young man", lawyer told the media".

"There is so much that is shocking in the documentary."

#####

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 21, 2023, 02:48:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 21, 2023, 10:54:29 AM
https://apnews.com/article/rolling-stones-2024-north-american-tour-1c8fcfedb1b44c1a5b1d54ede5ca24c0

The word phenomenal is overused but I think it fits these lads. Ronnie Wood 76, Mick 80, and Keith turns 80 in a few weeks. And Wyman, 87, sat in this year for one of the tracks on their new album.

Anyway, happy 81 Mr President.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 21, 2023, 02:51:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.

"On May 31, 2020, Sweasy said that Baker shared the results of toxicology tests with prosecutors, which showed that Floyd, 46, had "a fatal level of fentanyl" in his blood, along with methamphetemine".
"Floyd also had Covid and severe "arteriosclerosis heart disease", with one artery 75% obstructed, and "hypertensive heart disease".

"George Floyd was a healthy young man", lawyer told the media".

"There is so much that is shocking in the documentary."

#####

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.

Derek Chauvin murdered Floyd on camera and you can spout your right wing talking points til the cows come home. In the documentary did they mention the Umbrella Man?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 21, 2023, 03:11:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 10:09:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.
No it has not. A huckster is just capitalizing on the well known proverb, a conservative and his money are soon parted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 AM: Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 11:13:16 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 AM

Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life

Frye festival mark II. Good luck and good riddance. Your crippled and twisted sham politics are not needed here. You will not be missed
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 22, 2023, 11:41:14 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.
That's what Chauvin says!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:56:29 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 AM

Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life

Libertarians are all about small, limited government until they
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:05:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.

Said idiot was thinking more along the lines of a reduced sentence...given what's allegedly revealed in the documentary.
And freedom for the rookies who were not really guilty of much.
People could be forgiven for thinking that justice was not served.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 02:11:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.

Said idiot was thinking more along the lines of a reduced sentence...given what's allegedly revealed in the documentary.
And freedom for the rookies who were not really guilty of much.
People could be forgiven for thinking that justice was not served.
You do not even know what the evidence is and so not even care how credible it is and you want to let the cops.off. You gullible idiot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:43:27 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 02:11:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.

Said idiot was thinking more along the lines of a reduced sentence...given what's allegedly revealed in the documentary.
And freedom for the rookies who were not really guilty of much.
People could be forgiven for thinking that justice was not served.
You do not even know what the evidence is and so not even care how credible it is and you want to let the cops.off. You gullible idiot.

Not all of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:49:45 PM: 'Anti-Semitism' in bambuworld has been renamed 'Jew Hate'.
Well on Sky News anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 22, 2023, 03:30:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM
[]Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.

I noticed.

Rumble is a Far Right video hosting platform. A putrid pipeline pissing pure propaganda.

I have reached the point of viewing this forum as a sort of surreal work of performance art. You seem to be enjoying it as an arcade game, Whack A Mole with RW troll-zombies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 22, 2023, 03:32:00 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:56:29 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 AM

Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life

Libertarians are all about small, limited government until they

need that government to bail them out?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 04:41:37 PM: This will no doubt upset any Hamas loving and Jew hating leftists here:

Exposed!

The Daily Telegraph strikes again!

DT today:

"Platform Palestine: Insta, TikTok fuelling vile anti-Semitic content.

Young social media users who rely on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram to stay informed about the Middle East are being served up unbalanced anti-Israel and anti-Semitic content in between snippets of reliable news, a Daily Telegraph analysis has found."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 22, 2023, 05:04:05 PM: Could you tell me who here loves Hamas? Or hates Jews?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 05:15:13 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 22, 2023, 05:04:05 PM
Could you tell me who here loves Hamas? Or hates Jews?

On reflection, I amended "the" to "any".

A thousand apologies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 22, 2023, 05:25:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 22, 2023, 05:04:05 PM
Could you tell me who here loves Hamas? Or hates Jews?

On reflection, I amended "the" to "any".

A thousand apologies.
You took a chance. Nice try.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 05:27:01 PM: Daily Tele;

The Telegraph yesterday asked Sydneysiders aged between 18 and 26 to plug words including "Israel", "Palestine" and "Hamas" into search bars and record what the algorithms decided to serve them.

/cont'd
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 05:31:25 PM: /cont'd

Rhiannan Papast, a 20-year-old hospitality worker from Maroubra, said searching for the word "Israel" on Instagram immediately presented her a cartoon of a scary Israeli wolf-like creature, guided by a US arm, terrorising a Palestinian woman and her child with the caption: "US extremely concerned by levels of violence".

And Instagram showed her a cartoon of a bloodthirsty Benjamin Netanyahu taking a scythe off Hitler.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM: At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 09:01:17 PM: Then please confine your idiot ignorant comments to events occurring within your shores where at least you have the knowledge available to most thick assholes instead of opining on matters of which you demonstrate only how laughably misinformed you are.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 09:45:21 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 09:01:17 PM
Then please confine your idiot ignorant comments to events occurring within your shores where at least you have the knowledge available to most thick assholes instead of opining on matters of which you demonstrate only how laughably misinformed you are.

You say misinformed, I don't say that.
Oh, and now my govt is bringing Palestinians from Gaza to here.
Hope they're not from the infamous"70%".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 11:13:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 09:45:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 09:01:17 PM
Then please confine your idiot ignorant comments to events occurring within your shores where at least you have the knowledge available to most thick assholes instead of opining on matters of which you demonstrate only how laughably misinformed you are.

You say misinformed, I don't say that.
Oh, and now my govt is bringing Palestinians from Gaza to here.
Hope they're not from the infamous"70%".

I will take you acceding to ignorant and idiot as the slow dawning of self realization on your part.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 11:36:01 PM: I do know that there'll be delay until Friday for exchange of hostages.
I also know that Hamas are 'disappearing' into the general civilian population, having been hiding in tunnels while the civilians suffer above.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 23, 2023, 09:17:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 02:05:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 22, 2023, 01:43:54 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:53:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 10:04:43 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 08:16:27 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 21, 2023, 02:21:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 21, 2023, 02:06:37 PM
New documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" tells all about the death of George Floyd, and much more.
..

A very interesting and enlightening documentary indeed.
The video of the cop choking the fucking life out of him for 8 minutes is much shorter and more enlightening.

New video shows knee on shoulder not neck....reportedly.
Shows th hold is as per police text book...reportedly.
Also reportedly shows changed autopsy report.

If I were the cops I'd be crying "foul" and demanding a new trial, holding this doco and its evidence high.
If I were the cops I''d get the

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. He is crying foul and demanding new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States said fuck your.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-supreme-court-rcna126057

He was found guilty on certain evidence. New evidence has come to light.

No. It has not. White supremacists just making shit up.
Has anyone else noticed this? That fucking idiot has not seen the documentary or the purported new evidence. He is accepting it without even seeing it and wanting a fucking murderer to walk. A more base and abject slave to right wing misinformation could not possibly exist and still be able to feed itself.

Said idiot was thinking more along the lines of a reduced sentence...given what's allegedly revealed in the documentary.
And freedom for the rookies who were not really guilty of much.
People could be forgiven for thinking that justice was not served.

Rooks should have told him to stop. They didn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 23, 2023, 09:20:30 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 22, 2023, 03:32:00 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 22, 2023, 12:56:29 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 AM

Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life

Libertarians are all about small, limited government until they

need that government to bail them out?

Right. I keep forgetting about the apostrophe thing.

I was gonna say until they are up their asses In floodwaters and then go cannot get big enough fast enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 23, 2023, 09:25:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.

You know you are talking about me, right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 23, 2023, 11:21:34 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on November 23, 2023, 09:25:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.

You know you are talking about me, right?

Your homeland is America and therefore you are not *relative*.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 08:46:34 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
On behalf of the whole world beyond the shores of your homeland, please do that.
Quote
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.
Aussies would be much better off not trying to smuggle drugs into countries when going on vacation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 10:44:12 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 08:46:34 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
On behalf of the whole world beyond the shores of your homeland, please do that.
Quote
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.
Aussies would be much better off not trying to smuggle drugs into countries when going on vacation.

They certainly would.

David Chell, from England, age 50+, said that two customs officials produced two bags of heroin from under a cushion in an interview room, and said they found it in his underwear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 11:26:20 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 10:44:12 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 08:46:34 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
On behalf of the whole world beyond the shores of your homeland, please do that.
Quote
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.
Aussies would be much better off not trying to smuggle drugs into countries when going on vacation.

They certainly would.

David Chell, from England, age 50+, said that two customs officials produced two bags of heroin from under a cushion in an interview room, and said they found it in his underwear.
Standard perp excuse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 24, 2023, 01:29:48 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

Imaginary indeed. I learned that I am part Inuit. Somewhat mystifying until I learned that one of my grandparents was part Sami (the actual name of Laplander), and the Sami descended from Inuits who migrated into Scandinavia from the east. I think the genes expressed more in my papa, who used to cause concern to my mom by venturing outside in twenty degree weather (F.) in an unlined windbreaker. I couldn't pull that off for very long. Anyway, your next Eskimo Pie, it's on me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 24, 2023, 02:17:46 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 24, 2023, 01:29:48 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

Imaginary indeed. I learned that I am part Inuit. Somewhat mystifying until I learned that one of my grandparents was part Sami (the actual name of Laplander), and the Sami descended from Inuits who migrated into Scandinavia from the east. I think the genes expressed more in my papa, who used to cause concern to my mom by venturing outside in twenty degree weather (F.) in an unlined windbreaker. I couldn't pull that off for very long. Anyway, your next Eskimo Pie, it's on me.

Yum. Hope I get a chance to take you up on that
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 02:47:12 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 11:26:20 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 10:44:12 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 24, 2023, 08:46:34 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
On behalf of the whole world beyond the shores of your homeland, please do that.
Quote
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.
Aussies would be much better off not trying to smuggle drugs into countries when going on vacation.

They certainly would.

David Chell, from England, age 50+, said that two customs officials produced two bags of heroin from under a cushion in an interview room, and said they found it in his underwear.
Standard perp excuse.

His words most likely true.
No way Malaysia would have acquitted him otherwise.
There was a page missing out of the customs journal...and other things.
Questions would've been asked, and answers supplied, in the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 24, 2023, 04:22:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 23, 2023, 11:21:34 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on November 23, 2023, 09:25:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 22, 2023, 06:31:43 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 22, 2023, 05:56:00 PM
At least Bambu has taken a pause in ranting about the plight of an imaginary white race.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

The hatred of White heterosexual Christian males in the world today is so massive that I would never venture beyond the shores of my homeland.
"Banged up abroad" is not how I wish my life to come to an end.

English White male David Chell set foot in Asia.
He, totally innocent, ended up on death row being taunted every day with a noose by prison guards.
A nurse, and ex-military, he was able to survive the horrid prison for 12 months until his appeal.
At appeal, a miracle happened, the court for some reason went against the evidence of its own customs officers at Penang airport, Malaysia, and acquitted him.
He was extremely lucky.
I must be close to having used up all my miracles, so I'm staying in my island paradise forevermore.
Live here, die here, happy to the end...terrorists free, hopefully.
The mobs marching in London, Texas, Paris, NY etc recently reinforced my resolve.

You know you are talking about me, right?

Your homeland is America and therefore you are not *relative*.

When America is taken over by people of non-White European Appearance , and America turns into the homelands of such people...your descendants will likely wish White-majority America would return.

Dude, your description includes me and mine.

It is inevitable that America will become a multiracial, multicultural society that will include White people who just will not be the dominant caste.

The idea of America is to move toward a more perfect Union as it says in the US Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

Where does that say we must have a majority White nation? I remember being taught in school how Americas was great Melting Pot because of immigration and now the folks whose previous generations sought salvation on these shores want to raise the drawbridge when this economy cannot move smoothly without the immigrants whose work grease the wheels of commerce.

Fuck White Supremacy and Fuck You.

You, too luee.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:20:57 PM: Which non-White majority country would you like to move to, as 'average Joe'?
Africa anywhere?
Mexico?
South America anywhere?
Middle East anywhere?
Asia anywhere?

Your Constitution is only basically a piece of paper, which can easily be torn up by those who replace White-majority Christian America.

Black Africa, would you like to live there?
If I were you I'd be praying it's not the ayatollahs who take over, which it will likely be.
The global Islamic caliphate marches on, takng over "multicultural", secular western countries at express pace.
Britain as one example.
France another.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:35:23 PM: Not White Supremacy, ...White Majority, like now.

__________________________________________________

...or before the Ayatollahs, taken over by others:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hispanic-leaders-speak-out/

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die ... Through love of having children, we are going to take over.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:39:07 PM: THE U.S. VS MEXICO:

On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived in this country.
They booed during the National Anthem and U.S. flags were held upside down.
As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, pelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match.
The coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have ever had in this profession."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 24, 2023, 06:51:20 PM: So, it looks like Biden has a few ideas to keep the Arabs peaceful, he is offering the Arabs a pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Europe, and a new train, from what I could understand from Biden's mumbling.

Also, Israel told the fleeing Palestinians not to return after they leave, so those Palestinians are going to end up as Essential Labor for Saudi Arabia, including in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and they have other stuff going on, the Saudis can create plenty of jobs for the Palestinians to do.

And we need to invest more money into the Peace Corps.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 24, 2023, 07:09:27 PM: Costa Rica is nice.

And things will get better in Latin America with some hard work and intelligence.

And in the USA we need to all be equal as guaranteed by our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and our Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Louis Farrakhan tried to start a race war in the Antelope Valley and Frank Visco had a private talk with Farrakhan and then Farrakhan left town peacefully without a word and never returned.

Meanwhile, we need more security for our schools, etc, and we need to stop the race riots on the high school campuses, and we need to teach the youth about the benefits of diversity during times of peace so that guys like Farrakhan cannot start race wars. We need to neutralize guys like Farrakhan now during times of peace so that they cannot start race wars.

Of note too, people need to stop rioting and burning here in California over bullshit that some asshole cop does in Minnesota. Go riot at Oprah Winfrey's house, she has more power than my poor neighborhood does, there is no reason for people to bring the riot to my town. The riots can start a race war faster than anything, like that Kyle guy who went out and started shooting rioters. Do not riot in Anaheim for shit that happened in Minnesota, we do not control the asshole cops in Minnesota.

Peace.

Blesses are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 24, 2023, 07:14:38 PM: I have an extended family member who is a dean at a college in Belize, and he loves it there.

That is what Latin America needs is teachers and educators, and schools, and libraries, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 24, 2023, 07:40:06 PM: Bambu, I was pulled out of line at the airport while waiting to board a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and they took me in a room and strip searched me, they made me get completely naked, I felt violated. I will never go to Zurich again. There was no reason for them to strip search me. Next time when I fly to Italy I will take a direct flight, and when I go to Cannes I can switch planes in Paris.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 09:22:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 24, 2023, 07:40:06 PM
Bambu, I was pulled out of line at the airport while waiting to board a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and they took me in a room and strip searched me, they made me get completely naked, I felt violated. I will never go to Zurich again. There was no reason for them to strip search me. Next time when I fly to Italy I will take a direct flight, and when I go to Cannes I can switch planes in Paris.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, another reason I'll never be leaving home shores again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on November 25, 2023, 06:35:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:20:57 PM
Which non-White majority country would you like to move to, as 'average Joe'?
Africa anywhere?
Mexico?
South America anywhere?
Middle East anywhere?
Asia anywhere?

Your Constitution is only basically a piece of paper, which can easily be torn up by those who replace White-majority Christian America.

Black Africa, would you like to live there?
If I were you I'd be praying it's not the ayatollahs who take over, which it will likely be.
The global Islamic caliphate marches on, takng over "multicultural", secular western countries at express pace.
Britain as one example.
France another.

That piece of paper is in danger of being torn up Trump and his MAGA cult.
This is MY country,
My family has been in this country before it was a country.
Black labor built this country for free.
White Evangelical Christian Nationals are just the Bible thumping version of Ayatollahs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 25, 2023, 07:07:31 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:20:57 PM
Which non-White majority country would you like to move to, as 'average Joe'?
Africa anywhere?
Mexico?
South America anywhere?
Middle East anywhere?
Asia anywhere?

Your Constitution is only basically a piece of paper, which can easily be torn up by those who replace White-majority Christian America.

Black Africa, would you like to live there?
If I were you I'd be praying it's not the ayatollahs who take over, which it will likely be.
The global Islamic caliphate marches on, takng over "multicultural", secular western countries at express pace.
Britain as one example.
France another.
So to be clear: you think the ability to govern wisely is a race based genetic trait?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 25, 2023, 07:09:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:39:07 PM
THE U.S. VS MEXICO:

On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived in this country.
They booed during the National Anthem and U.S. flags were held upside down.
As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, pelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match.
The coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have ever had in this profession."
Google "British soccer hooligan" you warm toilet seat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 10:36:10 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 25, 2023, 07:07:31 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:20:57 PM
Which non-White majority country would you like to move to, as 'average Joe'?
Africa anywhere?
Mexico?
South America anywhere?
Middle East anywhere?
Asia anywhere?

Your Constitution is only basically a piece of paper, which can easily be torn up by those who replace White-majority Christian America.

Black Africa, would you like to live there?
If I were you I'd be praying it's not the ayatollahs who take over, which it will likely be.
The global Islamic caliphate marches on, takng over "multicultural", secular western countries at express pace.
Britain as one example.
France another.
So to be clear: you think the ability to govern wisely is a race based genetic trait?

Take a look around the world and make up your mind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 25, 2023, 11:04:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on November 25, 2023, 07:07:31 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 24, 2023, 05:20:57 PM
Which non-White majority country would you like to move to, as 'average Joe'?
Africa anywhere?
Mexico?
South America anywhere?
Middle East anywhere?
Asia anywhere?

Your Constitution is only basically a piece of paper, which can easily be torn up by those who replace White-majority Christian America.

Black Africa, would you like to live there?
If I were you I'd be praying it's not the ayatollahs who take over, which it will likely be.
The global Islamic caliphate marches on, takng over "multicultural", secular western countries at express pace.
Britain as one example.
France another.
So to be clear: you think the ability to govern wisely is a race based genetic trait?

Take a look around the world and make up your mind.
I realized too late that addressing the phrase "you think" to you was a mistake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 11:14:49 AM: Bambu has apparently renewed his subscription to Stormfront.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 25, 2023, 11:17:23 AM: Quote from: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 10:36:10 AM

Take a look around the world and make up your mind.

The world with all those countries whose cultures and economies were ravaged by the colonialist policies of white leaders? The world that leaders like Gandhi, Bolivar, Mandela, Juarez, Toussaint-Louverture, Nkrumah, et al worked to make a little better and more just for billions of people?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 11:47:05 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 25, 2023, 11:17:23 AM
Quote from: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 10:36:10 AM

Take a look around the world and make up your mind.

The world with all those countries whose cultures and economies were ravaged by the colonialist policies of white leaders? The world that leaders like Gandhi, Bolivar, Mandela, Juarez, Toussaint-Louverture, Nkrumah, et al worked to make a little better and more just for billions of people?

US Congress is majority White....and upholds the Constitiuon just fine. Everyone equal.
My preferred model.
I Iook at other systems, govts, cultures around the world...and don't choose them.

Overpopulation in much of the world is a major problem...as are corruption and human rights violations.
Still stoning people to death for petty breaches of religious laws in some places.
And hanging people for being gay.
How many women and girls murdered in Mexico this week, I wonder.
Look at the way people are treated in parts of Africa today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 12:16:39 PM: Does the Australian KKK wear the same garb as its US counterpart?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 25, 2023, 01:31:38 PM: Same robes and hoods but with flip flops or bare feet.

News that the US Congress is jacked up on republican stupidity and is unable to get any work done has not filtered down through YouTube to the filthiest nastiest corner in Oz. Everyone who follows American government and politics knows Congress would function far better and align with public sentiment if all the white people, especially the white men, from confederate states were removed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 07:21:03 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 25, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Same robes and hoods but with flip flops or bare feet.

News that the US Congress is jacked up on republican stupidity and is unable to get any work done has not filtered down through YouTube to the filthiest nastiest corner in Oz. Everyone who follows American government and politics knows Congress would function far better and align with public sentiment if all the white people, especially the white men, from confederate states were removed.

You just don't like the questions Sen John Neely Kennedy asks. LOL
He's way too smart for them.

Smart is smart, no matter the location.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 07:24:32 PM: A white supremacist telling us what constitutes smart is laughable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 07:37:26 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 11:14:49 AM
Bambu has apparently renewed his subscription to Stormfront.

Nah.
I do remember Stormfront and others grabbing hold of this one though.

"Discrimination against White males will soon be encouraged in a bid to boost the status of women and cultural and religious minorities"....my newspaper circa 2008.
Laws were passed in the parliament of Victoria around that time.

My no 1 midday radio host [NSW state] was totally outraged, as were his listeners, male and female.
Frenzied hatred of such laws was displayed...warnings [legal of course] were made to politicians in NSW that if they tried that nonsense in NSW there would be massive opposition [legal of course] and they could find themselves out of jobs...at the next election.
The politicians in NSW never tried it on.

IMAGINE if it were "Discrimination against Black males, or women of any colour!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 07:41:22 PM: No worries, Bambu. I will not be reading your stuff anymore. It used to be amusing; now I find it awful, hateful and depressing. If I can figure out how Ignore works, I will go ahead and do that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 07:50:22 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 07:41:22 PM
No worries, Bambu. I will not be reading your stuff anymore. It used to be amusing; now I find it awful, hateful and depressing. If I can figure out how Ignore works, I will go ahead and do that.

Leftists hate hearing the truth.

Leftists seem to be all about "everyone in the world is a lovely person"...open borders, massive immigration with "multiculturalism is king".
People could be forgiven for thinking they are cheering for the abolition of the White race, especially White males, me.

"They should've put you all in Hitler's ovens" was shouted at a group at the footy, in reserved seating, that included me...about 15 years ago.
It's still being shouted out today in my world...on tape for all to see [well this time it's 'gas' instead of ovens.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 25, 2023, 08:03:15 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 07:41:22 PM
No worries, Bambu. I will not be reading your stuff anymore. It used to be amusing; now I find it awful, hateful and depressing. If I can figure out how Ignore works, I will go ahead and do that.
IGNORE
refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally.

Apparently YankGuy has no self control.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 08:05:47 PM: Thank God I still have Red to laugh at.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 08:18:00 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 25, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Same robes and hoods but with flip flops or bare feet.

News that the US Congress is jacked up on republican stupidity and is unable to get any work done has not filtered down through YouTube to the filthiest nastiest corner in Oz. Everyone who follows American government and politics knows Congress would function far better and align with public sentiment if all the white people, especially the white men, from confederate states were removed.

Well there you go.
"Get rid of the white men and everything will be better, our lives will be perfect."

Sounds like what teacher Erin Gruwell [Hilary Swank] told her diverse race class in "Freedom Writers".
...when the students were passing around a drawing of a Jewish Man.
She told them that's what the Nazis promised ...get rid of the Jews and everyone's lives would be better.

Congress needs the likes of Sen John Kennedy...to "keep the b....... honest".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on November 25, 2023, 08:32:04 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on November 25, 2023, 08:05:47 PM
Thank God I still have Red to laugh at.
Thanks for confirming.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 25, 2023, 08:34:44 PM: "Ignore, ignore, dance to the beat".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 26, 2023, 09:52:29 AM: https://archive.is/wMB5g

Subjugating women is key to Xi's plan for Chinese modernization. Happy shiny people!

(NYT screenshot, from today)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 26, 2023, 04:39:14 PM: The President of Mexico just sold the Presidential Plane and used the money to build a hospital in a poor part of Mexico. He seems like a good President. If he wants to help the poor then there are many ways.

One way to help the poor is to have tariffs on imports, the USA began as a nation with tariffs on imports being our source of income to run our Government and to build railroads, etc, up until World War 1. Mexico can build more Ports, and as the goods flow through the ports then Mexico can put tariffs on the imported goods and that way they can make money to build schools, hospitals, libraries, etc.

And groups like Kiwanis can help in Mexico, let them run tax free and let them help the poor, they can sell Kiwanis brand bottled mountain spring water with the money going to charity, etc.

There is also Youth For Christ, and the Catholic Church, etc, who can help in Mexico.

My Grandmother opened Gold Mines in Mexico and she helped to bring running water, electricity, paved roads, radio, television, telephones, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico. Gold prices are high now, and Mexico has lots of Gold, Mexico needs to mine the Gold and they need to benefit from the money raised.

We also need to teach people to be more like Greece, the USA was built on the foundation provided by Athens and Rome, we need to have a population of poets and scholars, with lots of schools and libraries, Mexico can learn from Athens and Rome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 05:31:54 PM: The trouble with slapping tariffs on imports is that the countries whose exporters are affected then slap tarrifs on US imports, which affects US exporters.
Tricky business, tariffs.

My no 1 radio host (now retired, worse luck) used to say..."free trade is never free".

No way I'm buying food from some countries, no matter the price.
I buy food from USA, parts of Europe, but not Asia anywhere except Japan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM: You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 26, 2023, 05:54:21 PM: I drink Colombian Coffee every morning. And I eat bananas from Costa Rica. I shop at a Mexican Market for groceries.

One thing in Mexico, they do not have racism because they all mixed together, they do not have conflicts from racism because they are all mixed together.

In the USA here in the black neighborhoods in Inglewood, and Compton, etc, they are building stadiums and lots of new businesses as the Mexican immigrants arrive, etc. Everyone in the world is coming to California, 33% of our people are foreign born, and 40% of the children in the Public Schools in Beverly Hills are Persian. We have 1 million Persians now in Los Angeles.

And I would love to own Universal Studios and be rich and powerful, and I could help the poor, etc, when I worked there then my fellow employees told me to buy the studio someday. We will see what happens. And I need to find a good Bride as a helper, I want a good Christian wife with the same goals that I have. Maybe I can meet a good woman on Facebook, or someplace. We will see what happens. Maybe I will marry a Catholic woman, we will see.

Of note, Christina Pascucci is running for the Senate, and I can volunteer to help her in order to meet good women, plus good things can happen for our state, I support what Christina stands for. Christina asked me to send her my ideas on how to help the homeless, and I told her that we need Hostels for $15 per night, like in Rome, etc. We have Mother Fuckers from Pakistan who come here and buy the motels and hotels and they want to charge people a fortune for a room, and we are just dirty Christians so they do not care if we are homeless, etc, we need to teach these fuckers from Pakistan that we are all human beings, and the Persians, and all of these fuckers need to care about the homeless, and the Japanese who own Sony Studios, etc, need to start helping the homeless and they need to care about people. The Christians are supposed to be helping the homeless, but many are fake and greedy instead of helping the poor like Jesus instructed.

Meanwhile, we can all support neutral organizations like Kiwanis International to help the poor.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 06:48:49 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Racist bigot" isn't it?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 08:02:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 06:48:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Racist bigot" isn't it?

Do not sell yourself short. In addition to being a racist bigot you are also a useless fucktard, a brainless ass and butt ugly inside and out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 08:15:34 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Pacific Dory" is not Dory and has never been near the Pacific.

It's from the Mekong river in Vietnam.
You eat it.
No way I am.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 26, 2023, 08:50:01 PM: In America we need to be "One For All, and All For One" regardless of race, and we need Brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

The Japanese, the Persians, the people from Pakistan, etc, they need to pitch in and help the homeless just like they were helping their own people, if they want to be Americans.

And I am ethnocentric I admit, but I really try to be kind to all people, and that is how we are going to win people over for Christ is by helping them when they need help, and by being kind.

These people who are coming to America must not be allowed just to get rich and to rape society by just taking and not giving, they need to become part of the Brotherhood and become givers, and that is how we have good loving communities.

My dearly departed friend Lisa from the Philippines was Roman Catholic, and she helped the homeless more than their own families did. Lisa had 10 houses full of homeless people and she cooked for the homeless, etc. Lisa was awesome, and we need more people like Lisa.

America is for everyone, but it would be nice if people pitched in and helped the homeless instead of just being greedy and self centered, it would be nice if people had Brotherhood.

There was a lady on the news complaining about the homeless people in her neighborhood, saying that the homeless people are bad for her neighborhood, and the answer is to get outside of yourself and to help the homeless people so that they will not be homeless. Even hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower would be great instead of being so fucking greedy that no one can afford to rent a room, down the street the cheap motel is $80 per night, the homeless cannot afford $80 per night, but if they had a hostel for $15 then the homeless could shower and they could sleep in a bed.

And we need more filmmakers like Frank Capra to show people about community and what the American Dream is about, we need good movies like "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Meet John Doe" etc. Instead of the horrible movies where people just fight and kill each other for 2 hours, the new movies suck, I think. John Wick and all of that, I would not pay to watch it, I have no desire to watch Keanu Reeves killing people for 2 hours. Ron Howard is a good filmmaker, and Spielberg, we have some good filmmakers, I hope better movies are made in the future, showing love, and kindness, and brotherhood, and all of the things that make America special. America is not about violence, and I am tired of movies that just portray America as being some horrible violent place. Bring back good movies like Frank Capra made.

We need movies that appeal to the goodness in America and the goodness in humanity like Frank Capra used to make.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 26, 2023, 09:28:18 PM: I eat the Swordfish from the local ocean, and that is why we need to stop the pollution, we need to be able to eat the fish that we catch.

I make Swordfish burritos, with onions, Anaheim peppers, olives, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, with fresh made tortillas from the Mexican Market, they are great burritos with all local ingredients, and with salsa and garlic, etc.

And the Italians have always been good Americans, and they have personified the American Dream, but lately everything is about Gangsters, and I would rather have the good stuff like Frank Capra made. Frank Capra was a good immigrant from Sicily who made movies about the good in America. Italian food, Italian women, Italian Opera, the Pope, they are great, and architecture, etc, and glass, etc, there are so many good things about Italians that it is sad when everyone focuses only on the gangsters. I hope people can make more movies about the good stuff that makes America great and about the good from Italy instead of just all gangster stuff.

The local Mahi Mahi is also good, you can go out and catch it and you can get enough fish to feed your whole neighborhood. We had a Mahi Mahi taco party with a live band and it was great, it was all about brotherhood in the neighborhood, it was a great day.

You can dig for clams in Malibu too, if you watched "Rockford Files" then you remember that Jim Rockford used to dig for clams at Paradise Cove. On any month with an "R" in it you can dig for clams. I love clam chowder when the weather is cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 26, 2023, 10:06:57 PM: A good local restaurant in Huntington Beach is Wahoo's Fish Tacos, they also have a restaurant in Laguna Beach, and others. They would be successful in Malibu. They make fish tacos with local ingredients, and they help the poor, and they feed the poor. During Covid they were passing out free food to the people in the community. They are cool surfers who make great fish tacos and they help the homeless and they help people. They are a positive force in the world, and they raise the vibration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo%27s_Fish_Taco

We need to stop the pollution so that the fish are safe to eat. And there are local restaurants which are selling the locally harvested seafood and they are helping the homeless and they are feeding the hungry and they are doing a lot of cool things thanks to the Pacific Ocean.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on November 27, 2023, 12:08:24 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 08:02:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 06:48:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Racist bigot" isn't it?

Do not sell yourself short. In addition to being a racist bigot you are also a useless fucktard, a brainless ass and butt ugly inside and out.

Tell me why turning USA into "Mexico/Central America/ South America" is a good idea.
They're the places people are drowning in the border river in a desperate bid to escape.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 27, 2023, 03:06:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on November 27, 2023, 12:08:24 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 08:02:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 06:48:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Racist bigot" isn't it?

Do not sell yourself short. In addition to being a racist bigot you are also a useless fucktard, a brainless ass and butt ugly inside and out.

Tell me why turning USA into "Mexico/Central America/ South America" is a good idea.
They're the places people are drowning in the border river in a desperate bid to escape.

Mexico is our neighbor, Mexico is only 100 miles away from me here in Anaheim. And Mexico is a good Christian nation, they are all Christians. We need to help Mexico, and we need to stop the evil in Mexico to protect the good. We need to stop the evil in Mexico and in Central and South America and we need to foster good loving Christian civilization.

Youth For Christ, the Catholic Church, Kiwanis International, the Peace Corps, the World Bank, etc, etc, etc, all need to be active in Latin America to help the poor in Latin America.

And we need to build schools, libraries, and hospitals in Latin America, and we need for our people in the Western Hemisphere to learn from Athens and Rome and we need for our people to all be Poets and Scholars, etc.

When I am rich and powerful then I will help the orphans in Mexico, etc, as the Bible asks us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46. And Jeb Bush met his wife while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico, the Bush family loves Mexico. And Franklin Graham loves Mexico. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 27, 2023, 03:32:39 PM: As the USA formed then one of the first things that happened was Alexander Hamilton formed the Bank of New York so that the USA could borrow money from ourselves instead of getting in debt to foreign nations, the first loan was to pay the new Government of the USA including paying President George Washington. The Bank of New York was the first company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. And the Bank of New York pays taxes to the USA on their profits.

Having good local banks is important in Latin America, including in Mexico.

And the people of Latin America need to be educated and trained on how to run a business and then they need to be given business loans to open new businesses and to create honest jobs.

Of note, people who are working at McDonald's can learn everything about the fast food industry and then they can get business loans to open their own fast food restaurants, etc. The people need to be able to get honest business loans so that they can rise and prosper.

We built schools such as Harvard to educate our people, and then we have the Bank of New York to help them to start out on their own in Business, and we have the Small Business Administration, etc, and Mexico and the rest of Latin America can learn from the USA. The Mexicans need good banks, and a good SBA, to help them to rise and to create jobs.

Of note too, Abraham Lincoln educated himself from libraries, he used to walk for miles to get a book from a library, he never attended college, it is important to have libraries in the poor areas in the USA as well as in Latin America, etc, and we need to have a population of poets and scholars.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on November 27, 2023, 04:15:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 27, 2023, 03:06:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 27, 2023, 12:08:24 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 08:02:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on November 26, 2023, 06:48:49 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on November 26, 2023, 05:41:38 PM
You have mentioned that you are a reflexive racist before. Thanks for reminding us it is a chronic deteriorating condition for you. It is just funny that the race you most prefer does not actually exist

"Racist bigot" isn't it?

Do not sell yourself short. In addition to being a racist bigot you are also a useless fucktard, a brainless ass and butt ugly inside and out.

Tell me why turning USA into "Mexico/Central America/ South America" is a good idea.
They're the places people are drowning in the border river in a desperate bid to escape.

Mexico is our neighbor, Mexico is only 100 miles away from me here in Anaheim. And Mexico is a good Christian nation, they are all Christians.
No they are not, can you stop with that? I should point out that 8n addition to the millions of Jews, Muslims, atheists, Satanists and others living there Mexico has long been an officially secular state by Constitution.
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There are We need to help Mexico, and we need to stop the evil in Mexico to protect the good. We need to stop the evil in Mexico and in Central and South America and we need to foster good loving Christian civilization.
If they are all Christians, and yet there is still evil, what does that tell you about the idiotic simplicityof the view that having a Christian society will dispell evil?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2023, 03:30:52 PM: According to the 2020 Mexican government census (the most recent), approximately 78 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic (compared with 83 percent in 2010); 10 percent as Protestant or evangelical Protestant; and 1.5 percent as other religious groups, including Judaism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.

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We need to go in and help in Mexico as good loving neighbors, and Youth For Christ and the Catholic Church and others can help in Mexico, and Kiwanis International can help, and the Peace Corps can help, etc. There is also Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse who can help in Mexico, etc.

Building walls is not the answer.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2023, 04:53:10 PM: We need to support the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, California, and other MHAs around the world. It is important for mentally ill people to have someplace to go to get help.

Darlene Powell formed the MHA in Santa Ana, she went to Washington DC and she got $60 million to open the MHA, and they opened a Thrift Store etc to keep funds coming in, and local people donate money to keep them running, etc. MHA was the only place in Orange County with all encompassing help for the mentally ill people.

Since then we have built a new Wellness Center in Orange that helps the mentally ill people, as well as helping anyone who needs help, and we need to open more Wellness Centers.

We need schools, and MHAs, and Wellness Centers, and Libraries, etc.

I have witnessed miracles happen at MHA, we were picking homeless people up off the street and putting them in housing and taking them to a psychiatrist and getting them diagnosed and placed on the appropriate medication, etc, and miracles happen, the people go from being in real bad shape to getting well and living better lives, some go to college, etc. And a lot of the people who are running the MHA are people who were helped by the MHA, they get well and then they go to work helping other people.

We also need to support Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on November 28, 2023, 09:42:41 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2023, 03:30:52 PM
There is also Franklin Graham...

The homophobic bigot who rationalized Trump's racism, infidelity and chronic lying? The Franklin Graham who made hateful attacks on Islamic people? The guy who called gay people an abomination? The guy who supported genocidal monster Hassan Al Bashir in Sudan?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 29, 2023, 01:56:48 PM: Quote from: Karl Barx on November 28, 2023, 09:42:41 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2023, 03:30:52 PM
There is also Franklin Graham...

The homophobic bigot who rationalized Trump's racism, infidelity and chronic lying? The Franklin Graham who made hateful attacks on Islamic people? The guy who called gay people an abomination? The guy who supported genocidal monster Hassan Al Bashir in Sudan?

I do not know of any bad things that Franklin Graham has done, but Samaritan's Purse is helping the poor people in Acapulco after the recent hurricane.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on November 29, 2023, 09:49:08 PM: Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

- Tom Lehrer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on November 30, 2023, 02:10:59 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on November 29, 2023, 09:49:08 PM
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

- Tom Lehrer
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 30, 2023, 02:50:03 PM: One thing that I noticed many years ago on the New York Times Forums for the Middle East, was that people need to create jobs and occupations for the Arabs, they cannot just live on oil money and on welfare, they need to work like the Israelis do. The Palestinians and the other Arabs need to work honest jobs. The Saudis can help to create jobs for the Arabs.

I have been looking at pictures of the orange groves in Israel, and Israel is growing eggplant, and other fruits and vegetables; the Palestinians and the Arabs need to be put to work doing honest labor. Egypt grows cotton, and more good things like that can happen.

And everyone needs to learn from Athens and Rome, and we all need libraries, and we need for our people to be poets and scholars, etc.

Israel has told the fleeing Palestinians not to return to Gaza, after they leave they need to stay away, and they can be Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, etc, and they can grow fruits and vegetables to feed to the Arabs, etc.

I think the Middle East would be more peaceful if honest occupations were created for all of the inhabitants, and if more libraries were built, etc. We need to teach them honest farming, etc, and libraries need to be built, etc. And Ivanka Trump went to Saudi Arabia and was working to get them to give Business Loans to the Women of Saudi Arabia and that would be great if the Saudi Women could create honest jobs for the Palestinians, and for all of the Arabs, etc. The Arabs all need honest jobs, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 30, 2023, 03:31:14 PM: As the Arabs and Palestinians become Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi, and in Dubai, etc, then they can be grounded in many immediate and pressing issues such as good rights for workers, and fair pay and good treatment for workers, etc, and they can work for good rights for women and equal pay for equal work for women, etc. Instead of worrying about their bullshit that keeps them violent, then they need to learn the ways of Civilization and peace, and honest labor, and good rights for workers, etc. And they can have libraries, etc. And they can have plays, and books, and movies, etc, and it would be great if freedom of speech could grow in the Arab nations and in Iran.

I made a student film at USC with a film student from Turkey and he wanted to build an American style movie studio in Turkey to make movies for the Arabs, he was a cool guy, and he loved Spielberg. Also, Elia Kazan was born in Istanbul. If you can change how the Arabs think and feel, then you can change how they behave, and movies and television shows and music, etc, all have the power to change how people think and feel and thus can change how people behave.

Business Loans for the Arab Women is a great idea, they also need Labor Leaders like Cesar Chavez, Eugene V. Debs, and Jimmy Hoffa, and good guys like Abraham Lincoln, and Henry David Thoreau, etc.

We need to take away their guns, and we need to give them plows instead. We need to teach them the ways of peace and the ways of Civilization. They can work 40 hours per week in the orange grove, and after work they can watch good healthy shows on television with their families. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 01, 2023, 03:04:35 PM: https://undark.org/who-is-undark/

Useful news outlet for stories of science and society that are sometimes overlooked by MSM.

Just passing this along.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 01, 2023, 03:11:41 PM: Musk bought Twitter, but if I was building my Empire then I would rather have America On Line, I have some great ideas for AOL, and I still have my original AOL account.

And I would buy Universal Studios, and then now that Hugh Hefner is gone I would have Universal buy Playboy and I would bring back the Playboy Channel and I would hire guys from National Lampoon at Harvard to save Playboy Magazine. I have a lot of good ideas.

I would also buy a vineyard and winery in Tuscany, and it would be cool to own a night club in Rome.

We will see what happens, and God is going to send me a wife eventually as a helper and we can build an Empire together, and we can have children and we can start a family etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 01, 2023, 03:23:23 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 30, 2023, 03:31:14 PM
As the Arabs and Palestinians become Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi, and in Dubai, etc, then they can be grounded in many immediate and pressing issues such as good rights for workers, and fair pay and good treatment for workers, etc, and they can work for good rights for women and equal pay for equal work for women, etc. Instead of worrying about their bullshit that keeps them violent, then they need to learn the ways of Civilization and peace, and honest labor, and good rights for workers, etc. And they can have libraries, etc. And they can have plays, and books, and movies, etc, and it would be great if freedom of speech could grow in the Arab nations and in Iran.

I made a student film at USC with a film student from Turkey and he wanted to build an American style movie studio in Turkey to make movies for the Arabs, he was a cool guy, and he loved Spielberg. Also, Elia Kazan was born in Istanbul. If you can change how the Arabs think and feel, then you can change how they behave, and movies and television shows and music, etc, all have the power to change how people think and feel and thus can change how people behave.

Business Loans for the Arab Women is a great idea, they also need Labor Leaders like Cesar Chavez, Eugene V. Debs, and Jimmy Hoffa, and good guys like Abraham Lincoln, and Henry David Thoreau, etc.

We need to take away their guns, and we need to give them plows instead. We need to teach them the ways of peace and the ways of Civilization. They can work 40 hours per week in the orange grove, and after work they can watch good healthy shows on television with their families. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Elia Kazan was not Arab.He was Greek. And Turkey is not an Arab country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 01, 2023, 06:36:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on November 28, 2023, 03:30:52 PM
According to the 2020 Mexican government census (the most recent), approximately 78 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic (compared with 83 percent in 2010); 10 percent as Protestant or evangelical Protestant; and 1.5 percent as other religious groups, including Judaism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.

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We need to go in and help in Mexico as good loving neighbors, and Youth For Christ and the Catholic Church and others can help in Mexico, and Kiwanis International can help, and the Peace Corps can help, etc. There is also Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse who can help in Mexico, etc.

Building walls is not the answer.

Salute,

Tony V.

Franklin Graham insisted Barack Obama was Muslim.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 01, 2023, 10:19:03 PM: Great news!

Daily Telegraph;

Nowhere in the world will be safe for Hamas' leadership, with Israel planning to kill the terror group's kingpins across the globe, including the man dubbed 'the bin Laden of Gaza'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 02, 2023, 12:26:44 PM: GAZA = BAKERSFIELD

Was curious how small Gaza is, given the frequent and quite credible use of the word crammed to describe conditions of the people there.

140 square miles. So it is the size of Bakersfield CA. Bakersfield has 400,000 people, who can come and go from there, and is surrounded by accessible open land and a nation which it is part of. Gaza has 2.2 million people, penned in like animals. And they are currently confined to about half of that land area, due to the wholesale destruction of North Gaza. So it is currently a state with about ten times the population density of Bakersfield. In its better days, it was five times.

So this leads me to wonder, as bombing has now resumed by Israel, of the southern part of Gaza, where are all these civilians supposed to flee to while the war continues.

Just some thoughts. Not interested today in having a partisan pissing contest.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 02, 2023, 01:56:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 02, 2023, 12:26:44 PM
GAZA = BAKERSFIELD

Was curious how small Gaza is, given the frequent and quite credible use of the word crammed to describe conditions of the people there.

140 square miles. So it is the size of Bakersfield CA. Bakersfield has 400,000 people, who can come and go from there, and is surrounded by accessible open land and a nation which it is part of. Gaza has 2.2 million people, penned in like animals. And they are currently confined to about half of that land area, due to the wholesale destruction of North Gaza. So it is currently a state with about ten times the population density of Bakersfield. In its better days, it was five times.

So this leads me to wonder, as bombing has now resumed by Israel, of the southern part of Gaza, where are all these civilians supposed to flee to while the war continues.

Just some thoughts. Not interested today in having a partisan pissing contest.
Well. If Hamas gave a shit about the people they govern they have got hundreds of miles in over 500 tunnels they have constructed.
Tunnels financed mostly with foreign aid intended for food and fuel for the country but, instead, used for weapons of war to plan the mutilation of babies and other assorted Arab atrocities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 02, 2023, 02:02:52 PM: Red makes a good point about how we can solve our social divides by relocating republicans down oil wells and into coal seams. I am sure they will be happier there and be more able to fully reach their human potential.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 02, 2023, 02:59:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 02, 2023, 12:26:44 PM
GAZA = BAKERSFIELD

Was curious how small Gaza is, given the frequent and quite credible use of the word crammed to describe conditions of the people there.

140 square miles. So it is the size of Bakersfield CA. Bakersfield has 400,000 people, who can come and go from there, and is surrounded by accessible open land and a nation which it is part of. Gaza has 2.2 million people, penned in like animals. And they are currently confined to about half of that land area, due to the wholesale destruction of North Gaza. So it is currently a state with about ten times the population density of Bakersfield. In its better days, it was five times.

So this leads me to wonder, as bombing has now resumed by Israel, of the southern part of Gaza, where are all these civilians supposed to flee to while the war continues.

Just some thoughts. Not interested today in having a partisan pissing contest.

Bakersfield is great, it would be paradise for the people from the Middle East. Lots of jobs, good food, oil wells, great weather, etc, Bakersfield is great.

My Grandparents owned an Auction in Bakersfield, and Buck Owens was a regular at their Auction, and Roy Clark came there, and Johnny Cash, and all of those guys. Their Auction was successful but my Mother developed Valley Fever which is a disease in the soil in Bakersfield that attacks the lungs, so they had to relocate to the desert for my Mother's health, my Mother has to live in the desert because of her lungs, lots of people live in Lancaster because of the desert climate and their health.

The Palestinians I am sure would be grateful if Gaza was as nice as Bakersfield.

We need to teach peace to the Children. And UNICEF and Kiwanis and others can help the Children, and we can teach the children peace.

And the Arabian Women and others need to create jobs in Gaza and in the Middle East for the Palestinians and for the Arabs and for the Persians, etc. They need occupations in the Middle East.

Many of the Palestinians who are now refugees can be Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and they can have good lives. And if worse comes to worse, they are always welcome to come pick strawberries and onions, etc, in Bakersfield.

The Human species needs to elevate to a higher level and we need to stop the wars. We need for them to turn their guns into plows to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 02, 2023, 04:21:47 PM: Gaza has sandy beaches, on the Mediterranean Sea:
"Let's go surfin' now,
everybody's learnin' how,
come on a safari with meee".

If only they'd agreed to the proposed original partition plan.
They'd have much more land, and be much better off than they are today.
The proposed Arab state had the aquifers, in the high country...water, water and more water.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 02, 2023, 04:41:29 PM: When I was a child in school, then everything was about exposing us to various careers and occupations, and we knew that after we grew up that we would have to spend the rest of our lives working, so school was about trying to figure out what you wanted to do for a living and then about preparing you for that career path.

If you can find a career you love, then life is golden.

So, the Palestinian children need to be taught that they are going to have to work when they grow up, part of being an adult is working and earning money to support yourself and your family. They need to be exposed to information about various career opportunities, and then they need to have the opportunity to read books from a Library and to study and to train and to learn so that they might be successful at their chosen career path.

And there are jobs that pay a hell of a lot more than being a soldier, the soldiers are living with the people on Welfare. They can train for careers that pay far more money than being a soldier.

If they refuse to prepare for a career, then they can plant trees and they can pick fruit, etc, and they can drive trucks, etc.

They need to be taught the fulfillment of an honest career.

In the USA we have Mexican immigrants who are grateful to join the United Farm Workers and to work hard in the fields, and the Palestinians need to have that same honest work ethic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 02, 2023, 06:02:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 02, 2023, 01:56:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 02, 2023, 12:26:44 PM
GAZA = BAKERSFIELD

Was curious how small Gaza is, given the frequent and quite credible use of the word crammed to describe conditions of the people there.

140 square miles. So it is the size of Bakersfield CA. Bakersfield has 400,000 people, who can come and go from there, and is surrounded by accessible open land and a nation which it is part of. Gaza has 2.2 million people, penned in like animals. And they are currently confined to about half of that land area, due to the wholesale destruction of North Gaza. So it is currently a state with about ten times the population density of Bakersfield. In its better days, it was five times.

So this leads me to wonder, as bombing has now resumed by Israel, of the southern part of Gaza, where are all these civilians supposed to flee to while the war continues.

Just some thoughts. Not interested today in having a partisan pissing contest.
Well. If Hamas gave a shit about the people they govern they have got hundreds of miles in over 500 tunnels they have constructed.
Tunnels financed mostly with foreign aid intended for food and fuel for the country but, instead, used for weapons of war to plan the muilation of babies and other assorted Arab atrocities.

We already know Hamas doe not give a shit about Palestinians because thy are brutal, murderous terrorists on par with the Huns.

Israel is supposed to be a modern civilized society.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231202-us-defense-chief-says-israel-must-shield-civilians-to-win-in-gaza
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 02, 2023, 06:04:45 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 02, 2023, 02:59:09 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 02, 2023, 12:26:44 PM
GAZA = BAKERSFIELD

Was curious how small Gaza is, given the frequent and quite credible use of the word crammed to describe conditions of the people there.

140 square miles. So it is the size of Bakersfield CA. Bakersfield has 400,000 people, who can come and go from there, and is surrounded by accessible open land and a nation which it is part of. Gaza has 2.2 million people, penned in like animals. And they are currently confined to about half of that land area, due to the wholesale destruction of North Gaza. So it is currently a state with about ten times the population density of Bakersfield. In its better days, it was five times.

So this leads me to wonder, as bombing has now resumed by Israel, of the southern part of Gaza, where are all these civilians supposed to flee to while the war continues.

Just some thoughts. Not interested today in having a partisan pissing contest.

Bakersfield is great, it would be paradise for the people from the Middle East. Lots of jobs, good food, oil wells, great weather, etc, Bakersfield is great.

My Grandparents owned an Auction in Bakersfield, and Buck Owens was a regular at their Auction, and Roy Clark came there, and Johnny Cash, and all of those guys. Their Auction was successful but my Mother developed Valley Fever which is a disease in the soil in Bakersfield that attacks the lungs, so they had to relocate to the desert for my Mother's health, my Mother has to live in the desert because of her lungs, lots of people live in Lancaster because of the desert climate and their health.

The Palestinians I am sure would be grateful if Gaza was as nice as Bakersfield.

We need to teach peace to the Children. And UNICEF and Kiwanis and others can help the Children, and we can teach the children peace.

And the Arabian Women and others need to create jobs in Gaza and in the Middle East for the Palestinians and for the Arabs and for the Persians, etc. They need occupations in the Middle East.

Many of the Palestinians who are now refugees can be Essential Workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and they can have good lives. And if worse comes to worse, they are always welcome to come pick strawberries and onions, etc, in Bakersfield.

The Human species needs to elevate to a higher level and we need to stop the wars. We need for them to turn their guns into plows to grow food.

Salute,

Tony V.

Why does every solution you come up with require people leaving their home?
How about solving their problems on the ground?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 02, 2023, 06:35:38 PM: Donald has a new short haircut.
Now he looks "sharp".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 02, 2023, 09:25:34 PM: It is an easier look to maintain while imprisoned. Even a soft plush ass like donald has is not enough to buy that much hairspray.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 03, 2023, 02:59:21 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/home-internet-landline-amazon-smartphone/676070/

We are thinking about a scaled down version of this.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:38:15 PM: America was built by people who came here from all over the world, they brought their dreams here.

But it is true that we can work to make Mexico nicer, and Colombia nicer, etc, so they will enjoy their home nations.

China and India have overpopulation and we are their over-flow, and it is good because we need the new people in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. And we need to put a new coat of paint on our Ghettos and we need to build Libraries and coffee shops and more schools, etc.

And of course the Beautiful Russian Women are welcome here, they can be nurses, etc, and the refugees from Ukraine, etc, they are all welcome here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:39:55 PM: Justice O'Connor who just died was an amazing lady. She attended Stanford and did very well and she thought she was going to have a great career, but after college she could not find a job. So, she worked for free, and she got into Public Service, and then Reagan ended up putting her on the Supreme Court and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice. May she rest in peace. Certainly she inspired many women, and she also inspired the men as a human being, certainly she inspires me with her story.

If you cannot get paid to do what you want to do, then do it for free, and sometimes good things happen. If you want to serve humanity then go out there and serve humanity even if you are not getting paid. God used her.

When Mother Teresa first started then she was just a homeless beggar like the other beggars, it was only after the Catholic Church and others started giving her funding, etc, that she was able to do more to serve God. But, Mother Teresa jumped in with both feet and she was a homeless beggar at first, but God used her.

Today Doctor Charles Stanley said that if what you are doing is not bringing you closer to God, then do not do it. Millions of people are in debt, and they are just slaves to debt, and they are unhappy, and they are not serving God like they should be, and they need to have discipline in the ways of God, and then God will bless them.

Justice O'Connor had discipline in the ways of God, she studied hard and went to a great college, and when she could not get a job then she started serving God for free. She started doing Public Service for free. God worked in her life, and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:22:16 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:38:15 PM
America was built by people who came here from all over the world, they brought their dreams here.

But it is true that we can work to make Mexico nicer, and Colombia nicer, etc, so they will enjoy their home nations.

China and India have overpopulation and we are their over-flow, and it is good because we need the new people in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. And we need to put a new coat of paint on our Ghettos and we need to build Libraries and coffee shops and more schools, etc.

And of course the Beautiful Russian Women are welcome here, they can be nurses, etc, and the refugees from Ukraine, etc, they are all welcome here.

Salute,

Tony V.

China is losing population

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/china/china-population-drop-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

If we need new people here we have plenty of folks coming up from the south
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:27:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:39:55 PM
Justice O'Connor who just died was an amazing lady. She attended Stanford and did very well and she thought she was going to have a great career, but after college she could not find a job. So, she worked for free, and she got into Public Service, and then Reagan ended up putting her on the Supreme Court and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice. May she rest in peace. Certainly she inspired many women, and she also inspired the men as a human being, certainly she inspires me with her story.

If you cannot get paid to do what you want to do, then do it for free, and sometimes good things happen. If you want to serve humanity then go out there and serve humanity even if you are not getting paid. God used her.

When Mother Teresa first started then she was just a homeless beggar like the other beggars, it was only after the Catholic Church and others started giving her funding, etc, that she was able to do more to serve God. But, Mother Teresa jumped in with both feet and she was a homeless beggar at first, but God used her.

Today Doctor Charles Stanley said that if what you are doing is not bringing you closer to God, then do not do it. Millions of people are in debt, and they are just slaves to debt, and they are unhappy, and they are not serving God like they should be, and they need to have discipline in the ways of God, and then God will bless them.

Justice O'Connor had discipline in the ways of God, she studied hard and went to a great college, and when she could not get a job then she started serving God for free. She started doing Public Service for free. God worked in her life, and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.

Justice OConnor cast the most impactful vote of our lifetime.

Her vote in Bush v Gore brought us 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Guantanamo Bay and extreme rendition Black sites where captives were tortured and held without charge.
The Financial collapse of 2008.

Etc,etc, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 03, 2023, 05:37:03 PM: US warship and multiple commercial ships were attacked yesterday in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels from Yemen.
US warship fired back in self defence.

You'd think that by now all commercial ships would've been turned into "warships with a commercial flavour" or "commercial warships towing trailers".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:52:47 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 03, 2023, 05:37:03 PM
US warship and multiple commercial ships were attacked yesterday in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels from Yemen.
US warship fired back in self defence.

You'd think that by now all commercial ships would've been turned into "warships with a commercial flavour" or "commercial warships towing trailers".

One of the duties my father had on his Liberty merchant ship was to assist the Navy gunners on the anti aircraft guns during WWII.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 03, 2023, 08:24:42 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:27:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:39:55 PM
Justice O'Connor who just died was an amazing lady. She attended Stanford and did very well and she thought she was going to have a great career, but after college she could not find a job. So, she worked for free, and she got into Public Service, and then Reagan ended up putting her on the Supreme Court and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice. May she rest in peace. Certainly she inspired many women, and she also inspired the men as a human being, certainly she inspires me with her story.

If you cannot get paid to do what you want to do, then do it for free, and sometimes good things happen. If you want to serve humanity then go out there and serve humanity even if you are not getting paid. God used her.

When Mother Teresa first started then she was just a homeless beggar like the other beggars, it was only after the Catholic Church and others started giving her funding, etc, that she was able to do more to serve God. But, Mother Teresa jumped in with both feet and she was a homeless beggar at first, but God used her.

Today Doctor Charles Stanley said that if what you are doing is not bringing you closer to God, then do not do it. Millions of people are in debt, and they are just slaves to debt, and they are unhappy, and they are not serving God like they should be, and they need to have discipline in the ways of God, and then God will bless them.

Justice O'Connor had discipline in the ways of God, she studied hard and went to a great college, and when she could not get a job then she started serving God for free. She started doing Public Service for free. God worked in her life, and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.

Justice OConnor cast the most impactful vote of our lifetime.

Her vote in Bush v Gore brought us 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Guantanamo Bay and extreme rendition Black sites where captives were tortured and held without charge.
The Financial collapse of 2008.

Etc,etc, etc.

LOL. yeah without her vote it could have been a lot worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 02:24:24 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:38:15 PM
America was built by people who came here from all over the world, they brought their dreams here.

But it is true that we can work to make Mexico nicer, and Colombia nicer, etc, so they will enjoy their home nations.

China and India have overpopulation and we are their over-flow, and it is good because we need the new people in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. And we need to put a new coat of paint on our Ghettos and we need to build Libraries and coffee shops and more schools, etc.

And of course the Beautiful Russian Women are welcome here, they can be nurses, etc, and the refugees from Ukraine, etc, they are all welcome here.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was before the country became full, bursting at the seams actually.
Roads are carparks, hospitals etc are overrun, and American kids are being kicked out of their footy/exercise etc stadiums/parks so asylum-seeking immigrants can be set up in camps there instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 02:37:00 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:52:47 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 03, 2023, 05:37:03 PM
US warship and multiple commercial ships were attacked yesterday in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels from Yemen.
US warship fired back in self defence.

You'd think that by now all commercial ships would've been turned into "warships with a commercial flavour" or "commercial warships towing trailers".

One of the duties my father had on his Liberty merchant ship was to assist the Navy gunners on the anti aircraft guns during WWII.

Now that was a cargo ship!

Youtube has a video;

'How a Cargo Ship Helped Win WW2: The Liberty Ship Story'

Today similar ships [low cost construction] ... could be fitted with surface to air missile systems to shoot down ballistic missiles and drones of the Houthi rebels.

Ballistics missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships Sunday in the Red Sea,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 02:44:41 AM: /cont'd

...while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. The Iranian-backed Houthis claimed two of the attacks.

#####

Time to turn Yemen/Houthi rebels into the "4th July".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 04:01:23 AM: SkyNews;

"King Charles addresses climate summit".

"King Charles calls for climate action".

#####

Well there you go.
Who said Kings can't get involved in 'politics'. :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 04, 2023, 07:18:03 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 03, 2023, 08:24:42 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 03, 2023, 05:27:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 03, 2023, 03:39:55 PM
Justice O'Connor who just died was an amazing lady. She attended Stanford and did very well and she thought she was going to have a great career, but after college she could not find a job. So, she worked for free, and she got into Public Service, and then Reagan ended up putting her on the Supreme Court and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice. May she rest in peace. Certainly she inspired many women, and she also inspired the men as a human being, certainly she inspires me with her story.

If you cannot get paid to do what you want to do, then do it for free, and sometimes good things happen. If you want to serve humanity then go out there and serve humanity even if you are not getting paid. God used her.

When Mother Teresa first started then she was just a homeless beggar like the other beggars, it was only after the Catholic Church and others started giving her funding, etc, that she was able to do more to serve God. But, Mother Teresa jumped in with both feet and she was a homeless beggar at first, but God used her.

Today Doctor Charles Stanley said that if what you are doing is not bringing you closer to God, then do not do it. Millions of people are in debt, and they are just slaves to debt, and they are unhappy, and they are not serving God like they should be, and they need to have discipline in the ways of God, and then God will bless them.

Justice O'Connor had discipline in the ways of God, she studied hard and went to a great college, and when she could not get a job then she started serving God for free. She started doing Public Service for free. God worked in her life, and she was the first Female Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.

Justice OConnor cast the most impactful vote of our lifetime.

Her vote in Bush v Gore brought us 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Guantanamo Bay and extreme rendition Black sites where captives were tortured and held without charge.
The Financial collapse of 2008.

Etc,etc, etc.

LOL. yeah without her vote it could have been a lot worse.

LOL! That is your opinion. Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one!

I stated indisputable FACTS!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 05:09:32 PM: There's a new gun on sale in bambuworld today.
It has large capacity and is rapid firing.

It fires.....bubbles!.

Sounds about right...American men have real guns...and I have bubble guns for self defence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 04, 2023, 06:22:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 05:09:32 PM
There's a new gun on sale in bambuworld today.
It has large capacity and is rapid firing.

It fires.....bubbles!.

Sounds about right...American men have real guns...and I have bubble guns for self defence.
Perfect for all your imaginary enemies. It will keep you from accidentally shooting some guy of Chinese descent who just wanted directions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 04, 2023, 09:06:42 PM: A dozen or so Neo Nazi men all dressed in black, top to toe black, including their faces well covered.marched thru the rural town of Ballarat, Victoria state bambuworld.
...holding a placard "Australia is for White people" and shouting something about Jews that wasn't very nice.

Not I...I'm for everyone equal, with a White majority.
Not white supremacy.

Nothing (except the White people words) that wasn't on display from others in recent times, including covered faces.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 04, 2023, 09:50:32 PM: Hillary Clinton on the lack of Women Groups speaking out against the atrocities of Hamas against Israeli women.

It is outrageous just that some who claim to stand for justice are closing their eyes and their hearts to the victims of Hamas.

Sheryl Sandberg , formerly of FaceBook,

politics are blinding us to something that is completely obvious, condemning Hamas for rape and other sexual violence committed against Jewish women on Oct. 7.

Medical reports on the atrocities in addition to rape and murder of women.

Those held captive were subject to starvation, to beating, to sexual abuse. They were being held in inhumane sanitary conditions. Extremely severe psychological abuse was inflicted on them, including separation from family members, separation of siblings, separation of children from their mothers. They were held in solitary confinement and spent long days in total darkness until they developed severe hallucinations.
Children were forced to watch brutal videos. They were under constant threats by weapons and threats to harm them even after they were released. They refer to the forced use of psychiatric drugs and other substances.

And the organizations in the USA that remain silent.

Planned Parenthood
Womens March
Democratic Women Caucus
Emilys List
NOW
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 05, 2023, 12:34:27 AM: This is in part why space lasers will not replace us guy is trying to drive a wedge between Jews and the left,

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/4/2209706/-The-silver-lining-on-young-voters-Despite-Biden-fatigue-they-re-voting-and-they-get-the-stakes?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/4/2209706/-The-silver-lining-on-young-voters-Despite-Biden-fatigue-they-re-voting-and-they-get-the-stakes?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web)

All the kids know the viscous little bitches on the right need to get voted out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 01:21:12 AM: A massive number of young leftists in the West today, seemingly encouraged by many in the media, academia etc, and politicians, are seemingly embracing with *all* their hearts and minds beliefs that will only ruin their future lives forever.

Seemingly demonising everything from "old people", "Israel", "Jews", "farmers", "White people, particularly males", "'sensible transition' climateers", and "Christians",.....to "people on the Right side of politics".

Doomed they surely are.

"Keep on marching"... very bad idea, it will only see them go off a cliff.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 05, 2023, 01:46:32 AM: And going your way has led you to never leave your house, an assuredly popular option.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 02:28:10 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 05, 2023, 01:46:32 AM
And going your way has led you to never leave your house, an assuredly popular option.

I left my house today, in my petrol driven car, did my neighbour a favour.

More than one car rental company has reportedly dumped a particular electric car from their fleets, citing 'massive depreciation cost' etc.
Yes, the gloss is fast wearing off your electric car dream.
That guy in Britain, on YouTube, who drives and tests them, and evaluates the electric car ownership experience in everyday life, is very unimpressed with the whole thing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 11:39:37 AM: axios.com

"Car dealers tell Biden;
Customers aren't ready for electric cars".

#####

Stuck with them at the dealerships for 6 months or more, while gas cars are walking out the door at express pace.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM: I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 01:53:32 PM: It is getting a little easier for the dreamers who are coming to Hollywood chasing their American Dream, now that you can earn $20 per hour from working fast food, you can work as a cook and you can rent a room while you chase your dreams. Before when it was $5 per hour then you had to be homeless unless you could find a cheap room. Now at $20 per hour you can find a room easy.

And we need hostels for $15 per night for a shower and a bed. And people need to be able to live in Sober Living Homes for $150 per week.

If you are honest, then you need to be able to get a job and rent a room and have an honest life while you try to become an Actor in Hollywood, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 05, 2023, 03:14:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

http://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-current-state-of-the-battery-market-what-investors-should-know (http://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-current-state-of-the-battery-market-what-investors-should-know)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 03:17:44 PM: 21 Jump Street

Fresh-faced undercover cops head back to high school on the hunt for criminals in this riveting crime drama starring screen icon Johnny Depp.

----------

There was also a television special starring David Cassidy as an undercover cop at a high school.

---------------

Today a high school student brought a gun to school, and they were able to stop the student from hurting anyone, they arrested him and no one was hurt. It happened at Redondo High School.

When I was in high school we had a race riot, and people brought guns to school, and the undercover cops were able to stop the violence, all of a sudden uniformed police officers came in and broke up the race riot and arrested the people with weapons, etc. No one was hurt thanks to the undercover cops.

The schools need security, and the high schools need to have lots of undercover cops.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 05, 2023, 04:00:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.
$500 for my home charger. Pending coming increases in battery life, my car suits my commuting perfectly. The push to electric is about the future and.spurring 8nnovati9n to solve the logistics. After all,, there was a time when gas cars were mamothly inconvenient too.. And by the way, my two neighbors with Teslai charge their cars outside. You do not need a garage.

I think bambu s pension fund heavily invested in buggy whip stocks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 04:10:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.
By all accounts EV sales are increasing. Nobody is forcing you to buy one. So do not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 04:17:40 PM: Solar is perfect for the desert, including having solar panels on the carports to charge electric cars, etc.

And I like the new Electric VW Buses that are being developed, I do not think they sell them yet, but they showed the prototype on television.

But, be careful out there on the streets driving. I have an apartment that overlooks a parking lot, and some people are so high on opiates and drunk on alcohol, etc, that they cannot even walk and they get in their cars and drive. I see accidents everyday when I am out walking. People are drunk and on opiates and they are crashing into each other. I get anxiety now when I drive on the freeways, Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the world and you see upside down cars on the freeway on fire and dead bodies out on the pavement. I would rather ride the trains and buses.

Or, it would be nice to live like Zsa Zsa Gabor and to have a Rolls Royce Limousine and to ride in the back of a Rolls with a driver driving. And for all of the stars who drink and drive, that is stupid, ride in the back of a Limousine if you are rich and create jobs for people.

I can hire a young beautiful starving actress to drive my Electric VW Bus for me.

Right now my complex is not set up for Electric Cars, but it would be possible to put solar panels on the car ports to charge the cars, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 05:25:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 04:17:40 PM
Solar is perfect for the desert, including having solar panels on the carports to charge electric cars, etc.

And I like the new Electric VW Buses that are being developed, I do not think they sell them yet, but they showed the prototype on television.

But, be careful out there on the streets driving. I have an apartment that overlooks a parking lot, and some people are so high on opiates and drunk on alcohol, etc, that they cannot even walk and they get in their cars and drive. I see accidents everyday when I am out walking. People are drunk and on opiates and they are crashing into each other. I get anxiety now when I drive on the freeways, Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the world and you see upside down cars on the freeway on fire and dead bodies out on the pavement. I would rather ride the trains and buses.

Or, it would be nice to live like Zsa Zsa Gabor and to have a Rolls Royce Limousine and to ride in the back of a Rolls with a driver driving. And for all of the stars who drink and drive, that is stupid, ride in the back of a Limousine if you are rich and create jobs for people.

I can hire a young beautiful starving actress to drive my Electric VW Bus for me.

Right now my complex is not set up for Electric Cars, but it would be possible to put solar panels on the car ports to charge the cars, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Young and beautiful actresses in America are starving?
Yikes!

bambuland doesn't operate like that :)
There'd always be a long queue of people willing to house, feed, clothe them, and provide for there every need. :)

For elderly males, the queue is a lot shorter, if one even forms at all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 05:37:07 PM: People in Colorado were charging an EV in their garage.
There was a massive explosion...so great it blew off the garage door, the door blown down the driveway.

There is a YouTube video.

Before I bought an EV and charged it in my garage...if I were y'all, I'd be doing a lot or research to get some clear answers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 05:54:45 PM: Google :

Explosion inside Erie
garage sends fire-fighters,
garage door flying.

Roger Mares 8 months ago

Erie, Colo. (KDVR) kdvr.com
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 05, 2023, 05:58:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.

Red State folk turned up their noses at healthcare, too.

Even on deathsdoorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. Aint no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,he told me. I would rather die.When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, We do not need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying-whiteness/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 06:13:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 02, 2023, 04:21:47 PM
Gaza has sandy beaches, on the Mediterranean Sea:
"Let's go surfin' now,
everybody's learnin' how,
come on a safari with meee".

If only they'd agreed to the proposed original partition plan.
They'd have much more land, and be much better off than they are today.
The proposed Arab state had the aquifers, in the high country...water, water and more water.

When I learned to surf it was at Latigo Beach in Malibu, and James Caan was there cheering me on. Latigo Beach is fantastic, it would be a great place to live. Princess Diana was going to buy a house next door to Olivia Newton John in Malibu, right by Latigo Beach. Malibu is great.

And it would be great if the Palestinians listened to the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean and if they surfed.

And we need to broadcast "21 Jump Street" in Iran, and in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 06:20:02 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2023, 05:58:20 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.

Red State folk turned up their noses at healthcare, too.

Even on deathsdoorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. Aint no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,he told me. I would rather die.When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, We do not need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying-whiteness/

That's one Red State misguided man...well not by his standards/beliefs.
All Americans should be demanding:
. Universal healthcare
. 4 weeks paid annual leave
. paid maternity and paternity leave
. unemployment benefits for every unemployed person (means tested, generously). About $600 per FN.

And "rioting" until they get it.

Social Conservative is cool...and affordable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 06:22:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 05:54:45 PM
Google :

Explosion inside Erie
garage sends fire-fighters,
garage door flying.

Roger Mares 8 months ago

Erie, Colo. (KDVR) kdvr.com
My friend has three Teslas with nary a problem. A few months the gas guzzling Mustang belonging to her son caught fire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 06:33:24 PM: We need to play Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys on all of the radio stations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and for all of the Arabs and Turks, etc, and we need to promote the peaceful surfer culture there. And they can eat fish tacos like at Wahoo's Fish Tacos, etc. And we need to broadcast "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies on their television stations, and we need to make tons of brand new Beach Blanket Bingo movies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 06:36:37 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 06:22:01 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 05:54:45 PM
Google :

Explosion inside Erie
garage sends fire-fighters,
garage door flying.

Roger Mares 8 months ago

Erie, Colo. (KDVR) kdvr.com
My friend has three Teslas with nary a problem. A few months the gas guzzling Mustang belonging to her son caught fire.

People make their own decisions, purchases.
Too many variables with electric cars for me.
But that's me. "Mr Negative"...lol
If an electric car is charging in a garage, then next 'minute' firemen are being blown around inside garage, then garage door is blown off, wisdom demands I find out exactly why....what's going on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 06:39:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 06:33:24 PM
We need to play Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys on all of the radio stations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and for all of the Arabs and Turks, etc, and we need to promote the peaceful surfer culture there. And they can eat fish tacos like at Wahoo's Fish Tacos, etc. And we need to broadcast "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies on their television stations, and we need to make tons of brand new Beach Blanket Bingo movies.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Gidget Goes Iran"

Don't think so! :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 05, 2023, 07:13:27 PM: So our elitist college kids support the pro Palestinian shout FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

But it appears very few of them know either the River or the Sea.

In all, after learning a handful of basic facts about the Middle East, 67.8% of students went from supporting from the river to sea to rejecting the mantra. These students had never seen a map of the Mideast and knew little about the region geography, history or demography. Those who hope to encourage extremism depend on the political ignorance of their audiences. It is time for good teachers to join the fray and combat bias with education.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-which-river-to-which-sea-anti-israel-protests-college-student-ignorance-a682463b?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-which-river-to-which-sea-anti-israel-protests-college-student-ignorance-a682463b?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 07:14:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 06:39:10 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 06:33:24 PM

We need to broadcast "Gidget" for all of Iran, Iran, Afghanistan, etc, Turkey, for the Arabs, for everyone.

And we need to play Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys on all of their radio stations.
And they need "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Gidget Goes Iran"

Don't think so! :)

We need to play Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys on all of the radio stations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and for all of the Arabs and Turks, etc, and we need to promote the peaceful surfer culture there. And they can eat fish tacos like at Wahoo's Fish Tacos, etc. And we need to broadcast "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies on their television stations, and we need to make tons of brand new Beach Blanket Bingo movies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 05, 2023, 08:43:17 PM: It's Krampusnacht.

Hope you all have been good.

Otherwise the Krampus brings things even worse than a lump of coal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 05, 2023, 11:21:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 06:20:02 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 05, 2023, 05:58:20 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.

Red State folk turned up their noses at healthcare, too.

Even on deathsdoorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. Aint no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,he told me. I would rather die.When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, We do not need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying-whiteness/

That's one Red State misguided man...well not by his standards/beliefs.
All Americans should be demanding:
. Universal healthcare
. 4 weeks paid annual leave
. paid maternity and paternity leave
. unemployment benefits for every unemployed person (means tested, generously). About $600 per FN.

And "rioting" until they get it.

Social Conservative is cool...and affordable.

One misguided guy, huh?

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3914916-these-10-states-have-not-expanded-medicaid/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 05, 2023, 11:28:07 PM: If you can change how people think and feel then you can change how they behave.

And you can create circumstances and you can create an environment, like Uta Hagen's 6 Steps, you can create an environment. In Battle Mountain, Nevada, we had a head chef from Beverly Hills, and we had a Beverly Hills environment with the Casino vibe. We had Beverly Hills quality food in Battle Mountain.

We can create Greece out in the middle of Nevada, etc.

And Bambu is right, the Arabs can surf, we need to flood their radio stations with Jan and Dean, and with the Beach Boys, etc. And we need to have surfer shows on their television such as "Gidget" and "Beach Blanket Bingo" etc.

We can create environments and we can create circumstances.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2023, 05:49:39 AM: They are everywhere!

https://www.abccolumbia.com/2023/12/04/former-pastor-sentenced-for-decades-long-sexual-assault-of-minors/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 06:57:27 AM: YouTube:

"Electric Car Explosions Worldwide"

by StaceD Training

Some electric cars have the battery under the rear passenger area floor.
Bad idea says the StaceD firefighter guy expert.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 04:50:44 PM: Besides being an ideas man...bambu is also a "what if" man.

What if...one buys an EV, with the warranty on the battery usually being 100,000 miles, ...and the battery fails at 150.000 miles?
The cost to replace the battery is from $4,000 tp $20,000 depending on car make and model.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 05:23:02 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 04:10:48 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 05, 2023, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 05, 2023, 01:11:21 PM
I guess such anecdotal "evidence" can be spun any way you'd like.

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022. (https://www.voanews.com/a/us-electric-vehicle-sales-to-hit-record-this-year/7366987.html#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20sales%20are%20expected,new%20car%20sales%20in%202022.)

bnnbloomberg.ca

Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives

The dealers said customers cited the high cost of EVs, no garages equipped for home charging, the time it takes to charge and loss of driving range in cold or hot weather.
Truck owners also pointed to a dramatic loss of range when towing.

"As many as half of all Americans don't even have a garage, " Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them.
By all accounts EV sales are increasing. Nobody is forcing you to buy one. So do not.

Biden's billion dollar plan to build 500,000 EV chargers has yet to yield a single charger

Too many members of Congress think Field of Dreams is a blueprint for infrastructure build it and they will come. No, they will not come. Because Americans did not want EVs when this wasteful spending was passed and they do not want them now, even with all the massive subsidies and incentives to buy EVs.
Daren Bakst, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment,

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-billion-dollar-plan-build-500000-ev-chargers-has-yet-yield-single-charger
(https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-billion-dollar-plan-build-500000-ev-chargers-has-yet-yield-single-charger)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 05:24:52 PM: So EV sales are not increasing?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 05:52:24 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 05:24:52 PM
So EV sales are not increasing?
Yes. They are.
But not at a pace that is encouraging to the makers of the cars

GM and Honda canceled a partnership to build affordable EVs, and both Ford and GM have scaled back their ambitions for converting to electric car production quickly.
EV makers, including Tesla, have had to reduce prices, as cars have remained unsold.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:00:00 PM: So if sales are increasing how can a statement like "...Americans did not want EVs when this wasteful spending was passed and they do not want them now..." be true?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 06, 2023, 06:01:32 PM: Red points out what happens when republicans in congress plot to overturn the government rather than do the work they are paid to do.

No wonder so many republicans are resigning or being expelled in the middle of the term. It is pathetic and damaging to the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:20:52 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:00:00 PM
So if sales are increasing how can a statement like "...Americans did not want EVs when this wasteful spending was passed and they do not want them now..." be true?

Pretty simple economics.
Congress appropriated billions for charging stations and none have been built.
Who is going to invest in building them if the cars are not selling at a rate that will demand the stations.

The Musk EV plan included stations so if you own a Tesla you have a full service car that has a gps to guide your car along a destination full of charging stations and how you are progressing.
But the bottom line is sales. Even if the rate is up if it does not meet a break point in profitability for the manufacturer then cars will not be built.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM: Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:49:05 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM
Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Then ask Honda, GM,Ford why they are cutting back production. Or Tesla as to why it is lowering prices.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2023, 06:51:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 04:50:44 PM
Besides being an ideas man...bambu is also a "what if" man.

What if...one buys an EV, with the warranty on the battery usually being 100,000 miles, ...and the battery fails at 150.000 miles?
The cost to replace the battery is from $4,000 tp $20,000 depending on car make and model.

How much money was spent on electricity, compared to the total cost of gasoline it would take to drive that distance?

More to the point, would EV owners not opt to extend warranty, if that is the approach? Some companies are developing battery leasing plans and other financial instruments to soften landings on battery failures. New tech, things are being worked out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2023, 06:53:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 05:23:02 PM

Daren Bakst, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment,

Propaganda much?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:56:28 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:49:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM
Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Then ask Honda, GM,Ford why they are cutting back production. Or Tesla as to why it is lowering prices.
I know what their answers will be. But the statement that Americans do not want EVS is stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 07:04:45 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:56:28 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:49:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM
Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Then ask Honda, GM,Ford why they are cutting back production. Or Tesla as to why it is lowering prices.
I know what their answers will be. But the statement that Americans do not want EVS is stupid.
Actually it is quite accurate.
Or we would not have billions of tax payer dollars misappropriated for charging stations for EVs whose sales are causing car makers to
Pull back from.
The government can try to mandate sales for political purposes but the horse, no matter what lake it is led to, still cannot be made to drink from it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2023, 07:07:27 PM: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/why-electric-cars-may-soon-flood-the-us-market-a9006292675/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/13/how-americans-view-electric-vehicles/

4 in 10 Americans are planning to buy an EV at some point. That's a pretty big market. And the percentage is higher among younger drivers. Sensing a trend there...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:15:31 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 07:04:45 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:56:28 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:49:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM
Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Then ask Honda, GM,Ford why they are cutting back production. Or Tesla as to why it is lowering prices.
I know what their answers will be. But the statement that Americans do not want EVS is stupid.
Actually it is quite accurate.
Or we would not have billions of tax payer dollars misappropriated for charging stations for EVs whose sales are causing car makers to
Pull back from.
The government can try to mandate sales for political purposes but the horse, no matter what lake it is led to, still cannot be made to drink from it.
Why are sales increasing? The writer should have simply said that he did not want an EV. That would be accurate. That you gripe about political purposes is both hilarious and ironic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 07:21:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:15:31 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 07:04:45 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:56:28 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 06:49:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 06:29:37 PM
Do Americans want EVs or not? The article you quoted approvingly says they do not. Increasing sales say otherwise.
Then ask Honda, GM,Ford why they are cutting back production. Or Tesla as to why it is lowering prices.
I know what their answers will be. But the statement that Americans do not want EVS is stupid.
Actually it is quite accurate.
Or we would not have billions of tax payer dollars misappropriated for charging stations for EVs whose sales are causing car makers to
Pull back from.
The government can try to mandate sales for political purposes but the horse, no matter what lake it is led to, still cannot be made to drink from it.
Why are sales increasing? The writer should simply said that he did not want an EV. That would be accurate.
What if they are?
They are not increasing at a rate that imeets industry confidence.
GM, Ford, Honda have been around for a long time. I think they know what they are doing. ( Edsel was an outlier, LOl)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:23:37 PM: Sales are increasing because Americans want EVs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:31:06 PM: Auto companies appreciate your belief in their infallibility. Wrong as it may be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 07:44:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:31:06 PM
Auto companies appreciate your belief in their infallibility. Wrong as it may be.
LOL

I will bet on Honda, GM, Ford, and Tesla who look at data ( you did not provide) every day of the week over your sophmoric view of capitalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:48:20 PM: Heh. I did provide data supporting increased sales, the definition of wanting a product. It is you, Capitalism incarnate, who has provided no data for an idiotic statement you continue to try to defend with irrelevancies: Americans do not want EVs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 06, 2023, 08:05:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 04:50:44 PM
Besides being an ideas man...bambu is also a "what if" man.

What if...one buys an EV, with the warranty on the battery usually being 100,000 miles, ...and the battery fails at 150.000 miles?
The cost to replace the battery is from $4,000 tp $20,000 depending on car make and model.

Do what Ice-T says, get Carshield!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 08:28:31 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 07:48:20 PM
Heh. I did provide data supporting increased sales, the definition of wanting a product. It is you, Capitalism incarnate, who has provided no data for an idiotic statement you continue to try to defend with irrelevancies: Americans do not want EVs.
When the largest carmakers pull back on EV production that is data.
When car dealers are complaining of growing EV s sitting unsold that is data.
You can choose to ignore at your own peril.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 08:32:43 PM: When sales increase that too is data.

"My own peril"? You sure can turn a phrase!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 08:44:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 08:32:43 PM
When sales increase that too is data.
Sure
But if i had 100 copies of a book you wrote in my bookstore and sold 10 the first week and 3 the next sales would increase.
But I would not be ordering more on that data.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 06, 2023, 08:54:49 PM: Given how much Red usually likes polls, it's amusing how he tiptoed around the Pew Research poll I posted. And the Consumer Reports data, as well. Perhaps he was too occupied with tutoring Yankguy on capitalism, based on his eminence as an economist.

Quote from: Oilcan on December 06, 2023, 07:07:27 PM
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/why-electric-cars-may-soon-flood-the-us-market-a9006292675/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/13/how-americans-view-electric-vehicles/

4 in 10 Americans are planning to buy an EV at some point. That's a pretty big market. And the percentage is higher among younger drivers. Sensing a trend there...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 08:56:39 PM: That analogy would work if you sold 10 the first week and 15 the next week. Your analogy suggests that sales are decreasing from the previous time period. That's incorrect.

EV sales are increasing at a similar rate. That companies don't think it's enough is a business determination (one made by the always infallible car companies), that there's not enough demand for the product to make it profitable to produce, not a determination that "Americans don't want EVS" which again is the statement that you are trying to defend.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 08:59:29 PM: But don't buy an EV. That's fine with me. If you continue to want to buy cars that run on gasoline, I have no interest in preventing you from doing so.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 09:34:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 08:56:39 PM
That analogy would work if you sold 10 the first week and 15 the next week. Your analogy suggests that sales are decreasing from the previous time period. That's incorrect.

EV sales are increasing at a similar rate. That companies don't think it's enough is a business determination (one made by the always infallible car companies), that there's not enough demand for the product to make it profitable to produce, not a determination that "Americans don't want EVS" which again is the statement that you are trying to defend.
No.
If I sold any books the second weeks sales would have an aggregate gain over zero.
The fact that major car manufactures are pulling back production of EVs and charging stations are not being built despite massive amounts of government aid is proof that Americans in Toto are not buying EVs.

Why you would argue the opposite is known only to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 09:40:19 PM: Americans want EVS. Keep trying and failing, IN TOTO, to prove otherwise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 06, 2023, 10:25:25 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 06, 2023, 09:40:19 PM
Americans want EVS. Keep trying and failing, IN TOTO, to prove otherwise.

Then buy a Tesla.
But stop wasting taxpayer money on a niche market.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 06, 2023, 10:33:20 PM: Red is constantly being run over by the tide of history these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 11:53:15 PM: Toyota has announced a new "water" engine.
See YouTube videos.
Bye bye EVs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2023, 04:37:24 AM: Sky News:
"many of the people crossing the Mexican border into the US are 'Chinese males"
Video was shown on my tv.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 07:05:13 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 11:53:15 PM
Toyota has announced a new "water" engine.
See YouTube videos.
Bye bye EVs.

Only California has a limited hydrogen filling infrastructure
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2023, 09:48:43 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 04:50:44 PM
Besides being an ideas man...bambu is also a "what if" man.

What if...one buys an EV, with the warranty on the battery usually being 100,000 miles, ...and the battery fails at 150.000 miles?
The cost to replace the battery is from $4,000 tp $20,000 depending on car make and model.
Same thing that happens if your gas car needs a new engine at 150. Yer fucked, mate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2023, 10:16:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 11:53:15 PM
Toyota has announced a new "water" engine.
See YouTube videos.
Bye bye EVs.
...Hindenburg...

- Gov. Claire Debella
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 07, 2023, 11:59:21 AM: Miles Bron will invest, I'm sure.

But someone needs to tell Bambu the easiest way to generate hydrogen. So they're still EVs. (IOW fuel cells running on hydrogen are still powered by electricity used for the electrolysis)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM: Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 07, 2023, 02:17:42 PM: That bit of pandering will not go anywhere, a good thing because it is a terrible piece of policy written by idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 02:39:51 PM: Chris Christie won the Debate last night in my opinion, and he appeared Presidential. We would survive if Christie was the President.

Biden is getting too old. And I cannot think of any young sharp Democrats to replace him. Biden is hanging out with Spielberg right now here in Los Angeles, wish Spielberg would run for President.

Locally Mayor Bass is doing a good job of helping the homeless, etc, but more needs to be done.

And Sabrina Cervantes is doing a good job.

Christina Pascucci is running for the Senate, and she is off to a good start.

Lou Correa is doing a good job in the House of Representatives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:02:00 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Where it will die a sad death in the Senate where stupid shit comes to die
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:30:11 PM: [
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 02:39:51 PM
Chris Christie won the Debate last night in my opinion, and he appeared Presidential. We would survive if Christie was the President.

Biden is getting too old. And I cannot think of any young sharp Democrats to replace him. Biden is hanging out with Spielberg right now here in Los Angeles, wish Spielberg would run for President.

Locally Mayor Bass is doing a good job of helping the homeless, etc, but more needs to be done.

And Sabrina Cervantes is doing a good job.

Christina Pascucci is running for the Senate, and she is off to a good start.

Lou Correa is doing a good job in the House of Representatives.

Salute,

Tony V.

Chris Christie is one good ribeye and twice baked potato from a major coronary!
I would take Joe Bidens EKG and BP readings over that undisciplined guy who busted through his weight loss surgery!

Cannot think of ANY young, sharp Democrats to replace him?

What the fuck are VICE PRESIDENTS FOR?

Karen Bass is five days away from bring in office FOR A YEAR! Of course there is more to be done!

Do you think Rick Caruso would have done a better job? Or did he set fire to $100 million that could have been better spent fight homelessness?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 04:34:46 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Where it will die a sad death in the Senate where stupid shit comes to die
Well then. The GOP will be glad to be the party running on a taxpayer choice of what kind of car they want to drive.
The dems will be stuck as the party in favor of picking the car for you.
Given the lackluster interest EVs are getting in the market the GOP would have the winning argument.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2023, 04:34:58 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2023, 09:48:43 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 06, 2023, 04:50:44 PM
Besides being an ideas man...bambu is also a "what if" man.

What if...one buys an EV, with the warranty on the battery usually being 100,000 miles, ...and the battery fails at 150.000 miles?
The cost to replace the battery is from $4,000 tp $20,000 depending on car make and model.
Same thing that happens if your gas car needs a new engine at 150. Yer fucked, mate.

Yes, but...now Mitsubishi and others are offering 10 year warranty on gas cars/pick up trucks.
Engines, transmissions, the whole car.
Haval/GWM (Great Wall Motors)-Chinese, offer 7 years unlimited KM warranty for private use, and 7 years 150,000km warranty for commercial use.
Australian consumer law is very clear and very strict, everyone has to abide by it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2023, 04:38:18 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

At last, freedom! of choice for American motorists.
Seems some have woken up that American motorists and their families vote at federal and state elections.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:43:55 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 04:34:46 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Where it will die a sad death in the Senate where stupid shit comes to die
Well then. The GOP will be glad to be the party running on a taxpayer choice of what kind of car they want to drive.
The dems will be stuck as the party in favor of picking the car for you.
Given the lackluster interest EVs are getting in the market the GOP would have the winning argument.

The GOP is still gonna get bitch slapped by abortion and preserving democracy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 07, 2023, 04:53:54 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Where it will die a sad death in the Senate where stupid shit comes to die

Never a good idea to force The People to do things they don't want to do, and can't afford to do.

With this, govts run the risk that the People/companies will buy new gas/diesel vehicles, including large trucks, as close as possible to the forced cut off date...you know, rebel, boycott all EVs and the whole EV system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 07, 2023, 05:08:11 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 04:34:46 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 01:57:09 PM
Update on EVs.

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468).

The bill would prohibit the EPA from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.

The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Where it will die a sad death in the Senate where stupid shit comes to die
Well then. The GOP will be glad to be the party running on a taxpayer choice of what kind of car they want to drive.
The dems will be stuck as the party in favor of picking the car for you.
Given the lackluster interest EVs are getting in the market the GOP would have the winning argument.
Yeah, winning argument for all the women who need the gas powered vehicles to drive three or four states away to get an abortion because of Republicans. The number of swing votes that car issue is going to get the Republicans is functionally zero, so, yeah. Run on that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 05:23:07 PM: Vice President Harris just posted on Facebook about Education, and about how the Biden Administration is investing in Education for our people; I told her that 25% of the adults in Kentucky cannot read and write, while at the same time 20% of the new immigrants in Arkansas have a college degree, so we need to hire our new immigrants to teach our people how to read and write, and we need to build libraries and schools and we need to educate our people.

I had a wonderful Professor for American History who was from Haiti, we have some wonderful teachers who are immigrants who can teach our people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc.

And I told her that Ben Franklin did Science Experiments for fun, and Henry David Thoreau lived by a pond and wrote Philosophy, etc.

We need to teach our people how to read and write, and we need to teach them about Athens, and about Rome, and about Euclidean Geometry, etc, and there is so much wonderful stuff to teach our people. And our immigrants can help to teach our people, 20% of our new immigrants in Arkansas have a college degree and they can be teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 05:42:11 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 05:23:07 PM
Vice President Harris just posted on Facebook about Education, and about how the Biden Administration is investing in Education for our people; I told her that 25% of the adults in Kentucky cannot read and write, while at the same time 20% of the new immigrants in Arkansas have a college degree, so we need to hire our new immigrants to teach our people how to read and write, and we need to build libraries and schools and we need to educate our people.

I had a wonderful Professor for American History who was from Haiti, we have some wonderful teachers who are immigrants who can teach our people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc.

And I told her that Ben Franklin did Science Experiments for fun, and Henry David Thoreau lived by a pond and wrote Philosophy, etc.

We need to teach our people how to read and write, and we need to teach them about Athens, and about Rome, and about Euclidean Geometry, etc, and there is so much wonderful stuff to teach our people. And our immigrants can help to teach our people, 20% of our new immigrants in Arkansas have a college degree and they can be teachers.

Salute,

Tony V.

Why has Kentucky done such a poor job?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM: Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 05:58:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?

It is like the War on Christmas
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 06:20:41 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?
The CARS Legislation would prevent that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 07:03:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 06:20:41 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?
The CARS Legislation would prevent that.
.

No it would not because no one is being FORCED to buy an EV.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2023, 07:10:45 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?

No one. Welcome to right wing sophistry. All EPA standards do is push manufacturers to raise their average MPG on vehicles they sell. Something that benefits everyone who likes to fill their gas tank and have something left over. Many of the innovations of the past few decades were driven by mileage requirements. Benefitting all those working class people Ward professes to care about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 07:24:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 07, 2023, 07:10:45 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?

No one. Welcome to right wing sophistry. All EPA standards do is push manufacturers to raise their average MPG on vehicles they sell. Something that benefits everyone who likes to fill their gas tank and have something left over. Many of the innovations of the past few decades were driven by mileage requirements. Benefitting all those working class people Ward professes to care about.
Jesus.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to finalize its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.
The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Can you and YankGuy show some sign of knowing what this idiotic Biden Administration is doing to destroy democracy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 07:35:55 PM: They will be coming for your gas stove next, Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 07, 2023, 07:46:04 PM: Having lost the culture war, the war on Christmas, the abortion issue, the economic arguments, their credibility, the trust of the American people, their fucking minds, Red is in addition admitting that they have lost on border security and immigration with this desperate pivot to an anti EV crusade.

It bodes well for the future if we keep kicking fascists where ever the pasty bastards show up.

Keep marching
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 07, 2023, 07:52:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 07:24:20 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 07, 2023, 07:10:45 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 05:43:10 PM
Who is being FORCED to buy an EV?

No one. Welcome to right wing sophistry. All EPA standards do is push manufacturers to raise their average MPG on vehicles they sell. Something that benefits everyone who likes to fill their gas tank and have something left over. Many of the innovations of the past few decades were driven by mileage requirements. Benefitting all those working class people Ward professes to care about.
Jesus.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to finalize its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy.
The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.

Can you and YankGuy show some sign of knowing what this idiotic Biden Administration is doing to destroy democracy.

Remember how the Republic came to an end when you were FORCED to buy unleaded gas?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 07, 2023, 08:18:14 PM: Touche!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 08:22:06 PM: I do not understand why we have not educated our people better. And I loved school, I loved my teachers, and I loved the beautiful women, and I enjoy learning and growing. We need for the young men to appreciate getting an education, you cannot just get by as a coal miner anymore, and also an education is great. They can drink wine and they can discuss Euclidean Geometry, etc. And Poetry, and Theatre, etc. And film, and music, etc.

Bambu, watch the movie "Summer Lovers" with Daryl Hannah, we can build that same housing in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we could have swimming pools and tennis courts, and libraries, and movie theatres, etc, etc, etc. We can have a Commune in Battle Mountain that can be like Greece out in the middle of Nevada on the Cowboy Highway.

Education is fun. Science is fun. Space exploration is fun, high speed trains are fun, electric cars are fun. Jet planes are fun. Philosophy is fun. Etc. They can study everything in Kentucky, and in Arkansas, and in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Also, Playboy Magazine needs to bring in some great young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard and they need to save Playboy, and Universal can buy Playboy and they can bring back the Playboy Channel, and one new series for the Playboy Channel can be the Slocum Westerns by Jake Logan, Hef loved the Slocum Westerns, they are Westerns with hot beautiful women, so the Slocum Westerns can be made at Universal and the series can be shown on the new Playboy Channel that can be made at Universal Studios here in Hollywood, California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 07, 2023, 11:18:36 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 07, 2023, 07:35:55 PM
They will be coming for your gas stove next, Red.
[nice dodge
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 01:06:57 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 07, 2023, 08:22:06 PM
I do not understand why we have not educated our people better. And I loved school, I loved my teachers, and I loved the beautiful women, and I enjoy learning and growing. We need for the young men to appreciate getting an education, you cannot just get by as a coal miner anymore, and also an education is great. They can drink wine and they can discuss Euclidean Geometry, etc. And Poetry, and Theatre, etc. And film, and music, etc.

Bambu, watch the movie "Summer Lovers" with Daryl Hannah, we can build that same housing in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we could have swimming pools and tennis courts, and libraries, and movie theatres, etc, etc, etc. We can have a Commune in Battle Mountain that can be like Greece out in the middle of Nevada on the Cowboy Highway.

Education is fun. Science is fun. Space exploration is fun, high speed trains are fun, electric cars are fun. Jet planes are fun. Philosophy is fun. Etc. They can study everything in Kentucky, and in Arkansas, and in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Also, Playboy Magazine needs to bring in some great young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard and they need to save Playboy, and Universal can buy Playboy and they can bring back the Playboy Channel, and one new series for the Playboy Channel can be the Slocum Westerns by Jake Logan, Hef loved the Slocum Westerns, they are Westerns with hot beautiful women, so the Slocum Westerns can be made at Universal and the series can be shown on the new Playboy Channel that can be made at Universal Studios here in Hollywood, California.

Salute,

Tony V.

"Euclidean geometry"?
Yikes.
That sounds like one step down from "rocket science".

I was flying at school, until I was 12, ...until I hit high school.
In the first three years HS was OK, there was an exam "Intermediate Certificate" end of the third year. And 15, I passed (about 70% in every subject).
You were given a Certficate.
Then, you could legally leave school...which the future mrs bambu did, in a very rural area. Moved to the big city to attend "Business college"...shorthand/typing/ basic bookwork-accounting/receptionist/telephonist.
Like Dolly and the gals in the movie '9 to 5'.

Most of the boys in my all-boys high school were 13 going on 7 when they hit high school, and 18 going on 10 when they left.
'Mommy's boys'...no idea much about girls, no idea much about the rest of the world, certainly not much idea about life beyond school, or the workforce.
You did what your parents told you, "seen but not heard" most of the time.

Boys whose parents were wealthy enough to send them to private schools received a much better education, were absolutely better prepared for life, and did better in the workforce and "business" than those who attended public govt schools.

There should be basic HS education so every student graduates after 3 or 4 years, ("high school failure" is no recipe for prospective workforce success), then another 2 years for those wishing to be educated to a higher standard, and/or attend university.
A Masters in Russian Literature has limited employment potential, seems to me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 08, 2023, 01:31:37 AM: You seem to be a degenerate idiot with a closed and tiny mind incapable of grasping most of what is going on around him. Now that you tell your story, it seems like a very natural progression as to how you have fallen and let yourself get so far behind. Best of luck to you and absolutely no nukes
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 02:08:17 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 08, 2023, 01:31:37 AM
You seem to be a degenerate idiot with a closed and tiny mind incapable of grasping most of what is going on around him. Now that you tell your story, it seems like a very natural progression as to how you have fallen and let yourself get so far behind. Best of luck to you and absolutely no nukes

LOL

No computers, no cell phones, only "Sammy Sparrow" and "Sea Hound" on the radio, and "I Love Lucy in black and white on the tv [if your family could afford a tv].

I did well, all things considered.
The farm girl taught me what school didn't. Her father and brother taught me to shoot, avoid snakes, gun safety, and all about life beyond the city.

If the boys had been taught 'survival skills', 'life skills', 'cooking', 'self-reliance' instead of having to study the 'lunacy' of Shakepeare, we would no doubt have left HS with a much better chance of coping with the delights and horrors of the workforce.

I was not alone.
Back in those days only 20% of students attended a university. The rest found jobs in the fed and state govt public services, insurance companies, companies, the DMV etc. Others left at age 15 and became trades apprentices.

Married women were not allowed to work [in banks, govt offices, local councils etc.]
The man's salary was sufficient to support a wife and family.
Unemployment was very low.
Life was simple.
Married men often worked part-time in pubs, clubs etc to supplement their income.
Homelessness was very rare, and shelters were sufficient in number to provide for those who were homeless/struggling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 02:16:31 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 08, 2023, 01:31:37 AM
You seem to be a degenerate idiot with a closed and tiny mind incapable of grasping most of what is going on around him. Now that you tell your story, it seems like a very natural progression as to how you have fallen and let yourself get so far behind. Best of luck to you and absolutely no nukes

There is a YouTube video;

'Christmas in Australia' ........ From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1958

I was age 12 then.

It shows exactly what life was like then.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 08, 2023, 08:56:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 01:06:57 AM

"Euclidean geometry"?
Yikes.
That sounds like one step down from "rocket science".
Euclidean Geometry is the easy part.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 10:19:59 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 08, 2023, 08:56:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 01:06:57 AM

"Euclidean geometry"?
Yikes.
That sounds like one step down from "rocket science".
Euclidean Geometry is the easy part.

For someone who had trouble with isosceles triangles, ...that geometry would've been a step too far.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 02:49:39 PM: Columbus used Euclidean Geometry when he sailed in 1492, and also we used Euclidean Geometry when we sent men to the Moon, etc.

I had a Professor for Euclidean Geometry who was a Magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Professor Thompson, he was great. It was a fun class.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 02:51:55 PM: I sent a message to Pope Francis, there is a lot more that the Church can be doing to help Christians.

The Church needs to create more services for Christians so that we can help each other, there needs to be Christian Employment Services where Christians can go to hire other Christians and where Christians can go to find a job. There also needs to be Christian Dating Services where Single Christians can go to find a mate. And there needs to be Christian Real Estate Offices where Christians can go to rent a home from other Christians, and where Christians can go to rent their properties to good Christians, etc. We need more Services for Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 08, 2023, 03:21:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 08, 2023, 08:56:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 01:06:57 AM

"Euclidean geometry"?
Yikes.
That sounds like one step down from "rocket science".
Euclidean Geometry is the easy part.

Easy as π.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 03:41:28 PM: Oz PM 'Albo', tanking fast in the polls...

Daily Telegraph
Today:

"Anthony Albanese reins in migrant numbers to ease housing, cost of living crises."

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Well there you go,
A good message for Joe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 03:51:30 PM: I had a neighbor who spent his life doing charity work, and he said that the best way to make money is to learn how to profit from the buying and selling of foreign currencies.

The Dude was cool, he used to go out to Lancaster and buy a truck load of watermelons straight from the farmer for cheap and then he passed out the watermelons to my neighborhood for free here in Anaheim.

He retired by making money from buying and selling foreign currencies, and he bought a ranch in Mexico and he went to live in Mexico. He told me to learn how to buy and sell foreign currencies for profit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 08, 2023, 04:04:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 03:51:30 PM
I had a neighbor who spent his life doing charity work, and he said that the best way to make money is to learn how to profit from the buying and selling of foreign currencies.

The Dude was cool, he used to go out to Lancaster and buy a truck load of watermelons straight from the farmer for cheap and then he passed out the watermelons to my neighborhood for free here in Anaheim.

He retired by making money from buying and selling foreign currencies, and he bought a ranch in Mexico and he went to live in Mexico. He told me to learn how to buy and sell foreign currencies for profit.

Salute,

Tony V.

So what are you waiting for?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 04:27:57 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 08, 2023, 04:04:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 03:51:30 PM
I had a neighbor who spent his life doing charity work, and he said that the best way to make money is to learn how to profit from the buying and selling of foreign currencies.

The Dude was cool, he used to go out to Lancaster and buy a truck load of watermelons straight from the farmer for cheap and then he passed out the watermelons to my neighborhood for free here in Anaheim.

He retired by making money from buying and selling foreign currencies, and he bought a ranch in Mexico and he went to live in Mexico. He told me to learn how to buy and sell foreign currencies for profit.

Salute,

Tony V.

So what are you waiting for?

If it were easy and risk free, everyone would be doing it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 04:52:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 08, 2023, 04:27:57 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 08, 2023, 04:04:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 08, 2023, 03:51:30 PM
I had a neighbor who spent his life doing charity work, and he said that the best way to make money is to learn how to profit from the buying and selling of foreign currencies.

The Dude was cool, he used to go out to Lancaster and buy a truck load of watermelons straight from the farmer for cheap and then he passed out the watermelons to my neighborhood for free here in Anaheim.

He retired by making money from buying and selling foreign currencies, and he bought a ranch in Mexico and he went to live in Mexico. He told me to learn how to buy and sell foreign currencies for profit.

Salute,

Tony V.

So what are you waiting for?

If it were easy and risk free, everyone would be doing it.

My friend had wealthy friends who taught him how to profit from trading currencies.

I learned a little when I went to France, I got 7 French Francs from every 1 U.S. Dollar, back in 2000, and I lived like a King in Cannes, I had a hotel room with a view of the Mediterranean Sea, I bought wine for everyone at a restaurant at dinner one night, I lived great, the strong U.S. Dollar at the time was really fun in Cannes with the weak French Franc.

Learning how to profit from trading currencies is something his wealthy friends taught him how to do.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 08, 2023, 10:00:34 PM: RIP Ryan ONeal, who definitely competed with Joan Crawford for the Worst Parent in Showbiz title. I liked his stint as Tempe's father on Bones. He seemed to draw from his own personal life when showing Brennan's father reflecting painfully on his parenting and general peccadillos in youth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2023, 02:07:33 AM: That safest large county is Ventura County, where the crime rate in 2022 was recorded as the lowest in its history. San Diego County ranked second, with Orange County rounding out the top three. "This doesn't happen by accident," Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said in a statement. 1 day ago

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Anaheim is nice, but we could do more to make it nicer. We need to plant more trees and plants and flowers and we need to improve the public landscaping, and we need to have fountains, and cobblestones, like Rome. Our city is rich, we can hire and pay the homeless people to work on public landscaping, etc. And Anaheim needs hostels with a shower and a bed for $15 per night, and I support Sober Living homes for $150 per week. We also need a movie studio like Occidental in East Hollywood with movie equipment rentals, etc. And we have a new program at Fullerton Community College where they train people for jobs at Disney and that is fantastic. Disney also needs to hire people from Chapman film school, etc. We need to be active in good ways. But, meanwhile we are the 3rd best county in California here in Orange County.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 09, 2023, 05:53:40 AM: Quote from: Karl Barx on December 08, 2023, 10:00:34 PM
RIP Ryan ONeal, who definitely competed with Joan Crawford for the Worst Parent in Showbiz title. I liked his stint as Tempe's father on Bones. He seemed to draw from his own personal life when showing Brennan's father reflecting painfully on his parenting and general peccadillos in youth.

I really liked that story arc!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 09, 2023, 11:14:09 AM: Yep.

Meanwhile, for the GOP, cruelty is still a feature not a bug.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-roe-568c09dc8794c341095189362ece9004
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 09, 2023, 11:49:23 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 09, 2023, 11:14:09 AM
Yep.

Meanwhile, for the GOP, cruelty is still a feature not a bug.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-roe-568c09dc8794c341095189362ece9004

The republican party is about ending the rule of law, mother killing, and supporting mass shootings.

If these things are important to you you will vote against economic prosperity, national security and the American worker to put trump back in power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 09, 2023, 02:42:47 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 09, 2023, 11:49:23 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 09, 2023, 11:14:09 AM
Yep.

Meanwhile, for the GOP, cruelty is still a feature not a bug.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-roe-568c09dc8794c341095189362ece9004

The republican party is about ending the rule of law, mother killing, and supporting mass shootings.

If these things are important to you you will vote against economic prosperity, national security and the American worker to put trump back in power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 09, 2023, 03:59:34 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 09, 2023, 11:49:23 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 09, 2023, 11:14:09 AM
Yep.

Meanwhile, for the GOP, cruelty is still a feature not a bug.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-roe-568c09dc8794c341095189362ece9004

The republican party is about ending the rule of law, mother killing, and supporting mass shootings.

If these things are important to you you will vote against economic prosperity, national security and the American worker to put trump back in power.

Hogwash.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2023, 06:10:39 PM: The World Bank reported that Egypt has the worst food cost inflation in the world right now at 35% and now they are flooded with refugees from Gaza, and from Syria, etc. They seriously need to grow their own food in Egypt and in the region, like Israel does. All of the refugees from Gaza can be put to work as farm workers in Egypt, etc.

And Afghanistan can grow food instead of opium poppies, they can grow legitimate crops.

I am so grateful to have local produce at affordable prices, we had inflation for a while but prices are coming back down.

I will write some more messages to the World Bank, but some people get offended, when I wrote about having Future Farmers programs to teach people how to farm, I was attacked as being condescending and they thought I acted like people are too stupid to farm, and I did not mean to offend anyone, I seriously want for there to be programs to teach people how to farm, like the Future Farmers of America, etc.

And the stupidest thing in the world is when people are forced to sit around and starve instead of being able to farm and grow food and have chickens for eggs, etc. People can even grow and eat the Prickly Pear Cactus, the Mexicans eat the cactus with scrambled eggs and with salsa and tortillas, and the Mexicans also make candy out of the cactus. We can teach people how to grow food and survive.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 10, 2023, 03:51:27 PM: Manny Pacquiao

I strongly condemn China's recent actions in the West Philippine Sea. The Philippines will not stand down to China's bullying. We are a nation of courageous people, and we will stand up for what is right and what is ours. China should work for peace in the region. We have always been open to dialogue and diplomacy, but we will not tolerate any attempt to bully us into submission.

The Philippines remains open to diplomatic discussions aimed at finding a peaceful and lawful resolution to the disputes in the South China Sea. We hope that through sincere dialogue, we can achieve stability and harmony in the region for the benefit of all nations involved.

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Bambu, it is all going to be okay, we can have peace, but we need to all be equals and we cannot be subordinates to China. Tell Australia to stand strong with the Philippines, and with Taiwan, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 10, 2023, 04:17:07 PM: http://www.yahoo.com/news/rabbis-form-human-shield-protect-101103370.html (http://www.yahoo.com/news/rabbis-form-human-shield-protect-101103370.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 10, 2023, 05:45:21 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2023, 06:10:39 PM
The World Bank reported that Egypt has the worst food cost inflation in the world right now at 35% and now they are flooded with refugees from Gaza, and from Syria, etc. They seriously need to grow their own food in Egypt and in the region, like Israel does. All of the refugees from Gaza can be put to work as farm workers in Egypt, etc.

And Afghanistan can grow food instead of opium poppies, they can grow legitimate crops.

I am so grateful to have local produce at affordable prices, we had inflation for a while but prices are coming back down.

I will write some more messages to the World Bank, but some people get offended, when I wrote about having Future Farmers programs to teach people how to farm, I was attacked as being condescending and they thought I acted like people are too stupid to farm, and I did not mean to offend anyone, I seriously want for there to be programs to teach people how to farm, like the Future Farmers of America, etc.

And the stupidest thing in the world is when people are forced to sit around and starve instead of being able to farm and grow food and have chickens for eggs, etc. People can even grow and eat the Prickly Pear Cactus, the Mexicans eat the cactus with scrambled eggs and with salsa and tortillas, and the Mexicans also make candy out of the cactus. We can teach people how to grow food and survive.

Salute,

Tony V.

Muslim countries are 'different'.
You live in the "Christian West'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 10, 2023, 05:56:31 PM: The proposed Menorah Lighting today at the 2nd Sundays Art and Musical Festival in Williamsburg, Virginia did not happen.
Organizer Shirley Vermillion had this explanation
Quote

We couldnot approve the lighting because we did not want to make it seem like we were choosing a side,
supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women and children.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 10, 2023, 07:26:30 PM: Since WW2, reportedly, America has bombed 14% of the world.
Sometimes it's just what the good guys have to do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 10, 2023, 08:06:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 10, 2023, 07:26:30 PM
Since WW2, reportedly, America has bombed 14% of the world.
Sometimes it's just what the good guys have to do.

You are making a stunning late career resurgence as the rictus death face of imperialism. Good job, mate. Mind you, mother said you are likely to freeze that way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 10, 2023, 09:25:49 PM: Leges sine moribus vanae.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 10, 2023, 10:25:35 PM: On my walk thru Paris France today (Youtube), I came across the Pantheon.
Lovely building, lovely monument.
While touring the building I encountered the Pantheon Crypt.
In said crypt, by chance, I stood before the last resting place of Alexandre Dumas, French Novelist and Playright..he of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' fame.
In my mind that was ok to do, just like standing respectfully at a graveside, and not 'grave-robbing'/disturbing the remains of the dead. Not holding up the heads of ancient Egyptians taken from coffins etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 10, 2023, 10:49:47 PM: Next to Alexandre Dumas lies Victor Hugo, former Senator of France and of 'Les Miserables' fame.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 11, 2023, 12:38:16 PM: http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/12/11/23992695/cop28-climate-refuge-how-to-detox-coal-country-appalachia-mining (http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/12/11/23992695/cop28-climate-refuge-how-to-detox-coal-country-appalachia-mining)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 11, 2023, 09:16:10 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 11, 2023, 12:38:16 PM
http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/12/11/23992695/cop28-climate-refuge-how-to-detox-coal-country-appalachia-mining (http://www.vox.com/climate/2023/12/11/23992695/cop28-climate-refuge-how-to-detox-coal-country-appalachia-mining)

This is amazing. It might prove to be a model for other cleanup projects.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 11, 2023, 10:00:48 PM: Arkhouse Management, a real-estate focused investing firm, and Brigade Capital Management, a global asset manager, on Dec. 1 submitted a proposal to acquire the Macy's stock they don't already own for $21 a share. 1 hour ago

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Instead of unsuccessfully trying to buy the big retailers, then they should re-open the closed retailers which still have name recognition such as The Broadway Department Stores including reopening the one in Pasadena, California.

San Bernardino, California, also needs new retailers and new markets, etc.

And the Mexicans want to expand in the USA in the area of retail, they can expand in San Bernardino, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 11, 2023, 10:40:55 PM: Retail in central San Francisco is slowly dying, according to a Youtube video.
VIdeo did a walking tour, empty once-retail space 'everywhere'.
Seems oeople are shopping online today.
Also, with the cost ot living so high, people could be cutting theiir non-essential spending.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 11, 2023, 11:01:21 PM: The Chinese can help to save San Francisco, the China Town in San Francisco is vibrant. And the main thing is to clean things up and to get the homeless into housing, and then you make it nice for the customers, etc.

And wages are rising thanks to the workers having won several strikes recently, and thanks to raising minimum wages, etc.

Of note is that people love real stores, people love Toy Stores so Toys R Us is re-opening, the Toy Stores are coming back.

And the FYE stores are popular ( For Your Entertainment ). And music stores are coming back, etc.

We also need to bring back surfing and then we can sell them surf boards, etc, and skateboards, etc, and we can sell them roller skates, etc, just like the old days.

Sober Living Homes are needed for $150 per week, and Hostels for $15 per night for a shower and bed. The Chinese women in San Francisco can open Hostels and Sober Living Homes for the homeless, etc.

And we can bring in the Mexicans to expand trade and the Mexicans can have markets and retail stores. The Mexicans can also open Movie Theatres, etc, and Pinball Arcades, etc, and Bowling Alleys, etc.

Lots can be done to improve the situation in San Francisco and the Chinese and Mexicans can help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 12, 2023, 12:16:28 AM: "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas needs to be made as a Mini Series for Netflix, it can be made at Cinecitta in Rome. And Rome is mentioned in the famous novel, as was my neighborhood mentioned where I lived on Via Urbana.

And I went to the Pantheon in Rome, it is by the United States Embassy, I put in a job application at the US Embassy in Rome, and then there is the Hard Rock Cafe there, and they have a McDonald's there, etc, I had a Big Mac there. It is funny, my Grandmother worked as a Car Hop at the Original McDonald's in San Bernardino, California, and then here I was eating a Big Mac in Rome. ( Also, I had Big Macs with Bruce Willis at the Arch in Saint Louis at the McDonald's in the Greyhound Bus Station, he was waiting for his Mercedes to be be delivered. )

I sent a headshot and resume to every Production Company that was in the Roman Yellow Pages in their Telephone book there. I would love to make movies in Italy.

In France, I went to Cannes for 3 days and I lived like a King, they gave me 7 French Francs for every 1 US Dollar so I had all kinds of money to have fun with. I would like to spend more time in France in the future, and I want to spend some time in Paris, etc, and I want to see Monaco, etc. And the Cannes Film Festival is fantastic and I would go every year if I could. I used to dream about dating Princess Charlotte Casiraghi, and I went to the same acting school as her Grandmother, Princess Grace Kelly Grimaldi. And they all do charity work. I am sure Princess Charlotte Casiraghi has some ideas on how to help in San Francisco. France is great, I want to spend more time in France.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 12, 2023, 10:36:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 11, 2023, 10:40:55 PM
Retail in central San Francisco is slowly dying, according to a Youtube video.
VIdeo did a walking tour, empty once-retail space 'everywhere'.
Seems oeople are shopping online today.
Also, with the cost ot living so high, people could be cutting theiir non-essential spending.

According to a YouTube video, Australians have one leg and one tooth each and they walk around all day with their children stuffed up their rectums so the ugly little tots will not get lost and be eaten by large flightless birds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 01:44:21 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 12, 2023, 10:36:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 11, 2023, 10:40:55 PM
Retail in central San Francisco is slowly dying, according to a Youtube video.
VIdeo did a walking tour, empty once-retail space 'everywhere'.
Seems oeople are shopping online today.
Also, with the cost ot living so high, people could be cutting theiir non-essential spending.

According to a YouTube video, Australians have one leg and one tooth each and they walk around all day with their children stuffed up their rectums so the ugly little tots will not get lost and be eaten by large flightless birds.

LOL

And everyone walks around bare feet, and some deadly snakes roll themselves up into hoops and roll down hills ...there being a special dance and jump people can do to avoid them...shown in a YouTube video.
Lots of useful info in YouTube videos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 13, 2023, 03:14:05 AM: I take the and to mean that you confirm what I learned from a YouTube video about your country. It goes some way to explain why you guys cannot get nukes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 04:31:26 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 13, 2023, 03:14:05 AM
I take the and to mean that you confirm what I learned from a YouTube video about your country. It goes some way to explain why you guys cannot get nukes.

It's a weird place...but dingo-cunning is invaluable everywhere when encountering it.
There was a movie "They're a weird mob."

We don't have nukes because we were suckers, ...gullible, fools who went around signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties while others stocked up on nukes.
France, US, Britain, India, Pakistan, Israel, soon Iran, Russia, China, Nth Korea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 13, 2023, 10:17:43 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 12, 2023, 10:36:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 11, 2023, 10:40:55 PM
Retail in central San Francisco is slowly dying, according to a Youtube video.
VIdeo did a walking tour, empty once-retail space 'everywhere'.
Seems oeople are shopping online today.
Also, with the cost ot living so high, people could be cutting theiir non-essential spending.

According to a YouTube video, Australians have one leg and one tooth each and they walk around all day with their children stuffed up their rectums so the ugly little tots will not get lost and be eaten by large flightless birds.

Seems way more accurate than the video junk Bamboob is watching.

I saw one the other day showing how Australian national healthcare requires you be tossed from the top of Ayer's Rock on your 75th birthday. Reminiscent of the Swedish Attestupa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ttestupa
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM: Quote from: oilcan2 on December 13, 2023, 10:17:43 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on December 12, 2023, 10:36:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 11, 2023, 10:40:55 PM
Retail in central San Francisco is slowly dying, according to a Youtube video.
VIdeo did a walking tour, empty once-retail space 'everywhere'.
Seems oeople are shopping online today.
Also, with the cost ot living so high, people could be cutting theiir non-essential spending.

According to a YouTube video, Australians have one leg and one tooth each and they walk around all day with their children stuffed up their rectums so the ugly little tots will not get lost and be eaten by large flightless birds.

Seems way more accurate than the video junk Bamboob is watching.

I saw one the other day showing how Australian national healthcare requires you be tossed from the top of Ayer's Rock on your 75th birthday. Reminiscent of the Swedish Attestupa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ttestupa

It was a better healthcare scheme before massive immigration overran the system.

It was sad when the British tourist fell to his death from Ayer's Rock/Uluru.
If it had not happened, Linda Chamberlain would likely still be rotting in prison, convicted of murdering her baby Azaria in the camp grounds at Uluru.
British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

Her original trial was a joke.
The forensic evidence was a joke, the supposed blood in the floor of the car turned out to be rust paint.
Trial by media, she a Seventh Day Adventist.
Her husband had a black coffin in their garage (church play prop)...everything from "Satanists, voodoo, evil spirits, witch' etc were being tossed around.
The lynch mobs in western movies had nothing on the noose waving mobs at her trial.

Anyway, valuable lessons were learnt by a lot of people.

No more camping allowed at Uluru...and no more climbing the Rock allowed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 12:12:35 PM: COP 28 seems to have had a awakening!

That a transition away from fossil fuels and to renewables is needed.

Transition...they didn't say "sensible transition", but that's what's required.

America seems to have decided that having the majority of electric cars on its roads made in China in not a good idea for America's welfare.
China is blowing up deluxe about its electric vehicles being 'rejected' by America, claiming it is unfair trade or something.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on December 13, 2023, 02:09:40 PM: Brick and mortar retailers are suffering due to internet vendors. No gas and easy returns. No covid in home shopping.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 05:36:29 PM: US has requested Australia to send a warship to the Red Sea as part of an international naval force.

Right ScoMo govt would've sent one, but will Left Albo govt?
That's the 64 dollar question.

Left Albo govt's support for Israel's right to defend itself seems to have melted into "ceasefire".
Leftist/Far Left Labor govt's Caucus split, two Muslim MPs and two Jewish MPs in the mix.

Current Right Opposition ( Liberal Party and National Party coalition...LNP) would send one if in govt, I believe....invoking ANZUS alliance, "US Navy ships need help supporting 'world peace'."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 13, 2023, 05:51:38 PM: Quote from: luee on December 13, 2023, 02:09:40 PM
Brick and mortar retailers are suffering due to internet vendors. No gas and easy returns.

Cool, your post from 2005 finally showed up on the forum!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 13, 2023, 05:55:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 06:40:30 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2023, 05:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.

Britain is America's closest ally today.
You might think it's Mexico.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 13, 2023, 07:35:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 06:40:30 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2023, 05:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.

Britain is America's closest ally today.
You might think it's Mexico.

YouTube has concluded that you are a moron and an asshole so it feeds you accordingly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 13, 2023, 07:43:52 PM: Republicans in congress cannot do their jobs to pass legislation that funds our security priorities because they are grifter lowlifes and they need a broken border to get mental defectives like Luee over to their side.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 07:51:23 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 13, 2023, 07:35:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 06:40:30 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2023, 05:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.

Britain is America's closest ally today.
You might think it's Mexico.

YouTube has concluded that you are a moron and an asshole so it feeds you accordingly.

YouTube loves me as a paying customer...internet access.
Youtubers love me subscribing to their channels and clicking "like" on their videos, earning them money.
In return they entertain and inform/educate me.
Hooray for Youtube.
Yesterday on Youtube I learnt that middle class America has basically ditched EVs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 13, 2023, 08:57:20 PM: Ayers Rock has reopened so Bambu can reschedule his Attestupa appointment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 13, 2023, 09:07:08 PM: Aettestupa ritual.

https://youtu.be/DwD7f5ZWhAk?si=k9LRY_HnvA7Lx10Q

Somewhat Pythonesque series.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 10:25:13 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2023, 08:57:20 PM
Ayers Rock has reopened so Bambu can reschedule his Attestupa appointment.

LOL

"The Gap" is closer. [Ocean cliff in Sydney]

We're trying to stop people from dying there...not encouraging them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 10:27:30 PM: aleteia. dot com

"Always remember the power of the simple smile, a helping hand, a listening ear and a kind word," advised Don Ritchie.
Where there's life, there's hope. Few people knew that truth more intimately than Don Ritchie.

Ritchie is credited for saving the lives of hundreds of would-be jumpers at a dangerous seaside cliff in Australia, simply by inviting them into his home nearby for
tea and conversation.

When he died in 2012 at the age of 85, family said that he'd saved some 500 people from suicide, though the official count is 160. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, and was named Australia's Local Hero for 2011.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 13, 2023, 11:22:34 PM: We need to flood the libraries in the Philippines with all of the Greek stuff, Aristotle, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euclid, etc.

And it is sexy when the women from the Philippines dress like the Greeks, and everyone loves sandals. And a good Toga Party is always nice.

We also need to invite the Greek architects to build in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and in other parts of the USA, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.

The USA was built on the foundation provided by Athens and Rome, and we need to teach our people about Athens and Rome.

And we need lots of libraries, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 05:54:34 AM: Australia supply a warship to the Red Sea as requested by the US?
Very unlikely...might happen but there is much doubt it today...the Far Left 'Albanese' federal govt is being accused of caring more about protecting votes in its electorates than protecting shipping in the Red Sea from terrorists and their enablers.

Guess who live in Albo's electorate and the Leftist Labor-held electorates in SW and W Sydney?
Clue...not Jews [might be a few].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 06:04:49 AM: Damn the "climate change emergency" brigade!
Damn the "renewables now" brigade!

My electricity went off today for 2 hours, as my dinner was cooking.
No tv, no tablets...they are WiFi only.
My cell phone was flat.
No lights.
It's official...I now live in a far-left run basket case backwater.

Long live coal-fired power stations!
Long live gas-fired power stations!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 14, 2023, 11:45:34 AM: Your power failure was not caused by renewables. Outtages are usually a result of grid problems.

I liked the cliff story, btw. The tea and sympathy guy understood a basic truth - a lot of jumpers are very alone in their lives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 01:51:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 14, 2023, 11:45:34 AM
Your power failure was not caused by renewables. Outtages are usually a result of grid problems.

I liked the cliff story, btw. The tea and sympathy guy understood a basic truth - a lot of jumpers are very alone in their lives.

They're closing the coal-fired power stations before they have viable alternatives.
Hot day yesterday, 105 F "don't use air conditioners, dishwashers, especially between 5 and 9pm".
They left us without enough capacity, they closed the big one, the Liddell power station. The People, "the great unwashed who are stoopid and don't know anything" told them not to, that it was a crazy thing to do...but no, their blind hatred of coal/fossil fuels and blind love of "net zero" saw them do it.
Their electoral fear of the "climate change emergency" brigade also played a part.

They're also blind crazy by importing hundreds of thousands of migrants too many in their race to "big Australia, and in the process overloading infrastructure....all infrastructure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 14, 2023, 02:03:58 PM: Scummo scuttled grid investment and renewable rollout to your great delight. Sweat in the dark a bit as penance.

Greta and Al warned you your shit would not hold up. Now it is failing and everyone knows why.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 02:15:33 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 14, 2023, 02:03:58 PM
Scummo scuttled grid investment and renewable rollout to your great delight. Sweat in the dark a bit as penance.

Greta and Al warned you your shit would not hold up. Now it is failing and everyone knows why.

China is building two new coal-fired power stations every week....importing coal from Australia to burn in them.
Yes, stoopid Australia...electricity prices to the People soaring, paying for expensive renewables *no one* wants...while the Chinese People have cheap electricity using Australian coal.

Australia has 400 years of coal and 200 years of gas...or something...there should be sensible transition to renewables, which without nuclear will be a dismal failure anyway.

Hopefully Barbie is screaming with outrage today because her hairdryer didn't work, her dinner was cold, she was sitting in the dark, her tv didn't work, and she couldn't charge her phone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 03:17:07 PM: US Congress has approved the AUKUS pact nuclear submarine deal that will see Australia start gettting the submarines in 2030.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 03:54:14 PM: In the Daily Telegraph today there are photos of Hamas terrorists in Gaza surrendering, hands in the air holding guns.
It was Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel 10/7 and committed unpeakable horrors on Jewish women and girls, including with knives.

Should put photos of all that on the 6 o'clock news in US / world.
People seeing that might not be so willing to support Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 14, 2023, 04:00:10 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 06:40:30 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 13, 2023, 05:55:03 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 13, 2023, 11:12:33 AM

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.

Britain is America's closest ally today.
You might think it's Mexico.

Harry and Meghan live here in California.

Princess Diana was going to live next door to Olivia Newton John in Malibu, I was looking forward to drinking margaritas with Princess Diana, the people in Malibu were excited to have her as a neighbor, it was sad when she died, may she rest in peace.

But meanwhile, Mexico is our neighbor, like Canada, and we have to be good allies and friends, Mexico is only 100 miles away from here in Anaheim. And if the British were wise then they would expand trade with Mexico and with Latin America.

Also of note, Kiwanis International has a Village in Victoria, Canada, for the refugees from Ukraine, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 14, 2023, 04:29:29 PM: It would be nice if Meghan and Harry could make an official visit to Mexico to visit the orphans and to improve relations and trade between England and Mexico. Meghan and Harry can tour Mexico with Salma Hayek and with her Husband. And they can visit Acapulco where the hurricane just devastated the region and they can give money to Acapulco to help in the disaster relief. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 05:10:12 PM: It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Maybe they could move in with Salma.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 14, 2023, 05:54:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 05:10:12 PM
It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Maybe they could move in with Salma.

If Princess Diana was alive then she would would traveling around the world helping the orphans and stuff, and she would probably have been doing charity work with us in Malibu. Back then one big organization was Project Angel Food and they were feeding the victims of the AIDS epidemic. Meghan and Harry can revitalize themselves by doing charity work and by helping orphans, etc.

The Mexican children love Princes and Princesses, and there is Disney with all of their Princes and Princesses, and there was "Roman Holiday" where Audrey Hepburn played a Princess, and Grace Kelly became a Princess and the world loved her ( I attended the same acting school as Princess Grace Kelly Grimaldi ), the world loves Royalty. And in the West our Stars are our Royalty, guys like Elvis were our Royalty, and Marlon Brando, etc, and Salma Hayek is Royalty in Mexico.

Meghan and Harry can revitalize themselves by doing charity work in Mexico, they can go help in Acapulco and they can visit the orphans, etc, and they can travel with Salma Hayek and her Husband. They can all revitalize themselves and help to make the world a better place.

Nothing can be gained by rubbing salt in the wounds, it is best to come clean and hit the re-start button and start doing charity work, etc. They can revitalize themselves by doing charity work. And in Hollywood it is all about "What are you doing now?" and "You are only as good as your last job." If they are helping the orphans today then people will forget about yesterday.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 14, 2023, 06:00:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 05:10:12 PM
It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Yes. And they are usually called racists who object to Harry mixing his inbred royal genes with someone... exotic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 06:33:45 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 14, 2023, 06:00:01 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 05:10:12 PM
It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Yes. And they are usually called racists who object to Harry mixing his inbred royal genes with someone... exotic.

Nah.
What they object to is not race, but behaviour, especially "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" routine Harry tried to pull on the Queen.
Sparkle's best friend said her aim was to "bag a Prince and rule the world."
Well she bagged a Prince, but she ain't gonna be ruling any world.
She just didn't understand the "pecking order", the manners required, household staff are not slaves and are not there to be treated as such, and the protocols, and the idea that her new life would be one of service.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 07:56:37 PM: How would a 2 State solution be/work in Palestine/Israel now?
It's been offered before.
It wouldn't be 'from the River to the Sea'?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 14, 2023, 08:53:56 PM: I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread. As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart. One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade. Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in. Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built. Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them). This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors? A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 14, 2023, 11:23:00 PM: Here ya go, luee!

The U.S. economy needs to put up the Help Wanted sign. With job openings at near-record highs and unemployment at near-record lows, labor shortages threaten to slow growth and raise prices. Fortunately, the Labor Department has a little-known tool that could prioritize immigration in occupations for which there are insufficient numbers of U.S. workers to fill jobs. This could be a game changer - so long as the Biden administration is willing to let data, and not interest groups, lead the way

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/14/labor-shortages-immigration-schedule-a/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 14, 2023, 11:43:43 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 14, 2023, 08:53:56 PM
I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread. As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart. One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade. Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in. Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built. Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them). This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors? A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.
It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt, imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 14, 2023, 11:54:36 PM: A permanent ceasefire and then two states is now being hailed as the solution...by politicians worldwide.

Ideally Palestine would be one section of the area, not two or three with Israel in the middle

Palestine can't really expect to have all the coastline...so how does it all get divided up?
Half the coastline each?

Then what about Jerusalem?
What about the Golan Heights, where terrorists had a perfect place from which to fire on Israel and Israel grabbed control of in one of the wars?
Palestinians want 'from the River to the Sea', all of it?

Looking at the map,
The whole area is small. Only 44 miles from Tel Aviv to Gaza.

A high speed train runs between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...takes 34 minutes.

2 million Arab Palestinians.
7 million Jews.
Some Christians.

Those dividing it all up in the Two State Solution...will need the wisdom of Solomon and then some.

What happens if the Palestinians want all of Palestine for themselves, no Jews, no Israel?

There are many questions to be answered and many decisions to be made.
Looks like 1948 revisited.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 02:13:27 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 14, 2023, 11:43:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 14, 2023, 08:53:56 PM
I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread. As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart. One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade. Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in. Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built. Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them). This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors? A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.
It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt, imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.

Thank you for this clear and valuable information.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 03:40:16 AM: 7.40
Fri night in bambuword.

SKY NEWS headline

"West Shuns Israel In Its Hour Of Need"

#####

Sure seems to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 15, 2023, 10:02:47 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 14, 2023, 11:43:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 14, 2023, 08:53:56 PM
I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread. As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart. One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade. Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in. Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built. Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them). This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors? A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.
It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt, imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.

Again, sneezing from all the straw men.

You seem to not grasp that I have already and repeatedly acknowledged that Hamas is a militant thugocracy. You have listed a set of facts, as I did, but seem to be spinning them in a way that implies Israel is some wronged innocent in all this mess. Tearing Palestine into three separate chunks which lack access to each other for most citizens is part of what makes Hamas the destructive force that it is, and caused the splintering of an overall government of Palestine. The asymmetry in power between Israel and Palestine means that it is up to Israel to rectify this. I doubt they will, so the cycle of revenge and reprisal will continue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 15, 2023, 12:12:04 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 15, 2023, 10:02:47 AM
Again, sneezing from all the straw men.

You seem to not grasp that I have already and repeatedly acknowledged that Hamas is a militant thugocracy. You have listed a set of facts, as I did, but seem to be spinning them in a way that implies Israel is some wronged innocent in all this mess. Tearing Palestine into three separate chunks which lack access to each other for most citizens is part of what makes Hamas the destructive force that it is, and caused the splintering of an overall government of Palestine. The asymmetry in power between Israel and Palestine means that it is up to Israel to rectify this. I doubt they will, so the cycle of revenge and reprisal will continue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 15, 2023, 02:32:45 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 15, 2023, 10:02:47 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 14, 2023, 11:43:43 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 14, 2023, 08:53:56 PM
I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread. As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart. One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade. Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in. Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built. Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them). This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors? A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.
It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt, imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.

Again, sneezing from all the straw men.

You seem to not grasp that I have already and repeatedly acknowledged that Hamas is a militant thugocracy.
the entire planet of nations knows that.
Quote
You have listed a set of facts, as I did, but seem to be spinning them in a way that implies Israel is some wronged innocent in all this mess.
It is, the Arabs refuse to stop starting wars.
Quote
Tearing Palestine into three separate chunks which lack access to each other for most citizens is part of what makes Hamas the
destructive force that it is, and caused the splintering of an overall government of Palestine.
The Arabs
and the Muslim Brotherhood did that

Quote
The asymmetry in power between Israel and Palestine means that it is up to Israel to rectify this. I doubt they will, so the cycle of revenge and reprisal will continue.

Israel is living proof that Jews and Arabs can coexist.
What is ruining Gaza and the Palestinians is Hamas.
Israel is simply defending itself from the Hamas butchery that is the cause all the Palestinian deaths
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 15, 2023, 03:06:21 PM: Red gets this from The New Hungarian Guide to History translated into racist pig speak by JD Vance, forward by career diplomat George Santos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 03:26:03 PM: Can anyone here suggest a two state solution that would work ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2023, 03:33:15 PM: What is your solution? Other than using nuclear weapons?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 04:16:02 PM: Sky News:

Boston mayor defends decision to hold Christmas party for "people of color".

#####

All good.
But imagine the hoo ha if one held a Christmas party for "white people".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 15, 2023, 04:32:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 04:16:02 PM
Sky News:

Boston mayor defends decision to hold Christmas party for "people of color".

#####

All good.
But imagine the hoo ha if one held a Christmas party for "white people".
Like that has not happened in the past!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 15, 2023, 04:34:09 PM: Rudy Giuliani butt fucked in court!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-verdict-defamation-trial-georgia-election-workers/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 15, 2023, 05:39:49 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 15, 2023, 04:34:09 PM
Rudy Giuliani butt fucked in court!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-verdict-defamation-trial-georgia-election-workers/

Expect to see him trying to raise funds squeegeeing windshields at the foot of the Queensborough bridge.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 15, 2023, 05:58:11 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 15, 2023, 05:39:49 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on December 15, 2023, 04:34:09 PM
Rudy Giuliani butt fucked in court!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-verdict-defamation-trial-georgia-election-workers/

Expect to see him trying to raise funds squeegeeing windshields at the foot of the Queensborough bridge.

Ha!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 15, 2023, 07:10:18 PM: Yes, thumb up.

Maybe Four Seasons Total Landscaping has an opening for Rudy? Least they can so, given the free publicity he gave them a few years ago.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 15, 2023, 07:12:56 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2023, 03:33:15 PM
What is your solution? Other than using nuclear weapons?

Three hands went up in the room after the first question. Then were lowered after the second.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 15, 2023, 07:45:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2023, 03:33:15 PM
What is your solution? Other than using nuclear weapons?

I'm looking for people who know more about it all than I do to state what the solution is.
You have one?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 15, 2023, 07:56:13 PM: A good many of the two-state solutions have been designed by folks with Harvard degrees.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 15, 2023, 10:56:49 PM: Christina Pascucci

Re: the Biden administration in Israel this week - We must fight for humanity and prioritize protecting the innocent. What does that look like?

1. Bring all hostages home now.
2. America must do everything in its power to ensure those in Gaza have somewhere safe to go. We must collaborate with Arab nations on this immediately.
3. Everything possible must be done to protect innocent civilians and children.
4. Ensure that the new aid entering Gaza reaches those in need.
5. Destroy Hamas.

I was in Israel in late October when Hamas was firing rockets, and four were detonated above our heads. This continues. Hamas has proudly declared they will not stop until Jews are wiped off the Earth.

As Israel fights back, they must realize the hellish situation and desperation in Gaza created by this war will create further radicalization and extremism. That is one reason why their strategy in defeating Hamas is so critical.

Ultimately, we all want a path to peace. Palestinian and Israeli women marched for peace together in the days before the war. That spirit can lead the way, but first, the terrorists of Hamas must be defeated, the hostages released, and the civilian suffering ended.

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Kiwanis International is global, with operations in Egypt, and Kiwanis has a refugee Village in Victoria, Canada, Kiwanis can help.

Also the Muslim refugees can be essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, etc.

And Pope Francis will help however he can, Pope Francis is a wonderful Pope.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 16, 2023, 12:12:17 AM: If we support Kiwanis International to help the refugees, then we know the money will not go to terrorists. Kiwanis is legitimate.

Also, Catholic Charities are legitimate.

And UNICEF is legitimate.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 12:10:49 PM: Bill Maher on the segregated Christmas Party by Boston Mayor
Michelle Wu.
When you read the Mayor s comments on this and some of the other people who were for the segregated party, it is very through the looking glass.
We are still breaking barriers by making them?
We want to be a city where our identity is embraced.
My intention is that we can be a city that creates space for all kinds of communities to come together.
By saying some don't come.?
I do not get it .
It is hardly a coincidence Wu is a Harvard graduate and now we have looked underneath that rock.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM: Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 02:34:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Except of course none of which represent elected officials of government bodies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 16, 2023, 04:32:49 PM: Ah yes, voluntary segregation.
All good, if that's what people want...I do like everyone to be happy.

But then don't complain if a mayor in America holds a big "Christmas party for White heterosexual Christian Males only".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 16, 2023, 05:05:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 16, 2023, 04:32:49 PM
Ah yes, voluntary segregation.
All good, if that's what people want...I do like everyone to be happy.

But then don't complain if a mayor in America holds a big "Christmas party for White heterosexual Christian Males only".

It is called a republican coke orgy. It is a regular weekly event in conservative circles
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 16, 2023, 05:57:39 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Except of course none of which represent elected officials of government bodies.

I believe members of the black caucus have had other gatherings, which is why I included ethnic caucus on my list. Do you object to all Christmas parties in which members of a caucus gather?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 06:20:21 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Except of course none of which represent elected officials of government bodies.

I believe members of the black caucus have had other gatherings, which is why I included ethnic caucus on my list. Do you object to all Christmas parties in which members of a caucus gather?
Take a timeout. Breathe. Think.
Who are the members of a black caucus?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 16, 2023, 06:42:04 PM: Workplace Christmas parties...now there's a recipe for trouble if ever there was one.

After my 'lemon-squash' drinks were spiked by the macho-men group of my workplace, all White men, on a harbour cruise for staff and 'plus one's, I did what I wanted to do all along but didn't do in the name of 'team' and 'being sociable'...gave workplace Christmas parties a big miss forevermore.

I said nothing in the workplace the next day, but mrs bambu went off like a Saturn rocket at the boss [by phone]...named names, and complained bitterly.

I then crossed "Workplace Christmas parties" off my list, no matter the consequences.
"I'd love to attend the Christmas party, but my mother is very sick and I have to visit her.""My family is having its Christmas dinner that day, some leaving for overseas next day".
Any excuse, never went to another one anywhere.
*

Spike my drinks, I could kill someone, be killed, be maimed for life, have an accident and lose my licence, and be sued by the other driver, I having no insurance
because I was a drunk driver.
When the cops stop me for a sobriety test, and put the little device in front of my mouth for me to talk into, I like it to read "ZERO".

Cops stopped me the other day, on my way to the mall, red and blue lights flashing ahead, at their RBT [random breath testing] site they'd set up.
You have to pull over if the STOP POLICE sign is waved at you.
In a line the motorists are tested one by one.

"Good afternoon, driver...have you had anything to drink today"? says the nice policeman/woman.

"Please count to ten", into the meter.

"Thank you, you may leave when the other cars depart."

All very civilised. All very polite.
You have to pull over, you have to do the test, or else.
Or else they place you under arrest, charge you with high range drink driving and you lose your licence.

There's none of that "what crime have I committed" stuff that goes on in America...30 minute arguments roadside with motorists trying to get them to do sobriety tests,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 16, 2023, 08:30:05 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 06:20:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Except of course none of which represent elected officials of government bodies.

I believe members of the black caucus have had other gatherings, which is why I included ethnic caucus on my list. Do you object to all Christmas parties in which members of a caucus gather?
Take a timeout. Breathe. Think.
Who are the members of a black caucus?

Breathe. Think. Who are the members of a women's caucus? Who are the members of a LGBTQ caucus? A Muslim caucus? A caucus can be defined by any group that chooses to come together for special political goals affirmed by that group. Astonishingly, Blacks are one of those groups.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 10:50:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 08:30:05 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 06:20:21 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 16, 2023, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 16, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
Funny how we never hear Maher denouncing men's groups, women's groups, girls night out, poker night, prayer circles, ethnic caucuses and political groups, and literally hundreds of other social gatherings that are set up for a particular gender, ethnic, religious, or lifestyle group. He should get on that.
Except of course none of which represent elected officials of government bodies.

I believe members of the black caucus have had other gatherings, which is why I included ethnic caucus on my list. Do you object to all Christmas parties in which members of a caucus gather?
Take a timeout. Breathe. Think.
Who are the members of a black caucus?

Breathe. Think. Who are the members of a women's caucus? Who are the members of a LGBTQ caucus? A Muslim caucus? A caucus can be defined by any group that chooses to come together for special political goals affirmed by that group. Astonishingly, Blacks are one of those groups.

Astonishingly !

Now there is an adverb no one would associate with anything you said.
And never will.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 17, 2023, 02:54:36 AM: Red is trying to set the new record for aggressive self-owning.

Keep posting your losses, Red. It is usually good for a laugh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 17, 2023, 11:18:51 AM: Add sarcasm to the list of things Ward can't absorb from a written message.

Of course it's not astonishing. Answer my actual point, if you are able.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 17, 2023, 11:26:32 AM: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-latin-america-venezuela-ukraine-mexico-712d00c90114568fe8a1b5c9e26fdadd

GOP need to end political brinkmanship and come together with Dems on real solutions. Even a supporter of migrant rights like me can see that we need to help other countries develop a structure to absorb some of this massive flow of economic and political refugees.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 17, 2023, 03:26:05 PM: A guy stabbed and killed a guy on the train in Los Angeles, they said it was self defense and no charges were filed.

Also in the world, Musk is hanging out with the President of Italy, he is working on communications satellites for Italy, etc.

And here in Anaheim, the Walt Disney Company sent me a collector's edition print for their 100 year anniversary, the print was made special for their neighbors here in Anaheim. Disney is a great company, I would be willing to make movies and television shows for Disney anytime, Universal is my favorite movie studio, but Disney is a great company too, and Disneyland brings 50,000 tourists to Anaheim everyday to sell stuff to, we have an amazing economy thanks to Disneyland. And Disney is spending a lot more money here right now and in the future. Disney is great.

In Mexico, new high speed trains are up and running, and more are being built, and Mexico has also opened new airports, and Mexico is building new aqueducts for water, lots of investing is happening in Mexico.

In Colombia the money from the coffee is helping the people, they have many community programs that are funded by money from coffee. So, not only is the coffee great, but the money is doing great things in Colombia.

And I am trying to bring Sammy Hagar and Shakira together to help to make some new Beach Blanket Bingo movies in Malibu at Westward Beach, with all of the creative people in Malibu, the movies can be made on a low budget and everyone can have fun, they can show the movies on Netflix, or whatever. I also told Shakira about Universal Studios here in Hollywood and I told her it is a great place to make movies. And Charlie Benante and John Travolta were hanging out, and I told them to come make movies at Universal. Lots of great stuff can happen now that the strikes are over.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 17, 2023, 04:00:15 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 17, 2023, 11:18:51 AM
Add sarcasm to the list of things Ward can't absorb from a written message.

Of course it's not astonishing. Answer my actual point, if you are able.
You made no point.
When you do I will answer.
I am not holding my breath.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 17, 2023, 04:59:59 PM: At some point along the way red has fooled himself stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 17, 2023, 07:31:49 PM: The racist Harvard beat goes on.

The now-deleted Affinity Celebrations for Graduates page on the Harvard website boasts events for
Graduates with Disabilities Indigenous Graduates,
Latinix Graduates
LGBTQ+ Graduates,
Arab Graduates,
Black Graduates
Asian American

The list goes on, but of course the websites have been taken down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 17, 2023, 09:03:44 PM: Red continues his one creature war against literacy
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 18, 2023, 12:07:55 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 17, 2023, 07:31:49 PM
The racist Harvard beat goes on.

The now-deleted Affinity Celebrations for Graduates page on the Harvard website boasts events for
Graduates with Disabilities Indigenous Graduates,
Latinix Graduates
LGBTQ+ Graduates,
Arab Graduates,
Black Graduates
Asian American

The list goes on, but of course the websites have been taken down.

Nothing on that list for 'Jewish Graduates'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 18, 2023, 03:23:40 PM: Jews in America are arming themselves in record numbers.
They should form the JADM 'Jewish American Defence Militia', their best hope.
Should all vote Republican from now on.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 18, 2023, 03:35:49 PM: I will try to relay your suggestions. As you are famously someone who continuously self-circumcises, your words should carry a lot of weight.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2023, 04:03:00 PM: On the issue of Jews, today is Steven Spielberg's Birthday, he is awesome, when I worked at Universal our 2 main directors were Spielberg and Ron Howard. I watched Ron Howard as he was filming the movie "Apollo 13," it was great.

If I owned Universal right now, I would put Spielberg to work making a movie about the Trail Of Tears of the 5 Civilized Tribes including the Cherokee, I need to do a DNA test but my Mother said that I am part Cherokee, it would be great to get Spielberg to tell the story of the Trail of Tears on film.

I have a lot of good ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 18, 2023, 04:35:16 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2023, 04:03:00 PM
On the issue of Jews, today is Steven Spielberg's Birthday, he is awesome, when I worked at Universal our 2 main directors were Spielberg and Ron Howard. I watched Ron Howard as he was filming the movie "Apollo 13," it was great.

If I owned Universal right now, I would put Spielberg to work making a movie about the Trail Of Tears of the 5 Civilized Tribes including the Cherokee, I need to do a DNA test but my Mother said that I am part Cherokee, it would be great to get Spielberg to tell the story of the Trail of Tears on film.

I have a lot of good ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.

My family always told us we part Cherokee through an ancestor who married a Scotsman. When we did ancestry when it came to being part Cherokee?
Nope. Not one bit.

The revelation was my mothers father was not the Grandpa Percy we always heard about but a Jewish man!

No wonder I have always had an affinity for deli.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2023, 04:58:43 PM: Gold is at record high prices, which is great for Battle Mountain, Nevada, and other areas where they mine for Gold. Mexico, Colombia, etc, lots of places benefit from high Gold prices.

And in Battle Mountain, you can still buy land for $1,000 per acre. And when I was a cook at a casino in Battle Mountain then you could rent a mobile home for $100 per month in the trailer park. I lived in an awesome old travel trailer from the 1940s or so, it had amazing wood paneling on the inside.

Battle Mountain is a great spot for the homeless people and for the refugees, etc. And they can do trade with San Francisco, etc. There is a college in Elko for the people who wish to study.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2023, 05:09:06 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on December 18, 2023, 04:35:16 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 18, 2023, 04:03:00 PM
On the issue of Jews, today is Steven Spielberg's Birthday, he is awesome, when I worked at Universal our 2 main directors were Spielberg and Ron Howard. I watched Ron Howard as he was filming the movie "Apollo 13," it was great.

If I owned Universal right now, I would put Spielberg to work making a movie about the Trail Of Tears of the 5 Civilized Tribes including the Cherokee, I need to do a DNA test but my Mother said that I am part Cherokee, it would be great to get Spielberg to tell the story of the Trail of Tears on film.

I have a lot of good ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.

My family always told us we part Cherokee through an ancestor who married a Scotsman. When we did ancestry when it came to being part Cherokee?
Nope. Not one bit.

The revelation was my mothers father was not the Grandpa Percy we always heard about but a Jewish man!

No wonder I have always had an affinity for deli.

I look forward to doing the test. I was also told that my Great Grandfather was the Chief of Police of Denver, Colorado. I will eventually get around to doing the test. And I was told that we have French Royalty in our family tree who escaped to America during the French Revolution. I have Olive Skin so we will see. Some people have asked me if I am Italian or Middle Eastern, and I do not know, I need to do the test. I think I am French and Cherokee, etc, but I need to do the test and see.

Love Jewish deli! Beverly Hills has GREAT Jewish delis. And Aaron Spelling used to hang out at Canter's, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 18, 2023, 06:09:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 18, 2023, 03:35:49 PM
I will try to relay your suggestions. As you are famously someone who continuously self-circumcises, your words should carry a lot of weight.

They don't need my words, all they need to do is look around, which they obviously have done...why they're buying guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 19, 2023, 12:10:05 AM: Republicans do much better in prison than they do in office. Everyone knows this. Jews will do more to see that republicans go where they belong, behind bars, than they will do to help them get elected. The purify the blood shit helps seal the deal on that score in ways you will never understand.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 03:25:23 AM: Will Australia be sending a warship to the Red Sea as requested by the US?
No.
Why not?
Well, we just discovered, via Sky News, that Australia only has three...count them...1,2,3 ...modern warships , but said warships "would be vulnerable to destruction in the Red Sea if attacked by drones and missiles in numbers". -'Sky News contributor'.

Three warships, but only one deployable at any time, and that one is needed 'at home'...reportedly.

Australia sending more troops instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 02:20:41 PM: Jim Ladd died, so sad. I have such good memories from when he was on KMET, he did the Mighty Metal Hour, and then the Metal Shop, I heard a lot of great bands for the first time on Jim's radio show.

Then later when he was with KLOS we used to hang out on Jim's My Space page, and we used to post pictures while Jim played music, etc. It was awesome.

Rest in peace Jim, thanks for the great times listening to the radio. ( There is a character in my movie script that I wrote who is a dj like Jim Ladd, Jim was in my head as I was writing it. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 02:24:21 PM: I pray for Peace, hopefully Australia will not need to send any ships anywhere. And we can help Australia to build new ships.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2023, 02:43:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 03:25:23 AM
Will Australia be sending a warship to the Red Sea as requested by the US?
No.
Why not?
Well, we just discovered, via Sky News, that Australia only has three...count them...1,2,3 ...modern warships , but said warships "would be vulnerable to destruction in the Red Sea if attacked by drones and missiles in numbers". -'Sky News contributor'.
What the fuck do you idiots think a warship is FOR? If you are not willing to risk it you do not have a warship you have a large, uncomfortable yacht.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 03:58:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2023, 02:43:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 03:25:23 AM
Will Australia be sending a warship to the Red Sea as requested by the US?
No.
Why not?
Well, we just discovered, via Sky News, that Australia only has three...count them...1,2,3 ...modern warships , but said warships "would be vulnerable to destruction in the Red Sea if attacked by drones and missiles in numbers". -'Sky News contributor'.
What the fuck do you idiots think a warship is FOR? If you are not willing to risk it you do not have a warship you have a large, uncomfortable yacht.

Yes, but, there are top shelf warships and then there are bottom shelf warships...and ones on shelves in between.
US warships can defend themselves, and attack.
I don't know what my left/far left govt is doing...a statement attributed to it was on Sky News this morning...something about "not wanting to isolate Australia from the rest of the world" .

Where lies the truth?
. Bottom shelf warships?
. PC, 'not wanting to offend anyone' mumbo jumbo?

***

"Which is it,
do we lack the capability?
or do we lack the will?"
Why is the decision taking so long? We should be upfront and honest with our allies ( the US in
particular)."
- right wing Opposition Deputy Leader Sussan Ley
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 04:19:52 PM: Anaheim is a nice safe place, I am lucky. I have a nice apartment in a nice safe city, and Orange County is the 3rd safest county in California.

While it often seems so dangerous when I watch the news on television, it is nice and safe when I walk through the park to the market, etc. The people here are all friendly, even the homeless people have good manners and say "Please" and "Thank you" etc.We have polite homeless people. And we are doing more to help the homeless, and lots of new housing is being built.

The world may be a dangerous place, but I am lucky and we have a safe neighborhood. And Universal Studios is pretty close, I can get there on the train and subway, they have a subway station at Universal. And Disneyland is only 5 miles away. California is nice, I am blessed.

I want to manifest a good relationship with a beautiful woman, this is a nice apartment if the right woman could appreciate it. And I want a woman who knows how to use the new Apple computers and the new programs for writing, etc. It would be cool to have a girlfriend who I could write with, and stuff, that would be cool. And we can produce, etc.

And when I move from here, maybe I will move back to Malibu, we will see, I love Malibu. Even Paradise Cove Trailer Park is great. Latigo Beach is nice, and I lived in a nice gated community in West Malibu.

I also want to manifest a night club in Rome, and work at Cinecitta. And maybe a winery in Tuscany.

We need to all keep manifesting good stuff.

And we just need to get Putin locked in prison and the world could be a better place, I want to manifest an end to the Putin regime.

And Shakira is single. Who knows? God will send me a good woman, I just need to pray on it.

And Bambu, for Battle Ships, check out Newport News Ship Yard. We have shipbuilders who can build you ships, and they want the jobs. It is doing them a favor by hiring them.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 04:49:55 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 04:19:52 PM
Anaheim is a nice safe place, I am lucky. I have a nice apartment in a nice safe city, and Orange County is the 3rd safest county in California.

While it often seems so dangerous when I watch the news on television, it is nice and safe when I walk through the park to the market, etc. The people here are all friendly, even the homeless people have good manners and say "Please" and "Thank you" etc.We have polite homeless people. And we are doing more to help the homeless, and lots of new housing is being built.

The world may be a dangerous place, but I am lucky and we have a safe neighborhood. And Universal Studios is pretty close, I can get there on the train and subway, they have a subway station at Universal. And Disneyland is only 5 miles away. California is nice, I am blessed.

I want to manifest a good relationship with a beautiful woman, this is a nice apartment if the right woman could appreciate it. And I want a woman who knows how to use the new Apple computers and the new programs for writing, etc. It would be cool to have a girlfriend who I could write with, and stuff, that would be cool. And we can produce, etc.

And when I move from here, maybe I will move back to Malibu, we will see, I love Malibu. Even Paradise Cove Trailer Park is great. Latigo Beach is nice, and I lived in a nice gated community in West Malibu.

I also want to manifest a night club in Rome, and work at Cinecitta. And maybe a winery in Tuscany.

We need to all keep manifesting good stuff.

And we just need to get Putin locked in prison and the world could be a better place, I want to manifest an end to the Putin regime.

And Shakira is single. Who knows? God will send me a good woman, I just need to pray on it.

And Bambu, for Battle Ships, check out Newport News Ship Yard. We have shipbuilders who can build you ships, and they want the jobs. It is doing them a favor by hiring them.

Salute,

Tony V.

HMA [His Majesty's Australian] Ships, warships, have all just returned home, their tired crews met by cheering and tearing families, just in time for Christmas.

Mmm, I wouldn't like to be the one to tell them that "Christmas is cancelled", "the Red Sea calls".

defence dot gov dot au/news-events

The task group completed multiple activities with partner nations including Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2023, 05:37:32 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 04:19:52 PM

And Shakira is single. Who knows? God will send me a good woman, I just need to pray on it.

Salute,

Tony V.
I once again smell a TRO in your future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 08:12:04 PM: Tony,

God send you a good woman?
Why not?
He sent me one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 08:14:34 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 19, 2023, 02:24:21 PM
I pray for Peace, hopefully Australia will not need to send any ships anywhere. And we can help Australia to build new ships.

Salute,

Tony V.

You are, actually...underwater ships.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 12:34:50 AM: BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution insurrection clause and removed him from the states presidential primary ballot. Details: https://trib.al/0mdXjJ4

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That is it, Trump is out.

And yes Bambu, the Newport News Ship Yard will take care of Australia, we will set you up.

And yes, there was a football player, all he did was to announce that he wanted to date Taylor Swift and the next thing you know they are dating. I want to have dinner with Shakira, she is single, just a simple dinner for a start, she can see how nice I look in a suit. Dinner and a play at the AADA, or a movie, or something cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 02:40:12 AM: Bambu, we will build you all kinds of nice war ships and submarines, and I recommend that you buy some Aircraft Carriers.

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

With your Aircraft Carriers then we can sell you fighter planes, I recommend Modified F-104 Starfighters, and F-22 Raptors, and F-35 Lightenings, with Sidewinder Missiles, etc. We are selling F-16 Fighting Falcons to the Saudis and to others, but the F-104 Starfighter is a better Interceptor and Chase Plane, but you need to vector the thrust and you need to update everything on the F-104. Come to Edwards in California and we will show Australia all of the best fighter planes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:34:19 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 02:40:12 AM
Bambu, we will build you all kinds of nice war ships and submarines, and I recommend that you buy some Aircraft Carriers.

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

With your Aircraft Carriers then we can sell you fighter planes, I recommend Modified F-104 Starfighters, and F-22 Raptors, and F-35 Lightenings, with Sidewinder Missiles, etc. We are selling F-16 Fighting Falcons to the Saudis and to others, but the F-104 Starfighter is a better Interceptor and Chase Plane, but you need to vector the thrust and you need to update everything on the F-104. Come to Edwards in California and we will show Australia all of the best fighter planes.

Salute,

Tony V.

Australia not sending a warship...but here's an idea.
Houthi land is in plain sight...time light it up like the 4th July, see how willing it is to attack US ships, that's what's clearly happening...despite 'denials'....then.
US ships, commercial shipping, being fired on and hit [not US warships as they can defend themselves] by ballistic missiles.

Aussie ships would be 'firing million dollar missiles at drones'...or the like.
Houthis, back by Iran, time for more sanctions...are reportedly firing clusters of 14 drones, and ballistic missiles...not sure Oz warships could defend against that.

It's a warzone...wartime!...dead Aussie sailors floating on the Red Sea...not desired...especially over 'commercial shipping lanes'.
Smacks of 'Gallipoli'...lambs to the slaughter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM: Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 09:00:40 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM

Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Todaus top stories:.Cowardly Man Wets Self Over Grandiose Threat, Demands Nukes. Man Dog Confrontation Results in Mild Discomfort. But first, in today's weather, the sky's current blue condition is.expected to last through the New Year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 20, 2023, 10:50:22 AM: Houthis as a blowfish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 12:30:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 09:00:40 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM

Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Todaus top stories:.Cowardly Man Wets Self Over Grandiose Threat, Demands Nukes. Man Dog Confrontation Results in Mild Discomfort. But first, in today's weather, the sky's current blue condition is.expected to last through the New Year.

Just to be clear as you make light of the drone attacks.
U S Dense Secretary Austin says the missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades, and they will continue unless a global coalition unites to stop them.

10% of global trade moves through the Red Sea and already BP,and other firms, have stopped sending ships through the Red Sea because of the Houthi attacks.

Worse, the Houstis in Yemen are agents of Iran who is delighting in challenging Biden for his defense of Israel during an election cycle.

I am surprised you are not more informed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 12:42:08 PM: Hectoring Red is the best Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 20, 2023, 01:52:53 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 12:30:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 09:00:40 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM

Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Todaus top stories:.Cowardly Man Wets Self Over Grandiose Threat, Demands Nukes. Man Dog Confrontation Results in Mild Discomfort. But first, in today's weather, the sky's current blue condition is.expected to last through the New Year.

Just to be clear as you make light of the drone attacks.
U S Dense Secretary Austin says the missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades, and they will continue unless a global coalition unites to stop them.

10% of global trade moves through the Red Sea and already BP,and other firms, have stopped sending ships through the Red Sea because of the Houthi attacks.

Worse, the Houstis in Yemen are agents of Iran who is delighting in challenging Biden for his defense of Israel during an election cycle.

I am surprised you are not more informed.

Write to your representatives. Republicans went home showing far more incompetence than patriotism and failing to address any of the national priorities before slinking off without doing their jobs.

You point out one more way republicans are a dangerous menace not only to the American way of life but to the prosperity of the entire civilized world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 02:12:05 PM: Australia needs to invest in their Peace Corps, like the USA, and we need to all work together to promote peace in the world. We can have projects which provide food and water to the desperate, etc. And we can deal with problems when they are small, to prevent the big problems from happening.

Poverty is the father of revolution and crime, so we need to have projects in poor areas to teach them how to farm and grow food, and they can build acquaducts for water, etc.

And Mexico is building lots of new dams and acquaducts and high speed trains and new airports, etc, lots of great stuff is happening in Mexico.

Colombia is gaining traction from Coffee, with money going to education, etc.

Our Peace Corps can teach people how to read and write, and we can donate libraries, etc. And we can teach people how to farm, and how to make cheese, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 02:50:35 PM: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing heavy fighting in Sudan's Al Jazirah State and Darfur region. Since the outbreak of the war in April, more than 7M people have fled their homes. UNHCR continues to urge all parties to end the conflict: https://bit.ly/3NxXmA0

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7 Million people fled their homes in the Darfur region.

We need to have the Peace Corps to prevent these problems before they happen.

And we need to teach them how to farm and how to grow food, etc. Even Prickly Pear Cactus with scrambled eggs and tortillas and salsa, like the Mexicans eat.

We have the Peace Corps, and we have Kiwanis International, and we have UNICEF, and others, we need to teach people how to farm, and we need to teach people how to read and write and we need to donate libraries, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 20, 2023, 03:02:45 PM: The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4, or until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the case. Colorado officials say the issue must be settled by Jan. 5, the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. (AP)

Am sure Team Nikki is following this with some interest. If Colorado is affirmed, other states will follow, some of them key to any Trump EC victory.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 03:51:36 PM: Always share your ideas with people, and it may help people.

I met a scientist on the train who had the same degree that I have, he went to community college and he got his Associate in Arts Degree, and then he went to work as a research scientist, and he kept sending his ideas to people, and he became very successful, now he is rich and he lives on the Beach in a beautiful home with his beautiful wife, and he works as a research scientist for the University of California in Irvine. I rode the train with the scientist for 100 miles, and we talked the whole time, and he told me to keep sharing my ideas with people. Even just writing it on paper with a pen and mailing ideas to people, the main thing is to keep the ideas flowing to other people. Whenever I have a good idea then I try to share it.

And there are different ways of sharing ideas; poetry, movies, television shows, etc, are all ways of sharing ideas. And I attended the AADA after community college, and I worked for 1 year at Universal, etc, I learned a lot. The secret is to always keep the ideas flowing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 20, 2023, 04:29:13 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 19, 2023, 02:43:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 19, 2023, 03:25:23 AM
Will Australia be sending a warship to the Red Sea as requested by the US?
No.
Why not?
Well, we just discovered, via Sky News, that Australia only has three...count them...1,2,3 ...modern warships , but said warships "would be vulnerable to destruction in the Red Sea if attacked by drones and missiles in numbers". -'Sky News contributor'.
What the fuck do you idiots think a warship is FOR? If you are not willing to risk it you do not have a warship you have a large, uncomfortable yacht.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 05:12:52 PM: That's the problem with Australia, ...too peace-loving, too humanitarian, too nuclear non-proliferation, too climate change emergency, too trusting.
Now, it's awoken from its "she'll be right, mate" slumber of fantasy dreams to discover that "she's far from right", in fact things are very wrong.

The rush to 'renewables now' and stoopid govt policies because of it are sending businesses, people, and the country broke...not to mention the ruination of farmers and the landscape on land and sea.

Countries it perceived as friendly have turned out to be anything but.

It can't defend itself...no nukes.

It too, like Britain, was warned, ..but the "basket weavers", "tree huggers", "everyone in the world is a lovely person" crowd, thought they knew better.
Oh well, such is life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 05:26:04 PM: The Red Sea is basically a shooting gallery now.
Any ship going there is a sitting duck.
Any warship going there is sailing right into a WW2 style war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 06:20:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 05:26:04 PM
The Red Sea is basically a shooting gallery now.
Any ship going there is a sitting duck.
Any warship going there is sailing right into a WW2 style war.

No, we have the United Nations, and the Saudis have F-16 Fighting Falcons that we sold to them, and the Saudis want peace and business, they are into Golf now, etc.

Egypt wants to sell us cotton, and they want the tourists.

Europe can benefit by helping to keep the peace in the Red Sea.

And we need to send lots of priests and nuns and school teachers into the poorest areas, and we need to fully fund the charity groups such as Kiwanis. And we need to send more money to the Peace Corps, etc.

And we have UNICEF to help the children, we need to make sure that all of the children learn how to read and write.

We can have peace, but we need to make peace happen. And Mexico is going to be wonderful, lots of great stuff is happening in Mexico, we are not going to let the drug cartels ruin Mexico. The same with Colombia, we need schools, etc, and honest trade and tourism, etc. And Costa Rica is nice, it can all be nice like Costa Rica.

We can have peace. There is too much war in the world, the world needs wise old leaders who want peace and prosperity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 06:21:56 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 12:30:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 09:00:40 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM

Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Todaus top stories:.Cowardly Man Wets Self Over Grandiose Threat, Demands Nukes. Man Dog Confrontation Results in Mild Discomfort. But first, in today's weather, the sky's current blue condition is.expected to last through the New Year.

Just to be clear as you make light of....
Just to be clear i am making light of bambu's panicked, chicken little, sphincter clutching response to every security threat ever.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 06:42:05 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 12:42:08 PM
Hectoring Red is the best Red.
So take up your complaints with Biden and Austin. I am on their side.
You are not?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 06:46:38 PM: On January 10, 2024, the Government of Brazil (GOB) will reinstate a visa requirement for all U.S. nationals visiting Brazil, with an option for an e-visa for qualified applicants. Please share this information with family, friends, and colleagues who are planning to visit. Dec 13, 2023

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It is getting harder to travel. There are issues now with people who owe money on child support being able to travel, and also convicted criminals may have problems traveling, etc. And Brazil might keep gangster rappers out of Brazil, etc. It is interesting that Brazil wants to vet American travelers now.

I can still go to France, and Italy, without getting a visa in advance, I can just show up and spend 3 months in Rome without any forms, just with my Passport, and I can go to the Cannes Film Festival, etc. I want to go spend some time in Paris too.

I think we should send a diplomat to Brazil to try to work to prevent the requirement of a visa to travel to Brazil, I prefer freedom.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 20, 2023, 07:30:42 PM: Mike Godwin weighs in, on the original intent of his famous law of Internet discourse, and on why Hitler comparisons are not hyperbole when it comes to TFG.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/

PW free:

https://archive.is/eFCpf
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 07:33:33 PM: Warner Brothers and Paramount want to merge...

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-merger-talks-1235847958/

I vote NO.

Anti-trust / Anti-monopoly / Fair Trade rules need to apply.

I also do not like for the Japanese to own our studios.

And if I was going to do some merging, I would have Universal buy Playboy and I would make television shows for the Playboy Channel, etc, including making the Slocum Westerns as a series for the Playboy Channel, etc. And I would hire some young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard to save Playboy Magazine.

If I was rich like Carlos Slim, then I would buy Universal Studios and then I would have Universal buy Playboy and re-start the Playboy Channel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 07:46:11 PM: Disney is getting involved with Sports Gambling, with ESPN, etc.

Universal might as well buy Playboy and bring back the Playboy Channel for adults, along with saving the magazine with the help of some geniuses from National Lampoon.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 09:25:55 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 06:21:56 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 12:30:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on December 20, 2023, 09:00:40 AM
Quote from: bambu. on December 20, 2023, 06:40:30 AM

Youtube;

Houthis Warn To Turn Red Sea Into 'Graveyard' Over U.S.-led Naval Task Force; Attack Another Ship
Todaus top stories:.Cowardly Man Wets Self Over Grandiose Threat, Demands Nukes. Man Dog Confrontation Results in Mild Discomfort. But first, in today's weather, the sky's current blue condition is.expected to last through the New Year.

Just to be clear as you make light of....
Just to be clear i am making light of bambu's panicked, chicken little, sphincter clutching response to every security threat ever.

LOL

Seems the Pentagon is also panicking...it's reportedly going to give Joe authority for a "big hit" on the Houthis.
USS Carney is being fired upon...that'd be enough for me, I'd be turning the home of the Houthis into ash.
Well, bomb their ability to make war first, and see what result that brought.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 20, 2023, 09:40:50 PM: Joe gives the pentagon authority. No one would give any authority to you. You are a fucking maniac.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 20, 2023, 09:59:43 PM: There is a song "In the Ghetto" by Elvis, and it always made me cry as a kid, the song touches me, and the world has changed and we no longer have to tolerate horrible conditions in our ghettos, we can build libraries, and schools, and coffee shops, and we can give everything a fresh coat of paint, etc, we can clean things up in the ghettos, and we can reach the children when they are young and we can save the children, they can have good lives.

We need for Biden and Harris to help the people in our ghettos, and we need to erase the ghettos and transform the areas. And we can bring in the Mexicans and the Chinese and the refugees from Ukraine, and from Russia, and we can wash everything and give the ghettos a fresh new coat of paint, etc.

And we are growing lots of fresh winter vegetables now for the people in the ghettos, we can send them good fresh healthy food from Arizona, etc, there can be lots of spinach for the people in the ghettos, etc.

Of note too, we have poor homeless people who know how to read and write who could help to teach other people how to read and write, we can pay the homeless people to teach other people how to read and write, etc.

And we can give the ghettos redevelopment money, etc, and business loans, etc.

America will be kinder and gentler if we can transform our ghettos.

And of course we need to build schools and libraries in the poorest parts of Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 10:18:40 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 12:42:08 PM
Hectoring Red is the best Red.
So take up your complaints with Biden and Austin. I am on their side.
You are not?
Adding hectoring to the list
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 03:10:56 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on December 20, 2023, 09:40:50 PM
Joe gives the pentagon authority. No one would give any authority to you. You are a fucking maniac.

Anyway, looks like US is gonna big-whack the Houthis.
It's really the only way to stop them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 04:15:36 AM: Sky News:

'China celebrates Australia's decision not to send a warship to Red Sea".
No surprise.

This no suitable ship debacle is a national embarrassment.
The People have red faces and believe that the US could be seriously offended that its request has not been met, and give Australia a big miss now.

And right on Christmas too.

PS:

The People's already red faces of embarrassment turned bright red when their Leftist Defence Minister, with a straight face said :
"We won't be sending a warship to the Red Sea, but will be tripling our military personnel, from 5 to 16 (in the office in Bahrain)."

Pity we didn't have the nuke powered subs yet.
We could've loaded them up with missiles and blown up Houthi land for the cause.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 08:03:34 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 10:18:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 12:42:08 PM
Hectoring Red is the best Red.
So take up your complaints with Biden and Austin. I am on their side.
You are not?
Adding hectoring to the list

Good for you.
Curing your fear of definitions phobia starts with admitting you have a problem.
Dial
1 MIS USE WORD
for help 24/7.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 21, 2023, 08:08:58 AM: Please do not be ashamed of your limited vocabulary.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 08:14:31 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 21, 2023, 08:08:58 AM
Please do not be ashamed of your limited vocabulary.
lol!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 21, 2023, 08:35:24 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 08:14:31 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 21, 2023, 08:08:58 AM
Please do not be ashamed of your limited vocabulary.
lol!
That is better. Go with what you know.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2023, 09:53:11 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 10:18:40 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on December 20, 2023, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 20, 2023, 12:42:08 PM
Hectoring Red is the best Red.
So take up your complaints with Biden and Austin. I am on their side.
You are not?
Adding hectoring to the list

Also binary thinking.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2023, 09:54:56 AM: On the Colorado decision, SCOTUS will need to consider this ruling which was penned by none other than Neil Gorsuch back in 2012 when he was a circuit judge on the appellate bench of the Tenth District. This ruling was cited by the Colorado Supreme Court in their ruling this week.

https://www.newsweek.com/neil-gorsuch-could-strike-death-knell-donald-trump-1853993
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 10:48:14 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2023, 09:54:56 AM
On the Colorado decision, SCOTUS will need to consider this ruling which was penned by none other than Neil Gorsuch back in 2012 when he was a circuit judge on the appellate bench of the Tenth District. This ruling was cited by the Colorado Supreme Court in their ruling this week.

https://www.newsweek.com/neil-gorsuch-could-strike-death-knell-donald-trump-1853993
Nothing Gorsuch wrote in the Hassan case would be contrary to his voting to overturn the Colorado decision.
Trump is eligible under the Constitution to run.
Hassan was not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 21, 2023, 12:12:07 PM: ...a states legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office....

- Neil Gorsuch

His words. There is a reason the Colorado court quoted him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 12:37:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2023, 12:12:07 PM
...a states legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office....

- Neil Gorsuch

His words. There is a reason the Colorado court quoted him.
How so?
Hassan was barred from running by the Constitution.
Trump is not.
permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office....
Yes Gorsuch said Colorado was constitutionally correct in banning Hassan.
The same cannot be said of Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 21, 2023, 01:08:42 PM: The same has been said of trump by multiple courts. That is why he will not be appearing on the ballot in Colorado and some of the fifteen other states in the process of erasing that shit stain from electoral politics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 03:48:32 PM: There is no such thing as an illegal human being, or an unwanted child, this Holiday Season we need for the Christians to show some love for the people who need the love. We need to help the orphans and the immigrants, and the homeless. My prayers are for the people who feel unwanted this Christmas, and I hope we can become a better nation next year.

We need to make our immigrants legal to bring them out of the shadows so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so that they can join labor unions, and we need to let them know they matter and that we all matter in America. We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did, and we need to write a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

And some of my favorite stars are the ones who feed the homeless during the Holidays, like Dick Van Dyke, Don Johnson, and Morgan Fairchild, there are a few stars who feed the homeless every Holiday season, may God bless them. And that is what I should be doing, I should go help to cook for the homeless this Christmas.

( And Universal Studios has given free gifts and a ticket to the park to some of the poor children in Los Angeles every year for the last 18 years on my Birthday in November, and I support that kind of stuff. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 03:59:45 PM: Daily Telegraph
Today...

Hamas leader thanks Australia in viral video

After getting the endorsement of China, Australia has received praise from Hamas in an unverified video --- prompting a clarification from the government.

The Albanese government has once again condemned Hamas for its attack on Israelis after the terror group appeared to praise Australia's position on the conflict.

A spokesman for Foreign Minister Penny Wong said "there can be no role for Hamas in the future governance of Gaza and Gaza must not be used as a future platform for terrorism" after an unverified video featuring Hamas deputy Ghazi Hamad was circulated on social media.

In the video being shared to X, formerly Twitter, Mr Hamad appeared to thank Australia, Canada and New Zealand, saying the countries had taken the "right" steps towards "isolating the fascist Israeli government".

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Well there you go.
Talk about misguided.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 04:25:46 PM: It's not like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand haven't been joining the US in patrolling the seas to keep trade routes open, etc.

Their HMAS, HMCS, and HMNZ [His Majesty's Ships] have only just returned to their home ports from the task group patrolling in the Indian Ocean, South China Sea etc.

The task group completed multiple activities with partner nations including Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Maybe the Red Sea war against Houthi terror at this time has to be fought by NATO countries joining the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 05:32:20 PM: The Saudis need to condemn the terrorism in the Red Sea, and we sent the Saudis some beautiful F-16 Fighting Falcons, and also the Saudis are into Golf now, etc, and they have Abu Dhabi and Dubai, they want peace now and money and trade.

Egypt also wants peace and trade, and they want to sell us cotton and they want tourism.

And money talks, and we are rich. The most important color is the color green when it comes to business and trade, the color of money is the only color that matters.

There are also the issues of food, shelter, education, water, etc.

And we need to fully fund the Peace Corps, and we need to support Kiwanis International, etc. And the Catholic Church can help, etc, and Pope Francis is a good Pope. And we have UNICEF and the United Nations, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 06:45:54 PM: It is important to teach the young people with parenting classes and we need to teach them healthy conflict resolution skills, etc. And what we teach people in school, and in jail, shows on the streets.

One time I was poor and I was living in a bad motel where lots of criminals and drug addicts and prostitutes lived, in Pasadena, California, and a man started screaming at his wife, and a domestic violence situation was unfolding, but there was a guy there who just got out of jail, and he studied healthy conflict resolution skills when he was in jail, they had a program in the jail to teach the prisoners, so this former prisoner used his new skills to prevent the domestic violence situation from happening. It turned out that what the situation was that they needed diapers for the baby but the wife spent money on cigarettes, so the husband was upset because they did not have diapers for the baby. The former prisoner diagnosed the problem, and then he went to the store and he bought diapers for the baby, and the whole situation was resolved by the new skills that a former prisoner was taught.

When we teach the students, and when we teach the prisoners, then you can see the results on the streets.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 21, 2023, 07:21:32 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on December 21, 2023, 12:37:36 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on December 21, 2023, 12:12:07 PM
...a states legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office....

- Neil Gorsuch

His words. There is a reason the Colorado court quoted him.
How so?
Hassan was barred from running by the Constitution.
Trump is not.
permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office....
Yes Gorsuch said Colorado was constitutionally correct in banning Hassan.
The same cannot be said of Trump.

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States,shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 09:47:49 PM: Someone needs to plan the Oscar Parties, Elton John retired, and Norby Walters no longer does Night of 100 Stars, we need for people to plan new parties in Hollywood on Oscar Night for the stars.

I recommend having a party at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, with an outdoor party and outdoor bar at MacArthur Park, and they can have the best chefs, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers and other local bands can play, the stars can all party and eat and dance and then they can sleep in the rooms at the Park Plaza Hotel.

The Cedar Street Theatre in Lancaster can help to plan and throw the party, just ask them. And the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce might be able to help. And maybe Mayor Bass can help. Certainly people can step forward to plan and throw the Oscar Parties here in Hollywood on Oscar Night.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 10:58:43 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 06:45:54 PM
It is important to teach the young people with parenting classes and we need to teach them healthy conflict resolution skills, etc. And what we teach people in school, and in jail, shows on the streets.

One time I was poor and I was living in a bad motel where lots of criminals and drug addicts and prostitutes lived, in Pasadena, California, and a man started screaming at his wife, and a domestic violence situation was unfolding, but there was a guy there who just got out of jail, and he studied healthy conflict resolution skills when he was in jail, they had a program in the jail to teach the prisoners, so this former prisoner used his new skills to prevent the domestic violence situation from happening. It turned out that what the situation was that they needed diapers for the baby but the wife spent money on cigarettes, so the husband was upset because they did not have diapers for the baby. The former prisoner diagnosed the problem, and then he went to the store and he bought diapers for the baby, and the whole situation was resolved by the new skills that a former prisoner was taught.

When we teach the students, and when we teach the prisoners, then you can see the results on the streets.

Salute,

Tony V.

Starting with:

"One punch can kill".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 11:46:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 21, 2023, 10:58:43 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 21, 2023, 06:45:54 PM
It is important to teach the young people with parenting classes and we need to teach them healthy conflict resolution skills, etc. And what we teach people in school, and in jail, shows on the streets.

One time I was poor and I was living in a bad motel where lots of criminals and drug addicts and prostitutes lived, in Pasadena, California, and a man started screaming at his wife, and a domestic violence situation was unfolding, but there was a guy there who just got out of jail, and he studied healthy conflict resolution skills when he was in jail, they had a program in the jail to teach the prisoners, so this former prisoner used his new skills to prevent the domestic violence situation from happening. It turned out that what the situation was that they needed diapers for the baby but the wife spent money on cigarettes, so the husband was upset because they did not have diapers for the baby. The former prisoner diagnosed the problem, and then he went to the store and he bought diapers for the baby, and the whole situation was resolved by the new skills that a former prisoner was taught.

When we teach the students, and when we teach the prisoners, then you can see the results on the streets.

Salute,

Tony V.

Starting with:

"One punch can kill".

Yes, and recently on the train a guy started a fight and he punched another man, and the man pulled out a knife and he stabbed and killed the man who punched him, and no charges were filed because it was self defense. If you punch someone, then they can pull out a knife and stab and kill you and no charges will be filed, it is all self defense. So, when someone punches someone, they need to be aware that they can be stabbed and killed legally for punching someone.

I want to have a beautiful wife who carries a gun in her purse, like my Grandmother used to do when I was a child, I was always safe because Grandma had a gun in her purse.

And I want to be able to ride in the back of a Rolls Royce like Zsa Zsa Gabor instead of riding the trains.

Trump has a plane with his name on it, some people get very wealthy in the USA and they have protection and good lives.

It is hard to be poor in the USA, and that is why we all work and study so hard to achieve success. And I am a good man, I just need a good woman to help me. I used to work for Suzanne Pleshette and it would be great to have a good girlfriend and future wife who is cool like Suzanne Pleshette was, and there is Shakira and she is single right now, I would love to date Shakira. Shakira and I could help to plan an Oscar party at the Park Plaza Hotel and at MacArthur Park on Oscar Night, with the help of the Cedar Street Theatre, and with the help of Mayor Bass, and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. And I want a woman who wants to write and produce movies and televisions shows, and who might be interested in owning Universal Studios, and maybe buying Playboy and revamping the magazine and bringing back the Playboy Channel. We will see what happens. I am a good man, and God will send me a helper, he will send me a wife, I am sure of it.

And yes, we need to teach our children to be ladies and gentlemen, they cannot just go around punching each other, and in the Entertainment Industry if you punch Spielberg then that is it and your career is over, one punch to Spielberg and you will never work again. You cannot just go around punching people.

On the issue of healthy conflict resolution skills, you can teach the subject to students for a whole semester, you can make a whole class out of it, along with teaching healthy communication, and good parenting skills, and relationship skills, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 22, 2023, 02:30:04 AM: Youtube video:

"Candace Owens destroys woke audience with hard facts!"

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Go Candace!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on December 22, 2023, 09:40:21 AM: Quote from: bambu. on December 22, 2023, 02:30:04 AM
Youtube video:

"Candace Owens destroys ~~woke audience~~ straw man with ~~hard facts~~ subjective opinions presented as if they were objective facts!"

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Go Candace!
FIFY. And I do not need to see the video to know that is accurate. "Candace Owens" was sufficient.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 22, 2023, 03:09:53 PM: This is the person who claimed the Apollo moon landings were faked. As the food warning labels put it: May contain traces of nut.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2023, 03:18:11 PM: Some people internalize circumstances, and some people look outward and externalize circumstances.

Some people take personal responsibility for their lives, and some people blame the world for their problems.

So, we have 50,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, and some of them blame themselves for their circumstances, and some blame other people. We can do a lot for peace in the world if we do like Jesus asked us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46, and if we help the homeless people, and then the homeless people will remember the good people who helped them, instead of being angry at the people who forced them to be homeless on the streets.

I met a Deaf man at Union Station in Los Angeles and he told me that if ends up homeless again that he is going to start killing people, he is going to fight if he ends up homeless again, he is externalizing the circumstances instead of blaming himself.

Guys like Bill Gates could benefit from helping the homeless, so the homeless do not blame Bill Gates for their circumstances.

Some people are sitting out there in the cold on the streets hungry and they are externalizing it and they are blaming other people for their circumstances, and society can benefit by lending them a helping hand and winning them over for the good side, instead of leaving them out there on the streets cold, hungry, and angry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on December 22, 2023, 08:22:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2023, 03:18:11 PM
Some people internalize circumstances, and some people look outward and externalize circumstances.

Some people take personal responsibility for their lives, and some people blame the world for their problems.

I try to hit a happy medium. If my train is three hours late, I blame the railroad and/or nature. If I, while waiting those three hours, eat four bags of stale vending machine peanuts and feel ill, I blame myself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 23, 2023, 05:20:01 AM: Quote from: Karl Barx on December 22, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2023, 03:18:11 PM
Some people internalize circumstances, and some people look outward and externalize circumstances.

Some people take personal responsibility for their lives, and some people blame the world for their problems.

I try to hit a happy medium. If my train is three hours late, I blame the railroad and/or nature. If I, while waiting those three hours, eat four bags of stale vending machine peanuts and feel ill, I blame myself.

I would blame the 'vending machine' for selling stale peanuts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 23, 2023, 05:16:23 PM: Instead of the things pro-Palestine supporters / marchers / protesters are shouting...they should be shouting :

"DEATH TO HAMAS"

Hamas started this war, with its unspeakable-atrocities attacks on Jewish citizens in Israel.
That's why Gaza is being bombed and invaded by the Israeli military (Hamas is destroying Israeli tanks/military vehicles.)
Israeli soldiers are dying on the battlefield trying to rid the landscape of Hamas terrorists/rapists/dismemberers/kidnappers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 24, 2023, 03:51:23 PM: Council Member Lopez was working hard in Detroit to make it nice so that people would return to Detroit, and she welcomed the Mexicans from the border to come to Detroit.

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Detroit experienced White Flight after the Black riots, the Whites all left, here is a passage from Wikipedia..

"The white population of the city peaked in 1950 and then steadily declined due to white flight and net emigration through 2010. The white population fell 95% between the 1950 and 2010 censuses, as whites who often still worked in the city moved to the surrounding suburbs."

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We can send the refugees from Ukraine to Detroit to help to replenish the White population in Detroit, and also the Russians can move to Detroit.

Along with the Mexicans, and Chinese, etc. Detroit has a strong Mexican Population, and they can have a China Town in Detroit.

Of note, there are many people in Detroit from Poland, and the refugees from Poland are always welcome in Detroit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 24, 2023, 04:01:57 PM: Quote from: Karl Barx on December 22, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2023, 03:18:11 PM
Some people internalize circumstances, and some people look outward and externalize circumstances.

Some people take personal responsibility for their lives, and some people blame the world for their problems.

I try to hit a happy medium. If my train is three hours late, I blame the railroad and/or nature. If I, while waiting those three hours, eat four bags of stale vending machine peanuts and feel ill, I blame myself.

For the Deaf guy, if he did his best, and worked as hard as he could only to end up homeless in spite of his best effort to work and have a home, then he wanted to fight instead of blaming himself. If you do your best, but are disabled and so jobs are limited, and what if the factory you worked for was moved to another country? Who would you blame? The Deaf man told me that if he ends up homeless again then he is ready to fight.

But, now we have Mayor Bass helping the homeless people, so now the Deaf man would receive help, he would not have to fight, they would help him now, the environment changed, and Mayor Bass is helping the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 24, 2023, 04:31:50 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 24, 2023, 04:01:57 PM
Quote from: Karl Barx on December 22, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 22, 2023, 03:18:11 PM
Some people internalize circumstances, and some people look outward and externalize circumstances.

Some people take personal responsibility for their lives, and some people blame the world for their problems.

I try to hit a happy medium. If my train is three hours late, I blame the railroad and/or nature. If I, while waiting those three hours, eat four bags of stale vending machine peanuts and feel ill, I blame myself.

For the Deaf guy, if he did his best, and worked as hard as he could only to end up homeless in spite of his best effort to work and have a home, then he wanted to fight instead of blaming himself. If you do your best, but are disabled and so jobs are limited, and what if the factory you worked for was moved to another country? Who would you blame? The Deaf man told me that if he ends up homeless again then he is ready to fight.

But, now we have Mayor Bass helping the homeless people, so now the Deaf man would receive help, he would not have to fight, they would help him now, the environment changed, and Mayor Bass is helping the homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.

I would blame the govt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 26, 2023, 01:52:28 AM: Merry Christmas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 26, 2023, 02:13:32 AM: Ronald Reagan said that you can do great things as long as you do not care who gets the credit.

I would like to see a great Oscar Night Party happen at the Park Plaza Hotel, with an outdoor party and bar there at MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles. The stars can ride from Hollywood to Los Angeles in their Limousines. The Red Hot Chili Peppers can play at the party, and the stars can eat and drink and dance and party and then sleep in the rooms at the Park Plaza Hotel. And it is a great old Hotel, it is a cool spot for an Oscar Night Party.

I want to manifest a great party for the Oscars, with the best chefs, and great bands, and at a great location, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 26, 2023, 07:19:19 PM: Pizza Hut is laying off drivers instead of paying them the required $20 per hour, so I am not going to buy pizza from Pizza Hut, if they do not respect their workers then I do not want their food.

And we have guys here who own restaurants here in Anaheim who are feeding the children and they are feeding the homeless, etc, they are rich and they are doing charity work. There is no reason for Pizza Hut to be greedy, they need to pay their workers fair instead of being greedy. We have guys with restaurants who are making so much money that they are giving money away to charity, there is no reason not to pay the workers fair.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 26, 2023, 10:35:28 PM: As our population increases we need to build a lot of nice high speed trains, it is stupid to have highways with 30 lanes and even then the traffic is stuck, we need nice high speed trains and more subways, etc.

And we need to have a good police force to protect our trains and subways and metrolink trains, etc. We need to spend the money to have security on our trains, etc.

We are finally getting the high speed train between Las Vegas and Southern California thanks to Richard Branson and Bright Line.

And Mexico is building a lot of new trains, and new airports, etc, a lot of new investments are happening in Mexico. Mexico is going to be nice, they are working hard to improve Mexico. Mexico also needs to invest in their ports, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 04:57:16 PM: So now we discover what's really going on...it's
IRAN v USA

Daily Telegraph today...dailytelegraph dot com dot au

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the October attacks on Israel by Tehran-backed Hamas militants were in part a retaliation of the US killing in 2020 of a top Iranian commander,

Qasem Soleimani.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 27, 2023, 05:14:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 04:57:16 PM
So now we discover what's really going on...it's
IRAN v USA

Daily Telegraph today...dailytelegraph dot com dot au

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the October attacks on Israel by Tehran-backed Hamas militants were in part a retaliation of the US killing in 2020 of a top Iranian commander,

Qasem Soleimani.

Hamas/Hezbollah=Iran = Russia
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 05:27:28 PM: DT cont'd:

Iran, which supports Hamas financially and militarily, has hailed the deadly attacks as a "success" but denied any direct involvement.

"Undoubtedly, part of the great historic victory...is due to the efforts of General Qasem Soleimani", Ramesan Sharif, spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), said of the Hamas attacks.

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Well there you go.
No wonder luee doesn't like Iran.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on December 27, 2023, 05:37:06 PM: Well, it's a tangled web. Iran is also a prime benefactor of Assad, a great favorite of yours, (and Luee's) who likes to drop barrel bombs on women and children. But somehow Assad, remember supported by Iran, is a great protector of Christians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 06:03:46 PM: Speaking of Hezbollah:

DT today:

Aussie killed in Israeli airstrike 'was Hezbollah fighter'.

Hezbollah says one of two Australian brothers killed in an Israeli air strike in South Lebanon was one of its fighters.

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DT says DFAT(Dept of Foreign Affairs And Trade) in investigating.

DT names him, says he left Sydney a few years ago to get married, and the family in Australia were looking forward to welcoming his wife (with him) to Sydney soon. His wife was also killed in the air strike, reportedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 06:04:59 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on December 27, 2023, 05:37:06 PM
Well, it's a tangled web. Iran is also a prime benefactor of Assad, a great favorite of yours, (and Luee's) who likes to drop barrel bombs on women and children. But somehow Assad, remember supported by Iran, is a great protector of Christians.

Well that's what it seemed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 27, 2023, 06:30:30 PM: Also today DT reports that Erdogan, President of Turkey has said that Netanyahu is the same as Hitler.

Netanyahu lashed out at Erdogan's remarks.

"Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us, Netanyahu said in a statement.

377 comments by readers....on these articles...is a 'war' too.

One comment praises Trump admin for putting Iran out of business with its Abraham Accord...and criticizes Biden Admin for not doing the same...putting Iran out of business.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 28, 2023, 04:32:53 PM: Greece has to stay strong because of threats that Turkey has posed, and there are issues on the island of Cyprus, pity, Cyprus seems like such a beautiful place, they need to have peace on Cyprus.

The Abraham Accord was wise, and it went beyond all of the problems back to when Abraham was the father of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, before we split up. And the Saudis love Ivanka Trump. The Trumps were able to accomplish a lot in Saudi Arabia. We should send Ivanka to the Middle East right now, Biden needs to enlist the help of Ivanka in the Middle East. The same way that Dennis Rodman can help with the Rocket Man.

And Turkey is poor like Mexico, they wanted to join the European Union and they wanted to expand trade and tourism.

I made a student film with a filmmaker who wanted to open a movie and television studio in Ankara, Turkey, to make films and television shows for the Arabs, he was cool, his favorite filmmaker was Spielberg. We need for the good people in Turkey to rise up and to make the peace.

Meanwhile, I think the USA sells weapons to both Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as well as to Greece, I think they are all getting Fighter Planes from the USA, etc. I think they are all flying American F-16 Fighter Planes.

I hope we can have peace in the New Year, Putin needs to go to prison in Guantanamo Bay, and Israel must stop Hamas.

On the issue of Iran, we have 1 million Persians here in Los Angeles, they are all coming here from Iran, they are also going to France, France has lots of Persians. We need to make peace with the good Persians. And Mahlagha Jaberi can help with the Persians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 28, 2023, 05:08:42 PM: Los Angeles is building a great relationship with Japan, and Los Angeles just spent over $1 Billion to acquire the top 2 Japanese Baseball Players to come play for the Dodgers, and they are saying that all of the Dodger games are going to be broadcast for the Japanese. Japan also owns the Sony Studio, etc.

I do not like the Japanese Business Model where they work hard then commit suicide when they get old, and I do not like how they work themselves to death. The Japanese need to learn from the Italians, and from the Mexicans, the Japanese need to slow down and enjoy life, and they need to drink the good red wine, and they need to cherish their old and wise people, and they need to help their poor. The Japanese also need to explore their Mental Health Issues and we need to reduce suicide among the Japanese.

The people from the Philippines are Asian, but they are also Roman Catholic, the Filipinos are cool like the Mexicans and like the Italians.

We need to teach the Japanese how to slow down, and how to surf, etc, and how to enjoy life, instead of just everything being about work and money. The California lifestyle can teach a lot to the Japanese.

There is a lot that we can teach to the Japanese.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 28, 2023, 05:51:13 PM: Israel has tossed into prison a young man who objects to fighting in the war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 28, 2023, 08:25:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on December 28, 2023, 05:51:13 PM
Israel has tossed into prison a young man who objects to fighting in the war.

I am Color Blind, so I could never serve in the Military, nor can I ever be a Cop, as I cannot see the color of cars and of clothing. It was hard as a Valet, I kept bringing the wrong car because I could not see the color of the car.

But, I can see at night, I am Nocturnal, and I work best on the Night Shift, etc, and the Military can have Special Forces of Color Blind people to operate at night under the cover of darkness, the Special Team can go in at night and save hostages, etc. There can be a new television show named "Nocturnal" and I sent the idea to UCI for them to run tests to see if my hypothesis is correct.

And as a father and husband I will be able to protect and defend my family. A neighbor in Malibu said that I made the whole neighborhood safer just by living there, the whole neighborhood was full of single women and they liked having a man in the neighborhood. But, we lived in a gated community, with cameras, and with motion detectors connected to lights, etc. And we had Dogs. Etc. Malibu is a great place to raise a family. Anaheim is nice, but not as nice as Malibu. We will see what the new year brings.

My friend Tom was a Combat Medic, he wanted to save people. He spent his whole life helping other people.

But, the world needs warrior angels, Israel needs warriors the same as a Native American Indian Tribe of the olden days. We need for Rome, Spain, the Pope, and the European Union to all become more powerful in the region, and Greece, etc. And we need for Greece to invest in the Philippines, the Filipinos would love to work for the Greeks.

And Italy is full of Filipinos working in the Vineyards and Orange Groves, etc, and Lemon Groves, etc, and Olive Orchards, etc.

I pray for peace in the new year. And we need to send Israel lots of equipment for Missile Defense, etc. And we can send Israel some more Apache Helicopters, etc. And we can send them some modified F-104 Starfighters with some Sidewinder Missiles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 28, 2023, 11:12:20 PM: Looking to get away? Camp Kennedy Meadows has you covered! These units are equipped with lights, heat,and propane fire pits. WiFi is available. Call for pricing and availability.

Located in Kennedy Meadows (760) 382-7971.

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Grumpy Bear's Retreat is a hang out for the scientists at China Lake, and the road is a fun curvy road and they drive there in their Corvettes and other sports cars.

It is also a good safe place to hide people, if someone from New York or Chicago or Miami needs to hide, then Kennedy Meadows is a great place to hide and they will never find whoever is trying to hide. Kennedy Meadows is a great place for people to hide. You can also get there in a helicopter, from the Inyokern Airport, etc.

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Guys from Paris, France, and from anywhere on earth can hide in Kennedy Meadows. Guys from Harlem can disappear and they can smoke pot at Kennedy Meadows. Guys from Bogota, and from Havana, and from Rome, and from Athens, and from Manila, and from other places, can hide in Kennedy Meadows and can meet to make the peace. They can also eat Magic Mushrooms. They smoke pot, they eat mushrooms, they eat cheeseburgers, they drink Canadian Beer, and Mexican Beer, and Margaritas, etc. The guys from Australia can hide in Kennedy Meadows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 29, 2023, 01:40:57 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 28, 2023, 08:25:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on December 28, 2023, 05:51:13 PM
Israel has tossed into prison a young man who objects to fighting in the war.

I am Color Blind, so I could never serve in the Military, nor can I ever be a Cop, as I cannot see the color of cars and of clothing. It was hard as a Valet, I kept bringing the wrong car because I could not see the color of the car.

But, I can see at night, I am Nocturnal, and I work best on the Night Shift, etc, and the Military can have Special Forces of Color Blind people to operate at night under the cover of darkness, the Special Team can go in at night and save hostages, etc. There can be a new television show named "Nocturnal" and I sent the idea to UCI for them to run tests to see if my hypothesis is correct.

And as a father and husband I will be able to protect and defend my family. A neighbor in Malibu said that I made the whole neighborhood safer just by living there, the whole neighborhood was full of single women and they liked having a man in the neighborhood. But, we lived in a gated community, with cameras, and with motion detectors connected to lights, etc. And we had Dogs. Etc. Malibu is a great place to raise a family. Anaheim is nice, but not as nice as Malibu. We will see what the new year brings.

My friend Tom was a Combat Medic, he wanted to save people. He spent his whole life helping other people.

But, the world needs warrior angels, Israel needs warriors the same as a Native American Indian Tribe of the olden days. We need for Rome, Spain, the Pope, and the European Union to all become more powerful in the region, and Greece, etc. And we need for Greece to invest in the Philippines, the Filipinos would love to work for the Greeks.

And Italy is full of Filipinos working in the Vineyards and Orange Groves, etc, and Lemon Groves, etc, and Olive Orchards, etc.

I pray for peace in the new year. And we need to send Israel lots of equipment for Missile Defense, etc. And we can send Israel some more Apache Helicopters, etc. And we can send them some modified F-104 Starfighters with some Sidewinder Missiles.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, absolute security protects absolutely.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 29, 2023, 04:44:17 PM: The waves are great at the beach right now, they are the best waves in 15 years, and so the news team was out there talking with the surfers, and there was a surfer wearing a Holden Caulfield hat, and it was 70 degrees and nice here in Southern California, it was not like a cold New York winter where you need a Holden Caulfield hat, he was secretly making a statement.

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

And for some reason "Catcher in the Rye" was never made into a film, though it remains a popular novel. The lady at the bookstore said it is still popular.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on December 29, 2023, 05:36:10 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 29, 2023, 04:44:17 PM
The waves are great at the beach right now, they are the best waves in 15 years, and so the news team was out there talking with the surfers, and there was a surfer wearing a Holden Caulfield hat, and it was 70 degrees and nice here in Southern California, it was not like a cold New York winter where you need a Holden Caulfield hat, he was secretly making a statement.

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

And for some reason "Catcher in the Rye" was never made into a film, though it remains a popular novel. The lady at the bookstore said it is still popular.

Salute,

Tony V.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/29/rogue-wave-ventura-california/72056173007/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 29, 2023, 07:47:01 PM: I gave up fighting 'the cruel sea' a long time ago.
Also 'cruel rivers', 'cruel lakes'.

Rogue waves.
Huge seas.
Floundering cruise ships.
Rip tides.
Flesh eating bacteria.
Killer creatures lurking in the waters.

All too uncomfortable for me.

Apparently, these days if you're comfortable, you're supposed to challenge yourself, break out of your comfort zone and be much happier in life when you've 'achieved more'.
But what if comfortable was your goal in life?.....eh?...what then?
Yes, comfortable should never be overrated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on December 30, 2023, 10:47:54 AM: Fighting back Prufrock quote. Urghnhh!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 30, 2023, 12:03:14 PM: 22 people have drowned in bambuworld in Dec.
The 'cruel sea', 'cruel floodwaters', 'cruel inland waterways' claim more lives.
Of particular concern is 'people aged over 45', according to authorities.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on December 30, 2023, 02:14:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on December 30, 2023, 10:47:54 AM
Fighting back Prufrock quote. Urghnhh!

Funny how the flatulence arrived even without the daring.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 30, 2023, 02:40:30 PM: International Monetary Fund

Digital trade, from software sales to streaming movies, plays a bigger role than ever in the global economy. The value of global trade in digitally delivered products rose to $3.82 trillion last year, accounting for a record 54 percent share of services trade. With an 8.1 percent average annual growth rate for almost two decades, it has outpaced other categories like goods.

Yet with many developing countries struggling to fully participate in digital trade, now is the time for policy reforms that promote inclusion, starting with retaining the current tariff-free environment. Read the IMF Blog: https://bit.ly/48e0I33

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One idea for growth in Streaming Services would be for Universal Studios to buy Playboy Magazine and to bring back the Playboy Channel, along with hiring brilliant young people from National Lampoon to write for the magazine, etc.

Also, they can make Latino movies in Bogota, Colombia. And they can make movies and television shows in Ankara, Turkey, for release in the Arab world, etc.

The Dodgers Baseball Team now has the top 2 Japanese Baseball Players in the world, so the Dodger games are going to be broadcast in Japan now, and we can market American products to the Japanese with commercials during the Dodger games, etc.

And new studios are being built in Las Vegas to create content for streaming, etc. Vegas also has sports betting, etc.

The strikes are over in Hollywood, and lots of new content can be created for streaming, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 30, 2023, 11:54:44 PM: [Australian]National Rugby League ['NRL'] ................[rugby League is already played in America, 'AMNRL', America played in the rugby league world cup], .......is going to play a double header blockbuster to start the Australian season... in Las Vegas! in early March 2024, televised to 90 million Americans, plus globally.
...including betting.

Brisbane Broncos V Sydney Roosters
Manly [Sydney] Sea Eagles V South Sydney Rabbitohs

Sydney Roosters play in red, white and blue. From Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, from Bondi, where the sun rises over the ocean and the Roosters crow.

17 players a side, 13 on the field at any one time, 4 on the bench, 8 interchanges allowed in the match, a player/s can be interchanged multiple times.

Think NFL, without helmets and pads, ball must always be passed backwards, can be kicked forward.
Drop the ball you lose possession.
When player is tackled he must rise to his feet immediately, place the ball on the ground then tap kick it back to his team., play continues for 6 tackles, then if still in possession that team has to hand the ball to the other team.

For a touchdown the ball must be 'forced' in the 'in-goal' area on the ground with hands or torso...for 4 points
A 'conversion' place kick can then be attempted to be kicked between the goalposts and over the crossbar, for 2 points. If the touchdown is scored near the sideline, then the conversion kick must be attempted from near the sideline etc.

Place kicks can be attempted if penalties are awarded...for 2 points.
Field goals, drop kicks, for 1 point can be attempted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2023, 12:18:25 AM: D telegraph;

Rise in anti-Semitism has Sydney Jewish residents scared to celebrate NYE

Jewish residents in Sydney's east say they are so concerned about being targeted in their own suburbs that they are avoiding going out to Bondi beach on New Year's Eve.

Some have told police and their local council they have felt "intimidated" in recent weeks by pro-Palestinian activists roaming their suburbs.

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It's a disgrace, but that's what Sydney and Australia have come to in 2003.

No guns allowed, so the Jewish folk are sitting ducks for intimidation, verbal abuse, and physical assault.
It's not only them, thugs are emboldened...as "everyone in the world is a lovely person" rules the wall-to-wall leftist landscape.
No one is safe.
No way I'd be going out on NYE anywhere.
I stopped going out on NYE 55 years ago...when I took then unmarried mrs bambu to the movies at Manly, Sydney seaside suburb...only to return to my car to find a large dent in the roof, filled up with sand, with a brick on top.
4.40pm NYE here now. My car is locked away in the garage, and team bambu [man, woman and pooch] are locked away in their villa...out of harm's way.
The 9pm and midnight fireworks on Sydney Harbour are televised live. Most of the vantage points are already full.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2023, 01:40:26 PM: It is good for public relations to have the Australian Rugby in Vegas, that is good.

And the Jews and Italians work together in New York and in Las Vegas, the Jews understand Business and have the money while the Italians provide muscle and labor, etc. That is how the USA was built, a lot of the USA was built by Jews and Italians.

I wish you all a great New Year. When I was a little kid my Mother always made New Year's Eve fun, she is a good person who tries to make the most of things and she tries to make life fun, and on New Year's Eve we would stay awake until Midnight and then we would bang pots and pans at Midnight to drive away the old year and to welcome the new year. But, as an adult New Year's Eve is not as fun. A local restaurant is having a steak and lobster feast for the local people in Anaheim, Chef Bruno is serving filet mignon and lobster to 500 people, I wish I had a date and could go, but I am poor, and I do not have a woman to go out to dinner with. Life is better when you are rich, the rich people in Anaheim are going to be dining with Chef Bruno for New Year's Eve.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on December 31, 2023, 04:52:09 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on December 31, 2023, 01:40:26 PM
It is good for public relations to have the Australian Rugby in Vegas, that is good.

And the Jews and Italians work together in New York and in Las Vegas, the Jews understand Business and have the money while the Italians provide muscle and labor, etc. That is how the USA was built, a lot of the USA was built by Jews and Italians.

I wish you all a great New Year. When I was a little kid my Mother always made New Year's Eve fun, she is a good person who tries to make the most of things and she tries to make life fun, and on New Year's Eve we would stay awake until Midnight and then we would bang pots and pans at Midnight to drive away the old year and to welcome the new year. But, as an adult New Year's Eve is not as fun. A local restaurant is having a steak and lobster feast for the local people in Anaheim, Chef Bruno is serving filet mignon and lobster to 500 people, I wish I had a date and could go, but I am poor, and I do not have a woman to go out to dinner with. Life is better when you are rich, the rich people in Anaheim are going to be dining with Chef Bruno for New Year's Eve.

Salute,

Tony V.

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to you, Tony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 01, 2024, 10:04:58 AM: Something funny about this paragraph from CNN describing effects of today's earthquake...

One video filmed in the city of Noto showed crates of eggplants spilled across the road. Parts of the street were flooded in shallow water, where fences, roofs and small shrubs had fallen down...

Eggplants, shrubs.....roofs. One of those seems orders of magnitude more significant.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 01, 2024, 06:51:08 PM: 106 years ago - December 12, 1917 - the first group of boys arrived at Father Flanagans new childrens home. Father Flanagan had decided to leave his work helping homeless men to concentrate on boys no one else wanted. Borrowing $90, he rented an old boarding house in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. He encouraged the homeless boys, many of whom lived in junkyards and railroad yards, to come and begin a new life in his home. Father Flanagans Home for Boys was a place where children received love and guidance without corporal punishment or verbal abuse. Within two weeks, more than 75 boys representing many different races and religions lived there. From these humble beginnings, Father Flanagan went on to change the way children were treated around the world. 106 years later, his legacy lives on thanks to the support of our incredible donors. #BoysTownSaves #savingchildrenhealingfamilies

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Boy's Town is great, and we also have Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, we can teach the people of El Salvador how to help their children so that the children do not become gang members or criminals. We can send Boy's Town and Homeboy Industries to teach the people in Latin America how to save the children from a life of crime.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 01, 2024, 07:52:57 PM: 2024 begins with some good news.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1222400537/israel-supreme-court-ruling-judiciary-changes

Keep marching!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM: Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

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Indeed, Mr Bolt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:26:27 AM: On my tv it was stated, backed up with video evidence...that Chicago is upset that a plane-load of undocumented immigrants from Texas arrived recently.

"Tow back the boats" is the only way to stop the flood of asylum seekers arriving at one's gates, islands, etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:16:00 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 01, 2024, 10:04:58 AM
Something funny about this paragraph from CNN describing effects of today's earthquake...

One video filmed in the city of Noto showed crates of eggplants spilled across the road. Parts of the street were flooded in shallow water, where fences, roofs and small shrubs had fallen down...

Eggplants, shrubs.....roofs. One of those seems orders of magnitude more significant.
The coverage of the Japan earthquake reminded me of.Claud Cockburn's winning entry among The (London) Times staff to create the most boring headline: Small Earthquake in Chile, Not Many Dead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:18:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM
Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

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Indeed, Mr Bolt.
One suspects that Mr. Bolt's real problem, and yours, is not the division of race and religion, but that his race and his religion no longer enjoy unquestioned dominance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 02, 2024, 10:27:29 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:16:00 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 01, 2024, 10:04:58 AM
Something funny about this paragraph from CNN describing effects of today's earthquake...

One video filmed in the city of Noto showed crates of eggplants spilled across the road. Parts of the street were flooded in shallow water, where fences, roofs and small shrubs had fallen down...

Eggplants, shrubs.....roofs. One of those seems orders of magnitude more significant.
The coverage of the Japan earthquake reminded me of.Claud Cockburn's winning entry among The (London) Times staff to create the most boring headline: Small Earthquake in Chile, Not Many Dead.

Ha!

If a small shrub falls in an earthquake and no one hears it....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 02, 2024, 03:08:17 PM: Look for eggplants
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:57:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:18:07 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM
Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

#####

Indeed, Mr Bolt.
One suspects that Mr. Bolt's real problem, and yours, is not the division of race and religion, but that his race and his religion no longer enjoy unquestioned dominance.

His article is about citizenship for immigrants, who later it is discovered after their deaths in Lebanon, were Hezbollah fighters, their coffins draped in Hezbollah flags, they 'martyrs'.

Readers' comments:
"Dual citizenship should be banned".

Great idea, that.

"You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbee!" - Sweet Home Alabama
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 05:17:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:57:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:18:07 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM
Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

#####

Indeed, Mr Bolt.
One suspects that Mr. Bolt's real problem, and yours, is not the division of race and religion, but that his race and his religion no longer enjoy unquestioned dominance.

His article is about citizenship for immigrants, who later it is discovered after their deaths in Lebanon, were Hezbollah fighters, their coffins draped in Hezbollah flags, they 'martyrs'.

Readers' comments:
"Dual citizenship should be banned".

Great idea, that.

"You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbee!" - Sweet Home Alabama
My wife has dual citizenship and it works just fine for her and many others we know in the same situation, ass hat. Making rules for anecdotal exceptions is idiotic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 08:41:19 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 05:17:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:57:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:18:07 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM
Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

#####

Indeed, Mr Bolt.
One suspects that Mr. Bolt's real problem, and yours, is not the division of race and religion, but that his race and his religion no longer enjoy unquestioned dominance.

His article is about citizenship for immigrants, who later it is discovered after their deaths in Lebanon, were Hezbollah fighters, their coffins draped in Hezbollah flags, they 'martyrs'.

Readers' comments:
"Dual citizenship should be banned".

Great idea, that.

"You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbee!" - Sweet Home Alabama
My wife has dual citizenship and it works just fine for her and many others we know in the same situation, ass hat. Making rules for anecdotal exceptions is idiotic.

Which flag does she salute and wave?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 08:51:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 08:41:19 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 05:17:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:57:26 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 02, 2024, 10:18:07 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 02, 2024, 04:03:06 AM
Daily Telegraph
Dec 31, 2023
Andrew Bolt

Australia has a loyalty problem, and the fault lies with politicians and woke media whose identity politics are turning us into a nation of tribes divided by race or religion.

#####

Indeed, Mr Bolt.
One suspects that Mr. Bolt's real problem, and yours, is not the division of race and religion, but that his race and his religion no longer enjoy unquestioned dominance.

His article is about citizenship for immigrants, who later it is discovered after their deaths in Lebanon, were Hezbollah fighters, their coffins draped in Hezbollah flags, they 'martyrs'.

Readers' comments:
"Dual citizenship should be banned".

Great idea, that.

"You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbee!" - Sweet Home Alabama
My wife has dual citizenship and it works just fine for her and many others we know in the same situation, ass hat. Making rules for anecdotal exceptions is idiotic.

Which flag does she salute and wave?
Both. But then her homeland is European and I suspect it is only dual citizenship of a certain ethnoreligious group that offends you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on January 03, 2024, 12:15:04 AM: Joe has forgotten about 9-11 and the Boston bombathon. Quite the mess until Donnie cleaned it up. Put agents in the mosques and halted immigration from hot spots. He was right about somethings?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 12:29:19 AM: Bigotry twists history similar to the way gravity bends light.

Luee is swallowing and spreading this horse crap just so the country can be overrun by terrorists who picture their messiah as white.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 03, 2024, 02:51:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 12:29:19 AM
Bigotry twists history similar to the way gravity bends light.

Luee is swallowing and spreading this horse crap just so the country can be overrun by terrorists who picture their messiah as white.

LOL
You must be asleep.
Obviously you missed the show of force recently in America in the streets...and the anti-semitism at universities in America and elsewhere that's happening today...at record levels.
You're in for a shock when you wake up!

Last night my Sky News played video of a ranting Islamic preacher in my world all fired up and shall we say, spewing forth not so nice things about Jews, and Christians.
I turned to mrs bambu seated next to me on the lounge and said:
"Christians?...that's us!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 03:49:25 PM: You are getting Willie Hortoned again, Mate.

They get you every time because you are not bright.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2024, 03:52:30 PM: I saw on the news that a corporation was concerned about workers quitting their jobs and taking trade secrets to other companies, and I have a couple of comments on that.

If the corporations want to retain the workers then they need to give them incremental wage increases as they get more experience and become better trained and more skilled, over time as you become better then they need to pay you more if they want to retain you. Henry Ford paid his workers very well so that he could retain his workers and so that he would not have to keep retraining unskilled workers, plus he wanted to build great cars which were built by well paid craftsmen.

Also, part of the reason people accept low paying jobs is so that they can get into the company and learn. When I worked at Universal Studios I was working for minimum wage but I was learning the whole time, and I gained valuable experience. The same as when I was a cook, I learned how to cook and I learned how to run a casino, which would be good if I ever open a night club in Rome, or whatever. I was also low paid when I managed the dog kennel, and when I did construction, etc, it was all low pay but I gained experience. And it is all in my poetry, and in my writing, etc. Experience is valuable. Also, when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette then I was able to meet all of the stars in Hollywood, that was a fun job, and I got to drive Hal Needham's Maserati, etc.

As people learn then they become more valuable, and the companies need to give them raises in pay in order to retain them, and also their experience is valuable when it comes to self employment as well as working for others. You cannot make people starve, and then make it impossible for them to earn more money working for themselves or for another company.

Experience is valuable, and they cannot take that away. ( And experience is valuable for writers, poets, actors, filmmakers, etc, too. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 03, 2024, 04:11:20 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 03:49:25 PM
You are getting Willie Hortoned again, Mate.

They get you every time because you are not bright.

Yes, I'm not the brighest star in the universe, but I don't have to be.
One only needs a bare minimum IQ to see it all clearly

They got America 9/11 because America believed they were all nice people, "everyone in the world is a lovely person" if you like.
"Come in, all welcome."

El Al airlines had their cabin doors locked...tight.
They also questioned passengers as to why they were flying to Israel.
Watched everyone like a hawk.

America wasn't "scared" enough, didn't think the bad people were capable of hijacking planes and flying them into buildings...seemed to think they were all living in caves, not in a university in Germany, in an exclusive prayer room they'd had set up for them, with computers...where they happily plotted 9/11.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 03, 2024, 04:17:02 PM: Hay fever flaring again from all the straw man arguments.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 03, 2024, 04:40:36 PM: Mexico is 100 miles away from Anaheim, and Mexico is our number 1 trade partner. We need to work together to improve relations between the USA and Mexico.

Ethnocentric Americans need to look at the Ghettos of the USA, and they need to look at the 50,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone, and they need to look at the prisons all over America where our people are locked up, and they need to look at our asshole cops who are just as corrupt and abusive as the cops in Mexico. Sure, America has nice areas where the crime is low, such as Malibu, but Mexico has nice areas too such as Acapulco, etc.

And Mexico is building new high speed trains, and new airports, and new resorts, etc, lots of money is being invested in Mexico, and Mexico is going to be beautiful after a little money is spent there. Mexico is also building schools, and libraries, etc. Mexico can also invest in ports, etc, and Mexican Truck Drivers can join the Teamsters Union, etc.

The refugees from Ukraine can come to Acapulco, Mexico, and they can have good lives. And the Russians can come to Mexico as well, and others.

Mexico is beautiful, and we just need to spend some money making Mexico nice and we need to educate the people there, etc. And Mexico is a great place for Americans to retire, etc, people from Minnesota can retire to Acapulco, etc.

Mexico is nice, and Youth For Christ, and the Catholic Church, and Kiwanis International, and others, can work to make Mexico nicer and to reduce the crime. We can have a whole population where they obey the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule. Mexico can be nice. We just need to spend a little money in Mexico, with some tender loving care, and Mexico can be nice.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 03, 2024, 04:52:37 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 03, 2024, 04:17:02 PM
Hay fever flaring again from all the straw man arguments.

Exactly what happened.
After 9/11 the prayer rooms were closed.
The cabin doors were locked.
New computers were purchased.
etc.

The 'Global Islamic Caliphate ruling the world' clan seem to fancy their chances now, seem to believe this is their time, now that the self-loathing West is so accommodating, so friendly, so tolerant, so accepting of multicultural enclaves everywhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 07:32:32 PM: After sometime drinking their own urine, people with extra weak immune systems start believing things they see on Sky News.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 03:22:37 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 07:32:32 PM
After sometime drinking their own urine, people with extra weak immune systems start believing things they see on Sky News.

The videos don't lie.
The facts don't lie.
Everything is in plain sight.we
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 04, 2024, 09:46:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 03:22:37 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 03, 2024, 07:32:32 PM
After sometime drinking their own urine, people with extra weak immune systems start believing things they see on Sky News.

The videos don't lie.
The facts don't lie.
Everything is in plain sight.we
People lie using facts all the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 07:42:10 PM: Perry school Iowa shooting;

Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante confirmed the shooter had been identified and was born in 2006 which would make them around 16 years old.

The shooting began before the school day started which police have said meant there were fewer students in the building then there might have been later in the day.

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And obviously no security [let alone absolute security] to protect the students from a shooter intent on evil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 07:56:51 PM: Perry school shooting cont'd...

It's the second school shooting in America for 2024.

Schools [school officials, and in their towns and cities] are obviously 'asleep'...not understanding that;

"The bad people lurk in the shadows, waiting to pounce...the moment you get security careless."

I feel entitled to criticise, as on the screens of my tv, computer monitor, devices, the grieving families of the victims are shown, along with photos of their dead children.
Also parents rushing to the schools hoping and praying their children are safe.

It all can so easily be prevented.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 04, 2024, 08:30:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 07:56:51 PM
Perry school shooting cont'd...

It all can so easily be prevented.

Right on! Yes, strict nationwide gun control laws and strict enforcement of them IS the answer. Look at civilized countries that aren't in the thrall of a small extreme and belligerent minority, and how they limit civilian use of firearms and their rates of death from shootings. Fuck the gun lobby, fuck the NRA, fuck the GOP for pretending they give a shit about public safety, and fuck the delusional macho cowboy shitheads who think guns make us safer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 09:04:36 PM: In the meantime, practical measures can be introduced to stop school shootings.
Metal detectors, bag searches, fences, gates etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 04, 2024, 09:50:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 04, 2024, 08:30:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 07:56:51 PM
Perry school shooting cont'd...

It all can so easily be prevented.

Right on! Yes, strict nationwide gun control laws and strict enforcement of them IS the answer. Look at civilized countries that aren't in the thrall of a small extreme and belligerent minority, and how they limit civilian use of firearms and their rates of death from shootings. Fuck the gun lobby, fuck the NRA, fuck the GOP for pretending they give a shit about public safety, and fuck the delusional macho cowboy shitheads who think guns make us safer.

The killing will not stop till we destroy the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:08:26 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 04, 2024, 09:50:41 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 04, 2024, 08:30:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 04, 2024, 07:56:51 PM
Perry school shooting cont'd...

It all can so easily be prevented.

Right on! Yes, strict nationwide gun control laws and strict enforcement of them IS the answer. Look at civilized countries that aren't in the thrall of a small extreme and belligerent minority, and how they limit civilian use of firearms and their rates of death from shootings. Fuck the gun lobby, fuck the NRA, fuck the GOP for pretending they give a shit about public safety, and fuck the delusional macho cowboy shitheads who think guns make us safer.

The killing will not stop till we destroy the GOP.

When you've destroyed the GOP fhere'll still be school shootings, because there'll always be guns in rural areas for hunting...and I can't see the American people voting for the abolition of handguns.

Can't see the US govt paying out for a buy back of 300+ million guns.
Only the Good people would give up their guns.
The bad people would be jumping for joy when the good people were disarmed.

The only way to prevent school shootings is with absolute security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 05, 2024, 12:39:33 PM: It gets less credible every time you pull out that particular rant. We already know you are a murderous bastard without the guts to enact the carnage you wish on the world yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 02:25:11 PM: An eatery and market in Boyle Heights was raided by a mob of thieves, and I just saw on the news that the community in Boyle Heights has rallied together to support the family who owns the eatery and market. There is some poverty and crime in Boyle Heights but there is also Wendy Carrillo who is very dedicated to helping the people there.

And the area around Lafayette Park is also nice, even though there is crime, and the community there can work together to make things nicer.

There is also the Occidental movie studio which is often used by Disney and others, and also it is close to USC, etc.

Anyhow, the community in Boyle Heights has rallied together to restore the faith that the family business there had, and there are lots of good people in Boyle Heights. The community also started a Go Fund Me page for the people and the community is all giving them money. The good people are standing up to say that there is still good in the community.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 02:49:23 PM: Inglewood is not going to be a ghetto anymore, lots of building and development and investment has happened in Inglewood, and billions more is being spent in Inglewood. When it is done then no one is going to be able to recognize it, it will be a totally different place than it was in the past. The days of gangs and crime in Inglewood are over. Now it is all about Tourism and money and jobs.

While some areas such as in San Francisco have been in decline, Inglewood is being re-imagined and is being rebuilt and developed.

And as I have been saying, California needs cheap hostels all over where people can get a cheap shower and a bed for $15 per night.

We also need to teach the children to avoid drugs and crime, Europe is having great success with using education to battle against the fentanyl, etc. And if we can give the children a love of reading then we will have succeeded, and we need to build lots of libraries. ( A funny thing, I read that in Iraq the book stores just leave their stuff out because they said that the people who read do not steal. ) And with the rise in Tourism in Inglewood they can sell tacos to tourists instead of being criminals and selling illegal drugs, etc, there is no need to be a criminal if you can make an honest living, they can sell tacos like Danny Trejo.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 03:56:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 05, 2024, 12:39:33 PM
It gets less credible every time you pull out that particular rant. We already know you are a murderous bastard without the guts to enact the carnage you wish on the world yourself.

You object to metal detectors, electronic security cards, fences, gates, guards/wardens at every school, locked doors ...to keep all students safe from armed invaders intent on murdering them?
And safe from any of their rogue fellow students out to shoot them?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 04:22:19 PM: Vice President Harris

In October, I met with Culinary Union Local 226 workers in Las Vegas.

Many union members were concerned about how they were going to pay rent, put food on the table, or make other personal sacrifices. Yet, they were prepared to strike.

In the following weeks, union members won a 32% pay raise over five years, thanks to the power of collective bargaining.

Yesterday, I came back to Nevada to celebrate their historic victory. The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has shown our nation what is possible when workers fight, organize, and stand together.

-------------

It is great that the cooks in Nevada have unions now, that is wonderful. Cooks are artists and deserve fair pay and good treatment. When I was a cook at a casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, we were paid the same low pay as the dishwashers, maybe fifty cents more, it was insulting. I worked on the Night Shift, and it was just me and a dishwasher and a waitress from 10 PM to 6 AM, we ran the whole restaurant with just the 3 of us on the Night Shift. I was so busy every night that I did not even have time for a break, I would work constantly from the time I arrived until the time I left. And the cooks did not receive tips like the waitresses. But, I learned how to cook and how to run a casino, it was like attending cooking school, I did not make any money but I learned a lot. Then, after I quit the casino gave me a letter of recommendation that helped me to get into the AADA, they gave me a good character reference, so that was cool. But anyhow, it is good that the cooks in Nevada have unions now.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:30:53 PM: DT today:

Luc Longley was a vital part of the 90s Bulls dynasty, yet was not featured in Michael Jordan's Last Dance documentary, with a former teammate not shy to say
how disappointed he was.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2024, 04:52:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:30:53 PM
DT today:

Luc Longley was a vital part of the 90s Bulls dynasty, yet was not featured in Michael Jordan's Last Dance documentary, with a former teammate not shy to say
how disappointed he was.
Fuck Australians and their sense of entitlement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:59:03 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2024, 04:52:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:30:53 PM
DT today:

Luc Longley was a vital part of the 90s Bulls dynasty, yet was not featured in Michael Jordan's Last Dance documentary, with a former teammate not shy to say
how disappointed he was.
Fuck Australians and their sense of entitlement.

Wonder if being white had anything to do with it?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 05:02:55 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 03:56:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 05, 2024, 12:39:33 PM
It gets less credible every time you pull out that particular rant. We already know you are a murderous bastard without the guts to enact the carnage you wish on the world yourself.

You object to metal detectors, electronic security cards, fences, gates, guards/wardens at every school, locked doors ...to keep all students safe from armed invaders intent on murdering them?
And safe from any of their rogue fellow students out to shoot them?

In the Antelope Valley there is also the issue of race riots on the campuses of the high schools.

We need to neutralize the racism and hate with love during times of peace so that when the bad people try to cause riots the students refuse to riot. The same way that youth who are taught healthy conflict resolution skills will solve disputes peacefully instead of using violence. We need to bring all of the youth into the auditorium and have a meeting and we need to tell them that people are going to try to sow the seeds of discourse and racism and hate, and the youth need to know how to deal with those situations without being pawns for the haters who are trying to cause problems.

We also need to have undercover cops in the high schools like on "21 Jump Street" along with security and uniformed cops and gates and fences and cameras, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 05:20:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 05:02:55 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 03:56:51 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 05, 2024, 12:39:33 PM
It gets less credible every time you pull out that particular rant. We already know you are a murderous bastard without the guts to enact the carnage you wish on the world yourself.

You object to metal detectors, electronic security cards, fences, gates, guards/wardens at every school, locked doors ...to keep all students safe from armed invaders intent on murdering them?
And safe from any of their rogue fellow students out to shoot them?

In the Antelope Valley there is also the issue of race riots on the campuses of the high schools.

We need to neutralize the racism and hate with love during times of peace so that when the bad people try to cause riots the students refuse to riot. The same way that youth who are taught healthy conflict resolution skills will solve disputes peacefully instead of using violence. We need to bring all of the youth into the auditorium and have a meeting and we need to tell them that people are going to try to sow the seeds of discourse and racism and hate, and the youth need to know how to deal with those situations without being pawns for the haters who are trying to cause problems.

We also need to have undercover cops in the high schools like on "21 Jump Street" along with security and uniformed cops and gates and fences and cameras, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Amen x 10
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2024, 05:26:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:59:03 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 05, 2024, 04:52:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 05, 2024, 04:30:53 PM
DT today:

Luc Longley was a vital part of the 90s Bulls dynasty, yet was not featured in Michael Jordan's Last Dance documentary, with a former teammate not shy to say
how disappointed he was.
Fuck Australians and their sense of entitlement.

Wonder if being white had anything to do with it?
Of course you do. It is the racist in you.

How did the series treat Steve Kerr, or John Paxson? Do you even know, or care?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 10:30:50 PM: It is sad seeing how Val Kilmer's health is now, he was such a great actor, and it was sad seeing his last role in "Top Gun, Maverick." "The Doors" was fantastic, and he played so many great roles. But, he lived a good life, now he is just kind of reflecting on Facebook. He talks about his buffalo that he used to have in Santa Fe, etc.

And it is interesting that the President of Ukraine is an actor, actors make great leaders, like Reagan, and Arnold. JFK studied acting too, and he worked on his voice and speech, etc.

The world loves actors.

"...And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which he had before only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women." - Sanford Meisner who got it from Freud.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 11:10:22 PM: Christina Pascucci

One of the biggest problems in California is that our leaders have repeatedly underinvested in education, and specifically, early literacy.

60-70% of the children in California do not read at grade level by third grade. Statistically, those kids are exponentially more likely to end up homeless or in jail.

Meanwhile, we are arguing about banning books our kids cannot even read.

Let us stop the distractions and focus on these foundational issues first.

Christinaforcalifornia.com

---------------

We need to educate our people, and we need to build schools and libraries instead of prisons.

And the coal mining jobs are not coming back. We need to train and educate our people for the jobs of the future, and we need to train them to be doctors and scientists and teachers, etc.

We also need to teach our youth healthy conflict resolution skills, and parenting skills, and relationship skills, etc. We need to better prepare our youth for life.

We have prisons which are full, and it SUCKS. We need to reach the children when they are young and we need to turn them into fine upstanding ladies and gentlemen who benefit society. And we need to help the foster youth, and the children without fathers, etc. There are things the children need to learn to prepare them for life.

We can also educate the youth about fentanyl, etc.

I would much rather build schools and libraries instead of prisons.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 12:01:02 AM: A rising number of our new immigrants have a BA Degree or better.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/09/14/education-levels-of-u-s-immigrants-are-on-the-rise/

We need to send the educated immigrants to Kentucky and to Arkansas and to Tennessee, etc, to teach our people how to read. We need teachers all over America. And we need to buid nice libraries, etc.

And Latin America needs teachers as well.

The prisoners also need to be taught how to read and write. In Bolivia they shorten their sentences if they read books to promote literacy and to better educate the people. I recommended that all of the prisoners read "On Becoming a Person" by Carl Rogers.

Reading really is fundamental.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 02:48:52 AM: A Boeing plane came apart during flight and almost sucked the people out of a hole in the plane. It was a brand new plane. Do not fly on Boeing planes, Boeing needs to fire everyone and hire all new people and they need better training, etc.

Meanwhile the French Air Bus is safe.

And we have Lockheed which is building a new super sonic high speed passenger plane, so those will be the way of the future, and Lockheed can build the new jets in the Antelope Valley, and they can build new production facilities in Mojave, etc. And Lockheed is a good company and the planes will be fantastic.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 06, 2024, 10:58:39 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 02:48:52 AM
A Boeing plane came apart during flight and almost sucked the people out of a hole in the plane...

Air travel sucks. Didn't you know that?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 03:23:33 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 06, 2024, 10:58:39 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 02:48:52 AM
A Boeing plane came apart during flight and almost sucked the people out of a hole in the plane...

Air travel sucks. Didn't you know that?

I would love to have money to travel right now, but not on Boeing. And Italy and Greece and the South of France are all great this time of year. Spain would be nice too. Just not on Boeing.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 03:27:12 PM: On the issue of Harvard, Sabrina Cervantes did Post Graduate Study at Harvard. Sabrina is a rising star in the California Democratic Party, along with Christina Pascucci who is running for the Senate. They are both good Roman Catholic women who support organized labor and social services and education, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 06:17:25 PM: We need to make more great films which glorify an education such as "Dead Poets Society" with Robin Williams, and "Renaissance Man" with Danny DeVito, and even "Animal House" at least promoted the thought of college life. We need to make lots of great education and reading and college themed films and television shows.

There was an episode of "Happy Days" where the Fonz went to a Library and he said there were hot chicks in the Library, and so in real life all of the young guys started going to the Libraries to meet girls.

We need to glorify reading, and we need to glorify Libraries.

There is a movie with Johnny Cash where he plays a humble adult man who has to learn how to read, we need to make more movies like that.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2024, 07:32:56 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 05, 2024, 10:30:50 PM
It is sad seeing how Val Kilmer's health is now, he was such a great actor, and it was sad seeing his last role in "Top Gun, Maverick." "The Doors" was fantastic, and he played so many great roles. But, he lived a good life, now he is just kind of reflecting on Facebook. He talks about his buffalo that he used to have in Santa Fe, etc.

And it is interesting that the President of Ukraine is an actor, actors make great leaders, like Reagan, and Arnold. JFK studied acting too, and he worked on his voice and speech, etc.

The world loves actors.

"...And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which he had before only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women." - Sanford Meisner who got it from Freud.

Salute,

Tony V.

Ukraine requested thermal coal from Australia.
Rightist ScoMo sent tens of thousands of tons of it.

Ukraine has again requested coal from Australia.
Leftist Albo so far has 'refused' the request.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2024, 07:39:52 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 03:27:12 PM
On the issue of Harvard, Sabrina Cervantes did Post Graduate Study at Harvard. Sabrina is a rising star in the California Democratic Party, along with Christina Pascucci who is running for the Senate. They are both good Roman Catholic women who support organized labor and social services and education, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
Today it's the Protestant King, Catholic Pope...or the Ayatollahs.
I don't choose the Ayatollahs.

Long live the King! [and the Pope].
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 06, 2024, 07:45:04 PM: ISIS, ISIL, IS...or whatever they're calling themselves this week...have claimed responsibility for the bombings in Iran recently.
"Death to America" the People cried...LOL
Wasn't America at all.
It was Muslim terrorists!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 07, 2024, 01:26:25 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 03:23:33 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 06, 2024, 10:58:39 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2024, 02:48:52 AM
A Boeing plane came apart during flight and almost sucked the people out of a hole in the plane...

Air travel sucks. Didn't you know that?

I would love to have money to travel right now, but not on Boeing. And Italy and Greece and the South of France are all great this time of year. Spain would be nice too. Just not on Boeing.

Salute,

Tony V.

All the Boeing drama just shown on my news.
"plug" in the side of the plane fell/popped out, the "plug" being one that could be used as an exit door in a emergency.
Door sized hole then in side of plane.
Shirt was sucked off a small child and out of the plane.
Mother was hanging onto the child so it didn't follow the shirt.

The two people booked to occupy the seats next to the "plug"/giant sucking hole...missed their flight!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2024, 03:48:00 PM: Instead of the Republicans trying to be assholes regarding the immigrants, the stupid fuckers in Texas and in Florida could use their brains and they can organize and help people instead of just being pricks.

The assholes can wise up, and they can send the immigrants where they are needed.

For instance, the Farm Workers can join the United Farm Workers and can be sent where the farm jobs are. The construction workers can be sent to where the construction jobs are. Etc Etc Etc. And the educated immigrants can be Teachers and we can send the Teachers to areas such as Kentucky where teachers are needed.

We need to organize, and we need to send the immigrants to where they can do the most good for everyone concerned. Instead of the Republicans just trying to be assholes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 07, 2024, 05:31:19 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 07, 2024, 03:48:00 PM
Instead of the Republicans trying to be assholes regarding the immigrants, the stupid fuckers in Texas and in Florida could use their brains and they can organize and help people instead of just being pricks.

The assholes can wise up, and they can send the immigrants where they are needed.

For instance, the Farm Workers can join the United Farm Workers and can be sent where the farm jobs are. The construction workers can be sent to where the construction jobs are. Etc Etc Etc. And the educated immigrants can be Teachers and we can send the Teachers to areas such as Kentucky where teachers are needed.

We need to organize, and we need to send the immigrants to where they can do the most good for everyone concerned. Instead of the Republicans just trying to be assholes.

Salute,

Tony V.

All. Of. This.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 07, 2024, 06:38:37 PM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/04/chatterley-mickey-mouse-copyright/

Lady Chatterley and Mickey Mouse enter the public domain and all you get is this column

https://archive.is/DvUSQ

One of America's great humorists, one of her funniest columns. Tears running down my cheeks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 07, 2024, 11:10:53 PM: It was a bit cheesy, but I did have a good laugh at the last line. Points to Alex and thanks for the link
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 08, 2024, 02:10:38 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 07, 2024, 06:38:37 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/04/chatterley-mickey-mouse-copyright/

Lady Chatterley and Mickey Mouse enter the public domain and all you get is this column

https://archive.is/DvUSQ

One of America's great humorists, one of her funniest columns. Tears running down my cheeks.

Laugh out loud funny!

I knew Alex as a 9th grader in high school when she was a theater kid as were my own kids who were a couple years older.

Ha! Dropping that kind of information used to drive Utley batty.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 05:40:51 AM: Ah yes, me old mate Mutley...wonder what he's doing these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:36:16 AM: Not that it matters to anything....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 'sharp'.
I'm impressed with him..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 08, 2024, 10:44:01 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 08, 2024, 02:10:38 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 07, 2024, 06:38:37 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/04/chatterley-mickey-mouse-copyright/

Lady Chatterley and Mickey Mouse enter the public domain and all you get is this column

https://archive.is/DvUSQ

One of America's great humorists, one of her funniest columns. Tears running down my cheeks.

Laugh out loud funny!

I knew Alex as a 9th grader in high school when she was a theater kid as were my own kids who were a couple years older.

Ha! Dropping that kind of information used to drive Utley batty.

I remembered you knew her BITD. A legitimate name drop. Most of mine (except for Alan Ginsberg) were random encounters where we barely met. Like passing Gorbachev when he was leaving the can with his security detail (he nodded at me, in a very Russian way) after he delivered an address at my university.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 08, 2024, 02:04:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:36:16 AM
Not that it matters to anything....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 'sharp'.
I'm impressed with him..

Competence and integrity in the center and the left. Nothing but criminality and obfuscation from the right.

It is the same story the world over.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:22:53 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 08, 2024, 02:04:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:36:16 AM
Not that it matters to anything....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 'sharp'.
I'm impressed with him..

Competence and integrity in the center and the left. Nothing but criminality and obfuscation from the right.

It is the same story the world over.

lol
Only in your dreams.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 08, 2024, 06:41:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:22:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 08, 2024, 02:04:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:36:16 AM
Not that it matters to anything....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 'sharp'.
I'm impressed with him..

Competence and integrity in the center and the left. Nothing but criminality and obfuscation from the right.

It is the same story the world over.

lol
Only in your dreams.

Yeah? Where is the lie?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2024, 12:29:58 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 08, 2024, 06:41:22 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:22:53 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 08, 2024, 02:04:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 08, 2024, 06:36:16 AM
Not that it matters to anything....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 'sharp'.
I'm impressed with him..

Competence and integrity in the center and the left. Nothing but criminality and obfuscation from the right.

It is the same story the world over.

lol
Only in your dreams.

Yeah? Where is the lie?

In bambuland, which is in the world, competence and integrity come from the Centre-Right/Right.
Also in Europe, as one by one the countries are replacing their failed Leftist govts with Rightist ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 09, 2024, 10:54:29 AM: Trumps lawyers kicked off Tuesdays hearing by arguing that prosecuting a former president would open a Pandoras box. They claim Trump was working in his official capacity as president to (quote)ensure election integrity(unquote) when he allegedly undermined the 2020 election results and therefore has immunity.

Ensure election integrity.

Not a big emoji user but 😂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 09, 2024, 12:34:51 PM: http://www.huffpost.com/entry/rabbis-cease-fire-protest-united-nations-biden-veto_n_659c7cace4b0bfe5ff647229 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/rabbis-cease-fire-protest-united-nations-biden-veto_n_659c7cace4b0bfe5ff647229)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 09, 2024, 02:59:22 PM: On my SkyNews just now;

Chinese Migrants Making Journey to US

"The Chinese migrants, group after group, 24 hours a day, just walking over the border where there's a gap in the wall.
They can be heard shouting amongst them in Chinese."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 09, 2024, 04:23:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 09, 2024, 02:59:22 PM
On my SkyNews just now;

Chinese Migrants Making Journey to US

"The Chinese migrants, group after group, 24 hours a day, just walking over the border where there's a gap in the wall.
They can be heard shouting amongst them in Chinese."

China Town in San Francisco is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, and is an important part of San Francisco. The Chinese can help to save San Francisco, and the Chinese women can open cheap hostels, and the Chinese women can be nurses to help the homeless and the mentally ill, etc, and the Chinese women can open Sober Living Homes, etc.

China Town in Los Angeles is an important area, and is growing by leaps and bounds. They have shops in China Town where one of my cousins goes to buy his nice shirts, the Chinese sell nice shirts.

The China Town in Las Vegas is growing quickly.

The China Town in New York is a very important area.

And we need to keep expanding trade with the Chinese, etc.

The Chinese are great, and I am glad that they want peace and trade.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2024, 04:46:44 PM: Quote
What did you do in Chinatown?

As little as possible.

The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?

They do in Chinatown.

50 years old this year, and still as fresh as today's peach. Jesus.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 09, 2024, 04:58:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 09, 2024, 04:46:44 PM
Quote
What did you do in Chinatown?

As little as possible.

The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?

They do in Chinatown.

50 years old this year, and still as fresh as today's peach. Jesus.

Forget it
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 09, 2024, 05:29:23 PM: Jake
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 09, 2024, 05:39:56 PM: The questioning today in the immunity hearing re could Trump have a SEAL team go and kill a political opponent - lively stuff. The qualified yes from his lawyer was a bit surreal as moments go, and a reminder of what the MAGA mindset can encompass.

Meanwhile, spotted on a famous edifice in DC...

(https://personalinjuryattorneysd.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/personal-injury-overview-768x240.jpg)
Title: Re: News in G
Post by: LarryB! on January 09, 2024, 07:05:26 PM: Trump wins his immunity case on appeal. Biden invites him to a meeting in the Oval Office.

Biden: Thanks for coming!

Trump: Thanks for the invitation, Joe! What is with the plastic sheeting on the floor?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 09, 2024, 08:08:37 PM: I am still rooting for the next happy meal to bring and end to stinky shitler before the seals find a way to his door.
Title: Re: News in G
Post by: facilitatorn on January 09, 2024, 09:45:00 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 09, 2024, 07:05:26 PM
Trump wins his immunity case on appeal. Biden invites him to a meeting in the Oval Office.

Biden: Thanks for coming!

Trump: Thanks for the invitation, Joe! What is with the plastic sheeting on the floor?

That fat piece of shit is going to lose because as is now being widely pointed out, he is a loser.

The meeting should be with the sinister six injustices, even if just hypothetically in front of the court, leading lights of the opposing political camp with lifetime positional appointments.

Is this the future they would suggest is legal and prudent for judicial reform?

With right wing fucktards you have to make things very personal. Just as they preserve abortion access, gay acceptance, criminal leniency for themselves, their offspring and nobody else, the six will be far more inclined to follow logic and constitutional law over party if they understand they are ruling on their personal safety when deciding this matter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 10, 2024, 09:05:53 AM: Something good from down under

https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1745078908796407882?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 10, 2024, 01:39:06 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 10, 2024, 09:05:53 AM
Something good from down under

https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1745078908796407882?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g

Made my morning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 10, 2024, 02:05:22 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 10, 2024, 09:05:53 AM
Something good from down under

https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1745078908796407882?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g
I could use some Agnus bambu todei.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 02:10:20 PM: One reason for the high crime and lawlessness right now is that we have a huge percentage of our population whom are illegal immigrants who are afraid to call the police to report crimes, etc. Latin women are getting raped, and they are afraid to call the police to report the crime. Latin workers are having their rights violated and their employers are not obeying the Labor Laws in the USA. Lots of bad things are happening because our immigrants are illegal and are afraid to call the police to report crimes, and because they are not able to join labor unions and be protected by OSHA, etc.

When Reagan made our immigrants legal then he used the argument that it was all about bringing our immigrants out of the shadows so that they would be protected by our laws, and so they could call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they could join labor unions, etc.

We need to make our immigrants legal and we need to bring them out of the shadows so they can call the police and so they can join labor unions and so they can be protected by our laws.

Plus, it will be good for trade and it will be good for our economy. And no fences are needed.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 03:17:05 PM: Two of the worst ways to be, would be to be slave labor, and also a bad way to be would be cannon fodder.

Both are about human rights.

Also of note, we need for the ACLU to help to push for a new immigration law to make our immigrants legal, being able to call the police in the case of an emergency and being protected by our Labor Laws are very important human rights issues.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 10, 2024, 04:14:28 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 10, 2024, 02:05:22 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on January 10, 2024, 09:05:53 AM
Something good from down under

https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1745078908796407882?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g
I could use some Agnus bambu todei.

Whoa, Black Betty, Bambu lamb!

https://youtu.be/I_2D8Eo15wE?si=Hr_fXPqP4sr5W5n2
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 10, 2024, 06:27:51 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 02:10:20 PM
One reason for the high crime and lawlessness right now is that we have a huge percentage of our population whom are illegal immigrants who are afraid to call the police to report crimes, etc. Latin women are getting raped, and they are afraid to call the police to report the crime. Latin workers are having their rights violated and their employers are not obeying the Labor Laws in the USA. Lots of bad things are happening because our immigrants are illegal and are afraid to call the police to report crimes, and because they are not able to join labor unions and be protected by OSHA, etc.

When Reagan made our immigrants legal then he used the argument that it was all about bringing our immigrants out of the shadows so that they would be protected by our laws, and so they could call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they could join labor unions, etc.

We need to make our immigrants legal and we need to bring them out of the shadows so they can call the police and so they can join labor unions and so they can be protected by our laws.

Plus, it will be good for trade and it will be good for our economy. And no fences are needed.

Salute,

Tony V.

Aside from deep in red inbred states and the theft of Hyundais, crime is a slow as it has been since the seventies.

Media is much more intrusive and ubiquitous that it has ever been before. This gives an impression that crime is surging rampantly when it is actually diminishing and it is likely that the mistaken impression that crime is rising is contributing to actions that have actually lowered the crime that, while it spiked madly in the trump administration has been in fact overall on the decline these last fifteen years at least.

Violent crime is falling especially fast except where people encourage gunslinging and violence against women, gays and minorities while demanding we close our borders.

Better angels are the key, Tony. Unfortunately some people just aint gonna find them. We need to kick the ass of those people and ensure they never hold power over anyones life but their own.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 10, 2024, 09:10:38 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 10, 2024, 09:05:53 AM
Something good from down under

https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1745078908796407882?s=61&t=uyjblaEPn7vUS5o6N4PW6g

Another ad making old people [Boomers if you like] look like fools.
Said Boomers only got homes thru hard work, sacrifices and saving.

They can make as many woke ads as they like, it won't change anything...Australia Day 26th January...is more divisive than ever.
The nation is more divided than ever, by generation, race, religion, and culture.
Largest supermarket chain Woolworths [incl BIG W, similar to K mart] just announced that it will no longer be selling Australia Day merchandise...citing "declining sales" and "At the same time there's been broader discussion about January 26 and what it means to different parts of the community, a spokesperson said."

In others words, it's joined the woke brigade.

This ad tells you the nation is back together, everyone loves everyone else, and 'peace/love/harmony' rule.
LOL LOL LOL
Nothing, nothing, could be further from the truth.

Albo's "Voice" referendum recently failed for him and the "YES" supporters...but it sure sorted out who's who and what's what in the nation.

Oh, and the woke brigade are trying to delete/abolish ANZAC Day from the national landscape as fast as they can.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 10, 2024, 10:07:34 PM: cont'd;

SkyNews:

Peter Dutton calls for Australians to boycott Woolworths

This comes after the retailer announced it won't be selling Australia Day merchandise this year.

Peter Dutton says Australians should be free to decide whether they want to celebrate Australia Day or not.

Australia Day is becoming an increasingly controversial date in the calendar.

Indigenous leaders have condemned the move and argue Woolworths is trying to divide Australians.

#####

It's what the woke brigades do...divide.
Got away with knocking down statues in America, then tried the same thing in bambuland...didn't work out well for them.

Indigenous leaders are not all the same.
Add in the "Invasion Day" etc, etc, etc activists...and "controversial'' appears.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 11:41:44 PM: A 56-year-old man was arrested for stalking Shakira at her Miami Beach home, an affidavit said.

--------

Football players can date Taylor Swift just by announcing that they want to date her, but for a mentally ill guy in Florida trying to hook up with Shakira it did not work out so well.

And that was one thing about when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette she had a lot of crazy stalkers, and her husband had to carry a gun. It is hard being a beautiful female star. Suzanne hung out with Zsa Zsa Gabor, and they both had stalkers.

We have lots of crazy people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 11, 2024, 12:23:31 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 10, 2024, 06:27:51 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 02:10:20 PM
One reason for the high crime and lawlessness right now is that we have a huge percentage of our population whom are illegal immigrants who are afraid to call the police to report crimes, etc. Latin women are getting raped, and they are afraid to call the police to report the crime. Latin workers are having their rights violated and their employers are not obeying the Labor Laws in the USA. Lots of bad things are happening because our immigrants are illegal and are afraid to call the police to report crimes, and because they are not able to join labor unions and be protected by OSHA, etc.

When Reagan made our immigrants legal then he used the argument that it was all about bringing our immigrants out of the shadows so that they would be protected by our laws, and so they could call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they could join labor unions, etc.

We need to make our immigrants legal and we need to bring them out of the shadows so they can call the police and so they can join labor unions and so they can be protected by our laws.

Plus, it will be good for trade and it will be good for our economy. And no fences are needed.

Salute,

Tony V.

Aside from deep in red inbred states and the theft of Hyundais, crime is a slow as it has been since the seventies.

Media is much more intrusive and ubiquitous that it has ever been before. This gives an impression that crime is surging rampantly when it is actually diminishing and it is likely that the mistaken impression that crime is rising is contributing to actions that have actually lowered the crime that, while it spiked madly in the trump administration has been in fact overall on the decline these last fifteen years at least.

Violent crime is falling especially fast except where people encourage gunslinging and violence against women, gays and minorities while demanding we close our borders.

Better angels are the key, Tony. Unfortunately some people just aint gonna find them. We need to kick the ass of those people and ensure they never hold power over anyones life but their own.

One thing, everyone has cameras now, so all of the villains have their videos posted on the news, so it may appear that we have more crime, when in fact it just may be better reporting and better camera footage.

And we need better Angels at the top, that is for sure. I would love to be a leader at the top in America, dating a star like Shakira, and helping the poor and the homeless, and helping the poor in Mexico and in the Philippines, etc. I would love to be at the top and be an Angel for people. If I was like Brad Pitt I would be helping the homeless and addressing the issues here, and I sure as hell would NOT support the border wall. We need for sane stars to rise and help the poor and to stand up for American ideals.

The new "Color Purple" musical is a hit, and that is good for the Black stars, many of whom attended Julliard. Oprah has been a good Angel at the top for people.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans tried, they meant well, and they did the best they could, and they tried to teach good things to the children. And Ronald Reagan did his best.

Now it is up to the new generation, and we need for people to get along and not fight among ourselves.

I would love to be an Angel at the top, like Michael Landon, and like James Garner, and like Roy Rogers, and like Ronald Reagan, etc. I tried, I studied hard and attended The AADA, it is just hard. And everything is political and people just make up lies about people who they do not agree with, it is brutal in Hollywood.

One just needs to keep a good attitude.

And I do agree that many good things have happened with Biden as President, and the economy is growing, and there is an effort to help the homeless.

On the issue of crime, here in California everyone is going to hire door men, and private security, etc, like in Monaco. It will be made safer.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 11, 2024, 02:05:41 AM: http://slate.com/human-interest/2024/01/ron-desantis-iowa-republican-debate-smile-height-boots.html (http://slate.com/human-interest/2024/01/ron-desantis-iowa-republican-debate-smile-height-boots.html)

Did he drop out yet?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 11, 2024, 10:06:41 AM: I would appreciate also an analysis of Margot Robbie's smile, which has always impressed me with its anatomical correctness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 12:00:06 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 10, 2024, 11:41:44 PM
A 56-year-old man was arrested for stalking Shakira at her Miami Beach home, an affidavit said...

Salute,

Tony V.
Best of luck with your legal troubles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 11, 2024, 01:25:04 PM: Patrick Duffy believed in manifesting his success, and he used to jog through the streets of Hollywood yelling to the world about what he wanted in life. He went on to have a great acting career, and now he owns the Broadwater Plunge Bar in Hollywood with adjoining stages for theatre. He is doing great.

I would like to move into a Bungalow Office at 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, and I would like to make my movie that I wrote, and also keep the door open for future movies and television shows.

I have a friend who is a rock star, and he thinks that I can succeed if I find a good mentor to help. I was friends with Hal Needham who directed "Smokey and the Bandit" but he died. I need to find new helpers.

And of note on the people who built Anaheim, there was Walt Disney and Gene Autry, they helped to build this city.

And no, I do not know any cosmetic surgeons, but I have met a lot of Personal Trainers. The stars pay people to make them stay in shape.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 02:58:10 PM: Over-population is a real thing.
...as young Bindi Irwin tried to say in her Hillary Clinton essay, but wasn't accepted.

Over-population....that's when there are too many people for the amount of food, housing, hospital beds, roads etc available.
Coming to America soon if the southern border stays open much longer...to anyone who feels like walking in over it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 03:23:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 02:58:10 PM
Over-population is a real thing.
...as young Bindi Irwin tried to say in her Hillary Clinton essay, but wasn't accepted.

Over-population....that's when there are too many people for the amount of food, housing, hospital beds, roads etc available.
Coming to America soon if the southern border stays open much longer...to anyone who feels like walking in over it.
First, crossing a border is a net zero in terms.of.over population. And our Southern border is not open. Both RedDick and your fellow racist luee cite the data on this all the time without understanding the implications of their data.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 03:42:01 PM: German supermarket chain ALDI operating in Australia has now also joined Woolworths in banning the sale of Australia Day ("Australian themed") merchandise in its stores.

Maybe they'd feel happier in Germany.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 04:07:31 PM: What next ...US charged with genocide for whacking the Houthis to stop their attacking shipping?

South Africa accusing Israel of genocide?

How many White farmers and their families gencoided in SA/Africa this week?

When will Iran-backed Hamas be releasing the Jewish etc hostages kidnapped during the Hamas invasion and slaughter of Jews in their homes etc on 10/7?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 11, 2024, 04:19:38 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 11, 2024, 10:20:10 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 11, 2024, 10:06:41 AM
I would appreciate also an analysis of Margot Robbie's smile, which has always impressed me with its anatomical correctness.

Her smile is fine until she shows all her teeth! OMG are there no dentists in L.A?

Makes her even cuter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 11, 2024, 04:33:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 03:23:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 02:58:10 PM
Over-population is a real thing.
...as young Bindi Irwin tried to say in her Hillary Clinton essay, but wasn't accepted.

Over-population....that's when there are too many people for the amount of food, housing, hospital beds, roads etc available.
Coming to America soon if the southern border stays open much longer...to anyone who feels like walking in over it.
First, crossing a border is a net zero in terms.of.over population. And our Southern border is not open. Both RedDick and your fellow racist luee cite the data on this all the time without understanding the implications of their data.

In terms of biotic carrying capacity, a migration is usually favorable because it is from a less sustaining environment to a more sustaining.
Exceptions would be, say, migrating from a fairly lush area to a desert due to other pressures. In rich countries, there's a topsy turvy situation where there is so much transport energy and infrastructure that people can move from an area of high biotic density to a lower one like a desert and still thrive in large numbers. (though living without a basement still disturbs me, no matter how much economic sense it makes) Vanishing western snowpack may change that, however.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 04:40:05 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 11, 2024, 04:33:10 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 03:23:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 02:58:10 PM
Over-population is a real thing.
...as young Bindi Irwin tried to say in her Hillary Clinton essay, but wasn't accepted.

Over-population....that's when there are too many people for the amount of food, housing, hospital beds, roads etc available.
Coming to America soon if the southern border stays open much longer...to anyone who feels like walking in over it.
First, crossing a border is a net zero in terms.of.over population. And our Southern border is not open. Both RedDick and your fellow racist luee cite the data on this all the time without understanding the implications of their data.

In terms of biotic carrying capacity, a migration is usually favorable because it is from a less sustaining environment to a more sustaining.
Exceptions would be, say, migrating from a fairly lush area to a desert due to other pressures. In rich countries, there's a topsy turvy situation where there is so much transport energy and infrastructure that people can move from an area of high biotic density to a lower one like a desert and still thrive in large numbers. (though living without a basement still disturbs me, no matter how much economic sense it makes) Vanishing western snowpack may change that, however.
Yeah, I fully expect my current place of residence to be uninhabitable some time after I die.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 11, 2024, 04:48:53 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2216798/-Florida-has-a-solution-to-education-issues-It-s-called-child-labor?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2216798/-Florida-has-a-solution-to-education-issues-It-s-called-child-labor?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 11, 2024, 05:00:05 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 11, 2024, 04:33:10 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 11, 2024, 03:23:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 02:58:10 PM
Over-population is a real thing.
...as young Bindi Irwin tried to say in her Hillary Clinton essay, but wasn't accepted.

Over-population....that's when there are too many people for the amount of food, housing, hospital beds, roads etc available.
Coming to America soon if the southern border stays open much longer...to anyone who feels like walking in over it.
First, crossing a border is a net zero in terms.of.over population. And our Southern border is not open. Both RedDick and your fellow racist luee cite the data on this all the time without understanding the implications of their data.

In terms of biotic carrying capacity, a migration is usually favorable because it is from a less sustaining environment to a more sustaining.
Exceptions would be, say, migrating from a fairly lush area to a desert due to other pressures. In rich countries, there's a topsy turvy situation where there is so much transport energy and infrastructure that people can move from an area of high biotic density to a lower one like a desert and still thrive in large numbers. (though living without a basement still disturbs me, no matter how much economic sense it makes) Vanishing western snowpack may change that, however.
Who wrote that , Claudine Gay?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 06:41:38 PM: It's not "overpopulation" when all the asylum seekers/economic immigrants...call them whatever...are in Texas and the other border states, but it becomes so when the "excess migrants" are bussed to NY, Chicago etc.
The folk in that 'Black neighbourhood" in Chicago are suing the city for closing the stadium to their children (exercise, sports etc)...so it can be used as a migrant camp.
Yes, too many people for the existing facilities..overpopulation.
The overpopulation caused by people simply walking into America over the Mexican border.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 09:39:45 PM: NY Times;

On Wednesday, before the strike, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the militia's leader, threatened to meet an American attack with a fierce response.

"We the Yemeni people, are not among those who are afraid of America," he said in a televised speech. "We are comfortable with a direct confrontation with the Americans."

#####

He must not have a TV.
Maybe he saw the US aircraft carriers on a small screen somewhere and thought they were toy ships.
Maybe he'd forgotten about US submarines, one of which 'just' fired a Tomahawk cruise missile at *him*.

New Year fireworks in Yemen as UK and US missiles hit radars, missile and drone launch sites, and weapons storage areas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 10:49:02 PM: Meanwhile, way down south, right down the bottom of the globe, in western Sydney ['the sweetest city in the south seas']...lies the 'local council [borough]' district of Fairfield.[26 suburbs.
'From all the lands on earth we come' represents the population of Fairfield fairly accurately.

Post WW2 migrants from Europe [west and east]...had to work for the govt for 2 years in return for the price of their passage [if they didn't have the means to pay to migrate themselves.
Later refugees from Vietnam.
Then self-funded migrants from anywhere and everywhere looking for a new life, new start.
Refugees also.
They dress in the traditional costumes of their homelands, homelands of their parents/grandparents etc....at fairs, celebration days etc.
Australian citizenship, with all that entails, they value.

Enter Australia Day, 26th January.

The woke bus is "touring around", picking up passengers, including corporations.
'Australia' seemingly 'doomed'.

"Oh no you don't" *said* '5 star Frank'...the very popular Mayor of Fairfield, Frank Carbone.

DT today;

A western Sydney mayor has slammed supermarket giants axing Australia Day merch and has ordered his council to hand out thousands of flags for free in a firey response.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 11, 2024, 10:57:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 06:41:38 PM
It's not "overpopulation" when all the asylum seekers/economic immigrants...call them whatever...are in Texas and the other border states, but it becomes so when the "excess migrants" are bussed to NY, Chicago etc.
The folk in that 'Black neighbourhood" in Chicago are suing the city for closing the stadium to their children (exercise, sports etc)...so it can be used as a migrant camp.
Yes, too many people for the existing facilities..overpopulation.
The overpopulation caused by people simply walking into America over the Mexican border.

You need to think like an American capitalist and you need to organize everything and send the people to where they can do the most good, etc. Send the Farm Workers to join the United Farm Workers and put them to work farming, and send the construction workers to where the construction jobs are and they can join labor unions, etc, and the Educated immigrants can become Teachers in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc. Send the immigrants to where the jobs are that they are qualified for. Everyone wins. And I had a maid from El Salvador, and it was great to have a maid. We need to send the immigrants to where the jobs are. Also, the immigrants can put a coat of paint on the ghettos, and they can lay cobblestone streets, etc, and they can plant trees, and they can build libraries, etc. Plus we need nurses, and we need for people to own and operate cheap hostels and Sober Living Homes, etc. We can put the immigrants to work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 07:34:42 AM: 700 million in America?
Where will they all be living?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 12, 2024, 08:44:03 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 07:34:42 AM
700 million in America?
Where will they all be living?
Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 11:53:09 AM: The Great Fire of London was in 1666

Satan caused the evil bushfires in Australia several years ago.
So thrilled was he with his evil work that he appeared in the red glow in the sky to gloat.
He was caught by a camera and his image published for all to see.

Beware the Devil, he will destroy you if you're not absolutely ready to repel him immediately.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 12:23:10 PM: Remember, conservatives are his minions and they take roads that only lead to hell.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2024, 02:19:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 03:42:01 PM
German supermarket chain ALDI operating in Australia has now also joined Woolworths in banning the sale of Australia Day ("Australian themed") merchandise in its stores.

Maybe they'd feel happier in Germany.

I shop with them regularly. Great value.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 02:22:13 PM: It is said that:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Conservatives, are not afraid to act decisively when such actions are needed to protect the "Christian" West from harm and destruction of its culture.

They don't just have good intentions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2024, 02:25:19 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 11, 2024, 04:48:53 PM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2216798/-Florida-has-a-solution-to-education-issues-It-s-called-child-labor?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2216798/-Florida-has-a-solution-to-education-issues-It-s-called-child-labor?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web)

Must be a GOP thing.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1162531885/arkansas-child-labor-law-under-16-years-old-sarah-huckabee-sanders
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2024, 02:26:36 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 12, 2024, 08:44:03 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 07:34:42 AM
700 million in America?
Where will they all be living?
Battle Mountain, Nevada.

<spit take>
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 12, 2024, 02:28:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 02:22:13 PM
It is said that:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Conservatives, are not afraid to act decisively when such actions are needed to protect the "Christian" West from harm and destruction of its culture.

They don't just have good intentions.

Christians and conservatives are not quite the same thing these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 12, 2024, 02:47:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 02:22:13 PM
It is said that:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Conservatives, are not afraid to act decisively when such actions are needed to protect the "Christian" West from harm and destruction of its culture.

They don't ~~just~~ have good intentions.
Fixed it for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM: You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 02:50:31 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 12, 2024, 02:19:39 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 11, 2024, 03:42:01 PM
German supermarket chain ALDI operating in Australia has now also joined Woolworths in banning the sale of Australia Day ("Australian themed") merchandise in its stores.

Maybe they'd feel happier in Germany.

I shop with them regularly. Great value.

I'm happy that you're happy.

*

To them, not you:

many in Australia are basically saying to them...in the words of Greta:

"How dare you!"

They were going along nicely, until they bought a ticket to ride the "trash Australia Day" express.
Australia only exists because many Australian/Allied lives were sacrificed fighting Germany in two world wars.
The flag they refuse to sell represents Australia's history, geography, and political system.
The Union Jack, the stars of the Southern Cross, and the large 7 point Federation Star.

No way I'll ever spend one cent in ALDI again.
Which of course won't send them broke.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 12, 2024, 02:54:14 PM: National Weather Service data shows there has never been a colder Iowa caucus night than what is forecast for Jan. 15. The previous coldest was in 2004, when the high temperature for the caucus was 16 degrees.

We may not warm above zero degrees on Monday, said Des Moine meteorologist Chad Hahn. I would not be surprised if we dont get above minus 20 degrees for wind chills beginning on Sunday.
-- AP

If the demog there in Iowa has younger voters skewing away from Trump, then old folks staying home could help Haley and/or DeSantis. But could go the other way, due to the common phenomenon of the most extremist voters mustering highest turnout. Repubs not happy with the whole field, who might grudgingly go for Haley, might opt to stay home close to the hearth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 12, 2024, 04:57:04 PM: The families of our leaders have the opportunity to do good and to serve our people and to serve humanity.

Gerald Ford's wife, Betty Ford, had a drug problem, so she dealt with it publicly and she brought the whole nation into her battle against addiction, and then she opened the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California, to help other people to get clean. Ozzy Osbourne and Elizabeth Taylor and many other stars went to the Better Ford Center to get clean.

I had a professor in community college who attended San Diego State University, and he worked at the Betty Ford Center, and he was involved with Carl Rogers, etc, and he taught us a lot about how the program at the Betty Ford Center worked, and he said it was a great job and he loved meeting the stars, he made the Betty Ford Center sound like a great place to work.

Betty Ford made the world a better place via her position as the wife of Gerald Ford. And instead of being shamed for her addiction she dealt with it in public and made her recovery a team goal, and then she helped others.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 12, 2024, 07:11:36 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM
You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.

When I look at all the injustices of the world, and I drive past churches, I ask myself, What kind of people worship there?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 12, 2024, 09:05:00 PM: Of note is that the 5 Eyes Intelligence group members besides US and UK ...Canada, Australia, NZ, that did not have ships involved in the UK/US missile attacks on Houthis in Yemen...we're given credit by Biden Admin as assisting/supporting.
Allies all.

Houthis are now threathening to take revenge on all countries involved.
As such, Australia should hit the red alert button and immediately ban all immigration/travel to and from Yemen etc.
"Lock down" the country tightly.
Other countries involved should do the same.

Houthi terrorists are coming.
*Welcoming* parties should be ready for them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 10:29:10 PM: Aside from shithole inspectors nobody is coming to Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 13, 2024, 01:17:59 AM: Vivek finding out the reality of the GOP.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-campaign-still-facing-voter-questions-race-religion-da-rcna133721

Guess he never heard of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, huh?

If Nikki Haley wins in New Hampshire she will quickly become Nimarata for the rest of the primary states.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 01:23:43 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 10:29:10 PM
Aside from shithole inspectors nobody is coming to Australia.

Wish it were so, but when terrorists threaten things it's best to heed their words and make defensive plans.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 09:45:50 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 12, 2024, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM
You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.

When I look at all the injustices of the world, and I drive past churches, I ask myself, What kind of people worship there?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That would be people who believe that Jesus was/is real.
That he was born on earth in Bethlehem, walked among the People of the time, was crucified, then ascended into Heaven.
Christmas and Easter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 13, 2024, 11:49:53 AM: Not people who remember that Jesus was born a refugee and that his mission was to get people to support the least among us and to separate the spiritual from the political, tearing down hypocrites who fake holiness for political ends and serve personal greed at the expense of their fellow man.

King saw churches filled with people at war with the kingdom of Heaven that Jesus described.

You should think about this as you finish your journey straight to Hell, Bambu. An awakening that saves you from your blasphemous idolatry may still be possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 13, 2024, 12:02:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 09:45:50 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 12, 2024, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM
You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.

When I look at all the injustices of the world, and I drive past churches, I ask myself, What kind of people worship there?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That would be people who believe that Jesus was/is real.
That he was born on earth in Bethlehem, walked among the People of the time, was crucified, then ascended into Heaven.
Christmas and Easter.

You missed King's point. He looked around America and could not help wondering how people who purportedly followed Christ could treat their fellow human beings the way they were doing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 13, 2024, 02:30:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 13, 2024, 12:02:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 09:45:50 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 12, 2024, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM
You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.

When I look at all the injustices of the world, and I drive past churches, I ask myself, What kind of people worship there?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That would be people who believe that Jesus was/is real.
That he was born on earth in Bethlehem, walked among the People of the time, was crucified, then ascended into Heaven.
Christmas and Easter.

You missed King's point. He looked around America and could not help wondering how people who purportedly followed Christ could treat their fellow human beings the way they were doing.

King was right. If they are not helping the poor, and if they are not ministering to the people in prison, and if they are not helping the orphans, etc, as the Lord instructs us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46, then they are not real Christians. And they will be known by their deeds, there are a lot of fake Christians who are just profiting off of the Lord without doing as the Lord instructs us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46.

And part of the joy of success and wealth is giving your money away to the poor and helping others and being altruistic, like Elvis did, Elvis was a good Christian, and listen to his song "In The Ghetto" as it is a very powerful song that made me weep as a child, we need to help the poor people in the ghettos. We can pay the immigrants at our Southern Border to put a new coat of paint on our ghettos, we can paint the ghettos bright cheerful colors, and we can build libraries and coffee shops in the ghettos, etc, and old buildings can be torn down to create green space such as parks, etc. I think Elvis was friends with Martin Luther King Jr.

If they are not helping the orphans, and the poor, and if they are not ministering to the people in prison, etc, like the Lord instructs in Matthew 25; 31-46 then they are not real Christians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 04:52:48 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 13, 2024, 11:49:53 AM
Not people who remember that Jesus was born a refugee and that his mission was to get people to support the least among us and to separate the spiritual from the political, tearing down hypocrites who fake holiness for political ends and serve personal greed at the expense of their fellow man.

King saw churches filled with people at war with the kingdom of Heaven that Jesus described.

You should think about this as you finish your journey straight to Hell, Bambu. An awakening that saves you from your blasphemous idolatry may still be possible.

Towing back the boats by "The Monk" (former Aust Prime Minister Tony Abbott) was a very good Christian act.
. Put the people smugglers out of business.
. Stopped asylum seekers drowning at sea when the unseaworthy smuggling boats sank.
. Allowed refugees waiting in line in UN camps worldwide, some sleeping standing up in mud, their chance at a safe and better life.
. Enforced the rule of law, enforced border security/integrity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 13, 2024, 05:39:14 PM: John Kerry bowing out as Energy Czar.
And people say there is no good news anymore!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 13, 2024, 05:39:55 PM: If we want to reduce the number of refugees in the world then we need to invest a lot more money into the Peace Corps, and we need to prevent the situations that cause the mass exoduses.

And in El Salvador we can send representatives from Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles to help them with their gang problems, etc, and we can also send representatives from Boy's Town to teach them how to help the orphans.

We can also connect New Orleans, Louisiana, up with Colombia, and Colombia can send the Coffee Beans directly from Colombia to the ports in New Orleans, and the Coffee Beans can be roasted in New Orleans and from there the Roasted Coffee Beans can be sent all over the USA and to Canada, etc. And we can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors and we can open libraries and Coffee Shops in our ghettos and the Colombian Coffee can be sold in the freshly painted ghettos all over the USA, along with nice new libraries, etc.

We also need to send teachers to the poor places, along with the libraries and coffee shops, etc.

And we need to invest in Peace and the Advancement of Peaceful Human Civilization.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 06:18:18 PM: Then there is the war between Christian denominations...Roman Catholic and Protestant.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 14, 2024, 04:47:39 AM: If you all went Quaker and took it seriously you would be more respected and less maligned. You could not get any further from Heaven than where you are heading now. What is the harm in trying to fly right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 14, 2024, 11:03:12 AM: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

Critic of Claudine Gay apparently not quite as reputable a scientist as many wanted to believe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 14, 2024, 02:02:48 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on January 13, 2024, 05:39:14 PM
John Kerry bowing out as Energy Czar.
And people say there is no good news anymore!

It is great news. Kerry is moving to campaigning full time to save America from pricks like you.

This year there is no work more important in this country than whooping your ass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 14, 2024, 04:17:47 PM: The Abraham Accords were a good idea because it went back to Abraham when all faiths were united.

And yes, there have been problems between England and the Catholic Church, but right now we need to work together for peace, and we need to stop Putin, etc. The whole world needs to unite to stop Putin. The United Nations needs to have more power.

And on the issue of Elvis, and the song "In the Ghetto," it would be great if Shakira could sing "In The Ghetto" and then use the money earned to start a new charity to beautify and improve our ghettos, the ghettos can be painted bright cheerful colors, and libraries can be built in the ghettos, and there can be Coffee Shops in the ghetto selling Colombian Coffee, etc. I am sure Priscilla would allow Shakira to sing the song for charity.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 14, 2024, 07:32:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 13, 2024, 12:02:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 13, 2024, 09:45:50 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 12, 2024, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 12, 2024, 02:50:21 PM
You have to clean out your stable, Bambu.

Strip the cross from the Ralph Reeds and Leonard Leos of the world. Then what you are saying might make a little more sense.

When I look at all the injustices of the world, and I drive past churches, I ask myself, What kind of people worship there?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That would be people who believe that Jesus was/is real.
That he was born on earth in Bethlehem, walked among the People of the time, was crucified, then ascended into Heaven.
Christmas and Easter.

You missed King's point. He looked around America and could not help wondering how people who purportedly followed Christ could treat their fellow human beings the way they were doing.

He was very wise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 02:16:08 PM: America needs to do a better job pertaining to teaching Civics to our people; we have a nation that is Of the People, By the People, For the People, and it is up to us to be the caretakers of our nation.

And if things are getting bad, then it is up to us to save America and to make things better.

Scott Baio has lived a charmed life, Scott experienced the very best that the USA has to offer, he had the beautiful girlfriends and the dream job as an actor working on "Happy Days" and several other hit shows, he has had wealth, and fame, and honor, and all of the best that the world has to offer. But, then as soon as times get hard, he leaves California and moves to Florida instead of helping to save California. And if a rich and powerful man like Scott Baio has a hard time here, then imagine how ineffective a poor man like me must be as I try to make things better not only here in California, but also all over the USA, and I want to see conditions improve in Mexico, and in Latin America, and in the world. It is up to the people at the top to help to save the USA, and Scott Baio should have tried to help to save California instead of just running to Florida when times get hard. The poor homeless guys cannot save California, it is up to the rich guys at the top like Scott Baio to save California.

American Citizens need to be taught what it means to be an American Citizen, and they need to be taught the responsibilities that come with being an American Citizen.

Of the people, By the People, For the People. Of Us, By Us, For Us.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 03:44:18 PM: We have stars on our flag, and our stars are our Royalty in America. Hopefully we elevate the best and the coolest to the level of stardom to be leaders for our nation. And Frank Sinatra really was Chairman of the Board, Sinatra was a leader. And Marilyn, and John Wayne, our stars have always been our Royalty. Elvis was the King. Our stars are our Royalty. Reagan was a star who became President.

In Colombia they have Shakira who is helping to build schools and teach the children in Colombia, she is a star who is Royalty in Colombia.

And of note, we can all make a difference by volunteering with charities such as Kiwanis International, we can all help to make the world a better place.

Life is crazy, and God has picked me to be a diplomat for the USA on a couple of occasions, I had a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a Chinese General, and I made Peace with her. And then I became friends with wealthy people from the Philippines, including a cousin of the former President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo. And I dined with the Mayor of Laguna Beach at a formal dinner to discuss ways to help the homeless and I taught her a lot. I was also in Kiwanis with the members of City Hall, etc. So, God uses me to help people, even though I am a humble man of little means, but then so too was Cesar Chavez poor, Cesar Chavez was not motivated by wealth, he was motivated by the desire to help other human beings, and he changed the world. We will see what happens.

Meanwhile I am blessed to be gifted in the ancient art of Rhetoric, and I can use this computer to connect with people.

We will see what happens.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 04:20:37 PM: My favorite star right now is Dolly Parton, and she is Royalty in America. Dolly donated the money that found the vaccine for Covid, she donated to Vanderbilt University and they found the cure. Dolly also donates books and libraries, etc. Dolly started out very poor, and she became one of the most powerful people in the world. I love Dolly Parton.

Another great star is Willie Nelson, he performed to raise money to help the farmers, and he even smoked pot on the roof of the White House with Carter's son. Willie Nelson is Royalty in the USA.

In Hollywood we have Jeff Bridges who is a cool star, he lives in Malibu. Jeff Bridges helps to raise money to feed the hungry children, and he does a lot of good things.

Our stars are our Royalty in the USA.

Roy Rogers was King of the Cowboys, and he donated children's hospitals, and he founded the Happy Trails Children's Foundation, etc. Roy and Dale gave all of their money away to charity and they lived humble lives in Apple Valley where the cost of living was cheap at that time. Roy never owned a Rolls Royce or anything, although he had a special Cadillac that was made for him. Roy did have a nice yacht for a while that he used to take his family to Catalina Island on, for a while yachts were popular, and John Wayne had a yacht, etc. Roy tried to set a good example for the children, and he gave all of his money to charity. Roy was a good guy. And Roy started out poor and was a child of the Great Depression, he picked fruit here in California when he first got here, he lived in the same camp that was in the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.

Anyhow, our stars are our Royalty in America, like Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 05:46:24 PM: On Martin Luther King Jr Day it is important for people to remember their achievements, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968; which are also known as the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. We need to all have an equal shot at jobs and housing, otherwise it is all bullshit. If we have to be poor, and homeless, and outcast, here in our own nation then it is all bullshit. So, we have rules which insure that we all have an equal shot at being able to earn a living and to rent an apartment, and that was what Martin Luther King Jr marched for.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 07:53:50 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 07:14:58 PM
You have an equal shot at being QB for the Rams?

You are as mistaken about the concept of Equality as you are about everything you post.

You live in the world of your imagination; sorry, it is not the real world.

You are projecting your own failure as a human being onto me.

And we all have an equal shot at Public Housing, and on Government Jobs, etc. And McDonald's has to be an equal opportunity employer, etc.

Our Equal Opportunity Act of 1964 does not mean we can all be Tom Hanks, but it means that NASA has to give you an equal opportunity.

Fair Housing does not mean we all get mansions in Malibu, but everyone has an equal shot here at my apartment complex where I live.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 08:13:13 PM: Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 people could say "Help Wanted, Blacks need not apply." But after the Equal Opportunity Act then people cannot say that. At NASA the Blacks have the same opportunities as anyone else under the law. It does not mean you are going to be able to achieve success without hard work, it just means that they cannot block you based on race.

The same with my apartment complex, they cannot say "Apartment for rent, no Blacks allowed," after the Civil Rights Act of 1968 then we all have the right to rent that available apartment. They cannot make you be homeless because you are Black, or Irish, or Palestinian, or Jewish, or whatever.

Our Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and 1968, make America a better and more just place.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 15, 2024, 09:30:16 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 09:01:44 PM

Well lets compare my failure to your grand achievements:
(...)
Yes, I know you cannot judge a life by such material things...

So why mention them, and in such detail?

This sort of whipping out a tape measure stuff, especially with someone you claim bored you to tears and whom you want to ignore, is baffling and seems manifestly not worth your time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 10:10:15 PM: I find no joy in personal attacks, and you do not see me on here attacking the people here.

And we have 50,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles alone, if one has a home then one is one of the lucky ones.

I could never serve in the military, and I could never be a cop, because I am Color Blind, and I cannot see the color of the clothing and of the cars. I have a disability that prevents me from being able to serve in the military.

And in a world that runs on nepotism I am unfortunate to have had my Father die when I was 9 years old, and my Grandfather died when I was a baby, I was raised by poor widows, and I worked 12 hours a day at 10 years old washing dogs for my Grandmother who was forced to work as a Dog Groomer, we worked very hard for 12 hours a day, and she refused to accept welfare. My uncles were criminals who sold drugs and who did time in prison, I tried to help my one uncle and he ended up committing suicide here in my apartment. I was never a drug dealer, and I tried my best to make an honest living.

I never succeeded, but the streets are full of homeless people who never succeeded, it does not make me a bad person. And there are many people who are wealthy who are scum, so you just never know.

Anyhow, I am not going to get into personal attacks. And I never claimed to be anything that I am not.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 15, 2024, 10:11:58 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 09:01:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 07:53:50 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 07:14:58 PM
You have an equal shot at being QB for the Rams?

You are as mistaken about the concept of Equality as you are about everything you post.

You live in the world of your imagination; sorry, it is not the real world.

You are projecting your own failure as a human being onto me.

Well lets compare my failure to your grand achievements:

You live in an apartment complex (section 8 housing) and I live in a $500,000 + single family home with 2 Volvos and 3,000 sq.ft. No mortgage.

You have zero in Savings. I have $ 430,000 in 2 CDs earning 5%, a nice pension check and Soc. Sec. Check monthly. And I will not mention my wife s income, since you have no wife except the one you imagine waiting for you in Rome at the pizzeria you will never have.

Yes, I know you cannot judge a life by such material things and I am a failure for telling you some truth about your postings here. But not to worry. Your posts drive me to tears and bore me to death. Somehow I will find the strength to ignore you again.

No salute for you, you never served.

Hey! You wanna adopt a new tax deduction?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 15, 2024, 11:48:17 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 10:26:32 PM
No, you just insult people s intelligence with your naive and idiotic prescriptions about how we should improve the country and the world. You may be the nicest person in the universe, but you do not know a damn thing about quote what we need to do unquote.

So long. Happy trails.

You are a sad little Troll is what you are. And you did nothing to enlighten us about your point of view on our Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 that people marched and worked hard to get and that Martin Luther King Jr helped to bring about. Today is Martin Luther King Jr day and he dedicated his life to improving Civil Rights, and instead of acknowledging that you attacked me with personal attacks, and then you keep going with your stupid shit.

You are a Troll.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 12:29:24 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 10:26:32 PM
No, you just insult people s intelligence with your naive and idiotic prescriptions about how we should improve the country and the world. You may be the nicest person in the universe, but you do not know a damn thing about quote what we need to do unquote.

I beg to differ.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2024, 12:54:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 12:29:24 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 10:26:32 PM
No, you just insult people s intelligence with your naive and idiotic prescriptions about how we should improve the country and the world. You may be the nicest person in the universe, but you do not know a damn thing about quote what we need to do unquote.

I beg to differ.

Thank you Bambu!

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 16, 2024, 01:02:18 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 10:01:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 15, 2024, 09:30:16 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 09:01:44 PM

Well lets compare my failure to your grand achievements:
(...)
Yes, I know you cannot judge a life by such material things...

So why mention them, and in such detail?

This sort of whipping out a tape measure stuff, especially with someone you claim bored you to tears and whom you want to ignore, is baffling and seems manifestly not worth your time.

Nothing baffling really. I just pity him for thinking his nonsense posted here could have any effect on making America better. He is beyond help and not worth my time. But someone needs to slap some sense into his head now and then.

You have to massage sense into his head. Slapping just feels like slapping.

Tony seems like a nice guy, extremely susceptible to the entertainment industry in ways that very rarely work out to an individuals benefit.

Several here do try to catch him up on developments of the last fifty years though very little of it seems to stick or alter his course.

Go gentle with our brother Tony, if only as a test of your own ability to push back with delicacy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 04:05:52 AM: Tony is working for good not evil.
His ideas, ...high speed train, shelter and support for the homeless, beautifying America and promoting tourism, ideas for promoting trade....peace, love and harmony in the world are good ones.

Never know who reads these forums, other forum sites...politicians are always looking for new ideas, and public opinion.

Slap Tony around?
No, ...eye damage can result from a slap. Death even. A person slapped could fall, topple, leaving the head exposed to damage.

One punch can kill.

Is Tony a "romantic", a "dreamer"?
Maybe, but that's not a crime.
In fact we could do with more "romantics" and "dreamers" in the word today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 09:11:40 AM: Oh what will become of basically defenceless Australia?
It was revealed on Sky News last night that the extra few military personnel promised to the US instead of ships to fight the Houthis in the Red Sea haven't even been sent yet.
It was also revealed that 2 of the only several warships in Australia's fleet will have to be taken out of service...can't get enough personnel to sail them.
Ditto the army.
Seems no one much wants to join the military today.
No surprise to bambu-ilk, given the suicide and PTSD statistics of young soldiers/sailors, and the war crimes allegations/impending trials (possible).
See the Taliban holding any war crimes trials?
See the Taliban charging any of their fighters with murder if ordered out on a night raid, and when fired upon from a house, seriously firing back at the house, killing the occupants including women and children?
No 1 radio host saved the troops involved from murder charges.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 09:37:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 09:11:40 AM
It was also revealed that 2 of the only several warships in Australia's fleet will have to be taken out of service...can't get enough personnel to sail them.
Ditto the army.
Seems no one much wants to join the military today.
You like dreamers? I dream of the day when that is universal.
Quote

See the Taliban charging any of their fighters with murder if ordered out on a night raid, and when fired upon from a house, seriously firing back at the house, killing the occupants including women and children?
So, your primary question on how civilized nations and their military should act is, "What would the Taliban do?" They are your standard of behavior? Interesting.
Quote
No 1 radio host saved the troops involved from murder charges.
Fuck your No. 2 No. 1 radio host.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2024, 11:14:30 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 16, 2024, 01:02:18 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 10:01:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 15, 2024, 09:30:16 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 15, 2024, 09:01:44 PM

Well lets compare my failure to your grand achievements:
(...)
Yes, I know you cannot judge a life by such material things...

So why mention them, and in such detail?

This sort of whipping out a tape measure stuff, especially with someone you claim bored you to tears and whom you want to ignore, is baffling and seems manifestly not worth your time.

Nothing baffling really. I just pity him for thinking his nonsense posted here could have any effect on making America better. He is beyond help and not worth my time. But someone needs to slap some sense into his head now and then.

You have to massage sense into his head. Slapping just feels like slapping.

Tony seems like a nice guy, extremely susceptible to the entertainment industry in ways that very rarely work out to an individuals benefit.

Several here do try to catch him up on developments of the last fifty years though very little of it seems to stick or alter his course.

Go gentle with our brother Tony, if only as a test of your own ability to push back with delicacy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2024, 12:25:06 PM: I am not defending naive political views (after all, we come here and discuss to reduce naivete, no?), just saying that someone with a kind heart who doesn't disparage others in his posts is not really a threat to the overall dialog. One reason Tony has such a profusion of ideas is that he retains an open mind - I think that deserves some respect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 12:56:33 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 16, 2024, 12:25:06 PM
I am not defending naive political views (after all, we come here and discuss to reduce naivete, no?), just saying that someone with a kind heart who doesn't disparage others in his posts is not really a threat to the overall dialog. One reason Tony has such a profusion of ideas is that he retains an open mind - I think that deserves some respect.
Well, I seem to recall an overtly racist post about the people moving into Antelope Valley.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2024, 01:18:37 PM: I feel like he moved away from that when challenged. Maybe - I don't remember that chat well. In any case, I've seen Tony somewhat modify his views after getting feedback, which is kind of refreshing.

On a different topic, I was so annoyed that a Trump victory party would appropriate George Harrison s What is Life that I had to cleanse that wonderful song by watching this video, with two dancers from the SF Ballet... beautiful!

https://youtu.be/fiH9edd25Bc?si=b8hQU03TCitJoIWq
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 02:48:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 09:37:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 09:11:40 AM
It was also revealed that 2 of the only several warships in Australia's fleet will have to be taken out of service...can't get enough personnel to sail them.
Ditto the army.
Seems no one much wants to join the military today.
You like dreamers? I dream of the day when that is universal.
Quote

See the Taliban charging any of their fighters with murder if ordered out on a night raid, and when fired upon from a house, seriously firing back at the house, killing the occupants including women and children?
So, your primary question on how civilized nations and their military should act is, "What would the Taliban do?" They are your standard of behavior? Interesting.
Quote
No 1 radio host saved the troops involved from murder charges.
Fuck your No. 2 No. 1 radio host.

Standard of behaviour?
All good.
But best of luck recruiting people to live up to those standards in a war, with their lives on the line.
So the People are saying "no thanks" to joining the military.
Charged with murder for firing back at a house that's firing at you? Baaah!

Nuke missiles must now be the weapons of choice for Australia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 16, 2024, 02:53:57 PM: Take his lament, among dozens, that Iranians live in Beverly Hills and Americans sleep on the sidewalks.

I have issues with Salute Tony V's posts as well, but I don't believe that lament is his. It's Luee's.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:00:37 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 16, 2024, 12:14:46 PM
FAC, OC: Your defense of a guy who praises monarchy and Royalty and then
whines about Nepotism keeping him jobless is quite touching.
Tony has been trying out this script of his for years. I have refrained from
any critique for too long. He wants to write his self-pity and nonsense on Elba,
that is his choice. Back on ignore he goes, as soon as I give him a whiff of the grapes of Truth.

1) Hollywood is about make-believe, not reality.

There are many movies made in Hollywood that are about true stories/events.

Maybe you'd like to post in this forum your practical solutions for helping the vast number of homeless people in America improve their lives, have enough to eat, and stop having to live and die in squalor on the streets.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:17:31 PM: I have no issues with Salute Tony V's posts.
My lament is that immigrant camps for asylum-seekers/economic immigrants are being set up in America at the expense of locals having to vacate their stadiums etc to make room.

Said camps providing every amenity for the immigrants, plenty of food, every luxury, while Americans are starving, dirty, putrid clothes, on the streets.

Trump had the right idea...make the asylum seekers apply from Mexican soil, where they are safe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 03:32:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:17:31 PM
I have no issues with Salute Tony V's posts.
My lament is that immigrant camps for asylum-seekers/economic immigrants are being set up in America at the expense of locals having to vacate their stadiums etc to make room.

Said camps providing every amenity for the immigrants, plenty of food, every luxury, while Americans are starving, dirty, putrid clothes, on the streets.

Trump had the right idea...make the asylum seekers apply from Mexican soil, where they are safe.
That would have essentially zero effect on homelessness in the US because they are unrelated issues. If you want to know why we have not tackled the homelessness problem, ask your No. 1 radio hosts and the politicians he supports.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 03:33:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 16, 2024, 12:14:46 PM
FAC, OC: Your defense of a guy who praises monarchy and Royalty and then
whines about Nepotism keeping him jobless is quite touching.
Tony has been trying out this script of his for years. I have refrained from
any critique for too long. He wants to write his self-pity and nonsense on Elba,
that is his choice. Back on ignore he goes, as soon as I give him a whiff of the grapes of Truth.

1) Hollywood is about make-believe, not reality.

There are many movies made in Hollywood that are about true stories/events.

Maybe you'd like to post in this forum your practical solutions for helping the vast number of homeless people in America improve their lives, have enough to eat, and stop having to live and die in squalor on the streets.
Vote for Democrats. That is the most practical solution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:51:03 PM: Spanish singer and actor Miguel Bose...video on Instagram...

"40,000 slave children in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars."

#####

Slave children in Africa today?
Surely not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2024, 05:05:53 PM: Solar is great in the deserts, and in sunny locations, but in areas such as Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they receive snow every year, then there needs to be a heating source on the solar panels to melt the snow.

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The heating film for solar panels is made to measure in double layer adhesive aluminum for any model of solar panel, with modular power supply system with IP68 connectors and with a power of about 175 W. In a few minutes it brings the surface of the panel to around 10 degrees Celsius eliminating the snow.

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People are showing photos on the web of solar panels covered in snow and they are saying that solar is impractical in areas where it snows, but they just need to spend a few dollars more to apply the heating film to their solar panels and the heating film will melt the snow. Solar is fine for Battle Mountain, you just need to spend a few dollars more to buy the heating film to melt the snow.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2024, 05:27:28 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2024, 05:05:53 PM

People are showing photos on the web of solar panels covered in snow and they are saying that solar is impractical in areas where it snows, but they just need to spend a few dollars more to apply the heating film to their solar panels and the heating film will melt the snow. Solar is fine for Battle Mountain, you just need to spend a few dollars more to buy the heating film to melt the snow.

Correct. Also, any smooth surface angled for maximum sun, snow will melt off quickly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 16, 2024, 05:31:52 PM: REPOSTED (got lost earlier in the chat)

I was so annoyed that a Trump victory party in Iowa would appropriate George Harrison s What is Life that I had to cleanse that wonderful song by watching this video, with two dancers from the SF Ballet... beautiful!

https://youtu.be/fiH9edd25Bc?si=b8hQU03TCitJoIWq
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 05:45:21 PM: mrs bambu stayed in 'Quad Cities' Iowa/Illinois when she visited America.
Her hosts and other people she met there were very nice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 05:56:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 14, 2024, 11:03:12 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

Critic of Claudine Gay apparently not quite as reputable a scientist as many wanted to believe.
Claudine Gay is reputable?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 06:00:45 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 05:56:26 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 14, 2024, 11:03:12 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

Critic of Claudine Gay apparently not quite as reputable a scientist as many wanted to believe.
Claudine Gay is reputable?
Reading is fundamental. Try it sometime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 06:28:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 06:00:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 05:56:26 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 14, 2024, 11:03:12 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

Critic of Claudine Gay apparently not quite as reputable a scientist as many wanted to believe.
Claudine Gay is reputable?
Reading is fundamental. Try it sometime.
Reading Claudine Gay is reading who?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 06:46:12 PM: Quote from: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 06:28:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 16, 2024, 06:00:45 PM
Quote from: Espnthree on January 16, 2024, 05:56:26 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 14, 2024, 11:03:12 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

Critic of Claudine Gay apparently not quite as reputable a scientist as many wanted to believe.
Claudine Gay is reputable?
Reading is fundamental. Try it sometime.
Reading Claudine Gay is reading who?
I prefer blue cheese dressing on my word salad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 16, 2024, 09:31:26 PM: California is going to fund medical insurance for the immigrants regardless of status.

Health care is a right for all humans, and I support health care for everyone.

Of note, I recommend opening Free Clinics like the one on Beverly Blvd by the Beverly Center, where the doctors all volunteer their time, and where the funds come from charity, etc. We need to open community free clinics wherever we can, there is a huge demand for such a service.

https://www.sabancommunityclinic.org/locations/beverly-health-center

I also support Mental Health Associations such as the one in Santa Ana, and I support Wellness Centers such as the one in Orange.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 11:55:12 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 16, 2024, 04:06:06 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 16, 2024, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 16, 2024, 12:14:46 PM
FAC, OC: Your defense of a guy who praises monarchy and Royalty and then
whines about Nepotism keeping him jobless is quite touching.
Tony has been trying out this script of his for years. I have refrained from
any critique for too long. He wants to write his self-pity and nonsense on Elba,
that is his choice. Back on ignore he goes, as soon as I give him a whiff of the grapes of Truth.

1) Hollywood is about make-believe, not reality.

There are many movies made in Hollywood that are about true stories/events.

Maybe you'd like to post in this forum your practical solutions for helping the vast number of homeless people in America improve their lives, have enough to eat, and stop having to live and die in squalor on the streets.

Movies based on real life people almost never refrain from embellishing the storyline for box-office effects. Those that do not are called documentaries.
Hollywood produces junk and special effects fantasies.

Once again, you make statements based on lies you choose to believe.
There have always been homeless people in America, that is a fact.
I saw a stat that 1 in 8 Americans have been homeless at one time, even if only for a week or month. It is also widely known that something like a third of all Americans have less than a $1000 in savings.
How could those two facts be true in the wealthiest country in the world?
I will give you a hint: the top 1% of people have 40% of the wealth.

The GOP policy for the homeless is now they got what they deserve. Period.
The US is in decline and saps like you are going to have to defend yourselves completely on your own. Hope you like Chinese food.

When I see a starving homeless person on the street, believe me I buy them a meal, as do many good, decent Americans.

When China has taken over the rest of the world, it will come for America...and America won't stand a chance. America/ns will be enslaved, or the world will end in nuclear war.
America needs to form a solid Coalition Of US Aligned Nations...COUSAN.
50 nations, 100 nations, 150 nations...as many as possible, to stand against the China-Russia-North Korea-Iran etc Alliance.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 12:06:25 PM: Bambu proves once again that world looks very different to those looking up at it from inside the bottom of a toilet bowl than it does to the rest of us.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 17, 2024, 01:44:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 12:06:25 PM
Bambu proves once again that world looks very different to those looking up at it from inside the bottom of a toilet bowl than it does to the rest of us.

Indeed.
There are two men...

One...the American man, armed with small and big guns with which to defend himself, his family, and his home.
His country armed to the max with the biggest and best conventional and nuclear weapons known to mankind.

Two...the Australian man, totally unarmed...not allowed weapons of any kind with which to defend himself, his family, and his home.
His country basically unarmed...few ships, smallish air force, dwindling number of troops in army.
No nuclear weapons.
No hope, relying totally on the generosity of others for its security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 01:56:23 PM: If you were found with a firearm, Bambu, you would likely be beaten upside the head with it.

Likely Mrs. Bambu would be near or at the head of the queue.

You have not stumbled across the movie Airplane on YouTube, or perhaps a clip, have you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 03:14:13 PM: Blessed are the Peacemakers.

I really did have a roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a Chinese General, it was not Hollywood fantasy, and we made peace, and we became good friends while we lived in the same house. We can have peace with China. China wants trade, and peace. Keep the Chinese busy with honest Business, and everything will be cool. I would also like to see Labor Unions happen in China that are independent of their government which can lead to more wealth for the good honest workers in China and unions can help to grow the Middle Class in China. Meanwhile, Sunkist is selling products to China from farmers here in California, etc, and China is buying more products from the USA everyday. We can have peace and trade with China.

In Russia, we have the artists and dancers on our team, there was Stanislavsky, and Anton Chekhov, and Michael Chekhov, etc. And New York is full of Russian descendants and they have the Russian Tea Room at Central Park in New York. We need for the good people to rise and to take charge of Russia. We cannot allow ignorant thugs and bullies to control the planet. We need for wise old peaceful leaders to lead. We need to find people in Russia who we can support, and we need to overthrow Putin and replace him with the good people in Russia. Putin needs to be locked in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

We need to always be spending money on the Peace Corps, and blessed are the Peace Makers.

For Iran, there is Mahlagha Jaberi who wants to help lead change and an improvement in Human Rights in Iran. And Farah Pahlavi lives in France, France is a powerful force in Iran. And we have one million Persians living in Los Angeles, with 40% of the children in the schools of Beverly Hills being Persians from Iran. We need to work for peace and improved human rights with Iran. And they are rich from Oil, etc, the oil prices are high and they are making money from oil. If we removed the sanctions on Iran then they would be wealthy quickly because of the oil.

There is also the issue of Cuba, now would be a good time to push for freedom and good human rights in Cuba, and we need to remove the sanctions on Cuba so they can make money and rise.

Lots of good things are happening in Mexico, and in Colombia, etc, we are making progress, and we can send representatives from Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles to El Salvador to teach them how to handle their gang situation, etc, and we can send representatives from Boy's Town to El Salvador to teach them how to help the orphans, etc.

Meanwhile Pope Francis is a great man of peace.

And Mayor Bass is doing all that she can to help the homeless in Los Angeles, and they need to build cheap hostels and cheap Sober Living Homes, etc.

Also, Governor Newsom is making sure that every person in California has health care, regardless of immigration status. We also need to build more Free Clinics for Medical Care, like the Free Clinic on Beverly Blvd by the Beverly Center.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 03:37:06 PM: Tony, do you know somewhere good I could go eat with my dog in your neck of the woods? I
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 03:46:50 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 03:37:06 PM
Tony, do you know somewhere good I could go eat with my dog in your neck of the woods? I

Huntington Beach has a very nice hotel where Dogs are welcome, and the food is fantastic, and they also have a Dog Beach in Huntington where you can take your Dog on the Beach. The prices are kind of high, but the quality is fantastic.

In Anaheim there is a Dog Park at La Palma Park, which is right by the original Carl's Jr, it is a good spot to buy Hamburgers from Carl's Jr and to eat in the Park. And the prices are cheap with this option.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 17, 2024, 03:55:25 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 03:14:13 PM
Blessed are the Peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Well, obviously it is not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 06:48:16 PM: Christina Pascucci wants to have involuntary intervention for the mentally ill, and I warned her of a few concerns...

One is that innocent people can be locked in a mental hospital simply because they do not go along with the rich and powerful people, as was shown in the movie "Changeling" which stars Angelina Jolie and which was made by Clint Eastwood, that movie was based on a true story.

Also, they put harmless good people in with the worst of the worst. They were putting guys from Patton State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in with the harmless people, and they put criminals fresh out of prison in with the harmless people who simply had a nervous breakdown from being homeless, etc. They need to separate people, they need to stop putting the good honest peaceful people in with the criminally insane. And I told her about how bad the Sylmar Mental Hospital was and it is probably still bad.

I also told her to talk with Geraldo Rivera, Geraldo got famous from reporting on how bad our mental hospitals were at that time, Christina Pascucci needs to talk with Geraldo Rivera about the mental hospitals.

And some people need to be treated in a nice garden environment instead of a prison type environment. There needs to be places where the good peaceful people can get help without being locked in with the criminals, etc.

It is a slippery slope once they approve of locking people in mental hospitals against their will.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 07:18:54 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 03:46:50 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 03:37:06 PM
Tony, do you know somewhere good I could go eat with my dog in your neck of the woods? I

Huntington Beach has a very nice hotel where Dogs are welcome, and the food is fantastic, and they also have a Dog Beach in Huntington where you can take your Dog on the Beach. The prices are kind of high, but the quality is fantastic.

In Anaheim there is a Dog Park at La Palma Park, which is right by the original Carl's Jr, it is a good spot to buy Hamburgers from Carl's Jr and to eat in the Park. And the prices are cheap with this option.

Salute,

Tony V.

I think I would rather grab something from El Pollo Fino than from Carls.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 18, 2024, 11:14:21 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 18, 2024, 09:07:55 AM
Interesting case for the discredited High Court:

Chevron Deference: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over a fishing regulation that could overturn a key precedent on the power of federal agencies, a long-sought goal of the conservative legal movement.

Another move to dismantle the so-called deep state: fed regulatory power.

When statues are ambiguous (poorly written by Congress) whose interpretations should be followed? The agencies or the courts?

Solution: Elect Congress members who can write and read UNAMBIGUOUSLY!

Big business wins 6-3. Chevron 1984 is out.
Good Riddance.
The Constitution wins again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 18, 2024, 11:37:58 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on January 18, 2024, 11:14:21 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 18, 2024, 09:07:55 AM
Interesting case for the discredited High Court:

Chevron Deference: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over a fishing regulation that could overturn a key precedent on the power of federal agencies, a long-sought goal of the conservative legal movement.

Another move to dismantle the so-called deep state: fed regulatory power.

When statues are ambiguous (poorly written by Congress) whose interpretations should be followed? The agencies or the courts?

Solution: Elect Congress members who can write and read UNAMBIGUOUSLY!

Big business wins 6-3. Chevron 1984 is out.
Good Riddance.
The Constitution wins again.

Hahahahahahaha!

Whew
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 18, 2024, 11:47:07 AM: Quote from: Espnthree on January 18, 2024, 11:14:21 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 18, 2024, 09:07:55 AM
Interesting case for the discredited High Court:

Chevron Deference: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over a fishing regulation that could overturn a key precedent on the power of federal agencies, a long-sought goal of the conservative legal movement.

Another move to dismantle the so-called deep state: fed regulatory power.

When statues are ambiguous (poorly written by Congress) whose interpretations should be followed? The agencies or the courts?

Solution: Elect Congress members who can write and read UNAMBIGUOUSLY!

Big business wins 6-3. Chevron 1984 is out.
Good Riddance.
~~The Constitution wins again.~~
Stare decisis no longer exists, at least to the extent to which it conflicts with the right wing political goals of an activist Supreme Court. If that is the eventual ruling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Espnthree on January 18, 2024, 12:46:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 18, 2024, 11:47:07 AM
Quote from: Espnthree on January 18, 2024, 11:14:21 AM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 18, 2024, 09:07:55 AM
Interesting case for the discredited High Court:

Chevron Deference: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over a fishing regulation that could overturn a key precedent on the power of federal agencies, a long-sought goal of the conservative legal movement.

Another move to dismantle the so-called deep state: fed regulatory power.

When statues are ambiguous (poorly written by Congress) whose interpretations should be followed? The agencies or the courts?

Solution: Elect Congress members who can write and read UNAMBIGUOUSLY!

Big business wins 6-3. Chevron 1984 is out.
Good Riddance.
The Constitution wins again.

FIFY
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 02:11:57 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 07:18:54 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 17, 2024, 03:46:50 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 17, 2024, 03:37:06 PM
Tony, do you know somewhere good I could go eat with my dog in your neck of the woods? I

Huntington Beach has a very nice hotel where Dogs are welcome, and the food is fantastic, and they also have a Dog Beach in Huntington where you can take your Dog on the Beach. The prices are kind of high, but the quality is fantastic.

In Anaheim there is a Dog Park at La Palma Park, which is right by the original Carl's Jr, it is a good spot to buy Hamburgers from Carl's Jr and to eat in the Park. And the prices are cheap with this option.

Salute,

Tony V.

I think I would rather grab something from El Pollo Fino than from Carls.

El Pollo Fino is on Anaheim Blvd, by Taco Boy, and then across the street and down a little ways is the Guadalajara Restaurant, I recommend the Guadalajara Restaurant, they used to be open 24 hours per day, and the food is great. You can get food to go and then go to the Dog Park at La Palma Park and you can eat while your dog plays. Or, the Guadalajara Restaurant has outdoor dining where you can bring your dog.

https://www.taqueriasguadalajara.com/

The Guadalajara Restaurant makes wonderful Horchata to drink with your food, I love their Horchata.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 03:26:41 PM: City Hall is on Anaheim Blvd, and the Mayor loves El Pollo Fino, and also some old famous boxers hang out there. El Pollo Fino receives a lot of famous customers.

And my neighborhood has a lot of new immigrants from Guadalajara so the Guadalajara Restaurant is where all of the Locals go with their families, it is a special treat for the poor immigrants when they get to eat at the Guadalajara Restaurant, it is where all of the Locals eat.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 04:36:04 PM: SkyNews:

"We now know that hostages held by Hamas are being starved, tortured, and sexually assaulted".

#####

Keep on bombing.
Keep on killing Hamas.
Keep on finding the tunnels and destroying them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 04:40:51 PM: US has launched a massive air strike on Houthis in Yemen...destroyed the arsenal of the Houthis.
Good.
Keep on bombing, blow up every last weapon the Houthis have.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 05:02:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 04:40:51 PM
US has launched a massive air strike on Houthis in Yemen...destroyed the arsenal of the Houthis.
Good.
Keep on bombing, blow up every last weapon the Houthis have.

We declared the Houthis to be a Terrorist Group and we will proceed to remove them as a threat.

Meanwhile, I love China, the people from Pakistan and from Iran have been fighting against each other, and China has called for PEACE. We can surgically remove the bad guys without a war happening, and also Pakistan has Nuclear Weapons. We can work to remove the bad people in both Pakistan and in Iran without a mass war.

Of note, Tik Tok has been great at bringing the Chinese Youth and the American Youth together on the World Wide Web.

I am so happy that China is on the side of Peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 18, 2024, 05:19:33 PM: Blow up the warmongers?

Are you sure that is what you want, Bambi?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 05:38:03 PM: Bill Gates is in Colombia right now in meetings with the President of Colombia. That is cool. We have made a lot of wonderful progress in Colombia since the 1980s when it was horrible, and now Colombia is drawing investments and attention from Bill Gates, and other rich and powerful people.

On the issue of Mexico, you guys are right, assholes like Marco Rubio just want to use it to attack Biden instead of trying to help the poor immigrants. And our immigrants are REAL people, they are not pawns in the political bullshit. I told Rubio we need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did, the Republicans claim to have loved Reagan, and thus they need to study what Reagan did, and they will find that Reagan made our immigrants LEGAL so that they could come out of the shadows and be protected by our rules and laws, and so they could call the police to report a crime, and so they could join labor unions and be protected by OSHA and by our labor laws, etc. And we need to write a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

And Christina Pascucci needs to have an open public discussion with Geraldo Rivera on the issue of Mental Health and on the issue of Mental Hospitals, Geraldo is an expert and that was how he first became famous was reporting on our Mental Hospitals.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 18, 2024, 05:58:44 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 05:38:03 PM
On the issue of Mexico, you guys are right, assholes like Marco Rubio just want to use it to attack Biden instead of trying to help the poor immigrants. And our immigrants are REAL people, they are not pawns in the political bullshit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Well if Rubio has lost Tony he has lost the world.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 06:23:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 18, 2024, 05:19:33 PM
Blow up the warmongers?

Are you sure that is what you want, Bambi?

Yes.
Hamas.
Hezbollah (good to see Israel bombing them).
All Islamic terrorists.
All terrorists.
...and their enablers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 08:07:41 PM: The daughter of Xi of China attended Harvard here in the USA secretly under a fake name...

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

The Chinese love the USA, and they love Malibu, they attend Harvard, and they love Pepperdine, etc.

We can have peace with China, and China is helping to make the peace between Pakistan and Iran.

We can have healthy evolution instead of war and violent revolutions.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 08:34:40 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 18, 2024, 05:58:44 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 05:38:03 PM
On the issue of Mexico, you guys are right, assholes like Marco Rubio just want to use it to attack Biden instead of trying to help the poor immigrants. And our immigrants are REAL people, they are not pawns in the political bullshit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Well if Rubio has lost Tony he has lost the world.

Rubio is putting politics above helping people, and I cannot support that. We need for the Government to come together with a plan to help people and to make our immigrants legal, instead of using our poor immigrants as pawns.

We need to wake our public servants up and put them to work to help the people instead of partisan bullshit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 09:28:22 PM: International Monetary Fund

1 hour ago

Australia's economy is growing and inflation is coming down. The economy is set to achieve a soft landing, but reforms can help build resilience to address future challenges.

Read the whole report: https://bit.ly/3tYASBP

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These are good days for Australia, you will be fine Bambu.

And China is on our team, everything will be fine.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 10:05:33 PM: President Xi of China has a daughter who loves America, and who attended Harvard in secret...

https://soapboxie.com/world-politics/the-chinese-presidents-american-educated-daughter-xi-mingze

She loves singing, her Mom was a Folk Singer and Actress I guess, she was into the Arts.

She is 31 years old and she is still single, people are wondering if she will marry an American.

Maybe she can help to run the Entertainment Industry in China.

And I guess she is also into Fashion.

She has a degree in Psychology from Harvard.

I think Xi Mingze sounds like a cool person, and she can help to bring China and the USA closer together as allies.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 11:20:04 PM: Just watched a movie from long ago...let's say it's not in HD colour.
The Bounty Man (Remastered) starring Clint Walker
He a bounty hunter.
He caught one fugitive, the sheriff gave him a note to take to the bank and get $500.

The next fugitive he was after, he discovered, was hiding out, in...Battle Mountain. 🙂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 11:57:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 18, 2024, 11:20:04 PM
Just watched a movie from long ago...let's say it's not in HD colour.
The Bounty Man (Remastered) starring Clint Walker
He a bounty hunter.
He caught one fugitive, the sheriff gave him a note to take to the bank and get $500.

The next fugitive he was after, he discovered, was hiding out, in...Battle Mountain. 🙂

Very cool.

Clint Walker was a great man, I met him at a Roy Rogers Western Film Festival in Apple Valley, California, Clint told me that I was handsome like "Cheyenne" and that I could be the next Cheyenne. I remembered Clint from "The Dirty Dozen" (and I also met Charles Bronson from "The Dirty Dozen" when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette). Clint was a very cool guy, and it is cool that the movie mentioned Battle Mountain. I will have to watch it sometime.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 12:16:00 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 09:28:22 PM
International Monetary Fund

1 hour ago

Australia's economy is growing and inflation is coming down. The economy is set to achieve a soft landing, but reforms can help build resilience to address future challenges.

Read the whole report: https://bit.ly/3tYASBP

---------

These are good days for Australia, you will be fine Bambu.

And China is on our team, everything will be fine.

Salute,

Tony V.

China on our team?

Sky News yesterday:

"China's ambassador to Australia wants relationship to continuing improving".

PM Albo, from the "socialist left of the Labor Party" is being accused of "cosying up to China".
China called him "handsome boy"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 19, 2024, 12:35:00 AM: Someone should be checking your blood sugar, Bambi. You seem a little out of balance
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 12:45:46 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 18, 2024, 09:28:22 PM
International Monetary Fund

1 hour ago

Australia's economy is growing and inflation is coming down. The economy is set to achieve a soft landing, but reforms can help build resilience to address future challenges.

Read the whole report: https://bit.ly/3tYASBP

---------

These are good days for Australia, you will be fine Bambu.

And China is on our team, everything will be fine.

Salute,

Tony V.

65,000 people lost their full time jobs in Dec. A lot of jobs in a small population country.

At least the weather is nice for 'waltzing matilda'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 01:22:29 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 19, 2024, 12:35:00 AM
Someone should be checking your blood sugar, Bambi. You seem a little out of balance

I've been out of balance since age 16 when I was run down by a car on the side of a busy road thru my then Sydney suburb.
Major concussion etc. So if I stray from the forum path of righteousness, you'll have to forgive me.

Be careful crossing, playing near roads. Teach your children too.

Toddler girl of Indian heritage was accidentally run over and killed by her father in the driveway of their home in Sydney recently.
The next day the same thing happened to a boy toddler somewhere else in the state.

You usually only get one chance, the vehicle usually wins.

American exchange student on Youtube says in her video that when in Australia in 2023 she was nearly hit by cars when crossing the roads...cars coming from the other direction.
In Sydney CBD and some major suburbs, at intersections where pedestrians cross, is painted on the sidewalk "LOOK RIGHT".

I always look both ways 3 times before crossing any road. It's a good policy.

Also when driving, my head is like a clown at the fair, its head alwqys turning from side to side, you putting a ping pong/table tennis ball into its mouth to see if you win a prize.

We have 'roundabouts/traffic circles' *everywhere* instead of traffic lights.
Vehicles coming from the left, coming from the right, coming from straight ahead into the roundabout. It can be mayhem, especially with multiple lanes each way.

I was thrown totally out of balance last week when our relative's wife, in her 60's, died.
Seeing him at the funeral grieving was upsetting.
Realising what I'm in for if mrs bambu dies before me was /is horrible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 02:01:58 AM: Enough about me.
///

On my tv news just now were the relatives of the Jewish/Israeli etc hostages still held by the Hamas terrorists. Still being starved, tortured, and sexually assaulted.

South Africa, the Arab world, the UN etc...not happy with the war and Israel's destruction of Gaza to get the terrorists out and free the hostages, should remove all the Palestinians in Gaza to safety somewhere, to a large detention centre/refugee camp, secure so no one can escape [there could be terrorists hiding among them].
Israel could then find the tunnels, flatten Gaza, clear it of terrorists and tunnels, then allow the Palestinians to return...under UN military force security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2024, 02:12:37 AM: You are doing fine Bambu, and you are lucky to have a wife and it is great that you appreciate her, enjoy her while you are both alive.

And I had an Uncle who got me high on Angel Dust when I was 13 years old, it is a miracle I am not a vegetable. We smoked Angel Dust at a Judas Priest concert at the Great Western Forum, which is now the Kia Forum.

On the issue of terrorists, I support removing the bad apples while preserving the lives of the innocent people. Reward the good, remove the truly evil, and also, put them all to work, create honest jobs and keep them busy. Israel is growing eggplant the size of watermelon and the others in the area can do the same. China can buy eggplant from the Egyptians, etc. And they have great cotton in Egypt. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2024, 02:25:16 AM: Abu Dhabi and Dubai are wealthy, and the refugees from Gaza can become essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai. They can be transported by Kiwanis International, and by UNICEF, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 19, 2024, 01:54:13 PM: Still doing eye tests at the window in San Diego DMVs. Where are you seeing this?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 19, 2024, 03:10:16 PM: President of Colombia

We have spoken with Pope Francis of Colombia's Peace, as we had said, seeking a much more active position from both the Vatican State and the Catholic Church in the Colombia's Peace Process. It is possible that we will do a round of negotiations in the Vatican, it will already be discussed with the ELN, so that we can build an even much deeper step in stopping the violence.

------

Pope Francis is a wonderful Pope, and he is a great man of Peace. And lots of wonderful progress has been made in Colombia.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 03:59:24 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 19, 2024, 12:47:56 PM
More govt overreach at the Motor Vehicle Admin.

Used to be the county workers at the MVA could do the test
for the eye exam themselves. But no, not now!
Now you have to have the test done by an optometrist, have them
fill in more paperwork, and actually verify that you are able to drive
safely with corrective lenses! WTF.

We need less testing, not more by an intrusive Govt. We only have 40,000 traffic deaths per year and billions of dollars of damage and loss to personal property.

How much more would result from drivers with limited eyesight?
Not enough to allow the govt. to regulate vision!

All regulations are unconstitutional. ALL regs restrict FREEDOM. That must end.

Same goes in bambuworld.
Doctor has to pass you as fit to drive, at age 75, includes eye test.
At age 85 you also have to do a driving test at the"DMV".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 19, 2024, 04:55:40 PM: "Freedom" shouldn't include the right to drive on the roads with poor eyesight, any health condition that puts you at risk of having an accident.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 19, 2024, 07:56:53 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 19, 2024, 04:47:38 PM
Dow Jones hits all time high!
Can not wait to see the praise the Republicans heap on Biden
for saving the US economy.
They can not contain themselves, I bet!
😂😭🫣🤫🤪

The stock market is just a tool of the deep state
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 19, 2024, 08:49:39 PM: Rep. Chip Roy is somewhat surprisingly providing many of the best sound bites of the 2024 election cycle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2024, 02:46:23 AM: 25 January 2024...Alabama is to kill death row prisoner, by nitrogen gas, untried.
Vets won't even use the method on animals.
Storage of the gas is extremely dangerous, has killed people.
UN says 'torture' and 'inhumane'.
US is being urged not to go ahead with this premeditated death chamber killing.
Alabama continues on.

And people are moralising on Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 20, 2024, 10:58:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2024, 02:46:23 AM

Storage of the gas is extremely dangerous, has killed people.

While I agree with you on the DP, I should note I have worked with liquid nitrogen and it is one of the safest liquified gases, being inert, non-irritating, and suppresses combustion. Liquid oxygen is more dangerous and it is stored in hospitals, which tells you something.
The danger of LN is with industrial storage where a larger release of the odorless gas can displace oxygen and cause suffocation in an enclosed space. This is a danger with many stored gases that are not oxygen.

As a DP method, I haven't seen the research, but I suspect there hasn't been any and the poor fellow in Alabama is being used as a guinea pig. Cruel and unusual, indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 20, 2024, 11:21:34 AM: As an afterthought, I note that cyanide executions involved a hermetically sealed chamber, which at least offered some assurance of consistent gas concentration around the prisoner - no mask to be loose or slip off or vomited into. The Alabama method seems like one that can go wrong in multiple ways, with great suffering.

And, as Bambi noted, vets don't use nitrogen due to observations of distress in some mammals as nitrogen narcosis sets in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2024, 02:19:40 PM: Ashleigh Aitken

What an honor to join mayors across our nation to be recipients of the Dollar Wise Grant in partnership with @usmayors and @bankofamerica

Thank you for selecting Anaheim as a recipient!

Since taking office last year, I have been working with our staff on bringing more funding to Anaheim! I am incredibly thankful for our staff who applied when this came across my desk.

More info on the grant:

This grant will support the small business community of Little Arabia, the Cultural District that established a hub of Middle Eastern and North African cultures in our city.

The grant will support the Little Arabia Entrepreneurial Assistance Program (LEAP), which offers business educational courses in Arabic and English brick-and-mortar businesses.

#MayorAitken

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They are putting "Little Arabia" signs on the freeways to mark the area, and they are giving Business loans to the Arabs to open businesses in the area. They are trying to make an Arab enclave in a mostly Mexican city.

I have mixed emotions, because all races and businesses should be assisted in Anaheim and not just the Arabs. I do not know why they insist on making that area into an Arab enclave.

With Beverly Hills, the Persians picked Beverly Hills on their own and located there, but in Anaheim they are trying to bring the Arabs to an area that is mostly Mexicans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2024, 03:00:00 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 19, 2024, 12:47:56 PM
More govt overreach at the Motor Vehicle Admin.

Used to be the county workers at the MVA could do the test
for the eye exam themselves. But no, not now!
Now you have to have the test done by an optometrist, have them
fill in more paperwork, and actually verify that you are able to drive
safely with corrective lenses! WTF.

We need less testing, not more by an intrusive Govt. We only have 40,000 traffic deaths per year and billions of dollars of damage and loss to personal property.

How much more would result from drivers with limited eyesight?
Not enough to allow the govt. to regulate vision!

All regulations are unconstitutional. ALL regs restrict FREEDOM. That must end.

Only 40,000 traffic deaths per year?
Only?

NSW ( New South Wales) state bambuworld, back in the day for which you yearn, the 1950s,1960s, 1970s etc, traffic deaths were about 1,100 per year.
Speed, drunk drivers, no seat belts, etc.

Australia became the first country in the world to legislate for compulsory seat belt wearing in front and back seats, on 22 December 1970. (In Victoria state).

Traffic deaths in NSW today, with so many more vehicles on the roads, is 349 in 2023.
80 more deaths than in 2022.
Including single vehicle crashes, especially in rural areas.
Govt ads on tv..."never trust your tired self". "Stop, Revive, Survive".

In came sealt belt laws, RBT (Random Breath Testing) of motorists by cops...anywhere, anytime.
Now RDT (Random Drug Testing), anywhere, anytime.
Fail the tests roadside, you get arrested, taken for further testing.
Fail that, it's bye bye licence for you.

Hefty fines for using cell phones while driving...TV ad campaign..."get your hand off it".
Speed cameras and red light cameras everywhere. Large fines plus demerit points.
Lose 12 points in 2 years, bye bye licence.

Go 30 kph(or maybe it's 40) over the speed limit, if cops stop you, it's bye bye car, they impound it for a month.
They call a tow truck, and away goes your car. $1,000 to get car back.

All "for the greater good", to save lives and reduce injuries.

Your "only 40,000" are mom's, dads, grandparents, children, babies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 20, 2024, 03:03:31 PM: Traffic is down to the number two killer of children behind guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 20, 2024, 03:05:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 20, 2024, 03:00:00 PM

Only 40,000 traffic deaths per year?
Only?

NSW ( New South Wales) state bambuworld, back in the day for which you yearn,...

Not certain, but I think DeeJ was engaging in satire there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2024, 03:12:00 PM: Our number one goal in Anaheim right now is to help the homeless, and we can create opportunities for the entrepreneurs in the field of helping the homeless; the entrepreneurs can be given Business Loans to open Cheap Hostels where the homeless can take a nice hot shower and where they can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night like they do in Rome, Italy. Also, the entrepreneurs can be given Business Loans to open Sober Living Homes where the homeless can live for $450 per month, etc. The entrepreneurs can be allowed to operate Hostels and Sober Living Homes TAX FREE in order to provide incentive for the entrepreneurs to open Hostels and Sober Living Homes and to help the homeless.

The Mental Health Associations and the Wellness Centers can provide clients for the Sober Living Homes, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 20, 2024, 03:28:40 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 20, 2024, 03:03:31 PM
Traffic is down to the number two killer of children behind guns.

Most school shootings can easily be avoided.
Gun owners who allow children access to their guns unsupervised should be made responsible for any shootings with those guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 20, 2024, 05:33:39 PM: Mad dad domestic violence has a higher body count.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 20, 2024, 09:32:29 PM: I do not support building a wall on the border, as a Christian I support helping the poor people in Mexico, as I did as a teen when I went to Mexico with Youth For Christ. We need to work together as a team with Mexico to improve the situation for the betterment of all.

Mexico is only 100 miles away from Anaheim, these are our neighbors, I support doing charity work in Mexico, and I support improving the situation in Mexico.

My Grandmother opened Gold Mines in Mexico, with the same companies that operate the Gold Mines in Battle Mountain, Nevada, first my Grandmother worked for the Gold Mines in Nevada, and then the mining companies from Nevada sent her to Mexico and she opened Gold Mines in Mexico. She helped to bring running water, electricity, telephones, radio, television, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico.

I saw a satellite that was being built out at Edwards to tell us where the Gold is here on earth, then we can mine the Gold in Mexico and we can bring Civilization to poor desperate people. Gold is at record high prices right now, and the money can all be used to improve the situation in Mexico.

Instead of building walls, we need to lend a hand to our Christian neighbors.

Trump is not a Christian or he would have went to Mexico as a friend, like George W. Bush did. And Jeb Bush married a Mexican woman who he met while helping to build an orphanage in Mexico. The Bush family is way better than Trump. The Bush family needs to SPEAK up LOUD on the issue of Mexico. We do not need any walls.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 03:18:58 AM: 1942...Japan bombed Darwin, Australia.
Massive navy, massive number of planes from aircraft carriers, Japan bombed Darwin at will.
For the next 18 months Japan bombed Australia...64 or so raids.
Darwin and Australia basically defenceless.

2024
Australia still basically defenceless.
Banging the drums or war...is China, not Japan this time.

Have you ever heard or seen anything as dumb as Australia's actions from 1945 until 2024?
In all that time it never armed itself properly.
It allowed Britain to test atomic bombs on its soil, but never made Britain supply it with nuclear missiles, and ships to fire them, as they were developed.

Britain has HMS Dauntless.
Australia has HMAS "Noughtless", ie: nothing.

The first nuclear submarines of the AUKUS pact will be arriving in Australia 2033, if AUKUS even survives that long.
China is expected by experts to attack Taiwan then Australia long before then.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 04:39:54 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 03:18:58 AM
1942...Japan bombed Darwin, Australia.
Massive navy, massive number of planes from aircraft carriers, Japan bombed Darwin at will.
For the next 18 months Japan bombed Australia...64 or so raids.
Darwin and Australia basically defenceless.

2024
Australia still basically defenceless.
Banging the drums or war...is China, not Japan this time.

Have you ever heard or seen anything as dumb as Australia's actions from 1945 until 2024?
In all that time it never armed itself properly.
It allowed Britain to test atomic bombs on its soil, but never made Britain supply it with nuclear missiles, and ships to fire them, as they were developed.

Britain has HMS Dauntless.
Australia has HMAS "Noughtless", ie: nothing.

The first nuclear submarines of the AUKUS pact will be arriving in Australia 2033, if AUKUS even survives that long.
China is expected by experts to attack Taiwan then Australia long before then.

I still like the Chinese more than I like the Japanese, I kind of wish the Japanese would stay in Japan instead of coming here and buying our movie studios, etc. When I worked at Universal Studios it was owned by the Japanese and they paid everyone rock bottom minimum wage while they sent the profits home to Japan. I would rather work for the Chinese. And the Chinese have never attacked us, the Chinese never bombed Pearl Harbor, etc.

And the President of China has a beautiful Daughter, Xi Mingze, who studied at Harvard here in the USA, and she is single, and maybe she will marry an American to bring our countries closer together, I would be willing to date her, she is pretty, and she is educated, and she loves the Arts, etc.

I want to be allies with China. We need to invest in the Peace Corps, and we need to work towards a more peaceful planet.

And Bambu, you are okay, we are not going to allow anyone to attack Australia. And I thought that we sent you some Stealth Bombers that are Nuclear Capable. And the USA has nuclear submarines all over the world.

I still do not like Japan, I like the Chinese better. And I love the Philippines.

Australia will be safe, your biggest fear is terrorism from the Muslims in Indonesia, and also you have to worry about Indonesia flooding Australia with heroin and getting the Australians addicted to heroin, like the fuckers do here, they are selling heroin to our people and getting them addicted. Indonesia, and Afghanistan, those are bad people who are flooding our nation with heroin and they are getting our people addicted.

Maybe I will marry the Daughter of the President of China, and we can help to make a more peaceful world. If only I could, then I would work for a more peaceful world. God put me in with the Daughter of a Chinese General, and we made the peace, maybe God will introduce me to Xi Mingze and we can help people and work towards a better world.

I like the Chinese, we can have peace with China. But, we must invest in the Peace Corps, and we need to keep the lines of communication open with China, and we can work together to cure cancer, and to send people to Mars, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 05:24:55 AM: In Australia there is the Fair Work Act 2009.
It provides the minimum pay rate...which is reviewed each year.
As of July 2023 the National Minimum Wage is $23.23 per hour or $882.80 per week
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 21, 2024, 10:26:18 AM: Science helps our understanding of the Elba politics forum...and America.

https://archive.is/aLnDU

(PW free version of this article):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/01/20/polarization-science-evolution-psychology/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 12:37:27 PM: Gotta be careful giving one's heart and soul to politicians ... some will lead you over a 'cliff', you finishing up unemployed...or even in prison.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 04:31:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 05:24:55 AM
In Australia there is the Fair Work Act 2009.
It provides the minimum pay rate...which is reviewed each year.
As of July 2023 the National Minimum Wage is $23.23 per hour or $882.80 per week

Very nice. Australia is a nice place.

We are raising the wages in California too, and it is now $20 per hour for minimum wage to work Fast Food. So, even if all that a person can do is work Fast Food then they can still at least afford an apartment. It is great when honest workers are able to afford a home and food to eat, instead of working to live in their cars and starving like what was happening. Workers need to be able to afford food and shelter, minimum.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:12:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 12:37:27 PM
Gotta be careful giving one's heart and soul to politicians ... some will lead you over a 'cliff', you finishing up unemployed...or even in prison.

Imagine dating the Daughter of the President of China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:42:16 PM: I wonder if the President of China was a fan of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Roy Rogers was a huge star next door in Mexico, and I was surprised to see that they were selling Roy Rogers movies at the local bodega, Roy was huge in Mexico. Maybe Roy Rogers was a star in China too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:55:34 PM: I used Roy and Dale as my Character Reference when I rented my room in Malibu, the lady who owned the house was a huge fan of Roy and Dale and they were still alive at that time, and I had a roommate there who was a Daughter of a Chinese General. They all knew who Roy Rogers was.

I bet Roy Rogers was a huge star in China.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 21, 2024, 09:53:52 PM: Those posts should contain a Trigger warning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 10:03:42 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:12:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 12:37:27 PM
Gotta be careful giving one's heart and soul to politicians ... some will lead you over a 'cliff', you finishing up unemployed...or even in prison.

Imagine dating the Daughter of the President of China.

Salute,

Tony V.

Imagine.
Not for the faint hearted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 10:10:47 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:55:34 PM
I used Roy and Dale as my Character Reference when I rented my room in Malibu, the lady who owned the house was a huge fan of Roy and Dale and they were still alive at that time, and I had a roommate there who was a Daughter of a Chinese General. They all knew who Roy Rogers was.

I bet Roy Rogers was a huge star in China.

Salute,

Tony V.

Life seemed a lot simpler when Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Sgt Preston of the Yukon, and The Rifleman were saving us from the bad people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 12:04:26 AM: It was all fictional bullshit designed to entertain and pacify you. No surprise you found life in the pictures more your speed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 22, 2024, 12:26:35 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 22, 2024, 11:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 12:04:26 AM
It was all fictional bullshit designed to entertain and pacify you. No surprise you found life in the pictures more your speed.

He wanted a Harvard education but settled for American Westerns on TV.
And not even the good ones.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 22, 2024, 12:32:19 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 21, 2024, 09:53:52 PM
Those posts should contain a Trigger warning.
Well, I appreciated that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 22, 2024, 12:33:03 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 21, 2024, 07:12:53 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 21, 2024, 12:37:27 PM
Gotta be careful giving one's heart and soul to politicians ... some will lead you over a 'cliff', you finishing up unemployed...or even in prison.

Imagine dating the Daughter of the President of China.

Salute,

Tony V.
She would probably look like Winnie the Pooh, just like her dad.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 03:17:46 PM: http://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-industry/these-startups-are-teaming-up-to-decarbonize-cement-and-concrete (http://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-industry/these-startups-are-teaming-up-to-decarbonize-cement-and-concrete)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 22, 2024, 03:37:44 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 22, 2024, 11:03:13 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 12:04:26 AM
It was all fictional bullshit designed to entertain and pacify you. No surprise you found life in the pictures more your speed.

He wanted a Harvard education but settled for American Westerns on TV.

Nah, he realised that he was not suited to university...which would've been just 'more school'.
The car accident turned 'flying' into 'slower'...blunted the 'sharp' edge. 'Sharp' would never appear again.
The 'flying' had an academic ceiling of 70%. You don't become a 'professional man' with grades of 70%.
'Slower' had an academic ceiling of 49%.
Missed by 'that' much.
Oh well, such is life.

A job was arranged...office work...'educated to HS graduation standard if not actually graduating' being acceptable enough to sit for the corporation's entrance exam.
Basic maths, 2 +2 = 4...and the ability to speak and write the Queen's english the requirements.
So 18 going on 12 yr old "mommy's boy" young bambu [he wasn't the only one like it] started in the "dog eat dog" workforce...like a lamb to the slaughter.

Prepare your children for life, ...life after school/college, and life in the workforce, so they'll be more ready than I was.

Special, serious, steel-mind preparation is needed before college...if college is anything like I see in the movies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2024, 05:03:41 PM: There is going to be a new homeless count done here, we will find out how well Mayor Bass has done, Bass has made helping the homeless her number one priority.

The rain could present some problems when the homeless count is done, but the count is going to happen even if it rains.

And I still have been suggesting cheap Hostels where people can shower and sleep, and also cheap Sober Living Homes, etc. The Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations can send clients for the Sober Living Homes, etc. And people should be able to run Hostels and Sober Living Homes TAX FREE in order to inspire entrepreneurs to open and operate Hostels and Sober Living Homes.

And Bambu, you are doing fine Bro, and you have empathy and compassion for people, and you represent Australia well. There are poor people in Kentucky who do not even know how to read and write, they have been working in coal mines for generations and they cannot read and write, it is sad, we need to teach our people how to read and write. You are highly educated Bambu when compared to our poor people in Kentucky, etc. We need to send teachers to Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 22, 2024, 05:10:27 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2024, 05:03:41 PM
There is going to be a new homeless count done here, we will find out how well Mayor Bass has done, Bass has made helping the homeless her number one priority.

The rain could present some problems when the homeless count is done, but the count is going to happen even if it rains.

And I still have been suggesting cheap Hostels where people can shower and sleep, and also cheap Sober Living Homes, etc. The Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations can send clients for the Sober Living Homes, etc. And people should be able to run Hostels and Sober Living Homes TAX FREE in order to inspire entrepreneurs to open and operate Hostels and Sober Living Homes.

And Bambu, you are doing fine Bro, and you have empathy and compassion for people, and you represent Australia well. There are poor people in Kentucky who do not even know how to read and write, they have been working in coal mines for generations and they cannot read and write, it is sad, we need to teach our people how to read and write. You are highly educated Bambu when compared to our poor people in Kentucky, etc. We need to send teachers to Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta watch out you don't get a flood of new homeless moving in from elsewhere/other states, seeking access to the new facilities.
Other states might be very 'persuasive".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2024, 05:42:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 22, 2024, 05:10:27 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2024, 05:03:41 PM
There is going to be a new homeless count done here, we will find out how well Mayor Bass has done, Bass has made helping the homeless her number one priority.

The rain could present some problems when the homeless count is done, but the count is going to happen even if it rains.

And I still have been suggesting cheap Hostels where people can shower and sleep, and also cheap Sober Living Homes, etc. The Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations can send clients for the Sober Living Homes, etc. And people should be able to run Hostels and Sober Living Homes TAX FREE in order to inspire entrepreneurs to open and operate Hostels and Sober Living Homes.

And Bambu, you are doing fine Bro, and you have empathy and compassion for people, and you represent Australia well. There are poor people in Kentucky who do not even know how to read and write, they have been working in coal mines for generations and they cannot read and write, it is sad, we need to teach our people how to read and write. You are highly educated Bambu when compared to our poor people in Kentucky, etc. We need to send teachers to Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta watch out you don't get a flood of new homeless moving in from elsewhere/other states, seeking access to the new facilities.
Other states might be very 'persuasive".

I like Christina Pascucci who is running for Congress, and I like Sabrina Cervantes who is a local politician who attended Harvard, and they are both Roman Catholic and they support Organized Labor, and Education, and Health Care, etc.

I am trying to get Shakira to sing the Elvis Presley song "In The Ghetto" to raise money for beautification projects in our ghettos, we can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, and we can build libraries, and coffee shops, etc, in our ghettos. I sent the idea on Facebook to Priscilla Presley and to Shakira.

I would love to help the people in all of our states, plus Latin America, etc.

And we MUST send teachers to Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc.

We can also use our Entertainment Industry to teach people, and to improve society. And we have the History Channel on television, etc.

Mentally ill people and homeless people from Kentucky are welcome here in California to live in our new facilities and to get help here, people from all of the states are welcome here in California. And our Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations help ALL people, including people from Kentucky and from other states. And the people from New York love California, and a lot of the Jews from New York help to run our Entertainment Industry, etc. The United States must be UNITED and we must all work together as a team.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 22, 2024, 06:52:32 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 12:04:26 AM
It was all fictional bullshit designed to entertain and pacify you. No surprise you found life in the pictures more your speed.

They used guns to prevent evil from winning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on January 22, 2024, 08:47:41 PM: Not in The Misfits, a masterpiece of the Western genre. You should watch better westerns. Bad Day at Black Rock is another one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 22, 2024, 09:18:03 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 22, 2024, 05:10:27 PM
Other states might be very 'persuasive".

The states that have instituted their own accelerated brain drains.

Obnoxious is not persuasive, as shown by the Court letting the feds strip Texas of its illegal barbed wire.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 22, 2024, 10:38:17 PM: I always liked "Once Upon a Time in the West" by Sergio Leone.

And yes Bambu, California will welcome the homeless and the mentally ill from Kentucky, etc.

"High Noon" is also good, starring Gary Cooper.

"Once Upon a Time in the West" starred Jason Robards who attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and "High Noon" starred Grace Kelly who attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

And we need Cheap Hostels, and Cheap Sober Living Homes and we need to support the entrepreneurs as they help the homeless and the mentally ill.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 23, 2024, 03:30:49 AM: An estimated 172,000 people are homeless in California, the largest homeless population of any state in the U.S. and 30% of the nations total, even though California has just 12% of the population. Researchers believe the way the state measures homelessness, though important, represents an undercount because cities and counties tallying their homeless populations in just one day miss people who may be hidden and living in their cars, for instance.

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We can use Business Loans to help our homeless people, we can give people Business Loans to open Cheap Sober Living Homes, and Cheap Hostels, etc. The entrepreneurs can learn to prosper in the field of helping the homeless. The same way that Doctors and Psychiatrists benefit from treating patients, etc. We need to allow entrepreneurs to operate Hostels and Sober Living Homes TAX FREE in order to get them involved in helping the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 23, 2024, 05:36:06 AM: Well, well, well, ...3 holes in the ground!

Here's one for you!

ScoMo is retiring from politics in Feb, and is going to be working for Mike Pompeo/Trump.
...on "security! Whether or not Trump/Republicans occupy the White House.

Not bodyguard type security...but "tow back the boats" type security.
Immigration type security.
How to put the people smugglers out of business type security.
How to close detention centres type security.
Border security, sovereign borders type security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 10:24:40 AM: Scummo to work for criminals. Nice. Should be right up his alley.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 10:25:35 AM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/23/2218988/-Murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting-CONSERVATIVE-areas-are-driving-California-s-troubles?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/23/2218988/-Murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting-CONSERVATIVE-areas-are-driving-California-s-troubles?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 23, 2024, 10:42:04 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 10:25:35 AM
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/23/2218988/-Murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting-CONSERVATIVE-areas-are-driving-California-s-troubles?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/23/2218988/-Murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting-CONSERVATIVE-areas-are-driving-California-s-troubles?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web)

Rarely do media reporters actually analyze crime statistics; nearly all coverage is based on quips and anecdotes from self-interested sources...

Nailed it!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 02:59:09 PM: If you have a high crime mentality like Bambu, you cause crime to flourish around you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 23, 2024, 03:53:05 PM: They announced the Oscars, it would be great to produce a party for the stars, like Norby Walters used to do with Night of 100 Stars.

The Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles would be the perfect spot for an Oscar Night Party, with an outdoor party and outdoor bar at MacArthur Park there across the street from the Hotel.

The best chefs could cook, and the best bands can play, and the stars could party, and eat, and drink, and dance,, etc, and then they could sleep in the rooms there at the Park Plaza Hotel.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce could help to produce it, and Mayor Bass could help, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 23, 2024, 05:03:28 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 02:59:09 PM
If you have a high crime mentality like Bambu, you cause crime to flourish around you.

lol

Crime is out of control in bambuworld...especially youth crime.
Leftist govts everywhere...arrest, bail, go straight out and do same again, arrest, bail, release etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 23, 2024, 05:18:49 PM: "Fun in Acapulco" is a 1963 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress. The film featured the Top 10 Billboard hit "Bossa Nova Baby" and reached No. 1 on the national weekly box office charts a week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Bambu, watch the movie "Fun in Acapulco" starring Elvis.

The first thing that Rudy Giuliani did in New York was to put a fresh new coat of paint on everything and to improve the image of New York and to reduce crime, and Rudy brought the tourists back to New York which improved the economy in New York, etc, and the same thing needs to happen in Mexico. Rudy spent some time helping Mexico, and we need to keep making progress in Mexico, and we need to expand trade, and we can make Mexico nice to where all Americans want to go to Acapulco on vacation, and Americans from Minnesota will want to retire to live in Mexico, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 06:48:12 PM: I like the portmanteau trumps, trudy and turd shaman, and Home Jesus! Cracked me up.

The refined style and digital text work well in the medium.

Keep us posted
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 08:38:57 PM: http://www.salon.com/2024/01/23/anne-hathaway-walks-out-of-vanity-fair-photoshoot-in-support-of-cond-nast-work-stoppage/?in_brief=true (http://www.salon.com/2024/01/23/anne-hathaway-walks-out-of-vanity-fair-photoshoot-in-support-of-cond-nast-work-stoppage/?in_brief=true)

Power to the people.

Keep marching
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 23, 2024, 08:47:52 PM: Man bites Cancel Culture

A Pennsylvania community reclaimed its local Indigenous history and a popular tribesman mascot of a populat school

It happened just months after five new school committee members won elections and ran on pro Native American platforms.

The Southern York County School District (SYCSD) school board voted 7to 2 on Thursday to allow Susquehannock High School to bring back its traditional Warriors logo.

This vote was the Lexington and Concord moment in the effort to defeat cancel culture, Native American activist and historian Andre Billeaudeuax told Fox News Digital, after lobbying on behalf of the traditional image that pays homage to the Indigenous Susquehannock people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 23, 2024, 09:04:38 PM: I think you damn well nailed it, but I still look forward to future iterations
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 24, 2024, 01:43:39 AM: My 5pm news just now...report from America:

"Looks like it will be a rematch of Biden versus Trump at the next election".

"The surge for Trump seems to be getting bigger and stronger every day."

#####

Well there you go...could be another leftist govt being replaced, for the same reasons Trump was elected President the first time....to take the country back...from the brigades of "diversity, tolerance, multiculturalism, political correctness'...add "woke". MAGA 2 if you like.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 24, 2024, 10:17:37 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on January 23, 2024, 08:47:52 PM

This vote was the Lexington and Concord moment in the effort to defeat cancel culture, Native American activist and historian Andre Billeaudeuax told Fox News Digital, after lobbying on behalf of the traditional image that pays homage to the Indigenous Susquehannock people.

Sort of a tempest in teapot. The image was never degrading in the first place, so tribal members made this clear and reason prevailed.

This doesn't really make the implied argument that all mascot/name removals are a form of cancellation. Sometimes they are discarding a racist and/or degrading stereotype. Sometimes they aren't. You have to take each case on its own merits. If Toledo had a team called the Toledo Jigaboos and the name was changed, would you be arguing cancel culture?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 24, 2024, 10:56:09 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 24, 2024, 10:17:37 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 23, 2024, 08:47:52 PM

This vote was the Lexington and Concord moment in the effort to defeat cancel culture, Native American activist and historian Andre Billeaudeuax told Fox News Digital, after lobbying on behalf of the traditional image that pays homage to the Indigenous Susquehannock people.

Sort of a tempest in teapot. The image was never degrading in the first place, so tribal members made this clear and reason prevailed.

Then why was it taken down by board members who were voted out office?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 24, 2024, 12:49:19 PM: Red misses saying redskins and Indians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 24, 2024, 03:07:39 PM: Just today learned of the passing of P.D.Q. Bach. A musical humorist without peer. I had the privilege of attending two of his performances, and much joy at his clever compositions, cleverer wordplay, and stage antics. Will be missed. Throw the Yule log on Uncle John!

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/01/18/composer-peter-schickele-obituary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 24, 2024, 05:49:40 PM: Statue of Capt James Cook vandalised in Melbourne.

The war for Australia Day begins!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 24, 2024, 06:36:00 PM: Take down his statues and put up EV charging stations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 24, 2024, 08:04:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 24, 2024, 05:49:40 PM
Statue of Capt James Cook vandalised in Melbourne.

The war for Australia Day begins!

Cook got far worse than his statue, in the Kingdom of Hawaii. You don't mess with the kahuna.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 24, 2024, 08:04:55 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 23, 2024, 06:32:47 PM
Eight new cartoons on gradycartoons.com

Thanks, headed there now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 24, 2024, 09:45:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 24, 2024, 08:04:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 24, 2024, 05:49:40 PM
Statue of Capt James Cook vandalised in Melbourne.

The war for Australia Day begins!

Cook got far worse than his statue, in the Kingdom of Hawaii. You don't mess with the kahuna.

He started what is now modern Australia.
There is plenty of room, and attitude, for all citizens to share and celebrate modern Australia together, as one.
Words of the National anthem were changed 'recently' from "for we are YOUNG and free" to "for we are ONE and free" (Indigenous been here for 40,000 years).
Make any difference much?
No.
Many Indigenous, including sports stars, still won't embrace the national anthem.
26 Jan, tomorrow, the "Invasion Day" and "Day of Mourning" brigades will be marching thru the streets protesting...and attending dawn reflection/mourning services.
Not all are Indigenous.

Indigenous sporting stars etc should be reflecting on their healthy salaries and luxurious lifestyles that modern Australia provides.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2024, 09:55:27 PM: Here you go Bambu....

The fucking muslims from Afghanistan and from Indonesia are sending HEROIN to the USA and are getting our people addicted, so we can send ANGEL DUST made in San Bernardino on Mint Leaf to Afghanistan and to Indonesia; we can send them Angel Dust from San Bernardino. The fuckers want to send drugs here, we can send them Angel Dust.

Saute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 12:15:22 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2024, 09:55:27 PM
Here you go Bambu....

The fucking muslims from Afghanistan and from Indonesia are sending HEROIN to the USA and are getting our people addicted, so we can send ANGEL DUST made in San Bernardino on Mint Leaf to Afghanistan and to Indonesia; we can send them Angel Dust from San Bernardino. The fuckers want to send drugs here, we can send them Angel Dust.

Saute,

Tony V.

The best thing to do is stop Americans from using it, buying it with their hard-earned money.
One way is to arrest the users.
Street hookers in Sydney were forced out of business, by arresting the users, identifying them from their csr number plates, and naming and shaming them.
No more customers, no more street hookers.

No more customers, no more drug dealers.

Lock up the users...not in prison, but in the country somewhere...green rolling lawns, bench seats, rooms not cells, medical facilities, good food etc...all behind prison style walls.
Don't wanna be locked up in the drug farm?
Then stay away from drug dealers.

It'd be worth a try.
Nice gardens, counselling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 25, 2024, 02:13:58 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 23, 2024, 06:32:47 PM
Eight new cartoons on gradycartoons.com

Deej, I got a suggestion for you. Greg Abbott as Pontius Pilate in front of three crosses with women in distress held to the crosses by spools of razor wire.

Compassionate Conservatism 2024
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 03:45:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 12:15:22 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 24, 2024, 09:55:27 PM
Here you go Bambu....

The fucking muslims from Afghanistan and from Indonesia are sending HEROIN to the USA and are getting our people addicted, so we can send ANGEL DUST made in San Bernardino on Mint Leaf to Afghanistan and to Indonesia; we can send them Angel Dust from San Bernardino. The fuckers want to send drugs here, we can send them Angel Dust.

Saute,

Tony V.

The best thing to do is stop Americans from using it, buying it with their hard-earned money.
One way is to arrest the users.
Street hookers in Sydney were forced out of business, by arresting the users, identifying them from their csr number plates, and naming and shaming them.
No more customers, no more street hookers.

No more customers, no more drug dealers.

Lock up the users...not in prison, but in the country somewhere...green rolling lawns, bench seats, rooms not cells, medical facilities, good food etc...all behind prison style walls.
Don't wanna be locked up in the drug farm?
Then stay away from drug dealers.

It'd be worth a try.
Nice gardens, counselling.

We used to have a wonderful drug treatment camp in Acton, California, and the Judges used to send offenders to the Treatment Camp, it was a wonderful plan, and the people learned the 12 Step Program at the Rehab and joined N/A and A/A etc.

And we need to work to stop the heroin from Afghanistan and from Indonesia from entering the USA, we need to stop the heroin at the source. They would not want us to flood their nations with Angel Dust from San Bernardino, California, so they need to stop sending heroin to the USA. They would not like it if we started sending Angel Dust on Mint Leaf from San Bernardino to their nations.

So, we need drug treatment camps, plus we need to stop the heroin at the source and we need to prevent it from entering our nation.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 04:04:03 PM: Angel Dust is still popular in American ghettos, including in San Bernardino...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdy4e/pcp-america-pcp-use-washington-dc

The Blacks dip cigarettes in liquid PCP and they call it "Dippers" or "Sherm" sometimes they use Sherman cigarettes to dip.

The White people smoke Angel Dust on Mint Leaf, in a bong, or pipe, or in a joint.

Indonesia and Afghanistan would not want us to flood their nations with Angel Dust, so they need to stop the heroin.

And yes, we need drug treatment camps where people can learn the 12 Step Program and where they can get help. Acton and Lake Hughes are good spots for treatment camps in Los Angeles County.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 05:02:41 PM: Different areas have different drugs, in the desert they use Meth, in the ghettos of San Bernardino they use Angel Dust, and in Anaheim they are using Heroin. Malibu and Beverly Hills use Cocaine. Compton and Watts and Inglewood and South Central smoke Crack Cocaine. San Francisco likes LSD and Mushrooms. Each area has their own preference on illegal drugs.

Marijuana is legal now, and I support that, marijuana is safe, and it is good for the Veterans, and the Artists smoke pot, pot is safe enough. And you cannot over-dose from pot.

And then I like good old fashioned Coffee to help me wake up in the morning. I love the Colombian Coffee which is good for the economy in Colombia, and it is great coffee.

Then, I drink wine with dinner to help me relax in the evening. Wine is a gift from God to Man.

I had some people in my life who had problems, and who tried to turn me into a drug dealer, they wanted me to sell drugs, and I refused to be a drug dealer, I even washed dogs instead of being a drug dealer, and I managed a dog kennel where a key part of the job was picking up dog shit from 200 dogs, and cleaning litter boxes from 50 cats. I have seen what addiction does to people, and I would never do that to people, I hate addiction, it is one of the most evil things in the world, addiction turns good people into monsters. I would never do that to people. Instead I studied Psychology in community college with a Professor who worked at the Betty Ford Center and I learned about how they helped people to get clean, etc, and about how they saved people from addiction.

I helped one of my Uncles to get clean from Heroin, and it was one of the hardest things that I ever did. I locked him here in my apartment and I stayed with him while he detoxed. I used pot to make it all easier, we smoked a lot of pot while he was getting clean from the heroin. He puked a lot, so we had to have a bucket next to him, and he shit his pants, and he pissed his pants, and he had seizures, getting people clean from Heroin is horrible. The enemy was giving him free heroin, and he was very addicted. My Uncle ended up over-dosing and dying here in my apartment, it was suicide.

And now with the fentanyl then 1 pill can kill a person. The youth need to just say "No." And the parents need to protect their children. My Uncles did not have a Dad, my Grandmother was a Widow, and so both of my Uncles were Drug Addicts and Drug Dealers, and both spent half of their lives in Prison, and the fuckers tried to make me into a Drug Dealer and I refused. I have always been a good Christian, and I am Empathetic, and I care about people, we are all God's Children, and I would never be a Drug Dealer and I would never get people addicted to drugs. They get you addicted and then they own you.

I was addicted to cigarettes, and quitting smoking was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. So, I understand how horrible addiction is. I would never be a Drug Dealer.

Anyhow, yes, Bambu, you are right, nice peaceful camps are needed to help people to get clean, and to join a 12 Step Program, and we need to do all that we can to stop the flow of illegal drugs, while we work to educate the children and to educate everyone to just say "No" to illegal drugs.

And I wrote a movie to help people to see how horrible drugs are and what addiction does to people, and I have lots of poetry that I wrote telling people to avoid the illegal drugs.

Illegal Drugs should not be a dirty little secret, we need to have an open discussion, we need to educate society about the dangers of illegal drugs, and we need to educate the children about illegal drugs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 06:07:39 PM: President John F. Kennedy was Roman Catholic, and he was going to improve the situation in Mexico and in Latin America.

Elvis made "Fun In Acapulco" which came out right after the death of JFK, and which was the number 1 movie at the Box Office one week after the death of JFK.

JFK was going to improve the situation in Latin America.

We need to have another Roman Catholic President.

Rudy Giuliani would have been a good President, but Rudy got all mixed up with Trump, sadly. Rudy was a great Mayor of New York at one time, Rudy earned his fame. Rudy might have been a good President, and he is Italian-American, and Roman Catholic.

Christina Pascucci and Sabrina Cervantes are both Roman Catholic, and I like them both, we need to elevate more Roman Catholics to positions of power, and hopefully Christina wins her race for Congress.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 25, 2024, 06:19:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 06:07:39 PM
President John F. Kennedy was Roman Catholic,

We need to have another Roman Catholic President.
Well, the, four more years of the Roman Catholic President we currently have!
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Rudy Giuliani would have been a good President,
Fucking never.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on January 25, 2024, 06:43:55 PM: Of Four Seasons Total Landscaping perhaps. He absolutely could preside over the sale of dirt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:08:14 PM: Marijuana might now be legal...but ...................

https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana (https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana)

Today's marijuana is stronger than ever before. People can and do become addicted to marijuana.

Research shows that people who use marijuana are more likely to have relationship problems, worse educational outcomes, lower career achievement, and reduced life satisfaction.

Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:25:02 PM: Trouble is with speaking out about and trying to stop the drug trade, even as a cop/govt official/politician...you run the serious risk of ending up dead and buried before your time...there is no limit to the evil of the bad people.

The guy "getting the gas" today in Alabama's death chamber was a contract killer.

Smith,58, is one of two men convicted for the murder of Elizabeth Sennett,45, on March 18, 1988. Smith and John Forrest Parker were each paid $1,000 to kill Sennett on behalf of her pastor husband, Charles Sennett Sr, who was in debt and wanted to collect insurance money from her death.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 25, 2024, 07:33:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:08:14 PM
Marijuana might now be legal...but ...................

https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana (https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana)

Today's marijuana is stronger than ever before. People can and do become addicted to marijuana.

Research shows that people who use marijuana are more likely to have relationship problems, worse educational outcomes, lower career achievement, and reduced life satisfaction.

Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss.
And?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:41:36 PM: Elizabeth Sennett had been stabbed, and beaten to death with a fireplace implement, by the 2 contracted killers.
"She fought it and fought hard".

Her pastor husband committed suicide before he could be charged.

Serial killer BTK, Dennis Rader, was a pastor.

Other pastors have caused their parishioners to lose many millions in investments.

Moral:

"Never trust anyone".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:42:46 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 25, 2024, 07:33:59 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:08:14 PM
Marijuana might now be legal...but ...................

https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana (https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana)

Today's marijuana is stronger than ever before. People can and do become addicted to marijuana.

Research shows that people who use marijuana are more likely to have relationship problems, worse educational outcomes, lower career achievement, and reduced life satisfaction.

Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss.
And?

"Use marijuana at your own peril."
"Not a good idea to tell you children it's safe."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 08:04:35 PM: Comment from a newspaper reader online in the war on Australia Day;

Imagine telling Americans not to celebrate July 4th or the French not to celebrate Bastille Day! There would be riots!

Indeed.

How come bambu-ilk have to suffer the "hate Australia/Australia Day" brigade?

Hopefully they'll migrate to America or France, where they'd not be tolerated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 25, 2024, 08:32:24 PM: Pot is good for Veterans who suffer from PTSD, and people cannot over-dose from it.

And Brad Pitt smokes pot and he is doing great, and Willie Nelson smoked pot on the roof of the White House with Carter's son.

Pot can help people who work in stressful jobs, and pot can help Veterans, and many Artists, and Musicians smoke pot.

I support pot being legal. It is a safe plant that God gave to man.

And Biden does not bring up his Catholic Faith very often, I had totally forgotten that they mentioned that he was Catholic. I know that Biden supports Organized Labor and I support Unions so we agree on that. If Biden is Catholic then we agree on a lot of things, and Biden needs to help with the crisis in Mexico instead of building a wall. Mexico is a majority Catholic nation, and if Biden is Catholic then he should have a connection with the Roman Catholics in Mexico, and the Pope is from Argentina, Latin America is on our team if Biden is Roman Catholic. And Biden can reach across the Isle to get George W. Bush, and Jeb Bush, and other powerful Republicans to help to get America to make our immigrants legal so that they can report crimes without fear, and so that they can join labor unions, etc, and to bring them out of the shadows and make them all legal. I know Biden supports Organized Labor then he must support the Mexicans being legal and being able to join Labor Unions and to be protected by OSHA and be protected by our Labor Laws, etc. Then we need to write a new immigration law that includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

Meanwhile, lots of money is being invested in Mexico, and they are building new resorts, and new high speed trains, and new aqueducts, and new airports, and they are investing in their ports, etc. And Americans can retire to live in Mexico, along with Mexico being a great place to spend ones vacation, etc.

Biden also needs to stop the Heroin, and we need to stop the illegal drugs as best as we can, including going to the source in Afghanistan and in Indonesia, they need to stop shipping illegal drugs into our nation. And we need to educate our children not to use illegal drugs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 25, 2024, 08:48:17 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:08:14 PM

Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss.[/i]
Apparently, so can listening to Australia's No. 1 radio host.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 10:12:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 25, 2024, 08:48:17 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 07:08:14 PM

Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss.[/i]
Apparently, so can listening to Australia's No. 1 radio host.

LOL
More like the total opposite.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 25, 2024, 10:15:15 PM: Bambu blames his mental state on being dropped on his head as a baby. Everything he has done after that is in no way his fault
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 10:17:28 PM: Sky News:

"Pro Palestine activists join Australia Day protest march."

Why is that not surprising.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 25, 2024, 10:23:49 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 25, 2024, 10:15:15 PM
Bambu blames his mental state on being dropped on his head as a baby. Everything he has done after that is in no way his fault

bambu-wisdom:

"Always have an excuse"
"Always blame someone/something else."
"Never admit liability."
"Always look busy".

The middle two especially applicable to car accidents, advised to me by a senior cop friend (deceased long ago).
Also good for wars in the workplace, along with last one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 26, 2024, 03:17:54 AM: DT today:

Hundreds of protesters have breached police lines outside Parliament House in Canberra as thousands gather for Invasion Day rallies across the country.

The entrance to Parliament House was locked down as First Nations and Palestinian activists marched to the doors chanting "F**k Israel and F**k Australia".

#####

Well there you go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 26, 2024, 10:05:43 AM: The execution took about 22 minutes, and Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at least two minutes, he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney, sometimes pulling against the restraints. That was followed by several minutes of heavy breathing, until breathing was no longer perceptible.

Jesus. Sounds like they basically suffocated him. Maybe the firing squad should be revived as a method - sounds like it is quick, cheap, no supply chain issues where rifles are concerned, and about as painless as any DP can be. It is still an option in Utah.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 26, 2024, 05:33:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 26, 2024, 10:05:43 AM
The execution took about 22 minutes, and Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at least two minutes, he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney, sometimes pulling against the restraints. That was followed by several minutes of heavy breathing, until breathing was no longer perceptible.

Jesus. Sounds like they basically suffocated him. Maybe the firing squad should be revived as a method - sounds like it is quick, cheap, no supply chain issues where rifles are concerned, and about as painless as any DP can be. It is still an option in Utah.

Or, death chambers could be abolished altogether...which would be a far better solution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 26, 2024, 05:37:08 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 26, 2024, 10:48:32 AM
A quote from a rabbi long ago:

If Israel is to be a Jewish and democratic state, it must heed the ancient outcry of the prophet Amos, Behold, you are to me just like the Ethiopians, and treat Arabs and everyone else as equals. It is immoral to proclaim the Palestinians to be interlopers in the land that God gave to the Jews. Those who act on this assertion have forgotten that God gave the Holy Land to the Jews on condition that the stranger be protected, for you were once strangers in the land of Egypt.

The chosen people were chosen to do justice to others.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 26, 2024, 08:24:05 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 26, 2024, 05:33:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 26, 2024, 10:05:43 AM
The execution took about 22 minutes, and Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at least two minutes, he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney, sometimes pulling against the restraints. That was followed by several minutes of heavy breathing, until breathing was no longer perceptible.

Jesus. Sounds like they basically suffocated him. Maybe the firing squad should be revived as a method - sounds like it is quick, cheap, no supply chain issues where rifles are concerned, and about as painless as any DP can be. It is still an option in Utah.

Or, death chambers could be abolished altogether...which would be a far better solution.

Well of course. My comment was predicated on if we are stuck with the DP, then it should be the most humane method. While acknowledging that this is only a bandaid on what remains fundamentally immoral. And, by all statistical evidence, not a deterrent to violent crime. You don't teach that it's wrong to kill people by...killing people. Institutionalized vengeance is not the answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 26, 2024, 09:03:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 26, 2024, 08:24:05 PM

Maybe the firing squad should be revived as a method - sounds like it is quick, cheap, no supply chain issues where rifles are concerned, and about as painless as any DP can be.
That is true. You finally got one right.
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While acknowledging that this is only a bandaid on what remains fundamentally immoral. And, by all statistical evidence, not a deterrent to violent crime.

What statistics? There are none.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 26, 2024, 10:08:59 PM: Then there are wrongful convictions.
Innocent people on death row.

innocenceproject dot org

64% of Innocence Project clients who have been freed or exonerated are Black and/or Latinx.

63% of our cases have involved eyewitness
misidentification (including cross-racial misidentification)

53% of our cases have involved the misapplication of forensic science .
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 26, 2024, 11:58:14 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on January 26, 2024, 08:09:12 PM
👌✌️👍 FAC!

Home, JESUS! now in full technicolor! 😭

Looks good.

Trump should be hitting the good lord up for 83 million just about now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 01:47:06 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 26, 2024, 11:58:14 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on January 26, 2024, 08:09:12 PM
👌✌️👍 FAC!

Home, JESUS! now in full technicolor! 😭

Looks good.

Trump should be hitting the good lord up for 83 million just about now.

If his 70 million supporters each gave $2 he'd be ok.

Maybe he has 150 million supporters now...so $1 each would be enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 27, 2024, 02:44:59 AM: 50 million at most, most of whom he has scammed broke already.

When the fraud verdict comes in, the defamation award will seem like chicken scratch.

This is why trump is trying to use the VP job to find someone dumb enough to fund the campaign out of his own pocket. Vivek is the front runner it seems.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 27, 2024, 12:17:18 PM: As we work to create a greener more environmentally friendly planet, then we need to make cities more walk-able, along with improving Public Transportation, and creating more jobs that people can do from home with their computers.

Anaheim is very walk-able, in my neighborhood we have several grocery stores, and pharmacies, and City Hall, and parks including one with tennis courts and an amphitheater, and we have good restaurants, etc.

Anaheim also has good Public Transportation, I can get anywhere from here without a car, including to Los Angeles International Airport.

And if I was a writer and poet and screen-writer then I could work from home with my computer. 54% of the modern service economy is Streaming Services, and they all need writers, etc, and people can do many of the modern jobs from home with their computers.

I think Anaheim is a good city, and it has gotten better over the last 25 years, and you can get by in Anaheim without owning a car. And the exercise from walking and from carrying groceries, etc, is healthy for me, I am in great shape from walking everyday.

Anaheim is a good example of a modern walk-able city.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 27, 2024, 12:55:38 PM: If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song, and this one's for you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM: Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 27, 2024, 10:03:50 PM: Giorgia Meloni

As promised, we have passed today a legislative decree implementing the Treaty for the Third Age: it is a reform that we are proud of and that Italy has been waiting for for more than 20 years, just one step of a path that will continue throughout the Legislature.

With more than 1 billion euros in two years and the start of the experimentation of a universal benefit that will allow an increase of more than 200% the accompanying allowance for the most vulnerable and needy elderly, we are finally giving concrete answers to the needs of our over 14 million elderly, and who are not Self sufficient and their families.

The Government has been working since its settlement on a structural reform of policies in favour of the elderly aware that the elderly represent the history of this Nation.

I thank all the Ministers for the choral work that has been done which enables us to launch a new national governance of policies for the elderly.

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Italy is great, and it is good that they are compassionate and are helping their elderly.

As Baby Boomers age in the USA then we will need to provide more services for our elderly.

A good Role Model for our people to go by as they work to help our elderly would be for people to look at Leisure World in Laguna Beach, California, where the elderly drink champagne and eat strawberries by the swimming pool, and they can ride horses on the beach at night, it is a great place.

We can also train our immigrants to be nurses, and maids, etc, for our elderly. A lot of elderly need assistance with their living, and we can train our immigrants to be good assistants for our elderly. I had a maid from El Salvador and she was awesome, she was part of our family like Alice on the Brady Bunch. As soon as I can afford it I will hire another maid, it is nice to have maid service. And I would love for my Mother to be able to get helpers when she needs help as she ages.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 28, 2024, 12:03:46 AM: In-N-Out will close its first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of crime that's affecting customers and employees alike at its only restaurant in Oakland.

STORY: http://tinyurl.com/3nfa2uj2

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Oakland, California, was bad the last time I was there. I went to a gas station in Oakland and a million homeless people surrounded me asking for money, millions of dirty homeless people begging for money.

And you know it is bad when the restaurants close and leave.

They can learn from Homeboy Industries and from Father Boyle in Los Angeles, he could teach a lot to Oakland.

And then they need to clean things up and reduce crime and open cheap hostels and sober living homes to get the homeless people off of the streets.

Then they need to paint everything, clean up Oakland, and try to bring the businesses back.

Right now Oakland sucks.

Maybe the Chinese can help to save Oakland.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 12:03:52 PM: "Landslide in California suspends train service indefinitely".

#####

Charming way to start the new year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 28, 2024, 12:28:24 PM: Your disgusting coal addiction is becoming a big pain in the ass for everyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 05:47:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?

No.

I almost started dancing...almost.

One of the classics, song never gets old.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 29, 2024, 12:32:18 AM: California removed the ban on Cruising, so right now Anaheim Blvd is full of low-riders and classic cars cruising, I guess Sunday night is a Cruise Night on Anaheim Blvd in Anaheim.

It reminds me of when I was a teen and we used to cruise Lancaster Blvd in the Antelope Valley, and Van Nuys Blvd, and we used to hang out at Balboa Park in Van Nuys, it was a lot of fun. Sunset Blvd in Hollywood was always fun too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 01:40:44 AM: US troops killed in an attack on their base in Jordan.

Hamas official on my screen said "a warning to America, directly linked to the war in Gaza."

Joe said that he would "make those responsible pay".

Bibi said that ...after terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered and kidnapped Israeli citizens...."will make them pay".
He's been condemned as...well, you know.

Unfortunately, the Hamas terrorists responsible are hiding in 500 miles of underground tunnels in Gaza.
Israeli troops are dying every day try to get them...it's very difficult.
Israeli air force is bombing facilities of Hamas terrorists in Gaza...civilians are dying, casualties of war, as in every other war when bombs are falling.

Hamas is still holding Israeli citizens hostage.

When are the South African, International Court of Justice and UN armies arriving in Gaza to relocate the Palestinian people from Gaza to safety and help get the Hamas terrorists and free the hostages?

On the twelfth of never is my guess, because...as explained by someone else in this forum, nobody wants to accept the Palestinians into their country for fear that Hamas terrorists could be among them.

Also, their troops would die, just as Israeli troops are dying.
It's a job that others are not prepared to do...but are quick to speak "restraint" and "genocide".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 29, 2024, 02:23:57 AM: The USA can send Israel some Bunker Buster Bombs.

Plus we have Satellites, we have an Eye in the Sky, we can see everything that they are doing in Gaza from space.

We can also send Israel some more Apache Helicopters, and we need to send them some Modified and up-graded F-104 Starfighters with vectored thrust to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, etc, nothing can out-run a Modified F-104 Starfighter ( And they can use simple Sidewinder Missiles to be very effective ).

So far as the Children, Kiwanis International is Global and has operations in Egypt, Kiwanis will help the Children, Kiwanis can transport the children and their families to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai where the adults can become essential workers, etc. Kiwanis also has a camp for refugees in Victoria, Canada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 07:20:06 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 05:47:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?

No.

I almost started dancing...almost.

One of the classics, song never gets old.
Your taste in music is as wretched as your politics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 08:57:43 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 07:20:06 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 05:47:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?

No.

I almost started dancing...almost.

One of the classics, song never gets old.
Your taste in music is as wretched as your politics.

Nothing wretched about:
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, O.C. Smith, Dolly Parton, Del Shannon, John Denver, Seekers, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Kenny Rogers, Slim Dusty, Beach Boys, Hot Chocolate
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 29, 2024, 09:17:10 AM: I just dropped in to see what condition your condition was in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 07:20:06 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 05:47:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?

No.

I almost started dancing...almost.

One of the classics, song never gets old.
Your taste in music is as wretched as your politics.
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 12:17:45 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 07:20:06 AM
Quote from: bambu. on January 28, 2024, 05:47:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 28, 2024, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 27, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Came out of the supermarket today, into the carpark...thought I'd died and gone to Heaven...Billy Ray was singing Achy Breaky Heart over the PA system!

It's always a great day when your hear Bill Ray singing that song.

That's the one where he sings She's a witch of trouble in electric blue ?

No.

I almost started dancing...almost.

One of the classics, song never gets old.
Your taste in music is as wretched as your politics.
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,
Liar.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM: Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 05:27:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM
Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have immense religious differences, have been fighting a proxy war in Yemen for 44 years and just agreed to start actually talking to each other last year, and now they are allied? Consider the possibility that the "experts" you cite are idiots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:59:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 05:27:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM
Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have immense religious differences, have been fighting a proxy war in Yemen for 44 years and just agreed to start actually talking to each other last year, and now they are allied? Consider the possibility that the "experts" you cite are idiots.

I did consider it, but rejected it.

The 'Christian' West is going down...unless it does something drastic, now.
Sad really.
Oh well, that's what happens when you don't protect yourself...in every facet of your existence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 06:29:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:59:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 05:27:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM
Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have immense religious differences, have been fighting a proxy war in Yemen for 44 years and just agreed to start actually talking to each other last year, and now they are allied? Consider the possibility that the "experts" you cite are idiots.

I did consider it, but rejected it.
Of course you did. Idiocy never sees anything beyond itself.
Quote

The 'Christian' West is going down...unless it does something drastic, now.
One of the nations you mention is actually part of Christian Europe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 29, 2024, 07:31:40 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,

Orson Welles a B movie actor? B Movies like Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight? I'd call you an ignorant cunt, but that would be disparaging to cunts and ignoramuses everywhere. And zither is not capitalized, twit.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. Also ranked high by the AFI, including 5th in its mystery genre category. Also got a cinematography Oscar, IIRC. Great film.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 07:50:10 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 07:31:40 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,

Orson Welles a B movie actor? B Movies like Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight? I'd call you an ignorant cunt, but that would be disparaging to cunts and ignoramuses everywhere. And zither is not capitalized, twit.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. Also ranked high by the AFI, including 5th in its mystery genre category. Also got a cinematography Oscar, IIRC. Great film.
The Third Man is only remembered for its theme.
On a par with Unchained.
But I do note your retreat to sophomoric scurrility.
A sure indication of intellectual weakness.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 29, 2024, 07:59:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:59:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 05:27:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM
Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have immense religious differences, have been fighting a proxy war in Yemen for 44 years and just agreed to start actually talking to each other last year, and now they are allied? Consider the possibility that the "experts" you cite are idiots.

I did consider it, but rejected it.

The 'Christian' West is going down...unless it does something drastic, now.
Sad really.
Oh well, that's what happens when you don't protect yourself...in every facet of your existence.

Bambu, the British and the Australians and the Canadians, etc, need to join together with the Roman Catholics and with Pope Francis, and with France, Spain, Italy, and Latin America, and the Philippines, etc.

I attended Catholic Church on Sunday at the Christ Cathedral which is Roman Catholic now, you may remember it from being the Crystal Cathedral which had Robert Schuller and the Hour of Power on television every Sunday. The Christ Cathedral has services for the Chinese, and for the Vietnamese, and for the Latinos, etc. Here is their schedule on Sunday for services...

SUNDAY

6:15 a.m. - Vietnamese

8:00 a.m. - Spanish

10:00 a.m. - English - Livestreamed

10:30 a.m. - Chinese (Large Gallery)

12:00 p.m. - Spanish - Livestreamed

2:00 p.m. - Vietnamese - Livestreamed

4:00 p.m. - Vietnamese

5:45 p.m. - English

7:30 p.m. - Spanish

The Catholic Church also has the Knights of Columbus.

Australia, Canada, England, etc, needs to all join together with Pope Francis and with the Catholic Church, the Catholics are Christians.

And Bambu, there was also Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard, Tom T. Hall, C.W. McCall, Waylon Jennings, and there is Willie Nelson, and there was Frank Sinatra, just to name a few more greats.

We have over 1 Billion Roman Catholics, and Australia needs to join together with Pope Francis and with the Catholic Church. And China is quickly embracing the Catholic Church.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 09:29:53 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 06:29:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:59:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 05:27:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM
Experts are now realising that the Russia/China/Nth Korea/Iran/Saudi alliance is so strong that the US alone cannot beat it.
That a US/UK alliance alone cannot beat it.

France is nuke armed, but France seems to be a 'lottery'.
Ditto India.

So unless the West can form a solid global US-led, loyal to the end Alliance...and fast...the 'Christian' West is doomed. Soon to be defeated, then enslaved.
It's that serious.

First in the Middle East now, then spreading across the globe.

Russia will eventually prevail in Ukraine war, the West has lost heart and lost the will to spend the money necessary.
Israel is in trouble, Palestinian flag has taken over America/the West, along with rampant anti-Semitism.
Americans need to arm themselves with seriously good weapons, stockpile ammo, and train for the enslavement invasion.
A well-armed, well-trained, 300 million strong militia could well defeat the invaders.

Fantasty you think?
Have a close look around, Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia/China/NK are winning everywhere.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have immense religious differences, have been fighting a proxy war in Yemen for 44 years and just agreed to start actually talking to each other last year, and now they are allied? Consider the possibility that the "experts" you cite are idiots.

I did consider it, but rejected it.
Of course you did. Idiocy never sees anything beyond itself.
Quote

The 'Christian' West is going down...unless it does something drastic, now.
One of the nations you mention is actually part of Christian Europe.

But it's not in the 'Christian' West.
Atheists in America / West don't know it, but they're living 'Christian values' lives, even if they don't profess to be Christians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 29, 2024, 09:56:13 PM: Bambu is a mouse chewn cultural conquistador, ready to plant a flag willy-nilly and hoping the next world is not so full of burrowing parasites.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on January 29, 2024, 10:32:47 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 07:31:40 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,

Orson Welles a B movie actor? B Movies like Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight? I'd call you an ignorant cunt, but that would be disparaging to cunts and ignoramuses everywhere. And zither is not capitalized, twit.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. Also ranked high by the AFI, including 5th in its mystery genre category. Also got a cinematography Oscar, IIRC. Great film.
The Third Man is only remembered for its theme.
On a par with Unchained.
But I do note your retreat to sophomoric scurrility.
A sure indication of intellectual weakness.

This assessment coming from someone who thinks Orson Welles is a B movie actor, and that a classic widely lauded by film buffs is only remembered for its zither track, is not one I'm going to take seriously.
There's a whole world out there, outside your colon - you should climb out of there and breathe its fresh(er) air.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 10:51:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 10:32:47 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 07:31:40 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,

Orson Welles a B movie actor? B Movies like Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight? I'd call you an ignorant cunt, but that would be disparaging to cunts and ignoramuses everywhere. And zither is not capitalized, twit.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. Also ranked high by the AFI, including 5th in its mystery genre category. Also got a cinematography Oscar, IIRC. Great film.
The Third Man is only remembered for its theme.
On a par with Unchained.
But I do note your retreat to sophomoric scurrility.
A sure indication of intellectual weakness.

This assessment coming from someone who thinks Orson Welles is a B movie actor, and that a classic widely lauded by film buffs is only remembered for its zither track, is not one I'm going to take seriously.
There's a whole world out there, outside your colon - you should climb out of there and breathe its fresh(er) air.
Trolling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 12:52:25 AM: I was inspired to send a post to my Representative at City Hall, Natalie, as I saw an elderly homeless man begging for help with housing at the Anaheim Housing Authority office, and all they could do was to put him on a waiting list. So I told the man about local resources, such as the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana, and the Wellness Center in Orange, where he could go to get help. Then I sent a Post on Facebook to my Rep at City Hall and I asked them to make a list of resources that are available to help the homeless, including the MHAs and Wellness Centers, and they could list the Sober Living Homes and the prices, etc. And I told her that we need cheap hostels where people can take a shower, and where they can sleep in a bed, etc.

City Hall can hand the homeless a list of resources that are available in the area to help the homeless, as opposed to having them to beg only to be turned away after getting on a waiting list, the waiting list might take 5 years. There is help available right now this moment, so the homeless people need to be given a list of resources that are available right now this moment.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:58:25 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 29, 2024, 09:56:13 PM
Bambu is a mouse chewn cultural conquistador, ready to plant a flag willy-nilly and hoping the next world is not so full of burrowing parasites.

Spoken like a true Leftist.
Are you from the socialist left of the Democrat Party?

Old man, and his wife of about the same age, sweet couple...the other day, on Australia day, went shopping, supermarket etc.
They wore hats.
In their hats they wore small Australian flags.
People were giving them praise, with some taking photos.

He was arrested by the cops of the leftist govt for "inciting a riot".
What a joke.

It's very difficult to support the cops these days.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 30, 2024, 10:55:00 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 29, 2024, 10:51:42 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 10:32:47 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on January 29, 2024, 07:31:40 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on January 29, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
From someone named after a B film actor in a movie memorable only because of a Zither, LOL,

Orson Welles a B movie actor? B Movies like Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight? I'd call you an ignorant cunt, but that would be disparaging to cunts and ignoramuses everywhere. And zither is not capitalized, twit.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. Also ranked high by the AFI, including 5th in its mystery genre category. Also got a cinematography Oscar, IIRC. Great film.
The Third Man is only remembered for its theme.
On a par with Unchained.
But I do note your retreat to sophomoric scurrility.
A sure indication of intellectual weakness.

This assessment coming from someone who thinks Orson Welles is a B movie actor, and that a classic widely lauded by film buffs is only remembered for its zither track, is not one I'm going to take seriously.
There's a whole world out there, outside your colon - you should climb out of there and breathe its fresh(er) air.
Trolling.
Hook,line, and sinker.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 30, 2024, 01:47:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:58:25 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 29, 2024, 09:56:13 PM
Bambu is a mouse chewn cultural conquistador, ready to plant a flag willy-nilly and hoping the next world is not so full of burrowing parasites.

Spoken like a true Leftist.
Are you from the socialist left of the Democrat Party?

Old man, and his wife of about the same age, sweet couple...the other day, on Australia day, went shopping, supermarket etc.
They wore hats.
In their hats they wore small Australian flags.
People were giving them praise, with some taking photos.

He was arrested by the cops of the leftist govt for "inciting a riot".
What a joke.

It's very difficult to support the cops these days.

I hope they had time to charge their EV before their jingoism got them into so much trouble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 04:25:27 PM: The new Electric VW Buses are going to be cool, they have the "Buzz" which is smaller but they are going to make a larger VW Bus that will be more like the original Buses.

https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-buzz.html

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:12:24 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 30, 2024, 01:47:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:58:25 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 29, 2024, 09:56:13 PM
Bambu is a mouse chewn cultural conquistador, ready to plant a flag willy-nilly and hoping the next world is not so full of burrowing parasites.

Spoken like a true Leftist.
Are you from the socialist left of the Democrat Party?

Old man, and his wife of about the same age, sweet couple...the other day, on Australia day, went shopping, supermarket etc.
They wore hats.
In their hats they wore small Australian flags.
People were giving them praise, with some taking photos.

He was arrested by the cops of the leftist govt for "inciting a riot".
What a joke.

It's very difficult to support the cops these days.

I hope they had time to charge their EV before their jingoism got them into so much trouble.

What got him into trouble...he the elderly Aussie patriot...was that the couple had visited the huge Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to pay homage to the fallen and veterans in general and had walked from there to a shop, wife entered the shop, he stayed outside.
Cops deemed him, ......and his new fans, "I now know how rock stars feel", .....to be too close to a nearby "Invasion Day" protest where Aboriginal and Palestinian flags were being waved.
So he got arrested. "Inciting a riot" the charge. Ridiculous.
He's not happy and is telling the world so. He's in the paper complaining, on tv complaining, a true hero of Australia Day. Not afraid to stand up for the national flag in public.
Andrew Bolt interviewed him on Sky News...Mr Bolt is a patriot.
Frank Strazdins is his name.

Not sure when 'old mate' Frank's trial is...should be very interesting whenever it is. 'Inciting a riot' is a very serious charge.

The couple had their photo taken with an Australian soldier on the day. 3 happy and smiling people.
The couple's happy day turned to horror as the cops pounced.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 05:35:11 PM: I have seen a lot of grouchy people lately who are serving the public but they are pissed off and bitter and they are mean to the public. The people at Taco Bell, who are all making $20 per hour now, did not even want to say "You are welcome" after I thanked them for the burrito. And then the Bus Driver was rude and grouchy, and she did not even reply when I thanked her. I worked for many years doing customer service and I was always polite and kind with the public no matter how hard my life was or how little I was paid for my work. I was taught that if you work for someone then you always do a good job for the customers even if you are not being paid fair.

And when I worked at Universal Studios we received 25,000 guests per day, and I was being paid the bare minimum and I was starving, but I was still always nice to the customers, the customers paid a lot of money to go to Universal and many guests came from all over the world, so I was always nice to our guests even though I was poor and could not afford an apartment and food and a car.

Regardless of how you feel about the amount of money you are being paid for your work, etc, then you need to be nice and polite to the customers who are giving their hard earned money for your service. And you always do good work, that is called integrity.

If you agree to do the job then you need to be polite and nice with the public, and professional, and you need to always do good work, otherwise do not take the job. Be nice to people, or do not work doing customer service.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 30, 2024, 05:46:56 PM: I sense bambutt's tale of the elderly Aussie arrested for wearing a hat has gone from giving us 5% of the relevant information to maybe 15%. At most.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:54:02 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 05:35:11 PM

I have seen a lot of grouchy people lately who are serving the public but they are pissed off and bitter and they are mean to the public.
Salute,

Tony V.

Maybe they don't intend to be like that, could be they are suffering 'housing/mortgage stress', financial problems, relationship problems [cheaters are everywhere today], election year and their side/candidate is not winning, they have to walk everywhere because their car was stolen and wasn't insured, they are 'the working poor, living in their mini van'...or can't afford food.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 06:13:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 30, 2024, 05:46:56 PM
I sense bambutt's tale of the elderly Aussie arrested for wearing a hat has gone from giving us 5% of the relevant information to maybe 15%. At most.

It's exactly true...put 'Frank Strazdins arrested for wearing flag in hat on Australia day' into Google.

Or go to skynews dot com dot au and do the same, or search 'Andrew Bolt sky news'

They'd gone to the Shrine of Remembrance, it's a huge building, for the 21 gun salute for Australia day.

Oh, and they were both in a shop when they heard noise outside, he went out onto the roadway [blocked off for the day probably] to see what the noise was, saw 100 metres away the protesters, when next minute cops grabbed him and said "you're under arrest", "what for", "inciting a riot", "why, how", "the flags on your head".
Yes, hatred of Australia and its flag is everywhere, and increasing. Mr Bolt is correct, absolutely.
Photo was shown of a seat in a train...on the side of it, on the frame, was written "Burn the Colony".

Oh, and Captain Cook suffered fatal injuries the other day when he was attacked and torn down off his memorial.
He will not be seen there again.
The bad people are winning everywhere today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 30, 2024, 06:47:41 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 06:13:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 30, 2024, 05:46:56 PM
I sense bambutt's tale of the elderly Aussie arrested for wearing a hat has gone from giving us 5% of the relevant information to maybe 15%. At most.

It's exactly true...put 'Frank Strazdins arrested for wearing flag in hat on Australia day' into Google.

Or go to skynews dot com dot au and do the same, or search 'Andrew Bolt sky news'

They'd gone to the Shrine of Remembrance, it's a huge building, for the 21 gun salute for Australia day.

Oh, and they were both in a shop when they heard noise outside, he went out onto the roadway [blocked off for the day probably] to see what the noise was, saw 100 metres away the protesters, when next minute cops grabbed him and said "you're under arrest", "what for", "inciting a riot", "why, how", "the flags on your head".
Yes, hatred of Australia and its flag is everywhere, and increasing. Mr Bolt is correct, absolutely.
Photo was shown of a seat in a train...on the side of it, on the frame, was written "Burn the Colony".

Oh, and Captain Cook suffered fatal injuries the other day when he was attacked and torn down off his memorial.
He will not be seen there again.
The bad people are winning everywhere today.
Sky News? Make that 12%.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 10:19:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 05:54:02 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 05:35:11 PM

I have seen a lot of grouchy people lately who are serving the public but they are pissed off and bitter and they are mean to the public.
Salute,

Tony V.

Maybe they don't intend to be like that, could be they are suffering 'housing/mortgage stress', financial problems, relationship problems [cheaters are everywhere today], election year and their side/candidate is not winning, they have to walk everywhere because their car was stolen and wasn't insured, they are 'the working poor, living in their mini van'...or can't afford food.

True. But I just feel like they need to try to be nice and polite to the customers even if they are under-paid and feel under-appreciated. And like when I worked at Universal, I was starving and I could not afford an apartment nor a car, they were paying me minimum wage, but I was still nice and polite to the customers and the customers were spending a lot of money to come to Universal Studios. I finally quit the job, but I was always nice and polite to the customers when I worked there. If they are going to do customer service then they need to be nice to the customers or quit the job.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 11:13:49 PM: Brightline West launched field investigation work ahead of a groundbreaking for the high-speed rail project from Las Vegas to California.

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The Super Bowl is going to bring a lot of money to Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is turning into a great, fantastic city. Las Vegas was nothing, out in the middle of no where, and they then built Hoover Dam and created Lake Mead, and Bugsy built the Flamingo Casino with money from the Jews and Italians, and then the people who ran the Gambling Ships off of the coast of Santa Monica invested in Casinos in Vegas, etc. Then the Jews and Italians from New York started investing more money in Las Vegas. Now Vegas is a great amazing city.

For the immigrants from the Philippines then I recommend coming to Las Vegas, my Mother's friend came from the Philippines to Hawaii, then she came to the desert of California where she became friends with my Mother, and then she moved to Las Vegas, and then she worked her way up to being the Vice President of a casino in Vegas, and she hired her family and friends from the Philippines to work at the casino where she worked. She came from the Philippines and she found great success in Las Vegas.

Vegas is an American Jewel. And with the new high speed train, etc, Vegas is going to be magnificent.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 30, 2024, 11:58:10 PM: Lots of people from the Philippines are coming to Nevada...

http://www.usa.com/rank/nevada-state--filipino-population-percentage--city-rank.htm

Las Vegas has a lot of Filipinos, and even Battle Mountain has people from the Philippines in their community.

Los Angeles is the leader as a new home for the immigrants from the Philippines, and then there is San Francisco, and San Diego, and New York, etc, but a lot of people from the Philippines are coming to Nevada, and to Las Vegas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 11:58:44 PM: Aussie NRL rugby league is reportedly having trouble attracting a crowd for its "blockbuster double header" in Vegas in early March.
No surprise, the people who live there might not be interested, and the rest are fly in/fly out tourists?
Even giving tickets away they might not get a crowd.
Some sporting officials/bosses don't have much idea.

Also, some of the star players are reportedly having trouble getting visas..."have you ever been charged with a crime"?
Ahem, "yes".

Got to go to second phase visa application scrutiny.

Mostly for 'assault'.
In pub...louts "your girl has an ass like a pig".....players, "whack/punch", cops come, "assault, arrested", charged.

Maybe won't be allowed into America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 12:09:08 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 30, 2024, 11:58:44 PM
Aussie NRL rugby league is reportedly having trouble attracting a crowd for its "blockbuster double header" in Vegas in early March.
No surprise, the people who live there might not be interested, and the rest are fly in/fly out tourists?
Even giving tickets away they might not get a crowd.
Some sporting officials/bosses don't have much idea.

Also, some of the star players are reportedly having trouble getting visas..."have you ever been charged with a crime"?
Ahem, "yes".

Got to go to second phase visa application scrutiny.

Mostly for 'assault'.
In pub...louts "your girl has an ass like a pig".....players, "whack/punch", cops come, "assault, arrested", charged.

Maybe won't be allowed into America.

The Aussies need some connections high up, like the Mayor of Las Vegas, and the Governor of Nevada, and Senator Jacky Rosen, and Senator Masto, and also there is Vice President Harris, etc. The Aussies need to get the support of the people who are high up in Vegas. And people like Steve Wynn can help the Aussies. Frank Sinatra could have helped, but he is long gone.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 12:51:28 AM: They make a mess, do not tip and the nick stuff. Better if they do not come over at all. Keep them in their stinky backwater. Vegas will be doing plenty of business with the superbowl, an event that has sold out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 02:26:38 AM: Having the Super Bowl in Vegas is going to bring a lot of added excitement to the event as people get to gamble and bet on the game, etc, and then with all of the shows and great restaurants, etc, the whole Super Bowl event this year in Las Vegas is going to be fantastic.

And when I was young I had a step father for a few years who was a Boss on the Space Shuttle Program for Rockwell, and they all gambled, they bet on the Football, they bet on Baseball, they bet on everything, and they also used to get together and play Poker, etc, the people at Rockwell all loved to gamble. People love to gamble. Bringing the gambling to the Super Bowl will add to the excitement for people.

So far as the Aussies, they need to appeal to the people at the top in Las Vegas, Nevada, and maybe they can have people gamble on the Rugby match, etc.

People love to gamble, and it adds to the fun of sports to bet on the games. Vegas is perfect for the Super Bowl, this is going to be a great event.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 05:28:48 AM: Plus the music of Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary.

Also Gerry and The Pacemakers...."You'll Never Walk Alone"...adopted by Liverpool (England)Football Club (soccer) as their 'anthem'.

Plus ABBA.

Elton John.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on January 31, 2024, 09:07:45 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 02:26:38 AM
Having the Super Bowl in Vegas is going to bring a lot of added excitement to the event as people get to gamble and bet on the game, etc, and then with all of the shows and great restaurants, etc, the whole Super Bowl event this year in Las Vegas is going to be fantastic.

And when I was young I had a step father for a few years who was a Boss on the Space Shuttle Program for Rockwell, and they all gambled, they bet on the Football, they bet on Baseball, they bet on everything, and they also used to get together and play Poker, etc, the people at Rockwell all loved to gamble. People love to gamble. Bringing the gambling to the Super Bowl will add to the excitement for people.

So far as the Aussies, they need to appeal to the people at the top in Las Vegas, Nevada, and maybe they can have people gamble on the Rugby match, etc.

People love to gamble, and it adds to the fun of sports to bet on the games. Vegas is perfect for the Super Bowl, this is going to be a great event.

Salute,

Tony V.
They should hold it in Battle Mountain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 10:55:07 AM: Vegas in March 2024.

A week of festivities!

"Big Vegas Weekend"

Aussie NRL game on March 2nd.

On March 1st

Masters Rugby League tournament.

Australia, USA, Canada

Masters Rugby League

. Non-competive
. No rough or vigorous play allowed
. Masters is about enjoyment and having a good time - on and off the pitch!
. There are no winners, no champions, no leagues, no cup finals
. All games end in a 0-0 draw

The most important rule is " everyone has to buy a drink for their opposite number!"

#####

Sounds like fun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 11:41:03 AM: 'Take our border back convoy' headed for Texas.

"Texas awaits arrival of "God's army"".

#####

Patriots have obviously had enough.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 12:33:34 PM: It would be nice if it were true. We could let all the frothy degenerates descend on Texas and then never let them leave. It would be a quick quality of life boost for 49 states.

It turns out the convoy is fifty guys with trucks who are too drunk to work. They will fit right in in Texas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 02:17:05 PM: For moving pictures real life experience of exactly what's going on at the southern border, and the astronomical cost to American taxpayers...Youtube:

"At US/Mexico Border With Arizona Sheriff (exclusive access)"

"At America's Most Lawless Border"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 02:34:47 PM: The Florida Alabama line is Americas most lawless border followed closely by Texas Arkansas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 03:13:35 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 02:34:47 PM
The Florida Alabama line is Americas most lawless border followed closely by Texas Arkansas.

Most of the illegals pouring in over the Mexican border are not Mexican, but rather from Russia, Uzbekistan, Europe, India, China etc.

Here look in the two plastic packets the Sheriff is holding...passports and other ID documents the asylum seekers ditched...par for the course.
These people have to pay the cartels more, $15,000 each.
People smuggling is a lucrative business.
Look at those Euro coins on the ground.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 04:58:39 PM: Bambu with another crack investigation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 05:25:36 PM: Canada has a smaller population than California, and yet Canada has a huge land mass, there is room for the refugees to live in Canada. There needs to be planes flying the refugees from Mexico to Canada. And the refugees can travel on Greyhound Buses, etc, from Mexico to Canada. And there can be ships sailing from Mexico to Canada, etc, to carry the refugees to their new homes in Canada.

And Kiwanis has a Village in Victoria, Canada, for the refugees...

https://www.vicnews.com/community/victorias-kiwanis-village-offers-spaces-to-ukrainian-refugees-99169

Kiwanis International can help the refugees, and the Catholic Church can help, and UNICEF can help, etc.

Canada wants the new immigrants, they need to populate their wide open spaces. Canada is huge, with very few people, and Canada wants the new people.

We also need to make our immigrants legal here in the USA like Reagan did, and we need to write a new Immigration Law which includes a Good Neighbor Policy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 05:47:05 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 04:58:39 PM
Bambu with another crack investigation.

Didn't have to look far, the reporter guy and the sheriffs did all the work.
They're obviously fed up with it all too.
Obama was also blamed, for changing the law.
The folly of letting Leftists run immigration.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 05:57:05 PM: Obama was also blamed, for changing the law.

What law did he "change"?

Turn off YouTube. Go outside.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 05:59:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 05:47:05 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 04:58:39 PM
Bambu with another crack investigation.

Didn't have to look far, the reporter guy and the sheriffs did all the work.
They're obviously fed up with it all too.
Obama was also blamed, for changing the law.
The folly of letting Leftists run immigration.

We would not let you in. You are one moment of courage away from being a terrorist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on January 31, 2024, 06:13:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 03:13:35 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 02:34:47 PM
The Florida Alabama line is Americas most lawless border followed closely by Texas Arkansas.

Most of the illegals pouring in over the Mexican border are not Mexican, but rather from Russia, Uzbekistan, Europe, India, China etc.

Here look in the two plastic packets the Sheriff is holding...passports and other ID documents the asylum seekers ditched...par for the course.
These people have to pay the cartels more, $15,000 each.
People smuggling is a lucrative business.
Look at those Euro coins on the ground.

It would be nice if we had a regulated immigration system
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 07:22:27 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2024, 06:13:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 03:13:35 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 02:34:47 PM
The Florida Alabama line is Americas most lawless border followed closely by Texas Arkansas.

Most of the illegals pouring in over the Mexican border are not Mexican, but rather from Russia, Uzbekistan, Europe, India, China etc.

Here look in the two plastic packets the Sheriff is holding...passports and other ID documents the asylum seekers ditched...par for the course.
These people have to pay the cartels more, $15,000 each.
People smuggling is a lucrative business.
Look at those Euro coins on the ground.

It would be nice if we had a regulated immigration system

It certainly would.
One much like the one in place on the Canadian border.
Several years ago, when mrs bambu entered the US from Canada, by plane, she had to have documentation, the exactly correct type, ...passport, correct visa, copies of scripts for her drugs, the drugs in a special container provided/ certified by her pharmacist. She was fingerprinted and face scanned, the govt then having her in its data bank.
The US federal govt determining who enters its country, and on what terms.

Granted, 'refugees and asylum seekers' need different 'system/rules', but they should not be allowed to just waltz in over any border and be released into the community.
They should be held in detention centres on US soil or on the soil of another country ("offshore processing") until their identity can be established. They could be terrorists.

Trumps policy of making them apply from Mexico (where they were safe) was a very good one.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 31, 2024, 07:44:42 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on January 31, 2024, 06:13:33 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 03:13:35 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 02:34:47 PM
The Florida Alabama line is Americas most lawless border followed closely by Texas Arkansas.

Most of the illegals pouring in over the Mexican border are not Mexican, but rather from Russia, Uzbekistan, Europe, India, China etc.

Here look in the two plastic packets the Sheriff is holding...passports and other ID documents the asylum seekers ditched...par for the course.
These people have to pay the cartels more, $15,000 each.
People smuggling is a lucrative business.
Look at those Euro coins on the ground.

It would be nice if we had a regulated immigration system
According to Harry Lime we do.
But Joe Biden, the man in charge, admits it is out of control
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 08:25:59 PM: Red is pretty sure that because he takes it both ways he should have it both ways.

It is sad like that time he thought he was moral and part of some majority.

Red is a poop stain that has found itself stuck in the colon of our nation.

We need to work harder on our infrastructure down there so we can flush that shit out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 08:43:06 PM: When people keep their struggles to themselves then no one benefits, and the person feels like no one cares, but when people share their struggles with others then it can inspire people, and it can help people to have hope that they too can overcome adversity.

When guys like Danny Trejo get clean and then become good citizens then it helps to inspire other drug addicts and criminals that they too can get straight and clean and can become successful.

Then, the filmmakers make movies about the great people who overcame adversities to inspire others. You could make a movie right now about the life of Danny Trejo and the movie would be a success, and it would give hope to drug addicted criminals that they too can get clean and become successful, etc.

And when I rise then I am going to inspire people, and God has given me miracles so I am going to help to bring people to Christ. God has given me miracles, and I can share my testimony.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 08:49:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 05:57:05 PM
Obama was also blamed, for changing the law.

What law did he "change"?

Turn off YouTube. Go outside.

Yuma County Sheriff
Illegals pouring in from Iran...lol, Iraq etc, Russia etc, from 140 countries, 310,000 in one part of his County alone last year, night and day it goes on. Also Ecuador, Colombia.
The cartels drop them off at the big hole the the fence, and they ring 911...lol.

They then are dispersed to all parts of America, to a sponsor.
There's a 7-11 year backlog for processing.

Still don't know who they are, they haven't been processed.

Sheriff Wilmot:

"Arizona had 1070 law that allowed us to charge someone with smuggling, but the Obama administration sued the state of Arizona, "smuggling is "immigration"", federal.
As a consequence, law enforcement cannot arrest anyone for smuggling...if we do we can be charged by the DOJ with kidnapping."

"For one large tent to hold them, costs taxpayers $4.5m a month."
For the larger tents housing families, where their laundry is done and food cooked, it's costing $6m+ per month."

The reporter jokes..."in America we have plenty of money to pay for it all"

Sheriff: "If you're living in a bubble we do."

"Our country cannot afford to take care of all these other countries' issues."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 08:58:15 PM: Go outside
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 09:44:09 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 08:58:15 PM
Go outside

You seem to be living in a bubble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 09:48:58 PM: Pot meet kettle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on January 31, 2024, 09:50:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 09:44:09 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 08:58:15 PM
Go outside

You seem to be living in a bubble.
How true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 10:04:57 PM: We must continue to teach our youth the art of Rhetoric, the people who say "We want action and not just words and Rhetoric" are fools, as the words and the Rhetoric help to bring about the action and change, and they also say that the pen is mightier than the sword.

When Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but instead ask what you can do for your country" then that was Rhetoric, and it inspired great action, people loved Kennedy and his Rhetoric was very effective.

And the Abolitionist Poets were all about Rhetoric, they were using their poetry to try to bring about changes and to incite action to free the slaves.

All of the Roman Emperors studied Rhetoric, as did the Greeks. Rhetoric is a great ancient art.

Rhetoric can bring about action and results, and can motivate the masses to come together to attain a shared goal, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on January 31, 2024, 10:09:32 PM: Do you have a geriatric rhetoric class for Red? He has taken to speaking with his head up his ass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 11:27:00 PM: After the Sheriff said to the reporter about 'if we're living in a bubble'..he posed the question;
para;

"Where is the limit"?

Indeed.

To coin a phrase from "Pretty Woman"............. "It's very expensive"

My former No1 radio host;

"Govts have no money of their own, the only money they have is the money they raise in taxes from the People."

After watching those two videos about the US/Mexico border, and hearing what the two American long term sheriffs had to say, there was no other conclusion I could come to other than:

Cartels are basically *running* 'US Immigration' at the border...law enforcement really only 'baby sitters' for the captured migrants.
Cartels are importing drugs and people into America basically at will, making a fortune in the process.
Sheriff said they have certain areas where they bring the people across, and certain areas where they bring the drugs across.

Border Patrol seem to be short-staffed.

Sheriff Wilmot said he caught cartels cutting thru the steel fence, [they cut thru it but leave it 'intact' so they can then swing the section out to let people thru.]
He said they just gave him the finger and kept on doing what they were doing. lol Ridiculous, but that's what it's come to. It would be terrible being a diligent sheriff working for good not evil and basically being powerless.

Sheriff Wilmot pointed to a lot of fence panels, large amount of taxpayers money used to buy them, just lying around in the dirt, supposed to be going to fix the large hole section of the fence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 31, 2024, 11:43:25 PM: If I was the President of Mexico, instead of having taxes on the people of Mexico then I would have tariffs on the goods imported into Mexico, and I would use the money from the tariffs on imports to run the government. And I would expand the ports so that a lot of goods are being imported, and put tariffs on the imported goods. And for instance I would use tariffs from imported Coca Cola to pay for schools and libraries in Mexico, etc, Mexico can put tariffs on all of the imports and the money could be used to build libraries, schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc.

And many of the refugees can be sent to Victoria, Canada, to the Kiwanis Village, etc. Canada wants the new immigrants to populate their vast open spaces, Canada is huge and they have less people than California. The refugees can consider Victoria, Canada, as an option for a chosen new home.

And, there is always Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the refugees, and Las Vegas is a jewel.

Also, the workers can be hooked up with Labor Unions for their field of work, etc, and teachers can be sent to Kentucky and to Arkansas and to Tennessee, etc. We can send the workers to where they are needed.

Salute.

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 01, 2024, 10:37:58 AM: Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 08:49:07 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 05:57:05 PM
Obama was also blamed, for changing the law.

What law did he "change"?

Turn off YouTube. Go outside.

Yuma County Sheriff
Illegals pouring in from Iran...lol, Iraq etc, Russia etc, from 140 countries, 310,000 in one part of his County alone last year, night and day it goes on. Also Ecuador, Colombia.
The cartels drop them off at the big hole the the fence, and they ring 911...lol.

They then are dispersed to all parts of America, to a sponsor.
There's a 7-11 year backlog for processing.

Still don't know who they are, they haven't been processed.

Sheriff Wilmot:

"Arizona had 1070 law that allowed us to charge someone with smuggling, but the Obama administration sued the state of Arizona, "smuggling is "immigration"", federal.
As a consequence, law enforcement cannot arrest anyone for smuggling...if we do we can be charged by the DOJ with kidnapping."
If Wilmot is going to lie so blatantly about what 1070 was and did why believe anything he says?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM: Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 01, 2024, 11:38:57 AM: He is not sincere. He is trolling. He is just being an Australian style dickhead which reads as somewhat sincere compared to American trolling.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 01, 2024, 12:13:56 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on January 31, 2024, 09:50:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on January 31, 2024, 09:44:09 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on January 31, 2024, 08:58:15 PM
Go outside

You seem to be living in a bubble.
How true.
Sure it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 01:42:16 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.

What I saw in those two vidoes was real.
Real American long term sheriffs, in real American sheriff uniforms, ...older American men, who I believe are genuine.

You don't have to worry about my mentioning the border again...a Texas sheriff explained it all very clearly in a video I watched last night.
He's the Sheriff in Alpine county Texas.
He said:

Para:
"Our country has a thirst for cheap labor, and a thirst for the drugs being smuggled in.
If we didn't have jobs for them, they wouldn't be coming in.
If we didn't want to use the drugs the cartels are selling, they wouldn't be selling them.
We don't want a wall here, it would be on the American side of the river, would stop access to it by Americans, and businesses here involved in water sports on the river would go broke".

Simply explained by him.
How it is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 01, 2024, 03:45:43 PM: Republicans, like the Tories in England, deliberately choked off immigration courts and personnel at borders to build a crisis that appealed to xenophobia they could exploit. The only folks who are capable of improving the situation at either border are the Democrats and Labour. The only hope we have that they will succeed in enacting all around beneficial border policies is to drive the republicans and the Tories from their most important seats of power.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 01, 2024, 03:55:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.

What I saw in those two vidoes was real.
Real American long term sheriffs, in real American sheriff uniforms, ...older American men, who I believe are genuine.

No doubt they are real sheriffs. That was not my problem with the videos, but rather that not everything they say is an impartial rendering of the facts. Your last clip there did contain some true statements, e.g. America does like the cheap labor and plentiful drugs. And yes there are manifold reasons for not building a wall. But some of the inferences you and the sheriffs make are distortions of the facts on the ground. For example, the Arizona 1070 law, or that cartels run the Border Patrol, or that Biden policies intend to make a porous border.

Solid facts have historical context. They reveal causes and effects. That's why we can't get them from angry people with a chip on their shoulders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 01, 2024, 04:38:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.

What I saw in those two vidoes was real.
Real American long term sheriffs, in real American sheriff uniforms, ...older American men, who I believe are genuine.

You don't have to worry about my mentioning the border again...a Texas sheriff explained it all very clearly in a video I watched last night.
He's the Sheriff in Alpine county Texas.
He said:

Para:
"Our country has a thirst for cheap labor, and a thirst for the drugs being smuggled in.
If we didn't have jobs for them, they wouldn't be coming in.
If we didn't want to use the drugs the cartels are selling, they wouldn't be selling them.
We don't want a wall here, it would be on the American side of the river, would stop access to it by Americans, and businesses here involved in water sports on the river would go broke".

Simply explained by him.
How it is.
Why am I not surprised you bow to the bona fides and assumed credibility of old white guys?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 01, 2024, 05:14:17 PM: With the haters of Taylor Swift, they are just jealous, they need to realize that and then stop being jealous.

My Father was jealous of Elvis.

For me, I was jealous of Johnny Depp, I did not like his television show or his movies, but then I realized it was just jealousy and that I needed to get over it. My Mother is a huge fan of Johnny Depp and I had to get over my jealousy so that I could watch "Pirates of the Caribbean" with my Mother, etc. And I have friends who love the movie "Blow" and other stuff that Johnny Depp made. Now I realize that I was just jealous, and I can enjoy watching a Johnny Depp movie, I got over the jealousy.

Once we realize that we are just being jealous, then we can tell ourselves to stop being jealous, and then we can get over it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 01, 2024, 05:47:23 PM: Jealousy sucks, it is not a healthy way to be.

Cain killed Abel because he was jealous because God loved Abel.

And then in "The Count of Monte Cristo" which is fiction, but the story is about real human behavior, and it is about the horrible things that bad people will do because of jealousy. Edmond Dantes was young and handsome and he was about to marry a beautiful woman, and he was to be made captain of a wealthy ship; so the bad guys became jealous and ruined his life.

With "Othello" by Shakespeare, Iago ruins the lives of Othello and Desdemona all because of jealousy.

I hate it when people get jealous and say things like "He is not as great as he thinks he is." Or "He needs to be taken down a notch because he is too uppity." People get jealous and they want to see people punished for being too smart, or too beautiful, or too talented, etc, and it all sucks.

When I catch myself being jealous of people, then I spot it, and I can try to control it, like I did with Johnny Depp, I can enjoy his movies with my Mother and there is no jealousy anymore, we can control our jealousy once we spot it and tell ourselves to stop being jealous.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 06:08:48 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 01, 2024, 04:38:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.

What I saw in those two vidoes was real.
Real American long term sheriffs, in real American sheriff uniforms, ...older American men, who I believe are genuine.

You don't have to worry about my mentioning the border again...a Texas sheriff explained it all very clearly in a video I watched last night.
He's the Sheriff in Alpine county Texas.
He said:

Para:
"Our country has a thirst for cheap labor, and a thirst for the drugs being smuggled in.
If we didn't have jobs for them, they wouldn't be coming in.
If we didn't want to use the drugs the cartels are selling, they wouldn't be selling them.
We don't want a wall here, it would be on the American side of the river, would stop access to it by Americans, and businesses here involved in water sports on the river would go broke".

Simply explained by him.
How it is.
Why am I not surprised you bow to the bona fides and assumed credibility of old white guys?

The Arizona Sheriff showed the reporter/camera the fence up close. Every pillar looked the same, until you looked closely and he showed where a plate had been welded over the cut made by the cartels.

The Texas sheriff took the Reporter out into the very hot desert and showed him the border crossing centre on the highway, it was closed...cone's on the roadway. Said it's often closed, "not enough people to operate it."
Next he took the reporter to the river. They looked down on the river from the bank.
Sheriff said that as a child he used to jump into the river from where they were standing.
Reporter remarked that there wasn't much water in the river, Sheriff said "in severe drought."

US population, not all but many, do have a thirst for cheap labor and illicit drugs, don't they?

What parts of the sheriffs' words do you not believe?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 06:36:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 03:55:40 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 01, 2024, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 01, 2024, 11:20:58 AM
Bamboob is gullible to the point that I don't read any of his I Saw This on YouTube stuff anymore. I get that he is sincere and not trolling, but that Tube Rant is just a timewaster.

Meanwhile we all have to watch Taylor Swift and her secret government mission. I like a description given to the recent crop of conspiracy theorists as Not-Too-Swifties.

What I saw in those two vidoes was real.
Real American long term sheriffs, in real American sheriff uniforms, ...older American men, who I believe are genuine.

No doubt they are real sheriffs. That was not my problem with the videos, but rather that not everything they say is an impartial rendering of the facts. Your last clip there did contain some true statements, e.g. America does like the cheap labor and plentiful drugs. And yes there are manifold reasons for not building a wall. But some of the inferences you and the sheriffs make are distortions of the facts on the ground. For example, the Arizona 1070 law, or that cartels run the Border Patrol, or that Biden policies intend to make a porous border.

Solid facts have historical context. They reveal causes and effects. That's why we can't get them from angry people with a chip on their shoulders.

No.
The cartels are not running the border patrol, the cartels are outsmarting the border patrols, who seem understaffed.
Cartels smuggle the people over the border, the border patrol then detain them and transport them somewhere for processing.
The cartels are running immigration that way.
They have radios hidden in the rocks, they have eyes and ears everywhere.

In the places where there a giant gaps in the fence the cartels simply drive the asylum seekers up to the gaps, they walk thru onto American soil and ring 911.

Texas sheriff said that the cartels pay for dental.for the children of families near the border.
Dental, food, schooling, do everything for the families.
In return they ask the families to "tell us if you see anything, know anything".

Sheriff said the cartels know their every move.

When you've got some spare time, I recommend you watch those 2 videos in particular.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 01, 2024, 09:02:28 PM: There is a movie named "Harrison Bergeron" where they stop envy by banning greatness and they reduce the planet to a world of mediocrity, it is a great movie.

Instead of banning greatness, we need to teach the children how to deal with feelings of envy. We can have guys like Mister Rogers teach the children how to deal with feelings of envy. We need to teach the children in 1st Grade how to deal with feelings of envy in a healthy way.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 02, 2024, 10:37:03 AM: Blackbirds used to be white, and arrogant AF. Italian version of the groundhog day concept.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240201-groundhog-days-european-creature-parallels-and-the-surprising-3000-year-old-origin-of-an-american-tradition

Happy Candlemas!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 11:07:46 AM: There are times when television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 02, 2024, 05:14:19 PM: The only Denny's Restaurant in Oakland has closed, as has their only In N Out Burger, all of the businesses are closing in Oakland, as Oakland becomes a wasteland of homeless people and drug addicts.

All of the businesses are closing and are leaving Oakland. The streets of Oakland are full of homeless people and drug addicts and criminals. And people are complaining about the Mexicans? The Americans here in Oakland are fucked up people. Maybe the Mexicans and the Chinese can save Oakland. We can give Business Loans to the Mexicans and to the Chinese to open businesses in Oakland, including Cheap Hostels where the homeless can shower and where they can sleep in a bed, and also they can open Sober Living Homes where the homeless can live for $450 per month, etc. The Mexicans and Chinese can also open new restaurants, and new retail stores, etc, in Oakland.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:18:35 PM: On Youtube now; [y'all know that I'm not the only one watching this video...501,836 views 6 hrs ago...5,867 comments.

Probably best Biden supporters don't read the comments;

Unbridled praise for Abbott and DeSantis and the other 25 states supporting them....for 'taking our country back', 'take back our Texas and our country', 'thank you 25 other states support of Texas', 'states should stop paying taxes to the federal govt', 'God bless you'.
Folk from NY, Colorado, Washington, Chicago, etc heaping praise.
'California here. I don't expect my state to do anything useful, but I still support Abbott.'

The video of the feds pulling back the wire and letting the illegals pour thru ...won't do Joe any good, methinks.

The Truck convoy is making plenty of noise. The folk in it are going to the border to pray. Ah yes, 'the power of prayer'.

Joe's ...

. Terminate Remain-in-Mexico
. Reinstate 'Catch and Release'
. End Title 42
. End Border Wall Construction

...chickens are coming home to roost.

Youtube video;

It Begins...States Unite - More Troops to Texas, Abbott Thanks Governors, Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 05:41:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:18:35 PM
On Youtube now; [y'all know that I'm not the only one watching this video...501,836 views 6 hrs ago...5,867 comments.

Probably best Biden supporters don't read the comments;

Unbridled praise for Abbott and DeSantis and the other 25 states supporting them....for 'taking our country back', 'take back our Texas and our country', 'thank you 25 other states support of Texas', 'states should stop paying taxes to the federal govt', 'God bless you'.
Folk from NY, Colorado, Washington, Chicago, etc heaping praise.
'California here. I don't expect my state to do anything useful, but I still support Abbott.'

The video of the feds pulling back the wire and letting the illegals pour thru ...won't do Joe any good, methinks.

The Truck convoy is making plenty of noise. The folk in it are going to the border to pray. Ah yes, 'the power of prayer'.

Joe's ...

. Terminate Remain-in-Mexico
. Reinstate 'Catch and Release'
. End Title 42
. End Border Wall Construction

...chickens are coming home to roost.

Youtube video;

It Begins...States Unite - More Troops to Texas, Abbott Thanks Governors, Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis
You would read and rely on Youtube comments.

The only noise that convoy is making is the death rattle of failure. Their 700,000 protestors projection is short by about 699,900 people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:49:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 05:41:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:18:35 PM
On Youtube now; [y'all know that I'm not the only one watching this video...501,836 views 6 hrs ago...5,867 comments.

Probably best Biden supporters don't read the comments;

Unbridled praise for Abbott and DeSantis and the other 25 states supporting them....for 'taking our country back', 'take back our Texas and our country', 'thank you 25 other states support of Texas', 'states should stop paying taxes to the federal govt', 'God bless you'.
Folk from NY, Colorado, Washington, Chicago, etc heaping praise.
'California here. I don't expect my state to do anything useful, but I still support Abbott.'

The video of the feds pulling back the wire and letting the illegals pour thru ...won't do Joe any good, methinks.

The Truck convoy is making plenty of noise. The folk in it are going to the border to pray. Ah yes, 'the power of prayer'.

Joe's ...

. Terminate Remain-in-Mexico
. Reinstate 'Catch and Release'
. End Title 42
. End Border Wall Construction

...chickens are coming home to roost.

Youtube video;

It Begins...States Unite - More Troops to Texas, Abbott Thanks Governors, Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis
You would read and rely on Youtube comments.

The only noise that convoy is making is the death rattle of failure. Their 700,000 protestors projection is short by about 699,900 people.

LOL
They are making a noise though, by being on tv.
Well-meaning folk, patriots to the heart.

The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.
Most of them don't seem to be in love with Joe's ideas and actions.
Spring looms large, the 'illegal migrant peak season', allegedly.
Interesting times ahead...with the election only a 'few' short months away.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 02, 2024, 06:03:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 11:07:46 AM
There are times when television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 02, 2024, 06:04:10 PM: The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.

How do you know?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 06:06:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:49:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 05:41:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:18:35 PM
On Youtube now; [y'all know that I'm not the only one watching this video...501,836 views 6 hrs ago...5,867 comments.

Probably best Biden supporters don't read the comments;

Unbridled praise for Abbott and DeSantis and the other 25 states supporting them....for 'taking our country back', 'take back our Texas and our country', 'thank you 25 other states support of Texas', 'states should stop paying taxes to the federal govt', 'God bless you'.
Folk from NY, Colorado, Washington, Chicago, etc heaping praise.
'California here. I don't expect my state to do anything useful, but I still support Abbott.'

The video of the feds pulling back the wire and letting the illegals pour thru ...won't do Joe any good, methinks.

The Truck convoy is making plenty of noise. The folk in it are going to the border to pray. Ah yes, 'the power of prayer'.

Joe's ...

. Terminate Remain-in-Mexico
. Reinstate 'Catch and Release'
. End Title 42
. End Border Wall Construction

...chickens are coming home to roost.

Youtube video;

It Begins...States Unite - More Troops to Texas, Abbott Thanks Governors, Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis
You would read and rely on Youtube comments.

The only noise that convoy is making is the death rattle of failure. Their 700,000 protestors projection is short by about 699,900 people.

LOL
They are making a noise though, by being on tv.
Well-meaning folk, patriots to the heart.

The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.
Most of them don't seem to be in love with Joe's ideas and actions.
Spring looms large, the 'illegal migrant peak season', allegedly.
Interesting times ahead...with the election only a 'few' short months away.
They are on tv being mocked, outside of the right wing media bubble. You could draw more people protesting soggy fries at Arby's.

And the people who comment on videos are those who are inclined to watch the video in the first place. Which means, especially the ones you watch, they are posted by the dregs of humanity. Only good use of Youtube comments I know of is this guy's:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lac-8tTuyhs
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 06:11:16 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 02, 2024, 06:04:10 PM
The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.

How do you know?

Funny you should ask that question...I was going to suggest it in my last post. lol
I don't know.
I wasn't around at the time of Jesus, so I don't know all about that either.

It's a matter of belief.
I believe the comments are real.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 06:23:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 06:06:20 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:49:31 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 02, 2024, 05:41:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 05:18:35 PM
On Youtube now; [y'all know that I'm not the only one watching this video...501,836 views 6 hrs ago...5,867 comments.

Probably best Biden supporters don't read the comments;

Unbridled praise for Abbott and DeSantis and the other 25 states supporting them....for 'taking our country back', 'take back our Texas and our country', 'thank you 25 other states support of Texas', 'states should stop paying taxes to the federal govt', 'God bless you'.
Folk from NY, Colorado, Washington, Chicago, etc heaping praise.
'California here. I don't expect my state to do anything useful, but I still support Abbott.'

The video of the feds pulling back the wire and letting the illegals pour thru ...won't do Joe any good, methinks.

The Truck convoy is making plenty of noise. The folk in it are going to the border to pray. Ah yes, 'the power of prayer'.

Joe's ...

. Terminate Remain-in-Mexico
. Reinstate 'Catch and Release'
. End Title 42
. End Border Wall Construction

...chickens are coming home to roost.

Youtube video;

It Begins...States Unite - More Troops to Texas, Abbott Thanks Governors, Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis
You would read and rely on Youtube comments.

The only noise that convoy is making is the death rattle of failure. Their 700,000 protestors projection is short by about 699,900 people.

LOL
They are making a noise though, by being on tv.
Well-meaning folk, patriots to the heart.

The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.
Most of them don't seem to be in love with Joe's ideas and actions.
Spring looms large, the 'illegal migrant peak season', allegedly.
Interesting times ahead...with the election only a 'few' short months away.
They are on tv being mocked, outside of the right wing media bubble. You could draw more people protesting soggy fries at Arby's.

And the people who comment on videos are those who are inclined to watch the video in the first place. Which means, especially the ones you watch, they are posted by the dregs of humanity. Only good use of Youtube comments I know of is this guy's:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lac-8tTuyhs

'dregs of humanity'?

Oh dear, all those American folk concerned about the future of their country.
American folk writing things like this:

"Thank you American citizens for supporting the people who want American children to live a life of freedom and peace"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 02, 2024, 06:34:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 06:23:25 PM

Oh dear, all those American folk concerned about the future of their country.

Hitler and his followers were concerned about the future of their country. Real patriots!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 02, 2024, 06:47:30 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 02, 2024, 06:04:10 PM
The comments are by real people, writing real words on their computers.

How do you know?

It hopes that if you believe that about YouTube commenters you will believe that about it too.

Do not pour cold water on Bambis hopes, mainly because it will short out if you do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 07:17:39 PM: The convoy people...

A lot like "the Convoy to Canberra" bambu-ilk had some time ago, when leftist Prime Minister Ms Julia Gillard was ruling the landscape.
She of the promise before the election that "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead"...then to form a govt she 'got into bed' with the Greens and introduced a carbon tax. Bob Brown then the leader of the Greens.

Immediately named "Juliar" by unhappy mostly-Right voters.

Miranda Devine wrote in the DT in 2011...

People with legitimate complaints are derided as some sort of deranged Down-Under Tea Party.
Labor MP Kelvin Thompson showed his disdain for the protesters with an ageist remark on Sky News. "I saw a couple of Winnebagos and a couple of caravans. I thought it was a convoy of incontinence".

But the protesters carry a message from Middle Australia reflected in the polls.

#####

More than the two 'Winnebagos and two caravans', people travelled by car and truck.

The anti-carbon tax rally was held...behind the stage a giant banner; "JULIAR, BOB BROWN'S BITCH".
And a smaller placard "DITCH the WITCH".

They were enough to send her and her govt into a meltdown of outrage.
"Misogyny" they screamed.

She sank in the polls, and was eventually replaced before the next election [every 3 years] by Kevin Rudd [the now Australian ambassador to America].
He, formerly PM before her, sank in the polls over asylum seeker boats arriving every 'five minutes', she had replaced him as PM.

He was the one who, not wanting to lose the election, drew a line in the sand over asylum seeker boats.
Announcing to the world that: "No none arriving in Australia illegally by boat will ever be settled in Australia".
The boats kept coming, he hastily re-opened detention centres on Manus Is PNG...shipping containers, and on Nauru in the Pacific.

Too little, too late. He lost the election, and "The Monk [Tony Abbott] became Prime Minister...and "Tow back The Boats" was born.

'Convoy of Incontinence'...'Deplorables'...much the same insults.

In my opinion, Joe would be very wise to do something to fix the border war before the election...because you never know what effect the 'dregs of society', 'incontinents', 'deplorables' might have.

Joe would be well advised to "Tow Back The Boats", soon.

"I've been busy concentrating on the wars in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, and haven't realised the negative effect the scale of illegal immigration is having in this country.
As such I've done a thorough investigation myself of the situation and have today put in place the following;

His solutions.

*

Before the unhappy start chanting "USA, USA" seeing it as "America v its enemy".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 07:33:58 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 02, 2024, 06:34:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 06:23:25 PM

Oh dear, all those American folk concerned about the future of their country.

Hitler and his followers were concerned about the future of their country. Real patriots!

Americans who enlisted in WW2 and all wars, and risked their lives doing so, ...and those in the US military today.....all concerned about the future of their country....real patriots.
Three killed in Jordan the other day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 02, 2024, 07:36:01 PM: Are you badly programmed or criminally insane?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 02, 2024, 07:55:00 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 02, 2024, 07:36:01 PM
Are you badly programmed or criminally insane?

Who knows?

*

Ever wondered how the US-bound migrants at the border get there?

The UN finances them, gives them cash/debit cards.

US taxpayers give the UN billions.

Center for Immigration Studies.
cis.org Tom Bensman

NY Post

A simple Google reveals all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 02, 2024, 07:58:28 PM: Are you sure it is not the lizard people or prehistoric giants?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 03, 2024, 11:27:37 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 02, 2024, 07:58:28 PM
Are you sure it is not the lizard people or prehistoric giants?

I blame the Grays.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 03, 2024, 03:42:03 PM: While many cities in California are getting worse and worse, such as Oakland which is becoming a waste land as the businesses leave and as the homeless people and drug addicts take over, and San Francisco which is almost as bad as Oakland, and San Bernardino has the highest crime in the State now, lots of problems are happening in California, and Newsom is a poor leader.

On the other hand, Anaheim is doing better, every year it gets better in Anaheim. Disneyland is breaking records with attendance and sales, and lots of money is being invested into Disney and the surrounding area. Cruising has been brought back by removing the ban, so now on Sunday Nights then Anaheim Blvd is full of cruisers who are spending money at the local liquor stores and restaurants and businesses.

And we have lots of women here now, I was walking home from the CVS by City Hall and a beautiful young woman jogged in front of me on my whole walk home, and she would stop and stretch at every red light while we waited to cross, she jogged slow right in front of me on my whole walk home. She was way too young for me, but it was still fun to watch her jog and stretch. And that is part of how you can spot a good neighborhood, if you see lots of beautiful women then you know it is a good neighborhood. The bad neighborhoods in San Bernardino do not have any women, you just see young men hanging out together without any women, the women all leave to go to the good areas.

We need an Apple Store, and we need a Community Theatre, and we need a Barnes and Noble Bookstore, etc, but I can see Anaheim getting better. There is a constant battle between good and evil, but I think Anaheim is getting better.

And I think God might send me a good wife right here in Anaheim, and if I keep going to the Crystal Cathedral on Sundays where I can meet new people, etc, and we have Chapman Film School, and we have Fullerton Community College, I may even get my movie made and my book published. I just think it is getting better here.

I can see it getting better. I am in a great location. I love Italy, and France, and I will travel in the future, and I want to see Greece, etc, but I might meet a wife right here in Anaheim, we will see what happens. I can see the neighborhood getting better. I still might end up living back in Malibu, but it is getting better here, I can see it getting better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 03, 2024, 04:18:28 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/john-fetterman-book-depression-palestinian-hypocrisy

What is going on with Sen. Fetterman?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 03, 2024, 06:59:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 03, 2024, 04:18:28 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/john-fetterman-book-depression-palestinian-hypocrisy

What is going on with Sen. Fetterman?
He obviously has come to his senses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 04, 2024, 11:33:39 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 03, 2024, 06:59:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 03, 2024, 04:18:28 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/john-fetterman-book-depression-palestinian-hypocrisy

What is going on with Sen. Fetterman?
He obviously has come to his senses.

Unless his state had a large population of Palestinians and others sympathetic to the Gaza plight who were deeply concerned at the ethnic cleansing being conducted by Israel.
In which case, it would be callous and cruel mockery.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 12:26:52 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 11:33:39 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 03, 2024, 06:59:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 03, 2024, 04:18:28 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/john-fetterman-book-depression-palestinian-hypocrisy

What is going on with Sen. Fetterman?
He obviously has come to his senses.

Unless his state had a large population of Palestinians and others sympathetic to the Gaza plight who were deeply concerned at the ethnic cleansing being conducted by Israel.
In which case, it would be callous and cruel mockery.
Ethnic Cleansing?
Man, you are one sick dude.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM: So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 04, 2024, 01:19:24 PM: Red lights votive candles for Bibi, Vlad and donald at his home altar each and every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 03:48:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
what is the Arab population of Israel? Do they enjoy peace and all the rights of the Jews?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 04, 2024, 04:14:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 03:48:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
what is the Arab population of Israel? Do they enjoy peace and all the rights of the Jews?

http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel (http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel)

They suffer under the kind of two tiered justice system that gives you a tingle in your micropenis, Red. You knew that. You just wanted a chance to deny it was true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 04, 2024, 06:58:15 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 12:26:52 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 11:33:39 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 03, 2024, 06:59:48 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 03, 2024, 04:18:28 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/john-fetterman-book-depression-palestinian-hypocrisy

What is going on with Sen. Fetterman?
He obviously has come to his senses.

Unless his state had a large population of Palestinians and others sympathetic to the Gaza plight who were deeply concerned at the ethnic cleansing being conducted by Israel.
In which case, it would be callous and cruel mockery.
Ethnic Cleansing?
Man, you are one sick dude.

Ethnic cleansing: Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group.

Ben-Gvir, along with other far-right figures, has called for voluntary mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza and for the return of Jewish settlements, which Israel dismantled when it withdrew troops from the territory in 2005. The Biden administration is opposed to any such scenario.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-minister-far-right-backlash-criticizing-biden_n_65bfbe56e4b05c8779f9d533
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 04, 2024, 07:24:07 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.

Indeed, from 1948 they started wars to clearly, by their own words..."Drive Israel [and thereby the people], into the sea".
Today they chant "from the riiver to the sea".
Nothing could be more clear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 04, 2024, 07:38:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 04, 2024, 04:14:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 03:48:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
what is the Arab population of Israel? Do they enjoy peace and all the rights of the Jews?

http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel (http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel)

They suffer under the kind of two tiered justice system that gives you a tingle in your micropenis, Red. You knew that. You just wanted a chance to deny it was true.

And to shift the topic so that he doesn't have to do the mental gymnastics of defending the conduct of Israel in Gaza. Which is, as Larry posted, ethnic cleansing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 07:52:05 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 07:38:54 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 04, 2024, 04:14:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 03:48:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
what is the Arab population of Israel? Do they enjoy peace and all the rights of the Jews?

http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel (http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel)

They suffer under the kind of two tiered justice system that gives you a tingle in your micropenis, Red. You knew that. You just wanted a chance to deny it was true.

And to shift the topic so that he doesn't have to do the mental gymnastics of defending the conduct of Israel in Gaza. Which is, as Larry posted, ethnic cleansing.
Well, no it is not under any definition. On the other hand From the River To The Sea certainly is a clarion call to Ethnic Cleansing.
Arabs are the largest minority group in Israel and they live in peace with the Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 05, 2024, 01:01:29 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 07:52:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 07:38:54 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 04, 2024, 04:14:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 03:48:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 04, 2024, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 04, 2024, 01:03:15 PM
So what do you call slaughter of over 20,000 civilians, demolishing half the structures in a nation including most of the hospitals, driving 1.9 million from their homes and towards refugee camps on the southern border, blocking relief to the point that half of the population is facing starvation and 80% malnourished, and shutting off water and electricity lines? Is there some nicer term we can use to paper this over?
The ethnic cleansing is, and has been, the aim of the Arabs, not Israel.
Not mutually exclusive.
what is the Arab population of Israel? Do they enjoy peace and all the rights of the Jews?

http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel (http://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel)

They suffer under the kind of two tiered justice system that gives you a tingle in your micropenis, Red. You knew that. You just wanted a chance to deny it was true.

And to shift the topic so that he doesn't have to do the mental gymnastics of defending the conduct of Israel in Gaza. Which is, as Larry posted, ethnic cleansing.
Well, no it is not under any definition. On the other hand From the River To The Sea certainly is a clarion call to Ethnic Cleansing.
Arabs are the largest minority group in Israel and they live in peace with the Jews.

I guess I am on ignore when it comes to Ethnic Cleansing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 01:51:39 AM: Red handles facts as well as trump handles ketchup.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 02:03:30 AM: Six Day War 1967...

Israel responds to a build-up of Arab forces along its borders by launching a preemptive aerial attack against Egypt. Jordan subsequently entered the fray,...

#####

Now that would've been genocide/ethnic cleansing..."kill the Jews", "drive the Jews into the sea", "no more Jews".

The built up Arab forces were celebrating their impending victory, cheering footage on tv etc.

Israel, smarter than the partying Arab forces, sent up its jets while Egypt was having breakfast...and blew Egypt's air force to 'kingdom come'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM: The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 02:29:52 PM: Man, Charles has not even had the chance to have anyone's head chopped off. Or have his own.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 02:32:32 PM: Let not poor Camilla starve!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 05, 2024, 03:46:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 02:29:52 PM
Man, Charles has not even had the chance to have anyone's head chopped off. Or have his own.

He had prostate surgery. So...close!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 03:58:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 05, 2024, 03:46:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 02:29:52 PM
Man, Charles has not even had the chance to have anyone's head chopped off. Or have his own.

He had prostate surgery. So...close!

Not prostate cancer, they say.
They reportedly found another type of cancer...according to mrs bambu who has read all about it.
He's at the age, as am I... the Trumpster, every man over 75.
Yes, all waiting to die, it's just a matter of when.
More than one person in my complex of hundreds is living with cancer.
The flag flies at half-mast more often than is preferred.

Oh well, such is life.
No one lives forever.
Not the rich, not the poor, and everyone in between.

Long live the King.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 05, 2024, 05:17:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.
No, it does not. Hamas has only one goal. To destroy Israel.
Hamas is not doing well in a war that now has gone almost 4 months. The USA and Europe continue opposing a cease fire, tha Arab States, minus Iran, still honor the Abraham accords.

Hamas atrocities in October were not acts of self defense.
How could they be?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 05, 2024, 05:22:28 PM: Israel was attacked, so they have every right to remove the enemy who attacked them. And then one hopes that people realize that attacking Israel has consequences and in the future they need to let Israel live in peace, so the whole area can have peace.

And the Arabs have used the Palestinians as a thorn in Israel's side forever, Arafat and Saddam used to pay Palestinian suicide bombers to blow themselves up at bus stops in Israel, etc, Israel made a lot of progress after the death of Arafat and Saddam, things were better, until the stupid missile attacks. Now the Palestinians get to reap the punishment for the missile attacks.

Truthfully the Palestinians have not had good lives in the region, they just live like refugees in poverty, while the Israelis have families and lives and while they grow eggplant the size of watermelons. Sending the Palestinians to be essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai would be a better life for the Palestinians than just suffering in poverty in Gaza. Or a home in the wilderness of Canada such as at the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada, would be a step up for the Palestinians, just a peaceful life with a peaceful family and a regular job.

The world needs to keep working to have peace. With the United Nations, etc, we need to evolve and eliminate the wars.

And it makes me even more hopeful when the Daughter of the President of China, Xi Mingze, also known as Xiao Muzi, came here to the USA and studied at Harvard and received a degree from Harvard. This is wonderful that the young Chinese all love America, and it is great that they study here. I want peace, and trade, and teamwork for a better world, with China on our team. And China can buy food exports from California and from Mexico, we can help to feed the workers in China and it can help our farmers here. And meanwhile the Chinese are living here in Malibu, they love it here.

I want peace, and I want the hungry to be fed, and I want at least cheap hostels where the homeless can get a bed and shower for $15 per night, and Sober Living Homes are great for $450 per month, etc. And we need to build more Mental Health Associations, and Wellness Centers, etc. Xi Mingze studied Psychology at Harvard, so she might be able to help on the issue of Mental Health. Natalie Portman has a Degree from Harvard in Psychology as well, Natalie was born in Israel, but she soon came to New York where she was quickly discovered as an actress, maybe Natalie Portman can help on Mental Health issues, and also with issues pertaining to Israel. Maybe Xi Mingze can team up with Natalie Portman as friends here in Malibu and maybe they can do things to help people.

And we need to improve the image and the expectations in Mexico, and we need to make more movies like "Fun In Acapulco" which stars Elvis. Mexico needs to be a safe and fun place where people go on vacation, and where elders can retire to live on a peaceful beach. And lots of schools and libraries need to be built in Mexico, etc, and hospitals, and orphanages, etc.

And we have Youth For Christ to help to make the world a better place, and we have Kiwanis International, and we have the Peace Corps, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 09:27:37 PM: http://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/nlrb-union-election-dartmouth-00139737 (http://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/nlrb-union-election-dartmouth-00139737)

http://youtu.be/a5ZT71DxLuM?si=Kn-im2U6y5bXWXiz (http://youtu.be/a5ZT71DxLuM?si=Kn-im2U6y5bXWXiz)

Keep marching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on February 06, 2024, 07:00:39 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.

Not crazy, just misguided by their leaders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:11:33 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
And then more dead Israelis. And then more dead Palestinians. And then more dead Israelis. Amd then... even bambu should get the picture.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 06, 2024, 10:13:30 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
One thing that Israel current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.

A causal reality which, if widely understood by all parties, could lead to real negotiations and a Palestinian state.

Taking a break on posting on the topic of Mideast conflict. We are kind of looping here, as coders call it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:16:56 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:11:33 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
And then more dead Israelis. And then more dead Palestinians. And then more dead Israelis. Amd then... even bambu should get the picture.
All Hamas has to do is raise a white flag and agree to live in peace with Israel. But that option has been on the table for over 75 years and the Arabs refuse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:37:43 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:16:56 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:11:33 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
And then more dead Israelis. And then more dead Palestinians. And then more dead Israelis. Amd then... even bambu should get the picture.
All Hamas has to do is raise a white flag and agree to live in peace with Israel. But that option has been on the table for over 75 years and the Arabs refuse.
All Israel has to do is agree to cede political control over all of Palestine to the Palestinians. That is not happening either.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:01:25 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:37:43 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:16:56 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:11:33 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
And then more dead Israelis. And then more dead Palestinians. And then more dead Israelis. Amd then... even bambu should get the picture.
All Hamas has to do is raise a white flag and agree to live in peace with Israel. But that option has been on the table for over 75 years and the Arabs refuse.
All Israel has to do is agree to cede political control over all of Palestine to the Palestinians. That is not happening either.
Duh!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:01:25 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:37:43 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:16:56 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 10:11:33 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 09:49:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 07:12:53 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 05:12:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 05, 2024, 04:07:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 05, 2024, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 05, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
The build up of forces surrounding a border followed by bombardment and invasion constitutes ethnic cleansing in your view. That is straight forward and in accordance with international law. I think the ICC will use your definition when prosecuting Bibi for the war crimes he has so far committed against the Palestinians in the service of propping up his fading political career.

Self defence is not ethnic cleansing/genocide.
US /allies fire-bombed Tokyo and nuked Japan...hundreds of thousands of civilians killed.
Self defence in a war that Japan started.

Same deal in Gaza today.
If Israel lets Hamas terrorists live, they will only kill more Israelis...as has clearly happened in the past.
All Hamas terrorists must be killed or taken prisoner by force, if they won't surrender.
Hamas considers its war on Israel self defense too.

Hamas considers a lot of things.
Not much wisdom in its thoughts though, obviously.
Not to you, but i suspect you do not see Palestinians as worthy of concern.

I do consider Palestinians worthy of concern, the loss of life is terrible.
Perhaps you can think of another way of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza, other than what Israel is doing? [don't see any UN army arriving]

Hamas considered its attacks on Israel Oct 7 as wise.
Hamas and those who cheer for them, were severely misguided, totally crazy if you like.
Look what those attacks on Israel have led to.
You continue to view 10/7 in a vacuum, as a stand alone incident. It is not. One thing that Israel's current campaign will never result in is an end to their security issues with Palestinians in Gaza. They are making warriors out of nearly everyone they leave behind.
Yeah, sure. The whole world sees the inherent evilness of Hamas( well except for Dearborn, Michigan)
and acts accordingly. Hamas uses the Palestinians to curry sympathy and all it accomplishes is more dead Palestinians.
And then more dead Israelis. And then more dead Palestinians. And then more dead Israelis. Amd then... even bambu should get the picture.
All Hamas has to do is raise a white flag and agree to live in peace with Israel. But that option has been on the table for over 75 years and the Arabs refuse.
All Israel has to do is agree to cede political control over all of Palestine to the Palestinians. That is not happening either.
Duh!
So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 12:06:34 PM: RIP
Toby Keith
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 01:18:33 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.

The only solution can be reached by either the republican party accepting peace with the United States or the United States completely destroying the republican party.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 02:14:44 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Enjoy perpetual war.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:43:18 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 02:14:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Enjoy perpetual war.
That is the choice the Arabs make.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:52:48 PM: The main support for perpetual war against Israel seems to be from a non-Arab country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:56:38 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:52:48 PM
The main support for perpetual war against Israel seems to be from a non-Arab country.
Only if you discount the history of the world
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 02:56:41 PM: Anaheim insists on creating a Little Arabia region and they are even putting signs on the freeways now to notify passing drivers that the zone is now Little Arabia. It has gotten to a point now where they are giving Business Loans and aid to the Arabs to open Businesses in Little Arabia.

https://aaciviccouncil.org/2024/01/06/growth-and-opportunity-insights-into-little-arabia-and-the-brookhurst-corridor-study/

Anaheim has mostly Mexicans, and people who speak Spanish, but if they insist on giving Business Loans to the Arabs then they need to give the Loans to open Cheap Hostels and Cheap Sober Living Homes where the Homeless People can live, we can pay the Arabs to help to take care of the Homeless People.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:59:38 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:56:38 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:52:48 PM
The main support for perpetual war against Israel seems to be from a non-Arab country.
Only if you discount the history of the world
I was speaking of today where the main bad actor appears to be Iran.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 03:41:42 PM: Amtrak

EXCITING NEWS! We have awarded a contract to build the brand new, state-of-the-art Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore, which will serve electrified Amtrak and MARC commuter trains.

This is one of the largest infrastructure projects on the East Coast, and the Kiewit Corporation/ J.F. Shea Joint Venture brings extensive experience with tunneling projects around North America.

Early construction activities are already underway for the Program, and the announcement today moves us one step closer to unlocking the biggest bottleneck between DC and New Jersey.

This generational investment will improve reliability and travel times for more than 12 million annual NEC riders, as well as the Maryland Transit Administration MARC Penn Line.

This major milestone marks a significant leap forward in the commitment of Amtrak towards transforming train travel and delivering a new era of passenger rail in America.

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#FutureOfTravel #FrederickDouglassTunnel

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I was just writing about the Abolitionist Poets, whom I learned a lot from, and it is great that the new tunnel is being named after Frederick Douglass, I learned a lot from studying Frederick Douglass, he was great. And I love trains, we need more trains and subways in America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 03:49:48 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:59:38 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:56:38 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 02:52:48 PM
The main support for perpetual war against Israel seems to be from a non-Arab country.
Only if you discount the history of the world
I was speaking of today where the main bad actor appears to be Iran.
The hatred of the Jews is not bound by the language spoken. Iran, on top of that,wants to rule the Middle East and Israel is in the way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:10:13 PM: And they're also not Arabs which was my point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 04:17:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:43:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 02:14:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Enjoy perpetual war.
That is the choice the Arabs make.
Only if you discount the history of the world
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 04:42:34 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 04:17:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:43:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 02:14:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Enjoy perpetual war.
That is the choice the Arabs make.
Only if you discount the history of the world
Then you and the history of the world are strangers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 04:45:19 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:10:13 PM
And they're also not Arabs which was my point.
Only by a definition based on language spoken.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:47:55 PM: ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 04:53:40 PM: Red is quoting straight from his eugenics textbook. It is hard for anyone in his dead ender set to let go of their nineteenth century solutions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 05:00:50 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 04:42:34 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 04:17:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 02:43:18 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 02:14:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 01:45:56 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 01:15:09 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 11:59:29 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 11:42:59 AM

So, we agree that abject surrender by either side is not a feasible option.
The only solution can be reached by either Hamas accepting peace with Israel or Israel completely destroying Hamas.
Israel will never completely destroy Hamas. I remember an old I guess pre meme meme with a Russian tank rolling over the word Solidarnosc, with the word reforming behind it, only larger. That is the most likely dynamic.

And of course, if you had asked Israel on October 6, the would have told you Hezbollah was a bigger concern. The underlying issue is not Hamas or Hezbollah. It is why those organizations exist.
They exist to hate Jews.
Enjoy perpetual war.
That is the choice the Arabs make.
Only if you discount the history of the world
Then you and the history of the world are strangers.
No, no. Part I had its moments.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 06, 2024, 05:04:33 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:47:55 PM
?
Hard to believe but I do not think RedDick has any idea what he is talking about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 05:21:13 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:47:55 PM
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Iran is not a Arab country because its dominant language is Persian and its Islamic sect is Shia.
Arabs are Sunni and speak Arabic. But the commonn primary enemies are the Jews.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 05:41:23 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 05:21:13 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 06, 2024, 04:47:55 PM
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Iran is not a Arab country because its dominant language is Persian and its Islamic sect is Shia.
Arabs are Sunni and speak Arabic. But the commonn primary enemies are the Jews.

Seems to be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 06:27:09 PM: If I wanted to produce a movie like "Fun in Acapulco" which promotes fun Tourism in Mexico, then I might be able to get the Mexican Department of Tourism to put up the money to make the movie, it can be like a 90 minute Tourism commercial promoting fun and good times in Mexico.

Anaheim pays money to a Tourism office to promote Anaheim internationally as a tourist destination, and Mexico pays money to advertise as a tourist destination as well. Mexico can use some of the Tourism Promotion Money to make movies to promote Mexico as a tourist destination.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 06:34:37 PM: Oh no...
I'm devastated...Toby Keith has died. Aged 62.

My no1 morning radio host is now playing an interview he did with Toby when he toured Australia...and playing his songs.
The "tribute will continue throughout the morning".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 07:48:26 PM: Ray now playing...."The Angry American"/ "Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue".

Toby told Ray that he wrote the song to sing only at military events...but the boss of the Marines said to him "No, you must record it, it deserves a wider audience".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM: "Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 06, 2024, 08:24:16 PM: Imagine theres no heaven
Its easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah

Imagine theres no countries
It isnt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You

You may say Im a dreamer
But Im not the only one
I hope someday youll join us
And the world will be as one...

- John Lennon
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 10:06:41 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 06, 2024, 08:24:16 PM
Imagine theres no heaven
Its easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah

Imagine theres no countries
It isnt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You

You may say Im a dreamer
But Im not the only one
I hope someday youll join us
And the world will be as one...

- John Lennon

Unfortunately for John he didn't live in a dream world, but on real earth world, where bad people live.
In a real world where bad people exist.
Bad people who will shoot you dead...or beat and knife you dead in the underground carpark of a shopping mall in front of your 6 year old grand daughter...to steal your small granny car.
Bad people who will invade your home, commit unspeakable atrocities on you and your family.

imagine there is a Heaven as promised.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:08:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 10:06:41 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 06, 2024, 08:24:16 PM
Imagine theres no heaven
Its easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah

Imagine theres no countries
It isnt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You

You may say Im a dreamer
But Im not the only one
I hope someday youll join us
And the world will be as one...

- John Lennon

Unfortunately for John he didn't live in a dream world, but on real earth world, where bad people live.
In a real world where bad people exist.
Bad people who will shoot you dead...or beat and knife you dead in the underground carpark of a shopping mall in front of your 6 year old grand daughter...to steal your small granny car.
Bad people who will invade your home, commit unspeakable atrocities on you and your family.

Must be refering to Hamas or illegal aliens
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM: Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 10:39:05 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 06, 2024, 10:08:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 10:06:41 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 06, 2024, 08:24:16 PM
Imagine theres no heaven
Its easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah

Imagine theres no countries
It isnt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You

You may say Im a dreamer
But Im not the only one
I hope someday youll join us
And the world will be as one...

- John Lennon

Unfortunately for John he didn't live in a dream world, but on real earth world, where bad people live.
In a real world where bad people exist.
Bad people who will shoot you dead...or beat and knife you dead in the underground carpark of a shopping mall in front of your 6 year old grand daughter...to steal your small granny car.
Bad people who will invade your home, commit unspeakable atrocities on you and your family.

Must be refering to Hamas or illegal aliens

Hamas, and legal 5 teens arrested...of 'African appearance'...well appear to be, from the CCTV.
Leader of the QLD state African community made a statement, grandma murdered in mall at Ipswich Qld.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 11:30:40 PM: The refugees who arrive at the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada, can get jobs working for the Sinclar Forestry Services Company...

https://www.simplyhired.ca/search?l=victoria%2C+bc

Lots of job openings working in the forest in Victoria, Canada.

Canada is HUGE with lots of wide open space for the refugees, and Canada has lots of openings for jobs working in the forest.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 11:41:55 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM
Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)

Or if you're a 'glass half full' person, it could be 'Love is a heart from Heaven'.

Anyway...in the real world:

Daily Mail;

Houthis could get revenge on the U.S by cutting internet cables

Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world's web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings. Yemen's government warned that the Red Sea is 'one of the three most important meeting points for cables' on the globe and the Houthis pose a 'serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.'

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Dead Houthis can't sabotage internet cables.
Looks like it has to be 'keep on bombing'.

Are there any other ways of stopping sabotaging of the cables by Houthis, or anyone else?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 11:50:24 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM
Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)

Oh there are bad white people in the world.
Lots of them.
It was White people who made my life in the workplace horrible, much of the time.
An old White school headmaster who flogged my hands with a cane for looking at my watch at assembly.
I should've taken the cane away from him and belted him with it...but as children we were trained to be submissive, always do as we were told by adults. Sitting ducks to be used and abused.

One boy's mother, at a different school did do it...went to school, asked to see teacher who caned her son, asked to see the cane, teacher obliged, mother took the cane and belted the teacher with it, more than once.
Hell hath no fury like an angry mom.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 11:58:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 11:41:55 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM
Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)

Or if you're a 'glass half full' person, it could be 'Love is a heart from Heaven'.

Anyway...in the real world:

Daily Mail;

Houthis could get revenge on the U.S by cutting internet cables

Iran-backedHouthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world's web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings. Yemen's government warned that the Red Sea is 'one of the three most important meeting points for cables' on the globe and the Houthis pose a 'serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.'

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Dead Houthis can't sabotage internet cables.
Looks like it has to be 'keep on bombing'.

Are there any other ways of stopping sabotaging of the cables by Houthis, or anyone else?

God is all about Love, Jesus commanded that we love our neighbors. He also said not to kill, and not to lie, and not to steal, and not to sleep with your neighbor's wife, etc. It would be a great world if everyone obeyed the Golden Rule to Love your neighbors and to treat other people the way you yourself wish to be treated. And if everyone obeyed the 10 Commandments. Just imagine if we all loved each other and helped each other and lived the way that Jesus commanded.

And yes Bambu, we can stop the Houthis and others the same way we stopped the Cattle Rustlers, watch the movie "Young Guns" where the young men are paid to stop people from stealing cattle. People can be paid to protect the cables, the same way that people protected the cattle. Machiavelli would call them "Mercenaries" to hire outside forces to guard and protect the cables. There can be a team of young mercenaries who their only duty is to protect the cables from bad people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 12:51:07 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 11:58:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 11:41:55 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM
Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)

Or if you're a 'glass half full' person, it could be 'Love is a heart from Heaven'.

Anyway...in the real world:

Daily Mail;

Houthis could get revenge on the U.S by cutting internet cables

Iran-backedHouthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world's web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings. Yemen's government warned that the Red Sea is 'one of the three most important meeting points for cables' on the globe and the Houthis pose a 'serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.'

#####

Dead Houthis can't sabotage internet cables.
Looks like it has to be 'keep on bombing'.

Are there any other ways of stopping sabotaging of the cables by Houthis, or anyone else?

God is all about Love, Jesus commanded that we love our neighbors. He also said not to kill, and not to lie, and not to steal, and not to sleep with your neighbor's wife, etc. It would be a great world if everyone obeyed the Golden Rule to Love your neighbors and to treat other people the way you yourself wish to be treated. And if everyone obeyed the 10 Commandments. Just imagine if we all loved each other and helped each other and lived the way that Jesus commanded.

And yes Bambu, we can stop the Houthis and others the same way we stopped the Cattle Rustlers, watch the movie "Young Guns" where the young men are paid to stop people from stealing cattle. People can be paid to protect the cables, the same way that people protected the cattle. Machiavelli would call them "Mercenaries" to hire outside forces to guard and protect the cables. There can be a team of young mercenaries who their only duty is to protect the cables from bad people.

Salute,

Tony V.

I tried that "peace, love and harmony", "love thy neighbour"/"love thy headmaster", "love thy co-workers", etc...it didn't work out so well, until I resorted to 'violence', "trickery', and 'loud noise retaliation'
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2024, 01:03:12 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 12:51:07 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 06, 2024, 11:58:04 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 11:41:55 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 06, 2024, 10:33:45 PM
Lennon was shot by a white boy, the kind who go around shooting up schools.

I found a poem for you, Bambu

http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch (http://allpoetry.com/The-Crunch)

Or if you're a 'glass half full' person, it could be 'Love is a heart from Heaven'.

Anyway...in the real world:

Daily Mail;

Houthis could get revenge on the U.S by cutting internet cables

Iran-backedHouthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world's web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings. Yemen's government warned that the Red Sea is 'one of the three most important meeting points for cables' on the globe and the Houthis pose a 'serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.'

#####

Dead Houthis can't sabotage internet cables.
Looks like it has to be 'keep on bombing'.

Are there any other ways of stopping sabotaging of the cables by Houthis, or anyone else?

God is all about Love, Jesus commanded that we love our neighbors. He also said not to kill, and not to lie, and not to steal, and not to sleep with your neighbor's wife, etc. It would be a great world if everyone obeyed the Golden Rule to Love your neighbors and to treat other people the way you yourself wish to be treated. And if everyone obeyed the 10 Commandments. Just imagine if we all loved each other and helped each other and lived the way that Jesus commanded.

And yes Bambu, we can stop the Houthis and others the same way we stopped the Cattle Rustlers, watch the movie "Young Guns" where the young men are paid to stop people from stealing cattle. People can be paid to protect the cables, the same way that people protected the cattle. Machiavelli would call them "Mercenaries" to hire outside forces to guard and protect the cables. There can be a team of young mercenaries who their only duty is to protect the cables from bad people.

Salute,

Tony V.

I tried that "peace, love and harmony", "love thy neighbour"/"love thy headmaster", "love thy co-workers", etc...it didn't work out so well, until I resorted to 'violence', "trickery', and 'loud noise retaliation'

One of the best Journalists was Geraldo Rivera, and he always said that he shined a light on the bad people to make them stop, he shined a light on bad things so that the good people could fix things and make it better. Geraldo said it was like shining a light on cockroaches and they go away.

And we can use our computers to try to make the world a better place, the same as how the Abolitionist Poets used their poetry to fight to free the slaves, etc.

Maybe the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove can help to make the world a better place, the Christians need to rise up, speak up, and work together as a team to create a better world. And I love Pope Francis.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2024, 01:13:19 AM: My cousin was just given a freezer full of cow liver from her neighbor who is a farmer. She does not know what to do with it, so I suggested a million ways to have liver. I suggested she put the liver in Tacos, and Burritos, and she can add sour cream, and guacamole, etc, and she can put the liver in Chili, and she can make sandwiches with the liver with lettuce and tomatoes and with avocados and with mayonnaise, etc.

She can also make Liver Wurst, Liver Wurst is expensive at the market, she can make Liver Wurst and then can it.

And even just good old fried liver and onions with lots of ketchup.

She is happy about the gift of free liver from her neighbor.

She lives in a rural part of Oregon where it is all Farmers, and Loggers, and Lumber Mill Workers. They love her there.

It is cool that she has good neighbors.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 07, 2024, 01:46:50 AM: Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrible conditions at the Mental Hospitals here in America, and Geraldo made it better, everything changed when Geraldo brought the horrible conditions at the Mental Hospitals to light.

https://abc7ny.com/willowbrook-geraldo-rivera-staten-island-bill-ritter/11575075/

Geraldo was a great Journalist who changed America.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 08:22:14 AM: https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=d9ff90f4000eacd3a6c9cb27f78994cf.2561&s=a4b49afef658cceb59edb12e2e47abb0 (https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=d9ff90f4000eacd3a6c9cb27f78994cf.2561&s=a4b49afef658cceb59edb12e2e47abb0)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 03:24:09 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 08:22:14 AM
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=d9ff90f4000eacd3a6c9cb27f78994cf.2561&s=a4b49afef658cceb59edb12e2e47abb0 (https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=d9ff90f4000eacd3a6c9cb27f78994cf.2561&s=a4b49afef658cceb59edb12e2e47abb0)

Thanks. That was a good read
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM: You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:10:50 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

Not sure.

But, there is this;

Vance unveils bill barring feds from taking down border ...

thehill.com

25 Jan 2024 - JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced legistaion Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from removing the fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:12:11 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

You could go join the god, guns and gaslighting convoy and find out for yourself. No one would miss you at all where you are at.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

But can be, is.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:17:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:10:50 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

Not sure.

But, there is this;

Vance unveils bill barring feds from taking down border ...

thehill.com

25 Jan 2024 - JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced legistaion Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from removing the fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border...

He must feel bad after voting not to fund security on the border.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:20:08 PM: Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent were at the convoy's rally in mid Texas last week.

The convoy might be small in number but they sure are "America first".
The American flag sure means a lot to some people.

Cheered along the roadsides as they passed by on their way south to fight [peacefully of course, unlike some other protesters] for sovereign borders/border security for America.

"A country is not a country unless it has secure borders."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:21:30 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:17:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:10:50 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

Not sure.

But, there is this;

Vance unveils bill barring feds from taking down border ...

thehill.com

25 Jan 2024 - JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced legistaion Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from removing the fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border...

He must feel bad after voting not to fund security on the border.

Some people take longer than others to understand things fully.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:22:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
But can be, is.

Your language module has glitched out. It ruins the illusion that you may have once been a real boy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:30:58 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:22:18 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
But can be, is.

Your language module has glitched out. It ruins the illusion that you may have once been a real boy.

Toby is a true patriot, ask anyone...he'll live forever thru his music.

He wrote the song;

Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in from somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the fourth of July
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 04:55:58 PM: You have sociopathy and patriotism confused now.

Your glitch just gets worse and worse all the time.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 05:08:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:10:50 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

Not sure.

But, there is this;

Vance unveils bill barring feds from taking down border ...

thehill.com

25 Jan 2024 - JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced legistaion Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from removing the fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border...
Yeah, that asshat is big on useless grandstanding. Maybe he can make himself useful and vote for what the Wall Street Journal recognizes as the most conservative immigration bill in US history, and Lindsay Graham noted is far better than they would get in any other circumstances. But he will not because like the majority of the rest of his party in Washington he is more interested in perpetuating a campaign talking point than actually solving anything. Plus, as a useless asshat he sees himself as the king of a useless asshats, the VP for Trump, and will not let anything stand in his way. Not even his 2016 self. Also, Hillbilly Elegy sucked.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 05:35:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:10:50 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 07, 2024, 03:26:48 PM
You are welcome. Preaching to the choir unfortunately. Pearlstein is one of the best.
Say. Has any razor wire been removed by the Feds in Texas?

Not sure.

But, there is this;

Vance unveils bill barring feds from taking down border ...

thehill.com

25 Jan 2024 - JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced legistaion Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from removing the fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border...
Not needed. The Feds, even with Constitutional backing, know the optics of tearing down Texas fencing is bad PR for Joe. No wonder he is going diss the Super Bowl CBS interview and pout in his basement while watching old Francois Mitterrand speeches.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 06:34:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

But can be, is.
Actually it usually is not. It is more being seen - even by one's self - as patriot, not actually being one. But usually that 'patriotism" of extends as far as their political ideology and no further. That is why you had people draped in flags trying to violently overturn a free and fair election.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 06:52:25 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/toby-keith-death-liberals-appreciation/
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/toby-keith-death-liberals-appreciation/)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 07, 2024, 10:23:56 PM: The soul of country music is Willie Nelson and The Chicks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 01:05:53 AM: Billy and Willie recorded a duet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 10:09:04 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 07, 2024, 06:52:25 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/toby-keith-death-liberals-appreciation/
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/toby-keith-death-liberals-appreciation/)
My comment was not specific to Mr. Keith. Always liked this story of his first appearance on The Colbert Report:

Toby had a good time too, because after the show, I was headed to a postmortem meeting and he was coming out of his green room. Those rooms are on the same hallway. As he was heading for the door that goes down to 54th Street, he caught my eye and said:
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 11:54:21 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 06:34:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

But can be, is.
Actually it usually is not. It is more being seen - even by one's self - as patriot, not actually being one. But usually that 'patriotism" of extends as far as their political ideology and no further. That is why you had people draped in flags trying to violently overturn a free and fair election.

bambuworld had many people draped in the flag on Australia day.
Patriots all.
As were those wearing flags in their hats, one, an elderly man, being arrested ridiculously for 'inciting a riot' by cops.
Your election protesters were patriots, totally misguided on the day, thought they were in a war to save America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 12:08:04 PM: News yesterday, cautiously broadcast, mentioned that Captain James Cook, a hero, who was attacked, mutilated, and thrown off his memorial in Melbourne on Australia Day eve by Australia-haters, might still be alive, and in time could return to his monument home...victorious.
Here's hoping.
There would be much celebration.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 12:12:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 11:54:21 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 06:34:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

But can be, is.
Actually it usually is not. It is more being seen - even by one's self - as patriot, not actually being one. But usually that 'patriotism" of extends as far as their political ideology and no further. That is why you had people draped in flags trying to violently overturn a free and fair election.

bambuworld had many people draped in the flag on Australia day.
Patriots all.
As were those wearing flags in their hats, one, an elderly man being arrested ridiculously for 'inciting a riot' by cops.
Your election protesters were patriots, totally misguided on the day, thought they were in a war to save America.
Refusal to accept the result of a democratic, free and fair election in a democracy because you lost is the opposite of patriotism. Those people do not love their country, they love their political views.

And that of all the people draped in the Aussie flag and wearing them in their hats one and only one was arrested for inciting a riot nist.confirms to me that you are relating roughly 10% of the story. Probably because you have only been told that much and are too stupid and gullible to have any doubts about the shit being regurgitated into your eager mouth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 12:20:56 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 10:09:04 AM
My comment was not specific to Mr. Keith. Always liked this story of his first appearance on The Colbert Report:

Toby had a good time too, because after the show, I was headed to a postmortem meeting and he was coming out of his green room. Those rooms are on the same hallway. As he was heading for the door that goes down to 54th Street, he caught my eye and said:

?

I tried scrolling over the blank, but there was nothing hidden in a white font. So, inquiring minds want to know...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 12:28:25 PM: I finally figured out how to disable some of the security on Firefox and log in here with that browser. They don't make it easy. Basically, the browser has to ignore all the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which is the de facto means for establishing security on the Web. COULD SOMEONE CONTACT LIQUIDSILVER AND HAVE HIM DO THE BARE MINIMUM OF UPDATING HIS FUCKING THREE YEARS EXPIRED SSL CERTIFICATE? AND FIX THE GODDAMMNED APOSTROPHE/QUOTE MARKS?

SCROTUS:

Listened to the oral arguments for a while. The Supremes are not making it easy for Murray. Very tough room. They seem to be steering past the establishing that Trump disqualified himself by fomenting insurrection and letting section 3 execute, and drilling down on technical procedural questions. Not a good sign for the Colorado action, right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 01:02:31 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 12:12:27 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 11:54:21 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 06:34:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 07, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2024, 07:09:48 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 06, 2024, 08:13:46 PM
"Never apologise for being patriotic" - Toby Keith
Performative patriotism is not necessarily patriotic.

But can be, is.
Actually it usually is not. It is more being seen - even by one's self - as patriot, not actually being one. But usually that 'patriotism" of extends as far as their political ideology and no further. That is why you had people draped in flags trying to violently overturn a free and fair election.

bambuworld had many people draped in the flag on Australia day.
Patriots all.
As were those wearing flags in their hats, one, an elderly man being arrested ridiculously for 'inciting a riot' by cops.
Your election protesters were patriots, totally misguided on the day, thought they were in a war to save America.
Refusal to accept the result of a democratic, free and fair election in a democracy because you lost is the opposite of patriotism. Those people do not love their country, they love their political views.

And that of all the people draped in the Aussie flag and wearing them in their hats one and only one was arrested for inciting a riot nist.confirms to me that you are relating roughly 10% of the story. Probably because you have only been told that much and are too stupid and gullible to have any doubts about the shit being regurgitated into your eager mouth.

Oh it's a thing.

9 Oct 2023: 'Sydney Opera House Rally: Police defend arrest of man carrying Israeli flag amid outrage over antisemitic chants..."for his own safety".

Cops in Melb now denying man with flag in hat was arrested.

Cops seem to arrest you, remove you from where they don't like you being, then release you somewhere else.

Cops haven't done very well in the populairty stakes in recent times.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 01:12:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 12:28:25 PM

I finally figured out how to disable some of the security on Firefox and log in here with that browser. They don't make it easy. Basically, the browser has to ignore all the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which is the de facto means for establishing security on the Web. COULD SOMEONE CONTACT LIQUIDSILVER AND HAVE HIM DO THE BARE MINIMUM OF UPDATING HIS FUCKING THREE YEARS EXPIRED SSL CERTIFICATE? AND FIX THE GODDAMMNED APOSTROPHE/QUOTE MARKS?

SCROTUS:

Listened to the oral arguments for a while. The Supremes are not making it easy for Murray. Very tough room. They seem to be steering past the establishing that Trump disqualified himself by fomenting insurrection and letting section 3 execute, and drilling down on technical procedural questions. Not a good sign for the Colorado action, right?
Exactly. States have no Constitutional power in this matter, they cannot set or revise qualifications for federal office.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 01:24:04 PM: NSW driver with OCT7TH car registration plates has been ordered to hand in the 'offensive' plates or car
will be de-registered.
Plates approved, the OCT7TH could be driver's birthday.
After complaints, deemed 'offensive', not allowed.

Same thing happened to driver with plate NAZ111.
Innocent 'mistake' though...first 3 letters of Driver's name...and 111 (first of Nov here, day first then month)....birthday.

You can have 'special plates', for an annual fee.
Colored plates as well.

After 9/11 , some Porsche 911 drivers with special plates were complained about, but allowed to keep the plates.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 08, 2024, 02:21:05 PM: Go slam your head in a door, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2024, 02:36:03 PM: Some towers are sitting empty in Los Angeles, and graffiti artists have been painting on them, the Chinese who were building the towers ran out of money. Some of the Locals here in Los Angeles need to team up with the Chinese to complete the towers as housing for our homeless Senior Citizens and for housing for Homeless Veterans, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/la-graffiti-building.html

Team work makes the dream work. These empty towers can be a great place for our homeless Seniors, and for our homeless Vets.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 02:57:19 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 01:12:51 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 12:28:25 PM

I finally figured out how to disable some of the security on Firefox and log in here with that browser. They don't make it easy. Basically, the browser has to ignore all the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which is the de facto means for establishing security on the Web. COULD SOMEONE CONTACT LIQUIDSILVER AND HAVE HIM DO THE BARE MINIMUM OF UPDATING HIS FUCKING THREE YEARS EXPIRED SSL CERTIFICATE? AND FIX THE GODDAMMNED APOSTROPHE/QUOTE MARKS?

SCROTUS:

Listened to the oral arguments for a while. The Supremes are not making it easy for Murray. Very tough room. They seem to be steering past the establishing that Trump disqualified himself by fomenting insurrection and letting section 3 execute, and drilling down on technical procedural questions. Not a good sign for the Colorado action, right?
Exactly. States have no Constitutional power in this matter, they cannot set or revise qualifications for federal office.
Except, of course, the Amendment sets the qualifications for federal office, so an adjudication under the language of the provision would not "set or revise" the qualifications, provided that adjudication properly followed the law. And nothing in the 14th Amendment specifies who makes the relevant disqualification decision. It has been made, in the past, both by states and by the House of Representatives refusing to fill the seat. It is a convenient argument if the Court is looking for an off ramp, especially with the risk of differing opinions.

But if not the State election officials, who? The provision has been used once or twice to justify the Hojse not seating Representatives, but they would not have power over the executive branch.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 08, 2024, 03:46:38 PM: Ladies in waiting made my skin crawl.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 03:47:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 02:57:19 PM
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But if not the State election officials, who? The provision has been used once or twice to justify the House not seating Representatives, but they would not have power over the executive branch.

Would Congress have power after the election of a President, to boot a POTUS who was not qualified -- via the impeachment process? What I mean is, is there any provision for fast tracking a process to boot a president-elect, or would they then be stuck with the standard impeachment procedures after January?

There seems to be need of a Goldilocks zone, where it is easier to kick out criminal riffraff from the Oval, but not so easy that it is constantly weaponized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 08, 2024, 03:47:54 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 08, 2024, 02:21:05 PM
Go slam your head in a door, Bambu.

I just took your advice, thinking you had my best interests at heart.
Now my head hurts and I have a giant headache.
I'll have to take some pain killers and lie down.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2024, 03:59:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 08, 2024, 02:36:03 PM
Some towers are sitting empty in Los Angeles, and graffiti artists have been painting on them, the Chinese who were building the towers ran out of money. Some of the Locals here in Los Angeles need to team up with the Chinese to complete the towers as housing for our homeless Senior Citizens and for housing for Homeless Veterans, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/la-graffiti-building.html

Team work makes the dream work. These empty towers can be a great place for our homeless Seniors, and for our homeless Vets.

Salute,

Tony V.

The nick name for the Daughter of the President of China is "Muzi." Muzi studied Psychology here in the USA at Harvard, and so did Natalie Portman whom also studied Psychology at Harvard. Maybe they can team up to work together to help people on the issue of Mental Health, and Mental Health Associations and Wellness Centers, etc.

And maybe Muzi can help to finish these towers in Los Angeles and use the towers to help the homeless Veterans, many of whom suffer from Mental Illness, and to help the homeless Senior Citizens, etc.

Habitat for Humanity could help to finish the Chinese towers, and Homeboy Industries could help, and maybe Rick Caruso could help, and maybe Carlos Slim could help, etc. And maybe Mayor Karen Bass could help, etc, and maybe these towers can create housing for our homeless Veterans and for our homeless Senior Citizens. Team work makes the dream work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 04:01:07 PM: Re: Appointments of officers of the United States.

The Colorao Supreme Court, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ruled Trump off its ballot for President.
Colorado does not have that power.
Section 3 governs appointments of officers to the Federal Government and prohibits insurrectionists from those appointments.
The President and Vice President are not appointed officers under Section 3. They are elected under qualifications set by the Constitution. States can rule on the elibility of the voters in the State but cannot override the Federal qualifications of the candidates.
The Founders thus made sure the executives could never appoint insurrectionists.
It is called Federalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 05:09:58 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 04:01:07 PM
Re: Appointments of officers of the United States.

The Colorao Supreme Court, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ruled Trump off its ballot for President.
Colorado does not have that power.
Section 3 governs appointments of officers to the Federal Government and prohibits insurrectionists from those appointments.
The President and Vice President are not appointed officers under Section 3. They are elected under qualifications set by the Constitution. States can rule on the elibility of the voters in the State but cannot override the Federal qualifications of the candidates.
The Founders thus made sure the executives could never appoint insurrectionists.
It is called Federalism.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 03:47:46 PM

.

Would Congress have power after the election of a President, to boot a POTUS who was not qualified -- via the impeachment process?
. There are only two qualifications to run for president.
They have to be native born and 35 or older.

Quote
What I mean is, is there any provision for fast tracking a process to boot a president-elect, or would they then be stuck with the standard impeachment procedures after January?

There seems to be need of a Goldilocks zone, where it is easier to kick out criminal riffraff from the Oval, but not so easy that it is constantly weaponized.
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

Impeachment is for a sitting president who commits high crimes, misdemeanors.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 06:54:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 05:09:58 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 04:01:07 PM
Re: Appointments of officers of the United States.

The Colorao Supreme Court, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ruled Trump off its ballot for President.
Colorado does not have that power.
Section 3 governs appointments of officers to the Federal Government and prohibits insurrectionists from those appointments.
The President and Vice President are not appointed officers under Section 3. They are elected under qualifications set by the Constitution. States can rule on the elibility of the voters in the State but cannot override the Federal qualifications of the candidates.
The Founders thus made sure the executives could never appoint insurrectionists.
It is called Federalism.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Even Scalia disagreed with Redward on "officers."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 07:05:15 PM: Chomsky reference appreciated btw. I met him when I was twelve. My proudest name drop, even if I had no idea who he was (beyond Mark's professor dad's friend who was sitting with Mark's dad in his kitchen and looked at we boys tramping through and asked us if we got caught in the heavy downpour that had just ended). Later Mark explained who he was, in a way that said to me, he's not famous really except to people like my dad. Haha.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 07:07:23 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

And not being an insurrectionist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 07:19:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 07:07:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

And not being an insurrectionist.
Uh, no.
Jesus how fucking stupid are you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 08, 2024, 07:22:42 PM: The best way to resolve trumps ballot eligibility is with a claw hammer, something Barron trump thinks about doing every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 08:34:23 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 07:07:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

And not being an insurrectionist.
Uh, no.
Jesus how fucking stupid are you?

I am too stupid to be able to answer this. And my name's not Jesus.

(it was a joke)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 08:41:47 PM: Repubes already lining up to dogpile on Biden, invoke the 25th, etc. Hur's special counsel report is admittedly not flattering as to Joe's mental capacity. I do have to wonder if the 25th invokers are really thinking this through, though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 08, 2024, 09:16:27 PM: Worth noting Hur was a Trump appointee, and that the way his report puts a thumb on the scale seems a bit unprofessional. How many people past their mid-sixties don't get pretty tired in a five hour interview and fumble when they try to be quick about timelines? Trouble with math and dates doesn't equate to being confused in one's thinking and ability to reason.

Also worth noting: bringing up someone's child who died is going to elicit intense emotions and, again, not going to help anyone with focused retrieval of facts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 09:26:28 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 08:34:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 07:07:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

And not being an insurrectionist.
Uh, no.
Jesus how fucking stupid are you?

I am too stupid to be able to answer this. And my name's not Jesus.

(it was a joke)
well you are fucking stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 09:28:29 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 06:54:52 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2024, 05:09:58 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 04:01:07 PM
Re: Appointments of officers of the United States.

The Colorao Supreme Court, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ruled Trump off its ballot for President.
Colorado does not have that power.
Section 3 governs appointments of officers to the Federal Government and prohibits insurrectionists from those appointments.
The President and Vice President are not appointed officers under Section 3. They are elected under qualifications set by the Constitution. States can rule on the elibility of the voters in the State but cannot override the Federal qualifications of the candidates.
The Founders thus made sure the executives could never appoint insurrectionists.
It is called Federalism.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Even Scalia disagreed with Redward on "officers."
Section three is the operable close.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 09:29:50 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 08:41:47 PM
Repubes already lining up to dogpile on Biden, invoke the 25th, etc. Hur's special counsel report is admittedly not flattering as to Joe's mental capacity. I do have to wonder if the 25th invokers are really thinking this through, though.
it would be stupid to invoke the 25th for the GOP
The democrats, though
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 08, 2024, 10:58:57 PM: Trumps Syphilis has gotten much worse since he was driven out of office.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:29:01 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 09:26:28 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 08:34:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 07:07:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

And not being an insurrectionist.
Uh, no.
Jesus how fucking stupid are you?

I am too stupid to be able to answer this. And my name's not Jesus.

(it was a joke)
well you are fucking stupid.
RedDick posts to the mirror again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 08, 2024, 06:12:11 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 08, 2024, 03:47:46 PM

.

Would Congress have power after the election of a President, to boot a POTUS who was not qualified -- via the impeachment process?
. There are only two qualifications to run for president.
They have to be native born and 35 or older.

Quote
What I mean is, is there any provision for fast tracking a process to boot a president-elect, or would they then be stuck with the standard impeachment procedures after January?

There seems to be need of a Goldilocks zone, where it is easier to kick out criminal riffraff from the Oval, but not so easy that it is constantly weaponized.
There are three constitutional requirements:
Natural born US Citizen
35 years old
14 years living in the USA

Impeachment is for a sitting president who commits high crimes, misdemeanors.
Well, but how is Section 3 of 14th Amendment enforced? Assuming the SCOTUS rules that individual states do not have the ability to toss Presidential candidates(or by extension, VP) from the ballot because of the peculiar nature of the office, how does that get enforced?

I expect a unanimous but very limited ruling preventing states from disqualifying Presidential candidates based on Section 3. I think they ignore the implications of the ruling to, say, a state determining to not allow a 27 year old on the ballot, let alone a Obama Kenya thing, and limit it to that provision only. And I think they recognize the power of the state to determine eligibility for every other office, including Reps and Senators since there is no risk of differing decisions for the same candidate, no incentive to be the first in with a factual determination pro or con to bind the rest of the country. But it does set up an interesting question: how do you enforce Section 3 nationally? I suppose once they are actually seated you could impeach them, but there is another intriguing option.

Congress has used its power to police its own membership to refuse to seat members under Section 3 twice: once when someone actually elected an actual Socialist - a real one, not a right wing talking point one - to the House* and once to refuse to seat someone who had been the Confederate governor of North Carolina. I think he was governor at the time of secession but am not motivated enough to look it up. Anyway that leaves this possibility...

January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

* To be fair, he had been convicted under the espionage act.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 01:13:42 PM: Australia to build a fleet of AI controlled 'Ghost Bat' killer drones.
Yo!
At last.
US to share drone technology so manufacture can begin as soon as possible.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2024, 01:30:22 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
Anyway that leaves this possibility...

January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

There are many precedents for parts of the constitution being self-executing, right? And section 3 has been interpreted as such. So the House should need nothing more than a procedural resolution, something like this chamber cannot certify...

Which means, if I'm understanding the most volatile House races this year, that California could tip it towards such a vote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:03:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2024, 01:30:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
Anyway that leaves this possibility...

January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

There are many precedents for parts of the constitution being self-executing, right? And section 3 has been interpreted as such. So the House should need nothing more than a procedural resolution, something like this chamber cannot certify...

Well, no.

the 14th Amendment
Congressional power of enforcement
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 02:05:34 PM: Las Vegas' Chicken Ranch Brothel has announced free sexual services for the winners of the upcoming Super Bowl. The offer, extended by sex workers Alice Little and Addison Gray, includes a range of amenities and services and is also open to the players' wives and girlfriends. 2 days ago

-------------

Vegas has more than Gambling, Vegas also has legal bordellos.

And in Battle Mountain, Nevada, they have the Calico Club Bordello.

The Super Bowl Weekend is going to be wild in Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:06:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 09, 2024, 01:30:22 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
Anyway that leaves this possibility...

January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

There are many precedents for parts of the constitution being self-executing, right? And section 3 has been interpreted as such. So the House should need nothing more than a procedural resolution, something like this chamber cannot certify...

Which means, if I'm understanding the most volatile House races this year, that California could tip it towards such a vote.
I think it more likely the Dems lost the Senate than gain the House. But it is fun to contemplate. I wonder what happens if Congress did disqualify Trump. Would the race go to the House? The House would be limited to the three people who have "the highest numbers" of electoral votes, which would be Joe Biden, no other eligible person having received any electoral votes. Since the elector votes for VP are counted separately the Repo VP candidate would become VP, which, you know, Biden better watch his back because I would not put it past that Stefanik bitch to smother him with a pillow, immediately becoming President and pardoning herself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:39:34 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
No need to. Everyone understood what I meant. Including you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 02:41:51 PM: The Government is making money from Dams and from Hydro powered electric generators, the Government makes money from Hoover Dam from selling Electricity, and plus they sell water.

In Tacoma, Washington, they had a drought and so the Dam could not produce power because there was not enough water, so the Navy sent the Aircraft Carrier, The Lexington, to Tacoma to provide power for Washington. Washington had to pay the going rate for Electricity that they got from the Lexington, the Government made the same amount of money from the Lexington that they got from providing power with the Dam.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1990/september/carrier-lit-tacoma

Our Government is making money from the Dams, from electricity, and from water, plus they have Recreation on the Lakes which are created by the Dams, a lot of money is made from the Recreation on Lake Mead, etc.

The same way that Anaheim has a General Fund where some money from our Electric Company goes to be spent by the Citizens of Anaheim on City Projects, such as the ARTIC Train Station that we built in Anaheim with money from the General Fund from our Electric Company, and plus some money from the General Fund went to help the homeless here in Anaheim, etc, the USA can have a General Fund with money from selling water and electricity from our Dams such as Hoover Dam, etc, and some of the money can go to helping Homeless Veterans, etc, and for Education in Kentucky, etc, we can build Medical Schools in Kentucky and we can train Doctors right here in Kentucky, etc, and then the Doctors from Kentucky can help our Veterans and our Homeless people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:42:35 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:39:34 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
No need to. Everyone understood what I meant. Including you.
Lol. Not even you understands what you meant. And you are certainly oblivious to the Jackson participation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:54:44 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:42:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:39:34 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
No need to. Everyone understood what I meant. Including you.
Lol. Not even you understands what you meant. And you are certainly oblivious to the Jackson participation.
Your inability, or perhaps unwillingness, to read plain English is well known.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 09, 2024, 03:13:49 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:06:26 PM
I think it more likely the Dems lost the Senate than gain the House. But it is fun to contemplate. I wonder what happens if Congress did disqualify Trump. Would the race go to the House? The House would be limited to the three people who have "the highest numbers" of electoral votes, which would be Joe Biden, no other eligible person having received any electoral votes. Since the elector votes for VP are counted separately the Repo VP candidate would become VP, which, you know, Biden better watch his back because I would not put it past that Stefanik bitch to smother him with a pillow, immediately becoming President and pardoning herself.

Har!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 03:18:09 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:54:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:42:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:39:34 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
No need to. Everyone understood what I meant. Including you.
Lol. Not even you understands what you meant. And you are certainly oblivious to the Jackson participation.
Your inability, or perhaps unwillingness, to read plain English is well known.
I watched it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 03:23:59 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:06:26 PM

I think it more likely the Dems lost the Senate than gain the House. But it is fun to contemplate. I wonder what happens if Congress did disqualify Trump. Would the race go to the House?
Congress cannot disqualify, only Impeach.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 03:41:17 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 03:18:09 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:54:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:42:35 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:39:34 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 02:07:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 01:00:41 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 11:09:49 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 11:02:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 10:55:47 AM
January 6, 2025. The Dems have retained the Senate and gained a majority in the House, but Trump has won. Kamala Harris with the Dems united behind her refuses to certify the electoral votes because one candidate is disqualified from office under Section 3...

Except Donald Trump would not be covered by Section 3.
He is if the SCOTUS rules he is. Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.
Obviously you did not listen (or read )the questions from Jackson from yesterday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-supreme-court-ballot.html)
What part of "Only Jackson seemed receptive..." is causing you difficulty?
Because she was not.
Not receptive or not the only one? Because either way citing her questioning and only her questioning undercuts your "point".
Funny you cannot explain what you mean about her questioning.
No need to. Everyone understood what I meant. Including you.
Lol. Not even you understands what you meant. And you are certainly oblivious to the Jackson participation.
Your inability, or perhaps unwillingness, to read plain English is well known.
I watched it.
Once again, your inability, or perhaps unwillingness, to read plain English is well known. Let me walk you through it:

Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.

"Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing" means that, at the hearing Jackson was receptive to the argument.

"Only" means no one else was.

Any questions?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 03:49:51 PM: Franklin Graham said that we need to elect a Christian President, and I posted that I wish Condoleezza Rice would run for President, she is a good Christian.

Someone posted that Trump was a Christian, and I quickly smashed that, Trump is not a Christian, Trump is a criminal and a womanizer and we have him recorded trying to get Georgia to falsify the results of the election. Trump is a real bad man, and he is NOT Christian.

George W. Bush is a Christian, and Condoleezza Rice is a Christian, and Jeb Bush is Christian, but Trump is not Christian.

Then I posted that Biden is supposed to be Roman Catholic, but I do not see Biden trying to help the poor Catholics in Mexico and going to meetings with the leading Catholics in Mexico. George W. Bush went to Mexico on his first foreign visit, and Bush traveled all over Latin America, and Bush met with the King of Spain, and with the Pope, etc. And Biden cannot be a Christian if he supports abortion. I do not think that Biden is a good Christian, otherwise he would have been in Mexico helping to improve the situation.

Reagan made the immigrants legal so they could come out of the shadows and so they could be protected by our laws, and so they could call the police in the case of an emergency and so that they could join labor unions and be protected by our labor laws, etc. Reagan was a good Christian. And Reagan helped SAG to get health care insurance and retirement benefits for their members when Reagan was head of SAG.

We are not going to improve the situation in Mexico by building a fence, we will improve things by reaching out to Mexico and by working together to make the world a better place, just as we have done in Colombia, Colombia is much better now than it was in the 1980s, we have made a lot of progress, and Colombia has had Harvard educated leaders, etc. Mexico needs some help from Harvard, and from others.

We need to reach out and help Mexico, that is the Christian way.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 09, 2024, 04:10:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 09, 2024, 03:41:17 PM

Only Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing, apparently.

"Jackson seemed receptive to that argument at the hearing" means that, at the hearing Jackson was receptive to the argument.

"Only" means no one else was.

Any questions?
Jackson was not receptive to the argument.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 04:33:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 01:13:42 PM
Australia to build a fleet of AI controlled 'Ghost Bat' killer drones.
Yo!
At last.
US to share drone technology so manufacture can begin as soon as possible.

We have new technology which can jam and crash the drones, we can jam the communication between the drone and the operator and we can crash the drones.

We sent you some Stealth Bombers which can go Nuclear, and that is all you need. Plus, you can have F-16 Fighting Falcons, and I recommend some updated and modified F-104 Starfighters for Interceptors, nothing can outrun an F-104 Starfighter, you can vector the thrust to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, etc, and you can update everything, and then you can team the Starfighters up with Sidewinder Missiles.

The best way to save lives is to keep the peace and to prevent wars. We need to team up with Muzi here in California, Muzi can help with the towers in Los Angeles, etc, and she studied Psychology so the towers can help homeless Veterans and homeless people with mental illness, etc, and Muzi can help to build Mental Health Associations and Wellness Centers, and Natalie Portman also studied Psychology at Harvard, and Natalie can work together as a team with Muzi to help the homeless and the mentally ill, etc. Carlos Slim is rich and he can help, and also there is Rick Caruso, and Mayor Karen Bass. Muzi can be on our team to help our homeless and our mentally ill.

Blessed are the Peacemakers. We need to invest in the Peace Corps, and we need to build schools, and libraries and hospitals and orphanages, etc. And we can work together as a team with China to cure Cancer, and to send people to Mars, etc. And China can buy exports from Mexico, and from California, etc, we can send food to China, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 09, 2024, 04:57:12 PM: Franklin Graham is a fucking crook, Tony. He is no Christian.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 05:38:14 PM: Can the RICO Act be used to stop Trump?

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 07:07:29 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 04:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 01:13:42 PM
Australia to build a fleet of AI controlled 'Ghost Bat' killer drones.
Yo!
At last.
US to share drone technology so manufacture can begin as soon as possible.

We have new technology which can jam and crash the drones, we can jam the communication between the drone and the operator and we can crash the drones.

We sent you some Stealth Bombers which can go Nuclear, and that is all you need. Plus, you can have F-16 Fighting Falcons, and I recommend some updated and modified F-104 Starfighters for Interceptors, nothing can outrun an F-104 Starfighter, you can vector the thrust to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, etc, and you can update everything, and then you can team the Starfighters up with Sidewinder Missiles.

The best way to save lives is to keep the peace and to prevent wars. We need to team up with Muzi here in California, Muzi can help with the towers in Los Angeles, etc, and she studied Psychology so the towers can help homeless Veterans and homeless people with mental illness, etc, and Muzi can help to build Mental Health Associations and Wellness Centers, and Natalie Portman also studied Psychology at Harvard, and Natalie can work together as a team with Muzi to help the homeless and the mentally ill, etc. Carlos Slim is rich and he can help, and also there is Rick Caruso, and Mayor Karen Bass. Muzi can be on our team to help our homeless and our mentally ill.

Blessed are the Peacemakers. We need to invest in the Peace Corps, and we need to build schools, and libraries and hospitals and orphanages, etc. And we can work together as a team with China to cure Cancer, and to send people to Mars, etc. And China can buy exports from Mexico, and from California, etc, we can send food to China, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

We need the killer drones to get after Houthi types, and any invaders.
We need something to fight with.
Might be able to recruit some sailors, if they can be on a ship that has some decent weaponry, instead of being on a ship that's a sitting duck.
The Welsh will fight.
The Scots will fight.
The Northern Irish will fight....[Rep of Ireland is neutral.]
The English will fight.
Australians and Kiwis will fight.
Canada will fight.
They all just need something decent to fight with.
'Nuclear non-proliferation' was/is a croc.
Australia should've grabbed 'nuclear' in the 1950s when it allowed Britain to test nukes in the outback...and should've had nuke subs long ago.
It didn't, tried to be a good global citizen, and where did that get it.
"No nukes, save the planet" tripe.
Now "no coal, save the planet" tripe...[my electricity bill is skyrocketing, the energy co's profit has increased by 350%], while the People go broke, and have to have stupid wind turbines everywhere, useless things explode in flames and set 'bush' alight.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 07:36:54 PM: US Ambassador to Australia heading to the outback in a $1500 Falcon

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Crikey!

"Falcon"...Ford Falcon manufactured in Australia when Australia had a car industry...GM, Ford, Toyota, government subsidies.

6 cyl sedan.

These days you don't get much 'Falcon' for $1,500.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 09, 2024, 08:00:13 PM: The US Ambassador to Australia will drive 3,000km along some of Australia's toughest roads in an old Ford Falcon to raise money for Cancer Council Australia.

Interviewed by Sunrise, Caroline Kennedy - daughter of former US President John F. Kennedy - explained how she stumbled upon the Shitbox Rally while at a Bunnings sausage sizzle. The rally aims to raise funds for cancer research.

"I knew it was a tradition here in Australia to go get the sausages at Bunnings, and the people who were selling sausages that day were raising money for the Cancer Council and for this rally," Ambassador Kennedy told Sunrise.

"They were telling me about their cars, I saw their cars...it just seemed like such a great thing with such broad appeal because so many families, my family, every family has been touched by cancer."

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What a woman!

Now there's an Ambassador!

Hope she'll be having a convoy of supplies, rescue vehicles, etc following along...the outback is not for the faint hearted.
The heat, the flies, the dust, the vastness of 'nothing' can creep up on you if you're not prepared.
Two flat tyres and only one spare, for example.

Bunnings...large hardware chain 'Home Depot'-like.

Hope we see vision of her rally driving adventure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 09, 2024, 09:01:48 PM: See what good personnel you get when the Chief Executive is wise, experienced, knowledgeable, recognizes and pursues positive outcomes, and is not a fucking crook.

You should learn to appreciate it enough to dump most all of your current affiliations and prejudices.

Get out of the house, mate. Go get a sausage
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 09, 2024, 10:58:45 PM: Bambu, Let's go surfing now, everyone is learning how, come on and surfing safari with me.

Let the youth surf instead of being soldiers. They can surf, and dance and eat hamburgers, and chase girls.

We can make "Fun in Acapulco" movies, and Beach Blanket Bingo movies.

I want peace. Blessed are the peacemakers.

And you will be okay with some Stealth Bombers, and F-16 Fighting Falcons, and you should request some updated and modified F-104 Starfighters, and you can team the Starfighters up with Sidewinder Missiles, vector the thrust on the Starfighters to help them to steer better and to pull out of spins, etc, and update everything on the Starfighters. The F-22 Raptors are good too, and the F-35 Lightening planes are good too.

Peace is what we want, I know you can fight, but I want peace, and the youth can surf.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 12:25:52 AM: Chase girls?
Try that today and you're labelled a predator.
Even be a man alone in a bar today and that's what you'll be called.

Many girls today seem to be "entitled princesses' who believe "the man should pay for everything"...and who only want to date rich guys.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 02:54:08 AM: Maybe John Travolta will team up with Charlie Benante to make movies at Universal Studios. That would be cool.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 02:18:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 12:25:52 AM
Chase girls?
Try that today and you're labelled a predator.
Even be a man alone in a bar today and that's what you'll be called.

Many girls today seem to be "entitled princesses' who believe "the man should pay for everything"...and who only want to date rich guys.

A lot of stars, such as Kevin Costner, hire expensive escorts to escort them to awards ceremonies, etc, instead of going alone.

I escorted Phyllis Diller at Bob Hope's Birthday party at Universal in 1995, it was awesome, all of the stars were there. I just wish I could have partied with the stars instead of having to work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 03:57:53 PM: There is a true story movie 'Outback'. [2019]
It's about a young American couple who travelled to Australia.

She rejected his marriage proposal on the plane trip.
They were in Sydney, decided to travel to see Uluru...2,800km away in the centre of Australia, in the outback, desert basically.
From memory, maybe in a used Ford Falcon.

Their GPS malfunctioned when they were far enough into the outback to then get themselves lost.
Inexperienced, they didn't know what to do. No maps much, no compass, no satellite phone, no emergency beacon to activate, no large supply of water and food.
They made a decision to leave the car and hike to a hill they could see in the distance.
It was further away than it appeared to be.
They finally arrived there...but then couldn't see the car.
Night fell.
Slept on the ground...no food or water.
He'd been stung by a jellyfish somewhere before then, it was getting infected or very sore.
He awoke in the morning to find her almost unconscious.
He decided to leave her and go for help.
Before he left, in a dry creek bed he gathered stones and formed SOS.
She was stung on the head by a scorpion, and nearly bitten by an Inland Taipan snake [the deadliest in the world].
He made it back to the car, by luck.
Disoriented, he thought he was pumping water but actually drank windshield wiper fluid, causing kidney failure.
She was rescued by a farmer who saw the SOS.
He, boyfriend, sadly passed away.
She made it back to America alive.

There are many lessons to be learned from their sad experience.
Wise to teach your children, grandchildren, friends...so they don't make the same mistakes.
Of course, the same things apply in America...if leaving the cities and driving/touring anywhere.

Spin around 3 times in the forests of Montana, and it all looks the same, you're lost.
Going hiking in Montana? best carry a gun, animal poachers don't like strangers getting near them as they try to recruit rich game hunters from the cities.
All shown in the true story movie "Taken In Montana". Montana looks lovely, but serious crime is rampant.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 04:26:06 PM: Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts are good for the kids because they learn how to find their way in the forest, and you can tell the time and the direction by looking at the sun, and at night there is the North Star, and the moss only grows on one side of a tree so you can tell direction by looking at the moss on the tree, and also water flows downhill, etc.

And yes, Montana is dangerous, and so is Saint Louis, Missouri. Best to carry a gun. The cowboys all carry guns. And if you are riding the Greyhound Bus across the USA then it is best to stay in the Bus Station in Saint Louis at night, do not even leave the station. I had to view the Arch in Saint Louis from the windows of the Bus Station, they said it was dangerous to leave the Bus Station.

Sad about the tourists, and yes, traveling can be full of perils.

Rome, Italy, is safe, no guns needed, and Cannes, France, is safe, and I suppose Greece would be safe as well. In Malibu we have security guards all over, and gated communities, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 10, 2024, 09:20:59 PM: So the Biden folks first blamed the Special Prosecutor for being gratuitous in his description of Biden as a feeble old guy with a bad memory therefore forgoing prosecution for what was clearly illegal handling of classified documents.
Today the anger is directed to AG Merrick Garland for not editing ( censoring) the prosecutors remarks( which are legally required).
Does Joe Biden simply pretend to be the Emperor with No Clothes?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 09:23:27 PM: Last week I drove (with a reporter via Youtube) 2 hours west of Phoenix, into the desert, to see the thousands of square miles of BLM land available to RV/camping folk, most living there permanently.
BLM rules state they have to move position every two weeks or two months or the like.

Driving on the highway, looking both sides of it, RVs as far as the eye can see.

We then drove off the highway into the land area.
Met a group or permanents, living separately but close, good friends.
They explained...the "freedom".
Cool retired law enforcement guy who happened to be Black said he was happy there.
He and the other guys near him, White guys, said they're living there by choice.
Not "homeless people" as such, one sold a condo and chose the lifestyle.
All not spaced out on drugs.

Very enlightening visit.

Think they said there are truck stops to shower at.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 09:40:30 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 09:23:27 PM
Last week I drove (with a reporter via Youtube) 2 hours west of Phoenix, into the desert, to see the thousands of square miles of BLM land available to RV/camping folk, most living there permanently.
BLM rules state they have to move position every two weeks or two months or the like.

Driving on the highway, looking both sides of it, RVs as far as the eye can see.

We then drove off the highway into the land area.
Met a group or permanents, living separately but close, good friends.
They explained...the "freedom".
Cool retired law enforcement guy who happened to be Black said he was happy there.
He and the other guys near him, White guys, said they're living there by choice.
Not "homeless people" as such, one sold a condo and chose the lifestyle.
All not spaced out on drugs.

Very enlightening visit.

Think they said there are truck stops to shower at.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, has an RV Park, and trailer parks, and land for $1,000 per acre. And there is a truck stop where people can take showers. Battle Mountain is safe too. Zero crime.

And Victoria, Canada, has a Kiwanis Village, that would be a great spot for refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 10, 2024, 10:13:34 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 10, 2024, 09:20:59 PM
So the Biden folks first blamed the Special Prosecutor for being gratuitous in his description of Biden as a feeble old guy with a bad memory therefore forgoing prosecution for what was clearly illegal handling of classified documents.
Today the anger is directed to AG Merrick Garland for not editing ( censoring) the prosecutors remarks( which are legally required).
Does Joe Biden simply pretend to be the Emperor with No Clothes?

OK boomer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 02:18:41 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 09:40:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 09:23:27 PM
Last week I drove (with a reporter via Youtube) 2 hours west of Phoenix, into the desert, to see the thousands of square miles of BLM land available to RV/camping folk, most living there permanently.
BLM rules state they have to move position every two weeks or two months or the like.

Driving on the highway, looking both sides of it, RVs as far as the eye can see.

We then drove off the highway into the land area.
Met a group or permanents, living separately but close, good friends.
They explained...the "freedom".
Cool retired law enforcement guy who happened to be Black said he was happy there.
He and the other guys near him, White guys, said they're living there by choice.
Not "homeless people" as such, one sold a condo and chose the lifestyle.
All not spaced out on drugs.

Very enlightening visit.

Think they said there are truck stops to shower at.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, has an RV Park, and trailer parks, and land for $1,000 per acre. And there is a truck stop where people can take showers. Battle Mountain is safe too. Zero crime.

And Victoria, Canada, has a Kiwanis Village, that would be a great spot for refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.

Does the $1000 per acre land come with access to electricity?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 11, 2024, 01:13:39 PM: Add between 20-30 thousand to your homesteading budget and you can bring your own.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 01:20:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 02:18:41 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 10, 2024, 09:40:30 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 10, 2024, 09:23:27 PM
Last week I drove (with a reporter via Youtube) 2 hours west of Phoenix, into the desert, to see the thousands of square miles of BLM land available to RV/camping folk, most living there permanently.
BLM rules state they have to move position every two weeks or two months or the like.

Driving on the highway, looking both sides of it, RVs as far as the eye can see.

We then drove off the highway into the land area.
Met a group or permanents, living separately but close, good friends.
They explained...the "freedom".
Cool retired law enforcement guy who happened to be Black said he was happy there.
He and the other guys near him, White guys, said they're living there by choice.
Not "homeless people" as such, one sold a condo and chose the lifestyle.
All not spaced out on drugs.

Very enlightening visit.

Think they said there are truck stops to shower at.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, has an RV Park, and trailer parks, and land for $1,000 per acre. And there is a truck stop where people can take showers. Battle Mountain is safe too. Zero crime.

And Victoria, Canada, has a Kiwanis Village, that would be a great spot for refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.

Does the $1000 per acre land come with access to electricity?

Some of the land has access to Electricity, Natural Gas, Water, etc.

https://www.propertyshark.com/homes/US/Land-For-Sale/NV/Battle-Mountain.html

My parents bought a 160 acre ranch 60 miles outside of Battle Mountain, and we had a fresh water stream, but no electricity, etc. They planned on having a cattle ranch like the television show "Bonanza" but they made more money from the pigs than they did from the cattle, there is nothing romantic about raising pigs but the pigs were profitable. That would be my advice to settlers who want to settle outside of Battle Mountain, they can raise pigs and they can sell pork and bacon to San Francisco, etc.

I worked at the Colt Casino as a cook, right in the middle of town where the people were.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 01:48:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 11, 2024, 01:13:39 PM
Add between 20-30 thousand to your homesteading budget and you can bring your own.

If you put solar panels on your roof in Battle Mountain, Nevada, then you would want to put the Heat Film on them to melt the snow, Battle Mountain is very cold in the winter and it snows there.

My Grandfather used a Wind Mill to pump the water for his Duck Pond and he never had a problem with his old fashioned Wind Mill. Then he used the water from the Duck Pond to water his garden, and also for the cattle to drink.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 01:54:47 PM: A few hours til Superbowl kick off...nearly 6am in my world now.
That stadium in Vegas is superb.

'My' rugby league team boys will be playing there in 3 weeks.Ticket sales have increased, Russell Crowe has a new ad explaining the sport. Should be a good crowd, for an 'unknown sport'.
Basically NFL type footy...with:
No helmets.
No pads
No timeouts
No blocking
No forward passes
My team likely won't win their match, the team is rebuilding...but they'll look the best, have the best colours and best jerseys and shorts in the league.
'Everybody' hates my team...jealousy is rampant in society.
Not my team's/club's fault it is well run by a stable board whose directors have business acumen, wisdom, common-sense, honesty and are 'independently wealthy' (not needing/wanting to help themselves to money that belongs to the club.)
They have a commitment to excellence, on and off the field.
"The ........are cheating the salary cap" is one of the barbs thrown at us.
No, the club just won't pay 'overs' for players thereby getting itself into financial trouble.

How good do I look going to the footy in my team's colours, jersey, jacket, scarf, gloves etc!
"Every man looks better in a .......'s jersey." - bambu.

Workplaces and society in general are full of jealousy, hate, trickery, discrimination, and treachery.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 02:27:12 PM: As a child I was a huge fan of the Los Angeles Rams, I even had all of their autographs, Jack Youngblood, and Hacksaw Reynolds, all of those guys were great, I have their autographs still, but then they moved the team to Saint Louis, Missouri, and it broke my heart, How could they not love their fans as much as we loved the Rams? Moving the Rams to Saint Louis did not show any loyalty to their fans in Los Angeles, they just put money ahead of everything else and they broke my heart, and I quit watching Football. I never regained my love for Football.

But, I have the Los Angeles Dodgers to root for in Baseball. The Dodgers have always been a classy team. And I loved Vin Scully, and Tommy Lasorda, and everything about the Dodgers. I wish they would bring the games back to free television, such as to KTLA Channel 5. Gene Autry used to own Channel 5 and he owned the Angels of Anaheim so he showed the Angel games on Channel 5. ( The owner of the Angels now, Arte Moreno, is a crook, he is corrupt, and I want for the Angels to get a new owner who has better character. )

When I was a kid we only had about 8 television stations but we could watch all of the sports, we could see the Boxing, and Baseball, and Football, and the Wide World of Sports, it was all on free television that we received with an antenna. Now they want for everyone to pay money to watch sports, it is all greed motivated now.

I still like the Dodgers, but it would be cool if they would broadcast the games on a free local channel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 11, 2024, 04:49:35 PM: Smash capitalism. John 2:16.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 04:52:39 PM: Tony,

Did the Rams have to relocate to Missouri to stay in business financially?
Did the League force them to relocate?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 11, 2024, 04:54:02 PM: No. No.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 05:01:04 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 11, 2024, 04:54:02 PM
No. No.

After I posted that question I googled it.
Should've googled it first.😀
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 08:35:04 PM: Marco Rubio talks about building a wall on our Southern Border as if there was a difference between Mexico and Cuba. Rubio wants to build a wall with Mexico, so what if we built a wall with Cuba? The Cubans are equal with the Mexicans, and with the Salvadorans, we are all equal, and the Chinese, we are all equal. So Rubio can fuck himself until he can accept the Mexicans as being equal human beings with the same rights as all people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 08:48:16 PM: We all have equal rights as human beings, that is the foundation of America. If Rubio thinks that the Cubans are somehow superior to the Mexicans then he is mistaken, we are all equal in America, including being equal with the Chinese.

And some ignorant fucker in Arkansas is not superior to a Mexican just because he was born in America.

And the fucking out of work coal miners need to go to school and study. Shame on us if we do not provide schools where they can study, and libraries with books for them to read.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 10:49:25 PM: Abu Dhabi and Dubai can hire essential workers from Gaza, and also the refugees can come to the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada.

And for the settlers who come to Battle Mountain, Nevada, then I suggest being pig farmers, you can make money from raising pigs and from selling pork and bacon to San Francisco.

In California it is hard, I suggest that the Mexicans and others join the United Farm Workers Union. And other unions, if you want fair pay then you need to join a union. And we have wineries in Modesto, California, and all over the state of California, we have lots of jobs making wine.

We have a million immigrants from Iran, and they are welcome here, but they need to help the homeless like everyone else, they need to be a part of the community.

And I love the Chinese, and Muzi seems cool.

It will get better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 11, 2024, 10:52:16 PM: NFL rules need changing.
If you are in possession of the ball, and you get tackled over the sideline you should lose possession to the other team.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 11:18:15 PM: The settlers in Battle Mountain, Nevada, can raise pigs, and they can sell pork and bacon to San Francisco, and they can sell canned Hormel Hams to the Chinese, etc.

https://www.hormel.com/brands/hormel-cure-81-ham/product/classic-smoked-boneless-sliced-ham/

The profits are high when you raise pigs and make Hormel Hams.

And Bacon, etc, and pork chops, and ribs, etc. there is a lot of money from raising pigs. They can sell to China Town in San Francisco, and to the Chinese in China, and to whoever else they want to sell to.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 11, 2024, 11:32:17 PM: The Philippines loves Spam, and I bet the Chinese love Spam as well. Hawaii loves Spam too.

We can send lots of Spam to Asia. Spam is made by Hormel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 12:02:57 AM: Congrats to Vegas for hosting a fabulous Super Bowl, with lots of Gambling, and good restaurants, and with the great hotels, Vegas is a great spot to have a Super Bowl.

I wonder if the Chiefs accepted the free invitation to the Chicken Ranch?

I wonder who was at the Calico Club in Battle Mountain? Rumor has it that the Calico Club even has a 5 Star Restaurant. Like Club 33 at Disney here in Anaheim, though Club 33 is not a Bordello.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 12, 2024, 12:22:39 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 10, 2024, 09:20:59 PM
So the Biden folks first blamed the Special Prosecutor for being gratuitous in his description of Biden as a feeble old guy with a bad memory therefore forgoing prosecution for what was clearly illegal handling of classified documents.
Today the anger is directed to AG Merrick Garland for not editing ( censoring) the prosecutors remarks( which are legally required).
Does Joe Biden simply pretend to be the Emperor with No Clothes?

Nah.

The real naked ruler is Donald J. Trump, found liable for rape and defamation, about to be fined down to his pubic hairs fir fraud and soon to be convicted in federal felonies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 03:17:26 AM: No one sings the national anthem like Whitney.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 12:18:59 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 03:17:26 AM
No one sings the national anthem like Whitney.

Whitney was great, so sad how she died, alone in a hotel room, then her daughter died soon after, so sad. I hate drugs. And Whitney was rich and famous, she could have been living a good life, people loved her. There was no reason for her to die alone in a hotel room. Tragic end.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 01:01:36 PM: According to current precedent, drug dealers can be held liable if someone overdoses and dies because of drugs the dealer sold them. There have been several convictions in the United States holding drug dealers responsible for murder when a heroin user overdoses on drugs allegedly purchased from the dealer.

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I would never be a drug dealer, I would never sell that poison to people. And I have seen what addiction does to people, addiction is horrible.

Dealers are going to be charged for murder if they sell illegal drugs to someone and they die, the dealers are going to be held responsible.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 01:07:22 PM: Donald said that if NATO countries don't pay their way, and are attacked, as President he would not defend them, and in fact would encourage the attackers to keep attacking them.
It was on my tv screen.

Now that last bit was a very dumb thing to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 01:25:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 01:07:22 PM
Donald said that if NATO countries don't pay their way, and are attacked, as President he would not defend them, and in fact would encourage the attackers to keep attacking them.
It was on my tv screen.

Now that last bit was a very dumb thing to say.

Trump is nuts.

And Biden is too old.

We have 300 million people, and this is the best we can do? With Harvard, and Yale, and Stanford, and this is the best we can do? We need for the best to rise to the top, that is how America is supposed to work, where are our best and brightest people?

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 02:02:01 PM: "Lockheed Martin wins contract to manufacture guided weapons in Australia."

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Great news!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 02:18:27 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 02:02:01 PM
"Lockheed Martin wins contract to manufacture guided weapons in Australia."

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Great news!

Lockheed is a great company.

Northrup is a good company too.

But Boeing has problems, Boeing used to be great but they suck now.

Rockwell was great, but they are gone now, Boeing bought them and shut them down to stop the competition.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 12, 2024, 02:46:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 01:07:22 PM
Donald said that if NATO countries don't pay their way, and are attacked, as President he would not defend them, and in fact would encourage the attackers to keep attacking them.
It was on my tv screen.

Now that last bit was a very dumb thing to say.

He is a very dumb man supported by dumb people and terrible folk who make their living robbing the weaker of his supporters blind.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 03:34:18 PM: Daily Telegraph today:

"Military shambles: Defence Force runs short of troops, weapons.

There are more people marching out of the Australian Defence Force than there are marching in, despite 'critical' need to swell the ranks to their biggest levels since the Vietnam War."

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Not much good having tanks, got no land borders with anyone.
Not much good having helicopters that crash (they were all grounded, stripped and then buried).

Caught totally by surprise by China's war talk, there's now a mad scramble to arm with the latest weapons.
No surprise there are more marching out than marching in.
Seems to be another case of "Go woke, go broke".

Ring, ring..."hello enemy, is it ok if we bomb you at 3pm Friday?
Oh, that's not suitable...then what about 10am Thursday?"

War crimes allegations ( no one charged yet).

Fire back at a house from where you're being fired at, then dead women and children are found inside, they want to charge you with murder, and no1 radio host is not on air anymore to save you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 03:42:59 PM: Rockwell was a great company in my hometown, which built the Space Shuttles, the Shuttle program was an over $100 Billion program. I had a step dad for a few years who was the Boss of the Shuttle Program. We built the Shuttles out in the desert, then we flew them to Florida and launched them from Cape Canaveral. I went to Florida with the Space Shuttle program, it was great, we lived right on the beach. We should have been rich like Elon Musk.

Rockwell is gone now, Boeing bought them to stop the competition and then Boeing shut Rockwell down.

Lockheed builds planes out in the desert too, and so does Northrup, both are great companies.

Lockheed is working on a new high speed passenger plane, it will be fast and quiet, with a quiet sonic boom.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 04:18:39 PM: Here is a link with info about the new plane that Lockheed is building...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst

It is going to be a great plane, which will replace the Concorde.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 07:25:47 PM: In America we are all equal, and we have the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and 1968, that guarantee that we all have an equal shot for jobs and housing.

People are breaking everyone up into groups, when will it end? Are we going to have to do an DNA test to prove our ethnicity before we can get a job or housing? Of course not, we have our Equal Opportunity Act, and our Fair Housing Act.

We cannot have Apartheid in the USA, like they do in Israel and with the Palestinians, none of that could happen here, because they all have equal rights in the USA. The Jews and the Palestinians are all equal in the USA. McDonald's is an equal opportunity employer, and you do not have to do an DNA test to prove your ethnicity to get a job, everyone is equal at McDonald's. And the same with Housing, you cannot rent housing based on ethnicity in the USA, we all have an equal shot at housing.

And with the bullshit about the Holocaust they first had to separate the Jews from the Germans in order to persecute the Jews, if they were all equal under the law like in America then that could never happen. We could never have a Holocaust in the USA because everyone is equal here.

We had all of the bullshit with Black racism and slavery, which was all horrible, and that is why Brando marched with Martin Luther King Jr, everyone marched, and we got our Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and 1968, so a man could be judged by the content of his character instead of the color of his skin.

Prisons break people up by race and they fight the prisoners against each other in order to control the prisons, watch "Blood In and Blood Out" etc, it is all bullshit, we are making all of our prisoners racist. Watch "Brubaker" with Robert Redford, that is what we need, we need new wardens and we need to progress as human beings. And we need to teach the prisoners how to be self sustaining and how to make an honest living so that they can have an honest life with a real job. Teach them how to install stereo systems in cars, teach them how to groom dogs, teach them how to weld, teach them the construction trades, etc.

America can never have Apartheid, and America could never have a Holocaust, and America can never have what is happening in Israel right now. In America all men are created equal by God our creator with equal human rights.

It cannot be like "Animal Farm" where some pigs are more equal than other pigs. We are all equal, and "Animal Farm" could never happen here.

We cannot reach a point when people have to do a DNA test when they apply at a University to see what their ethnicity is to see if they get accepted. It is all about the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

People need to all be equal in America, or it is not going to work.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 07:53:45 PM: People are saying that a Republican could never win in California, but we elected Arnold twice, and if Arnold was running right now then he could win again.

I think Steve Garvey has a chance of winning the Senate position.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 12, 2024, 08:13:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 01:25:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 12, 2024, 01:07:22 PM
Donald said that if NATO countries don't pay their way, and are attacked, as President he would not defend them, and in fact would encourage the attackers to keep attacking them.
It was on my tv screen.

Now that last bit was a very dumb thing to say.

Trump is nuts.

And Biden is too old.

We have 300 million people, and this is the best we can do? With Harvard, and Yale, and Stanford, and this is the best we can do? We need for the best to rise to the top, that is how America is supposed to work, where are our best and brightest people?

Salute,

Tony V.

How many times have incumbent presidents been primaries and still won?

Biden is not going to get any younger buy show me a more effective president in the last half century.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 13, 2024, 12:53:32 AM: Biden is doing a good job, I just worry that he is getting too old. I would rather have Condoleezza Rice.

Bambu, there is a new television show, and the characters are all surfers from Australia, it is "Wild Cards" on KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles. The actress is pretty, and she is funny. I guess it is a Canadian show. The women are beautiful on the show. The writing could be better, but the show is just getting started.

And maybe John Travolta can make movies at Universal Studios with Charlie Benante.

Also, Oliver Stone wants to shoot films at Universal in Orlando, Florida. That would be cool. With Marli Buccola, and Mahlagha Jaberi.

And we can make Beach Blanket Bingo movies in Malibu, and Fun In Acapulco movies in Acapulco.

54% of the Modern Services Economy is Streaming Services such as Movies and Television Shows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 13, 2024, 11:17:20 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 07:53:45 PM
People are saying that a Republican could never win in California, but we elected Arnold twice, and if Arnold was running right now then he could win again.

I think Steve Garvey has a chance of winning the Senate position.

Salute,

Tony V.

Do everything you can to knock him out of the top two.

Porter and Schiff will make great candidates for our Senate seat.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 13, 2024, 01:02:07 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 13, 2024, 11:17:20 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 12, 2024, 07:53:45 PM
People are saying that a Republican could never win in California, but we elected Arnold twice, and if Arnold was running right now then he could win again.

I think Steve Garvey has a chance of winning the Senate position.

Salute,

Tony V.

Do everything you can to knock him out of the top two.

Porter and Schiff will make great candidates for our Senate seat.

Schiff is not bad, we could live with Schiff in office, but I am not a fan of Porter. Even Lee is better than Porter. And I wanted Christina Pascucci to be in the race.

We will see what happens.

Garvey and Schiff are the main two in the race, I think.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 13, 2024, 01:16:31 PM: Garvey is a shithead. Most of his constituency has moved to Idaho.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 13, 2024, 02:46:30 PM: On the issue of street vendors in Anaheim, we need to give them permits and zoning where they can operate. Street vendors are important Entrepreneurs like Carl Karcher who founded Carl's Jr here in Anaheim, Carl started with a Hot Dog Cart in Los Angeles. We need to allow the Entrepreneurs to make money in Anaheim so they can create businesses such as Carl's Jr which creates good jobs for people, fast food workers earn $20 per hour now, and plus they pay taxes. Everyone benefits from Free Enterprise.

And in Lancaster they have special events where they have Food Trucks and Food Vendors at the parks for the community. Anaheim can have Food Trucks and Food Vendors at the parks, etc.

I support Free Enterprise, and I support giving the Street Vendors permits and zoning and also having Food Trucks at the parks, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 13, 2024, 03:15:34 PM: They have loosened up the street vendor regulations in San Diego. Bacon wrapped hotdogs seems to be the most popular dish downtown with fruitas during the day in the neighborhoods and tacos at and tomales night.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 13, 2024, 05:48:42 PM: My advice if you ever open a restaurant, or a food truck, is to hire beautiful young women to serve the public, and in Anaheim the women also need to be bi-lingual and they need to speak Spanish, hire the hot young Mexican women here in Anaheim and you will be successful if you serve good food.

There was a food truck with 2 old guys that did not have any customers, and there was a food truck with 2 young hot Mexican ladies, and the one with the Mexican women was getting all of the business. People were lined up at the food truck with the 2 women while there was no customers at all for the truck with the 2 men.

In Battle Mountain we had beautiful waitresses to serve the public, and we had a 17 year old woman from Mexico who made $300 per hour in tips, the customers loved her. And we had a waitress who was a Daughter of the Vice President of the Bank of New York, and we had a beautiful lady from Pennsylvania, we had great waitresses. Our Casino had the most beautiful waitresses in Battle Mountain.

It pays to hire beautiful women to serve the public.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 13, 2024, 07:11:30 PM: Super Bowl drew123 million viewers, an all time record, 21 million more that the 2020 game also won by the Kansas City Chiefs over the 49ers.

Taylor Swift and her romance with Travis Kelce (KC star) had a lot to do with the increase since the game drew a ton more women viewers than the last one.
In an event known also for its TV commercials there were three that appealed to religion. He Gets Us had two showing people washing the feet of others, ala Jesus, and the third centered on prayer and narrated by Mark Wahlberg. Both ads spiked high on viewer attention and were chosen since the game came just a couple of days before Ash Wednesday.
MVP Patrick Mahomes began his victory response by saying All glory to God !
The religious advertisers must have been pleased.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM: So what were you wanting to discuss?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 13, 2024, 09:04:55 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on February 13, 2024, 08:51:26 PM
Sure sign of a DumbAss: The Dow hits all-time high and not a word of
credit to the President. One correction and DoomsDay is here and it is
all Biden s fault.

Take a bow DumbAss of the Year, again!
Hmmm.
What sent the Dow plunging ?
What has given us 18 per cent inflation since 2021?
Bidenomics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 14, 2024, 06:16:04 AM: I guess if I were to define my community as an American, I would say my community includes people of all races and religions, I have neighbors who speak Spanish who are part of my community, etc. My community is not based on the color of my skin or the language that I speak. And the Crystal Cathedral has lots of Asians, and I love the Asians, and I have had dear friends from the Philippines, and I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General.

California is a crazy place, and people are all coming here from all over the world. When I worked at Universal Studios we had 25,000 guests per day, and the population of Battle Mountain, Nevada, is only 5,000 people, so I met more people in one day than someone in Battle Mountain would meet in a whole life-time. Hollywood is crazy, and people from all over the world come here.

And we have the best schools, people from all over the world are coming here to Chapman film school, that is a wonderful local resource. Of note, some of the student films might cost $50,000 to make, so they might have production value, and some of the people might be highly trained and talented. I met a hot Blonde woman from Sweden who was coming to Chapman film school, I met her on the train and we talked about making movies the whole way, and she promised to hire me if she found success, I need to make Business Cards to hand out to people in situations like that, I should have given her a Business Card with all of my info on it.

In Hollywood it is hard if you try to define ones community, because my community has people from all over the world. My community is not based on the color of my skin, my community has people from all over the world. I might even marry an Asian wife, you never know. We will see what God has planned.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 14, 2024, 03:58:51 PM: breakfast time in bambuworld.
Switched on tv, to be confronted with:
"Shots fired during Super Bowl Celebration".
"10 people injured, 2 people arrested".

The 'wild west' is back.
Fire shots in the air to celebrate, just like in the movies.

'The shots fired outside Union Station, 10 minutes after the rally had ended'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 05:36:36 PM: Good people with guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 14, 2024, 05:39:29 PM: Just another of the myriad moments of trigger pulling pointing the finger to why we must desaturate many many firearms from among our population here in the United States. Better border control, properly funded would go a long way to slowing this problem heading south and further destabilizing the population centers there.

That is what your news meant to tell you this morning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 14, 2024, 07:02:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 05:36:36 PM
Good people with guns.

At least 850
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 14, 2024, 07:13:06 PM: Good people need to have guns....because bad people have guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 14, 2024, 07:15:59 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 13, 2024, 07:11:30 PM
Super Bowl drew123 million viewers, an all time record, 21 million more that the 2020 game also won by the Kansas City Chiefs over the 49ers.

Taylor Swift and her romance with Travis Kelce (KC star) had a lot to do with the increase since the game drew a ton more women viewers than the last one.
In an event known also for its TV commercials there were three that appealed to religion. He Gets Us had two showing people washing the feet of others, ala Jesus, and the third centered on prayer and narrated by Mark Wahlberg. Both ads spiked high on viewer attention and were chosen since the game came just a couple of days before Ash Wednesday.
MVP Patrick Mahomes began his victory response by saying All glory to God !
The religious advertisers must have been pleased.

The He Gets Us ads are just a continuation of the White Christian Nationalists grift.

https://baptistnews.com/article/he-gets-us-is-feeding-massive-amounts-of-data-to-cambridge-analytica-and-conservative-political-groups/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 14, 2024, 07:16:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 14, 2024, 07:13:06 PM
Good people need to have guns....because bad people have guns.

Too many guns
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 08:15:21 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 05:36:36 PM
Good people with guns.
The overwhelming majority.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 08:26:49 PM: Did you take a poll?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 14, 2024, 08:35:01 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 08:15:21 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 05:36:36 PM
Good people with guns.
The overwhelming majority.

In the past few years, the percent of gun deaths from suicide has been 54-60%. Guess the good people get pretty depressed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 09:43:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM
So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 14, 2024, 10:30:53 PM: I was walking through the parking lot at CVS and someone was playing Johnny Cash, that was cool.

Paramount is preparing to be sold, I hope that good new owners buy Paramount and I hope they create good local jobs and I hope that they are altruistic in their neighborhood. I hope they build a film school in their neighborhood and I hope that they hire local workers to work at the studio.

I personally would rather own Universal, but I wish the best for whoever buys Paramount. I hope that locals buy Paramount, I hope locals are hired for the jobs, and I hope that Paramount is altruistic in their neighborhood.

And right now if I owned Universal I would have Marli Buccola, and Mahlagha Jaberi, working, and I would hire Oliver Stone to make projects at Universal in Orlando, Florida. And Beach Blanket Bingo movies in Hollywood, and Fun In Acapulco movies in Acapulco.

A good friend in the entertainment industry told me that I need to find a mentor to help to make my current project, and that would be great, and I am open to having a female mentor as well, we will see what happens. I would love to have a Bungalow office at Universal and I would love to start shooting my movie, I just need to make the right connections and get things going on.

The Oscars are coming up, I would love to produce a party like Norby Walters did with "Night of 100 Stars." But, right now I would be lucky to even get to go to one of the parties, the people are lucky who get to attend the parties. And right now all of the limousine companies are booking up. I think the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles would be a good place for an Oscar Night Party with an outdoor party and outdoor bar there at MacArthur Park, and the best chefs can cook, the best bands can play, etc, and then the stars can sleep in the rooms there at the Park Plaza Hotel.

Sad about the violence at the parade, and I think Missouri needs more Asian immigrants, and more teachers, and better schools, etc. We need fresh new immigrant blood to mix in with the Americans in Missouri, etc, and we need to improve education, etc. And Kiwanis International can help in Missouri, etc. And the Cub Scouts can help, and the Girl Scouts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 01:02:13 AM: There are opportunities in Arkansas for the immigrants to work raising chickens for Tyson, etc.

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

My sister had a friend who was in the Construction Business, he was a Plasterer, and he quit plastering in order to move to Arkansas to work for Tyson, his girlfriend was the daughter of the United States Ambassador to Indonesia.

So, we can send the desperate refugees from our Southern Border to Arkansas to work for Tyson Foods. There are opportunities with Tyson in Arkansas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 15, 2024, 11:11:15 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 09:43:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM
So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site. You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased. So why did you post this? As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there. So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 15, 2024, 11:35:20 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2024, 11:11:15 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 09:43:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM
So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site. You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased. So why did you post this? As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there. So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 15, 2024, 12:39:52 PM: Looks like the AUKUS nuclear subs deal could be in trouble...US having to increase production for its own use.
Fair enough, 'charity begins at home'.
Maybe US could rotate some thru Asia/Pacific, Indian Ocean, South China Sea...and ports in Australia instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 15, 2024, 02:27:10 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 15, 2024, 11:35:20 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2024, 11:11:15 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 09:43:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM
So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site. You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased. So why did you post this? As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there. So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.

Why?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 15, 2024, 02:50:04 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2024, 02:27:10 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 15, 2024, 11:35:20 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 15, 2024, 11:11:15 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 09:43:47 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 13, 2024, 08:33:14 PM
So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site. You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased. So why did you post this? As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there. So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.

Why?
I already posted my reason
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 03:33:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 15, 2024, 12:39:52 PM
Looks like the AUKUS nuclear subs deal could be in trouble...US having to increase production for its own use.
Fair enough, 'charity begins at home'.
Maybe US could rotate some thru Asia/Pacific, Indian Ocean, South China Sea...and ports in Australia instead.

The USA has no better ally than Australia, and our people benefit from building defense equipment for you.

We build the Submarines in Newport News, Virginia, and they love to work, the folks in Virginia love to have jobs, and they love to make Submarines for Australia, the USA is grateful for the jobs and money.

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

And we build the top secret fighter planes and bombers in the Antelope Valley, in California, and we love to build planes, we love to supply Australia with bombers and with fighter planes.

When the USA sends Australia defense equipment then it creates jobs in Virginia, and in California, and we are grateful for the jobs. Keep buying defense equipment from the USA, we are happy to supply you with defense items.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 04:14:17 PM: Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 07:40:37 PM: 54% of the modern Services Economy is Streaming Services for Movies and Television Shows.

Universal needs to buy the Playboy Channel and they need to create content, such as by producing the Slocum Westerns, etc. The Playboy Channel will always be successful. Universal needs to buy Playboy and they need to bring back a new and improved Playboy Channel.

And we can have Beach Blanket Bingo Movies in Malibu, and we can have Fun in Acapulco movies in Acapulco.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 09:25:40 PM: We need to bring in Lockheed to help to finish the California high speed train from San Francisco to San Diego. And Richard Branson is building a train between Las Vegas and California.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM: RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 16, 2024, 12:15:56 PM: IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN

Joe Manchin announces he is not doing what many of us thought he was not doing!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 16, 2024, 12:34:41 PM: Manchin acknowledges that President Biden is the best Chief Executive he has ever experienced in his life.

This view is spreading rapidly among staunch conservatives, the center right, the center, and the center left.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2024, 12:54:09 PM: Biden might be old, but he is doing a great job, no one can deny the fact that the USA is doing good right now. I just worry, and we need to elect a younger leader soon.

On the issue of Mexico...

In New York they are right by Canada, so they love the Canadians; while here in California we are right by Mexico and so we love the Mexicans.

If I was rich then I would be doing charity work in Mexico right now, to help the poor children in Mexico. I went to Mexico as a teen with Youth For Christ and it was great, I went with a group of students from Quartz Hill High School, we had some of the cheerleaders with us, we had a great group of people, and we went and gave money and gifts to some orphans in Mexico and to people living in a garbage dump.

Instead of complaining about how bad it is in Mexico, then we need to team up with the Mexicans and help them. And we have Kiwanis International in Mexico, along with the Christians, and the Catholic Church is huge in Mexico.

And here we are sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, Taiwan, and we are even sending money to the Palestinians; but for some reason with Mexico they just want to build a fence instead of working together with the Mexicans to turn Mexico into paradise. Mexico can be a beautiful country, and they are investing in new high speed trains, and new resorts, and new airports, and they are investing in their ports, and we need for the Mexican Truck Drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union, etc. Mexico can be great.

Mexico can be a tourist destination, and a retirement destination, etc. And Mexican Truck Drivers can deliver goods from the ports in Mexico to the USA, and we can have trains carrying goods, etc.

New Yorkers love Canada, while in California we love Mexico. Things will get better in Mexico if we work together as a team to help Mexico. We do not need any fences.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2024, 01:11:50 PM: On the issue of Putin, Vice President Harris is saying that we must stand up against Putin...

That is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA, is so that we can deal with problems when they are small, and so that we can stop evil leaders. The United Nations needs to vote to remove Putin, with China on our team, we need to go into Russia and remove Putin, and then we need to put our allies in Russia in charge of Russia. We have allies in the Space Program in Russia, and we have allies in the Arts in Russia, we need to find allies who we can support in Russia after we remove Putin.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 16, 2024, 03:26:39 PM: Wooosh!

https://wtop.com/national/2024/02/judge-rules-against-donald-trump-imposes-364-million-penalty-in-former-presidents-new-york-civil-fraud-case/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM: The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them, they just did not care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.

But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 16, 2024, 08:12:10 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on February 16, 2024, 06:30:54 PM
Tucker Carlson: Trump knows, just as Putin knows, that in politics sometimes
you have to have someone killed.

A week ago Tucker goes to Moscow to talk with Putin.

Today Navalny is found dead in a Russian prison.

Coincidence? Only to those who believe in the Easter Bunny.

I was amused to hear a former congressman post that Navalny and Trump are somehow equivalent, that Biden is like Putin, persecuting his heroic political opponent and aiming to have him die in prison.

These two cases seem different to me...ungh, can't quite put my finger on it.

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-compares-trump-navalny-democrats-want-him-die-prison-1870722

Of course, if Biden were following Trump's playbook wouldn't he just get Seal Team Six to eliminate Trump? None of this prison nonsense! Who needs a criminal justice system when you have presidential immunity?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2024, 08:24:55 PM: I see how hard these Mexicans work, and it is important for us to make them legal so that they are paid fair and so that they are treated well, and so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and also so that they can join labor unions, etc. We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did in order to bring them out of the shadows.

I see the Elote Woman with her homemade plywood cart selling Mexican Street Corn, she comes every afternoon. There are people who want to punish her for selling Corn, I personally enjoy the corn, and I respect how hard this woman works everyday selling corn and making honest money. She should be allowed to legally sell corn.

I feel more sympathy for a hardworking Mexican, than I have for some rich white asshole who lives on a golf course. We need to make our people legal so they can be citizens instead of living in the shadows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 16, 2024, 08:50:40 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM
The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them, they just did not care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.

But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.

Stop 5he flow of weapons into 5he hood.
When you finish pulling your pud make sure to wipe down 5he keyboard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 16, 2024, 09:01:20 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 16, 2024, 08:50:40 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM
The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them, they just did not care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.

But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.

Stop 5he flow of weapons into 5he hood.
When you finish pulling your pud make sure to wipe down 5he keyboard.
Such as ?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2024, 09:02:39 PM: We have been getting a lot of rain here in California, and we can turn all of that rain into food, our whole state is a garden, and we need to make our immigrants legal so that they can join the United Farm Workers and so that they can legally work here. People do horrible things to the illegal immigrants, the women get raped and they are afraid to tell the police because they think they will be deported, etc, and people pay them less than the minimum wage, etc. As we turn this rain into food then we need to treat the farm workers well and we need to make them legal so that they can call the cops in the case of an emergency, etc.

And in the ghetto is where you need a gun, if you live in Saint Louis then you need a gun. Until the crime goes down then I would want a gun if I lived in a bad neighborhood. Meanwhile we can work on education, etc. In Kentucky 25% of the adults do not know how to read, we need to bring in teachers to teach people how to read.

And assholes like Trump need to leave the golf course and go look at Oakland, California, and look at San Bernardino, our cities are ghettos. We have streets full of drug addicts and criminals. And you cannot blame the Mexicans. We have white trash meth dealers and heroin dealers, etc.

We need to build schools instead of prisons. And we need to make our people legal so that they are protected by our laws, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2024, 01:53:23 PM: Well, AZ has become a pivotal swing state...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 17, 2024, 02:04:31 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM
The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!

Because a tighter restriction on guns overall reduces the probability of such events, even if they can't guarantee a particular event won't happen. It's a fairly non complicated statistical phenomenon, sometimes known as an overall effect. Tighter controls reduce the odds, even if only a little, of a disturbed teenager getting their hands on a gun. And some laws proposed hold parents and other custodial caregivers more responsible for their child gaining access to a gun, which further promotes a society taking responsibility on who should be allowed to have a killing device. None of these proposed controls harm hunters or others legitimately and responsibly using a gun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 03:07:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 04:14:17 PM
Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully.
And in return be welcomed to use deep water ports, have access to giant telescopes, the clear skies of the outback from where to guide drones (as now from the 'secretive US faciity' at Pine Gap), uranium etc etc etc.
Favourable trade.
etc.
US can't have too many friends in the world today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 17, 2024, 03:43:01 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 03:07:37 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 15, 2024, 04:14:17 PM
Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully.
And in return be welcomed to use deep water ports, have access to giant telescopes, the clear skies of the outback from where to guide drones (as now from the 'secretive US faciity' at Pine Gap), uranium etc etc etc.
Favourable trade.
etc.
US can't have too many friends in the world today.

One can never have too many friends, it is always good to have friends and allies.

And in turn Australia helped East Timor when East Timor needed help. The poor people of East Timor were being ethnically cleansed and Australia stepped in and saved the Roman Catholics in East Timor. It is so important for the good people to be strong and smart, and it is so important for the good people to work together.

California and Australia are close, your actors and actresses come here to make movies at our studios, and we both have the surfing culture, etc, California and Australia have a lot in common.

It is good to have Australia and California on the same team.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:13:11 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 16, 2024, 01:11:50 PM
On the issue of Putin, Vice President Harris is saying that we must stand up against Putin...

That is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA, is so that we can deal with problems when they are small, and so that we can stop evil leaders. The United Nations needs to vote to remove Putin, with China on our team, we need to go into Russia and remove Putin, and then we need to put our allies in Russia in charge of Russia. We have allies in the Space Program in Russia, and we have allies in the Arts in Russia, we need to find allies who we can support in Russia after we remove Putin.

Salute,

Tony V.

Russia and China seem to be running the UN these days.
With China and Russia being best buddies now, it seems the chance of China doing anything about Putin is very remote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM
RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:01:29 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM
RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:02:51 AM: Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail,

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-booed-drops-399-official-025257497.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 18, 2024, 01:38:37 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:01:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM
RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 18, 2024, 01:48:32 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:02:51 AM
Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail,

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-booed-drops-399-official-025257497.html

Once again Trump is selling his sole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:01:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM
RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:14:18 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 01:48:32 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:02:51 AM
Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail,

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-booed-drops-399-official-025257497.html

Once again Trump is selling his sole.

The gold shoes sold out, obviously very popular.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2024, 03:26:33 PM: He had four pair and had to buy two of them himself to hit the number. The wanker boots are made from unliqidateable trump steaks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2024, 03:44:34 PM: There was some speculation that trump would be running with the my pillow guy. Instead, as it turns out, trump is running as the my pillow guy. There is simply no accounting for taste when it comes to deranged minds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 05:18:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 01:48:32 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:02:51 AM
Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail,

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-booed-drops-399-official-025257497.html

Once again Trump is selling his sole.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 05:26:33 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on February 18, 2024, 07:01:29 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM
RIP Navalny. A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry 1775
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 09:11:52 PM: Today on Youtube, On America's Got Talent, I watched a chicken play 'America The Beautiful' on a keyboard, note perfect.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No. Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way. I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 18, 2024, 11:43:19 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 09:11:52 PM
Today on Youtube, On America's Got Talent, I watched a chicken play 'America The Beautiful' on a keyboard, note perfect.

That sounds like the most productive and least harmful day you have made for your self in many years.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 01:01:09 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No. Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way. I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.

Yes, dissidents in Russia obviously are wasting their time and their lives.

But hey, if it's what people want to do, it's their time and their lives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 01:51:06 AM: China now has the world's largest navy, and every 12 months adds "the whole British navy" capability to China's navy.

Review of Australia's navy has been completed.
The review has declared that said navy is 'inadequate'.
As a result, the planned building of 9 new frigates has been cancelled or severely cut back...as a "lighter and more deadly navy is now needed."

The AUKUS nuclear submarines will not now be starting to arrive in Australia until 2040.
I'll be 94 by then!
I need something now, so the rest of my life can be lived in safety.
My only hope is ANZUS alliance...the US ranked no1 in the most powerful military chart shown on my tv news tonite.

1. US
2. China
3. Russia
20. Australia...lower than a whole lot of countries, including Algeria and Bangladesh.
I'll be cheering for whichever US Presidential candidate is the most committed to ANZUS.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 19, 2024, 02:25:27 AM: It is probably time to start talking about a partition of Australia among more responsible nations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 09:44:45 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 19, 2024, 02:25:27 AM
It is probably time to start talking about a partition of Australia among more responsible nations.

What Australia should be doing is making nuclear bombs itself.
Has the uranium etc, has the scientists.
Going around signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties was absolute folly.
Can't change the past...but certainly can change the the planned future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 19, 2024, 10:02:38 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 01:01:09 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No. Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way. I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.

Yes, dissidents in Russia obviously are wasting their time and their lives.

But hey, if it's what people want to do, it's their time and their lives.

whooooshhhh
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2024, 10:11:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 01:01:09 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No. Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way. I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.

Yes, dissidents in Russia obviously are wasting their time and their lives.

But hey, if it's what people want to do, it's their time and their lives.
. You are amazing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 12:12:07 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 19, 2024, 10:11:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 01:01:09 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No. Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way. I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.

Yes, dissidents in Russia obviously are wasting their time and their lives.

But hey, if it's what people want to do, it's their time and their lives.
. You are amazing.

Chinese Australian 'democracy blogger' / 'writer' / 'academic' Yang Hengjun thought he'd take them on, he was sentenced to death by a Chinese court recently..."spying" charge.
Execution suspended for 2 years, conditional on good behaviour, might get life in prison instead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 12:17:32 PM: "When you're alone, you can make any choice you want...but when someone loves you, you lose that right" - Alice Paul (Iron Jawed Angels movie...19th Amendment)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2024, 02:58:07 PM: I could put the people at Universal Studios to work on several projects, I have lots of ideas.

I have my script for "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" that I want to make. This project has been ready to make for over 20 years, and it would be nice to get the movie made.

Also, Beach Blanket Bingo movies could be made here in Malibu, and Fun in Acapulco movies could be made in Acapulco, etc.

They could do some Shakespeare, they could have Kenneth Branagh direct "King Lear" starring Robert DeNiro.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" can be made as a mini-series at Cinecitta in Rome, Italy.

Universal can buy the Playboy Channel and Playboy Magazine, now that Hef is gone, and Universal can save Playboy. Universal can hire young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard to write for Playboy Magazine, and they can bring in Barbi Benton to help and then for the Playboy Channel they can film the shows right on the Studio Lot at Universal Studios. One show that the Playboy Channel can have can be the Slocum Westerns, Hef loved the Slocum Westerns.

And I have ideas for a few television shows such as "Nocturnal" about a team of Color Blind people who rescue hostages at night under the cover of darkness. And a Western named "Progress" which is like a mix between Perry Mason and Clint Eastwood, it is about a Lawyer in the Wild West who is also a gunfighter. And I have some other ideas.

For Spielberg, he could make a movie about the Trail of Tears when the Cherokee were moved off their land to the reservation on the Trail of Tears.

For Ron Howard, he could make a movie about Lech Walesa, who was an unemployed electrician who helped Poland to get their freedom and he became the President of Poland.

And a great thing about ideas and imagination is that we can come up with new ideas all of the time. We could keep Universal busy.

I would love to have a Bungalow Office at Universal, and I have a lot of ideas.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 19, 2024, 08:04:29 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2024, 02:58:07 PM
I could put the people at Universal Studios to work on several projects, I have lots of ideas.

I have my script for "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" that I want to make....

While I would agree some of the criticism you got recently was too harsh, it does seem like this kind of post is more relevant to the Arts forums than this one. This does seem more like a personal blog than you genuinely engaging with others in a discussion format. JMO
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2024, 10:10:34 PM: In the news they are talking about how young women dominate the world of influencers on Tik Toc and on Facebook, etc.

https://www.fohr.co/blog/7-stats-that-show-women-dominate-influencer-marketing

Entertainment which includes beautiful young women will succeed in the modern services economy where 54% of the income is from streaming services such as movies and television shows. And the Playboy Channel would be successful in the modern economy along with saving Playboy Magazine with talented young geniuses from National Lampoon from Harvard, and Barbi Benton could help to save Playboy.

And the Beach Blanket Bingo movies, and Fun in Acapulco movies, with fun and young beautiful women will succeed in today's economy.

Aaron Spelling always knew that hot women help to sell television shows, and the same is true in today's economy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 19, 2024, 10:24:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 19, 2024, 09:44:45 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 19, 2024, 02:25:27 AM
It is probably time to start talking about a partition of Australia among more responsible nations.

What Australia should be doing is making nuclear bombs itself.
Has the uranium etc, has the scientists.
Going around signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties was absolute folly.
Can't change the past...but certainly can change the the planned future.

We need peace. That is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA, is so that we can deal with problems early and we can keep the problems small so that we do not need nuclear bombs.

We need to make peace with China, and we have Muzi. We have Chinese Towers in Los Angeles that we need for Muzi to take charge of, and the towers can be completed with Mayor Bass working together as a team with Muzi, and workers from Habitat for Humanity and from Homeboy Industries and from Kiwanis International and from other groups can help to complete building the towers. Then the towers can be housing for Homeless Veterans, and for Homeless Senior Citizens, etc. We need to work together as a team with Muzi to complete the Towers and to help our Homeless People.

China can also be on our team on the issue of Putin. We need to find allies in Russia who we can support, such as our friends in the Russian Space Program, and in the Arts in Russia, and we need to remove Putin, with China on our team, and we need to put our allies in charge of Russia. We need to plan what success looks like, and then we need to remove Putin and put in our allies in charge of Russia.

We need peace.

And right now all of the Chinese young men are bedazzled by the beautiful young American women on Tik Toc who are all sending them videos.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 12:23:51 AM: I watched a video on Facebook about how the poor people live in Hong Kong, it is horrible. For the poor people from Hong Kong then the USA is PARADISE. Battle Mountain, Nevada, would be paradise for these poor people. And of course the Chinese have China Town in San Francisco, and in New York, and in Los Angeles, and in Las Vegas, etc.

We can also welcome the educated Asians to come to the USA to teach our poor people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc, 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read, the poor educated people from Hong Kong could come to the USA to help to teach our poor. And we need to build schools and libraries in our poor areas.

The coal mining jobs are not coming back, we need to educate the poor people in Kentucky, and we need to build schools and libraries in Kentucky, etc, and the Asian teachers can help.

And we have the rich people from Manila and from Catanduanes here helping in the USA, and from the other regions of the Philippines.

Instead of living in poverty in Hong Kong, the educated Asians could live good lives as teachers in Kentucky, etc. And even raising Pork in Battle Mountain, Nevada, or raising chickens for Tyson Foods in Arkansas, they would live better lives than being poor in Hong Kong.

America is for everyone, the Mexicans and Latin Americans are welcome here, and so are the Asians.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 20, 2024, 10:52:04 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 17, 2024, 02:04:31 PM

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
None of these proposed controls harm hunters or others legitimately and responsibly using a gun.
Except of course it does.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 11:21:10 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 12:23:51 AM
I watched a video on Facebook about how the poor people live in Hong Kong, it is horrible. For the poor people from Hong Kong then the USA is PARADISE. Battle Mountain, Nevada, would be paradise for these poor people. And of course the Chinese have China Town in San Francisco, and in New York, and in Los Angeles, and in Las Vegas, etc.

We can also welcome the educated Asians to come to the USA to teach our poor people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc, 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read, the poor educated people from Hong Kong could come to the USA to help to teach our poor. And we need to build schools and libraries in our poor areas.

The coal mining jobs are not coming back, we need to educate the poor people in Kentucky, and we need to build schools and libraries in Kentucky, etc, and the Asian teachers can help.

And we have the rich people from Manila and from Catanduanes here helping in the USA, and from the other regions of the Philippines.

Instead of living in poverty in Hong Kong, the educated Asians could live good lives as teachers in Kentucky, etc. And even raising Pork in Battle Mountain, Nevada, or raising chickens for Tyson Foods in Arkansas, they would live better lives than being poor in Hong Kong.

America is for everyone, the Mexicans and Latin Americans are welcome here, and so are the Asians.

Salute,

Tony V.

I recommend forming "US Goverment Manufacturng Corporation", USGMC...and start up manufacturing in Kentucky goods that are currently being made in China etc.

US built 300,000 planes in WW2.
...as well as, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks, and two million army trucks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 02:42:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 11:21:10 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 12:23:51 AM
I watched a video on Facebook about how the poor people live in Hong Kong, it is horrible. For the poor people from Hong Kong then the USA is PARADISE. Battle Mountain, Nevada, would be paradise for these poor people. And of course the Chinese have China Town in San Francisco, and in New York, and in Los Angeles, and in Las Vegas, etc.

We can also welcome the educated Asians to come to the USA to teach our poor people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc, 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read, the poor educated people from Hong Kong could come to the USA to help to teach our poor. And we need to build schools and libraries in our poor areas.

The coal mining jobs are not coming back, we need to educate the poor people in Kentucky, and we need to build schools and libraries in Kentucky, etc, and the Asian teachers can help.

And we have the rich people from Manila and from Catanduanes here helping in the USA, and from the other regions of the Philippines.

Instead of living in poverty in Hong Kong, the educated Asians could live good lives as teachers in Kentucky, etc. And even raising Pork in Battle Mountain, Nevada, or raising chickens for Tyson Foods in Arkansas, they would live better lives than being poor in Hong Kong.

America is for everyone, the Mexicans and Latin Americans are welcome here, and so are the Asians.

Salute,

Tony V.

I recommend forming "US Goverment Manufacturng Corporation", USGMC...and start up manufacturing in Kentucky goods that are currently being made in China etc.

US built 300,000 planes in WW2.
...as well as, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks, and two million army trucks.

Right now Kentucky needs TEACHERS to teach the adults how to read and write, etc. And we need to build libraries and schools. And we need to be like Greece.

I would love for Kentucky to be like a Hallmark Movie made in Canada, where a beautiful young Asian woman comes to Kentucky, she plans to get wealthy working for a rich company in Kentucky, but she falls in love with a Gentleman who owns a small Toy Store in town, and she falls in love with the community in the small town, and instead of getting the job working for the rich company in the city she chooses to become a school teacher in Kentucky and she marries the Gentleman who owns the Toy Store and she stays humble and she finds love.

We need for Kentucky to be like a Hallmark movie. And the same with Battle Mountain, Nevada, it needs to be like a Hallmark movie.

And Arkansas has Tyson Foods, etc.

Tennessee has Vanderbilt University, and we have some good schools, we need to educate our people, and we need to teach the adults in Kentucky how to read, etc, and we need to build more schools and libraries, etc.

And I love Dolly Parton, she is a hero in Tennessee.

On the issue of Defense Equipment, we build the Submarines in Newport News, Virginia, and we build the fighter planes and bombers in the Antelope Valley in California.

Anyhow, I want for our small towns to be like a Hallmark movie, with good schools and a loving community for people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 03:56:10 PM: It is all about a stiff enough wealth tax, Tony, and top margin income tax rates north of 70 percent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 06:03:25 PM: President George H. W. Bush wanted to have a kinder and more gentle America, and I agree with that, we need for America to be more like a Hallmark movie. We need to have educated and kind people who have empathy and compassion.

I was on Hollywood Blvd by where they film the Oscars, and by the Chinese Theatre, and I saw a homeless man crossing the street wearing bloody socks, his feet were bloody from walking without shoes, and a guy in a new Rolls Royce honked his horn and yelled for the man with bloody feet to get out of his way. I put it in a poem, and my poem is Rhetoric which intends to make the world a kinder more gentle place where we care about the homeless people.

In New York there was the movie "Midnight Cowboy" in which Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for playing Ratso Rizzo, who was a homeless man who dies at the end of the movie, and the movie hopes to cause people to have sympathy and empathy and compassion for guys like Ratso Rizzo.

America needs Teachers, we need libraries and schools, and we need to have a kinder and more gentle America.

Even if people are not Christians and if they do not believe in Matthew 25; 31-46, then I hope people will be kinder and more gentle to each other as Americans. We need to crown the good with Brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

And we need to have cheap hostels where someone can take a nice hot shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night, there is no need for people to be brutally greedy and to force people to be homeless and wanting to charge $100 per night for a cheap motel room, we need to have cheap beds for people. And we need to have cheap Sober Living Homes for $450 per month. We need to have cheap places where the poor people can have some of the comforts of modern civilization. The USA is rich now, we are giving Billions of dollars to Ukraine and to others, and we need to take care of our own people here in the USA. We cannot allow guys like Ratso Rizzo to die poor.

In California we have Proposition 1 which is going to put the homeless Mentally Ill people and the homeless Veterans into housing, and which will provide Mental Health Professionals for people, so we are heading in the right direction. And Mayor Bass has been helping the homeless. We are becoming kinder and gentler.

We do not need to be the soldiers for the world, instead we need to be doctors, and teachers, and peacemakers, and we can prevent the wars.

In 100 years we went from the Wright Brothers first flight to putting Men on the Moon, and we are making tremendous leaps and bounds now with the new technology, and in the next 100 years it will be amazing what people will accomplish. We need to educate the people of our planet in the ways of peace and civilization and love. For me, I have Jesus, and Jesus is all about love, and I would love to live in a loving Christian world where we are all Brothers, but for the people who are not Christian then we still need to be Brothers as Americans. We need to be Brothers with the Jews, and with the Hindus, etc.

And we need to build schools instead of prisons, and we need to educate our children in the ways of healthy human civilization and peace and love. For the Christians we have the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule, and we need to educate the non-Christians in the ways of loving others and in the ways of treating others like you want to be treated.

Crime is getting worse and worse, and our streets are full of homeless drug addicts and criminals, but we are making progress with things such as Prop 1 which will help our homeless. We need to help the homeless, and we need to educate and train our people in the ways of healthy civilization and love.

And Colombia has made a lot of progress since the 1980s, the world is getting better. We are making progress, we just need to keep working in the right direction.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 06:42:06 PM: Mayor Bass is doing some fine things to promote affordable housing which are being taken up as best practices by cities all over the country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 07:15:38 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 02:42:36 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 11:21:10 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 12:23:51 AM
I watched a video on Facebook about how the poor people live in Hong Kong, it is horrible. For the poor people from Hong Kong then the USA is PARADISE. Battle Mountain, Nevada, would be paradise for these poor people. And of course the Chinese have China Town in San Francisco, and in New York, and in Los Angeles, and in Las Vegas, etc.

We can also welcome the educated Asians to come to the USA to teach our poor people in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc, 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read, the poor educated people from Hong Kong could come to the USA to help to teach our poor. And we need to build schools and libraries in our poor areas.

The coal mining jobs are not coming back, we need to educate the poor people in Kentucky, and we need to build schools and libraries in Kentucky, etc, and the Asian teachers can help.

And we have the rich people from Manila and from Catanduanes here helping in the USA, and from the other regions of the Philippines.

Instead of living in poverty in Hong Kong, the educated Asians could live good lives as teachers in Kentucky, etc. And even raising Pork in Battle Mountain, Nevada, or raising chickens for Tyson Foods in Arkansas, they would live better lives than being poor in Hong Kong.

America is for everyone, the Mexicans and Latin Americans are welcome here, and so are the Asians.

Salute,

Tony V.

I recommend forming "US Goverment Manufacturng Corporation", USGMC...and start up manufacturing in Kentucky goods that are currently being made in China etc.

US built 300,000 planes in WW2.
...as well as, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks, and two million army trucks.

Right now Kentucky needs TEACHERS to teach the adults how to read and write, etc. And we need to build libraries and schools. And we need to be like Greece.

I would love for Kentucky to be like a Hallmark Movie made in Canada, where a beautiful young Asian woman comes to Kentucky, she plans to get wealthy working for a rich company in Kentucky, but she falls in love with a Gentleman who owns a small Toy Store in town, and she falls in love with the community in the small town, and instead of getting the job working for the rich company in the city she chooses to become a school teacher in Kentucky and she marries the Gentleman who owns the Toy Store and she stays humble and she finds love.

We need for Kentucky to be like a Hallmark movie. And the same with Battle Mountain, Nevada, it needs to be like a Hallmark movie.

And Arkansas has Tyson Foods, etc.

Tennessee has Vanderbilt University, and we have some good schools, we need to educate our people, and we need to teach the adults in Kentucky how to read, etc, and we need to build more schools and libraries, etc.

And I love Dolly Parton, she is a hero in Tennessee.

On the issue of Defense Equipment, we build the Submarines in Newport News, Virginia, and we build the fighter planes and bombers in the Antelope Valley in California.

Anyhow, I want for our small towns to be like a Hallmark movie, with good schools and a loving community for people.

Salute,

Tony V.

Unless things have changed in America recently...who'd want to become a teacher, given the qualifications needed, and the low salaries?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 07:28:11 PM: Someone with more character and more heart than you, Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 08:32:33 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 07:28:11 PM
Someone with more character and more heart than you, Bambu.

Teachers in America don't seem to be valued very highly.
$30,000 pa salary for a university educated teacher entrusted with the academic lives of children, is an insult quite frankly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 20, 2024, 08:37:55 PM: Average public school teacher salary in USA is 66K. For a 9 month contract. Please stop shitposting.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 08:55:04 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 06:42:06 PM
Mayor Bass is doing some fine things to promote affordable housing which are being taken up as best practices by cities all over the country.

Mayor Bass is doing a great job, and I believe that she honestly cares about our people. The thing is, she has to deal with the results of 30 years of neglect. As our General Motors Plant was closed down in Van Nuys then those people should have been helped and jobs should have been created to replace the jobs that were lost. And the same as we lost the Space Shuttle Program in the Antelope Valley, those people needed to be trained and put to work on other projects. So, what happened is that over the last 30 years more and more jobs were lost without being replaced, while new people continued to come here from all over the world for the American Dream and for the Californian Dream and we ended up with 70,000 homeless people on the street. So, Mayor Bass has to deal with the results of 30 years of neglect. I like Mayor Bass, and pray that God continues to guide her in good ways.

And yes Bambu, the teachers need higher pay. But, many teachers write books to bring in extra money, etc. I had a friend who was a teacher who owned a cookie store and she made and sold cookies to supplement her income. In California many teachers are actors and models, and they make extra money by starring in television commercials, etc. But, all in all, teachers are special people who have big hearts. A lot of times the wife works as a teacher while the man has a higher paying job such as working as a lawyer, etc. Or, they can own a Toy Store, etc, while they teach, etc.

I see lots of good people who are doing good deeds, such as Mayor Bass, and I have hope that our planet will continue to get better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 20, 2024, 09:51:29 PM: The CEO of IKEA is now the Prime Minister of Sweden.

He is currently assembling his cabinet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 09:53:45 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2024, 08:37:55 PM
Average public school teacher salary in USA is 66K. For a 9 month contract. Please stop shitposting.

That's good to hear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 10:03:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2024, 09:51:29 PM
The CEO of IKEA is now the Prime Minister of Sweden.

He is currently assembling his cabinet.

😀

Meanwhile, in bambuworld, the CEO of supermarket giant Woolworths has announced his resignation...much drama over the company's woke agendas, getting involved in the Voice referendum, and going max woke about Australia Day 26th Jan.
Add to that the allegations that the company and the other large supermarket chain are price gouging customers etc...govt inquiry announced.

Customers have revolted. The People are fed up, so to speak.
CEO of IKEA - ilk is what is needed as a replacement.

'Go woke, go broke'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 20, 2024, 10:51:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 20, 2024, 10:03:42 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 20, 2024, 09:51:29 PM
The CEO of IKEA is now the Prime Minister of Sweden.

He is currently assembling his cabinet.

Meanwhile, in bambuworld, the CEO of supermarket giant Woolworths has announced his resignation...much drama over the company's woke agendas, getting involved in the Voice referendum, and going max woke about Australia Day 26th Jan.
Add to that the allegations that the company and the other large supermarket chain are price gouging customers etc...govt inquiry announced.

Customers have revolted. The People are fed up, so to speak.
CEO of IKEA - ilk is what is needed as a replacement.

'Go woke, go broke'.

We can put your deep water ports to use by sending you goods from Mexico and from California, and coffee from Colombia, etc.

Australia needs a chain of Northgate Markets, I shop at Northgate as it is within walking distance and they have fresh-baked bread and great food.

https://www.northgatemarket.com/

We can send you goods, and you can ship stuff back, we can do global trade. You can send us wool, and mutton, and kiwi fruit, and whatever else you want to sell that will be in demand here. And you can do trade with Mexico, and with Latin America, we can use your deep water ports for world trade.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 01:24:33 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 07:28:11 PM
Someone with more character and more heart than you, Bambu.

I would not be a teacher today, no matter how much character and heart I had (even if I could pass the exams).
It's a thankless job, and have you seen what's being taught?
Fighting with and being abused by, the parents.
No thank you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 21, 2024, 02:24:58 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 01:24:33 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 20, 2024, 07:28:11 PM
Someone with more character and more heart than you, Bambu.

I would not be a teacher today, no matter how much character and heart I had (even if I could pass the exams).
It's a thankless job, and have you seen what's being taught?
Fighting with and being abused by, the parents.
No thank you.

I have been reading your posts for a while now. You have nothing of value to teach anyone. I take that back. You may be the perfect example of how to fail at life and that may make you in pedagogical terms a useful cautionary tale.

Do not try and teach. Maybe for one day in your life learn something. I think that is still beyond you but you are less likely to cause any immediate harm in the attempt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on February 21, 2024, 10:35:31 AM: https://www.vox.com/politics/24074408/climate-change-blow-up-pipeline

Level-headed analysis of why ecoterrorism would be counterproductive to decarbonization.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 12:01:21 PM: The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI), carefully compiled from eyewitness testimonies and the available forensic evidence of the October 7th Hamas atrocities. The
accusations of rape, sexual assault, and other acts of sexual violence were initially difficult to compile because Israeli authorities were focused on stopping the Hamas attack.

The Hamas attacks included violent acts of rape, accompanied by threats with weapons, and in some cases targeted towards injured women. Many of the rapes were carried out as a group, with the participation of violent terrorists. Often, the rape was perpetrated in front of an audience partners, family, or friends in a manner intended to increase the pain and humiliation of all present. Hamas terrorists hunted young women and men who fled the Nova festival, and according to testimonies, dragged them by their hair amid screams. The actions targeted women, girls, and men. In most cases, the victims were killed after or even during the rape.

A series of testimonies, interviews, and additional sources attest that Hamas terrorists employed sadistic practices aimed at intensifying the degree of humiliation and terror inherent in sexual violence. Many of the bodies of sexual crime victims were found bound and shackled. The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated, and sometimes weapons were inserted into them. The terrorists did not stop at shooting; they also cut and mutilated sexual organs and other body parts with knives.

The report will be sent to the United Nations.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 21, 2024, 03:04:46 PM: A long time ago when the world wide web was new, Harvard had a website where their students could all discuss the Classics, etc, and so I went on the Harvard website and I started teaching the Harvard students about Shakespeare, and about Machiavelli, and about Aristophanes, and Aristotle, and about Sophocles, etc. I just did it for fun, I was bored and alone, and I was surrounded by uneducated people, I did not have anyone around me to discuss Shakespeare with, etc, so I discussed Shakespeare with the Harvard Students, etc, much as we do here on Elba.

So then a funny thing happened, when I tried to start my movie production company I received job applications from Harvard Students, the Harvard Students wanted to work for my production company. It was the most fascinating feeling for me to have Harvard Students who would accept me as their Boss. The Best and the Brightest wanted to work for my company. If I ever get my company going I plan to hire some of the Harvard graduates.

One job for the Harvard Students right now would be to save Playboy Magazine, and to bring back the Playboy Channel, Universal can buy Playboy and they can hire some Harvard Students from National Lampoon, and they can hire Barbi Benton to help, and they can save Playboy. The new shows for the Playboy Channel can be filmed right on the Studio Lot at Universal Studios, and one show that they can have is the Slocum Westerns, which is a series of Western novels with Love Scenes, Hef loved the Slocum Westerns.

Anyhow, I teach for free everyday on the world wide web. A fantasy of mine would be to live like Aristotle in Greece and have a great library and good wine and good food, and lots of beautiful young female muses, and just study, and teach, and learn, and wonder, and write, etc. Rome is nice too, but it is not secluded like a Greek Island. Maybe the Island of Elba would be nice.

I would gladly teach, and I hope to teach people with my poetry, and with my movies, and with my television shows, etc. We will see what happens.

And I have a lot of respect for the teachers, I love teachers and they are some of my favorite people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 21, 2024, 07:04:31 PM: President Biden is here in California right now, he came to visit an Israeli Billionaire, and this morning he went to a restaurant for a breakfast burrito, and then he went to the Library in Culver City where he announced that he is working hard to make an education free for all Americans. We are giving tons of money to Ukraine and to everyone else, we can afford to help our own people, and by educating our people then all of society benefits. I support giving a free education to all Americans, and free Job Training for the people who want to do other jobs such as Truck Driving with the Teamsters Union, etc. We also need to support the Arts here in Hollywood. It is great that President Biden is here in California, and I support giving an education to all Americans who want one. Plus, right now we have a huge shortage of Doctors and Psychiatrists, we need to train our local people to become Doctors and Scientists, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 07:29:07 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 12:01:21 PM
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI), carefully compiled from eyewitness testimonies and the available forensic evidence of the October 7th Hamas atrocities. The
accusations of rape, sexual assault, and other acts of sexual violence were initially difficult to compile because Israeli authorities were focused on stopping the Hamas attack.

The Hamas attacks included violent acts of rape, accompanied by threats with weapons, and in some cases targeted towards injured women. Many of the rapes were carried out as a group, with the participation of violent terrorists. Often, the rape was perpetrated in front of an audience partners, family, or friends in a manner intended to increase the pain and humiliation of all present. Hamas terrorists hunted young women and men who fled the Nova festival, and according to testimonies, dragged them by their hair amid screams. The actions targeted women, girls, and men. In most cases, the victims were killed after or even during the rape.

A series of testimonies, interviews, and additional sources attest that Hamas terrorists employed sadistic practices aimed at intensifying the degree of humiliation and terror inherent in sexual violence. Many of the bodies of sexual crime victims were found bound and shackled. The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated, and sometimes weapons were inserted into them. The terrorists did not stop at shooting; they also cut and mutilated sexual organs and other body parts with knives.

The report will be sent to the United Nations.

Good.
Every politician and staff of every country member of the United Nations should be made look at the photos and read the report at the same time, then be made comment.

It should all be put on every 6 o'clock news in the West, every night for a month.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 21, 2024, 08:22:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 07:29:07 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 12:01:21 PM
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI), carefully compiled from eyewitness testimonies and the available forensic evidence of the October 7th Hamas atrocities. The
accusations of rape, sexual assault, and other acts of sexual violence were initially difficult to compile because Israeli authorities were focused on stopping the Hamas attack.

The Hamas attacks included violent acts of rape, accompanied by threats with weapons, and in some cases targeted towards injured women. Many of the rapes were carried out as a group, with the participation of violent terrorists. Often, the rape was perpetrated in front of an audience partners, family, or friends in a manner intended to increase the pain and humiliation of all present. Hamas terrorists hunted young women and men who fled the Nova festival, and according to testimonies, dragged them by their hair amid screams. The actions targeted women, girls, and men. In most cases, the victims were killed after or even during the rape.

A series of testimonies, interviews, and additional sources attest that Hamas terrorists employed sadistic practices aimed at intensifying the degree of humiliation and terror inherent in sexual violence. Many of the bodies of sexual crime victims were found bound and shackled. The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated, and sometimes weapons were inserted into them. The terrorists did not stop at shooting; they also cut and mutilated sexual organs and other body parts with knives.

The report will be sent to the United Nations.

Good.
Every politician and staff of every country member of the United Nations should be made look at the photos and read the report at the same time, then be made comment.

It should all be put on every 6 o'clock news in the West, every night for a month.

My Cousin had a friend who was in the Israeli Army and he had pictures of his dead friends and family members on his wall to remind him every day that he was in a Battle for his very existence. They also watch footage of the Holocaust. The Jews know the way that life is for them.

And the United States is in the unique position of being the only super power, while at the same time we have all of the world's people here as equals, the Crystal Cathedral has Sunday Services in 5 Languages. The Daughter of the President of China, Muzi, came here to attend Harvard. Everyone is equal in the USA, and we can stop Holocausts, and we can be Peacemakers, etc. Plus we have the United Nations, and the CIA. We can have peace.

But meanwhile, the threat to the lives of the Jewish people is very real, and they need to be strong, and I would recommend that all Jews own guns no matter where they live. And Spielberg has armed Body Guards. The Stars all have Body Guards. Empire West has 24 hour security, and so does Latigo Beach. The Stars are all protected.

I live in a gated community with cameras all over. Whenever riots happen then they sometimes riot here, at City Hall, and at La Palma Park, and at Pearson Park, etc. So far the gates have kept the rioters out. But, the cops need to do a better job at crowd control during riots, and the cops need to save the grocery stores and they need to save the residential areas, etc, the cops need to do crowd control like we did at Universal Studios, we had 25,000 guests per day and we always kept it all under control. The Cities need to do crowd control better during the riots, just like the Theme Parks do crowd control.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 21, 2024, 08:24:31 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 07:29:07 PM

Good.
Every politician and staff of every country member of the United Nations should be made look at the photos and read the report at the same time, then be made comment.

It should all be put on every 6 o'clock news in the West, every night for a month.

Yeah thank goodness it has finally been established that Hamas is rotten and nasty, and sent their worst sociopaths into Israel. Even though every single member here has acknowledged this truth from the gitgo, it really helps to have the infinite repetition. Instead of, say, figuring out how to keep Israel from creating another generation of such terrorists with its massive destruction of Gaza and extreme brutality towards civilian populations. Yeah, that would take thought and nuance and the challenging work of bringing all parties together on a two state solution that doesn't dispossess and ethnically cleanse 2 million people. Nah, too much mental effort.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 21, 2024, 08:55:39 PM: The Biden Administration has now approved nearly $138 billion in student debt cancellation for nearly 3.9 million people.

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We can train Teachers to teach in Kentucky and in Arkansas and in Tennessee, etc.

And we can train Doctors, and Psychiatrists, and Scientists, right here in America.

We can build libraries and coffee shops in our ghettos and we can paint our ghettos bright cheerful colors, we can transform our ghettos.

Also, the USA is PARADISE for the poor people from Hong Kong, and from other places, even Battle Mountain, Nevada, is paradise, they can raise Hams for Hormel, etc, and Arkansas has Tyson Foods, etc. The people in Kentucky would love to get lots of good chicken from Tyson Foods in Arkansas, the folks in Kentucky love Fried Chicken. And also the educated Asians can become Teachers in Kentucky, etc. And Kiwanis International is Global and Kiwanis is always there to help the Youth.

Everyone benefits from educating Americans. And we are training the Leaders of the future.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 09:30:36 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 21, 2024, 08:24:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 07:29:07 PM

Good.
Every politician and staff of every country member of the United Nations should be made look at the photos and read the report at the same time, then be made comment.

It should all be put on every 6 o'clock news in the West, every night for a month.

Yeah thank goodness it has finally been established that Hamas is rotten and nasty, and sent their worst sociopaths into Israel. Even though every single member here has acknowledged this truth from the gitgo, it really helps to have the infinite repetition. Instead of, say, figuring out how to keep Israel from creating another generation of such terrorists with its massive destruction of Gaza and extreme brutality towards civilian populations. Yeah, that would take thought and nuance and the challenging work of bringing all parties together on a two state solution that doesn't dispossess and ethnically cleanse 2 million people. Nah, too much mental effort.

No one is being ethnically cleansed...Israel is just doing what it has to do to free the Israeli hostages
being held in Gaza by Palestinians in the form of Hamas fighters who are reportedly (by experts) supported by 70% of the Palestinians.
And...rid Gaza of Hamas/Hamas fighters once and for all. Rid Gaza once and for all of Hamas rockets and other weapons used to attack Israel.

It's a war, think of it as WW2 when Jews were being tortured to death/exterminated en masse by evil Nazi Germany.
Now Nazi Germany has been replaced by Hamas from inside Palestine-Gaza.

Think of it as Pearl Harbour, Americans slaughtered by Japanese invaders from Japan.

To rid themselves of Japanese terror, and Nazi German terror,...Germany was bombed, and bombed, and bombed...civilians slaughtered.
Tokyo was fire bombed, thousands of civilians slaughtered, then Japan nuked twice...tens of thousands of civilians killed.

It's war.
Oh, and the other day Israel bombed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon....to stop attacks on Israel.
Where is the UN telling Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 21, 2024, 09:58:45 PM: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/21/israel-occupation-palestine-gaza-un-icj-hearing/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/21/israel-occupation-palestine-gaza-un-icj-hearing/)

Maybe you can find something about it on YouTube.

Till then, keep pounding the table.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 10:03:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 21, 2024, 08:24:31 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 21, 2024, 07:29:07 PM

Good.
Every politician and staff of every country member of the United Nations should be made look at the photos and read the report at the same time, then be made comment.

It should all be put on every 6 o'clock news in the West, every night for a month.

Yeah thank goodness it has finally been established that Hamas is rotten and nasty, and sent their worst sociopaths into Israel. Even though every single member here has acknowledged this truth from the gitgo, it really helps to have the infinite repetition.
This is the first detailed report of the atrocities as related by witnesses.
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Instead of, say, figuring out how to keep Israel from creating another generation of such terrorists with its massive destruction of Gaza and extreme brutality towards civilian populations.
In light of the Hamas goal( from the River to the Sea) it is fitting Israel, after 70 years of reaching to Arab brutality, finally says enough is enough.
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Yeah, that would take thought and nuance and the challenging work of bringing all parties together on a two state solution that doesn't dispossess and ethnically cleanse 2 million people. Nah, too much mental effort.
That is a big problem for the Arabs and you. How long do you beat your heads across against the wall ( or rape and kill Israelis in the most atrocious ways) and expect a different outcome?
It is you and the Palestinians who show no signs of intelligence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 21, 2024, 10:16:57 PM: Why Egypt has not fully opened its Gaza border for fleeing Palestinians. Egypt has been caught in a dilemma for weeks about opening the Rafah crossing into Gaza: wanting to help the most seriously injured Palestinians leave, but adamantly refusing to contemplate a surge of Palestinian refugees into the Sinai peninsula. Nov 2, 2023

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Egypt needs to allow the Palestinians whom want peace to flee to work as essential workers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai, and Kiwanis International can help the children, and Kiwanis has a Village in Victoria, Canada, the forest of Canada would be a great peaceful place for the refugees to live who just want peace. There are jobs working for the Forestry Companies in Victoria, Canada, and they can live at the Kiwanis Village while they get established in Canada.

For the Palestinians who want to fight, then Israel will kill them if need be. But for the Palestinians who want peace then they need to be allowed to flee to Canada, etc, and to Abu Dhabi and to Dubai.

Kiwanis International also has the Key Club for the High School Students, and Kiwanis is Global, and also there is Circle K for College Students.

There is also UNICEF to help the children.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 21, 2024, 10:41:05 PM: Red is a fair weather fascist.

With republicans imploding at home and Russia beset with empty supermarket shelves and frozen apartments, losing their stalemate in Ukraine, red has turned his love to Bibi and Likud for his evil entity de jour to worship and supplicate himself before.

Red is a fickle little dickhead, but somehow he always manages to come down on the wrong side where he feels most at home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 12:32:42 AM: Mexico is Australia's main trading partner in Latin America with total trade in 2022 of $1.948 billion US dollars, according to the Ministry of Economy and the Bank of Mexico.

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We can put Australia's deep water ports to use, we can ship goods from California, and from Mexico, to Australia; and then Australia can ship goods back, and we can do global trade. And also Colombia can ship coffee to Australia.

And Northgate Markets from here in Anaheim can open a chain of Markets in Australia and they can send ships full of goods from California and from Mexico to Australia and they can sell the Australians food and goods from a chain of future Northgate Markets that can be built in Australia.

( Northgate Gonzalez Market is a family-owned supermarket chain and one of the largest and most successful Hispanic supermarkets in the US. Founded in 1980 by the Gonzalez Reynoso family, in Anaheim, California, Don Miguel and Miguel Jr. ) Northgate Markets can be built in Australia and goods can be shipped from California and from Mexico to Australia, etc, and then Australia can ship goods back to us, and we can do global trade.

( California can also send the Trader Joe's Markets to Australia and we can send ships full of goods from Trader Joe's to Australia. Trader Joe's has their Headquarters here in California. And the Australians can send goods back to California to be sold at Trader Joe's. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 05:11:17 AM: My favorite way to do education, is that it is free if they do the work and keep good grades, but if they fall behind and drop out then they have to pay the money back.

So, only the quitters would have to pay. If they work hard then it is free.

And we really do need Doctors, and Teachers, and Psychiatrists, and Scientists, etc. We can all benefit from educating Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 22, 2024, 09:25:23 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 10:03:51 PM
How long do you beat your heads across against the wall ( or rape and kill Israelis in the most atrocious ways) and expect a different outcome?
It is you and the Palestinians who show no signs of intelligence.

How long do you keep bombing and killing civilians and driving Palestinians from their homes (starting with the Naqba in 1948) and demolishing their schools, hospitals, museums, utilities, and homes...and expect terrorist resistance to end?

When you actually grapple with that question that Lime, and others here have posed, then maybe you can start claiming to show signs of intelligence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 22, 2024, 11:01:45 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 22, 2024, 09:25:23 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 10:03:51 PM
How long do you beat your heads across against the wall ( or rape and kill Israelis in the most atrocious ways) and expect a different outcome?
It is you and the Palestinians who show no signs of intelligence.

How long do you keep bombing and killing civilians and driving Palestinians from their homes (starting with the Naqba in 1948) and demolishing their schools, hospitals, museums, utilities, and homes...and expect terrorist resistance to end?

When you actually grapple with that question that Lime, and others here have posed, then maybe you can start claiming to show signs of intelligence.
The Israelis have always responded to the Arabs acts of war, no matter how you pathetically distort the 75 year well documented history of the conflicts. It is not genocide to fight those dedicated to killing you.
The deaths of innocent Palestinas are due to their treatment by Hamas who use them as pawns in their holy war and made them into modern day pariahs in the Arab world..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 12:14:02 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 22, 2024, 09:25:23 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 21, 2024, 10:03:51 PM
How long do you beat your heads across against the wall ( or rape and kill Israelis in the most atrocious ways) and expect a different outcome?
It is you and the Palestinians who show no signs of intelligence.

How long do you keep bombing and killing civilians and driving Palestinians from their homes (starting with the Naqba in 1948) and demolishing their schools, hospitals, museums, utilities, and homes...and expect terrorist resistance to end?

When you actually grapple with that question that Lime, and others here have posed, then maybe you can start claiming to show signs of intelligence.

Intelligence is a big ask.

Instead red will show signs of malaria, syphilis and measles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 22, 2024, 03:16:56 PM: When the war is over, Israel has killed or captured all the Hamas fighters and freed the hostages...and a two-state solution is discussed, what measures would be put in place to ensure that Hamas or others don't amass weapons again, and attack Israel again?
Repeat exactly what happened in Gaza.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 05:31:34 PM: How to stop the Likud gleeful genocide needs to be answered first.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 22, 2024, 05:49:26 PM: There's no genocide...just as there was no genocide when Nazi Germany and Japan were continually bombed, into surrender.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 06:36:42 PM: With Italy, they were our friends, we have more Italians in New York than who live in Rome, and we should have never allowed Mussolini to take control of Italy and to enter WW2 allied with Hitler. Watch the movie "The Scarlet and the Black" with Gregory Peck, the Italians were never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Catholic Church was never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Italians helped us to run the fucking Nazis out of Italy, and then the Italians hung Mussolini from a fucking light pole or whatever, they killed Mussolini themselves. We must not allow our allies to be taken over by bad people who do not represent them. Italy was always our ally.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

And we have the United Nations, and we have the CIA, so we can prevent wars, and so that we can deal with problems when the problems are small.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 06:43:05 PM: If building our highway system was Constitutional, then so too should a Free Education for all Americans be Constitutional. Educating our people is part of building America.

We need to help our poor people to leave the coal mines behind, and to become Scientists, and Psychiatrists, and Doctors, and Teachers, etc.

Educating our people is an investment in America.

And although it would be paid for by tax payers, then so too is it paid for by our Equity, by the work that our ancestors did, and the work that we did, to build up America and to create the prosperous nation that we have today.

We need to leave the Great Depression behind, and we need to leave the coal mines behind, and we need to educate our people and we need to move into the future.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 07:02:34 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 06:36:42 PM
With Italy, they were our friends, we have more Italians in New York than who live in Rome, and we should have never allowed Mussolini to take control of Italy and to enter WW2 allied with Hitler. Watch the movie "The Scarlet and the Black" with Gregory Peck, the Italians were never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Catholic Church was never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Italians helped us to run the fucking Nazis out of Italy, and then the Italians hung Mussolini from a fucking light pole or whatever, they killed Mussolini themselves. We must not allow our allies to be taken over by bad people who do not represent them. Italy was always our ally.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

And we have the United Nations, and we have the CIA, so we can prevent wars, and so that we can deal with problems when the problems are small.

Salute,

Tony V.

I hate to inform you Tony, but Nazis go to church in Southern California,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akex5/hansel-orzame-proud-boys-church-christian-nationalism (http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akex5/hansel-orzame-proud-boys-church-christian-nationalism)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 07:05:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 22, 2024, 05:49:26 PM
There's no genocide...just as there was no genocide when Nazi Germany and Japan were continually bombed, into surrender.

Still categorically wrong in you oversimplification yet on brand in serving your blood thirst.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 22, 2024, 07:35:52 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 07:05:35 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 22, 2024, 05:49:26 PM
There's no genocide...just as there was no genocide when Nazi Germany and Japan were continually bombed, into surrender.

Still categorically wrong in you oversimplification yet on brand in serving your blood thirst.

Imagine if Mexico were Gaza, and terrorists from Mexico had invaded America, taking hostages and committing the same atrocities.
US would be doing exactly what Israel is doing...no genocide then either.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 10:31:40 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 22, 2024, 07:02:34 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 22, 2024, 06:36:42 PM
With Italy, they were our friends, we have more Italians in New York than who live in Rome, and we should have never allowed Mussolini to take control of Italy and to enter WW2 allied with Hitler. Watch the movie "The Scarlet and the Black" with Gregory Peck, the Italians were never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Catholic Church was never allied with the fucking Nazis. The Italians helped us to run the fucking Nazis out of Italy, and then the Italians hung Mussolini from a fucking light pole or whatever, they killed Mussolini themselves. We must not allow our allies to be taken over by bad people who do not represent them. Italy was always our ally.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

And we have the United Nations, and we have the CIA, so we can prevent wars, and so that we can deal with problems when the problems are small.

Salute,

Tony V.

I hate to inform you Tony, but Nazis go to church in Southern California,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akex5/hansel-orzame-proud-boys-church-christian-nationalism (http://www.vice.com/en/article/3akex5/hansel-orzame-proud-boys-church-christian-nationalism)

We do have Nazis in California and in Idaho, the Jews need to be careful, and the Jews better never go to prison in California, the prisons are full of Nazis and Muslims and Islam. My Uncles told me never to go to prison, I would never be able to survive there.

My friend Joey Jojolla was murdered by a Nazi Low Rider in Lancaster. Joey was a peaceful old Roman Catholic stoner, he rented out houses and trailers and he sold pot and he had sex with the women, he was a peaceful guy. Joey was murdered at one of the mobile homes that he rented to his ex girlfriend by a Nazi Low Rider. Lancaster has Nazis. The Jews need to carry guys in the Antelope Valley, and they need to own Dobermans, and Spielberg has a Body Guard in Santa Monica. They have swastikas tattooed on their faces. I have had problems with the Nazis.

I live in a gated community in Orange County, no Nazis here. My neighbors all speak Spanish and are Catholics. And the Crystal Cathedral is great, they have Sunday Services in 5 Languages, no Nazis. Anaheim is better than Lancaster. And I avoid the bad bars and the bad neighborhoods.

California has some really bad people, Joey was murdered by a Nazi Low Rider, the Jews need to be careful here.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 23, 2024, 04:11:41 PM: As we help the homeless people, then many people are rising to the top as leaders, and many new tax free charities are being created.

Raines, a Black Woman, helps the homeless with Beauty, and with gifts and with food.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/beauty-2-the-streetz-los-angeles-tiktok-instagram.html

My richest friends helped the homeless, people are going to rise as leaders as they help the homeless.

And the same as we help the poor orphans in Mexico, etc. Leaders will rise to the top.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 23, 2024, 05:21:21 PM: "Corporal punishment is still used in schools to a significant extent in some public schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas."

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No.
This must be stopped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 23, 2024, 07:24:21 PM: The mega-producer told The Hollywood Reporter that his $800 million plans to expand his Atlanta-based studio have been put indefinitely on hold after he saw the mind-blowing capabilities of the artificial intelligence company's text-to-video model, Sora. 7 hours ago

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Life is short, and money is just a tool to help people, if you have the power to make life better for yourself and for other people then one should do so. Tyler Perry should spend the money and he should create the jobs and he should help the people of Atlanta. Tyler Perry is like Lucy, and Lucy created a lot of jobs and she helped a lot of people. Tyler should spend the money and he should create the jobs.

Artificial Intelligence and Digital will never replace real people and film. There will always be a demand for real people and film.

And as Tyler Perry creates jobs in Atlanta then companies like Tyson Foods of Arkansas can send them food, etc, and everyone benefits.

And it is just like with Drones, people thought drones were going to replace real fighter pilots, until we learned how to jam and crash the drones, the drones will never replace real pilots, at least not in our lifetimes.

AI and Digital will not replace real film and real people, thus Tyler Perry should go ahead and make the investment and create the jobs, and he should do his best with the gift he was given during the short time that he will be alive, life is short, he should spend the money and help the people of Atlanta to have better lives.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2024, 02:17:44 AM: AT&T needs to keep the land line service going. It is important to have a land line. I have a cell phone and a land line. If the cell service goes down then we need to have the land lines. I want to keep my land line.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 25, 2024, 12:29:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2024, 02:17:44 AM
AT&T needs to keep the land line service going. It is important to have a land line. I have a cell phone and a land line. If the cell service goes down then we need to have the land lines. I want to keep my land line.

Salute,

Tony V.

Indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 25, 2024, 12:43:18 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 08:26:49 PM
Did you take a poll?
Did not have to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 25, 2024, 01:05:59 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 25, 2024, 12:43:18 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 08:26:49 PM
Did you take a poll?
Did not have to.

Red aims for loud and ugly. True is too complicated for him now he has his terminal case of republican dementia
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 25, 2024, 07:06:00 PM: Daily Mail -

Frustrated Jewish Harvard alum plan massive audit of campus classes

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Good idea.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 25, 2024, 11:34:10 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 25, 2024, 07:06:00 PM
Daily Mail -

Frustrated Jewish Harvard alum plan massive audit of campus classes

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Good idea.

Natalie Portman is a Jew who was born in Israel and she has a degree in Psychology from Harvard.

Natalie can team up with Muzi who also studied Psychology at Harvard, Muzi is the Daughter of the President of China. They can work together to help the Homeless and the Mentally Ill and the Veterans and the Senior Citizens, etc. And they can help to open Mental Health Associations like the one in Santa Ana, and Wellness Centers like the one in Orange.

A lot of great people have attended Harvard.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 26, 2024, 06:24:12 AM: In 'FBI Files' on my tv...

"In southern Louisiana a vicious killer is on the loose, slaughtering his victims in their own homes.
....a sadistic murderer."

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Another perfect example of why good people need guns big and small.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 07:02:20 AM: From 2021----

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm)

COLLATERAL DAMAGE!!!!! Though I concede that chart doesn't make any distinctions between "good" and "bad" people and certainly doesn't tell us how many times such firearms were used as defense against "sadistic murderers" that were "slaughtering....victims in their own homes."

Just pointing out that your "guns are great" fetish has practical implications as well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 10:45:05 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 07:02:20 AM
From 2021----

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm)

COLLATERAL DAMAGE!!!!! Though I concede that chart doesn't make any distinctions between "good" and "bad" people and certainly doesn't tell us how many times such firearms were used as defense against "sadistic murderers" that were "slaughtering....victims in their own homes."

Just pointing out that your "guns are great" fetish has practical implications as well.
Your guns are great has quote marks. I never said that. Who did?
I only concluded that the overwhelming number of gun owners are good people.
Nearly half the population owns a gun, 150 million or so. If you lump all gun incidents together in a year the total is, maybe 100 THOUSAND, and that includes suicides, accidental shootings, etc. That is information much better than a poll.
It also does not include incidents where a gun owner prevented a crime but there have been estimates at over a million a year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 10:57:26 AM: Bambu says "guns are great" frequently. And I was responding to him.

If you want a gun, buy one. Believe it or not, nobody's stopping you. I'm sure you are a "good" person who would never use one irresponsibly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:30:42 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 10:57:26 AM
Bambu says "guns are great" frequently. And I was responding to him.
your editing skills need work.
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If you want a gun, buy one. Believe it or not, nobody's stopping you.
I do not need a gun. If I do there are a number of steps to be made before a sale is done. I have no problem with the red tape as I am a good person, as are the overwhelming number of gun owners.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 11:33:21 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:30:42 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 10:57:26 AM
Bambu says "guns are great" frequently. And I was responding to him.
your editing skills need work.
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If you want a gun, buy one. Believe it or not, nobody's stopping you.
I do not need a gun. If I do there are a number of steps to be made before a sale is done. I have no problem with the red tape as I am a good person, as are the overwhelming number of gun owners.

Editing. What are you talking about? I responded to Bambu's post directly above mine. I think your reading and logic skills need some work.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 11:34:49 AM: And I'm perfectly fine with you as a "good" person owning a gun.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 11:49:08 AM: As for not "needing" one, talk to Bambu about that. "Good" people need guns for those times that "vicious killers are on the loose."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:56:32 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 11:49:08 AM
As for not "needing" one, talk to Bambu about that. "Good" people need guns for those times that "vicious killers are on the loose."
That is well documented in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:58:13 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 11:33:21 AM

Bambu says "guns are great" frequently. And I was responding to him.
your editing skills need work.
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If you want a gun, buy one. Believe it or not, nobody's stopping you.
I do not need a gun. If I do there are a number of steps to be made before a sale is done. I have no problem with the red tape as I am a good person, as are the overwhelming number of gun owners.
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Editing. What are you talking about? I responded to Bambu's post directly above mine. I think your reading and logic skills need some work.
Obviously not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 12:07:03 PM: Repeating "your editing skills need work" doesn't make it any less idiotic.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 26, 2024, 12:14:53 PM: Bambu seems like the kind of person one stands ones ground against. For better or worse, his local gun laws are keeping him safe.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 01:17:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 14, 2024, 08:35:01 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 14, 2024, 08:15:21 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 14, 2024, 05:36:36 PM
Good people with guns.
The overwhelming majority.

In the past few years, the percent of gun deaths from suicide has been 54-60%. Guess the good people get pretty depressed.
A statistic gun opponents rarely recognize.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 01:18:29 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 12:07:03 PM
Repeating "your editing skills need work" doesn't make it any less idiotic.
No you do that by your posts by not including what you are responding to.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 01:22:40 PM: Your response (that you, in turn thought I was responding to) was made yesterday to a post that I made on February 14th. If you think I still care about your response two weeks later, (full disclosure though: I don't care about your posts ever) then you're sorely mistaken. That you're too dumb to figure out that I was actually responding to a post directly above mine isn't my problem.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 01:44:54 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 01:22:40 PM
Your response (that you, in turn thought I was responding to) was made yesterday to a post that I made on February 14th. If you think I still care about your response two weeks later, (full disclosure though: I don't care about your posts ever) then you're sorely mistaken. That you're too dumb to figure out that I was actually responding to a post directly above mine isn't my problem.
Suit yourself. But you do spend a lot of time responding to posts that you do not care about ever..
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 01:49:19 PM: Thanks!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 26, 2024, 03:31:14 PM: Here you go Bambu, Battle Mountain, Nevada, has an official Chamber of Commerce...

https://www.battlemountainchamber.com/

For the young Australian Rugby players who explore Nevada, Battle Mountain has the Calico Club, which is a legal Bordello where the Sports Stars from Los Angeles go, and the Calico Club has a 5 Star Restaurant, etc.

I was a cook at the Colt Casino, which is still there, the Rugby Players can eat at the Colt and they can do some gambling.

And land is cheap in Nevada for the immigrants who are looking for a cheap place to settle, and they can raise pigs, etc, and they can sell pork to San Francisco, etc. And Battle Mountain would be a great spot for the poor people from Asia, and from Ukraine, and from our Southern Border, etc.

There is a college in Elko, Nevada, for the people who want to study.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 26, 2024, 04:51:36 PM: You can always find an Australian on some end of a cat house.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 26, 2024, 10:49:11 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 26, 2024, 01:22:40 PM
Your response (that you, in turn thought I was responding to) was made yesterday to a post that I made on February 14th. If you think I still care about your response two weeks later, (full disclosure though: I don't care about your posts ever) then you're sorely mistaken. That you're too dumb to figure out that I was actually responding to a post directly above mine isn't my problem.

Red appears to be the reincarnation of bankshot1
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 26, 2024, 10:51:35 PM: This week the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, and also ruled that black embryos can be tried as adults.

Colin Jost, SNL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:23:26 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 26, 2024, 10:51:35 PM
This week the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, and also ruled that black embryos can be tried as adults.

Colin Jost, SNL
Larry is still in 7th grade.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 12:19:14 AM: As we build housing, then I really like the Art Deco Architecture from the 1920s and 1930s...

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

And we can bring in the architects from Santorini, Greece, and from Spain, and from Italy, etc.

We also need to remember to build tennis courts, and swimming pools, etc.

And we need to have wonderful outdoor landscaping with fountains and plants and trees, etc, and cobblestones, etc.

Henderson, Nevada, is doing some fun new architecture. People need to have fun as they build housing, and they need to build great spaces for people to enjoy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 27, 2024, 12:56:06 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 26, 2024, 11:23:26 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on February 26, 2024, 10:51:35 PM
This week the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, and also ruled that black embryos can be tried as adults.

Colin Jost, SNL
Larry is still in 7th grade.

You aged out but never picked up on any of the lessons. Now you are a burden we all share due to the danger you pose even in your diminished capacity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 27, 2024, 01:17:25 PM: Some facts regarding the condition of Palestinian civilians that are woefully underreported to some Elba members.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza, other than to deny people access to food, Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian.

My new policy on political forum dialog here - if you read the article and make a good-faith try at considering the facts presented and refrain from ad hominems against other members or racist slurs or stereotypes directed at any group of persons - I will reply to your comments.

Otherwise, see ya in the Arts threads.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 05:27:09 PM: Macys will close 150 stores, 50 this year it said Tuesday, after posting a fourth-quarter loss and declining sales. https://trib.al/ii3rOyE

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We need to bring in the Italians, and the French, and the Mexicans, and New York, to help to save our department stores. Part of the greatness of free enterprise and capitalism is being able to have great stores.

I worked at The Broadway Department Store in Pasadena, California, and it was a great store, maybe the Italians, French, and Mexicans, can bring The Broadway Department Stores back.

We need to save our stores and markets.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 06:27:56 PM: High-end Mexican department store Liverpool made its interest in Nordstrom known last month when it became its second-largest stakeholder after the Nordstrom family. It acquired a 9.9% passive stake in Nordstrom for about 5.9 billion pesos ($293.8 million). Oct 12, 2022

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 27, 2024, 06:49:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 27, 2024, 01:17:25 PM
Some facts regarding the condition of Palestinian civilians that are woefully underreported to some Elba members.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza, other than to deny people access to food, Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian.

The only perpetual threat to Gazans is Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 27, 2024, 07:18:49 PM: Hard not to notice that natural gas bills for consumers are drastically lower this year.
Thanks to warmer winter weather and the great efficiency of the gas producers ( thanks frackers!)
Gas costs are the lowest in three decades.

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

With demand low supplys are high. So the market will correct by cutting production.
Except there is rising demand in Europe for Liquid Natural Gas that can keep American production up.
Enter Biden and his idiotic decision to curb American LNG exports to soothe the leftist loonies (and hold on to their votes) because of their hatred of fossil fuels.
So Europe has to pay the price Putin wants for Russian gas.
Who wants four more years of this?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 27, 2024, 07:46:32 PM: As we install more rooftop generation for electrical heating systems, the demand for and price of natural gas will both drop. We are looking to export more municipal and industrial scale batteries as well as employ more at home. We are off to a good start, but it will take more than four years to fully update our power grid and minimize our dependence on fossil fuels.

What we unquestionably need four more years of is President Biden, the best chief executive of your lifetime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 07:46:39 PM: Here is some good news, the new Star Wars movie is going to be made locally here in California. That is awesome. George Lucas was born in Modesto, and I am sure he is happy that Disney is creating local jobs in California. And this will inspire more filmmakers to film locally in California, and the whole economy will benefit.

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

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 07:49:11 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 27, 2024, 07:46:32 PM
As we install more rooftop generation for electrical heating systems, the demand for and price of natural gas will both drop. We are looking to export more municipal and industrial scale batteries as well as employ more at home. We are off to a good start, but it will take more than four years to fully update our power grid and minimize our dependence on fossil fuels.

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

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

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 27, 2024, 08:52:40 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 06:27:56 PM
High-end Mexican department store Liverpool made its interest in Nordstrom known last month when it became its second-largest stakeholder after the Nordstrom family. It acquired a 9.9% passive stake in Nordstrom for about 5.9 billion pesos ($293.8 million). Oct 12, 2022

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

Salute,

Tony V.

The empty shops/buildings around Union Sq San Francisco could be sold off for housing.
Online shopping has killed some dept stores, and street store shopping in many places...seems to me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 11:58:05 PM: As the jobs come back to Hollywood, then I hope that we create jobs for all new people, and not the people who turned a blind eye while we had 70,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, guys like Jim Carrey and Will Smith can go live in Atlanta. We need for good people like Don Johnson, and Dick Van Dyke, and Morgan Fairchild, and Jeff Bridges, to be at the top, they all worked to help the homeless in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2024, 12:33:28 AM: I read that Sylvester Stallone is moving to Florida, and I reminded him that Florida has Universal Studios in Orlando, and Sly can make movies in Orlando, along with Oliver Stone, and others. Movies and television shows can be made at Universal in Orlando, and Cocoa Beach is great.

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2024, 12:44:12 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 27, 2024, 08:52:40 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 27, 2024, 06:27:56 PM
High-end Mexican department store Liverpool made its interest in Nordstrom known last month when it became its second-largest stakeholder after the Nordstrom family. It acquired a 9.9% passive stake in Nordstrom for about 5.9 billion pesos ($293.8 million). Oct 12, 2022

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

Salute,

Tony V.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2024, 02:06:52 AM: The greatest gift that you can give to a poor young man is the ability to work and to earn an honest living so that they can be independent and self sustaining.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 03:54:54 AM: Arab folk in Michigan seemingly not happy with Joe over funding of weapons for allies.

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

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

Will Joe-admin go to water, or hold its nerve in the face of a possible voter revolt in Michigan?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 04:22:00 AM: Not only a second (Oct 7)...but a third, fourth...said Ghazi Hamad, senior Hamas official.
He said:
"Will we have to pay a price?
Yes, and we are ready to pay it.
We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs."

He said they intend to annihilate Israel.

Google it ...Ghazi Hamad...he explained it all...how they intend to completely destroy Israel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2024, 09:41:50 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on February 27, 2024, 09:01:13 PM
gradycartoons.com

Judicial Activism

Top Gun Embezzler

I liked the drawing of Pucker Pack and Hellbound for Trump, also.

I don't know if there is cartoon fodder in Don Henley's lyrics trial, but it's becoming clear that Henley was in the courtyard dancing to forget.

https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 10:32:26 AM: Somewhat surprised to report that Tampa Florida was not the Hellscape of homeless veterans and drug addled undocumented aliens we have been led to believe, but rather a prosperous city of industrious people, beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals' tendency to either camp at 70.25 mph in the passing lanes, or else merge in a manner that disregards the niceties, not to mention legalities, of Assured Clear Distance Ahead. That is the dichotomy. There is no in between.

Also, the roosters that roam old town Key West are quaint and charming in the daytime, but far less so at 5: fucking 30 in the GODDAMMNED MORNING.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2024, 04:31:29 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 10:32:26 AM
beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals

To be fair, some of the beautiful manatees are marred by tourists in watercraft collisions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 05:43:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 10:32:26 AM
Somewhat surprised to report that Tampa Florida was not the Hellscape of homeless veterans and drug addled undocumented aliens we have been led to believe, but rather a prosperous city of industrious people, beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals' tendency to either camp at 70.25 mph in the passing lanes, or else merge in a manner that disregards the niceties, not to mention legalities, of Assured Clear Distance Ahead. That is the dichotomy. There is no in between.

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

Welcome to the farm.
Yee ha!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 06:15:57 PM: Meanwhile, in leftist landscape bambuworld...

Daily Telegraph today;

Jewish leaders say pro-Palestinian student protesters 'should be expelled, not given a platform for hate' after it was revealed Sydney University is allowing 'brief' protests in classes.

...while Jewish groups have slammed Sydney University as "disgraceful and cowardly" for officially allowing student protesters to disrupt classes if they want to "make a brief statement".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 06:32:52 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 06:15:57 PM
Meanwhile, in leftist landscape bambuworld...

Daily Telegraph today;

Jewish leaders say pro-Palestinian student protesters 'should be expelled, not given a platform for hate' after it was revealed Sydney University is allowing 'brief' protests in classes.

...while Jewish groups have slammed Sydney University as "disgraceful and cowardly" for officially allowing student protesters to disrupt classes if they want to "make a brief statement".
Just to be clear, you believe any support of Palestinians, not Hamas but Palestinians, justifies expulsion?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 06:47:02 PM: He likes dirty deeds and he likes them done in the dark. It is part of the same disgusting Australian temperament that pretends to be slightly more daft and obtuse than it actually is so it can show off by its lights slyly the dark directions of its particular appetites.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 06:32:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 06:15:57 PM
Meanwhile, in leftist landscape bambuworld...

Daily Telegraph today;

Jewish leaders say pro-Palestinian student protesters 'should be expelled, not given a platform for hate' after it was revealed Sydney University is allowing 'brief' protests in classes.

...while Jewish groups have slammed Sydney University as "disgraceful and cowardly" for officially allowing student protesters to disrupt classes if they want to "make a brief statement".
Just to be clear, you believe any support of Palestinians, not Hamas but Palestinians, justifies expulsion?

No.
Depends what they're saying, exactly, though. There are strict racial vilification/hate speech laws.
Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes, so the students are not doing anything wrong, unless their words are breaking the laws.
The university should stick strictly to teaching.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2024, 07:05:17 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 06:47:02 PM
He likes dirty deeds and he likes them done in the dark.

As soon as Don Henley's lawsuit is done, the court will move on to your AC/DC alliteration theft case. The billable hours will not be dirt cheap.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:11:34 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.

I know who's to blame, do you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 07:13:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 28, 2024, 06:32:52 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 06:15:57 PM
Meanwhile, in leftist landscape bambuworld...

Daily Telegraph today;

Jewish leaders say pro-Palestinian student protesters 'should be expelled, not given a platform for hate' after it was revealed Sydney University is allowing 'brief' protests in classes.

...while Jewish groups have slammed Sydney University as "disgraceful and cowardly" for officially allowing student protesters to disrupt classes if they want to "make a brief statement".
Just to be clear, you believe any support of Palestinians, not Hamas but Palestinians, justifies expulsion?

No.
Depends what they're saying, exactly, though. There are strict racial vilification/hate speech laws.
Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Hearing and absorbing these messages along with counter arguments and disparate views are great help in studying and being successful in life, would that you had understood that before you ran out of gas, bambi
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 07:14:54 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:11:34 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.

I know who's to blame, do you?

Whoever in the Zionist Movement that decided Palestine would be a better bet than Greenland when deciding on where to try to build a home.

Or Canada.

You can always blame Canada.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:24:14 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 06:47:02 PM
He likes dirty deeds and he likes them done in the dark. It is part of the same disgusting Australian temperament that pretends to be slightly more daft and obtuse than it actually is so it can show off by its lights slyly the dark directions of its particular appetites.

Meeting at midnight in barns will be more necessary in the not too far distant future for many people.
Slyly will be 'king'...no lights/torches/full moons, lest said people be discovered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 07:44:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:24:14 PM
Meeting at midnight in barns will be more necessary in the not too far distant future for many people.
Slyly will be 'king'...no lights/torches/full moons, lest said people be discovered.

Sounds sabat seance conspiracy enough for you to be an idiot with aspirations caught up in its fringes trying to spread what you caught.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on February 28, 2024, 08:10:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.
If true,another reason to hate Hamas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on February 28, 2024, 10:22:54 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on February 28, 2024, 08:10:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.
If true,another reason to hate Hamas.

No one needs more reasons to hate Hamas. Bibi has to prolong the war because as soon as hostilities cease his ass is out and headed to jail.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2024, 10:34:30 PM: Disney is going to buy a couple of streets from the City of Anaheim for forty million dollars. Anaheim is a rich city. Plus the Citizens of Anaheim own the Electric Company and we sell electricity to Disneyland, and we own the Parking for Disneyland, and we own Angel Stadium, and we own the Honda Center, etc. Walt Disney and Gene Autry wanted to make sure that Anaheim was wealthy and that the Citizens of Anaheim are well taken care of. We have a lot of blessings here in Anaheim thanks to Walt and Gene.

Bambu, I saw on the television news that there was a naked lady at Venice Beach with a board with a nail in it attacking another woman, it reminded me of what you said about a board with a nail in it as a weapon. Venice Beach is full of homeless and mentally ill people right now, which is hard for them because a lot of people there depend on the Tourism for their incomes, if there are mentally ill homeless people all over then it scares away the tourists. Venice, California, needs to be more like Rome, Italy, and they need cheap hostels, and sober living homes, to get the homeless off of the street and into beds. I hope they helped the naked lady, poor lady, she needs help.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 11:46:24 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on February 28, 2024, 10:22:54 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on February 28, 2024, 08:10:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 28, 2024, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:03:17 PM

Anyway, the university is officially allowing them to protest in classes.
Too bad for the students trying to study and be successful in life.

Worse for Palestinian children now experiencing permanent neurological impairment due to prolonged malnutrition and starvation. That can be a real damper on success and learning.
If true,another reason to hate Hamas.

No one needs more reasons to hate Hamas. Bibi has to prolong the war because as soon as hostilities cease his ass is out and headed to jail.

Every Hamas terrorist in Gaza has to be killed or captured for there to be no further attacks on Israel from there.
The hostages are still being held in Gaza, the war is not over...and won't be until they're released and Hamas there is wiped out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 12:17:33 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on February 28, 2024, 10:34:30 PM
Disney is going to buy a couple of streets from the City of Anaheim for forty million dollars. Anaheim is a rich city. Plus the Citizens of Anaheim own the Electric Company and we sell electricity to Disneyland, and we own the Parking for Disneyland, and we own Angel Stadium, and we own the Honda Center, etc. Walt Disney and Gene Autry wanted to make sure that Anaheim was wealthy and that the Citizens of Anaheim are well taken care of. We have a lot of blessings here in Anaheim thanks to Walt and Gene.

Bambu, I saw on the television news that there was a naked lady at Venice Beach with a board with a nail in it attacking another woman, it reminded me of what you said about a board with a nail in it as a weapon. Venice Beach is full of homeless and mentally ill people right now, which is hard for them because a lot of people there depend on the Tourism for their incomes, if there are mentally ill homeless people all over then it scares away the tourists. Venice, California, needs to be more like Rome, Italy, and they need cheap hostels, and sober living homes, to get the homeless off of the street and into beds. I hope they helped the naked lady, poor lady, she needs help.

Salute,

Tony V.

Called a 'nail rod'. Mine, hand crafted by me, was like a hammer handle, with nails sticking out the bottom about 1/2 inch, for half of it.
I was a nice, quiet, polite, well-mannered, God-fearing, church going, Christian boy.
I asked the bully politely to stop hitting me on my thin-boy collar bone with his heavy glass rule.
He just laughed.
I tried everything, kept asking him to stop. He just kept laughing.
So I had to resort to violence.
He never hit me again.

***

My NRL footy team players toured Venice beach area the other day.

They've been based in LA preparing for the big game in Vegas on Saturday.
The team/Club...you might say 'franchise', has been fortunate enough to be granted access to the top shelf training facilities at UCLA.
My Club CEO;

"This training partnership with UCLA is a testament to the Club's dedication to achieving the highest standards both on and off the field," said .......s CEO, Joe Kelly.
"We are incredibly grateful to UCLA for granting us access to their world class facilities".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 29, 2024, 02:32:50 AM: I just read that the highest paid ethnic group in the USA are the people from India who earn $110,000 on average. The White people averaged $55,000 on average. The Black people are way down at $35,000 on average.

And in other news, Kentucky is going to give all of the teachers a raise in pay.

A personal observation pertaining the Black people, is that the economy is improving in Black areas, including in Atlanta, and in Compton and in Inglewood, etc, thanks to Entertainment, and Sports, etc, and lots of investments.

The great equalizer is education.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 29, 2024, 02:37:18 AM: UCLA is in a beautiful area, by Bel Air, by where Jimmy Stewart lived, I am glad that the Rugby Team is being treated well by UCLA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 04:25:32 AM: My SkyNews scroll thru just now:

"ASIO: Islamist terror threat on the rise".

Charming.
There are ways to almost eliminate the threat, but they likely wouldn't be palatable to the Left/Far Left govt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 29, 2024, 07:08:38 AM: Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:24:14 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 06:47:02 PM
He likes dirty deeds and he likes them done in the dark. It is part of the same disgusting Australian temperament that pretends to be slightly more daft and obtuse than it actually is so it can show off by its lights slyly the dark directions of its particular appetites.

Meeting at midnight in barns will be more necessary in the not too far distant future for many people.
Slyly will be 'king'...no lights/torches/full moons, lest said people be discovered.
You ought to know not to stand by the window. Somebody see you up there.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 29, 2024, 12:24:36 PM: Nice.

That is such a great song
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on February 29, 2024, 12:26:39 PM: I saw the re-release of "Stop Making Sense" on a big screen a couple of months ago. So great....
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 29, 2024, 01:07:19 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 29, 2024, 12:26:39 PM
I saw the re-release of "Stop Making Sense" on a big screen a couple of months ago. So great....
Cedar-Lee Theater, dollar Mondays, 1984. With the arguable exception of Blood Simple the next year, maybe the best $1.00 I ever spent.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on February 29, 2024, 04:08:15 PM: Never seemed them live but they have moved from my headphones to my playlists and have been with me most of my life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 04:42:52 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 29, 2024, 07:08:38 AM
Quote from: bambu. on February 28, 2024, 07:24:14 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on February 28, 2024, 06:47:02 PM
He likes dirty deeds and he likes them done in the dark. It is part of the same disgusting Australian temperament that pretends to be slightly more daft and obtuse than it actually is so it can show off by its lights slyly the dark directions of its particular appetites.

Meeting at midnight in barns will be more necessary in the not too far distant future for many people.
Slyly will be 'king'...no lights/torches/full moons, lest said people be discovered.
You ought to know not to stand by the window. Somebody see you up there.

All my home windows are covered by shutters or curtains, in daylight no one can see inside.
At night no one can see inside.
Unlike homes and apartments in America, if the movies are anything to go by.
Same in my world.
Lights on, curtains/blinds open, all the "Ming dynasty treasures" on display for the whole world to see. Not to mention the residents including children and wives.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 29, 2024, 05:27:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 04:42:52 PM

All my home windows are covered by shutters or curtains, in daylight no one can see inside.
At night no one can see inside.

Would fucking lose my mind. Sounds claustrophobic, with the added grimness of turning one's house into a funeral parlor. Also, on what planet is the refractive index of glass such that pedestrians can see into the interior of a house during daylight??

At night, I don't care if someone passes the kitchen and sees me making dinner. What do you think happens? Dear God, that man is rinsing a saucepan! Oh sweet Jesus now he's refilling a kettle! The depravity!

And then I'm in the living room and all those voyeurs are rapt as I quietly turn the pages of a paperback or converse with my sigboth. The violation!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 06:40:26 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 29, 2024, 05:27:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 04:42:52 PM

All my home windows are covered by shutters or curtains, in daylight no one can see inside.
At night no one can see inside.

Would fucking lose my mind. Sounds claustrophobic, with the added grimness of turning one's house into a funeral parlor. Also, on what planet is the refractive index of glass such that pedestrians can see into the interior of a house during daylight??

At night, I don't care if someone passes the kitchen and sees me making dinner. What do you think happens? Dear God, that man is rinsing a saucepan! Oh sweet Jesus now he's refilling a kettle! The depravity!

And then I'm in the living room and all those voyeurs are rapt as I quietly turn the pages of a paperback or converse with my sigboth. The violation!

Not voyeurs, think violent home invaders...and non-violent home invading robbers, until cornered then they become violent.

In daylight, the 'crim-safe' black metal gauze 'flyscreens' allow the [internal]shutters to be open to allow viewing of outside and light to enter. All anyone outside sees is black.
Sheer curtains in daylight, heavy curtains after dark.

You never know who's watching, waiting, planning to do evil.

Serial killer BTK came calling in daylight hours.
Very personable, a pastor. Sweet talked his way to torture and murder...worst depravity some had ever 'seen'.
One lady was home alone, playing the piano...sadly she became a victim.

'Always wear a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice'.
'Never open the door to strangers'.
"Never go outside to disturbances, a pilot did that, was bashed and never flew again.'
'Never get out of the car', in road rages.

"Never go running alone, especially if you're a woman, young or older...bad people are lurking, another woman in bambuworld has gone missing, 50+, went running alone one Sunday morning at 7am recently, in a forest.

It's all good advice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 29, 2024, 07:22:48 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 06:40:26 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on February 29, 2024, 05:27:08 PM
Quote from: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 04:42:52 PM

All my home windows are covered by shutters or curtains, in daylight no one can see inside.
At night no one can see inside.

Would fucking lose my mind. Sounds claustrophobic, with the added grimness of turning one's house into a funeral parlor. Also, on what planet is the refractive index of glass such that pedestrians can see into the interior of a house during daylight??

At night, I don't care if someone passes the kitchen and sees me making dinner. What do you think happens? Dear God, that man is rinsing a saucepan! Oh sweet Jesus now he's refilling a kettle! The depravity!

And then I'm in the living room and all those voyeurs are rapt as I quietly turn the pages of a paperback or converse with my sigboth. The violation!

Not voyeurs, think violent home invaders...and non-violent home invading robbers, until cornered then they become violent.

In daylight, the 'crim-safe' black metal gauze 'flyscreens' allow the [internal]shutters to be open to allow viewing of outside and light to enter. All anyone outside sees is black.
Sheer curtains in daylight, heavy curtains after dark.

You never know who's watching, waiting, planning to do evil.

Serial killer BTK came calling in daylight hours.
Very personable, a pastor. Sweet talked his way to torture and murder...worst depravity some had every 'seen'.
One lady was home alone, playing the piano...sadly she became a victim.

'Always wear a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice'.
'Never open the door to strangers'.
"Never go outside to disturbances, a pilot did that, was bashed and never flew again.'
'Never get out of the car', in road rages.

"Never go running alone, especially if you're a woman, young or older...bad people are lurking, another woman in bambuworld has gone missing, 50+, went running alone one Sunday morning at 7am recently, in a forest.

It's all good advice.

When I lived in Malibu we lived in a gated community, one had to go through two security gates to get to our house, and there were cameras at the gates, plus we had spot lights with motion detectors on the property, and we had 2 big dogs, etc. Plus, Malibu is safe with very low crime. And we had the Daughter of a Chinese General living with us, that is how safe it was.

Some places are safe. Malibu is safe. Rome, Italy, is safe. I bet Greece is safe. And I bet Australia is very safe. Cannes, France, is safe. Monte Carlo is safe. Some places are safe.

We did not even bother to lock the doors of our home in Malibu. The owner lived there for 20 years and she never locked the doors.

But in Saint Louis, Missouri, you need a gun, you need to lock your doors, etc, some places are bad. I choose not to live in the bad areas. I would never live in Detroit, or Chicago, or New York, nor in Compton, Watts, Inglewood, etc, there are some places I would never live.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, is safe, but they all own guns, they are all cowboys with guns in Nevada. The cowboys keep Nevada safe.

Anaheim is nice, I have lived here for over 20 years and I have never had a problem here in Anaheim. It is not as nice as Malibu, but it is better than Compton.

The Antelope Valley was nice back when we were building the Space Shuttles, etc, it was nice like Palm Springs, but then it turned into a ghetto as the people on welfare from Los Angeles all moved to the Antelope Valley. I would not live in the Antelope Valley now, I would rather live in Anaheim, but my Mother loves the Antelope Valley and she will spend the rest of her life there, and her husband owns a gun, plus they have a home alarm system and cameras, etc.

Anyhow, it is best to try to live in a safe area where one does not need to be afraid and on guard all of the time. If you can have nice Christian neighbors, and live in a good neighborhood, then that is preferable to living in fear. I would never live in a high crime area.

Though if one becomes rich and famous like Steven Spielberg then one needs body guards, and all of that, you need security if you become rich and famous. And they have 24 hour security at the Empire West Condominiums, etc, the stars all have security guards. And Latigo Beach in Malibu has 24 hour security, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 08:50:10 PM: Just walked psst my tv...on screen was:

"GA.
Mayor heckled for lying about Sanctuary City."

"Politicians using loopholes to protect migrants"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 29, 2024, 09:59:36 PM: Quote from: bambu. on February 29, 2024, 08:50:10 PM
Just walked psst my tv...on screen was:

"GA.
Mayor heckled for llying about Sanctuary City."

"Politicians using loopholes to protect migrants"

Dr Charles Stanley had his Church, In Touch Ministries, in Atlanta, Georgia. He passed on, but he was a great preacher.

I am sure there are a lot of good Christian people in Georgia, and I am sure it is a good place for the refugees. The weather is good in Georgia too. And Georgia is cheaper than many other states. And the refugees can pick peaches in Georgia, etc.

The whole United States is a sanctuary nation, send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free. And Georgia seems safer than Chicago, New York, Detroit, Saint Louis, etc.

The refugees need to do their homework before they come to the United States, and they need to find out where the jobs are, and they need to find out which areas are the safest.

We also have the United Farm Workers union, etc, to help the refugees to be able to earn a living and to be safe.

We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did so that they can be protected by our laws, we need to bring them out of the shadows so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they can join labor unions, and so they can be protected by our laws.

And Mexico is going to be nice, lots of money is being invested in Mexico, and the Mexicans are extremely hard workers, Mexico will be paradise in 20 years, they are building new high speed trains, and new resorts, and new airports, and they are investing in their ports, etc, Mexico is going to be nice in 20 years.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on February 29, 2024, 10:01:57 PM: https://youtu.be/kzw1_2b-I7A?si=srLnomKaDvTn5Lgd

Is it safe?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2024, 01:38:10 AM: my 5pm tv news just now:

"more than one in three young people in Australia sre suffering with mental heath difficulties."

No surprise to me.
I see 12 yr olds at climate emergency protests crying in desperation because they've been told that there is no hope for the future if the climate emergency is not solved NOW.

Then there's the minefield that is social media to navigate.
Swipe left, swipe right...listen to the misguided feminists telling girls that guys should be paying for everything etc...and young women are being set up for failure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM: Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 01, 2024, 10:22:46 AM: Bambu,

I suspect your neighborhood is not one that is actually plagued with home invaders and street thugs.

Quote
The knowledge that weve gained since 1982 unequivocally tells us something else. Serious violence is extremely concentrated in very particular places and, most importantly, among very particular people. Dispelling the notion of dangerous neighborhoods, extensive research on geographic concentration has consistently found that around half of all crime complaints or incidents of gun violence concentrated at about 5 percent of street segments or blocks in a given city.

...sophisticated analysis of social networks have demonstrated that homicides and shootings are strongly concentrated within small social networks within cities - and that there is even further concentration of violence within these social networks...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/beyond-broken-windows-what-really-drives-urban-crime
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2024, 10:39:37 AM: Quote from: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM
Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.
It's very clear that one vet needs treatment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 01, 2024, 12:01:23 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2024, 10:39:37 AM
Quote from: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM
Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.
It's very clear that one vet needs treatment.

He just does not like to admit to himself how much he is shat on by white people who were born here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 03:13:24 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 01, 2024, 12:01:23 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 01, 2024, 10:39:37 AM
Quote from: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM
Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.
It's very clear that one vet needs treatment.

He just does not like to admit to himself how much he is shat on by white people who were born here.

White trash meth dealers ruined my home town, and before that it was white cocaine dealers. In Anaheim the drug dealers are white heroin dealers.

I love the Mexicans, the Mexicans are good Christians who are only poor because they just arrived in the USA with only the clothes on their backs. They are not like the white criminals and the white meth dealers, etc, and the white trash bikers, etc.

I live in a Mexican neighborhood, and it is great here. My neighbors speak Spanish, and they are nice hard working people who are raising families here.

And the people from the Philippines are doing charity work here and are helping the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 04:01:09 PM: California City would be a wonderful place to put the homeless people from Los Angeles, and California City has a Golf Course, etc. But, the only problem is the White meth dealers are selling meth in California City, and they have a huge meth problem there. They cannot blame the Mexicans, it is the White people who are selling the meth in California City.

If we are going to develop California City and use it to house our homeless Senior Citizens, etc, then we need to deal with the meth problem there. People need to bring the meth problem out in the open where the problem can be dealt with, the meth problem cannot be a dirty little secret, the meth problem needs to brought out into the open and the problem needs to be discussed so that the problem can be dealt with. And blaming the Mexicans is a cop out, it is all bullshit, the meth dealers in California City are White people.

The same in Apple Valley, etc, the meth dealers are all White criminals. They cannot blame the Mexicans for the meth in Apple Valley.

We need to deal with the real problems in the USA instead of trying to blame the Mexicans.

And in 20 years Mexico is going to be paradise, lots of money is being invested in Mexico, and the Mexicans are extremely hard workers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2024, 04:02:31 PM: Quote from: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM
Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.

Now the border crossers are complaining about the food, reportedly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 04:07:02 PM: People in glass houses should not throw rocks.

The USA has a lot of problems that we need to deal with, and it does not do any good to blame the Mexicans. We need to deal with the real problems in the USA instead of blaming the Mexicans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 04:42:10 PM: Governor Newsom is going to go down for corruption, when the new law was made giving fast food workers a minimum wage of $20 per hour then he created an exception for his billionaire donor friend who owns the Panera Bread Restaurants. Panera Bread needs to pay their workers $20 per hour just like everyone else. Panera Bread has hundreds of restaurants.

People are reading and examining the law after this news came to light, and Newsom is being investigated. They might even bring in the FBI according to the news.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 07:05:43 PM: My wealthiest friend was my dearly departed friend Lisa, from the Philippines. When she first came to America she opened a night club in Los Angeles named "Manila Gardens" and she was very successful, and she got into Real Estate and she had her own Construction Company, and she was a Developer, and she did other stuff, and the whole time she did Charity Work, and then she retired and she did Charity Work full time helping the homeless and the mentally ill. She used to buy 14 room mansions to house the homeless people, etc, and then she cooked wonderful meals for the people in her houses.

And she taught me how to help the homeless, so I was able to teach the Mayor of Laguna Beach and others what Lisa taught me, etc. With Mental Health Associations like the one in Santa Ana, and Wellness Centers like the one in Orange, etc.

I witnessed miracles at Lisa's houses, I saw how the people were when they first came in after being homeless on the streets for years and mentally ill, when they got treatment and care then they totally transformed. Then, after they became well then many of the people went to work helping the homeless, they got help and then they went to work helping other people, so Lisa created this wonderful chain reaction where people would get help and then they would help other people. Lisa got rich, and then she spent the whole rest of her life giving the money away to help the homeless. Lisa was a wonderful woman, and she was my hero. Plus, a funny thing, Lisa was friends with Suzanne Pleshette, and Suzanne Pleshette was one of my heroes too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 01, 2024, 07:42:48 PM: The illegal immigrants pouring in over the Mexican border...are they 'illegal' if US law states that asylum seekers can enter? , I must find out exactly what US law states, ...who are reportedly not happy with the food in detention...should be given a "Bunnings sausage" or two.
Cheap meal.
"Bunnings" = Home Depot equiv in US.
"Sausage" = two slices of bread (with or without butter/margarine), sausage and onion in between...with or without tomato sauce (ketchup), or bbq sauce.

Well hey, if it's good enough for Ambassador Caroline Kennedy to eat, it should be good enough for asylum seekers.

bambu version.
One slice of buttered bread, thin beef sausage cooked for 9 mins in air fryer.
Place sausage corner to corner on bread, add ketchup ,then fold other corners over sausage and lock together with wooden toothpick thru the bread into the sausage.
Semi hot dog, delicious.
Cheap, easy to make, all good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 07:44:33 PM: The same way that Lisa started a chain reaction where many of the people she helped went on to help other people, then so too Father Boyle of Homeboy Industries started a chain reaction where some of the former gang members whom he helped went on to help other people.

And I guess the crime is high in Memphis, but I like Memphis. I felt safe in Memphis.

And I think that the ports in New Orleans are important, and New Orleans would be a good spot for refugees from Colombia, etc, and they can work at the ports, etc.

On the issue of New York, a lot of people love New York. And New York has great schools. You just have to be careful. And there is Broadway, etc, and the Statue of Liberty.

And it sounds like Australia needs Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Associations, etc. In the USA our best school to teach Psychiatrists is San Diego State University. And I recommend the book "On Becoming a Person" by Carl Rogers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 07:51:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 01, 2024, 07:42:48 PM
The illegal immigrants pouring in over the Mexican border...are they 'illegal' if US law states that asylum seekers can enter? , I must find out exactly what US law states, ...who are reportedly not happy with the food in detention...should be given a "Bunnings sausage" or two.
Cheap meal.
"Bunnings" = Home Depot equiv in US.
"Sausage" = two slices of bread (with or without butter/margarine), sausage and onion in between...with or without tomato sauce (ketchup), or bbq sauce.

Well hey, if it's good enough for Ambassador Caroline Kennedy to eat, it should be good enough for asylum seekers.

bambu version.
One slice of buttered bread, thin beef sausage cooked for 9 mins in air fryer.
Place sausage corner to corner on bread, add ketchup ,then fold other corners over sausage and lock together with wooden toothpick thru the bread into the sausage.
Semi hot dog, delicious.
Cheap, easy to make, all good.

In my neighborhood Chef Bruno feeds Pasta to the homeless children and to the refugee children, he wrote a book "The Power of Pasta" and all of the money from his book goes to feed pasta to the children. He has fed millions of meals of pasta to the children. And we have lots of oranges in California, we can give the refugees and the children all oranges to eat. And we have Tyson Foods in Arkansas providing cheap chicken, everyone loves chicken. We also have the Pacific Ocean providing seafood, etc, we can feed people fish tacos, etc.

And sure, sausage sandwiches are good. I eat the Louisiana Hot Links in rolls with yellow organic mustard from Montana.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 08:42:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 29, 2024, 01:07:19 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 29, 2024, 12:26:39 PM
I saw the re-release of "Stop Making Sense" on a big screen a couple of months ago. So great....
Cedar-Lee Theater, dollar Mondays, 1984. With the arguable exception of Blood Simple the next year, maybe the best $1.00 I ever spent.

Blood Simple! my intro to the Coen bros. Fantastic.

Saw Stop Making Sense at Forest Hills in summer of 83! Exhilarating!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 08:42:51 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on February 29, 2024, 04:08:15 PM
Never seemed them live but they have moved from my headphones to my playlists and have been with me most of my life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 08:50:11 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on February 29, 2024, 10:01:57 PM

https://youtu.be/kzw1_2b-I7A?si=srLnomKaDvTn5Lgd

Is it safe?

Uuurrmm! Yeow!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 09:03:39 PM: Quote from: luee on March 01, 2024, 10:17:40 AM
Mental state in USA should be worse. Brand new drug dealers swarming over the southern border unopposed. Welcome free food and shelter for at least 6 mos. the prez loves you. He will move some vets and poor people aside.

The drug dealers are already here. The people coming here are for the most part just like your folks who came before. Leaving a bad situation coming to the LAND OF OPPORTUNITY ready willing and able to work their asses off if they have permission to work (like Ukrainian refugees) and a path to citizenship.

Unlike any country in the world America IS America because of the immigrants whose toil, sweat and blood built this joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8QxCD6ir8
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 01, 2024, 09:13:46 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 09:03:39 PM

Unlike any country in the world America IS America because of the immigrants whose toil, sweat and blood built this joint.

Even when thousands of them here illegally rape and kill our kids while out on parole for killing and raping more of our kids.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 09:34:18 PM: We need to bring our immigrants out of the shadows and we need to make them legal so that they can be protected by our laws, there is no rightful benefit to keep them illegal, we need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did.

And we need to work together with Mexico as a team to solve our mutually beneficial issues such as reducing crime and expanding trade. And our Senior Citizens can retire to live cheaply on beaches in Mexico, etc. A lot of Americans dream about retiring to a beach in Mexico. And Sammy Hagar has his club in Cabo. A lot of money is being invested in Mexico right now, and they are good hard workers, Mexico is going to be nice in 20 years. People from Minnesota are going to want to retire to live on a beach in Mexico, etc.

The same way that we need to open communication up with China, then so too must we open up communication with Mexico, etc. And Rudy Giuliani went to Mexico to give them advice, Rudy used to support Mexico as our good neighbor.

Also, on the issue of inflation, then our US Dollar is strong in Mexico, the Mexicans will work hard for the US Dollar, and they keep food prices low by working on our farms, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 11:04:25 PM: We need to make our immigrants legal so that they can be essential workers as we give a free education to Americans and send them all to school to be doctors, psychiatrists, scientists, teachers, etc. And as the people of Kentucky go back to school we can send them cheap products from Mexico, and from China, etc, and our immigrants help to produce cheap food here in America.

And Larry is right, the drug dealers are already in America, the meth dealers are White people, and they just busted a big drug ring that was selling meth in Canada and it was all white people. The people selling meth in California City are all White people, and the same in Apple Valley, etc. And keeping the Mexicans illegal does not do anything to stop the drugs, if we made them legal like Reagan did then it would bring them out of the shadows, and they could call the police to report a crime, etc. Bad things happen in the shadows, we need to make our immigrants legal and we need to bring them out of the shadows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 01, 2024, 11:56:39 PM: Instead of diverting attention by blaming the problems on the Mexicans, then we need to look at the real problems.

Mayor Bass is correct in stating that homelessness is our number one crisis in Los Angeles. So we need to look at what happened over the course of the last 30 years to cause us to have 70,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone, and we need to deal with the issues. Meanwhile we have Proposition 1 in California that will get people into housing, and it will train people to work in the field of treating the mentally ill, etc, and then as people are helped a chain reaction can happen and they can learn how to help other people. And our best college for training psychiatrists is San Diego State University. We also need lots of Mental Health Associations, and Wellness Centers. And we need cheap Sober Living Homes for the people, etc.

And San Bernardino has the highest crime rate in the state, my Mother was born in San Bernardino, and it was nice back then, but now it is bad, all of my relatives left San Bernardino, they moved to nicer areas such as Redlands, etc.

San Francisco has China Town, and the Chinese will help to save San Francisco.

I do not know what to do about Oakland. Oakland is bad.

I guess groups like Homeboy Industries could help in Oakland, and in San Bernardino, etc. And churches. And Wellness Centers and Mental Health Associations. And cheap Sober Living Homes, and cheap Hostels. Biden could give money to the churches to help the desperate people, the same way that George W. Bush did, Bush gave money to the churches for the churches to help the homeless, etc. And Kiwanis International is everywhere and can help.

Our problems are not being created by Mexicans. And we can all benefit from bringing our immigrants out of the shadows and by making them legal.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 02, 2024, 12:25:53 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 01, 2024, 09:13:46 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 09:03:39 PM

Unlike any country in the world America IS America because of the immigrants whose toil, sweat and blood built this joint.

Even when thousands of them here illegally rape and kill our kids while out on parole for killing and raping more of our kids.

You are thinking of your fat pasty pastor, congressperson or sheriff. White folks like to blame their rapes on people outside the home. Fortunately no one any longer believes them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 02, 2024, 12:47:31 AM: Red is supporting the most well documented American rapist still walking the streets in his bid to steal another term as president.

He wants the whole country to be more like this,

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-abortion-ban-domestic-violence_n_65dcd9a9e4b005b858312158 (http://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-abortion-ban-domestic-violence_n_65dcd9a9e4b005b858312158)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 02, 2024, 06:05:07 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 01, 2024, 10:22:46 AM
Bambu,

I suspect your neighborhood is not one that is actually plagued with home invaders and street thugs.

Quote
The knowledge that weve gained since 1982 unequivocally tells us something else. Serious violence is extremely concentrated in very particular places and, most importantly, among very particular people. Dispelling the notion of dangerous neighborhoods, extensive research on geographic concentration has consistently found that around half of all crime complaints or incidents of gun violence concentrated at about 5 percent of street segments or blocks in a given city.

...sophisticated analysis of social networks have demonstrated that homicides and shootings are strongly concentrated within small social networks within cities - and that there is even further concentration of violence within these social networks...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/beyond-broken-windows-what-really-drives-urban-crime

I live out of the 'Sydney basin' (50kms S, W, N) now, semi rural, low crime area.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 02, 2024, 07:17:50 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 08:42:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on February 29, 2024, 01:07:19 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on February 29, 2024, 12:26:39 PM
I saw the re-release of "Stop Making Sense" on a big screen a couple of months ago. So great....
Cedar-Lee Theater, dollar Mondays, 1984. With the arguable exception of Blood Simple the next year, maybe the best $1.00 I ever spent.

Blood Simple! my intro to the Coen bros. Fantastic.

Saw Stop Making Sense at Forest Hills in summer of 83! Exhilarating!
Saw Blood Simple on April 1, 1985. A date I can Google because we chose to go to the movie rather than watch the NCAA hoops championship game because there was no way Villanova would be able to hang with Georgetown. Game would be over by the 8 minute mark, why bother watching?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 02, 2024, 10:25:54 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 01, 2024, 09:13:46 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 09:03:39 PM

Unlike any country in the world America IS America because of the immigrants whose toil, sweat and blood built this joint.

Even when thousands of them here illegally rape and kill our kids while out on parole for killing and raping more of our kids.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768760/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM: Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 02, 2024, 01:13:50 PM: They have used the wedge issue to crack their skulls open and let their brains leak out.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 02, 2024, 01:22:51 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM
Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Well seems they dems are overlooking an issue in their favor.
Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 02, 2024, 01:44:03 PM: Among the Liz Truss wing of the republican party that is considered a witty and insightful retort.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 02, 2024, 04:04:49 PM: 5 1/2 hours until kick-off of Oz NRL in Vegas.

Not trying to replace NFL, just be an additional sport.

My team, with the best colours and best jersey/shorts/socks in the league is one of the 4 teams on show.
Won't be a superbowl crowd, but they say they've sold 40,000 tickets to the double header.
NRL will lose about $1M-$2M on the venture, and had expected a crowd of about 10,000.

But "fans from across the globe will flock to the NRL history making doubl-header on Sunday "(my time)- Sunday Telegraph.
"Fans from a staggering 24 countries and 4 continents will be represented.
14,000 Aussies, plus NRL fans from NZ, PNG, England, war-torn Afghanistan.

NRL ticketing records show fans have bought seats from US, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
France, Germany, Ireland, Asian countries, and UAE. Netherlands, Austria, Spain.
Asia's gaming equivalent of Vegas, Macau, will be represented".

"The fan festival on Friday underlined the league fever gripping Vegas, with more than 5,000 fans flocking to Fremont St for a footballing festival."

Hope it all looks good on tv.
It's a great brand of footy.
Every player does both attack and defence, and must have all the skills.
Speed, strength, courage...and the ability to catch balls kicked high into the 'heavens'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 02, 2024, 05:22:41 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 01, 2024, 09:13:46 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 01, 2024, 09:03:39 PM

Unlike any country in the world America IS America because of the immigrants whose toil, sweat and blood built this joint.

Even when thousands of them here illegally rape and kill our kids while out on parole for killing and raping more of our kids.

Thousands more like the guy who murdered Audrii Cunningham home grown right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWPVWM4-7U
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 08:31:57 PM: Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!

!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on March 03, 2024, 12:27:19 PM: My main squeeze looked up Stamford Texas from home ad. 3000+ population 100 miles to any large urban center. Still have cheap homes and inexpensive living. Going fast.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 03, 2024, 12:32:17 PM: Is that your left hand or your right hand?

Thank you for admitting that Florida has become unlivable under republican control even for federally subsidized mouth breathers.

You would do no more harm to this country from Texas than you do from Florida.

Good luck
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 03, 2024, 01:31:07 PM: We have more cops than ever, and yet crime keeps going up. And their solution, hire more cops! They just do not get it. And as long as they keep paying assholes to patrol with guns for $100,000 per year then they are going to keep doing the gravy jobs, they do not have to go to school, no degree needed. And the fucking prison guards, they are too lazy to go to college, so they make $80,000 per year to stand there with a gun and guard the prisoners. They are not producing jack shit, they are not creating jobs, it is all bullshit. It is like people get paid for their toxic masculinity, they get paid to be a tough guy, but they are not doing shit to create jobs. And the lazy people are going to keep going to the easy gravy jobs, border patrol agents, prison guards, etc. As long as cops get paid more than teachers then the people are going to keep getting the jobs as cops.

If we want change, then we need to change our system, and we need to start rewarding teachers and producers.

And with the President of Ukraine, he was an Actor, actors can win their hearts and minds, along with singers, poets, priests, etc.

We need to build schools instead of prisons, and we need to train teachers instead of soldiers. Part of the reason why the Roman Empire collapsed was because they had too many soldiers, and the taxes were too high in order to pay all of the soldiers, and the solders do not produce anything.

Democracy started in Greece where the people were highly educated, and we still study Aristotle, and Euclid, etc, etc, etc, today, we still study the Greeks. And we built our nation of the foundation provided by Athens. We need to educate our people, and we need schools and libraries. And we have all of the new technology for streaming services such as movies and television shows, and so we need to make good quality entertainment for society.

For instance, in 1938 the top film was "Boy's Town" about Father Flanagan, and the film made Boy's Town famous so that we could all support Boy's Town. Right now we could make a movie about Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and then we can make Homeboy Industries famous so that people can support the organization. We can use the Arts to benefit society. And if we want to improve society, instead of just perpetually hiring more cops, then we need to expand programs such as Homeboy Industries. And we need to build more schools and libraries, etc. And we need for the Construction Unions to teach the Trades to the Prisoners, etc, so they can work an honest job when they get out of prison.

Instead of having a perpetual decline in civilization, then we need to strengthen civilization.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 03, 2024, 06:27:30 PM: I sent a message to the Pope on Facebook...

Pope Francis, Sir, we can help the immigrants in the USA by helping them to become legal, and by working for a change in the laws so that our immigrants can come out of the shadows, and so they can be legal, like Reagan did. And along with making our immigrants legal, then we need to help the immigrants to connect with the right jobs, the Farm Workers can be sent to the Farm Workers of America Union, and the Construction Workers can be sent to the unions for the Construction workers, and the Truck Drivers can be sent to the Teamsters Union, etc. And the Educated immigrants can be teachers in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc. We need to make the immigrants legal, and we need to connect the immigrants with good jobs.

I hope the Pope reads it.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 03, 2024, 09:43:53 PM: Cops, prison guards, tough guys are risking their lives to keep society safe, keep the laws obeyed.
They're getting paid for the risk, shift work, not jobs everyone wants to do.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 09:51:26 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 02, 2024, 01:22:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM
Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Well seems they dems are overlooking an issue in their favor.
Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!
Typical response from you for getting called out for a blood libel.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 03, 2024, 10:06:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 02, 2024, 01:22:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM
Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Well seems they dems are overlooking an issue in their favor.
Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!
Typical response from you for getting called out for a blood libel.
No one has called me out on anything.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 10:28:36 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 03, 2024, 10:06:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 02, 2024, 01:22:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM
Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Well seems they dems are overlooking an issue in their favor.
Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!
Typical response from you for getting called out for a blood libel.
No one has called me out on anything.
LOL
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 04, 2024, 12:39:21 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 10:28:36 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 03, 2024, 10:06:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 03, 2024, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 02, 2024, 01:22:51 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 02, 2024, 10:28:14 AM
Do you actually think that matters to him? The Republicans have a wedge issue.
Well seems they dems are overlooking an issue in their favor.
Biden, according to the pointy headed liberals, is using illegal immigration to reduce crime!
Typical response from you for getting called out for a blood libel.
No one has called me out on anything.
LOL

It is no surprise Red blames his many failures on his parents. He may be the perfect example of sparing the rod spoiling the child.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2024, 01:37:55 AM: Saw a special on television about Jacquelyn Kennedy, she had such a hard life. She had some real highs and lows.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on March 04, 2024, 07:52:19 AM: American princess. Hard life?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: luee on March 04, 2024, 08:05:09 AM: Bibi is so bad for Israel?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 04, 2024, 12:22:56 PM: Quote from: luee on March 04, 2024, 08:05:09 AM
Bibi is so bad for Israel?

Yup. He is the worst.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2024, 02:59:16 PM: Quote from: luee on March 04, 2024, 07:52:19 AM
American princess. Hard life?

First JFK died and that left Jackie with PTSD and suicidal, and then she got close with Bobby and then Bobby Kennedy was murdered, so at this point Jackie is crazy, and then she went to Greece and married Aristotle Onassis and then he died, so she was just crushed, and then she died of Cancer, she had a hard life. She had some good times, but she had a lot of hard times too.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 04, 2024, 05:59:14 PM: For The Record

A U.N. report released this afternoon found it reasonableto conclude that rape was used against Israelis during the Hamas October 7 terrorist attack. It also concluded that there is clear and convincing information showing that sexual violence, including rape and sexualized torture,has been used and continues to be used against hostages held in Gaza.
The report, which will later be folded into a broader annual report by the U.N. secretary-general, effectively swats down some of the rampant denialism of Hamas atrocities, adding the U.N.imprimatur to the allegations of sexual violence that have been contested by skeptics.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 04, 2024, 07:46:42 PM: Quote from: luee on March 04, 2024, 07:52:19 AM
American princess. Hard life?

Yeah it was big fun sitting next to your husband as he had his head blown apart.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 04, 2024, 07:48:37 PM: Migrants like Trump!

https://youtu.be/a_rTov239yw?si=4okOpO8RYlVyWf7Q
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 05, 2024, 01:59:34 AM: Supreme Court voted to put Trump back on all the ballots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 05, 2024, 01:26:27 PM: Many Americans tour Australia.
They seem to mostly visit the east coast, the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland.
If you, any of your family, extended family or friends, anyone you know, or their family are planning to do so, yould could do them a huge favour by letting them know that in FNQ (Far North Queensland) in particular, and inland in The Northern Territory...there are wild beasts roaming about.

They 're called Salt Water Crocodiles.
They go surfing in the sea, and can be found anywhere there's water.
Billabongs (small lakes), creeks large and small, and in rivers.
Also can be found on river banks and on land, as they have legs.

They like nothing more than feasting on humans.
They also like eating sharks.
"Monster crocodile gobbles up shark in Kakadu National Park" (Northern Territory).
Northern Territory, same deal as Queensland, crocodile central.
'Salties' are equally at home in freshwater.
An expert explains said crocs will "move upstream into the freshwater to hunt some of their prey such as pigs, wallabies and birds."

In my news today is featured a 30 something local mother in Townsville, city in far nth Queensland, and
her small children.
Mom took her children swimming in a creek, very large creek.
She was "shocked to find a three metre (9 ft 9in) long crocodile in "the popular north Queensland swimming spot".

People haven't been paying attention.

*

NB:

There aren't crocodiles roaming thru the streets of Townsville gobbling up pedestrians...you have to go and jump into water or camp/ stand on river banks to be at risk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2024, 02:10:58 PM: Steve Garvey is ahead for the Senate race, even though he did not pay for any television commercials.

And I am sure Prop 1 will pass here in California to help the homeless.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 05, 2024, 03:48:18 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2024, 02:10:58 PM
Steve Garvey is ahead for the Senate race, even though he did not pay for any television commercials.

Salute,

Tony V.
Ahead for second, you mean. Establishment Dems have been boosting him, knowing Schiff will beat him easily in November. This at the expense of Katie Porter, the only woman who has not taken out a restraining order against me yet that I would consider leaving Mrs. Lime for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 05, 2024, 04:13:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 05, 2024, 01:59:34 AM
Supreme Court voted to put Trump back on all the ballots.

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-metadata-sotomayor-trump-dissent.html (http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-metadata-sotomayor-trump-dissent.html)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 05, 2024, 07:01:50 PM: Another 'day', another e-bike fire in Australia...this time in NSW...two people perished.

Charging e-bike lithium-ion battery ...thermal runaway, gas given off, gas exploded, extremely hot fire, difficult for firies to extinguish.
Town house complex near Newcastle NSW. Town house destroyed, two people escaped, two were found deceased.

No 1 morning radio host Ray [2gb.com 9am-noon]...had been warning all and sundry including the govt that exploding e-bikes, golf carts etc charging with lithium-ion batteries would lead to deaths.
He wants 'cheap imported lithium-ion batteries' banned.

Have been no problems with lithium-ion batteries from the major brands of power tools.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2024, 07:09:24 PM: The Oscars are coming up, I was friends with Norby Walters when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, and Norby used to have an Oscar party every year named "Night of 100 Stars," all of the stars loved Norby. He used to have a poker game every Wednesday night, and it was fun to work on Wednesday nights just to see who came to play cards with Norby. Norby had a black Rolls Royce with New York plates, and he used to give me a $100 just to park it and cover it.

It would be fun to be rich and connected like Norby and to be able to have parties on Oscar night with all of the stars. He was a lucky man.

I threw some good keggar parties in my youth, and I threw some parties with live bands, but I could never do an Oscar party with all of the stars, I would throw the party if I had the power like Norby had. The party could be at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles with an outdoor party and outdoor bar there at MacArthur Park. The stars could ride in their limousines from Hollywood to Los Angeles, and then they could eat and drink and dance and party all night and then they can sleep in the rooms at the Park Plaza Hotel. But, it is hard to make a party like that happen. I do not have the power that Norby had.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 05, 2024, 07:42:43 PM: The new baseball stadium for the Athletics in Las Vegas is going to be awesome, it is just sad that Oakland is in such sad shape.

Homeboy Industries and Father Boyle could teach a lot to Oakland, and a new movie needs to be made about Homeboy Industries to make them famous and to gain them support.

Vegas is doing great, lots of money is pouring into Vegas, and we will have a new high speed train soon between Vegas and Southern California. It is amazing how fast Vegas is growing, and they created this wonderful city which creates so much prosperity out in the middle of the desert, all thanks to Hoover Dam and gambling. Immigrants are coming to Vegas from all of the world, and they have a fast growing China Town in Vegas ( It is hard for the poor people in Hong Kong so they are coming to Vegas, along with people from other areas ).

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 07, 2024, 09:27:32 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on March 06, 2024, 07:50:27 PM
gradycartoons.com

A Question for the Court

Sinema s Good-bye

Goodbye and good riddance to her AND Joe Manchin!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 07, 2024, 09:28:44 AM: Trump plan for American education

Hitler Youth Schools

https://youtu.be/tscgWCBbeao?si=xnw1Pa7dtfAZhMQq
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 07, 2024, 12:23:25 PM: Vice President Harris wanted for everyone to have Firefox, she wanted for Firefox to always be available for the poor people.

Firefox no longer works for You Tube, so I sent a message to Vice President Harris. Firefox needs to work for the poor people.

Also, 15 years ago AOL worked great, and we could use AOL to watch You Tube videos, etc, we need to restore AOL for the old timers, a lot of Senior Citizens love AOL, and the Seniors are willing to pay for AOL if they would restore AOL and bring it back.

Also, Anaheim needs a computer store, we had the best computer store around, Fry's Electronics, but they closed during COVID and they never reopened, someone needs to open a new computer store in Anaheim, and an Apple Store would be great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 07, 2024, 07:28:38 PM: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/07/miami-seaquarium-evicted-animal-death (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/07/miami-seaquarium-evicted-animal-death)

Florida continues to be a tragedy of a farce of an abomination.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 12:11:29 AM: Send Ukraine some modified and updated F-104 Starfighters with vectored thrust to assist with the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, as INTERCEPTORS, and then you can team them up with Sidewinder Missiles, etc. And we can send F-22s, and F-35s, and B-1 Bombers, and B2 Stealth Bombers, and B-21s, etc. And we can send them Apache Helicopters, etc. And we can send them the Iron Dome missile defense system, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 02:04:05 AM: Mayor Bass is in Paris, France to learn from the French on how to prepare for the Olympics, Los Angeles needs cheap hostels, cheap sober living homes, and lots of public transportation, bicycles, walking, shade trees and parks, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 08, 2024, 10:12:43 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 02:04:05 AM
Mayor Bass is in Paris, France to learn from the French on how to prepare for the Olympics, Los Angeles needs cheap hostels, cheap sober living homes, and lots of public transportation, bicycles, walking, shade trees and parks, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

And less people?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 08, 2024, 01:37:03 PM: LA will take a few million more before it hits its peak. Equitable resource allocation can make it very comfortable for everyone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 07:06:37 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 08, 2024, 01:37:03 PM
LA will take a few million more before it hits its peak. Equitable resource allocation can make it very comfortable for everyone.

California City is designed to be a huge new city, they mapped it all out and planned it, and they have a Golf Course, etc, California City would be a great place for the Senior Citizens from Los Angeles to retire to. They can have a movie theatre, and a bowling alley, and community theatre, and restaurants, etc. And a hospital and doctors and dentists, etc, can be there for the people. California City can be nice like Palm Springs for the retired people, and California City is a lot cheaper than Palm Springs. California City is 100 miles from Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 07:23:37 PM: The median price for a home in Las Vegas is almost $400,000 but in California City it is only $250,000 and California City is only 100 miles away from Los Angeles.

If they build small affordable condominiums in California City like in Santorini, Greece, then that would be perfect for the homeless Senior Citizens from Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 08, 2024, 07:48:37 PM: They said on Facebook that Jack Nicholson is growing old all alone in his giant house, sad, Jack would be better off living in a nice condominium in California City on a Golf Course surrounded by loving friends.

And with Matthew Perry, he died all alone in Malibu. He would have been better off in a condo in California City on a Golf Course surrounded by loving friends.

Or at least they can have roommates so they are not alone. When I lived in Malibu we had 6 of us in our home, I had loving roommates. Jack should at least have some roommates, and roommates might have saved Matthew Perry.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 08, 2024, 08:07:57 PM: I have spent about a week a year out in Cal City going on twelve years. Before anyone tries moving out there in mass, a generational undertaking in infrastructure development must happen especially a revolutionary advancement in water management. That is something we can do and should really invest in, federally and here in California.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 09, 2024, 06:37:49 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on March 09, 2024, 04:44:12 PM
Trump looking Good

Senator Hawley

gradycartoons.com

Never better!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 09, 2024, 11:55:53 PM: I agree Fac, water is an important issue as more people move to the Southwest. Here in Orange County we purify our water and pump it into the aquifer instead of letting the water flow into the ocean. Lots of new ideas to help on the issue of water.

On the issue of Housing, there are poor children living in the cheap motels where they have drugs, suicide, and prostitution, etc, and we have a local hero Chef Bruno and others who go into the cheap motels and they feed the children pasta and they help to get the children into safer apartments. Chef Bruno wrote a book "The Power of Pasta" and all of the money from the book goes to feed pasta to the poor children, and they help the children from the cheap motels to move into safer apartments.

It is important for the good adults and for people with power to help the poor children who cannot help themselves. The poor children in the cheap motels cannot help themselves, it is up to good people to help the children who cannot help themselves. Like Chef Bruno does, Chef Bruno is a hero.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 10, 2024, 06:09:27 PM: Today is Oscar Sunday, I wish I could dress up nice and attend, and someday I hope my movie "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" goes to the Oscars, I want to premier it at the Cannes Film Festival in the French Riviera, and I hope it wins Oscars.

I would also love to throw Oscar parties like Norby Walters used to do with "Night of 100 Stars," and like how Elton John used to do. I would throw the party at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles with an outdoor party and an outdoor bar there at MacArthur Park, the stars can ride in their limousines from Hollywood to Los Angeles, and they can eat, and drink, and dance, and party, all night long and then they can sleep in the rooms of the Park Plaza Hotel. ( By the way, I took a tour many years ago of the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, and it is a fantastic old hotel, and I volunteered to help clean up trash at MacArthur Park, the area needs some tender loving care, but it is a great place for an Oscar night party. )

My cousin Kevin helped to do the audio visuals at the Oscars, and he loved it. Sadly he died of AIDS when I was in Acting school. Kevin loved show business, and he was proud of me for going to acting school, and he got up off of his death bed to take my first Head Shot to mail out. I miss him, and I am so glad that a cure has been found for AIDS, we lost a lot of people here in Hollywood to AIDS.

Anyhow, I love the Oscars, and I will be watching from home with some nice red wine, and with some ham and cheese sandwiches on fresh baked bread.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 10, 2024, 11:28:51 PM: The Oscars were good tonight, and Oppenheimer won, which is a Universal movie, so it is good to see Universal win. Universal is my favorite studio.

And Jimmy Kimmel made the statement of the night when he said Trump was watching, and instead of saying "Isn't it past your bed time?" he said "Isn't it past your prison time?" The crowd loved it.

Now the stars are all going to party until the sun comes up, and then they will read about themselves in the Newspapers the next morning, at least in the times of Clark Gable.

Maybe next year I will produce an Oscar party at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, with an outdoor party and outdoor bar there at MacArthur Park, we will see if I can make it happen.

( On the doorway above the entrance to the Park Plaza Hotel it says "Treat others as you wish to be treated" and the hotel has Angels looking out, I took a tour, it is a fantastic hotel, if you are ever in Los Angeles then I highly recommend that you take a tour of the Park Plaza Hotel. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 11, 2024, 12:45:43 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/11/2228821/-Australia-again-proves-emphatically-that-the-left-manages-the-economy-far-better-than-the-right?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/11/2228821/-Australia-again-proves-emphatically-that-the-left-manages-the-economy-far-better-than-the-right?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 11, 2024, 08:12:41 PM: I went across the USA and back on a Greyhound Bus, and we zig zagged all over the USA, and it was great to get out and see the USA, and it was cool to see Memphis, and I saw some great places, and we ate at the McDonald's restaurants all over America, it was great. I saw the Arch in Saint Louis, I saw a lot of cool places. But I saw a lot of poverty in America, and everyone warned me to be careful because of the high crime.

America is beautiful, it was good to see the nation, but we need to build schools, and we need to bring in good Teachers for our communities, and we need to put a fresh coat of paint on America.

I went to the Pantheon in Rome, which is 2,000 years old, and that is the area where we have our United States Embassy in Rome, and they have a McDonald's there, and a Hard Rock Cafe, and the people sit in the parks in Rome and they read books, and there are great coffee shops all over. We can teach America to be more like Rome, and in Rome they want to be more like America, it is funny.

Biden is right that we need a raise for teachers, and we need to give free community college to all Americans.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 11, 2024, 09:20:11 PM: Mayor Bass is awesome, she is representing Los Angeles in Paris right now, and Mayor Bass is meeting with the homeless women in Paris in private to learn how to best help the homeless people in Los Angeles. We are lucky to have Karen Bass representing us in Paris right now, she is doing great Public Relations while advancing humanitarian efforts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 11, 2024, 10:37:59 PM: The United Nations reported that 1.5 million people are starving right now in Haiti. Biden needs to take action, along with the UN and every nation that is able to help.

The first step is to make the peace so that the aid can be received, they need to have peace so that the food and supplies can be brought in.

And then they need new wise leaders in Haiti. I had a History Professor from Haiti who is brilliant and so I know that Haiti has brilliant people, Haiti just needs for the brilliant people to rise to the top. A lot of people have been trying to help in Haiti for a long time with no success, such as Sean Penn who volunteered in Haiti for years. The secret is to start educating the children when they are young. And for the people who are starving, they can be given school as they are fed food to eat, we can feed their bodies and their minds. ( And Church is great too, if only we could teach all of the children of the world to obey the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule. ) And we can teach them about the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, etc. We can also teach them farming and agriculture. And they have seafood, etc.

Maybe the people of Haiti can be like a big Native American Indian Tribe, and the young people work, and the old people are the Chiefs and the elders, they could have a welfare system like the Incas, etc. The children go to school while the young people work and then the Seniors are their leaders and teachers, etc.

Just having free enterprise is not going to work in Haiti, the whole situation needs to change. Maybe they can learn from Costa Rica, Costa Rica is a huge success.

And Colombia is doing great right now, and they are spending a lot of money to invest in the Arts in Bogota, etc, they can invest in the Arts and in Fashion, etc. Shakira and Education have been helping Colombia, and a long line of great Presidents in Colombia, some of whom attended Harvard, etc.

Maybe Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries could offer advice to Haiti, I do not know.

You could give them all cigarettes and get them all addicted, and then raise the price of cigarettes and then make them work growing food in order to pay for their cigarettes. Cigarettes are very addictive and smokers will do almost anything for a cigarette when they are addicted, so you can make them grow food to feed the hungry in exchange for money to buy cigarettes, etc. There are low level economies that operate on cigarettes, like in prison, or in a homeless shelter, people will work for cigarettes when they are addicted.They can use cigarettes as the motivator of their economy if nothing else. If they will not work to help their poor, then maybe they will work for a cigarette if they are addicted. That is a sad economy, but it is better than what Haiti has now. Cuba can grow the tobacco for the cigarettes for Haiti to be used to motivate an improved economy in Haiti. In the homeless shelter the manager gave the homeless people cigarettes to clean the toilets, etc, and to mow the lawn, and to do needed tasks, addicted people will work in exchange for cigarettes.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 12, 2024, 02:06:30 AM: In 2019, the Asian population for Kentucky was 71,504. The Asian population of Kentucky increased from 50,789 in 2010 to 71,504 in 2019 growing at an average annual rate of 3.89%. According to U.S. Data.

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That is good that the Asians are coming to Kentucky.

For the poor people from Hong Kong then Kentucky is paradise.

And with Tik Tok the Americans are communicating with the Asians and then the Asians are coming to America to meet their new friends from Tik Tok.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 12, 2024, 04:40:41 PM: Tesla's next Gigafactory will be in Mexico.

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Mexico is our good neighbor and ally, and we all benefit as the economy improves in Mexico.

My Grandmother opened Gold Mines in Mexico, and she helped to bring running water, electricity, telephones, television, radio, paved roads, etc, to some very poor parts of Mexico, she helped to bring modern civilization to some very poor parts of Mexico. They loved her in Mexico.

We all benefit as the situation improves next door in Mexico.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 12, 2024, 05:41:26 PM: From the President of Colombia...

This Monday, we kicked off the project of the new Faculty of Fine Arts at the National University in Bogota, a project that will benefit more than 3,200 students.

During this event, we talk about the importance of not only expanding educational coverage, but also providing quality knowledge for one and all.

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As Colombians study the Arts then they can look for friends here in California, USA, where we have Film, Television, Fashion, Music, the Culinary Arts, Literature, etc, etc, etc, California has everything when it comes to the Arts, Colombia and California can be friends on Arts projects.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2024, 12:10:53 AM: Brightline West's $12-billion, 218-mile route between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga promises even faster travel than the company's Florida train as the first true high-speed rail line in the United States.

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We need to get more workers working on the high speed trains in order to build more trains in a speedier fashion. They are building high speed trains in Mexico too. And those are all good paying jobs. In the USA the jobs building the high speed trains are all good union jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 13, 2024, 06:42:01 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2024, 12:10:53 AM
Brightline West's $12-billion, 218-mile route between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga promises even faster travel than the company's Florida train as the first true high-speed rail line in the United States.

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We need to get more workers working on the high speed trains in order to build more trains in a speedier fashion. They are building high speed trains in Mexico too. And those are all good paying jobs. In the USA the jobs building the high speed trains are all good union jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hope the said high speed trains they are building will be derail-proof.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 13, 2024, 11:44:15 AM: In case anyone missed it, AOC and Trump agreed on something today.

Though their opposition to the TikTok forced sale/or banned House bill seems to be based on quite different reasons.

Trump: my mega donor has a stake in Tiktok. So I'll concoct some bullshit about not this bill helping naughty Facebook.

AOC:

Im voting NO on the TikTok forced sale bill.

This bill was incredibly rushed, from committee to vote in 4 days, with little explanation.

There are serious antitrust and privacy questions here, and any national security concerns should be laid out to the public prior to a vote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 13, 2024, 03:23:47 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 13, 2024, 11:44:15 AM
In case anyone missed it, AOC and Trump agreed on something today.

Though their opposition to the TikTok forced sale/or banned House bill seems to be based on quite different reasons.

Trump: my mega donor has a stake in Tiktok. So I'll concoct some bullshit about not this bill helping naughty Facebook.

AOC:

Im voting NO on the TikTok forced sale bill.

This bill was incredibly rushed, from committee to vote in 4 days, with little explanation.

There are serious antitrust and privacy questions here, and any national security concerns should be laid out to the public prior to a vote.

AOC is very wise.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 13, 2024, 04:51:24 PM: https://apnews.com/article/paul-alexander-iron-lung-dies-1c320147b3df93bfd6e59c3f12c66657

Texas man in iron lung since 1952 has died today.

Arthur Digby Sellers sends flowers.

(Larry Sellers father. Wrote 156 episodes of Branded, the bulk of the series. He is not exactly a lightweight...)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 13, 2024, 06:05:14 PM: Someone mentioned Bo Diddley, and he is cool, I hope he returns to Elba, and it is cool he went to live in China and is exploring. He brings a lot of interesting insight to Elba.

On other issues...

The Governor of Kentucky is worried about food for the poor people in Kentucky.

Because of Dams in the Southwest we are now growing wonderful Winter Vegetables such as fresh Spinach in Arizona, Southern California, and in Nevada, etc, and we can send this wonderful Spinach and other winter vegetables to the poor people of Kentucky, as well as to the poor in Cincinnati, and in Detroit, and in Saint Louis, and in New York City, etc.

In Los Angeles the Farmers are sending food directly to Food Banks and to Kitchens which feed the poor. And new connections can be made in New York, and in Chicago, etc, so that they can send fresh vegetables straight from the Farmers to the people who need the food.

In Lancaster, California, back during the Great Depression the Citizens used to get together and hunt rabbits, and then they would send the rabbit meat to the orphanages in Los Angeles, all of the orphans in Los Angeles were living on rabbit meat, etc. Now fresh trout, and rabbit, are foods that the wealthy eat at fancy hotels in Manhattan.

Also, we need to improve the ports in Mexico, and we need to allow Mexican Truck Drivers to join the Teamsters so that they can deliver goods in the USA, including delivering food to Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 13, 2024, 06:25:43 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 13, 2024, 04:51:24 PM
https://apnews.com/article/paul-alexander-iron-lung-dies-1c320147b3df93bfd6e59c3f12c66657

Texas man in iron lung since 1952 has died today.

Arthur Digby Sellers sends flowers.

(Larry Sellers father. Wrote 156 episodes of Branded, the bulk of the series. He is not exactly a lightweight...)
Larry saw what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps. Or some such.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 01:52:46 AM: Today on YouTube I learnt:

How to open a pineapple without a knife, just bare hands.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 04:25:27 AM: SkyNews::

"China cancels Australian wheat exports."

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Time Australia cancelled all Chinese imports.
Sent the Chinese ambassador home and turned the embassy into a public carpark, or rose garden.

Make more bread with the wheat and eat it ourselves.
Drink the wine ourselves, eat the beef ourselves.
Anything imported from China Australia could buy from other countries.
...including cars, solar panels.
Burn the coal ourselves and have cheap electricity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2024, 08:36:42 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 04:25:27 AM
SkyNews::

"China cancels Australian wheat exports."

Good move by China. Why buy it when they can just invade and take it?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 14, 2024, 12:11:33 PM: Gift link, no paywall

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/?gift=43H6YzEv1tnFbOn4MRsWYl326JEXqHGXci6ZF1gf8tE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Pass this along, if you know parents or teachers who are looking for solutions to the problem in their homes and communities. Sections 8 and 9 deal with some concrete proposals.

We don't want to lose that generation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 02:03:46 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2024, 08:36:42 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 04:25:27 AM
SkyNews::

"China cancels Australian wheat exports."

Good move by China. Why buy it when they can just invade and take it?

Yes.
And Australia would be stoopid to be treated as a sucker in the meantime.
Best to reject everything China.
Disconnect the phone.
Take back the port of Darwin.
Crank up the deportation "bus".
Turn back ships with imports from China.
Stop all foreign aid, and live as a commune.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 02:11:53 PM: What I learnt from YouTube today.

US President James A Garfield was ambidextrous.

He could write in Greek with one hand while simultaneously writing in Latin with the other.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 14, 2024, 03:04:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 14, 2024, 02:11:53 PM
What I learnt from YouTube today.

US President James A Garfield was ambidextrous.

He could write in Greek with one hand while simultaneously writing in Latin with the other.
That is the most useful thing you have learned from YouTube by all appearances. Or at least the least harmful. Or both.

I learned that from Gore Vidal's 1876.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 14, 2024, 03:43:14 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 12:11:33 PM
Gift link, no paywall

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/?gift=43H6YzEv1tnFbOn4MRsWYl326JEXqHGXci6ZF1gf8tE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Pass this along, if you know parents or teachers who are looking for solutions to the problem in their homes and communities. Sections 8 and 9 deal with some concrete proposals.

We don't want to lose that generation.
No wonder the article is free.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM: What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 14, 2024, 09:22:31 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?

Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Cellphone use?
Not in the slightest. And it is doing wonders for my grandkids and their classmates.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 15, 2024, 08:55:50 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
... cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Yes, it's. And always will be.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 15, 2024, 08:58:40 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 14, 2024, 09:22:31 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?

Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Cellphone use?
Not in the slightest. And it is doing wonders for my grandkids and their classmates.
Maybe he has a point. After all, he grew up without a cellphone and became an ignorant troll and a pathological liar. How much worse could it be?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 15, 2024, 10:26:19 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 15, 2024, 08:55:50 AM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
... cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Yes, it's. And always will be.

Autocorrect is stupid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 15, 2024, 01:34:26 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 15, 2024, 08:58:40 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 14, 2024, 09:22:31 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?

Quote from: Oilcan on March 14, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
What do you mean by that?

As a subscriber I can share five articles per month with a free link. It is a way to send it to some educators I know, or anyone who follows the topic of cellphone/social media use and it's psychological effects on teens and youth. Is that a problem for you?
Cellphone use?
Not in the slightest. And it is doing wonders for my grandkids and their classmates.
Maybe he has a point. After all, he grew up without a cellphone and became an ignorant troll and a pathological liar. How much worse could it be?

Cell phones may also help them reject the horrible poisons their grandfather tries to pour in their ears.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 04:43:49 PM: Bambu, China is on our team now, we need to be allies with China, certainly they will buy more imports from Australia.

And keep doing trade with California and with the USA, and with Mexico, and with Colombia, etc.

My Italian professor from Fullerton community college just retired, he was surprised at how fast his home here in Rancho Santa Margarita sold, and now he is going to visit his son for some quality time before he takes a vacation to Hawaii, and then he is going to go buy a modest home in Italy and live out the rest of his days in Italy. He is all on his own, just him and his son, his son is in Medical School now, and he is going to go start a new life in Italy on his own. I learned a lot from him, and I wish him a good life in Italy.

I am grateful for my home in California, and I would love to make movies and television shows at Universal Studios, and find a wife here who wants to produce movies and television shows with me, but I would love to go open a night club on Via Urbana in Rome someday, and a vineyard and winery in Tuscany would be a dream come true if I was wealthy.

Of note Bambu, the inflation on food in Lebanon is very high, Australia can send wheat to Lebanon and I am sure that the Lebanese will be grateful. Lebanon needs wheat, and fish, and fruits and vegetables, etc. It is all about supply and demand, look for the people who will be grateful to have wheat from Australia. And I am sure China will buy your wheat, I think that there was a miscommunication. Also, UNICEF will buy wheat from Australia to feed to the refugees, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 05:21:56 PM: Bambu, Australians need to look for the places such as Lebanon which need food, and also Australians can sell food to the crowded cities such as in Singapore, and Hong Kong, and Taiwan, etc. Taiwan is a good ally, it would be great if Australia could send the good Prime Beef to Taiwan, and if Australia could send lots of good food to Taiwan, and wine, and beer, etc.

Here in the United States we have poor areas in our inner cities where it is hard to get fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy foods, it would be good if people would go into the poorest areas and open stores selling healthy foods.

Of note, we have Fresh Winter Vegetables growing in Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California, which can provide Fresh Winter Spinach for New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, etc.

We have the world wide web, and we can learn about who needs the food, and then we can send the food to the people who need the food.

Also, we can hook the Farmers up directly with the Food Banks and Kitchens to feed the homeless, etc.

And we have Hunters for the Hungry which provides meat for the poor, etc.

There are lots of people who would love to buy the wheat from Australia, along with the Beef, and the Wine, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 07:59:59 PM: The Chamber of Commerce of Battle Mountain, Nevada, has been busy promoting the area, and the Colt Casino and Restaurant and Hotel is lowering their prices to fight inflation, all of the prices at the Colt will be lowered.

And right now there is a huge demand for housing, and Developers can make a lot of money. My friend Lisa from the Philippines, she started with a night club named "Manila Gardens" in Los Angeles and then she started her own real estate company and construction company and she became a developer, and she made a fortune while she helped by doing charity work for the homeless the whole time.

Right now Christians could put together teams with a real estate company and a construction company and a developer all working together to create villages for the homeless, such as the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada. The Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada, can be a role model for other villages for the refugees. And they can build a Village for the refugees in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Also, cheap Santorini, Greece, style condominiums can be built in Battle Mountain, with tennis courts and swimming pools, etc.

Battle Mountain is a great spot for a village for the refugees. And there is a college in Elko, Nevada, for the people who want to study, and they have nice student housing available.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 09:32:07 PM: When the USA was forming there was a lot of men, and very few women. Nevada has bordellos because there were not any women in the West. In New Orleans they used to bring in ships full of women, being one of the few cities with lots of women.

As Kiwanis helps to rescue the women of Iran from abuses, then many of the Persians are coming to California. Los Angeles has almost 1 million Persians now. And many Persians are famous on Social Media now, such as Mahlagha Jaberi, and Mahlagha is working hard to improve the rights of women in Iran, and I am sure they are bringing the Persian women to California. The Persians also love France, and Farah Pahlavi lives in France.

Of note, many of the refugee women from Ukraine are stars on Social Media now, and they can help to guide the other women from Ukraine to safe places, such as to the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada. And more safe Kiwanis Villages can be built around the world wherever needed. Kiwanis can sell Kiwanis brand bottled drinking water to raise money to help refugees, etc.

In the poor parts of Los Angeles it is all young men, with no women, the women all leave the bad areas and the women move to live in the nice areas. Malibu is full of women, when I lived in Malibu a lot of my neighbors were women, and in Topanga there is a lot of women, the women live in the nice safe areas. The same will happen in Iran, all of the women will escape from Iran to come to America, and soon Iran will be all poor lonely men. The women refuse to live in bad areas, and they all leave to live in the nice areas, Malibu is full of women.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 11:17:26 PM: Australia-China In 2022, Australia exported $123B to China. The main products that Australia exported to China were Iron Ore ($72.5B), Petroleum Gas ($14.2B), and Other Mineral ($8.09B).

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Then Australia can send wheat to Lebanon, and to Singapore, and to Hong Kong, and to Taiwan, etc. And Australia can send the prime beef and wine to Taiwan, etc.

And Australia can expand trade with Mexico, and we can send Northgate Markets to Australia along with Trader Joe's.

And California can work together with Australia on Movies, Music, Fashion, Television, etc, and we share the surfer lifestyle.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 15, 2024, 11:55:21 PM: Over one in four people in Canada right now are new immigrants, and Canada is a leading destination for immigrants.

https://www.statista.com/topics/2917/immigration-in-canada/

And the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, Canada, is a good safe place for refugees.

Canada is a huge nation, with fewer people than California, there is a lot of wide open land in Canada where the refugees can live in peace and abundance.

Canada is a good safe spot for the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 16, 2024, 12:08:33 PM: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-fungi-can-be-used-to-clean-pollution-and-combat-climate-change
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 16, 2024, 04:38:12 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 16, 2024, 12:08:33 PM
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-fungi-can-be-used-to-clean-pollution-and-combat-climate-change

What a future if we make it that far.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2024, 08:51:08 PM: Only the rich in Australia seem to care about climate change anymore.
The rest only seem to care about surviving...now, today.

"Live for today, for tomorow we'll likely be broke, homeless, and hungry" seems to be the cry.

Lines at the food banks are getting longer.
Massive immigration causing shortage of housing, and rent increases.

Climate change is way down the list of average joe's concerns.

It costs $22.80 for fuel to drive 100km (62 miles) in a Corolla. [$25.50 if you buy 98 octane fuel to keep your engine clean and put some zip in your old car's 'mind'.)
Bring back the coal-fired steam cars!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 16, 2024, 10:14:10 PM: Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 21, 2022, 05:57:37 PM
Is this the Tony forum?

Feel free to join in, it's not exactly 'rush hour on 5th avenue'.

Maybe suggest some solutions to the nation and world's problems...because help is needed, solutions are needed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 17, 2024, 01:02:23 AM: When people like you shut up and get the fuck out of the way, solutions occur.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 17, 2024, 07:09:35 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 17, 2024, 01:02:23 AM
When people like you shut up and get the fuck out of the way, solutions occur.

Really.
lol

bambu ilk are not in the way, and solutions seem to be few and far between.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 17, 2024, 07:46:17 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2024, 10:14:10 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 21, 2022, 05:57:37 PM
Is this the Tony forum?

Feel free to join in, it's not exactly 'rush hour on 5th avenue'.

Maybe suggest some solutions to the nation and world's problems...because help is needed, solutions are needed.
Why now did you choose to respond to a two-year old post from a poster who no longer posts here?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 17, 2024, 09:39:52 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 17, 2024, 07:46:17 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 16, 2024, 10:14:10 PM
Quote from: kidcarter8 on May 21, 2022, 05:57:37 PM
Is this the Tony forum?

Feel free to join in, it's not exactly 'rush hour on 5th avenue'.

Maybe suggest some solutions to the nation and world's problems...because help is needed, solutions are needed.
Why now did you choose to respond to a two-year old post from a poster who no longer posts here?

If your hand strays and you click or tap on the thread name instead of the recent page numbers, it will take you to page 1 of the thread. Kid's query was on page 1. Possible that unalert members could not notice the mistap.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 17, 2024, 11:46:18 AM: The Rob Reiner created movie God and Country opened in 85 theaters recently and took in an average of $451 per theater.

It is likely the few moviegoers that went spent more on refreshments and parking than on the tickets.

The movie tries to compare the rise of Christian Nationalism (which is unsubstantiated) to the Nazi takeover of Germany.

The movie flopped.

And people say there is no good news anymore.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 17, 2024, 12:29:12 PM: Documentary. Docus don't get BO figures or general release the way mainstream movies do. it has been out for a month and opened in 85 theaters. This is typical of small independent production companies like Oscilloscope, which don't reach larger numbers until picked up by streaming services. And none of this has shit to do with the merits of the film. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator site...

92 percent of 24 critics reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2. The websites consensus reads

God and Country offers a chilling and bracingly effective look at political forces aligning in an effort to erase the barrier between church and state.

That Christian Nationalism has taken more and more antidemocratic positions has been well-documented, especially in the book which the documentary is based on. And by members here. Maybe you missed that in your apparent struggles with your iPhone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 17, 2024, 12:44:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 17, 2024, 12:29:12 PM
Documentary. Docus don't get BO figures or general release the way mainstream movies do. it has been out for a month and opened in 85 theaters. This is typical of small independent production companies like Oscilloscope, which don't reach larger numbers until picked up by streaming services. And none of this has shit to do with the merits of the film. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator site...

92 percent of 24 critics reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2. The websites consensus reads

God and Country offers a chilling and bracingly effective look at political forces aligning in an effort to erase the barrier between church and state.

That Christian Nationalism has taken more and more antidemocratic positions has been well-documented, especially in the book which the documentary is based on. And by members here. Maybe you missed that in your apparent struggles with your iPhone.
LOL!
Meathead, Junior, speaks up for original Meathead! Talk about preaching to the choir!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 17, 2024, 04:12:40 PM: As we work to lift up the poor orphans in Mexico, etc, then we must remember the basics of a Strong Mind, Strong Body, and Strong Spirit.

They need libraries with lots of books and schools with good teachers, and they need gyms and sports and healthy nutritious foods to feed their bodies, and they need Churches and Priests and Nuns, etc.

There is a lot that we can do for the poor children, but those 3 things make a great foundation to build on, a Strong Mind, a Strong Body, and a Strong Spirit.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 17, 2024, 04:56:20 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 17, 2024, 12:29:12 PM
Documentary. Docus don't get BO figures or general release the way mainstream movies do. it has been out for a month and opened in 85 theaters. This is typical of small independent production companies like Oscilloscope, which don't reach larger numbers until picked up by streaming services. And none of this has shit to do with the merits of the film. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator site...

92 percent of 24 critics reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2. The websites consensus reads

God and Country offers a chilling and bracingly effective look at political forces aligning in an effort to erase the barrier between church and state.

That Christian Nationalism has taken more and more antidemocratic positions has been well-documented, especially in the book which the documentary is based on. And by members here. Maybe you missed that in your apparent struggles with your iPhone.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 17, 2024, 05:13:20 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 17, 2024, 12:44:09 PM
Meathead, Junior, speaks up for original Meathead! Talk about preaching to the choir!

Red is the type of Christian that dreams of burning infidels at the cross. It is becoming the typical hypocrisy and blasphemy of the sick maga fucktard.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 17, 2024, 07:16:39 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 17, 2024, 12:29:12 PM

92 percent of 24 critics reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2. The websites consensus reads

God and Country offers a chilling and bracingly effective look at political forces aligning in an effort to erase the barrier between church and state.
I remember similar praises heaped on JFK by Oliver Stone which had plenty of award nominations in 1992.
The movie was also based on a book.
But as entertaining as it was it was a historical and factual lie about the actual events.

Quote
That Christian Nationalism has taken more and more antidemocratic positions has been well-documented, especially in the book which the documentary is based on.
Similar flaws lead to similar miscalculations in God and Country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 17, 2024, 09:00:54 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 17, 2024, 07:16:39 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 17, 2024, 12:29:12 PM

92 percent of 24 critics reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2. The websites consensus reads

God and Country offers a chilling and bracingly effective look at political forces aligning in an effort to erase the barrier between church and state.
I remember similar praises heaped on JFK by Oliver Stone which had plenty of award nominations in 1992.
The movie was also based on a book.
But as entertaining as it was it was a historical and factual lie about the actual events.

Quote
That Christian Nationalism has taken more and more antidemocratic positions has been well-documented, especially in the book which the documentary is based on.
Similar flaws lead to similar miscalculations in God and Country.

I will take the observations of these guys over yours

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/february-web-only/god-country-documentary-review-christian-nationalism-reiner.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 17, 2024, 09:08:03 PM: Here is my opinion on the rise of White Christian Nationalism in comparison to what my Mom observed of the America First movement in 1930s Long Island

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/then-and-now-mom-in-america/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 18, 2024, 09:47:23 AM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 17, 2024, 09:08:03 PM
Here is my opinion on the rise of White Christian Nationalism in comparison to what my Mom observed of the America First movement in 1930s Long Island

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/then-and-now-mom-in-america/

I really was moved by this article and the spirit of community action in your family. I may want to go back and read this again in future. Consider yourself bookmarked, Larry! 🙂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 18, 2024, 05:30:11 PM: Vice President Harris had a Mother who was a scientist who wanted to cure Cancer, and we all want to find a cure for Cancer. We need to work together globally to find a cure for Cancer, and we need to share information, and we need to make the cure more important than the money, and we need for poor people all around the world to be able to access the cure for Cancer, like Doctor Jonas Salk did when he cured Polio. We need to share information around the world to find a cure for Cancer, and then the cure needs to be available for all people, including the poor in other nations.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 19, 2024, 10:58:02 AM: Blog. Facebook. TikTok.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 19, 2024, 11:19:00 PM: Thousands of Californians, primarily those in the Central Valley, have found work thanks to construction of the California High-Speed Rail.

Details: https://trib.al/7CnJJ0t

---------

Now we are building the new high speed train between Southern California and Las Vegas, which is creating a lot of great jobs.

We also need to extend the Metrolink Trains from Los Angeles to California City. They are also going to run all the way from LA to Palm Springs.

New subways are also being built to prepare Los Angeles for the Olympics, lots of money in coming into Los Angeles to prepare for the Olympics.

And the public transportation needs to have safety officers for security.

Here in Anaheim we are benefiting from huge investments by Disney. Then also, Disney is going to make the new "Star Wars" movie here in Hollywood, which will create a lot of local jobs, and which will help other projects to happen here in Hollywood. And Malibu has a lot of great locations to film at, and lots of talented and creative people live in Malibu. And I love Universal, and they are doing great right now with the success of "Oppenheimer" and plus they have Ron Howard, and Spielberg.

Biden is doing a great job, the economy is booming.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 20, 2024, 10:37:26 AM: What I learnt from YouTube today:

"How many months are on the Ethiopian calendar?"

Answer: 13

What?
Why?
How?
When?
I must investigate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 20, 2024, 10:44:08 AM: Christians used to be fed to lions for sport/fun.
Today Christians are so hated that they're tortured to death in bread ovens.
Christians need to do better at protecting themselves from harm.
No wonder Christian Americans are arming themselves.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2024, 04:58:22 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 20, 2024, 10:44:08 AM
Christians used to be fed to lions for sport/fun.
Today Christians are so hated that they're tortured to death in bread ovens.
Christians need to do better at protecting themselves from harm.
No wonder Christian Americans are arming themselves.
Oh, horse shit. Christian Americans are the most powerful political group in America,.comprising something like 90% of political office holders and are at zero risk of harm. Most of what I have seen from "Christian " groups as oppression is usually political policies they dislike getting adopted or having to treat people they hate with equality.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2024, 05:04:59 PM: Governor Katie Hobbs is still young, and she seems to be doing a great job in Arizona, with Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the USA according to Siri; maybe Katie Hobbs can consider becoming a future President of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2024, 05:37:15 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2024, 05:04:59 PM
Governor Katie Hobbs is still young, and she seems to be doing a great job in Arizona, with Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the USA according to Siri; maybe Katie Hobbs can consider becoming a future President of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.
Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the US is a monument to the arrogance of mankind. I live here. I love it. But it is a stupid, stupid place to put a major city.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 20, 2024, 07:37:46 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 18, 2024, 09:47:23 AM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 17, 2024, 09:08:03 PM
Here is my opinion on the rise of White Christian Nationalism in comparison to what my Mom observed of the America First movement in 1930s Long Island

https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/then-and-now-mom-in-america/

I really was moved by this article and the spirit of community action in your family. I may want to go back and read this again in future. Consider yourself bookmarked, Larry! 🙂

Thanks! I appreciate that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 21, 2024, 11:28:00 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2024, 05:37:15 PM
Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the US is a monument to the arrogance of mankind. I live here. I love it. But it is a stupid, stupid place to put a major city.

I've heard one draw, besides the you don't shovel sunshine, is that a house is cheaper in multiple ways - no basement, cheaper land, less humidity-proofing, no NG lines, insulation/HVAC deals with a 20-30 deg. differential in summer instead of a 50-70 deg differential in winter, roofs last longer, trusses not needing to handle snow load, etc. I would guess newcomers were not thinking about the water problems so much. Or the insanely hot days getting even hotter and what happens when the AC goes on the fritz and you are waiting three weeks for the swamped repair crews to get to you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 12:01:25 PM: Roads last longer, too, without the constant freezing and thawing and salt. And being a new city the roads are in a neat grid of evenly space N/S and E/W four lane roads. And the a/c repair only took ten days, which we spent in a quaint pet friendly Bed and Breakfast. Well, a Best Western, but I insist those are B&Bs.

Actually, the reason it took 10 days is the fan blade it needed was in Tucson and would not be in Phoenix for a week. "Is it... walking here?" was not as appreciated as I had hoped.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM: Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 07:42:29 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM
Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.
If you are incapable of watching without filtering out the obvious bull shit, just stop watching YouTube.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 21, 2024, 10:47:18 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM
Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.

Lord a mighty! What is that smell?

It is the BULLSHIT you posted.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 22, 2024, 03:14:13 AM: World Water Day today.

African man with hat and chalk board says:

"Drink more water".

"Drink lots of water."

"Drink lots of water and you'll be too busy peeing to worry about other people's opinions." 🙂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 22, 2024, 09:35:13 AM: Taking the piss (in the British sense) is all you do here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 22, 2024, 04:15:47 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 12:01:25 PM

Actually, the reason it took 10 days is the fan blade it needed was in Tucson and would not be in Phoenix for a week. "Is it... walking here?" was not as appreciated as I had hoped.

I am always pleasantly startled when I get a laugh from a customer service person.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 22, 2024, 05:47:13 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2024, 05:37:15 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2024, 05:04:59 PM
Governor Katie Hobbs is still young, and she seems to be doing a great job in Arizona, with Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the USA according to Siri; maybe Katie Hobbs can consider becoming a future President of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.
Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the US is a monument to the arrogance of mankind. I live here. I love it. But it is a stupid, stupid place to put a major city.

Maybe it just happened, from wild west days in 'Arizona territory', grew large.
Fastest growing city in America, it must be popular for reasons.
2 hrs West, in the desert, van lifers love it, they are featured in a video.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 22, 2024, 05:55:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 22, 2024, 05:47:13 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 20, 2024, 05:37:15 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 20, 2024, 05:04:59 PM
Governor Katie Hobbs is still young, and she seems to be doing a great job in Arizona, with Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the USA according to Siri; maybe Katie Hobbs can consider becoming a future President of the United States.

Salute,

Tony V.
Phoenix being the fastest growing city in the US is a monument to the arrogance of mankind. I live here. I love it. But it is a stupid, stupid place to put a major city.

Maybe it just happened, from wild west days in 'Arizona territory', grew large.
Fastest growing city in America, it must be popular for reasons.
2 hrs West, in the desert, van lifers love it, they are featured in a video.
Of course there are reasons for its growth. But that does not make putting 5 million people 9n a place with little water is smart.

Quartsite is the tbird largest city in Arizona, one month a year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 23, 2024, 04:24:29 PM: Mahlagha Jaberi is in Washington DC this weekend with Farah Pahlavi and others as they work for improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Lots of people from California are retiring to Arizona, and Lisa Brando lives in Arizona, and it is a great state for solar power. We just need to solve the water issues. We can put people to work building more dams and aqueducts, etc.

And Bambu, I read about the new submarines, and they are $3 Billion each, the submarines are very expensive. We can sell you B-21 Raiders for $750 million each, and the B-2 Stealth Bombers that we sent to protect you cost $2 Billion each. We can build you a new aircraft carrier for $500 million and we can sell you F-22s and F-35s to put on your aircraft carrier, and the F-16s are cheap. And we can send you some modified and updated and upgraded F-104 Starfighters as INTERCEPTORS, we need to vector the thrust to help them to steer better and to pull out of uncontrolled spins, but once updated then nothing can outrun an F-104 Starfighter. And we need to send you the equipment to jam and crash enemy drones, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 23, 2024, 06:46:24 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 07:42:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM
Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.
If you are incapable of watching without filtering out the obvious bull shit, just stop watching YouTube.

The people planning it are serious, obviously.
Gotta take notice of serious people planning mutiny, especially in the US where every state is basically an individual country.
They likely don't see it as mutiny, but rather as 'doing the best for them', which seems to be every person's motto today.
Certainly is the motto of team bambu.

If California and Texas decided to do it, including annexing Arizona and New Mexico, who would be stopping them?
Another civil war? or just let them have their way?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 23, 2024, 07:49:35 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 23, 2024, 06:46:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 07:42:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM
Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.
If you are incapable of watching without filtering out the obvious bull shit, just stop watching YouTube.

The people planning it are serious, obviously.
Gotta take notice of serious people planning mutiny, especially in the US where every state is basically an individual country.
They likely don't see it as mutiny, but rather as 'doing the best for them', which seems to be every person's motto today.
Certainly is the motto of team bambu.

If California and Texas decided to do it, including annexing Arizona and New Mexico, who would be stopping them?
Another civil war? or just let them have their way?

The United States is united, we may fight among ourselves but in the end we are united.

And California has Arnold who is a good peaceful citizen, and Texas has George W. Bush, Arizona has Katie Hobbs, etc, we have good peaceful people who all love America and who want for us to remain united.

I saw a picture of Maria Shriver with her Brothers, they all look like Kennedys to me, maybe there is a future leader in the Shriver family.

The biggest threat to America right now is Donald Trump, he is a scumbag.

And Biden is doing a great job, but he is getting too old, we need younger people.

We also need to work harder with the United Nations to stop Putin, and to lock Putin in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We need to go in and arrest Putin just like we did with Noriega. And we need to have allies who we can put in charge of Russia after we remove Putin, we have allies in the Russian Space Program, and in the Arts, etc, we need to find allies who can run Russia after we remove Putin. And we need for China to be our friend and ally and teammate for world peace and to stop Putin.

We need peace and world trade.

And California can benefit from sending ships full of goods to Australia, Trader Joe's, and Northgate Markets, can send goods to Australia and can open stores in Australia. And Mexico can benefit from selling goods to Australia. And Colombia can sell coffee to Australia, etc.

And lots of money is being invested in Mexico, Mexico is going to be great for the tourists, etc. And people from Minnesota can retire to live on a nice beach in Mexico, etc.

We need peace and world trade. And we need schools and libraries, and we need to educate our people, and everyone needs to read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, etc.

And the Christians need to obey Matthew 25; 31-46 and we need to help the orphans and we need to help the homeless, and we need to feed the hungry, etc.

Also, Canada is a good place to send refugees, the forest of Victoria, Canada, is a great place to send refugees, and Kiwanis has a village in Victoria, Canada.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 23, 2024, 08:08:21 PM: Tony, US currently has a $28 billion pa trade surplus with Australia.

Lock Putin in a cage in Gitmo?
Good idea.
Problem is, catching him. He'd start firing off nukes before he'd allow himself to be captured.

Too many US troops/Green Berets/sailors, air crews etc have died in wars, time ground invasions ceased.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 23, 2024, 10:59:53 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 23, 2024, 08:08:21 PM
Tony, US currently has a $28 billion pa trade surplus with Australia.

Lock Putin in a cage in Gitmo?
Good idea.
Problem is, catching him. He'd start firing off nukes before he'd allow himself to be captured.

Too many US troops/Green Berets/sailors, air crews etc have died in wars, time ground invasions ceased.

Send us your Iron ore and stuff that you are sending to China, we can send you ships full of goods, and if nothing else you can fill the ships full of Iron ore to send back. Be sure to have Australia send the good Prime Beef to our allies in Taiwan, and send the good beer and wine from Australia to Taiwan, we need to reward our allies. And you would love to have a good Trader Joe's in your neighborhood in Australia, and a Northgate Market. Have you ever had fresh baked tortillas for your burritos? Northgate bakes fresh bread, and they bake fresh tortillas, once you have the fresh baked bread and the fresh made tortillas then you will really be grateful. We can send you some of the good stuff from Southern California.

I had a roommate who was one of the guys who went in and arrested Noriega, and the guy was severely mentally ill, he was dangerous, he was a mentally ill killer and he was stuck in a perpetual war in his head. I was scared to live with the guy. War veterans can be crazy people, war damages people. My friend Tom was a Combat Medic, and he was mentally ill, he served in Kuwait, and then he worked as a Doctor for the Navy in Pennsylvania for 20 years, he was a great guy, but he had PTSD bad. PTSD is hard to deal with, and it takes therapy and it takes medication, etc.

Maybe we can have the people of Russia arrest Putin themselves, and send Putin to Guantanamo Bay themselves. In the end the Italians killed Mussolini themselves. Maybe we can find our allies in Russia and support our allies in the overthrow of Putin and maybe the Russians will arrest Putin themselves and turn him over to go to prison in Cuba. We have the World Bank and unlimited funds in our fight against Putin, we can use money to support our allies to arrest Putin. Plus, right makes might, and we are in the right, we can appeal to the people of Russia whom have good morals and empathy. We need for the good Russians whom are on our team go in and arrest Putin and hand Putin over to us, and then our good allies can take over Russia and they can run Russia. Russia can be a fun place if they have good leaders. Russian Caviar, and Vodka, and Ballet, and the beautiful Russian women, we have the Russian Tea Room in New York at Central Park. Kirk Douglas was a Russian Jew from New York. Lots of the Jews in Israel had ancestors who lived in Russia. The Jews were safe in Russia, and Russia helped to stop the Nazis. Russia was on our side against Hitler. We need to find out who our allies are in Russia, and then we need to support our allies in Russia as they arrest Putin and take over Russia. La Junta if you will. We need to support our allies as they arrest Putin and start Russia on a new and better path. And with Russia on our team we can usher in a great new time of peace and prosperity on earth.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 24, 2024, 12:07:25 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 23, 2024, 04:24:29 PM
Mahlagha Jaberi is in Washington DC this weekend with Farah Pahlavi and others as they work for improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Lots of people from California are retiring to Arizona, and Lisa Brando lives in Arizona, and it is a great state for solar power. We just need to solve the water issues. We can put people to work building more dams and aqueducts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
What the Hell are they going to dam?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 24, 2024, 12:11:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 23, 2024, 06:46:24 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 21, 2024, 07:42:29 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 21, 2024, 07:28:17 PM
Shouldn't be very long before Texas and California leave the Union, annex Arizona and New Mexico and form a new country, the Sunbelt Republic or other possible names.
All detailed on Youtube.

Access to deep sea water at both ends, great GDP, incomes $70,000pa for all, 300,000 troops, official languages English and Spanish...or Spanish, with English running a long second.

Well, Americans were warned what would happen if massive immigration both legal and illegal was allowed to happen, and Cinco de Mayo allowed to grow from a trickle to a flood...with American flag shirts on students banned.
If you are incapable of watching without filtering out the obvious bull shit, just stop watching YouTube.

The people planning it are serious, obviously.
Gotta take notice of serious people planning mutiny, especially in the US where every state is basically an individual country.
They may be serious but they are not serious people. There are maybe 8 things in that concept that the chances of happening are absolutely zero. Starting with Texas and California acting together. And the US letting the California economy go.
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If California and Texas decided to do it, including annexing Arizona and New Mexico, who would be stopping them?
Every single sane person in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Jesus, you know literally nothing about the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2024, 12:27:57 AM: On the issue of finding allies in Russia...

We had friends in the Moscow Theatre, there was Stanislavski, and there was Anton Chekhov, and there was Michael Chekhov, we had lots of friends in the Russian Theatre.

Plus we have friends in the Russian Space Program, etc.

We need to find out who our allies are in Russia, I am sure we have lots of good allies in Russia who despise Putin as much as the international community does.

We can set a Junta in motion with our allies. We can do a lot with unlimited funds, if we knew who our allies are. I am certain that we have some good solid allies in Russia who we could support to over-throw Putin and to send Putin to Guantanamo Bay.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 24, 2024, 05:05:48 PM: So today on Sunday I want to think of Jesus as the Prince of Peace, and blessed are the peacemakers. Jesus is all about love. And healthy civilization have proven that if the people come together with love as a community then people could collectively prosper. That is what America is all about. Ultimately we are the United States of America, and we will not have another civil war if we come together under the principals of peace, the Governors of California and Florida may seem far apart, but they are still united as Americans.

And in Russia, I am sure that we have good allies in Russia who we could support for peace, and Putin can go to Guantanamo Bay. What if instead of giving money to war, if we invested in peace, what if we supported peace in Russia with cash to support our friends and allies in Russia for peace, and Putin can go live in Cuba. We have friends in the Space Program in Russia, and in the Arts, we need to find allies who we can support in Russia who will lead Russia on a path to peace and prosperity. Napoleon went to Elba, and so too can Putin go live in Guantanamo Bay.

We have the United Nations, we have the World Bank, and we have Russian allies, we just need to give more support to our allies, and we need to support peace with money. Good new peaceful leaders in Russia could be very wealthy and they can live lives of luxury with all of the best that the world has to offer. And those who support peace as Jesus did will also reap their reward in Heaven.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 24, 2024, 05:17:15 PM: Police have charged 19 people who gathered at an unauthorised pro-Palestine rally at Port Botany to protest against the unloading of an Israeli-owned shipping company vessel.

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Good.
Too many people in bambuworld just doing as they please, not obeying the laws of the land.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2024, 01:43:34 AM: Governor Beshear has no higher priority than fighting for our students, educators and public schools. From the day he was elected, Gov. Beshear has put education first.

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Biden and Harris need to support Education in Kentucky, as well as for all Americans.

And good Republicans such as Arnold also support Education, and After School Programs for the youth. ( We can teach the youth in High School how to install sound systems in automobiles, etc. We need to teach skills to the youth so that they can earn honest money. We can also teach the youth how to Weld, and how to do Electrical Work, and other skills. The youth can also learn how to be auto mechanics and they can learn how to rebuild carburetors, etc. The youth in Hollywood can have programs pertaining to the Entertainment Industry. Any tools that we can give to the youth to help them to succeed in life are good skills which we should seek to provide for our youth. )

I also support Biden and Harris on providing a free education for all Americans, and a free Associate in Arts degree is a great start. And as the immigrants come to America and work the essential labor jobs, then meanwhile we can be sending the local Americans to school to prepare for the jobs of the 21st Century, and we need to train Teachers, and Doctors, and Psychiatrists, etc, along with training Scientists to search for a cure for Cancer, etc. ( When I was a Limousine Driver in Malibu, then we had AMGEN in the area, and I used to drive the scientists from AMGEN in the Limo, I took them to the airport and picked them up from the airport and brought them back to Malibu. Lots of scientists from AMGEN live in Malibu. AMGEN can build a laboratory in the poorest part of Kentucky and can hire local scientists from Kentucky to work for AMGEN. AMGEN is creating the good jobs of the future. AMGEN can help to teach the schools in Kentucky what they need for the students to study in school to prepare them for jobs working as a scientist for AMGEN. )

We also need lots of libraries, etc. Abraham Lincoln educated himself from studying books. Well stocked libraries are needed in our poor areas.

Also, for the Veterans, the movie stars and other wealthy people need private Body Guards, they like to hire trained military guys as Body Guards. A Body Guard can earn $100,000 per year. Right now with the rise in crime then all of the stars are hiring security guards.

Governor Beshear and Biden both support Education, so Biden and Kentucky need to work together to educate the people of Kentucky, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:13:07 PM: Now look what's happened...
...reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich has had his detention on espionage charges upheld by a Russian court.
"Bogus charges by a paranoid regime" states my DTele today.

Sad.
He looks very lonely.
Has been detained for 12 months.

It's Russia, he's American, there's a war going on...what was he ( and his employer) thinking setting foot in the place?

You *can't* do that today without a very high possibility of it ending badly.
He'd have been better off refusing the assignment (or not volunteering), being unemployed and sitting on a blanket in Central Park watching the ducks on a pond, with just enough money from his savings for food...his home a van.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 03:26:46 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:13:07 PM
Now look what's happened...
...reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich has had his detention on espionage charges upheld by a Russian court.
"Bogus charges by a paranoid regime" states my DTele today.

Sad.
He looks very lonely.
Has been detained for 12 months.

It's Russia, he's American, there's a war going on...what was he ( and his employer) thinking setting foot in the place?

You *can't* do that today without a very high possibility of it ending badly.
He'd have been better off refusing the assignment (or not volunteering), being unemployed and sitting on a blanket in Central Park watching the ducks on a pond, with just enough money from his savings for food...his home a van.
Thank God we have journalists with more courage and dedication than some Aussie who wets the bed with fear at every turn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 03:26:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:13:07 PM
Now look what's happened...
...reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich has had his detention on espionage charges upheld by a Russian court.
"Bogus charges by a paranoid regime" states my DTele today.

Sad.
He looks very lonely.
Has been detained for 12 months.

It's Russia, he's American, there's a war going on...what was he ( and his employer) thinking setting foot in the place?

You *can't* do that today without a very high possibility of it ending badly.
He'd have been better off refusing the assignment (or not volunteering), being unemployed and sitting on a blanket in Central Park watching the ducks on a pond, with just enough money from his savings for food...his home a van.
Thank God we have journalists with more courage and dedication than some Aussie who wets the bed with fear at every turn.

Courage and dedication can be overrated.
There was absolutely no need for him to be in Russia at all.
The latest photos of a bomb blast in Moscow?
Not worth a journalist's life.

It's torrential rain, high wind, and reporters are standing out in it getting *drowned*.

Time to re-think journalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 03:52:40 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 03:26:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:13:07 PM
Now look what's happened...
...reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich has had his detention on espionage charges upheld by a Russian court.
"Bogus charges by a paranoid regime" states my DTele today.

Sad.
He looks very lonely.
Has been detained for 12 months.

It's Russia, he's American, there's a war going on...what was he ( and his employer) thinking setting foot in the place?

You *can't* do that today without a very high possibility of it ending badly.
He'd have been better off refusing the assignment (or not volunteering), being unemployed and sitting on a blanket in Central Park watching the ducks on a pond, with just enough money from his savings for food...his home a van.
Thank God we have journalists with more courage and dedication than some Aussie who wets the bed with fear at every turn.

Courage and dedication can be overrated.
There was absolutely no need for him to be in Russia at all.
The latest photos of a bomb blast in Moscow?
Not worth a journalist's life.

It's torrential rain, high wind, and reporters are standing out in it getting *drowned*.

Time to re-think journalism.
Go back to your basement and change your underwear.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 04:03:12 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 03:26:46 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:13:07 PM
Now look what's happened...
...reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich has had his detention on espionage charges upheld by a Russian court.
"Bogus charges by a paranoid regime" states my DTele today.

Sad.
He looks very lonely.
Has been detained for 12 months.

It's Russia, he's American, there's a war going on...what was he ( and his employer) thinking setting foot in the place?

You *can't* do that today without a very high possibility of it ending badly.
He'd have been better off refusing the assignment (or not volunteering), being unemployed and sitting on a blanket in Central Park watching the ducks on a pond, with just enough money from his savings for food...his home a van.
Thank God we have journalists with more courage and dedication than some Aussie who wets the bed with fear at every turn.

Spoken by an American man allowed to carry big and small guns.
The only weapons I'm allowed are running away, or cowering in the corner begging for my life when the bad people (armed with machetes, knives, and tyre levers) are smashing their way in.
Law enforcement in my world today is "leave your car keys on the kitchen bench so the home invaders can easily take your car"....(do burnouts in it, then smash it into something because they're under age and don't have licences).
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 25, 2024, 04:17:53 PM: A coward, unable to understand courage, pivots artlessly to a rhapsody on weapons that terrorize, excite and upset him. Fully armed he would be the exact type of timid twitchy lunatic likely to cause the most harm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 25, 2024, 04:20:38 PM: Courage and dedication can be overrated.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:15:56 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 25, 2024, 04:17:53 PM
A coward, unable to understand courage, pivots artlessly to a rhapsody on weapons that terrorize, excite and upset him. Fully armed he would be the exact type of timid twitchy lunatic likely to cause the most harm.

lol
Quite the opposite.
But, I would not be hacked up with a machete, stabbed 5 times with a knife, or bashed with a jemmy bar like the unfortunate elderly men shown on my tv recently, living in towns Alice Springs and Moree.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:44:27 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 25, 2024, 04:20:38 PM
Courage and dedication can be overrated.

Exactly.

Be cautious with your courage, or you could wind up being used as 'cannon fodder' or rotting in a Russian, Chinese etc prison.

Be cautious with your dedication, or you could find yourself working back until 11pm while other staff went home at 5pm.
Or working very hard, finishing your work by lunchtime, then being loaded up with half some slacker's work...permanently.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:29:26 PM: Sky News:

"UK & NZ targeted by Chinese cyber attacks"

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And China is a friend of the West? 😀
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:45:53 PM: SkyNews:
"UK High Court to rule on Julian Assange extradition".

Julian "the People have a right to know, everything" Assange...another one who didn't understand (that if you go messing around with the ways of countries you can find yourself in big trouble.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 25, 2024, 07:52:31 PM: Quote
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.

I am reminded of a scene in Ninotchka in which the guy tries to get her to laugh with this joke:

A man enters a restaurant and asks the waiter to bring him a cup of coffee without cream. The waiter walks off then comes back a few minutes later and says, I am sorry sir but we are out of cream. Can I bring you a cup of coffee without milk?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 08:14:38 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.

What important job would that be?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 08:21:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.

LOL
I notice it's not you and your 'bravery' doing the 'important job' and rotting in a Russian prison.
So, you're exactly the same as I am.
Exactly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 25, 2024, 09:15:31 PM: Sophia Stallone, the Daughter of Sly, received her degree from the USC School of Journalism, I wonder what her plans are?

And Universal needs to buy Playboy, and they can have an Interview of Muzi, the Daughter of the President of China, being interviewed by some brilliant young guys from National Lampoon at Harvard for Playboy Magazine.

On the issue of Russia, life is so crazy. In Malibu I had a roommate who was the Daughter of a Chinese General. Here I was all concerned about China, and God put the Daughter of a Chinese General in my house with us. So, I made my peace with China. God might bring people into our lives who can help on the issue of Russia, you never know. I did not plan on living with the Daughter of a Chinese General, and you never know who else God will bring into our lives. God might bring Russians into our lives. Blessed are the peacemakers, and we need for our allies to rise up and take control of Russia, and they can live like Royalty with the best that the world has to offer, and the world will be happy if we can have peace and prosperity. If we could be allies with Russia, and with China, both, then that would be great. Imagine a world without a Cold War and with peace, we had peace with Russia for a while, and Pantera played there, etc, we should have did more to promote the peace. Also, Condoleezza Rice is an expert on Russia.

And we are making progress on the issue of Iran, Mahlagha Jaberi and Farah Pahlavi met in Washington DC. Mahlagha Jaberi can also get a lot of attention if she poses for Playboy, and she can give an interview for Playboy, etc.

The journalists have my respect. And I am grateful that we have brave people who work for the CIA to prevent crimes and human suffering, and Biden is getting briefed and is getting the best info from the CIA so Biden knows all of the facts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 26, 2024, 08:18:39 AM: What happened to your post about the bridge collapse, Bambu?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 08:29:07 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 26, 2024, 08:18:39 AM
What happened to your post about the bridge collapse, Bambu?

I thought it might have been insensitive.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 08:41:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 08:21:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.

LOL
I notice it's not you and your 'bravery' doing the 'important job' and rotting in a Russian prison.
So, you're exactly the same as I am.
Exactly.
No. Because you are not only a coward with a sphincter permanently in the grip of spasmodic fear, you cannot appreciate the courage and dedication of others. You would consider those brave Marines who died at Belleau Wood losers and suckers, like your hero Trump.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 08:46:43 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 08:41:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 08:21:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.

LOL
I notice it's not you and your 'bravery' doing the 'important job' and rotting in a Russian prison.
So, you're exactly the same as I am.
Exactly.
No. Because you are not only a coward with a sphincter permanently in the grip of spasmodic fear, you cannot appreciate the courage and dedication of others. You would consider those brave Marines who died at Belleau Wood losers and suckers, like your hero Trump.

Nah.
But Vietnam, ask yourself: Were brave troops used as cannon fodder in that undeclared war?
Not to mention the Agent Orange sprayed on them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 11:00:57 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 08:46:43 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 08:41:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 08:21:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:33:36 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 06:27:12 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 06:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 25, 2024, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 25, 2024, 04:44:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 25, 2024, 03:39:05 PM

Time to re-think journalism.
You are right, of course, but for different reasons.
Print journalism is dying in the digital atmosphere.
Hard to sell subscriptions to the Daily Bugle when free news is available 24/7 on the internet.
And that news is not very well produced.
AI algorthyms make awful reading styles( think of your high school paper)
And Editors are a rarity.
The plethora of podcasts, digital news networks, and biased news sites has led to a loss of confidence by the viewers and revenue by would be sponsors.
The FCC did not help by outlawing joint ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
Of course the socialists are clamoring for government subsidies to journalism overlooking that Congress is rated even lower than the news media.

It is a mess with no apparent solution.
You are not wrong, but bambu is arguing journalists should be cowering at home rather than taking a risk covering important stories. I agree modern communication techniques are altering journalism, but "only cover what is safe" is not an answer.

I didn't say that.
I just don't think they should be in harm's way so I can see pictures of the latest atrocity in Russia, China etc.
Surely there are Russian news agencies releasing pictures.
Good lord. You are even dumber than I thought.

No Russian agencies releasing official videos etc?
So western journalists decide it's a good idea to go into commie Russia and snoop around taking their own...then wonder why they get arrested and tossed in prison.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
Russian "official video"... You are even dumber than I thought I thought you were.

Dumb people think they can go into communist etc countries and do just as they please without consequences.
Not even HS educated bambu is that foolish.
Thank God journalists have balls you lack.

Pretty sure Gershcovich knew the risks. And unlike you, was brave enough to do an important job despite the risks. You stupid quivering coward.

LOL
I notice it's not you and your 'bravery' doing the 'important job' and rotting in a Russian prison.
So, you're exactly the same as I am.
Exactly.
No. Because you are not only a coward with a sphincter permanently in the grip of spasmodic fear, you cannot appreciate the courage and dedication of others. You would consider those brave Marines who died at Belleau Wood losers and suckers, like your hero Trump.

Nah.
But Vietnam, ask yourself: Were brave troops used as cannon fodder in that undeclared war?
Not to mention the Agent Orange sprayed on them.
What does that have to do with anything? I am sure someone like you who is a fan of performative patriotism only does not understand courage regardless of cause. The Marines who died at Belleau Wood may have walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, and may have died for an old bitch gone in the teeth, for a botched civilization, for two gross of broken statues and a few thousand battered books, but their courage and dedication is unquestioned.

Of all the insane fascists to have ever walked the earth, Pound is the best.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 11:02:41 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 08:29:07 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 26, 2024, 08:18:39 AM
What happened to your post about the bridge collapse, Bambu?

I thought it might have been insensitive.
I was going to post about how the video of the bridge collapse seemed surreal. And then saw the name of the ship and thought, no, too soon.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 26, 2024, 11:44:21 AM: It's part of the Baltimore Beltway that is not as traffic-laden as the rest of the route. I've taken the bridge with some frequency over the years. The Bridge was beautiful with unique views. It sounds like just a terrible accident.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM: I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did - a bridge my mother-in-law used to drive over during its brief life) of ship protection devices, in an era of enormous container ships. You want to think something good comes of those worker's tragic deaths.

I understand the temptation to riff off that ship name. Rather like the temptation of Saint Anthony.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did ..
How are the two related?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 04:23:33 PM: Sea lion alert!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 26, 2024, 04:31:05 PM: One sardine, and that's it!

Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did
How are the two related?

Both involved engineering issues, which is true for a lot of bridge failures. The Tacoma fail was due to insufficiently dampened resonance under high winds. This relates to parts not sufficiently rigid, so that oscillations could build up. Last night's collapse was an issue with (as far as can be seen now) with impact buffers not sufficient for large container ships. Support columns deflected too far and failed. More will be learned - just saying that this will likely lead to all bridges better bolstered for the era of container ships, especially the kind with long continuous trusses.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:07:03 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 04:31:05 PM
One sardine, and that's it!

Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did
How are the two related?

Both involved engineering issues, which is true for a lot of bridge failures. The Tacoma fail was due to insufficiently dampened resonance under high winds. This relates to parts not sufficiently rigid, so that oscillations could build up. Last night's collapse was an issue with (as far as can be seen now) with impact buffers not sufficient for large container ships. Support columns deflected too far and failed. More will be learned - just saying that this will likely lead to all bridges better bolstered for the era of container ships, especially the kind with long continuous trusses.
Oh

So they were not related.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 07:21:16 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 04:31:05 PM
One sardine, and that's it!

Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did
How are the two related?

Both involved engineering issues, which is true for a lot of bridge failures. The Tacoma fail was due to insufficiently dampened resonance under high winds. This relates to parts not sufficiently rigid, so that oscillations could build up. Last night's collapse was an issue with (as far as can be seen now) with impact buffers not sufficient for large container ships. Support columns deflected too far and failed. More will be learned - just saying that this will likely lead to all bridges better bolstered for the era of container ships, especially the kind with long continuous trusses.
Oh

So they were not related.
Ort ort ort! More sardines! Feed me more sardines!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:33:30 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 07:21:16 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 04:31:05 PM
One sardine, and that's it!

Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did
How are the two related?

Both involved engineering issues, which is true for a lot of bridge failures. The Tacoma fail was due to insufficiently dampened resonance under high winds. This relates to parts not sufficiently rigid, so that oscillations could build up. Last night's collapse was an issue with (as far as can be seen now) with impact buffers not sufficient for large container ships. Support columns deflected too far and failed. More will be learned - just saying that this will likely lead to all bridges better bolstered for the era of container ships, especially the kind with long continuous trusses.
Oh

So they were not related.
Ort ort ort! More sardines! Feed me more sardines!
I prefer feeding you the truth.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM: https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

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Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 26, 2024, 09:09:14 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 11:00:57 AM
What does that have to do with anything? I am sure someone like you who is a fan of performative patriotism only does not understand courage regardless of cause. The Marines who died at Belleau Wood may have walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, and may have died for an old bitch gone in the teeth, for a botched civilization, for two gross of broken statues and a few thousand battered books, but their courage and dedication is unquestioned.

Of all the insane fascists to have ever walked the earth, Pound is the best.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 26, 2024, 09:20:47 PM: Peace Corps

Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed President Bernardo Arevalo of Guatemala to the White House yesterday to recognize the enduring friendship and strategic partnership between Guatemala and the United States.

As part of the Central American Service Corps in Guatemala, Peace Corps is partnering with USAID and the Inter-American Foundation to expand the pilot program in the country to engage young people through volunteering, training, and employment opportunities, with the potential to reach 25,000 young people over the next five years. When young people have access to opportunities, we can forge a brighter future.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3VA5q8d

--------

We need to train Teachers, and we need to donate libraries, and we need to build schools, and we need to invest in Education. We need to do the same thing that Shakira is doing in Colombia. And we need to teach the people how to speak English so that they can sell stuff to American tourists, and so that they can do business with Americans.

Also, it is important to feed the children at school, many of the children would not eat healthy meals if not for the meals that they eat at school. At all of Shakira's schools the children are fed healthy food to feed their bodies as well as their minds. We want them to have a Strong Mind, a Strong Body, and a Strong Spirit.

( Shakira has a song that is Number 1 right now, and she continues to give money to the children of Colombia. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 09:21:05 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM
https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

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Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri
Ronna is gone.
Far be it for the MSNBC crowd to tolerate freedom of speech.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 26, 2024, 09:25:07 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM
https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

(free link, from subscriber)

Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri

Ronna washed out of journalism quicker than Lizz Truss was flushed from government. She has lawyered up as she is strongly implicated in conspiring to commit crimes with the diapered desperado in 2020 & early 2021.

At least she has given Mitt the option of pretending not to know her.

The Kennedys wish RF Jr. had done the same.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 10:17:54 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:33:30 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 26, 2024, 07:21:16 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 04:31:05 PM
One sardine, and that's it!

Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 12:24:15 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

I hope this collapse will lead to better engineering (like the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse did
How are the two related?

Both involved engineering issues, which is true for a lot of bridge failures. The Tacoma fail was due to insufficiently dampened resonance under high winds. This relates to parts not sufficiently rigid, so that oscillations could build up. Last night's collapse was an issue with (as far as can be seen now) with impact buffers not sufficient for large container ships. Support columns deflected too far and failed. More will be learned - just saying that this will likely lead to all bridges better bolstered for the era of container ships, especially the kind with long continuous trusses.
Oh

So they were not related.
Ort ort ort! More sardines! Feed me more sardines!
I prefer feeding you the truth.
No more sardines for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 26, 2024, 10:34:35 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 09:21:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM
https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

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Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri
Ronna is gone.
Far be it for the MSNBC crowd to tolerate freedom of speech.

Ronna is a proven and unrepentant liar. Figures you would be a supporter
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM: Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 26, 2024, 10:44:47 PM: Slugs do not walk.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 11:34:29 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 26, 2024, 10:44:47 PM
Slugs do not walk.

No slugs at my place, the lizards big and small eat them all.

The people of Baltimore deserve better. All the people, not just the affluent.
. Buildings should be demolished.
. Drug dealers should be kept in prison longer (one resident said).

The slums need to be eliminated.
They should not be tolerated in a modern city.
The old ramshackle buildings are being used as drug dens. They're putrid, ...and needles, feces, vile black water in old bath tubs are everywhere...children are living in it all, have done clearly child art on the walls.
It all needs demolishing...a nice big bulldozer thru it.
It was said that the cops only do something about the drugs and associated squalor if they start in affluent areas.
In the slums the cops are said to be more concerned with violent crime...gun shots, shootings etc.

The mayor seems to be a man aged about 22. He's likely older, but not a lot older. Maybe he just has a baby face.
He should take a walk around the slums...then break out the city bulldozers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2024, 12:03:19 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

First of all, the beautiful young women from Australia need to come to the nice places, I recommend nice places like Malibu, and Topanga, and even Anaheim is nice, but people need to avoid the bad areas, and I would not want my children to live in a bad area. Children in Malibu study twice as hard in school so that they can afford to live in Malibu when they grow up.

And Battle Mountain, Nevada, is safe, so far as a cheap area.

Here in Anaheim, we have been working to clean up our City, and our Motto is City of Kindness. And we have Kiwanis International, etc. I worked with Kiwanis for a couple of years helping Anaheim, and we went into the worst neighborhood in Anaheim and we went knocking on doors, and we passed out the information to contact all of the owners of the apartment buildings in the area, and we painted over the graffiti, and we cleaned it up, and that area is still nice today. 14 years later and that neighborhood is still nice, we forever changed that neighborhood. People have to care, and then you go knocking on doors. Obama used to knock on doors and he was a community organizer, and that is how you clean up a city, you need to knock on doors and organize the community. Also, small business loans can help, and redevelopment money, etc. New immigrants can also help to clean up a neighborhood.

For me, life is too short to live in a bad neighborhood. I would rather go live in Rome, Italy. I am grateful to live in Anaheim. And here in Anaheim with Kiwanis we went door knocking and we did some community organizing to clean up our worst area.

I do not feel like we should fight just to be able to exist in peace, so I choose the nice neighborhoods. And in my home town they built a prison in the middle of my home town and then they flooded the town with meth, and then they put the meth heads in the prison. It was all bullshit. We had the Space Shuttle Program in my hometown which was a $100 Billion program, and we had lots of other programs, and the fuckers built a prison and turned the town into a ghetto, I have no desire to live in my home town anymore, my Mother lives there, but as far as I am concerned they ruined it. Anaheim is a nice City, we have problems, but it is better than Lancaster.

And also, the women refuse to live in the bad areas, the bad areas have criminals who are men and they do not have any women. The nice places like Malibu, and Topanga, and Anaheim, have all of the women. And the women love Nevada.

Of note, we have Proposition 1 in California, and I hope that we can do more to help the homeless and the mentally ill people, and we are training more Psychiatrists, etc, we have a lot of positive things that can happen.

I do not know anything about Baltimore, but if they need help then Kiwanis is free, and Kiwanis is always looking for new volunteers. Kiwanis can help people to help themselves, like the famous Jerry McGuire line. And education, and after school programs, etc, are also good. Some of the poor children are completely neglected, so giving the poor children positive attention is a step in the right direction, and we need to start raising our children to be doctors, instead of neglected criminals. It is better to build schools than prisons.

And Father Boyle is a hero here in Los Angeles with Homeboy Industries, Baltimore can learn from Father Boyle.

There is also Boy's Town in Omaha, Nebraska, that can teach Baltimore.

And they can help the abused women, and help the children who do not have fathers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 04:41:49 AM: That cargo ship allegedly crashed [reversed] into a wharf in Germany last year, the year before or something.
Last year it was cited for having trouble with its propulsion...my tv news reported.
O oh.

Maybe when the bridge is rebuilt, tugboats should accompany all ships past the bridge, with ships only allowed to leave port in daylight hours.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 27, 2024, 10:06:48 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 09:21:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM
https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

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Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri
Ronna is gone.
Far be it for the MSNBC crowd to tolerate freedom of speech.

Proven liar who won't retract lies after facts are checked...is not compatible with journalism. Think of any journalist who has earned your trust and reflect on what it was that earned that trust. Disqualification for a job is not a first amendment issue here - this was about incompetence.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 27, 2024, 11:35:39 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 27, 2024, 10:06:48 AM

Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri

Ronna is gone.
Far be it for the MSNBC crowd to tolerate freedom of speech.

Proven liar Rachel Maddowwho won't retract lies after facts are checked ChrisHaysis not compatible with journalismJoy Reid
FIFY

As have the viewers via the ratings.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on March 27, 2024, 11:53:18 AM: News Item.

In Florida Disney Fought The Law And The Law Won.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/03/27/desantis-oversight-board-disney-reach-settlement-in-state-lawsuit
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 11:59:04 AM: The next premeditated, cold-blooded killing of a human being in a death chamber in America is on April 4th 2024.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 27, 2024, 12:09:46 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on March 27, 2024, 10:06:48 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on March 26, 2024, 09:21:05 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on March 26, 2024, 09:09:08 PM
https://wapo.st/3xbrhsy

(free link, from subscriber)

Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!

By Alexandra Petri
Ronna is gone.
Far be it for the MSNBC crowd to tolerate freedom of speech.

Proven liar who won't retract lies after facts are checked...is not compatible with journalism. Think of any journalist who has earned your trust and reflect on what it was that earned that trust. Disqualification for a job is not a first amendment issue here - this was about incompetence.

Journalists need to be as divorced from reality, repugnant, racist, homophobic and illiterate as Red to earn his trust.

Those are the ones he cuts and pastes from willy nilly without attribution.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2024, 04:27:29 PM: I understand as a man born in California how hard it is to see people bash your beloved home, as Jim Carrey constantly bashes Hollywood, the fucking asshole came to Hollywood and got rich and then all that he does is bash Hollywood and say how bad it is, instead of using his wealth and fame to help to make Hollywood better and to improve Hollywood. And I love California so much that I joined Kiwanis International and volunteered for free to help to make Anaheim better. If I could help to make California, and the USA, better, then I would do it.

And the same with Baltimore, for the people who love Baltimore then they hate to see people bash Baltimore, and I hope they care enough about Baltimore to volunteer for free to work to make Baltimore better, there is Kiwanis International, and they can also ask for help from Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and Boy's Town from Omaha can also help in Baltimore. There are people who will help in Baltimore for free.

I love California, and when I see homeless and mentally ill people all over the streets it makes my heart hurt. I am sure the same is true for the people who love Baltimore. And Kiwanis will help for free, and Homeboy Industries, and Boy's Town.

And the USA needs to train teachers, and we need to build libraries, and more schools, etc, and we need to improve education and job training for our people, etc. And we need good after school programs for the youth, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:57:37 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 27, 2024, 04:27:29 PM
I understand as a man born in California how hard it is to see people bash your beloved home, as Jim Carrey constantly bashes Hollywood, the fucking asshole came to Hollywood and got rich and then all that he does is bash Hollywood and say how bad it is, instead of using his wealth and fame to help to make Hollywood better and to improve Hollywood. And I love California so much that I joined Kiwanis International and volunteered for free to help to make Anaheim better. If I could help to make California, and the USA, better, then I would do it.

And the same with Baltimore, for the people who love Baltimore then they hate to see people bash Baltimore, and I hope they care enough about Baltimore to volunteer for free to work to make Baltimore better, there is Kiwanis International, and they can also ask for help from Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and Boy's Town from Omaha can also help in Baltimore. There are people who will help in Baltimore for free.

I love California, and when I see homeless and mentally ill people all over the streets it makes my heart hurt. I am sure the same is true for the people who love Baltimore. And Kiwanis will help for free, and Homeboy Industries, and Boy's Town.

And the USA needs to train teachers, and we need to build libraries, and more schools, etc, and we need to improve education and job training for our people, etc. And we need good after school programs for the youth, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Two guys in the 'Walk thru the drug slums of Baltimore' Youtube video are trying to make things better, but they need help from City Hall, the cops, state and federal govts.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 06:45:13 PM: from my D Telegraph today:

"The company responsible for the cargo vessel that brought down a US bridge had previously been blasted by Australia, it's been revealed, as two victims were recovered and another two named.

Ships owned by the company had previously been blasted by Australian authorities for "serious and shameful" mistreatment of crew members".
The violations were deemed so serious by the Australian Maritime Safety authority that the Western Callao - owned by Singapore-based company Grace Ocean Private - was banned from Australian ports for six months in 2021.

The Dali, another Grace Ocean vessel, slammed into................
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 08:11:07 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a

It did.
No harm in considering all possibilities though.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 10:51:44 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 08:11:07 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a

It did.
No arm in considering all possibilities though.

Why not wait for the investigation?

Google David Simon
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 11:02:43 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 10:51:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 08:11:07 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a

It did.
No arm in considering all possibilities though.

Why not wait for the investigation?

Google David Simon

Best to hit em [the investigators] with the 'terrorism' angle before they start looking into everything.
Nothing can be assumed.
"Assumption is the mother of all f-ups" - Under Siege 2

I googled Mr Simon...he seems to be an angry senior citizen...called Ms Greene 'submoronic'.
Not very nice, where were his manners. Respect!
He doesn't know whether or not the crash was intentional...ahem 9/11, initially they thought the first jet had problems and was just of course when it crashed into the tower....turned out to be terrorism.

Mr Simon should've said; "Anything is possible, but I'm of the belief that it was just an accident. The investigation will establish the cause.

"You complete submoronic pratfall of a human being.' What a rude man.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 27, 2024, 11:57:19 PM: If nothing can be assumed, best not to hit the investigators with the terrorism angle before they start looking into everything.

In actual investigations looking precedes choosing angles.

You would know this if you had not chosen to rely on propaganda outlets instead of reasonable sources of news and probably if you had been less frequently dropped on your head.

Do be more careful in future.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 03:31:55 AM: Best to throw "terrorism", "inside job" etc onto the table first...lets it be known what people are thinking, accusing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 03:53:30 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 27, 2024, 11:57:19 PM
If nothing can be assumed, best not to hit the investigators with the terrorism angle before they start looking into everything.

In actual investigations looking precedes choosing angles.

You would know this if you had not chosen to rely on propaganda outlets instead of reasonable sources of news and probably if you had been less frequently dropped on your head.

Do be more careful in future.

Investigations...baaah.
They tried to blame Sully for landing the plane on the Hudson and not reaching an airport.
He proved them wrong.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 06:29:05 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 11:02:43 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 10:51:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 08:11:07 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a

It did.
No arm in considering all possibilities though.

Why not wait for the investigation?

Google David Simon

Best to hit em [the investigators] with the 'terrorism' angle before they start looking into everything.
Nothing can be assumed.
"Assumption is the mother of all f-ups" - Under Siege 2

I googled Mr Simon...he seems to be an angry senior citizen...called Ms Greene 'submoronic'.
Not very nice, where were his manners. Respect!
He doesn't know whether or not the crash was intentional...ahem 9/11, initially they thought the first jet had problems and was just of course when it crashed into the tower....turned out to be terrorism.

Mr Simon should've said; "Anything is possible, but I'm of the belief that it was just an accident. The investigation will establish the cause.

"You complete submoronic pratfall of a human being.' What a rude man.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sub moronic twit. She is threatening the House Speaker for working with the Democrats to,pass funding to keep the government running. She is a human hand grenade. A terrible legislator.

If you had done more than a cursory search on David Simon you would have seen very few people know more about or love Baltimore.

Pull the covers over your head and suck your thumb.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 28, 2024, 10:46:18 AM: A challenging scrutiny of the current state of journalism.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-pseudo-intellectualism-ruined

I miss journalists like Mike Royko. There's still some out there, but sometimes you need to get out in the weeds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 10:50:43 AM: Republicans blame Democrats for the bridge collapse because, what else? Racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/politics-baltimore-bridge-collapse-republican-conspiracy/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 28, 2024, 12:38:28 PM: While it was a tad before my time, Royko used to frequent my Chicago haunt, the Old Town Ale House, where he famously brought in some friends of his for a tasting test between foreign and domestic beers. The US didn't do very well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 28, 2024, 01:36:03 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 10:50:43 AM
Republicans blame Democrats for the bridge collapse because, what else? Racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/politics-baltimore-bridge-collapse-republican-conspiracy/
Behind a paywall. But this is not:

Baltimore Mayor Taunts Right-Wing Trolls With Brutally Honest New
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 03:05:54 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 28, 2024, 01:36:03 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 10:50:43 AM
Republicans blame Democrats for the bridge collapse because, what else? Racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/politics-baltimore-bridge-collapse-republican-conspiracy/
Behind a paywall. But this is not:

Baltimore Mayor Taunts Right-Wing Trolls With Brutally Honest New

Should be accessible

https://wapo.st/3TTsLjZ
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 28, 2024, 03:19:46 PM: There are a lot of good people in Hollywood who I am sure want to help the homeless people in Hollywood, and I think more stars will come forward and help the homeless as it becomes more fashionable. The stars can have fancy dinner parties to help the homeless, etc, like Ricardo Montalban used to do.

There was a rich lady who lived in Empire West who used to go to all of the parties to benefit the homeless, etc. She was a nice lady who did a lot to help the community. She had a yellow Rolls Royce, and sadly one day when she went to the market someone dumped a milk shake on the hood of her car, people were just jealous because she had a Rolls Royce, but she was the kind of lady who would give money to the homeless. We need to organize the good rich people like her to help the homeless, and we can bring back the fancy parties to raise money to help the homeless, etc.

A lot of the rich people have big hearts, and I am sure more people will step forward to help the homeless in Hollywood as it becomes more fashionable. And they can bring back the parties like Ricardo Montalban used to do.

Some people think that there is some struggle between the rich and the poor, but really a lot of the rich people started out poor, and they remember what it was like to be poor and they are the first person to step forward to help the poor people. And like Elvis, and Marlon Brando, they both gave money to help the poor, and Elvis did the song "In the Ghetto" to raise awareness to the plight of the poor people in the ghetto. And Johnny Cash helped the poor people. A lot of stars will step forward to help the homeless in Hollywood, I am sure of it.

And one thing that Hollywood needs is cheap hostels where people can take a shower and where they can sleep in a bed for $15 per night, and plus they need at least a couple of free sandwiches per day, etc. Just a cheap bed and shower, and a couple of sandwiches, that would totally help a new young actor on the streets in Hollywood. I think a lot of stars are going to step forward to help the homeless in Hollywood.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 28, 2024, 03:29:55 PM: luee is upset they were not veterans:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/politics/baltimore-key-bridge-immigration-analysis/index.html
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 28, 2024, 09:15:12 PM: Perhaps conservative genius Matt Schlapp can reassure him that every worker involved was an addict.

And also that morning, Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, discussed his concerns about an unqualified, drug-addled workforce hamstrung by coronavirus lockdowns.

I am one of these people that believes weve never fully come out of all the lockdowns and the covid issues, Schlapp said on Newsmax. Im no expert on whats going on in the seas, but all I would say is that if you talk to employers in America, theyll tell you that filling slots with employees who arent drug-addled is a very huge problem. So Im making no specific charges here, because we dont know. We have to kind of wake up as a country and deal with the fact that we have too many people who arent ready to do the job.

He is making no specific charges here!

When an ignoramus prefaces his pearls of wisdom with

Im no expert but

you know it is going to be an especially ripe steaming load of bullshit innuendos.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 09:42:56 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 06:29:05 AM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 11:02:43 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 10:51:44 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 08:11:07 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 07:33:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 27, 2024, 05:33:08 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 27, 2024, 03:52:00 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 26, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
Baltimore...'the worst run city in America' according to Youtube.
'Tied with 4 others as having the worst violent crime rate in the nation' - Fox Baltimore
Charming.
People are leaving the city, 'it now has its lowest population in 100 years'.
One view is that the city has become 'cars central', the city catering for cars first.
Another is that people are leaving because of all the violent crime.
One lady (who happend to be Black) interviewed said "your home can be robbed twice in the same day".

Is this bridge crash just one more horror to befall Baltimore?

I'm currently walking thru 'The Drug Infested Slums of Baltimore'.
I haven't been walking long, but what I've seen so far is purely horrid.

No one loves Baltimore than one of my contemporary heroes, David Simon, who would undoubtedly refer to you accurately as a basement-dwelling shitsquib responds to those taking advantage of the tragedy to post the most stupid shit possible.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-simon-marjorie-taylor-greene-baltimore-bridge-1235868804/

Given what happened in NYC, Ms Greene is quite right to ask the question about the crash possibly being a terror attack...thus ensuring a complete, thorough, in depth, no stone left unturned, everything made public, nothing 'hidden' investigation ... is done.
Wouldn't want anything being covered up, because the ship is registered in Asia, etc...so as not to offend anyone, would we.

If Mr Simon loves Baltimore so much he should want it to be the best it can be.
He should visit the horrid slums and use his profile to enact serious change

The ship sent out a

It did.
No arm in considering all possibilities though.

Why not wait for the investigation?

Google David Simon

Best to hit em [the investigators] with the 'terrorism' angle before they start looking into everything.
Nothing can be assumed.
"Assumption is the mother of all f-ups" - Under Siege 2

I googled Mr Simon...he seems to be an angry senior citizen...called Ms Greene 'submoronic'.
Not very nice, where were his manners. Respect!
He doesn't know whether or not the crash was intentional...ahem 9/11, initially they thought the first jet had problems and was just of course when it crashed into the tower....turned out to be terrorism.

Mr Simon should've said; "Anything is possible, but I'm of the belief that it was just an accident. The investigation will establish the cause.

"You complete submoronic pratfall of a human being.' What a rude man.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sub moronic twit. She is threatening the House Speaker for working with the Democrats to,pass funding to keep the government running. She is a human hand grenade. A terrible legislator.

If you had done more than a cursory search on David Simon you would have seen very few people know more about or love Baltimore.

Pull the covers over your head and suck your thumb.

A casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that Baltimore is a not so nice city and nowhere they should be living.
Mr Simon might love it, .......maybe he lives in a mansion in Roland Park, with lovely gardens, lovely trees, pretty flowers everywhere, oh life is grand there...75 worlds away from the drug slums........but plenty of people are moving away as fast as they can.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 10:16:40 PM: What I learnt from YouTube and the internet today;

The exact location of Maryland...and Washington DC.
Virginia/Maryland...that's where the British were sending their convicts....before the war.
When they could no longer send their convicts to America, they started sending them to Australia instead.
The First Fleet arriving in Botany Bay [then shortly after they sailed up and into Sydney Harbour] in 1788.
On 26th January they raised the Union Jack and claimed Terra Australis for Britain.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 10:26:15 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 28, 2024, 01:36:03 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 10:50:43 AM
Republicans blame Democrats for the bridge collapse because, what else? Racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/politics-baltimore-bridge-collapse-republican-conspiracy/
Behind a paywall. But this is not:

Baltimore Mayor Taunts Right-Wing Trolls With Brutally Honest New

That mayor should go fix the drug slums horror in his city.
I'd be so ashamed if my city were like that...I'd do something about it.
"It costs money"...run a lottery, nationally and globally.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 28, 2024, 11:46:08 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 28, 2024, 10:26:15 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 28, 2024, 01:36:03 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 28, 2024, 10:50:43 AM
Republicans blame Democrats for the bridge collapse because, what else? Racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/politics-baltimore-bridge-collapse-republican-conspiracy/
Behind a paywall. But this is not:

Baltimore Mayor Taunts Right-Wing Trolls With Brutally Honest New

That mayor should go fix the drug slums horror in his city.
I'd be so ashamed if my city were like that...I'd do something about it.
"It costs money"...run a lottery, nationally and globally.

Yes, run a lottery, and also groups like Boy's Town, Kiwanis International, and Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, will all come in and help for free, along with other groups.

And Paul Newman donated a company to sell spaghetti sauce and salad dressing to raise money for charity, it is still raising money for charity long after his death, Paul Newman was a great man.

Famous Amos sold cookies to raise money to teach people how to read.

Dolly Parton donates many books for children, and she does a lot of other good things, including the fact that she donated the money to Vanderbilt University to discover the vaccine for COVID.

Many good people will step forward to help the poor if invited and appreciated.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2024, 12:08:16 AM: In New England they are training people for the Lobster Industry, there is a huge growing demand for Lobster, so groups such as Boy's Town, and Homeboy Industries, and others, can send young men to learn to work in the Lobster Industry, so that is something that a poor young man in Baltimore could think about doing, they can go work in the Lobster Industry. ( My dearly departed friend Tom used to feed Ribeye Steaks and Lobster to the homeless people when he was managing a homeless shelter, he fed the homeless guys steak and lobster. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 04:52:44 AM: Concerns in Baltimore, before the bridge collapse was added;

Baltimore's infrastructure problems are legion---an ongoing sewage system crisis, the state's oldest schools, lead paint, a lack of healthy affordable housing, streets collapsing under the weight of age and heavier rainfall, and low-income neighborhoods suffering from air pollution and the heat-island effect.

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Of course if people stopped rioting, looting businesses, destroying buildings and burning down *half* the city every time something doesn't suit them, things might get better more quickly.
Why would you build people new housing if it's only going to be destroyed?
Why would businesses stick around only to be looted and destroyed? plenty of other places in America to set up a business.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 29, 2024, 09:06:14 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 04:52:44 AM
Concerns in Baltimore, before the bridge collapse was added;

Baltimore's infrastructure problems are legion---an ongoing sewage system crisis, the state's oldest schools, lead paint, a lack of healthy affordable housing, streets collapsing under the weight of age and heavier rainfall, and low-income neighborhoods suffering from air pollution and the heat-island effect.

#####

Of course if people stopped rioting, looting businesses, destroying buildings and burning down *half* the city every time something doesn't suit them, things might get better more quickly.
Why would you build people new housing if it's only going to be destroyed?
Why would businesses stick around only to be looted and destroyed? plenty of other places in America to set up a business.

The previous governor of Maryland made sure Baltimore lacked the resources to pull itself into prosperity. Typical of GOP politicians in particular and racists in general to hamstring black peoples then blame them for for their lack of success.

In a Title VI civil rights complaint filed this week against Maryland, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) charges that the decision by the Republican governor, Larry Hogan, to eliminate the plans for an east-west light rail line in Baltimore and transfer the state funds slated for it to road projects in largely white suburban and rural parts of the state discriminates against the citys black residents.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/23/maryland-lawsuit-baltimore-rail-project-racism-larry-hogan

Sorely missing is a long-planned east-west transit route that would connect isolated Black Baltimore neighborhoods to downtown and suburban job centers and to other rail lines. In 2014, the Obama administration offered Maryland a selective New Starts grant of $900 million to finally build what was called the Red Line a project that would not only have connected thousands of Black Marylanders to better jobs but would also create a comprehensive transit system that might restart the Baltimore regions economy and improve race relations by building literal connections between communities.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/18/how-larry-hogan-kept-black-baltimore-segregated-and-poor-367930
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 10:45:46 AM: For someone who could not find Baltimore on a map until last week, Bambu sure has steadfast and certain opinions about the city.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 29, 2024, 11:29:28 AM: This is how it is done.

Racists consistently set up Black institutions to fail then say the institutions are at fault are failing.

Democrats continually point to decades of historic underfunding of TSU, the only public HBCU in the state, arguing TSU has not been set up for success in stark contrast to other public universities with historically white student bodies. Recent data from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture calculated Tennessee underfunded TSU at a whopping $2.1 billion over the last 30 years, the largest amount of any state.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/28/republican-lawmakers-vacate-full-tennessee-state-university-board/73124246007/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 29, 2024, 11:33:27 AM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 10:45:46 AM
For someone who could not find Baltimore on a map until last week, Bambu sure has steadfast and certain opinions about the city.
bambu has steadfast and certain opinions about a whole other of things he knows nothing about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 29, 2024, 11:54:03 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on March 29, 2024, 11:33:27 AM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 10:45:46 AM
For someone who could not find Baltimore on a map until last week, Bambu sure has steadfast and certain opinions about the city.
bambu has steadfast and certain opinions about a whole other of things he knows nothing about.

bambu and luee enjoy the same predilection for being often wrong but never in doubt.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 12:13:10 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 10:45:46 AM
For someone who could not find Baltimore on a map until last week, Bambu sure has steadfast and certain opinions about the city.

Which he's happy to change if shown good reason to do so. 🙂
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 12:18:39 PM: Come visit!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 01:41:08 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 12:18:39 PM
Come visit!

Too costly.
Too hard.
Travelling today is a rich young person's game.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 01:47:06 PM: Fair enough. Then maybe you should concede you know nothing about Baltimore, just as I concede I know nothing about where you live.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 02:45:19 PM: But I do know plenty about Baltimore.
I walked thru the drug slums, read about the city's problems, saw its bridge collapse, heard about its generational racism from one of the guys in the drug slum video, ...how some people there "have nothing, and nothing to lose."
Larry informed about the needed train line.
I remember now about all the Baltimore riots.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 29, 2024, 02:48:25 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 02:45:19 PM
But I do know plenty about Baltimore.
I walked thru the drug slums, read about the city's problems, saw its bridge collapse, heard about its generational racism from one of the guys in the drug slum video, ...how some people there "have nothing, and nothing to lose."
Larry informed about the needed train line.
I remember now about all the Baltimore riots.
No, you do not. You watched a fucking YouTube video, and you are incapable of discernment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 02:53:58 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 02:45:19 PM
But I do know plenty about Baltimore.
I walked thru the drug slums, read about the city's problems, saw its bridge collapse, heard about its generational racism from one of the guys in the drug slum video, ...how some people there "have nothing, and nothing to lose."
Larry informed about the needed train line.
I remember now about all the Baltimore riots.
You think that's "plenty." You're really not too bright, are you?

I'll be happy to show you around when you visit. Otherwise, be quiet about your alleged knowledge.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2024, 04:22:17 PM: On the issue of creating opportunities for the youth from Boy's Town, and from Homeboy Industries, there are people who will spend money to help animals who would never spend money to help poor and disadvantaged youth, thus if the youth take care of the animals then people will give money to the youth for taking care of the animals. The youth can learn how to wash dogs, and how to groom dogs, and how to help to take care of the strays at the animal shelters, etc, and the youth can earn honest money by working with animals.

And people will donate money to take care of an endangered species, etc, and the disadvantaged youth can learn how to take care of the endangered species, etc. I had a job for free rent in Topanga for taking care of some rare cats that were an endangered species. And I grew up washing dogs, and later I managed a dog kennel for 6 years. The disadvantaged youth can survive by taking care of animals.

In Africa to help starving tribes the disadvantaged Africans can be paid to watch over the animals, they can be paid to protect the zebras and elephants and giraffes, etc. They can pay the Africans to protect the animals.

Also, there are farm jobs taking care of animals, cows, pigs, chickens, etc, and the youth can learn to raise farm animals, etc.

People will pay you to take care of some rare cats, even though they would not give you a sandwich if you were homeless on the sidewalk. When you help the rare cats then you are a benefit to society instead of just being a bum, in their eyes. And they can study Shakespeare while they are taking care of the rare animals, etc. Once your immediate needs of food and shelter are met, then you can aspire to higher levels on the ladder such as the arts.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 05:26:01 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 02:53:58 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 02:45:19 PM
But I do know plenty about Baltimore.
I walked thru the drug slums, read about the city's problems, saw its bridge collapse, heard about its generational racism from one of the guys in the drug slum video, ...how some people there "have nothing, and nothing to lose."
Larry informed about the needed train line.
I remember now about all the Baltimore riots.
You think that's "plenty." You're really not too bright, are you?

I'll be happy to show you around when you visit. Otherwise, be quiet about your alleged knowledge.

What else is there to know besides what I wrote here?
It's history is well known and well explained, in articles online.
It's monuments, architecture, are on display.
That's plenty.
There's nothing else to learn.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 05:46:55 PM: I should have stuck to my plan not to engage with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 05:52:06 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on March 29, 2024, 05:46:55 PM
I should have stuck to my plan not to engage with you.

Well, what else is there to learn about Baltimore?
It's one of the largest trading ports in fhe nation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 29, 2024, 05:53:53 PM: Bambu has not walked or learned in a long long time. He does get stuffed like a sausage by an algorithm. He relieves the pressure by talking out of his ass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 29, 2024, 07:30:59 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 29, 2024, 05:53:53 PM
Bambu has not walked or learned in a long long time. He does get stuffed like a sausage by an algorithm. He relieves the pressure by talking out of his ass.

Canton etc are the best places to live, by the water, and there are secret places to visit in Baltimore.
A city like any other, with its own culture.

Just went for a walk thru Canton, down to the Anchorage Mariner...very nice part of town.

Now watching a video "10 Things to know when moving to Fell's Point Baltimore."
Nautical, but nice.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2024, 11:59:20 PM: With all of the crime at the Metro, and with current crime around the world, including women being punched in New York, then the woman in charge of Security at the Metrolink asked for better protection for the travelers, and they fired her for trying to better protect our travelers.

Her name is Gina Osborn, and she looks like Angie Dickinson from the television show "Police Woman," and she wants to improve the security for travelers on Metro. I think she should be the new Boss of a new Security Program focusing solely in providing security for travelers on Metro.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 30, 2024, 01:47:32 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 29, 2024, 11:59:20 PM
With all of the crime at the Metro, and with current crime around the world, including women being punched in New York, then the woman in charge of Security at the Metrolink asked for better protection for the travelers, and they fired her for trying to better protect our travelers.

Her name is Gina Osborn, and she looks like Angie Dickinson from the television show "Police Woman," and she wants to improve the security for travelers on Metro. I think she should be the new Boss of a new Security Program focusing solely in providing security for travelers on Metro.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, and that's exactly why things are like they are.
No one much is interested in providing absolute security.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 30, 2024, 02:11:56 AM: If you were competent enough with tools to nail yourself into a pine box you would feel much safer.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 30, 2024, 04:08:51 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2024, 02:11:56 AM
If you were competent enough with tools to nail yourself into a pine box you would feel much safer.

When they rebuild the bridge they're gonna have to get some absolute security, so that the same thing doesn't happen again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on March 30, 2024, 08:46:58 AM: Quote from: bambu. on March 30, 2024, 04:08:51 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2024, 02:11:56 AM
If you were competent enough with tools to nail yourself into a pine box you would feel much safer.

When they rebuild the bridge they're gonna have to get some absolute security, so that the same thing doesn't happen again.
No, they will not. They will get the best modern safety barriers and design redundancies but like literally every other facet of life absolute security is not possible. It is a myth to keep people like you perpetually wetting their diapers so you vote the right way.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 30, 2024, 11:14:16 AM: ICAII

Bridge support column protectors are called dolphins. The proposed new bridge will have them. Dolphins basically create a mini island of pilings and rock around the column, which bears the brunt of a ship impact.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 30, 2024, 03:02:50 PM: Bambu, Harvard can help Baltimore, Massachusetts is only 400 miles from Maryland.

And the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is only 400 miles from Maryland. https://www.mit.edu

America has some wonderful schools.

New York has some great schools too.

And Vanderbilt is in Tennessee.

The USA has some wonderful schools. We are blessed when it comes to the issue of higher education. We train the world leaders here from all around the world. And Muzi, the Daughter of the President of China came to Harvard to study.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 07:27:56 AM: DT today:

US and Australia have conducted missile tests off coast of Hawaii.
Taiwan is testing its air defence systems.

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Good.
Never know when the invasions will be coming.
It's China that's expected to invade Australia within 4 years, experts have warned.
Probably after attacking Taiwan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 07:54:45 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 30, 2024, 02:11:56 AM
If you were competent enough with tools to nail yourself into a pine box you would feel much safer.

If I had some guns large and small I'd feel much safer.
The govt and cops are useless, people in my rural towns are cowering in their homes ....... begging not to be harmed by machete/knife/jemmy bar wielding teen gangs, most aged under 18 and not White, .......as they hand over their car keys, their vehicles being stolen and used for doing burnouts, speeding and engaging cops in chases.
An 85 yr old White man was stabbed 5 times, he survived. An 80 yr old White man was bashed with a jemmy bar in his home, his wife terrorised. All shown on my tv.
Residents unarmed, sitting ducks.
The thugs, some as young as 5, are smashing their way into homes. No fear, they know the residents are all unarmed and no match for machetes etc.
Cops arrest them, the courts let them out on bail, They just keep right on doing what they're doing.
Guns are great for self defence, too bad they're banned.
Some residents are too scared to go to sleep at night. They sleep in the day.
Yes, there's nothing to do but be scared, cower in a corner, and pray.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 31, 2024, 11:48:18 AM: He is risen
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2024, 02:10:51 PM: Happy Easter!

And here you go Bambu... A Virginia Class Submarine costs $3.4 billion each. Australia ordered 8 and paid $368 billion.

Plus we sent some B-2 Stealth Bombers to Australia, which are nuclear capable.

Australia is safe, no worries.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2024, 04:23:24 PM: Jesus is the Prince of Peace. I worked for a World War II Veteran who fought in Japan, he went to war with his Doberman, when he was drafted he was in school to become a Veterinarian and he had to drop out of school to join the Marine Corps after Pearl Harbor. The Marine Corps put him in charge of their Dog Kennels, and he trained dogs for the Marine Corps, etc, and then he went to war in Japan with his Doberman named Duke. This Veteran was a huge proponent of peace, he hated war, and he supported the United Nations. He thought that the United Nations was our biggest hope for world peace, and he had a picture of the United Nations on the wall of our office at the Dog Kennel that he owned and which I managed for 6 years. He ran that Kennel like the Marine Corps kennels, and for me it was like being in the Marines for 6 years, I had hard core discipline and I was never late, I got to work 1 hour early and I left one hour after hours. I gave that old man the very best effort that I could, even though he did not share the wealth, as a child of the Great Depression he was tight with the money. Anyhow, this old man loved the United Nations, and he saw it as our best hope for world peace.

At the same time that the United Nations was created then so too was the Central Intelligence Agency, we needed the CIA so that we could be well informed of world activities and so that we could deal with problems when they are small and before they become big problems. Then when people have the facts, they can make better decisions.

And the same is true with Journalism and which is why we have our 1st Amendment guaranteeing the right to freedom of the Press and free speech, so that we can deal with issues when they are small, and we can make better decisions when we have all of the facts.

One recent example of excellent Journalism was the case with Geraldo Rivera and the Mental Hospitals, Geraldo shined a light on what was happening in the Mental Hospitals and then people could deal with the issue. We have made a lot of progress on Mental Health Care because of Geraldo Rivera, and a free press.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace, and according to many our best hope for World Peace is the United Nations.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 05:01:13 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2024, 02:10:51 PM
Happy Easter!

And here you go Bambu... A Virginia Class Submarine costs $3.4 billion each. Australia ordered 8 and paid $368 billion.

Plus we sent some B-2 Stealth Bombers to Australia, which are nuclear capable.

Australia is safe, no worries.

Salute,

Tony V.

The first subs won't be arriving until 2035 or something, if at all. US is only making one new one this year, needs it for US Navy, all fair enough...Australia should've demanded nukes from Britain in the 1950s.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 05:05:56 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on March 31, 2024, 11:48:18 AM
He is risen

Indeed.
His help is needed to stop the bad people on earth. The bad people are taking over everywhere atm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 31, 2024, 05:50:42 PM: Quote from: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 05:05:56 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 31, 2024, 11:48:18 AM
He is risen

Indeed.
His help is needed to stop the bad people on earth. The bad people are taking over everywhere atm.

There is one at least wherever you go.

Please stay away from here and go in peace however much it is against your nature.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 06:52:31 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 31, 2024, 05:50:42 PM
Quote from: bambu. on March 31, 2024, 05:05:56 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on March 31, 2024, 11:48:18 AM
He is risen

Indeed.
His help is needed to stop the bad people on earth. The bad people are taking over everywhere atm.

There is one at least wherever you go.

Please stay away from here and go in peace however much it is against your nature.

The people virtually trying to force renewables onto society, lobbying for electric vehicles only, solar and wind power only...now and in the near future, are not bad people but their ideas are bad and causing unnecessary stress to average joe.

The CEO of Shell says 'today' that oil and gas will be part of the energy mix for many decades to come.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2024, 08:17:29 PM: Bambu, read about Bakersfield, Kern County produces a lot of oil, and plus they produce crops of produce, and they have farmers, etc. My Grandparents owned an Auction in Bakersfield and Buck Owens and Roy Clark and all of the Bakersfield Cowboys hung out at my family owned Auction. They loved Bakersfield. Then my Mother developed Valley Fever and so they had to move to the Desert for her health, but she had fond memories of Bakersfield. Bakersfield produces a lot of oil, and we need to buy our own locally produced oil instead of buying imported oil. And we have enough Natural Gas in Southern California to last for 3 thousand years or more.

I want to buy one of the Electric VW Buses. I support electric, but the gasoline will be around for a while, and the people in Bakersfield can keep pumping oil.

And Bakersfield is a good safe place for the Australian immigrants who want to live in California, it is cheap and there are a lot of jobs available.

Also, there is Modesto, which is where George Lucas was born. That is a good safe spot for Australian immigrants who want to live in California.

And on the issue of Defense, they keep a lot of stuff secret. And be sure to get the equipment to jam and crash enemy drones.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on March 31, 2024, 09:45:34 PM: (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F80LyplXoAUyUAb?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on March 31, 2024, 10:06:19 PM: That looks like the love child of a face sucker and a sand worm.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on March 31, 2024, 10:28:46 PM: The CEO of Shellsays today that oil and gas will be part of the energy mix for many decades to come.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah until the last petrobuck is extracted from the earth or the only thriving species on earth are reptiles.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 31, 2024, 10:31:06 PM: There are many songs about the women of California with flowers in their hair. In the 1960s you can picture that they had women with flowers in their hair in the park in San Francisco. California is not like New York or Chicago, California is a lot softer, with better weather, and we have hippy Christian girls, etc.

It is a shame what has happened to San Francisco, we need to make San Francisco nice again. The Chinese can help in San Francisco, and the Italians, and others, and Homeboy Industries, and Boy's Town, etc, and Kiwanis International, etc, there are people who could help to make San Francisco nice again.

Meanwhile, Malibu is a good safe spot for new immigrants in California, along with Topanga, and Anaheim, and then for cheaper there is Bakersfield, and Modesto. Laguna Beach is a good place for Retirement. And Pepperdine is a good Christian college, and we have USC film school, and Chapman film school, etc. In the Antelope Valley then I recommend Quartz Hill. And then for cheap retirement and Golf there is California City.

Battle Mountain, Nevada, is cheap and safe, and they have a Golf course. There are jobs at the casino, I worked at the Colt as a cook for 2 years, and there are jobs working at the Gold mines, etc, and there are jobs for truck drivers, etc. You could also raise pigs and sell pork to San Francisco, etc. And they have Cattle Ranchers in Nevada, etc. And Vegas is a great exciting City, and Lake Tahoe and Reno are nice, and Carson City is nice, Nevada has some good locations. Lots of people from California are retiring to Nevada.

In the future I think Mexico will be a good place for Americans to retire to. Mexico will be nice in 20 years, the Mexicans are hard workers and they are determined to improve the situation in Mexico, and lots of money is being invested in Mexico.

Anyhow, for the 70,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, California, then we need for the California girls with flowers in their hair to save our homeless people, and also to save the people of San Francisco, and of Oakland, and of San Bernardino, etc. California needs tender loving care. We need Psychiatrists, and housing, and teachers, etc. And we need to build schools and libraries, etc.

Also, with the port in Baltimore being closed, then I bet a lot of stuff is coming up from the ports in New Orleans, which will help the people of New Orleans, and of note is that New Orleans is a good spot for the new immigrants from Colombia, and for other new immigrants, they call New Orleans "The Big Easy." And the coffee from Colombia is roasted in New Orleans and is sent all over the USA. I support improvements in New Orleans.

And MIT and Harvard and others can help in Baltimore, along with Kiwanis International, Homeboy Industries, Boy's Town, etc.

Vanderbilt is in Tennessee, and also I like Memphis.

If the Australian Immigrants need an idea for a cheap family business, they can sell hamburgers to the passers by on the roads, and if they are too poor to have a restaurant then they can start with a Food Truck or a Hot Dog Cart, etc. The Mexicans even sell corn from a cart, Elote, Mexican street corn. And Jewish Delis are very popular in the USA. If you have a connection for Australian beef then you can have a restaurant like the Out Back Steak Houses here in California where they sell beef steaks from Australia.

And the jobs are coming back to Hollywood for the beautiful young actresses and models and movie stars, the new "Star Wars" will be made in Hollywood and Universal has had some success recently with "Oppenheimer" and so maybe Hollywood will heat up, and also a lot of money is going to be invested into Hollywood Blvd, etc. And Disneyland is spending billions in Anaheim.

I am optimistic.

And we need to find allies in Russia who we can support as we work to send Putin to Guantanamo Bay, we have allies in the Arts in Russia, and in the Space Program, etc, we need to find allies in Russia who we can support.

On the issue of the masses of refugees from the Middle East, the refugees can live in the forest of Canada, in Victoria, where Kiwanis has a village. Canada is huge and they have a lot of wide open land where the refugees can live in peace, and they can work in the Lumber Industry, etc.

And we need to send vegetables, etc, to our poor areas and to our ghettos, and we need to work to improve our ghettos, etc, and we need to build libraries and coffee shops in the ghettos and we need to put a fresh coat of paint on the ghettos, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 01:02:14 AM: Tony,
I'd be surprised if there are many poor, jobless immigrants from Australia entering America.
The very generous welfare system in Australia sees asylum seekers and legal immigrants clamouring to move here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 01, 2024, 02:34:32 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 01:02:14 AM
Tony,
I'd be surprised if there are many poor, jobless immigrants from Australia entering America.
The very generous welfare system in Australia sees asylum seekers and legal immigrants clamouring to move here.

At the 2000 U.S. Census, 60,965 Australian-born people were enumerated in the United States, of which 15,315 were citizens. Around 40% of Australian Americans had entered the United States before 1980. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and is growing in Nolita, Manhattan, New York City. In 2016, the Australian Consulate-General estimated there were 44,000 Australians living in Los Angeles.

_______

So, we have about 50,000 Australians living here in Los Angeles. They need to know about Battle Mountain, Nevada, in case they need cheap land for $1,000 per acre, and they need to know where the jobs are, etc. Los Angeles has 70,000 homeless people and LA can be hard, and it is good if they know where to go if they need help. Though Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless in LA, and it appears the movie and television jobs are coming back to Hollywood.

And we have the Out Back Steak Houses here in California which serve Australian beef, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 01, 2024, 02:41:20 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 01, 2024, 02:34:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 01:02:14 AM
Tony,
I'd be surprised if there are many poor, jobless immigrants from Australia entering America.
The very generous welfare system in Australia sees asylum seekers and legal immigrants clamouring to move here.

At the 2000 U.S. Census, 60,965 Australian-born people were enumerated in the United States, of which 15,315 were citizens. Around 40% of Australian Americans had entered the United States before 1980. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and is growing in Nolita, Manhattan, New York City. In 2016, the Australian Consulate-General estimated there were 44,000 Australians living in Los Angeles.

_______

So, we have about 50,000 Australians living here in Los Angeles. They need to know about Battle Mountain, Nevada, in case they need cheap land for $1,000 per acre, and they need to know where the jobs are, etc. Los Angeles has 70,000 homeless people and LA can be hard, and it is good if they know where to go if they need help. Though Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless in LA, and it appears the movie and television jobs are coming back to Hollywood.

And we have the Out Back Steak Houses here in California which serve Australian beef, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
I think we should send every Australian we can track down and sedate to Battle Mountain. And we should continue to use them for Outback Steak Houses, Mrs. Lovett style. God, that's good.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 03:18:59 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 01, 2024, 02:34:32 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 01:02:14 AM
Tony,
I'd be surprised if there are many poor, jobless immigrants from Australia entering America.
The very generous welfare system in Australia sees asylum seekers and legal immigrants clamouring to move here.

At the 2000 U.S. Census, 60,965 Australian-born people were enumerated in the United States, of which 15,315 were citizens. Around 40% of Australian Americans had entered the United States before 1980. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and is growing in Nolita, Manhattan, New York City. In 2016, the Australian Consulate-General estimated there were 44,000 Australians living in Los Angeles.

_______

So, we have about 50,000 Australians living here in Los Angeles. They need to know about Battle Mountain, Nevada, in case they need cheap land for $1,000 per acre, and they need to know where the jobs are, etc. Los Angeles has 70,000 homeless people and LA can be hard, and it is good if they know where to go if they need help. Though Mayor Bass is working hard to help the homeless in LA, and it appears the movie and television jobs are coming back to Hollywood.

And we have the Out Back Steak Houses here in California which serve Australian beef, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

Yes, good idea, one never knows today what tomorrow might bring.
Could be unemployment, homelessness...or "working poor homelessness."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 01, 2024, 07:34:18 PM: Florida is about to get very expensive for the state GOP and RNC.
who woulda thunk Florida would be in play for 2024?

https://apnews.com/article/florida-abortion-ban-supreme-court-ruling-6a4949fc7459afe9b5e298086a793126
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 01, 2024, 07:41:57 PM: Step right! Hurry hurry and get your shares in the greatest opportunity of the 21st C!

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-media-auditor-warns-losses-raise-doubt-company-rcna145831
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 01, 2024, 08:28:52 PM: My Representative from City Hall was just here, she knocked on my door and she introduced herself. It is very nice to have good leadership in Anaheim, and Natalie Rubalcava has my support.

I told her every idea that I could think of while she was at my door, it was a great opportunity to share some ideas real quick with her while she was here, it is such a cool thing to have a leader who cares enough to knock and then listen to some of my thoughts on our City.

Anaheim is a good City, and I have been blessed to live here. And I have been able to witness the American Dream as the immigrants have come into this apartment complex over the years, and I told her about Esperanza and Bing and about how they used to help the refugee children. I told her about how the complex is now owned by a corporation, and it is not magical like when Esperanza and Bing were helping the refugee children over the years.

And I told her that we need to make our immigrants legal, like Reagan did, so that they can call the police to report crimes and so that they can be protected by our laws, etc. The first thing Reagan did was to make our immigrants legal, to bring our people out of the shadows so they can call the cops and so they can join labor unions, etc. And Lou Correa is working to help to make our immigrants legal. We need to put politics aside and do what is right for the people, we need to make everyone legal so that they are protected by our laws.

I also told her that we need a new owner for the Angels Baseball Team and I suggested that Gwen Stefani and her friends from Vegas buy the Angels, I would love to see Gwen buy the Angels.

Meanwhile, I told her that I walk through La Palma Park to go to Carl's Jr and I feel totally safe here, there are children playing in the park, and it is a safe park. I am grateful to live in a safe area.

Anyhow, I was not prepared to have company, and I was not dressed appropriately to meet my Rep at City Hall, but I am glad that I opened the door, Natalie seems like a very nice woman and she has my support. Anaheim is a great city.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 01, 2024, 08:32:26 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 01, 2024, 08:28:52 PM
My Representative from City Hall was just here, she knocked on my door and she introduced herself. It is very nice to have good leadership in Anaheim, and Natalie Rubalcava has my support.

I told her every idea that I could think of while she was at my door, it was a great opportunity to share some ideas real quick with her while she was here, it is such a cool thing to have a leader who cares enough to knock and then listen to some of my thoughts on our City.

Anaheim is a good City, and I have been blessed to live here. And I have been able to witness the American Dream as the immigrants have come into this apartment complex over the years, and I told her about Esperanza and Bing and about how they used to help the refugee children. I told her about how the complex is now owned by a corporation, and it is not magical like when Esperanza and Bing were helping the refugee children over the years.

And I told her that we need to make our immigrants legal, like Reagan did, so that they can call the police to report crimes and so that they can be protected by our laws, etc. The first thing Reagan did was to make our immigrants legal, to bring our people out of the shadows so they can call the cops and so they can join labor unions, etc. And Lou Correa is working to help to make our immigrants legal. We need to put politics aside and do what is right for the people, we need to make everyone legal so that they are protected by our laws.

I also told her that we need a new owner for the Angels Baseball Team and I suggested that Gwen Stefani and her friends from Vegas buy the Angels, I would love to see Gwen buy the Angels.

Meanwhile, I told her that I walk through La Palma Park to go to Carl's Jr and I feel totally safe here, there are children playing in the park, and it is a safe park. I am grateful to live in a safe area.

Anyhow, I was not prepared to have company, and I was not dressed appropriately to meet my Rep at City Hall, but I am glad that I opened the door, Natalie seems like a very nice woman and she has my support. Anaheim is a great city.

Salute,

Tony V.

No harm in giving politicians/city officials information, ideas, and requests.
"You never know your luck in a big city".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 01, 2024, 10:42:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on March 31, 2024, 10:06:19 PM
That looks like the love child of a face sucker and a sand worm.

As good a guess as any. They're cute when they're young.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 02, 2024, 07:39:38 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 02, 2024, 07:23:10 PM
Golden Sneakers

gradycartoons.com

I did not see Golden Sneakers.

The Red Queen is scary on point. Nice one, that
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 02, 2024, 11:26:33 PM: Due to the wonderful amount of rain this year then we can count on beautiful wild flowers in the desert this spring. People flock to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve every year to view the poppies. I suggested to Mayor Bass that there be Homeboy Industries and Homegirl Industries Food Trucks to sell food to the the people who come out to see the poppies, in order to raise money to do Social Work, and also there needs to be lots of Public Toilets. Even just having carts selling Hot Dogs and Ice Cold Lemonade to raise money to feed the needy, etc, or burritos with horchata, etc, or burgers and Coca Cola, etc, bottled water, etc. In Rome, Italy, there are food trucks and food carts at all of the attractions, we need to do the same thing here in the USA, and they can raise money to do Social Work, etc.

Also, a new Apartment Complex just opened in Lancaster, California, for the homeless, the complex is designed cool, it is sort of Mid Century Modern, and it has 80 apartments, and I reminded them to add swimming pools and tennis courts and libraries to all of their projects. Parks are also important, people need green space.

And in Lancaster the Joshua Trees need to be preserved and they need Parks to be established to save the Joshua Trees. In the whole Mojave Desert we need to work to save the Joshua Trees, we need huge Parks to preserve the Joshua Trees.

And as always we need schools, and Lancaster needs a Medical School like the University of California in Irvine Medical School in Orange.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2024, 02:22:47 PM: In Tehachapi there is a former YMCA camp that has a running mountain stream on the property, and we used to drink the water straight out of the stream, I was in charge of the water for the camp, we had a catch basin with a pipe running to a big water tank, and then from the tank the water flowed down hill to the camp, and it was gravity fed and we went from large pipes to smaller pipes to build pressure, etc. Anyhow, the camp is gone now, but the Mountain Stream is still there, and that water could be bottled and sold to raise money for charities.

Saint Jude's Children's Hospital, and Kiwanis International, and others, could sell Bottled Water at the Convenience Stores, at 7-Eleven, and Circle K, and AM-PM, etc, and they can get the water from the Mountain Stream at the former YMCA camp in Tehachapi.

We could all support a good charity when we buy Bottled Water.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2024, 02:46:46 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 03, 2024, 02:22:47 PM
In Tehachapi there is a former YMCA camp that has a running mountain stream on the property, and we used to drink the water straight out of the stream, I was in charge of the water for the camp, we had a catch basin with a pipe running to a big water tank, and then from the tank the water flowed down hill to the camp, and it was gravity fed and we went from large pipes to smaller pipes to build pressure, etc. Anyhow, the camp is gone now, but the Mountain Stream is still there, and that water could be bottled and sold to raise money for charities.

Saint Jude's Children's Hospital, and Kiwanis International, and others, could sell Bottled Water at the Convenience Stores, at 7-Eleven, and Circle K, and AM-PM, etc, and they can get the water from the Mountain Stream at the former YMCA camp in Tehachapi.

We could all support a good charity when we buy Bottled Water.

Salute,

Tony V.

I once drank running water in the outdoors, and became violently ill.
Unfortunately there was no Youtube in those days, where gals and guys could show me 'survival in the wild' tricks.
Remove bra, cut in half to obtain 2 cups.
Place one bra cup over small 'billy' [metal can with loop handle] "and he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled, you'll come a waltzing matilda with me".

Scoop up the running water with small container, pour water into bra cup.
Bra cup filters the water...then place billy on top of 3 stones gathered ...over fire made with twigs and paper...boil water.
Cool, safe drinking water in the great outdoors.
No bra, maybe use spare shirt from backpack.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2024, 08:33:38 PM: You do not seem the type to leave the house without a bra.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2024, 08:46:11 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 03, 2024, 08:33:38 PM
You do not seem the type to leave the house without a bra.

Hilarious :)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 03, 2024, 10:15:59 PM: Does it say more about your boobs or your sense of humor?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 03, 2024, 10:33:50 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 03, 2024, 10:15:59 PM
Does it say more about your boobs or your sense of humor?

I don't have 'man boobs'.
Sense of humour is in the eye of the beholder.

My great outdoors, no thank you.
Too hot, too wet, too windy, too miserable, too cold.
Gotta wear hat with gauze mesh to keep the flies and mosquitoes at bay.
Would have to wheel along a trolley full of 'comfort gear'.

Hiking to Patagonia...is best done from the comfort of my villa.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 03:31:47 AM: It must be quite the place if your villa is spacious enough to contain your boobs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 04:30:37 AM: Sad people are dying in the Gaza war, including aid workers.
Aid workers are very selfless people.
It's a war zone, bombs falling everywhere, the terrorists and all their supporters in Gaza still won't release the Israeli hostages they kidnapped during their savage and murderous invasion into Israel Oct 7.
As a result Israel has to keep invading and bombing Gaza to kill or capture the Hamas terrorists and their supporters, to get the hostages out and eliminate Hamas in Gaza once and for all.
Aid workers risked their lives, and paid the ultimate price.

Armed criminal gangs, of Palestinians most likely, are hijacking aid in Gaza and selling it to the highest bidders and giving it to their friends, reportedly.

US Gen Jack Keane is on Sky News now;

"The West should be thanking Israel", on the scroll thru.

"IDF eliminates terrorism mastermind".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 04:54:23 AM: NBC:

Not safe anywhere now': American jews are flocking to gun training classes

"We can't put down the phone without picking up the next one," said a rabbi in Los Angeles who runs a nonprofit group that offers firearm training to the Jewish community.

#####

Same thing is happening in Florida.

Guns are great for self defence from home invaders or anywhere in society the bad people are lurking/pouncing.
Jewish folk in Israel who were armed by the female security officer in their community...gunned down the invading terrorists from Gaza, ...and all the Jewish folk survived.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 05:29:55 AM: from the NBC article;

....... ...... has always been terrified of guns. the Orthodox Jewish artist and mother felt uneasy about her husband's decision to buy a handgun after they moved to Florida from New York last year.

"i would just block it out of my mind that it's in the house," ......, 26, said.

But after watching the events unfold in Israel, she's taken steps she never imagined herself ever taking. ...... attended a gun safety seminar at her synagogue last week followed by a one-on-one session at a local shooting range.

"Even at the range, I just wanted to drop the gun and run back home," ..... said. "I was so scared, and I'm terrified of it."

But she said she felt forced to do it because Jewish people are not safe anywhere now."

#####

Well there you go.
And she's 100% correct.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 12:40:24 PM: Expect domestic violence related homicides to soar within the Orthodox community.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 12:51:13 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 12:40:24 PM
Expect domestic violence related homicides to soar within the Orthodox comm?#unity.

They're wiser than that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2024, 01:14:20 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 12:51:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 12:40:24 PM
Expect domestic violence related homicides to soar within the Orthodox comm?#unity.

They're wiser than that.
Why? They are human with proportionally the same propensity to passion and anger as any other group you might name.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2024, 01:17:04 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 05:29:55 AM
from the NBC article;

....... ...... has always been terrified of guns. the Orthodox Jewish artist and mother felt uneasy about her husband's decision to buy a handgun after they moved to Florida from New York last year.

"i would just block it out of my mind that it's in the house," ......, 26, said.

But after watching the events unfold in Israel, she's taken steps she never imagined herself ever taking. ...... attended a gun safety seminar at her synagogue last week followed by a one-on-one session at a local shooting range.

"Even at the range, I just wanted to drop the gun and run back home," ..... said. "I was so scared, and I'm terrified of it."

But she said she felt forced to do it because Jewish people are not safe anywhere now."

#####

Well there you go.
And she's 100% correct.
I assume you think Muslims should be arming also.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/02/cair-anti-muslim-crimes-2023-islamophobia-gaza/73117343007/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2024, 01:37:48 PM: Everybody should be arming. Guns are great!!!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 01:40:57 PM: Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2024, 01:37:48 PM
Everybody should be arming. Guns are great!!!!

Exactly.
All shown in the 2008 movie DEFIANCE starring Daniel Craig.

*

and, the armed Jewish folk in Israel Oct 7 lived...and the unarmed were slaughtered in their own homes or kidnapped and taken hostage into Gaza.
Heaven knows what horrors are happening to them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2024, 01:59:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2024, 01:37:48 PM
Everybody should be arming. Guns are great!!!!

Exactly.
All shown in the 2008 movie DEFIANCE starring Daniel Craig.

*

and, the armed Jewish folk in Israel Oct 7 lived...and the unarmed were slaughtered in their own homes or kidnapped and taken hostage into Gaza.
Heaven knows what horrors are happening to them.
Well, Israel is killing people bringing hostages food too.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 02:51:33 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 04, 2024, 01:59:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on April 04, 2024, 01:37:48 PM
Everybody should be arming. Guns are great!!!!

Exactly.
All shown in the 2008 movie DEFIANCE starring Daniel Craig.

*

and, the armed Jewish folk in Israel Oct 7 lived...and the unarmed were slaughtered in their own homes or kidnapped and taken hostage into Gaza.
Heaven knows what horrors are happening to them.
Well, Israel is killing people bringing hostages food too.

They should not be doing that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 04, 2024, 04:53:34 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 12:51:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 12:40:24 PM
Expect domestic violence related homicides to soar within the Orthodox comm?#unity.

They're wiser than that.

And you know this how?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 05:56:07 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 04, 2024, 04:53:34 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 12:51:13 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 04, 2024, 12:40:24 PM
Expect domestic violence related homicides to soar within the Orthodox comm?#unity.

They're wiser than that.

And you know this how?

An observation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 04, 2024, 10:14:53 PM: The forest of Canada is a great place to send the refugees from the Middle East, and Kiwanis has a village in Victoria, Canada, the refugees can work in the Lumber Industry, etc. They can live peaceful lives like in a peaceful Canadian Hallmark movie.

Also, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, are good places to send the Muslim refugees to be Essential Workers.

And Kiwanis will help the children, as will UNICEF, etc.

For the poor people in the Middle East with children, then the best thing they could do is to come live in the Kiwanis Village in Victoria, British Columbia, they can have peace away from the war zone. Or they can be a truck driver in Abu Dhabi or in Dubai, or a construction worker, or a grocery store worker, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 04, 2024, 10:23:17 PM: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Gary Shteyngart takes a cruise. Having read also a couple of his novels, I have concluded he is the Nabokov (he is also a Russian emigre who writes better in English than most native speakers) of absurd satire. There are so many howlingly funny lines and vignettes in this article I wouldn't know where to begin to pull quotes out. Enjoy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 04, 2024, 10:54:44 PM: Cesar Chavez said that the best use of an education is to help other people, and he spent his whole life in the service of others, and he died poor.

Cesar Chavez was one of my heroes, and there were other great labor leaders through-out history including Eugene V. Debs, and Jimmy Hoffa. And in Poland they had Lech Walesa, he was a hero, and he went from being an unemployed electrician to leading Poland to freedom with Solidarity, someone needs to make a movie about Lech Walesa, I think Ron Howard could do a good job.

Of note on the issue of leaders, I follow Giorgia Meloni of Italy on Facebook, and she recently stated that she worked with Pope John Paul II at one time, and I found that fascinating, I wonder what they worked on? And Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa were both from Poland, and worked together to bring freedom to Poland and to bring down the Berlin Wall.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 04, 2024, 11:04:42 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.

I like Tony's posts.
I find them interesting to read.
He certainly has lived an interesting life.
He's doing his best to help others and improve America.
Noble pursuits indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 05, 2024, 08:22:00 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.
From the rambling Barton Du Jour who can not even find decent housing for his son
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 05, 2024, 08:52:12 PM: Jimmy does not want to talk about the jobs report or any recent polling. His Syphilis is still too embarrassing to own up to. He fishing for a new way to debase himself. Like the rest of his life it is ending sadly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 05, 2024, 09:52:44 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 05, 2024, 08:22:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.
From the rambling Barton Du Jour who can not even find decent housing for his son

I cannot decipher this. Housing for my son?? When have I posted about family members here or their accommodations?? AFAIK, all my children are grown and reasonably content with their abodes. (nor would my role be to "find" housing for them...they are independent adults in their thirties) I am guessing either you have confused me with another poster, or some past comment I made on Millennials and the current real estate market has somehow scrambled itself in your decaying brain.

And, I will ask this once, respectfully: do not comment on my family members again. Ever. OK?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 05, 2024, 10:32:06 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 05, 2024, 09:52:44 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 05, 2024, 08:22:00 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.
From the rambling Barton Du Jour who can not even find decent housing for his son

I cannot decipher this. Housing for my son?? When have I posted about family members here or their accommodations?? AFAIK, all my children are grown and reasonably content with their abodes. (nor would my role be to "find" housing for them...they are independent adults in their thirties) I am guessing either you have confused me with another poster, or some past comment I made on Millennials and the current real estate market has somehow scrambled itself in your decaying brain.

And, I will ask this once, respectfully: do not comment on my family members again. Ever. OK?
Well you are the one who bemoaned having to set your son up in an extended stay motel, not me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 06, 2024, 01:56:41 PM: In 1890, nearly 90% of laborers in NYC's Department of Public Works were Italian immigrants. They laid roads, built bridges, and moved millions of cubic yards of soil and rock to create the New York City Subway.

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I spent 6 weeks in Rome, Italy, in 2003, I wanted to work in the Italian Cinema at Cinecitta, and Scorsese had just been there filming "The Gangs of New York" and Rome was hot at that time for filmmakers. I could not find any acting work while I was there, but I had a wonderful time with the people there, and a funny thing, I was trying to move to live in Rome, while all of the Italians wanted to move to live in America. And all of the Italians spoke English. I love Rome. I tried to get a job at the United States Embassy there too, I was told it is a great place to work while one tries to get acting work, etc. And they had McDonald's, and the Hard Rock Cafe, etc, there by the Pantheon, and by the Embassy. Anyhow, the Italians love the USA. All of my roommates at my hostel on Via Urbana were soldiers from Sicily, and this was in 2003 and we were fighting against Terrorism and the Italian soldiers were on our team in the fight against Terrorism. Italy is on our team against the terrorists. The Italians love the USA.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 06, 2024, 06:40:50 PM: Search on ELBA?
It ranks below the ability of Barney Fife to track a bleeding elephant in the snow.!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 06, 2024, 11:41:05 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 06, 2024, 06:40:50 PM
Search on ELBA?
It ranks below the ability of Barney Fife to track a bleeding elephant in the snow.!

You are a sad fuck of very low aptitude.

You are also on lettuce watch along with truth social, the freedom of trump and the speakership of Johnson.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM: It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 05:09:40 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 04, 2024, 10:29:57 PM
Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Does he ever shut up? I have come round to your position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance. So longwinded is he in his narcissistic and masturbatory meanderings, I have activated the ignore feature simply to reduce my scrolling time and also be spared the moronic circle jerk with him, Luee and Bambu.

That's a lot harsh.
Tony is a nice man....well mannered, and trying to do good.
People in forums are encouraged to socialise.

You could've just put Tony on ignore silently, without the insults. You know his past life, it hasn't been easy for him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 05:16:34 AM: Quote from: DeeJ on April 04, 2024, 10:22:04 PM
What do you call someone who tells everyone else what jobs are there for them,
but can not find a job for himself?

Generous, helpful.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 12:27:50 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM
It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.

Neither Netanyahu nor Hamas give a fuck about the hostages
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 12:51:43 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 12:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM
It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.

Neither Netanyahu nor Hamas give a fuck about the hostages

I believe Netanyahu does...but in the context that destroying Hamas in Gaza, and never letting it get control of Gaza again, thereby making Israel safe is the major goal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 07, 2024, 01:01:23 PM: I took a Small Business Management Consulting class in community college, and the Professor, Mr Berry, was a Black man from Compton, California, and Mr Berry was very smart and successful and he knew how to do Business, and he gave back by Mentoring and acting as a Consultant for the poor young Black men in Compton. He helped the poor young Black men in Compton to get a Business Loan from the Small Business Administration, and then he guided them as they became successful entrepreneurs, and then after they succeeded then they all took a trip to Africa together to celebrate. Mr Berry did it all on his own, no one had to tell him to help the poor young Black men in Compton, Mr Berry designed the whole program and he did it all himself, and he created and taught the community college course, etc.

I enjoyed my experiences at the community colleges which I have attended, AVC, and Fullerton Community College, and Biden wants to give a free community college education to all Americans and I support that. I had some wonderful professors in community college. And I am still friends with my Italian professor, along with my favorite acting teacher from the AADA.

As our people become educated then they can help to teach others, and all of humanity can rise. And then we have Americans on Tik Tok with the Chinese, so we can have educated Americans communicating with the Chinese, etc. And our entertainment will improve, etc.

The same way that Mr Berry rose and helped other poor young Black men to rise, then so too can other Americans rise and then give back and help the next guy to step up on the ladder.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 01:04:11 PM: Well written Tony, and very informative.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 05:26:24 PM: Why is there a giant statue of Lenin in Seattle?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 07:38:11 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 12:51:43 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 12:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM
It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.

Neither Netanyahu nor Hamas give a fuck about the hostages

I believe Netanyahu does...but in the context that destroying Hamas in Gaza, and never letting it get control of Gaza again, thereby making Israel safe is the major goal.

All Netanyahu gives a shit about is staying out of prison and seizing all of Gaza and the West Bank.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 07, 2024, 07:57:29 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 07:38:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 12:51:43 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 12:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM
It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.

Neither Netanyahu nor Hamas give a fuck about the hostages

I believe Netanyahu does...but in the context that destroying Hamas in Gaza, and never letting it get control of Gaza again, thereby making Israel safe is the major goal.

All Netanyahu gives a shit about is staying out of prison and seizing all of Gaza and the West Bank.
You should listen to Bambu.
But you will not.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 07, 2024, 09:21:31 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 07, 2024, 07:57:29 PM
You should listen to Bambu.

We have duly noted your daily competency check failure.

Turn in your keys.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2024, 05:17:56 AM: With all of the news of stars getting busted for sexual allegations, then it is important to have Playboy to remind people that sex can still be fun and that love is a wonderful thing, and Playboy also liberates women, including liberating the Persians who are abused in their home country of Iran with strict rules on sexuality. Sex can still be fun and it does not need to lead to lawsuits and time in prison. Universal needs to buy Playboy and they need to bring back the Playboy Channel, and they need to bring in new young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard to save Playboy Magazine. Playboy also needs to do an interview of Muzi of China, and they can feature a pictorial of Mahlagha Jaberi to promote improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 08, 2024, 09:04:16 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 07, 2024, 07:57:29 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 07:38:11 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 12:51:43 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 07, 2024, 12:27:50 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 07, 2024, 04:44:50 AM
It's very sad that the body of one hostage has been found in Gaza.
His family is understandably upset.

Israelis are *rioting*, saying that a hostage deal should've been done sooner and the war should've ended sooner.
They don't seem to understand that the only way to end the war is to kill off Hamas, one way or the other...anything else just being a temporary peace measure.

Neither Netanyahu nor Hamas give a fuck about the hostages

I believe Netanyahu does...but in the context that destroying Hamas in Gaza, and never letting it get control of Gaza again, thereby making Israel safe is the major goal.

All Netanyahu gives a shit about is staying out of prison and seizing all of Gaza and the West Bank.
You should listen to Bambu.
But you will not.

I listened and then discarded his opinion once I stopped laughing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 08, 2024, 01:51:10 PM: Quote
In an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment, Kremlin-linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions, according to a trove of internal Kremlin documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukraine/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2024, 06:58:06 PM: Mark Twain gave some advice that has served me well over the years, and that is to pick my battles and not to lower myself to fighting with swine because passers-by might not be able to tell the difference. In the big city you need to know when to just ignore people and keep walking, some battles are not worth fighting. I have nothing to prove, and I will never see these people again, so sometimes the best thing to do is to just ignore people and keep walking.

Today is a beautiful day, and I was out walking to the post office, and as I was crossing a parking lot this fat lady in an SUV started honking her horn and screaming at me, I have no idea who she was, or why she was screaming and honking, but I just ignored her and kept walking. It is still a beautiful day because I choose to pick my battles wisely, and I am not going to have a screaming match with a crazy fat lady for no reason. Sometimes it is best to just ignore people and keep walking. I will never see her again and she is insignificant. Whatever problem that she was having had nothing to do with me. I am not going to let some crazy fat lady mess up my day. Sometimes the classiest thing to do is to just ignore people and keep walking.

That is good advice for the youth who are moving to Hollywood from small towns and who need to learn to live in the City, is that in the City you need to pick your battles wisely, and not every battle is worth fighting, sometimes the best thing to do is to just ignore people. You can avoid a lot of problems by picking your battles wisely. Sometimes the best thing to do is to just keep on walking.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 08, 2024, 08:04:52 PM: The President of El Salvador has announced an interesting way to attract more skilled foreign workers to the country: by giving them free citizenship.

https://trib.al/6wyg3uV

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El Salvador would be a good place to send the homeless people from Hong Kong, the poor people of Hong Kong would probably love El Salvador. Anything would be better than perpetual homelessness for them. I am sure they would love El Salvador.

When I lived in Malibu we had a maid from El Salvador, Consuela, she was a wonderful maid and she was great with the kids. She was a Butcher in El Salvador, she could butcher a cow, or a pig, or a goat, or chickens, etc. When she came to Malibu she went to work as our maid, she was a wonderful maid, and there was a family from Brazil who did our yard work and gardening ( we had a huge yard, and a giant rose garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and a family from Brazil had done the yard work there for years. ) Anyhow, Consuela would rather be a maid in Malibu instead of a Butcher in El Salvador.

For the poor people from Hong Kong then El Salvador might be a great place to live. And they can organize to make things better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 09, 2024, 10:57:49 AM: https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

Do us a favor, all you gun enthusiasts? Please lock up your weapons safely especially when you have a teenage son who has been drawing gun murder scenarios on his math homework and making clearcut pleas for help with thoughts of shooting classmates?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 09, 2024, 01:46:08 PM: For the people who are moving to Hollywood at this time, then 54% of the modern services economy is streaming services such as films and television shows, so there is a huge demand for content, and also Mayor Bass is working to help the homeless people, her number one priority is to help the homeless people, so there are opportunities to work doing charity work, plus if you need help then help will be available for you. Plus, Disney is going to make the new "Star Wars" movie here in Hollywood, and Universal has been successful with the success of "Oppenheimer" etc. Also, a lot of money is being invested in improving Hollywood Blvd, and also Disney is spending a lot of money in Anaheim. So, right now is a great time for the new people who dream of working in Hollywood to come give it a shot. And if they are looking for a good charity to join to meet new people when they get to California, then I recommend Kiwanis International, I was in Kiwanis for 2 years and it was great.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2024, 03:04:51 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2024, 10:57:49 AM
https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

Do us a favor, all you gun enthusiasts? Please lock up your weapons safely especially when you have a teenage son who has been drawing gun murder scenarios on his math homework and making clearcut pleas for help with thoughts of shooting classmates?

Who'd be a parent these days?
You need a gun for self defence.
There's stigma about mental illness.
There seems not to be absolute security or much security at most schools.
Where were a metal detector and bag/body searches?
They wave a wand over me before they let me into a footy stadium in my world...which is not guns central and handguns are banned.

Geez Louise...why wasn't the student immediately removed from the school by the cops and banned from it permanently, when the first sign appeared?

Easy to put all the blame on the parents.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2024, 04:27:42 PM: SkyNews scroll thru just now:

"Terror threat to Championship League matches" (soccer)...Britain.

#####

Yes, and this is what happens when people, voters who elect govts to power, refuse to listen to voices of wisdom warning them about ill-advised immigration, the folly of unbridled 'tolerance', unbridled political correctness, and unbridled multiculturalism.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2024, 04:59:40 PM: You have some spittle flecks on you Hitler mustache, Bambi. Is your primitive world view giving you discomfort?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2024, 05:13:29 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 09, 2024, 04:59:40 PM
You have some spittle flecks on you Hitler mustache, Bambi. Is your primitive world view giving you discomfort?

Nothing wrong with my world view, thanks for asking.
I can see clearly...so many on terror watch-list in Britain it can't watch them all.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2024, 05:19:15 PM: School shooters parents were just shown on my tv Sky News:

"School shooters parents jailed for not doing enough to prevent the shootings".

Gee, that could easily be said of others as well.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2024, 05:26:47 PM: The gun industry and its lobbyists top the list.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 09, 2024, 06:18:17 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2024, 10:57:49 AM
https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

Do us a favor, all you gun enthusiasts? Please lock up your weapons safely especially when you have a teenage son who has been drawing gun murder scenarios on his math homework and making clearcut pleas for help with thoughts of shooting classmates?
Oh my god! Advice from Barton du jour. Does he ever shut up?
Remember his advice last week:

I have come round to the position that Tony V is a tedious idiot who posts nothing but repetitive inane ramblings on the current state of his breathtaking ignorance.

But so as to not sound too critical I find Barton postings reliable bad examples.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 09, 2024, 06:47:01 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 09, 2024, 05:26:47 PM
The gun industry and its lobbyists top the list.

Disarm the whole population, and Americans will be attacked and killed in their own homes by machete, knife, jemmy bar, and gun wielding, home invading thugs.
The bad people will be armed with guns from the black market, porous borders assisting...home residents [the good people] known to be unarmed.

Try 'school student expulsion', 'school security', 'school anti bullying' policies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 09, 2024, 09:43:56 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 09, 2024, 06:18:17 PM

But so as to not sound too critical I find Barton postings reliable bad examples.

Funny how you duck actually responding to my comments or the facts of the case set out in the AP story. This appears to reflect a further decline in your capacity to constructively engage with posters in real discussion of the issues.

Do you think the parents have no responsibility or accountability here? Or are ad hominem attacks all you can manage?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 09, 2024, 09:45:43 PM: https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizonas-supreme-court-ruled-that-a-160-year-old-abortion-ban-can-be-enforced-heres-what-the-ruling-means-225731079.html

Aaannnnd....Biden just gained 11 more electoral votes. Way to go, Arizona supreme court!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 09, 2024, 11:52:09 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2024, 09:45:43 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizonas-supreme-court-ruled-that-a-160-year-old-abortion-ban-can-be-enforced-heres-what-the-ruling-means-225731079.html

Aaannnnd....Biden just gained 11 more electoral votes. Way to go, Arizona supreme court!

A majority of that court seems to be made up of those home invading thugs Bambu is always trying to warn us about.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 09, 2024, 11:54:48 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 09, 2024, 09:43:56 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 09, 2024, 06:18:17 PM

But so as to not sound too critical I find Barton postings reliable bad examples.

Funny how you duck actually responding to my comments or the facts of the case set out in the AP story. This appears to reflect a further decline in your capacity to constructively engage with posters in real discussion of the issues.

Do you think the parents have no responsibility or accountability here? Or are ad hominem attacks all you can manage?
Your conclusion comes from one case with the parents sent to prison?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 10, 2024, 09:43:29 AM: Hardly. A plethora of cases going back to the Von Maur shooting at the Omaha mall some years ago point towards the role of parental negligence. (and negligence from other adults, too, so don't bother with the straw man that I'm somehow ignoring the school's negligence in the Oxford case - I'm not)

And you still won't actually answer a direct question. Do you oppose the idea that parents be held accountable on these types of shootings?
I thought conservatives were all about parental responsibility. Or is that only when they're busy judging welfare mommas and absent fathers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 10, 2024, 10:45:48 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 10, 2024, 09:43:29 AM

And you still won't actually answer a direct question. Do you oppose the idea that parents be held accountable on these types of shootings?

Parental responsibility laws are as old as our Country hence my previous answer was mocking response to your naivety.

You got a lot catching up to do so start with this list.
Happy reading!

70. Jill Smolowe, Parenting on Trial, Time, May 20, 1996, at 50.
71. Id.

72. Robin Meredith, Michigan Parents Convicted for Youth's Misconduct, N.Y. Times, May 10, 1996.

73. Howard Davidson, No Consequences -- Re-examining Parental Responsibility Laws,

70. Jill Smolowe, Parenting on Trial, Time, May 20, 1996, at 50.
71. Id.
72. Robin Meredith, Michigan Parents Convicted for Youth Misconduct, N.Y. Times, May 10, 1996.
73. Howard Davidson, No Consequences Re-examining Parental Responsibility Laws, 7 Stan. L & Po.Rev. 23, 25 (1996) (citing P. Thomas Mason, Child Abuse and Neglect, Part I: Historical Overview, Legal Matrix and Social Perspective, 50 N.C.L. Rev. 293
Id.
78. Cal. Penal Code 272 (West 1988).
79. Model Juvenile Handgun Code 36 (National Criminal Justice Ass.Unpublished Draft 1995) [hereinafter Model Handgun Code].
80. National Conference of State Legislatures, Legisbrief, Kids, Guns, and Accidents: Taking Responsibility (Sept. 1993).
81. Kathryn Parsley, Constitutional Limitations on State Power to Hold Parents Criminally Liable for the Delinquent Acts of Their Children, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 446, 453 (1991).
82. Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923).
83. Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925).
84. Williams v. Garcetti, 853 P.2d. 507 (1993).
85. Geis & Binder, supra note 75, at 319.
86. Toni Weinstein, Visiting the Sins of the Child on the Parent: The Legality of Criminal Parental Responsibility Statutes, 64 S. Cal. L. Rev. 863, 878 (1991).
87. Silverton, Ore., Ordinance 95
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 10, 2024, 01:00:37 PM: Whatever, man. Just insults and lots of copy/paste stuff that somehow doesn't really address my point. Do you or do you not agree with the verdict in Oxford yesterday? If you see parental responsibility laws as old and venerable, then I would have to assume you are in agreement that the parents in Oxford Township, Michigan (among others) were correctly held to account and fairly sentenced.

From AP, just to recap:

Quote
The Crumbleys were accused of not securing the newly purchased gun at home and acting indifferently to signs of their son s deteriorating mental health, especially when confronted with a chilling classroom drawing earlier that same day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 10, 2024, 01:13:31 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 10, 2024, 01:00:37 PM
Whatever, man. Just insults and lots of copy/paste stuff that somehow doesn't really address my point.
Then you have no point. You act as if the Oxford case was something new when, in reality, parental responsibility laws are as old as our country.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 10, 2024, 01:16:06 PM: Red has a whiny little bitch way of saying you were right and that he agrees with you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 10, 2024, 02:50:35 PM: The Prime Minister of Japan is here in Washington DC trying to point a finger at China saying how bad China is, but to be truthful I like China better than I like Japan. And I had a roommate who was the daughter of a Chinese General and I made peace with her. My Apple computer was made in China, and if China is good enough for Apple then China is good enough for me. And we need for China to be on our team because of Putin, we need to be allies with China for world peace. Also of note is that Muzi, the daughter of the President of China attended Harvard.

I love the Philippines, and I love Taiwan, and I made my peace with China, we need for China to be on our team.

And as the workers of China become more affluent then we can sell them exports. Sunkist is exporting to China now, and others can export to China as well.

For the homeless people of Hong Kong, then El Salvador is offering free Citizenship, that would be a great opportunity for people who have no other options.

Peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 10, 2024, 07:10:42 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 10, 2024, 01:13:31 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 10, 2024, 01:00:37 PM
Whatever, man. Just insults and lots of copy/paste stuff that somehow doesn't really address my point.
Then you have no point. You act as if the Oxford case was something new...

Try reading. The conviction was the first in the US of parents, for a mass shooting in a school. So it's a step forward in the history of parental responsibility enforcement.

Last sardine.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2024, 07:59:34 PM: Only a 'few' weeks left until the election.
About 27 or so.
Isn't it exciting as the 'horses' approach the starting gate for the big race, their brightly coloured silks gleaming in the sun.
Who will win?
By how much?

At least there's no "donkey-vote" like in Australia...where voting is compulsory (and 'preferential') and *donkeys* who know nothing about/ care nothing about 'politics'...just go down the ballot paper marking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc next to the candidates (supposedly in their order of preference for them).
If a candidate doesn't get 50% or more of the votes in an electorate, 'preferences' then get taken into account.
The whole system is a shambles.
American system is much better, to start with voting is optional, so only people who know and care make the effort to vote.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 10, 2024, 08:17:57 PM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 10, 2024, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 10, 2024, 01:13:31 PM
Quote from: Oilcan on April 10, 2024, 01:00:37 PM
Whatever, man. Just insults and lots of copy/paste stuff that somehow doesn't really address my point.
Then you have no point. You act as if the Oxford case was something new...

Try reading. The conviction was the first in the US of parents, for a mass shooting in a school. So it's a step forward in the history of parental responsibility enforcement.

LOL!
What is the difference from all the other laws? Whether a kid shoots a neighbor or a classmate the parents can be held responsible through state laws that are in force.
But it you want to talk precedent did you pay attention to the news in Virginia?

A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student a shot firstgrade teacher Abigail Zwerner now faces criminal charges.

Pick up your game or I will complain to Elba Management you are harassing members.
ROFL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 10, 2024, 10:01:55 PM: DT today;

Three sons and four grandchildren of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an air strike,

#####

My first thought was to write "good'...but that would be dancing on the graves of the children.

So I'll write this instead:

Hope he's in horrible pain...might teach him a lesson about the repercussions of his evil deeds....but I doubt it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 11, 2024, 09:29:51 AM: Not going to bother with pointlessly argumentative trolls here. Out of sardines.

Meanwhile, in the federal register today we see the gun show loophole has been closed up. Good work, Biden administration!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/gun-show-internet-sale-mandatory-background-check
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 11, 2024, 10:18:29 AM: Quote from: Oilcan on April 11, 2024, 09:29:51 AM
Out of sardines.

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A blessing for all of us.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2024, 10:58:33 AM: Welcome to Hell OJ!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 11, 2024, 11:27:49 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 11, 2024, 10:58:33 AM
Welcome to Hell OJ!

On Jan 1 1969 at the Rose Bowl Heisman Trophy winner OJ Simpson scored on an 80 yard run against Ohio State( a game the Buckeyes won over So.Cal to clinch the National Championship)

But at halftime OSU Coach Woody Hayes confronted his defensive coordinator, Lou Holtz, and asked
How could Simpson go 80 yards against our defense.?????

Holtz replied

That is all he needed.!!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 11, 2024, 01:59:17 PM: http://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24075581/housing-conversions-stripmalls-affordable-supply (http://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24075581/housing-conversions-stripmalls-affordable-supply)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 04:24:58 PM: Biden wants to give a free college education to all Americans, and I support that, but there are people who are trying to block it, so here are a few thoughts.

We can start by giving a free college education to the orphans, and to the children who do not have fathers and who are being raised by single working Moms. The orphans and the children without Fathers are starting off way behind everyone else, the least we can do is to give them a free college education so they have a chance at a good life.

We also need to train the former coal miners in Kentucky for the jobs of the future, the coal mining jobs are not coming back. And right now 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not even know how to read and write. Certainly everyone would support improving the literacy rate in Kentucky, and to do that we need to educate teachers so that the teachers can teach in Kentucky, etc.

And certainly republicans would support a free education for their children, and for their brothers and sisters and cousins, etc. My Grandfather sent my Mother's Cousin to college to become a Pharmacist, and he now owns a Pharmacy in Fontana, certainly people would support educating their family members, even if they themselves do not want an education.

We are fortunate that Biden wants to educate our people, and we need to look for ways to make that happen. And certainly all parents would like for their children to be able to go to college, we need to look for ways to make it happen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 05:57:22 PM: Lots of people are talking about having equity in America, and about the benefits of being an American, and I think that providing an education for our people would be a huge benefit, and we can build schools and libraries instead of prisons and welfare housing, as we can teach people healthy parenting skills, and healthy conflict resolution skills, etc, and the people can be taught skills that will help them to gain employment in the 21st Century economy.

We are lucky to have a President who supports providing an education for our people, and we need to seize the day.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 12, 2024, 07:33:13 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 05:57:22 PM
Lots of people are talking about having equity in America, and about the benefits of being an American, and I think that providing an education for our people would be a huge benefit, and we can build schools and libraries instead of prisons and welfare housing, as we can teach people healthy parenting skills, and healthy conflict resolution skills, etc, and the people can be taught skills that will help them to gain employment in the 21st Century economy.

We are lucky to have a President who supports providing an education for our people, and we need to seize the day.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good.

Next up, universal healthcare.

Free college education.
Universal healthcare.

Any candidate doing that would "walk into the White House".

Then 4 weeks paid annual leave...and they'd stay President for 8 years, guaranteed.
Paid paternity leave...the icing on the cake.

10% of wages/salaries, paid monthly in addition to the wages/salaries by employer into a retirement superannuation fund for the employee.
The festive candles atop the cake.

Hooray for the President.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 12, 2024, 07:54:45 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 12, 2024, 07:33:13 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 05:57:22 PM
Lots of people are talking about having equity in America, and about the benefits of being an American, and I think that providing an education for our people would be a huge benefit, and we can build schools and libraries instead of prisons and welfare housing, as we can teach people healthy parenting skills, and healthy conflict resolution skills, etc, and the people can be taught skills that will help them to gain employment in the 21st Century economy.

We are lucky to have a President who supports providing an education for our people, and we need to seize the day.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good.

Next up, universal healthcare.

Free college education.
Universal healthcare.

Any candidate doing that would "walk into the White House".

Then 4 weeks paid annual leave...and they'd stay President for 8 years, guaranteed.
Paid paternity leave...the icing on the cake.

10% of wages/salaries, paid monthly in addition to the wages/salaries by employer into a retirement superannuation fund for the employee.
The festive candles atop the cake.

Hooray for the President.
Hence the open border.
Somebody has to do the work.
Okay, so we look the other way from the drug cartels, the liars, schemers, terrorists.
The ends justify the means, right?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 12, 2024, 08:07:41 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 12, 2024, 07:54:45 PM
Hence the open border.
Somebody has to do the work.
Okay, so we look the other way from the drug cartels, the liars, schemers, terrorists.
The ends justify the means, right?

I think that was as neat a summation of the republican plan for our economy and the rule of law as I have seen. No wonder America is dumping the GOP.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 03:42:45 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 12, 2024, 07:54:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 12, 2024, 07:33:13 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 05:57:22 PM
Lots of people are talking about having equity in America, and about the benefits of being an American, and I think that providing an education for our people would be a huge benefit, and we can build schools and libraries instead of prisons and welfare housing, as we can teach people healthy parenting skills, and healthy conflict resolution skills, etc, and the people can be taught skills that will help them to gain employment in the 21st Century economy.

We are lucky to have a President who supports providing an education for our people, and we need to seize the day.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good.

Next up, universal healthcare.

Free college education.
Universal healthcare.

Any candidate doing that would "walk into the White House".

Then 4 weeks paid annual leave...and they'd stay President for 8 years, guaranteed.
Paid paternity leave...the icing on the cake.

10% of wages/salaries, paid monthly in addition to the wages/salaries by employer into a retirement superannuation fund for the employee.
The festive candles atop the cake.

Hooray for the President.
Hence the open border.
Somebody has to do the work.
Okay, so we look the other way from the drug cartels, the liars, schemers, terrorists.
The ends justify the means, right?

Nah.
You seal the borders...stop the 'flood'.

It'd just be American workers catching up with what workers in other Western countries have.
Legal workers, allowed in as legal immigrants on 'skills' visas, or
on 'guest worker' visas, to fill any shortages of needed labour.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 13, 2024, 03:48:23 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 03:42:45 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 12, 2024, 07:54:45 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 12, 2024, 07:33:13 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 12, 2024, 05:57:22 PM
Lots of people are talking about having equity in America, and about the benefits of being an American, and I think that providing an education for our people would be a huge benefit, and we can build schools and libraries instead of prisons and welfare housing, as we can teach people healthy parenting skills, and healthy conflict resolution skills, etc, and the people can be taught skills that will help them to gain employment in the 21st Century economy.

We are lucky to have a President who supports providing an education for our people, and we need to seize the day.

Salute,

Tony V.

Good.

Next up, universal healthcare.

Free college education.
Universal healthcare.

Any candidate doing that would "walk into the White House".

Then 4 weeks paid annual leave...and they'd stay President for 8 years, guaranteed.
Paid paternity leave...the icing on the cake.

10% of wages/salaries, paid monthly in addition to the wages/salaries by employer into a retirement superannuation fund for the employee.
The festive candles atop the cake.

Hooray for the President.
Hence the open border.
Somebody has to do the work.
Okay, so we look the other way from the drug cartels, the liars, schemers, terrorists.
The ends justify the means, right?

Nah.
You seal the borders...stop the 'flood'.

It'd just be American workers catching up with what workers in other Western countries have.
Legal workers, allowed in as legal immigrants on 'skills' visas, or
on 'guest worker' visas, to fill any shortages of needed labour.

That requires legislation for reforming the system for legal immigration which Republicans refuse to address.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 07:18:07 AM: Mass murder in Westfield giant mall in Bondi Junction (several kms from Bondi beach) in Sydney's eastern suburbs this afternoon, Saturday 3.20pm.

Six people killed by a rampaging man.
Several others wounded, including a baby a few months old (its mother one of the dead).
AR15?
No.
AK 47?
No.
Handgun?
No.
Stabbed to death with a large knife (about 12in).
Lone female cop entered the mall, directed to the location of the alleged killer, she advanced behind him, he turned around, refused to drop knife, so she shot him dead.
Good, saved lives.
Mom, herself stabbed, handed her baby who'd been stabbed in the abdomen more than once, to two brothers who were shopping.
They rushed into a store, took cover, grabbed shirts in the store and used them to stop the bleeding, rang cops and ambulance.

The spirit of 9/11, the brave "let's roll" guys on the downed plane, lived on today in Bondi (bon dye)...as a guy shopper grabbed a portable bollard and confronted the killer near the top of an escalator, a standoff, preventing him from exiting the escalator and killing more people. Saved lives for sure.
A very brave thing to do, the killer being taller than him.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 07:31:22 AM: Bondi, eastern suburbs Sydney...Jewish community central.
Horribly sad for the victims and families of the mass murder stabbings.
Nothing to say any of the victims are Jewish.

You'd hope it was a lone crazed individual with mental illness and not a terror attack.
The question is continually being asked of the cops, "who was the killer?" "terror attack"? "any motive?"
Too soon for the cops to know.

***

Police Commissioner just said "we believe it was not a terror attack."
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 07:49:50 AM: Time to YouTube "Land of Hope and Glory", Vera Lynn.
...and sing it in memory of Christianity in Britain, which is almost dead.

"Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the free,
How shall we extoll thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider, shall thy bounds be set;
God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!"
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 13, 2024, 11:15:47 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 07:18:07 AM

The spirit of 9/11, the brave "let's roll" guys on the downed plane, lived on today in Bondi (bon dye)...as a guy shopper grabbed a portable bollard and confronted the killer near the top of an escalator, a standoff, preventing him from exiting the escalator and killing more people. Saved lives for sure.
A very brave thing to do, the killer being taller than him.

Humans, at their finest, can be amazing. Without its strict gun laws, Australia could have lost many more lives to a maniac with an assault rifle.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 11:39:51 AM: For perspective.
According to Gun Facts Info

Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired, and no blood (including the criminal) is shed

Every year, 400,000 life threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms.

60 percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed.

Forty percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.

Felons report that they avoid entering houses where people are at home because they fear being shot.

Fewer than 1 percent of firearms are used in the commission of a crime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 02:10:51 PM: This just in: 87% of statistics on the internet are simply made up on the spot.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 13, 2024, 02:55:56 PM: So the mass murderer did not shoot up dozens of people in the mall. Thank god you have reasonable gun laws down there. Your excellent restrictions just saved many lives again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 03:33:39 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 02:10:51 PM
This just in: 87% of statistics on the internet are simply made up on the spot.

gunfacts.info (http://gunfacts.info)
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 04:03:22 PM: Bondi mall killer is "known to law enforcement".
Described by one witness as "scruffy".
By another as "looked like was on drugs".
One report mentions "rough sleeper".
Another mentions "mental illness".

Could be he was "a scruffy, homeless man with a mental illness, on drugs or not, angry at his predicament and 'taking revenge on society.'

Terrorism hasn't been ruled out yet, but seems likely now that it wasn't.
Last thing bambuworld needs is Hamas and their ilk starting up here.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 13, 2024, 06:35:53 PM: The gunfacts website contains biased statements throughout, articles lack specific authors, and information presented from sources that have been described by fact checking websites as biased. The editor is well known as a political provocateur, not a researcher passionate about facts or unbiased gathering of info.

Also, statistics that purport to precisely quantify prevented actions are notorious for being culled from junk science sources. 400 K life threatening crimes are prevented by firearms? Gee, how many are prevented by deadbolts? pepper spray? peaceful arbitration between pissed people? taking a different walking route? See, there's no basis for real comparatives with hypotheticals. Anecdotes from felons who decided NOT to make a certain choice are not reliable for statistical analysis.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 06:57:37 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 13, 2024, 06:35:53 PM
The gunfacts website contains biased statements throughout, articles lack specific authors, and information presented from sources that have been described by fact checking websites as biased. The editor is well known as a political provocateur, not a researcher passionate about facts or unbiased gathering of info.

Also, statistics that purport to precisely quantify prevented actions are notorious for being culled from junk science sources. 400 K life threatening crimes are prevented by firearms? Gee, how many are prevented by deadbolts? pepper spray? peaceful arbitration between pissed people? taking a different walking route? See, there's no basis for real comparatives with hypotheticals. Anecdotes from felons who decided NOT to make a certain choice are not reliable for statistical analysis.

LOL!
Why do you not give us some facts compiled by reputable sites except your biased opinions?
Pew Research notes 2021 (pre pandemic)saw the highest total number of gun deaths in the U.S but this statistic does not take into account the US growing population.
On a per capita basis, there were 14.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2021 the highest rate since the early 1990s, but still well below the peak of 16.3 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 1974.

The estimate of gun ownership in the USA is 120 for every100 people.
The 2021 murder by gun numbers were about 23,000.
Obviously guns are used for a lot of reasons, many, many more than for killing people.

You want more gun control laws?
Fine.
But get all the facts on the table.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 08:54:02 PM: 2021 was pre-pandemic?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 09:14:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 08:54:02 PM
2021 was pre-pandemic?
Statistics are.
But then you miss the point, anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 09:42:59 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 09:14:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 08:54:02 PM
2021 was pre-pandemic?
Statistics are.
But then you miss the point, anyway.
Oh, I get your point. That is, of course, not what you said.you said 2021 saw the highest rate of gun violence. Which is typical. By phrasing it that way you get to hide who the President was for that very violent year. Not Biden, by the way. Contrary to your idols talking points, violent crime has been decreasing every year since Trump was ignominious defeated.

And if you really want to show guns make us safer, compare stats from the US and those countries with stricter gun laws.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 13, 2024, 09:53:40 PM: Bondi mall stabbing killer...identified as 40 yr old Joel Cauchi from Qld (Queensland) state.
Arrived in Sydney 'some time ago', about a month. Photo of him on his Facebook page posing with a surfboard, on page he mentions 'surfing at Bondi, if anyone would like to join me' (Daily Tele states).
DT article mentions "sleeping rough", "schizophrena".

I went shopping to my mall today, all the time thinking how innocent the victims at Bondi were yesterday.
I valued greatly exiting my mall carpark today, not in Sydney, alive and not wounded.
That Bondi Westfield isn't just large, it's massive...7 floors, 445 retailers incl large dept stores, parking for 3,304 cars. 131,510sqm.
People were reportedly throwing furniture down at the killer from high floors, trying to stop him getting up to them.
But for "bollard man" as he's being called stopping him on as escalator, he might just have reached the higher floors.

I visited that mall twice last year, got lost the first time...but not the second time, when I did some prior research, took note book and pen, and used phone camera.
On any different day, victims of the stabber could've been anyone who's ever set foot in there.
Many people who were there yesterday are in tears with shock today, one young lady interviewed was trembling, "I thought I was going to die".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 10:10:09 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 09:42:59 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 09:14:44 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 13, 2024, 08:54:02 PM
2021 was pre-pandemic?
Statistics are.
But then you miss the point, anyway.
Oh, I get your point. That is, of course, not what you said.you said 2021 saw the highest rate of gun violence. Which is typical. By phrasing it that way you get to hide who the President was for that very violent year. Not Biden, by the way. Contrary to your idols talking points, violent crime has been decreasing every year since Trump was ignominious defeated.

And if you really want to show guns make us safer, compare stats from the US and those countries with stricter gun laws.
Well, you fail on all points.
2021 stats were prepandemic since they were compiled through 2020. They naturally went up during the pandemic. It has nothing to do with whomever was in the a White House.
Comparing stats to other countries is as pointless as apples to oranges.

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed by guns is minuscule. And over half of that number counts suicides.
Searching for a way to reduce gun violence may be a noble cause but trying to make guns harder to obtain, or bannng them, will always be next to impossible given the numbers.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 10:10:09 PM

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed by guns is minuscule.

People care about deaths that are preventable. It is why we have meat inspection, order the removal of lead water pipes, require belts and airbags and other auto safety features, etc. Any of those causes of death would be tiny in proportion to US population, but unlike natural causes from aging they are preventable. Because Australia restricted gun ownership to legitimate uses by people with no history of mental illness or violence, the crazy man at the mall could be driven back by a man with a bollard, and deaths were a fraction of what they would be with an AR15.

I have no problem with gun ownership by sane people without criminal history, who wish to hunt venison or responsibly keep a home protection gun in a properly secured location. I see no second amendment threat in required background checks or required formal training in gun handling and storage. These are certainly required for any well-regulated militia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 03:04:37 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 10:10:09 PM

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed by guns is minuscule.

People care about deaths that are preventable. It is why we have meat inspection, order the removal of lead water pipes, require belts and airbags and other auto safety features, etc. Any of those causes of death would be tiny in proportion to US population, but unlike natural causes from aging they are preventable. Because Australia restricted gun ownership to legitimate uses by people with no history of mental illness or violence, the crazy man at the mall could be driven back by a man with a bollard, and deaths were a fraction of what they would be with an AR15.

I have no problem with gun ownership by sane people without criminal history, who wish to hunt venison or responsibly keep a home protection gun in a properly secured location. I see no second amendment threat in required background checks or required formal training in gun handling and storage. These are certainly required for any well-regulated militia.
Well then you should be relieved to know, by all statistics, only one per cent of US gun owners use them to kill other people. In addition nearly all gun purchasers are subject to background checks and training.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 14, 2024, 03:31:30 PM: Today Dr Charles Stanley talked about serving God when we are called. His father died when he was a child and he was raised by a poor single mother, and when he was called by the Lord he ended up being broadcast on television to people all around the world to preach the word of God.

And some thoughts on the violence right now in the Holy Land, it is all so sad. I pray for peace. And we need to send the Peace Corps to Afghanistan, and to Iraq, etc, we need to send in the peaceful groups to improve the level of civilization around the world, with schools, and with food for the hungry, etc. And maybe the United Nations can help to promote peace in the world, and improved human rights, etc.

Meanwhile, for the refugees, Kiwanis International has a village in Victoria, British Columbia, and the forest of Canada is a good safe spot for the refugees.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:46:33 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 10:10:09 PM

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed by guns is minuscule.

People care about deaths that are preventable. It is why we have meat inspection, order the removal of lead water pipes, require belts and airbags and other auto safety features, etc. Any of those causes of death would be tiny in proportion to US population, but unlike natural causes from aging they are preventable. Because Australia restricted gun ownership to legitimate uses by people with no history of mental illness or violence, the crazy man at the mall could be driven back by a man with a bollard, and deaths were a fraction of what they would be with an AR15.

I have no problem with gun ownership by sane people without criminal history, who wish to hunt venison or responsibly keep a home protection gun in a properly secured location. I see no second amendment threat in required background checks or required formal training in gun handling and storage. These are certainly required for any well-regulated militia.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 03:04:37 PM
Quote from: Oiled on April 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 13, 2024, 10:10:09 PM

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed by guns is minuscule.

People care about deaths that are preventable. It is why we have meat inspection, order the removal of lead water pipes, require belts and airbags and other auto safety features, etc. Any of those causes of death would be tiny in proportion to US population, but unlike natural causes from aging they are preventable. Because Australia restricted gun ownership to legitimate uses by people with no history of mental illness or violence, the crazy man at the mall could be driven back by a man with a bollard, and deaths were a fraction of what they would be with an AR15.

I have no problem with gun ownership by sane people without criminal history, who wish to hunt venison or responsibly keep a home protection gun in a properly secured location. I see no second amendment threat in required background checks or required formal training in gun handling and storage. These are certainly required for any well-regulated militia.
Well then you should be relieved to know, by all statistics, only one per cent of US gun owners use them to kill other people. In addition nearly all gun purchasers are subject to background checks and training.

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

https://wamu.org/story/20/09/18/how-many-people-in-the-u-s-own-guns/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: DeeJ on April 14, 2024, 06:21:03 PM: gradycartoons.com

America is Teed Off

Junior Retracts
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 14, 2024, 11:22:42 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.

Larry put some relevant statistics in context. You rattled off statistics without explicit context but in an order and emphasis that strongly suggest you have little clue as to what any of it means and some plum ideas you do hold are in fact dead wrong.

As the brains of conservatives further degrade over time it is useful to have one or two of them vivisected here so we can map the disfunction and work out a treatment for the manageable cases and a harm reduction regimen for those far along as Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 12:42:39 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.

Not even close, huh?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 15, 2024, 12:50:44 PM: Christians in Sydney's west have gone beserk overnight after a teen allegedly stabbed a prominent bishop and another man during a service at an Assyrian church.
An angry mob of thousands injuring police, smashing up more than 30 police cars. Mob broke into houses to gain weapons to throw at police.
Emotional response by the community to the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as he delivered live-streamed mass at Christ The Good Shepherd Church.

The 15 yr old alleged stabber was known to police and was not a member of the congregation.
Police arrested the teen at the scene but were forced to barricade themselves inside the church for several hours "for his safety".

The live-stream mass followed in countries including the US and UK.

#####

No one dead, just some non-life threatening wounds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 15, 2024, 02:18:40 PM: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/15/2235317/-Australians-are-fed-malicious-lies-day-in-day-out-but-help-is-on-the-way-from-the-USA?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/15/2235317/-Australians-are-fed-malicious-lies-day-in-day-out-but-help-is-on-the-way-from-the-USA?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web)

Labor governments can turn around even the shittiest backwater countries when they throw off the yolk of psychotic idiotic conservative regimes.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 15, 2024, 03:59:18 PM: On the issue of Iran, we have been working on missile defense for the last 40 years and we have made a lot of progress, and we can jam and crash the drones, we have shown that we can save lives in Israel from foreign attacks there. So, then we can deal with things in our own way, and in our own time, on our own terms, etc. And we have good leaders at the United Nations.

And Bambu, on the news on television they talked about the criminal there in Australia, and they just said he was a mentally ill guy.

We have made a lot of progress in the Middle East, as Arafat is gone now, and Saddam Husein is gone, and Osama Bin Laden is gone, a lot of bad people are gone now.

And we have the CIA, and we can know what people are doing and who to hold accountable, etc.

We also need to send the Peace Corps into Afghanistan, and into Iraq, etc, and we need to build schools, and we need to educate the women, and we need to feed the hungry, and we can build hospitals, etc. We can do good work that can promote peace in the world. We need to invest in having peace and in raising the level of civilization. And we can work for improved women's rights, and we can educate the people, and they can all read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, etc. And we can make movies and television shows with meaning to better educate and teach the people of the Middle East, I met a fillmmaker who wanted to make movies in Turkey to be shown in the Middle East, etc, and if you can change how people think and feel then you can change how they behave. And we need to bring back the power of Athens and Rome in the Middle East, with peace and lots of trade, etc, and libraries and schools, etc.

And we need to have peace and friendship with China, and we have Muzi who attended Harvard. Muzi needs to do an interview with National Lampoon to be published in Playboy Magazine. And Mahlagha Jaberi can do a pictorial in Playboy to promote improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 04:43:11 PM: This is a big fucking deal

https://thetechtribune.com/california-achieves-record-streak-of-100-renewable-energy-days/
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 15, 2024, 09:12:05 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 04:43:11 PM
This is a big fucking deal

https://thetechtribune.com/california-achieves-record-streak-of-100-renewable-energy-days/

We are getting there. I think the big challenges will be refining the technology to where nations with severe winters like Canada will be able to reach that kind of milestone. May depend on GS (ground source) heat pumps, improved grid distribution, and trading energy peak outputs with the US.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 15, 2024, 09:12:05 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 04:43:11 PM
This is a big fucking deal

https://thetechtribune.com/california-achieves-record-streak-of-100-renewable-energy-days/

We are getting there.

Only if the wind blows and the Sun is always shining. That does not happen even in California and certainly nowhere elsewhere in the USA.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 15, 2024, 09:38:34 PM: The wind does blow and the Sun is always shining. It just never shines on you, you disgusting loathsome reprobate.

You can burn your Exxon stock certificates to stay warm next winter. The country is once again moving on without you. As always it is a Big Fucking Deal.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 15, 2024, 09:41:57 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 15, 2024, 03:59:18 PM
On the issue of Iran, we have been working on missile defense for the last 40 years and we have made a lot of progress, and we can jam and crash the drones, we have shown that we can save lives in Israel from foreign attacks there. So, then we can deal with things in our own way, and in our own time, on our own terms, etc. And we have good leaders at the United Nations.

And Bambu, on the news on television they talked about the criminal there in Australia, and they just said he was a mentally ill guy.

We have made a lot of progress in the Middle East, as Arafat is gone now, and Saddam Husein is gone, and Osama Bin Laden is gone, a lot of bad people are gone now.

And we have the CIA, and we can know what people are doing and who to hold accountable, etc.

We also need to send the Peace Corps into Afghanistan, and into Iraq, etc, and we need to build schools, and we need to educate the women, and we need to feed the hungry, and we can build hospitals, etc. We can do good work that can promote peace in the world. We need to invest in having peace and in raising the level of civilization. And we can work for improved women's rights, and we can educate the people, and they can all read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, etc. And we can make movies and television shows with meaning to better educate and teach the people of the Middle East, I met a fillmmaker who wanted to make movies in Turkey to be shown in the Middle East, etc, and if you can change how people think and feel then you can change how they behave. And we need to bring back the power of Athens and Rome in the Middle East, with peace and lots of trade, etc, and libraries and schools, etc.

And we need to have peace and friendship with China, and we have Muzi who attended Harvard. Muzi needs to do an interview with National Lampoon to be published in Playboy Magazine. And Mahlagha Jaberi can do a pictorial in Playboy to promote improved human rights for the women of Iran.

Salute,

Tony V.

Psychologist is quoted in the DT as saying "He knew what he was doing, he was bad not mad.

The 'bad people' I keep talking about.
They're armed, this time with large hunting knife, seeking out women and children as his victims.

The church attack last night, the stabbing of the Christian bishop...has just been labelled by the Police Commissioner as a terror attack.
Where are my guns?
Oh, I'm not allowed to have any.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 15, 2024, 10:09:41 PM: "Bollard man" in the Bondi stabbing rampage, who stood up to the killer, is French national Damien Guerot.

The killer is accused of targeting women and children, a group of children playing near the top of the escalator.
"Bollard man" saved their lives, for sure and certain.

Albo has told Mr Guerot he's welcome to Australian citizenship immediately, can stay in Australia as long as he likes.
Vive La France!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 10:41:32 PM: Tesla is about to lay off ten per cent of its employees
I see Hugh Janus is wasting no time exploring future employment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 12:20:58 AM: Musk is the major problem in all of his companies. Tesla also suffers from the huge industry pushing out better cheaper EVs by the millions each year. Expect to see many gas pumps replaced by charging stations in the coming years. Also the governor and legislature there make Texas a state with a terrible business climate almost as bad as Florida. It is a shame for the people of Austin who for the most part try to live a better life than the deeply insecure conservatives that the state is famous for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 16, 2024, 12:23:18 AM: The wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine, that's the problem.
Solar in particular, in places where the sun shines most of the time, could be worthwhile.
What to do with all the old solar panels after their 20 year life span.

What to do with all the wind turbines when they malfunction, collapse, and are old?

Solar can play a part in energy production, but for massive baseload power nuclear is best.
Net zero is a fantasy.
Maybe sometime 200 years from now.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 12:39:20 AM: When you do not feel the sunshine on your horrible pickled face, it is not because the Sun goes out. For a part of each day there is a planet between you and it.

Batteries, since the invention of mill ponds and leets have been a tried and true solution to intermittent sources of clean energy. Some investment in utility scale battery tech and a robust modern transmission grid solve that issue for generating electricity with wind and solar.

Fortunately there are better people working on this project than you. It would take you centuries to get your own head out of your ass much less change a light bulb or install a solar panel. The used panels get recycled. A productive wind turbine is repaired when it breaks down or it is replaced with a newer more efficient model.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 16, 2024, 09:47:02 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 12:20:58 AM
Musk is the major problem in all of his companies. Tesla also suffers from the huge industry pushing out better cheaper EVs by the millions each year.

Zactly.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 16, 2024, 09:50:54 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 15, 2024, 10:09:41 PM

Albo has told Mr Guerot he's welcome to Australian citizenship immediately, can stay in Australia as long as he likes.
Vive La France!

M Guerot and that fellow with the Narwal tusk who thwarted a stabber on the London bridge should get together. Maybe organize fun competitions where contestants wield tusks and bollards against each other. With proper padding, of course.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2024, 01:46:08 PM: Musk is making mistakes as he pulls jobs out of California and takes them to other places, and with the Space Program, etc, then we need the Antelope Valley and Cape Canaveral, etc.

My favorite Billionaire is British, even though I have my problems with the British, I am not a fan of the British, but I love Richard Branson, and he produced the Sex Pistols, etc. Richard Branson is building a high speed train between Las Vegas and Southern California.

And we need to have good guys in California like Ronald Reagan, Roy Rogers, Walt Disney, and Gene Autry, were. And New York had Frank Sinatra, and the great acting teachers, Uta Hagen, and Sanford Meisner, and Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, etc.

My Mother has solar panels out in the desert where the sun shines almost everyday, and she saves a fortune by having solar panels on her roof, and she also has a swimming pool, she loves the desert, and she is saving a lot of money by having solar.

We need to keep building new high speed trains and subways, etc.

Lots is happening right now here, Mayor Bass just made the State of the City Speech, and then she is going to release her budget. And Billions is being spent here in Anaheim. Plus Newsom is giving tax breaks to producers to film in California, finally. And Universal is doing great right now with the success of "Oppenheimer." Muzi of China needs to do an interview with National Lampoon for Playboy, and Mahlagha Jaberi needs to do a pictorial for Playboy to support improved human rights for the women of Iran, etc.

Tourist season is under way here in Southern California, with lots of money to be made, and the homeless are being helped, and housing is being built, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 16, 2024, 02:13:17 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 16, 2024, 01:46:08 PM
My favorite Billionaire is British,...

Salute,

Tony V.
Channeling my inner Phil Sheridan. The only good billionaire...
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 02:51:49 PM: Eat the rich.

Fortunately trump is fake rich because he is clearly toxic and not for eating.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 16, 2024, 03:37:22 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 10:41:32 PM
Tesla is about to lay off ten per cent of its employees
I see Hugh Janus is wasting no time exploring future employment.

Hugh Janus has retired and is now relaxed and ready to drop some big warm chunks of wisdom on you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 04:33:24 PM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 16, 2024, 03:37:22 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 10:41:32 PM
Tesla is about to lay off ten per cent of its employees
I see Hugh Janus is wasting no time exploring future employment.

Hugh Janus has retired and is now relaxed and ready to drop some big warm chunks of wisdom on you.
You mean like diversifying his portfolio.?
Iwould steer him to pipelines and mining equipment.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 16, 2024, 04:41:08 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 04:33:24 PM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 16, 2024, 03:37:22 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 10:41:32 PM
Tesla is about to lay off ten per cent of its employees
I see Hugh Janus is wasting no time exploring future employment.

Hugh Janus has retired and is now relaxed and ready to drop some big warm chunks of wisdom on you.
You mean like diversifying his portfolio.?
Iwould steer him to ~~pipelines and mining equipment.~~ buggy whip stocks.
FIFY.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 05:37:14 PM: I think Red is telling us we need a deep dark hole to dump republicans and oligarch polluters in, a hole from which they can never hope to emerge.

It is the kind of fascist solution you expect from Red, but at least he is starting to acknowledge the problem the right wing menace poses to society.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 05:53:43 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 16, 2024, 04:41:08 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 04:33:24 PM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 16, 2024, 03:37:22 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 10:41:32 PM
Tesla is about to lay off ten per cent of its employees
I see Hugh Janus is wasting no time exploring future employment.

Hugh Janus has retired and is now relaxed and ready to drop some big warm chunks of wisdom on you.
You mean like diversifying his portfolio.?
Iwould steer him to ~~pipelines and mining equipment.~~ buggy whip stocks.
FIFY.
LOL!
I felt your pain. Glad I could throw you some crumbs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 15, 2024, 09:12:05 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 04:43:11 PM
This is a big fucking deal

https://thetechtribune.com/california-achieves-record-streak-of-100-renewable-energy-days/

We are getting there.

Only if the wind blows and the Sun is always shining. That does not happen even in California and certainly nowhere elsewhere in the USA.

California has achieved a significant milestone in renewable energy, with wind, solar, and hydro power meeting 100% of the state energy demand for 25 out of the last 32 days. This sustained success, a first in the states history, highlights the feasibility of transitioning away from fossil fuels to cleaner sources

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:50:36 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 12:42:39 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.

Not even close, huh?

No pithy comeback, huh?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 08:03:26 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 12:20:58 AM
Musk is the major problem in all of his companies. Tesla also suffers from the huge industry pushing out better cheaper EVs by the millions each year. Expect to see many gas pumps replaced by charging stations in the coming years. Also the governor and legislature there make Texas a state with a terrible business climate almost as bad as Florida. It is a shame for the people of Austin who for the most part try to live a better life than the deeply insecure conservatives that the state is famous for.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 16, 2024, 08:56:42 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM

(standard Reddus Dickus Straw Man argument)

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.

He's heard. And probably heard of large-scale grid distribution, gravitic storage, and geothermal base power. But his smug and invincible partisan posture is to pretend none of that can happen before we drink every last drop of the petroleum milkshake.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 09:11:24 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 16, 2024, 08:56:42 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM

(standard Reddus Dickus Straw Man argument)

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.

He's heard. And probably heard of large-scale grid distribution, gravitic storage, and geothermal base power. But his smug and invincible partisan posture is to pretend none of that can happen before we drink every last drop of the petroleum milkshake.
Partisan?
You mean scientific facts.
The grid cannot provide year round reliability without fossil fuels.
Nor can we power our economy without them

Nor canAmerican transportation, the envy of the world, do the same without
Reliance on internal combustion engines.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 16, 2024, 09:39:39 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 09:11:24 PM
Quote from: Oiled on April 16, 2024, 08:56:42 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM

(standard Reddus Dickus Straw Man argument)

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.

He's heard. And probably heard of large-scale grid distribution, gravitic storage, and geothermal base power. But his smug and invincible partisan posture is to pretend none of that can happen before we drink every last drop of the petroleum milkshake.
Partisan?
You mean scientific facts.
The grid cannot provide year round reliability without fossil fuels.
Nor can we power our economy without them

Nor canAmerican transportation, the envy of the world, do the same without
Reliance on internal combustion engines.

Exactly.
And it's not only in America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 10:10:54 PM: All the fossils agree. Everyone here with no future prospects, no descendants to think about, and no meaningful legacy to leave both say drill harder and faster.

The nice thing about dead wrong old people is that their voice and influence recedes as their faculties and numbers steadily dwindle and they are replaced by generation after generation with better grips on more accurate and instructive facts, ready to drive electronic vehicles from net zero homes to net zero workplaces, shops, restaurants, entertainments, and houses of worship.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 10:48:58 PM: Anti -Israel activist Takek Bazzi, who headlined an hour-long rally in front of the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn led the cheers of Death to America !
Biden countered with We do not want their votes.
No shit?
It took Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer a week to denounce them.

On Elba the usual cast of misfits ignored the remarks altogether.
What are you afraid of?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 11:36:03 PM: Crackers stoking racial division on their way to murdering a bunch of folks scare me. It happens disturbingly often in this country.

Chanting death to America does not help one make a point or endear one to a broad audience in and among Americans. It would definitely rate as counterproductive to the purpose of the rally.

I personally would like to see Israel stop fucking itself, but that is extremely unlikely with the current government they have in place. I wish we could do more to bring things to a peaceful and stable resolution sooner, but important actors in the region have decided they prefer increasingly deadly escalation.

I believe that I f we had done more to help kill all Russian military personnel outside of their borders within six months of the discoveries at Bucha, the Middle East would be a lot quieter today as would Europe.

I also find that most of what you espouse, condone and cheer amounts to death to America blow by idiotic blow. How you feel about what that guy and some others were chanting in Dearborn is how reasonable people take most of what you have to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 11:36:49 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 15, 2024, 09:12:05 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 04:43:11 PM
This is a big fucking deal

https://thetechtribune.com/california-achieves-record-streak-of-100-renewable-energy-days/

We are getting there.

Only if the wind blows and the Sun is always shining. That does not happen even in California and certainly nowhere elsewhere in the USA.

California has achieved a significant milestone in renewable energy, with wind, solar, and hydro power meeting 100% of the state energy demand for 25 out of the last 32 days. This sustained success, a first in the states history, highlights the feasibility of transitioning away from fossil fuels to cleaner sources

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 11:56:53 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:50:36 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 12:42:39 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.

Not even close, huh?

No pithy comeback, huh?
None needed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 17, 2024, 03:51:32 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 11:56:53 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:50:36 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 15, 2024, 12:42:39 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 14, 2024, 06:16:24 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 14, 2024, 04:58:03 PM

Approximately 72,000,000 million gun owners in USA. If one percent use their guns to kill other people then statistically 720,000 motherfuckers kill other people with guns.

Realistically the number of gun deaths runs about 48,000.

Not even close.
The Census bureau puts our population at 330 million with about 258 million 18 and over.
Gun ownership is estimated at 393 million, or about 120 guns for every 100 people.
Total gun deaths per year run just under 50 k with 54% suicides, 43% murders, and 3 per cent related to accidental incidents, police action, or and those that cannot be categorized.

Not even close, huh?

No pithy comeback, huh?
None needed.

https://youtu.be/DHquo50cpDo?si=E9hVGrn34MwDNUpn
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 17, 2024, 07:03:37 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 11:36:03 PM
Crackers stoking racial division on their way to murdering a bunch of folks scare me. It happens disturbingly often in this country.

Chanting death to America does not help one make a point or endear one to a broad audience in and among Americans. It would definitely rate as counterproductive to the purpose of the rally.

I personally would like to see Israel stop fucking itself, but that is extremely unlikely with the current government they have in place. I wish we could do more to bring things to a peaceful and stable resolution sooner, but important actors in the region have decided they prefer increasingly deadly escalation.

I believe that I f we had done more to help kill all Russian military personnel outside of their borders within six months of the discoveries at Bucha, the Middle East would be a lot quieter today as would Europe.

I also find that most of what you espouse, condone and cheer amounts to death to America blow by idiotic blow. How you feel about what that guy and some others were chanting in Dearborn is how reasonable people take most of what you have to say.

Well you could convince South Africa and the UN to send armies into Gaza to convince Hamas to give up the hostages it took after torture murdering 1,200 Israeli men, women and children in its Oct 7 attacks.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 08:16:20 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 10:48:58 PM

Anti -Israel activist Takek Bazzi, who headlined an hour-long rally in front of the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn led the cheers of Death to America !
Biden countered with We do not want their votes.
No shit?
It took Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer a week to denounce them.

On Elba the usual cast of misfits ignored the remarks altogether.
What are you afraid of?
USC just banned the valedictorian speech at graduation for fear she might say something in support of Palestine. And no comment from you. What are you afraid of?

Or, alternatively, it is a free board and you comment on what you want to and do not comment on what you do not want to, you tiny-brained wiper of other people's bottoms.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 17, 2024, 09:40:58 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 16, 2024, 09:11:24 PM
Quote from: Oiled on April 16, 2024, 08:56:42 PM
Quote from: LarryB! on April 16, 2024, 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 15, 2024, 09:24:05 PM

(standard Reddus Dickus Straw Man argument)

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.

He's heard. And probably heard of large-scale grid distribution, gravitic storage, and geothermal base power. But his smug and invincible partisan posture is to pretend none of that can happen before we drink every last drop of the petroleum milkshake.
Partisan?
You mean scientific facts.
The grid cannot provide year round reliability without fossil fuels.
Nor can we power our economy without them

So why is it that renewables, batteries and nuclear will add up to 96% of all new power capacity constructed this year, per federal data. (and only two percent of that 96% is nuclear)

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-nearly-all-new-us-power-plants-built-in-2024-will-be-clean-energy

Clearly the power industry is backing a different horse than your old nag.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 17, 2024, 09:47:15 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 16, 2024, 11:36:03 PM

I also find that most of what you espouse, condone and cheer amounts to death to America blow by idiotic blow. How you feel about what that guy and some others were chanting in Dearborn is how reasonable people take most of what you have to say.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 17, 2024, 10:05:37 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 08:16:20 AM

Or, alternatively, it is a free board and you comment on what you want to and do not comment on what you do not want to, you tiny-brained wiper of other people's bottoms.

It is astonishing that somehow my sigboth has never seen the grail movie. But friends and family have quoted lines or described scenes from it often enough that she pretty much knows all of them. A few years ago she saw me limping and asked what I'd done and I said, ni! ni! ni! referring to my tricky left knee acquired working a construction job in college. Poor knight, she said.

And yes, lack of comment on an online forum is not itself a comment. Many things happen daily in the world. Construing an absence of comment on them as a tacit opinion is idiot sophistry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 10:50:32 AM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 17, 2024, 10:05:37 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 08:16:20 AM

Or, alternatively, it is a free board and you comment on what you want to and do not comment on what you do not want to, you tiny-brained wiper of other people's bottoms.

It is astonishing that somehow my sigboth has never seen the grail movie. But friends and family have quoted lines or described scenes from it often enough that she pretty much knows all of them. A few years ago she saw me limping and asked what I'd done and I said, ni! ni! ni! referring to my tricky left knee acquired working a construction job in college. Poor knight, she said.

And yes, lack of comment on an online forum is not itself a comment. Many things happen daily in the world. Construing an absence of comment on them as a tacit opinion is idiot sophistry.
People like RedDick pick up manufactured outrage from the right wing outrage machine and are 8shocked - shocked! - to find out no one outside their bubble gives a shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 17, 2024, 09:40:58 AM

So why is it that renewables, batteries and nuclear will add up to 96% of all new power capacity constructed this year,.
Clearly the power industry is backing a different horse than your old nag.
Because that old nag is needed to keep the HVAC systems working.
It is a shame the federal bureaucracy, the leftist naysayers priced Nuclear
out of the quest for alternatives.
The problem now, of course, is the that climate alarmists are screaming for REPLACEMENT energy via solar and wind and neither , even combined, can come close to replacing natural gas and coal.
We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.
We have had doomsday predictions now for 50 years and the Old Nag is not anywhere close to being put out to pasture.
It is not surprising that Wind Farm Projects and the Roof Top Solar panel industry are pulling back, not to mention the flatlining EV market.
Adding demand( like electric vehicles) is going to make matters worse.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM: Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland, the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.

Sean Astin is giving the speech at UCLA, he is a great choice, I met him when I worked for Suzanne Pleshette, and Sean Astin is a cool dude.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue. I hope Spielberg is better than that.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government. It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 17, 2024, 04:17:02 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government. It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?

First of all you agreed the 1st amdement protection does not pertain to private institutions.
Please provide a quote from Ms. Tassqbaum where she cries Death to America.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed. So robustly so that utilities are investing massively in them, as my previous stats made clear. You can hide from those facts and suck your oily thumb all you want. The ONLY cause of any windmill project being pulled back is local NIMBY groups and/or obstruction from conservative political groups heavily supported by oil industry money. Neither of which is going to longterm halt the progress of the clean energy a majority of Americans want.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:25:10 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM

The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government. It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?

Who threatened violence in a commencement address, aside from your would-be fascist orange-hued hero?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 04:32:11 PM: I descended from the Pioneers, who traveled to find their dreams and to live peaceful lives. So, that is my advice for the Palestinians, they need to refuse to be a pawn in a war that makes money for bad people, and they need to let Kiwanis International take them to the forest of Canada, and to other peaceful places, Abu Dhabi and Dubai are peaceful, etc. The refugees need to travel to find good safe lives, and they can do forestry work in Canada, etc, or they could be a truck driver in Dubai, etc, they can be essential workers.

And they all need to read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

My ancestors were pioneers who traveled in order to have good lives, and that is my advice for the refugees is to travel to where they can have a good peaceful life. And make life about love, and have a nice family, and work a nice peaceful job in the Lumber Industry, etc. Leave the war behind, and go have a peaceful life in the forest of Canada. Kiwanis has a village in Victoria, British Columbia, that would be perfect for the refugees.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 04:34:39 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government.
It covers all speech including commercial speech. But what it does not cover is the actions of private entities like USC.
Quote
It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?
No, you and your fellow right wing censors are equating pro-palestnian speech with "Death to America." Which Asna Tabassum has never espoused. And which there is no indication she had ever intended to say in her speech.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 17, 2024, 04:51:00 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed. So robustly so that utilities are investing massively in them, as my previous stats made clear. You can hide from those facts and suck your oily thumb all you want. The ONLY cause of any windmill project being pulled back is local NIMBY groups and/or obstruction from conservative political groups heavily supported by oil industry money. Neither of which is going to longterm halt the progress of the clean energy a majority of Americans want.

Money dont everything its true
But what it dont get, I cant use
I need money (thats what I want!)
Etc.

https://wapo.st/3xCU0Xr
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 04:57:07 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 04:34:39 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government.
It covers all speech including commercial speech. But what it does not cover is the actions of private entities like USC.
Quote
It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?
No, you and your fellow right wing censors are equating pro-palestnian speech with "Death to America."
No, Palestinian protestors are unless you do not read the news.

Quote
Which Asna Tabassum has never espoused. And which there is no indication she had ever intended to say in her speech.
Never said she did. Her speech was canceled do significant threats in terms of the specificity of the person, the event, meaning our commencement, and their intent to disrupt our commencement. according to the school.
It had nothing to do with Freedom of Speech
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed.
If so it is time to move on to more choices.
Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas. There is a lot more development needed before we turn our backs on fossil fuels.
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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 17, 2024, 06:26:31 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM
Quote from: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed.
If so it is time to move on to more choices.
Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas. There is a lot more development needed before we turn our backs on fossil fuels.
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Its not just the US: according to the International Energy Agency, fossil fuel handouts hit a global high of $1 trillion in 2022 the same year Big Oil pulled in a record $4 trillion of income. In the United States, by some estimates taxpayers pay about $20 billion dollars every year to the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-whitehouse-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-we-are-subsidizing-the-danger-#:~:text=It's%20not%20just%20the%20US,to%20the%20fossil%20fuel%20industry.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 07:01:18 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on April 17, 2024, 06:26:31 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM
Quote from: Oiled on April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 11:36:34 AM

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed.
If so it is time to move on to more choices.
Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas. There is a lot more development needed before we turn our backs on fossil fuels.
[

[

Its not just the US: according to the International Energy Agency, fossil fuel handouts hit a global high of $1 trillion in 2022 the same year Big Oil pulled in a record $4 trillion of income. In the United States, by some estimates taxpayers pay about $20 billion dollars every year to the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-whitehouse-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-we-are-subsidizing-the-danger-#:~:text=It's%20not%20just%20the%20US,to%20the%20fossil%20fuel%20industry.

Sheldon Whitehouse.!
I love this line of his:

Oil and gas extraction represents only about 5 percent of GDP. Farming, manufacturing, food and beverage, insurance, finance, restaurants, retail, housing, healthcare all represent a larger share of GDP.
Mainly because all have stable and reliable sources of energy to make them productive.
And adding heavily subsided Wind and Solar has proved not capable of meeting the growing demand without fossil fuels.
Using the faux crisis of a climate emergency is not changing the facts.
Title: Re: News in General
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Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 09:54:41 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 04:57:07 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 04:34:39 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
Quote
the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government.
It covers all speech including commercial speech. But what it does not cover is the actions of private entities like USC.
Quote
It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?
No, you and your fellow right wing censors are equating pro-palestnian speech with "Death to America."
No, Palestinian protestors are unless you do not read the news.

Thank you for proving my point.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 10:19:10 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 09:54:41 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 04:57:07 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 04:34:39 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 03:48:01 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
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the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue.
The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government.
It covers all speech including commercial speech. But what it does not cover is the actions of private entities like USC.
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It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?
No, you and your fellow right wing censors are equating pro-palestnian speech with "Death to America."
No, Palestinian protestors are unless you do not read the news.

Thank you for proving my point.
LOL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 18, 2024, 01:47:13 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 17, 2024, 02:05:36 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 17, 2024, 12:51:14 PM
Bambu, they had a family from Australia on the television news, they were tourists visiting Disneyland,
We are letting Australians in now? Seal the border!
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the reporter told the Aussies that Disney is going to invest billions of dollars into improving Disneyland and she asked them if they were going to come back after the work is complete, the Aussies said they would love to come back. It is nice that the Aussies like it here.

On the issue of USC and the valedictorian, Spielberg is highly involved with the film department at USC, and other prominent Jews help to run USC, they are not going to allow antisemitic people to give speeches at USC.
USC is private so not covered by the 1st Amendment but equating support of the Palestinian people with anti-semitism is deliberately attempting to silence one side of an important issue. I hope Spielberg is better than that.

As tourists they're spending money, providing jobs for Americans and supporting businesses in America.
They're fingerprinted, face scanned, their US govt approved documents checked thoroughly and their luggage searched.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 03:29:30 AM: They are a crime spree with the stupidest possible accent. Send em packing. Stick them on a raft and send them south. If they do not hit Antarctica they should make it home eventually.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out. The only question is time frame, and that depends on public policy. Could take fifty years, could take twenty. Depends on the level of carbon taxes, subsidies (yes, governments do subsidize things that are a public benefit) towards startup investment, and how well base load sources like geothermal and batteries are brought into the mix.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 11:52:21 AM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong. The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2024, 12:26:23 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 11:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong. The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.
Except of course US fossil fuel production has increased every year under Biden, even as has edged us towards the future. Increasing current production while preparing the future sounds awfully cluefull to me.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 12:51:09 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 18, 2024, 12:26:23 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 11:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong. The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.
Except of course US fossil fuel production has increased every year under Biden, even as has edged us towards the future. Increasing current production while preparing the future sounds awfully cluefull to me.
Even Biden cannot shut off demand and ruin our economy. Yet are strategic reserve was used for politics and the export of LNG severely curtailed. He better hope Israel does not bomb Iranian oil tankers or his re-election bid will be a non starter.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 01:18:11 PM: Trump shut off demand and ruined the economy. Biden will not do that and that is a big part of why he will be re-elected.

Stop hoarding horse paste Red.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 18, 2024, 02:53:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 11:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong. The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.

How does any of that make my post (which you removed part of and did not answer) wrong? Nowhere did I say we can eliminate fossil fuel immediately. NO ONE IS ASSERTING THAT. This is a Straw Man you keep making up. I said the time frame for replacement depends on continued policies that aid the transition to renewables and provide storage of peak outputs. I pointed out the current proportion of new utility construction that is renewables. It is extremely dishonest to ignore these points and keep attacking something I never said.

Here is the entirety of my post which you selectively edited relevant comments from.

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You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still cant read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96 percent of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out. The only question is time frame, and that depends on public policy. Could take fifty years, could take twenty. Depends on the level of carbon taxes, subsidies (yes, governments do subsidize things that are a public benefit) towards startup investment, and how well base load sources like geothermal and batteries are brought into the mix.

So, and this time I think it will be permanent, I am done trying for reasoned discussion when such dishonest tactics are the only answer you provide.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 03:33:02 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 18, 2024, 02:53:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 11:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 17, 2024, 05:04:32 PM

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still can't read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong. The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.

How does any of that make my post (which you removed part of and did not answer) wrong? Nowhere did I say we can eliminate fossil fuel immediately. NO ONE IS ASSERTING THAT. This is a Straw Man you keep making up. I said the time frame for replacement depends on continued policies that aid the transition to renewables and provide storage of peak outputs. I pointed out the current proportion of new utility construction that is renewables. It is extremely dishonest to ignore these points and keep attacking something I never said.

Here is the entirety of my post which you selectively edited relevant comments from.

Quote
You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems. Apparently still cant read for meaning. If clean energy is now 96 percent of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out. The only question is time frame, and that depends on public policy. Could take fifty years, could take twenty. Depends on the level of carbon taxes, subsidies (yes, governments do subsidize things that are a public benefit) towards startup investment, and how well base load sources like geothermal and batteries are brought into the mix.

So, and this time I think it will be permanent, I am done trying for reasoned discussion when such dishonest tactics are the only answer you provide.
That Bawl you keep threatening to take home must be tethered here by a rubber band.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 05:39:03 PM: It is worth smacking Reds shit down whether he is repeating the worst propaganda verbatim, being incoherent and glitchy, or just being obviously intentionally dishonest. It makes no sense to expect he will benefit from it or appreciate it in anyway. Red will not get better. He will just get worse until he dies.

The thing worth thinking about is how to move this society so that someone with the sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies displayed by Red never gets to hold much less own a gun ever again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 18, 2024, 07:24:54 PM: The net-zero brigade in bambuworld seem hellbent on 'going up' not 'out' [building hi-rise apartment blocks by the *millions*, and not developing land and building homes.]

Underneath these apartment blocks full of people they want everyone to have an electric car and charge them there.
Charming.
Ahem, electric car fires anyone?
Barbecued apartment dwellers anyone?

Green realists are already warning green dreamers that it's a very bad idea, given the propensity of electric car batteries to explode in flames.
Electric car batteries, electric bike batteries, electric scooter batteries...look at all those fires.
One such electric car battery exploded while charging in a home garage in America, blew the garage door off its *hinges* and down the driveway. [Colorado?]
The door hit a fireman on the head, luckily he was wearing a helmet.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 07:33:19 PM: Dwight Eisenhower our Supreme Commander in WWII worried that the anti semitism that brought Hitler to power would, regrettably, someday rise again.
Eisenhower became President of Columbia until he left a few years later for the White House.
So it is sad today when the Columbia President had to call out New York Police to dispel antisemitism on its campus.
Never Forget.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 18, 2024, 08:44:32 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 03:33:02 PM

That Bawl you keep threatening to take home must be tethered here by a rubber band.

You suffer from the persistent grandiose delusion that my cessation of chatting with you is the same as me leaving the forum. I remain here, in the cyber sense, to enjoy and learn from the observations, japes, jests and zingers of Yank, Lime, Larry, Fac, and DeeJ.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 09:35:42 PM: Quote from: Hugh Janus on April 18, 2024, 08:44:32 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 03:33:02 PM

That Bawl you keep threatening to take home must be tethered here by a rubber band.

You suffer from the persistent grandiose delusion that my cessation of chatting with you is the same as me leaving the forum. I remain here, in the cyber sense, to enjoy and learn from the observations, japes, jests and zingers of Yank, Lime, Larry, Fac, and DeeJ.
No wonder your avatar is an anus. You still in grade school?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 09:48:46 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 07:33:19 PM
Never Forget.

We will not forget.

After Charlottesville you will never leave our sights.

The antisemitism of the white man is at least ten times more dangerous than the antisemitism of the brown man in this country, as any Jew can tell you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 01:55:15 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 09:48:46 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 07:33:19 PM
Never Forget.

We will not forget.

After Charlottesville you will never leave our sights.

The antisemitism of the white man is at least ten times more dangerous than the antisemitism of the brown man in this country, as any Jew can tell you.

You're living in the past.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 03:09:04 AM: Youtube

"'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's Funeral"

Live band, mostly older folk, ...
now that's a jumpin, rockin, funeral!
Dancing, cheering, clapping.
What a great tribute.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 19, 2024, 06:05:33 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 09:48:46 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 07:33:19 PM
Never Forget.

We will not forget.

After Charlottesville you will never leave our sights.

The antisemitism of the white man is at least ten times more dangerous than the antisemitism of the brown man in this country, as any Jew can tell you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 19, 2024, 06:07:49 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 01:55:15 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 18, 2024, 09:48:46 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 18, 2024, 07:33:19 PM
Never Forget.

We will not forget.

After Charlottesville you will never leave our sights.

The antisemitism of the white man is at least ten times more dangerous than the antisemitism of the brown man in this country, as any Jew can tell you.

You're living in the past.

Fac is correct!

One of the shortcomings in our national memory to the many POGROMS here is the USA following the end of Reconstruction in 1878 and the conclusion of WWI that left Black Americans bereft of properties and businesses wiping out generational wealth.

Instead of telling Black people to Never Forget we are told to Get Over It as Christopher Rufo and Republican legislatures try to wipe out our history and reverse that gains of the Civil Rights movement.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 06:55:59 PM: SkyNews today:

"Australia's muticulturalism at 'crossroads'."

#####

Multiculturalism is a menace.
It's been a dismal failure in Britain/Europe, former UK PM Cameron and former German Chancellor
Merkel said so.
Well it's all their own fault, the politicians and voters there were warned but refused to listen, it's too late now, the clock has struck midnight and cannot be wound back.

Same in Australia but the politicians and voters are still living in a world of fantasy.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 19, 2024, 07:50:44 PM: The only menace and dismal failure is Bambu.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 19, 2024, 08:05:14 PM: Bibi defied the Biden Do not and clearly showed Iran Israel determination.
Now America needs a similar leader to counter the misguided Obama/Biden
Appeasement to the mullahs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 08:10:05 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 19, 2024, 07:50:44 PM
The only menace and dismal failure is Bambu.

I walked thru the streets of Tehran yesterday (Youtube).
No traffic lanes on the roads, vehicles just do their best.

Went into a mall, 3 levels, shops had latest baggy pants, T shirts and baseball caps for men. Sneakers of all types, jewellery stores...other assorted stores 'as usual'.

Hard to walk on sidewalks, merchants cluttering up the space.
Littering is obviously not frowned upon.

Large billboards of the Ayatollah everywhere.

I wouldn't be rushing to live there...if I were looking for somewhere.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 08:11:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 19, 2024, 08:05:14 PM
Bibi defied the Biden Do not and clearly showed Iran Israel determination.
Now America needs a similar leader to counter the misguided Obama/Biden
Appeasement to the mullahs.

Indeed.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 19, 2024, 08:27:39 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 08:11:03 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on April 19, 2024, 08:05:14 PM
Bibi defied the Biden Do not and clearly showed Iran Israel determination.
Now America needs a similar leader to counter the misguided Obama/Biden
Appeasement to the mullahs.

Indeed.

Jingo and dingo get up with the same fleas.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 08:57:24 PM: SkyNews:

"Families sue US prisons."

Missing organs after death/autopsies.

University of Alabama school of medicine mentioned.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 19, 2024, 09:04:44 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 19, 2024, 08:05:14 PM
Bibi defied the Biden Do not and clearly showed Iran Israel determination.
Now America needs a similar leader to counter the misguided Obama/Biden
Appeasement to the mullahs.

Bibi to Iran LAST TAG!

That is how serious that strike was.
Note bene
If Trump had not blown up the nuclear deal with Iran there would have been no opening for Russia to gain influence. But then again Trump is a Russian asset so he was just following orders.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 19, 2024, 09:27:16 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 18, 2024, 07:24:54 PM
The net-zero brigade in bambuworld seem hellbent on 'going up' not 'out' [building hi-rise apartment blocks by the *millions*, and not developing land and building homes.]

Underneath these apartment blocks full of people they want everyone to have an electric car and charge them there.
Charming.
Ahem, electric car fires anyone?
Barbecued apartment dwellers anyone?

Green realists are already warning green dreamers that it's a very bad idea, given the propensity of electric car batteries to explode in flames.
Electric car batteries, electric bike batteries, electric scooter batteries...look at all those fires.
One such electric car battery exploded while charging in a home garage in America, blew the garage door off its *hinges* and down the driveway. [Colorado?]
The door hit a fireman on the head, luckily he was wearing a helmet.

That is how Empire West is in West Hollywood, 19 stories straight up with a club house and a swimming pool on the roof, with 4 stories underground for parking. Empire West is where all of the stars live who need security guards and door men and valets, etc. Many of the women at Empire West have stalkers, etc. Empire West is a good, safe spot for the stars, like for Shakira, and for Margot Robbie, etc.

For nice housing, I kind of like the housing at Santorini, Greece, and there can be swimming pools and tennis courts, and that is what I would suggest for Battle Mountain, Nevada, they should bring in the Greek architects when they build, and they can have an island atmosphere out in the middle of Nevada. With libraries, etc. And an amphitheater where they can have shows, etc, like in Greece.

Anaheim is going to be rolling in the money, Disney is spending a lot of money here, and Newsom is giving tax breaks for producers to film, and money is being invested in Hollywood Blvd, good things are happening in California, and Mayor Bass is doing a great job, etc.

And we need more subways, and high speed trains. For Battle Mountain, Nevada, they have a Greyhound Bus Station so people can get there by Bus, and they have an Airport, and the Union Pacific Railroad runs through Battle Mountain.

And of course cheap sober living houses are needed, and cheap hostels where people can get a cheap shower and a bed. In Battle Mountain, Nevada, they had a nice tavern with rooms for rent above the tavern for $100 per month, which would be great for a Veteran, or for someone who wants to go explore Battle Mountain.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 09:48:28 PM: In my world...many people, myself included, went right off the idea of hi rise, for fear of ending up like the unlucky folk who basically had their financial lives ruined by buying into hi rise...

Chandler's [building Commissioner] role was created by the Coalition govt after cracked apartment buildings, including Sydney's Opal Tower and Mascot Towers, exposed the low quality of new builds and a poor compliance system.

Big rush to build hi rise for all the "massive [legal] immigration" folk to live in.
Massive [legal] immigration, totally not needed, just being done by politicians seeking votes to stay in power, some people accuse.

Things done in a rush often end up in failure to be completely successful.
Corners get cut, things get missed.

"Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure".
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2024, 11:46:12 AM: Australians cannot build anything bigger than a shed and expect it to stay up. They probably need new blood to dilute their congenital stupidity.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2024, 02:43:47 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 09:48:28 PM
In my world...many people, myself included, went right off the idea of hi rise, for fear of ending up like the unlucky folk who basically had their financial lives ruined by buying into hi rise...

Chandler's [building Commissioner] role was created by the Coalition govt after cracked apartment buildings, including Sydney's Opal Tower and Mascot Towers, exposed the low quality of new builds and a poor compliance system.

Big rush to build hi rise for all the "massive [legal] immigration" folk to live in.
Massive [legal] immigration, totally not needed, just being done by politicians seeking votes to stay in power, some people accuse.

Things done in a rush often end up in failure to be completely successful.
Corners get cut, things get missed.

"Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure".

There is a wonderful movie named "The Towering Inferno" starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, it is a great movie, and it is about a tower that was built by people who cut corners and who tried to be cheap when they built the building, and so the building caught fire and became a towering inferno, the moral of the movie is not to cut corners.

Here in California we have earthquakes, etc, and so we need to build everything strong.

I would feel safe living in Empire West, I would love to live in the building, I could make movies with my neighbors, and they probably have Playboy Playmates living there, it is a great building, and they have a swimming pool and clubhouse on the roof for parties, and they have a tennis court.

Australia can bring in the architects from California, and from New York, and from Greece, and from Italy, and from Spain, etc, and then have strict building codes, and do not cut any corners. The buildings need to be safe.

I would love to go live in Empire West, it is a great building.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 20, 2024, 05:21:14 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2024, 02:43:47 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 19, 2024, 09:48:28 PM
In my world...many people, myself included, went right off the idea of hi rise, for fear of ending up like the unlucky folk who basically had their financial lives ruined by buying into hi rise...

Chandler's [building Commissioner] role was created by the Coalition govt after cracked apartment buildings, including Sydney's Opal Tower and Mascot Towers, exposed the low quality of new builds and a poor compliance system.

Big rush to build hi rise for all the "massive [legal] immigration" folk to live in.
Massive [legal] immigration, totally not needed, just being done by politicians seeking votes to stay in power, some people accuse.

Things done in a rush often end up in failure to be completely successful.
Corners get cut, things get missed.

"Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure".

There is a wonderful movie named "The Towering Inferno" starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, it is a great movie, and it is about a tower that was built by people who cut corners and who tried to be cheap when they built the building, and so the building caught fire and became a towering inferno, the moral of the movie is not to cut corners.

Here in California we have earthquakes, etc, and so we need to build everything strong.

I would feel safe living in Empire West, I would love to live in the building, I could make movies with my neighbors, and they probably have Playboy Playmates living there, it is a great building, and they have a swimming pool and clubhouse on the roof for parties, and they have a tennis court.

Australia can bring in the architects from California, and from New York, and from Greece, and from Italy, and from Spain, etc, and then have strict building codes, and do not cut any corners. The buildings need to be safe.

I would love to go live in Empire West, it is a great building.

Salute,

Tony V.

In 1974 there were a bunch of disaster flicks in theaters including Earthquake and The Towering Inferno which were paired in a double feature and billed as Shake and Bake!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 20, 2024, 06:35:05 PM: In a world where everyone is reducing everything and raising prices, there is the DiGiorno frozen pizza company from Switzerland, and they are selling frozen pizza for 33% more pizza for one dollar cheaper, so you are getting a bigger pizza for only $7. And it goes great with Cabernet Sauvignon, or Merlot, or Chianti from Italy, etc.

So you could feed a couple of people, with pizza and wine, for under $20.

And prices are low on coffee thanks to good coffee growers in Colombia and good shipping and thanks to the bean roasters in New Orleans, etc. I am getting the top quality coffee for only $8 per can.

And now Disney is pumping billions of dollars into Anaheim, with Newsom lowering taxes for producers in California, good things can happen.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2024, 08:56:06 PM: It's pizza and Coke No Sugar for me.
Bigger pizzas, for $7?

My large pizzas are now almost the size that small pizzas used to be...and they cost a very lot more than $7.
Fast food is also off my purchasing list, it's no longer a cheap meal.
Seems those running the landscape are obsessed with 'smaller portions' and 'obesity'.
Also, many restaurants and food businesses are closing, people are spending less, have much less to spend now the cost of everything is skyrocketing, including mortgages/housing, fuel, food etc.
Oh well, it's still better than living on a garbage dump in Asia etc.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 20, 2024, 09:58:54 PM: I hope they are not scrimping your coal ration, mate.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2024, 11:15:42 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 20, 2024, 11:46:12 AM
Australians cannot build anything bigger than a shed and expect it to stay up. They probably need new blood to dilute their congenital stupidity.

Got some great builders, and great engineers.

The problems were/are..."freedom".....self-regulation, self-inspection, and private certifiers.
Govts were warned it would all end badly, which it has. They didn't listen, and tears are being shed...tears of buyers.

Hardline govt regulation, hardline govt inspection, and hardline govt certifiers should be the system.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 20, 2024, 11:23:46 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 20, 2024, 09:58:54 PM
I hope they are not scrimping your coal ration, mate.

So do I.
Coal and gas fired power stations are what are keeping the lights on, devices charged and the 'hot water' hot.
Cold 'hot water' is very bad, very uncomfortable.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2024, 12:20:33 AM: If you walk to the market like they do in Europe, and if you quit smoking cigarettes, then you can survive okay in Anaheim. And it is easier with 2 people than one, so it is better if you share expenses with a mate, life will be better when I find a good woman. But, I am grateful to have plenty to eat and a nice apartment and good medical care.

Yes, it is much better than a garbage dump is Asia, this is paradise compared to a lot of places. Orange County is the 3rd safest county in California, following Ventura County and San Diego County. I have lots to be grateful for. And it will only get better as Disney spends more money in the region, etc.

And when I look at the photos from the Great Depression, we have come so far. We have some problems, but Mayor Bass is doing a good job, etc, and things will get better.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 21, 2024, 12:50:16 AM: You did not have to rely on Australian builders, Tony. Bambu says they are all crap.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2024, 01:01:04 AM: They built a building recently in New Orleans that collapsed before they even finished it, horrible quality. It is hard to find good companies now. It is important to hire all good people.

And I like Santiago Calatrava, and there are some other exciting builders.

I hope the best for Australia, and I like the towers, they are great, but you need to have good builders to build your towers, and good inspectors, etc.

Here is a link for Empire West, it is only 17 stories, but they have the Lobby on the Ground Floor, and they have the Clubhouse and Swimming Pool on the Roof, the Tennis Court is on the side, and then the Parking is Underground.

https://www.toplacondos.com/empire-west

When I worked at Empire West then Suzanne Pleshette was my Boss, she was the Homeowner Association President.

I think the building that collapsed in New Orleans was going to be a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, but I am not sure, it was a while back, so even in New Orleans it is hard to find a good builder.

And shake and bake, that is funny for a double feature.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 21, 2024, 06:51:07 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 21, 2024, 12:50:16 AM
You did not have to rely on Australian builders, Tony. Bambu says they are all crap.

Ooo, you big fibber, I said no such thing.
I said there are good builders and good engineers...but also ones who take shortcuts and aren't so good.
Youtube "Barangaroo Sydney", and "Darling Harbour Sydney"...lots of nice new buildings there that are not falling down...built well by top shelf construction companies.
It's the bottom shelf ones that have to be watched.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 21, 2024, 10:38:37 AM: Quote of the Week

Bill Maher noting the turmoil at NPR and that all of its 87 news people are democrats.

NPR is to them what this country would be if it was a permanent Democratic governorship
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 21, 2024, 11:19:37 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 20, 2024, 11:15:42 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 20, 2024, 11:46:12 AM
Australians cannot build anything bigger than a shed and expect it to stay up. They probably need new blood to dilute their congenital stupidity.

Got some great builders, and great engineers.

The problems were/are..."freedom".....self-regulation, self-inspection, and private certifiers.
Govts were warned it would all end badly, which it has. They didn't listen, and tears are being shed...tears of buyers.

Hardline govt regulation, hardline govt inspection, and hardline govt certifiers should be the system.

Everything the conservatives (aka Republicans) in the USS resist.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 21, 2024, 12:20:03 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on April 21, 2024, 10:38:37 AM
Quote of the Week

Bill Maher noting the turmoil at NPR and that all of its 87 news people are democrats.

NPR is to them what this country would be if it was a permanent Democratic governorship

Fuck Bill Maher.

NPR is not Fox nor Newsmax so why would it hire Republican election deniers and criminal apologists?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 21, 2024, 12:24:09 PM: A small step toward a brighter transportation future!

https://wapo.st/3W6KE0g
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2024, 07:14:00 PM: I just sent this request to Vice President Harris on Facebook, I hope she reads it...

Please send some advisers and diplomats to Colombia to aid Gustavo Petro, and send some people from Harvard to help in Colombia, etc, and we also have the United Nations, we need to promote peace and prosperity and good human rights in Colombia. And also Colombia can use the Ports in New Orleans, Louisiana, to import coffee and Gold, and the coffee can be roasted in New Orleans, etc, and then shipped all over. ( Also, New Orleans can be expanded as a Port City with the problems with the port in Baltimore, New Orleans can expand their Ports. )

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2024, 08:34:03 PM: Bambu, remember that we have 50,000 Australians here in Los Angeles right now. And the Out Back Steak House Restaurants are fantastic. And Huntington Beach is the original Surf City. My personal favorite beach is Malibu, and I would be living there right now, in my same house, or at Latigo Beach ( Latigo Beach has the stars, and the college students from Pepperdine, and 24 hour armed security guards at the gate. ) And the Sunset Restaurant on Westward Beach would be a good spot to eat and drink margaritas at and watch the Sunset. That is my advice for the Australians is that Malibu is the best spot, and the Studios are good jobs, and Hollywood is great. Mel Gibson lives in Malibu with a large family. Olivia Newton John lived in Malibu. Then if they need to go hide some place cheap and get away then I recommend Battle Mountain, Nevada, where you can buy an acre of land for $1,000 still to this day, that is the best price on land in the USA, and it is good land where they can raise families, and they can do trade with San Francisco. So that is the advice for the Aussies here, Malibu is the best, and if you even need to just live cheap and be grateful on a lower budget then there is Battle Mountain.

50,000 Aussies is a good sized group. That is great, they are welcome here. People from all over the world come here, and the Aussies are just as welcome as everyone else. I see Aussies on the buses and trains, and they do "Walk Abouts" around Hollywood, they explore Hollywood on foot out walking. And Universal receives a lot of tourists from Australia and the Aussies love the City Walk.

And for Defense, Edwards can help you, and NASA, and Northrop, and Lockeed, etc, and the submarine builders in Newport News, Virginia. Also be sure to get the equipment to jam and crash the enemy drones, etc, and get missile defense items from the USA, the Navy can help you, and the Air Force, etc. And the Aussies who live here can get jobs helping to build the Defense items here, I am sure China Lake hires the Aussies, and Edwards, and NASA, etc, and Lockheed, and Northrop, etc.

And Newsom is going to give tax breaks for movies and for television shows.

The future is bright for the Aussies in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 21, 2024, 10:25:25 PM: Tony,
do you live anywhere near the beach where the other day a speedboat full of people raced from the ocean thru the waves and onto the beach...the occupants all jumping out, running up the beach and onto the street, then jumping into waiting SUVs and disappearing into the sunset?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 21, 2024, 11:37:15 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 21, 2024, 10:25:25 PM
Tony,
do you live anywhere near the beach where the other day a speedboat full of people raced from the ocean thru the waves and onto the beach...the occupants all jumping out, running up the beach and onto the street, then jumping into waiting SUVs and disappearing into the sunset?

I have not heard about it.

I am 15 miles away from Huntington Beach, and about 5 miles away from Disneyland here in Anaheim. Hollywood is about 45 miles away, and Malibu is 53 miles away according to Siri. Mexico is 100 miles away from where I am at. John Wayne lived in Newport Beach which is 20 miles away from where I am at here in Anaheim.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 21, 2024, 11:47:02 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 21, 2024, 10:25:25 PM
Tony,
do you live anywhere near the beach where the other day a speedboat full of people raced from the ocean thru the waves and onto the beach...the occupants all jumping out, running up the beach and onto the street, then jumping into waiting SUVs and disappearing into the sunset?

There were two future congress people and a Supreme Court justice in that lot. They have the initiative it takes to get ahead.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 12:31:38 AM: It was in Carlsbad...

https://nypost.com/2024/04/16/us-news/speedboat-carrying-dozens-of-migrants-seen-coming-ashore-california-beach/

Carlsbad is beautiful, it is a beautiful and safe area for the Aussies. San Diego County is the 2nd safest county in California, following Ventura County. Orange County is 3rd.

My Mother's cousin owned an Avocado Grove in Carlsbad, he made enough from the avocados to live for free while he coached teen basketball, and he opened a BMW automobile dealership for his son in Carlsbad as a family business.

Carlsbad is very nice, it is a nice safe area with good people.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM: I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 05:03:10 AM: I just went to Carlsbad...bet Legoland is an interesting place.

Look at all those houses on the sandy clifftop in San Diego county, a whisker from the edge.

Who on earth allowed them to be built there, that close to the edge?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 05:09:54 AM: Thought there were supposed to be permanent Coast Guard patrols stopping boats [including speed boats] launching from Mexico and sneaking 'around' the border line and landing on US soil.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 05:15:14 AM: bambuworld...

A man returned to a small central west town and allegedly murdered his former girlfriend just 15 days after being granted bail on charges he violently and sexually attacked her multiple times.

#####

Another perfect reason why all the good people need to carry guns.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 06:44:19 AM: US has deployed 45,000 men on zero point action to protect Israel.

What is zero point action?
Snipers?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:58:06 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 05:03:10 AM
I just went to Carlsbad

No. You stayed home and jacked off into your cream of wheat like you do every day.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 22, 2024, 04:26:11 PM: DK which is funnier, the Bambi blathering on and on about his Google streetview/YT strolls or Fac's salty replies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 04:27:22 PM: Carlsbad is a great area, very beautiful, with beautiful women, and good people. I would put it as one of the Top 20 best spots to live in California. And if you can make a nice easy living from growing avocados, then life would be good, and the Mexicans love to work in the fields picking the avocados, etc. Strawberries grow good in Carlsbad too. Bambu, the Mexicans work in the fields and pick the avocados, and they pick the strawberries, etc, we are blessed to have Mexico as a neighbor, we need to make the Mexicans legal and then put them all to work, we need to create jobs for them, and we have the United Farm Workers to help them.

And here is a public service message for you Men, do the tests that the doctors require, and be sure to get your Colonoscopy; Colon Cancer is the number 2 killer of men, and it is treatable and preventable with a Colonoscopy and treatment. A colonoscopy can save and prolong your life. I know it is not a comfortable experience, but get it done anyway, get your tests done and be grateful that modern medicine has advanced to the point where they save lives. I am doing my first colonoscopy tomorrow in Huntington Beach, I am scared, but it is a good hospital, and a good doctor, and I know it can prolong my life. I am lucky to live in a nation where we have preventative measures available and where we have good health care.

No food today as I prepare for my colonoscopy, just coffee and 7-Up, and then the special liquid at 5 pm, and then again tomorrow morning, and the procedure at Noon. I hope all of you men will get the tests done, if I can do it then you can do it, and it can save and prolong your life.

Then I can get back to the fun stuff like trying to get my movie made, and trying to get my poetry book published, etc, etc, etc.

Anyhow, Carlsbad is a nice area, and the Mexicans can work in the Avocado Groves and in the Strawberry Fields, etc. We need to make the Mexicans legal, and then we need to put them to work. And the Blacks need to learn how to hire the Mexican farm workers, the Mexicans are not taking jobs away from the Blacks if the Blacks learn how to be the Bosses.

And on the issue of Colon Cancer, it is even worse for Blacks, the Black men need to get the tests done, and they need to get the colonoscopy done. It is important.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 22, 2024, 04:31:53 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 04:27:22 PM

No food today as I prepare for my colonoscopy, just coffee and 7-Up, and then the special liquid at 5 pm, and then again tomorrow morning, and the procedure at Noon.

Tony V.

I hope the doctors can figure out which end of you the tube goes in.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 22, 2024, 04:43:30 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 04:27:22 PM
Carlsbad is a great area, very beautiful, with beautiful women, and good people. I would put it as one of the Top 20 best spots to live in California. And if you can make a nice easy living from growing avocados, then life would be good, and the Mexicans love to work in the fields picking the avocados, etc. Strawberries grow good in Carlsbad too. Bambu, the Mexicans work in the fields and pick the avocados, and they pick the strawberries, etc, we are blessed to have Mexico as a neighbor, we need to make the Mexicans legal and then put them all to work, we need to create jobs for them, and we have the United Farm Workers to help them.

And here is a public service message for you Men, do the tests that the doctors require, and be sure to get your Colonoscopy; Colon Cancer is the number 2 killer of men, and it is treatable and preventable with a Colonoscopy and treatment. A colonoscopy can save and prolong your life. I know it is not a comfortable experience, but get it done anyway, get your tests done and be grateful that modern medicine has advanced to the point where they save lives. I am doing my first colonoscopy tomorrow in Huntington Beach, I am scared, but it is a good hospital, and a good doctor, and I know it can prolong my life. I am lucky to live in a nation where we have preventative measures available and where we have good health care.
If you were really lucky you would live in a country where preventative health measures were available for free to all, and not dependent on insurance.
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No food today as I prepare for my colonoscopy, just coffee and 7-Up, and then the special liquid at 5 pm, and then again tomorrow morning, and the procedure at Noon. I hope all of you men will get the tests done, if I can do it then you can do it, and it can save and prolong your life.
Might as well post the pictures. Everything you post is basically the view up your own ass anyway.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 05:30:31 PM: My gift is having my own perspective which has been formed by my experiences and observations, and having a decent vocabulary and being able to share my observations, etc.

And in California then everyone has health care, we even provide health care for illegal immigrants now. Being an American Citizen is no longer a requirement to obtain health care in California.

So here is the rub, we all want for everyone to have free healthcare, but we have a huge shortage of doctors, my Primary Care Physician even works on Saturdays now so that she can help more people, she is working 6 days a week to help people. Our current doctors are warriors, they are working herculean hours, but we need to train more doctors quickly.

Biden wants to give a free education to all Americans, and I agree with that, and let us build Medical Schools in Kentucky and we can train doctors right here in Kentucky, etc. We have the University of California in Irvine Medical School, which is a great medical school where Bill Clinton went when he needed help here in Orange County, and UCI can help to open new Medical Schools around the nation to train doctors. And we need to train more psychiatrists too, and San Diego State University is the best at training psychiatrists.

I am lucky to have a good doctor and that I am able to get preventative medical work done, but we need to train more doctors quickly, these wonderful doctors are all going to get burned out from working too many hours, we need to train new doctors to lighten the load on our current doctors. We can also bring in doctors from the Philippines. And the Aussies are welcome to come to the USA and become doctors. I had a psychiatrist in Lancaster who was from Israel, he was a Jew from Israel, and he was a great psychiatrist, Dr Goldman. Anyhow, we need to train more doctors, and more psychiatrists.

I support free medical care for all, which means we need to train a lot more doctors. And right now 25% of the people in Kentucky cannot even read and write, so our task is to teach people to become doctors in areas where now many are illiterate. The Coal Miner's Daughter needs to become a Doctor.

I am blessed to have good doctors, and we need to provide good doctors for all Americans, which means we need to train more doctors.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:27:01 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 22, 2024, 04:26:11 PM
DK which is funnier, the Bambi blathering on and on about his Google streetview/YT strolls or Fac's salty replies.

LOL

A lot has changed in Iran since "Not Without My Daughter".
On my walk thru Tehran I saw many women without head coverings, and no religious police with AK 47s going nuts at any woman whose hair was not covered.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 07:52:18 PM: Fortress Australia has sprung a leak. Be nice to our layabouts or no nukes for you
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 22, 2024, 09:27:01 PM: I didn't spend those years in the jungles of Southeast Asia, watching my buddies go face down in the muck, bleeding out, to come back home and have to shell out for a goddamned colonoscopy!

A kosher and joyous Passover to you all!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:53:13 PM: Preventative medicine saves lives, and saves money by preventing more expensive situations, which is why California now gives medical care to all people regardless of immigration status, and we view medical care as a human right and not just a privilege.

But we need to train more doctors and psychiatrists, etc. UCI here in Orange County can help to train doctors and can help to set up medical schools in Kentucky and around the nation, and San Diego State University can help to set up schools around the nation where psychiatrists can be trained, etc.

We need to support Biden as he fights for a free education to train doctors and psychiatrists here in America, and we need to open new medical schools the same way that we open franchise restaurants.

Of note too, Social Workers are now being paid $75,000 per year to help the homeless in Los Angeles thanks to Mayor Bass. Jobs are being created as people help the homeless.

And the construction workers are coming from Mexico, we need to make the Mexicans legal and put them to work. And they can join the Unions, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:11:04 AM: Quote from: Walter Sobchak on April 22, 2024, 09:27:01 PM
I didn't spend those years in the jungles of Southeast Asia, watching my buddies go face down in the muck, bleeding out, to come back home and have to shell out for a goddamned colonoscopy!

A kosher and joyous Passover to you all!
Will you come off it Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, mam. It's all part of your sick Cynthia thing. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 23, 2024, 10:30:35 AM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:11:04 AM
Quote from: Walter Sobchak on April 22, 2024, 09:27:01 PM
I didn't spend those years in the jungles of Southeast Asia, watching my buddies go face down in the muck, bleeding out, to come back home and have to shell out for a goddamned colonoscopy!

A kosher and joyous Passover to you all!
Will you come off it Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, mam. It's all part of your sick Cynthia thing. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past.

So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish?

You think I would just turn my back on 3000 years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax?

You see what happens, Tony V? You see what happens when you endoscopy a man in the ass?

And I will thank everyone to keep the Pomeranian out of this!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Yankguy1 on April 23, 2024, 10:45:32 AM: Do you roll on Shabbos?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:01:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.

What I wrote is true, and what she wrote is true.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 02:10:43 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:01:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.

What I wrote is true, and what she wrote is true.
I realize you miss the days when you could sexually harrass women without worrying about the consequences, including specifically the consequences to the lives of the women you accosted. Now they get to assert themselves and object to your noxious conduct and you do not like it. Welcome to Hell.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 03:52:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 02:10:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:01:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.

What I wrote is true, and what she wrote is true.
I realize you miss the days when you could sexually harrass women without worrying about the consequences, including specifically the consequences to the lives of the women you accosted. Now they get to assert themselves and object to your noxious conduct and you do not like it. Welcome to Hell.

Some women are now complaining that, basically, men have all disappeared and those who haven't won't "try anything" on a date.
That, it any form, is classed as 'sexual assault'.

Men have disappeared, disappeared into saving their money and spending it on housing etc to set themselves up for a secure furture.
Last time I went on a date was in 1967...and I was a 'perfect gentleman'.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 23, 2024, 04:06:50 PM: In honor of today being the Bard's 460th birthday, I read Adam Bertocci's brilliant (and thoroughly researched) play, The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. What a great mash-up it is.

And my own small contribution to Shakespearean fandom today...

Gloucester is at the top of the Cliffs of Dover. He shouts down to Edgar, disguised as Tom o Bedlam, How do I get down?

Edgar shouts back, From a duck!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 04:24:55 PM: Anzac Day in bambuworld and NZ tomorrow 25 April.
Honouring the sacrifices of the fallen in all wars, the sacrifices of all those who've served, including physical and mental injuries.

On the eve, this;

SkyNews

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson has taken a swipe at "insidious" attempts to politicize Anzac day by a group of pro-Palestine activist teachers.

From 1916, Australian troops served with Allied forces throughout the Middle East, mainly taking part in action against the Ottoman Empire. Over three years
Australian troops and the Australian Flying Corps served in Egypt, Palestine and the territories now known as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

#####

Apparently the war in Gaza now is the fault of the Anzacs of WW1, according to some people.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 04:38:25 PM: cont'd

A final drive, beginning with the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918, led to the destruction of three Ottoman field armies, the capture of 76,000 prisoners of war and the rapid conquest of Palestine, Jordan and southern Syria.

#####

Well there you go.
Ottomans sided with Germany...so they deserved all they got.

Long live Anzac Day, God save the King, and God save us all.

Maybe the activist teachers would be happier living in Palestine...planes fly out of Australia every day for the Middle East.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 05:10:05 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 23, 2024, 04:06:50 PM
In honor of today being the Bard's 460th birthday, I read Adam Bertocci's brilliant (and thoroughly researched) play, The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. What a great mash-up it is.

And my own small contribution to Shakespearean fandom today...

Gloucester is at the top of the Cliffs of Dover. He shouts down to Edgar, disguised as Tom o Bedlam, How do I get down?

Edgar shouts back, From a duck!
Also the 408th anniversary of his death, as well as that of Cervantes who died 10 days later, also on April 23.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 23, 2024, 05:54:24 PM: Cornell has joined Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard in bringing back testing after experimenting with the test
optional admissions standard over the past few years.

Each university observed that test optional requirements harmed disadvantaged applicants and harmed the predictive power of standardized tests relative to academic success.

No fucking shit.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 05:56:56 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 04:24:55 PM
Anzac Day in bambuworld and NZ tomorrow 25 April.
Honouring the sacrifices of the fallen in all wars, the sacrifices of all those who've served, including physical and mental injuries.

On the eve, this;

SkyNews

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson has taken a swipe at "insidious" attempts to politicize Anzac day by a group of pro-Palestine activist teachers.

From 1916, Australian troops served with Allied forces throughout the Middle East, mainly taking part in action against the Ottoman Empire. Over three years
Australian troops and the Australian Flying Corps served in Egypt, Palestine and the territories now known as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

#####

Apparently the war in Gaza now is the fault of the Anzacs of WW1, according to some people.
Well, it is part of the long, long shadow of the Great War, like most of the horrors of the last 110 years. There is a reason it is referred to as the seminal catastrophe of the 20th Century.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 05:59:24 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 03:52:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 02:10:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:01:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.

What I wrote is true, and what she wrote is true.
I realize you miss the days when you could sexually harrass women without worrying about the consequences, including specifically the consequences to the lives of the women you accosted. Now they get to assert themselves and object to your noxious conduct and you do not like it. Welcome to Hell.

Some women are now complaining that, basically, men have all disappeared and those who haven't won't "try anything" on a date.
That, it any form, is classed as 'sexual assault'.

Men have disappeared, disappeared into saving their money and spending it on housing etc to set themselves up for a secure furture.
Last time I went on a date was in 1967...and I was a 'perfect gentleman'.
Disrespecting a woman's decision about her body and coercing sex is not manly. Men are not disappearing. The bad ones are facing the consequences of their actions.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 06:18:44 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 05:56:56 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 04:24:55 PM
Anzac Day in bambuworld and NZ tomorrow 25 April.
Honouring the sacrifices of the fallen in all wars, the sacrifices of all those who've served, including physical and mental injuries.

On the eve, this;

SkyNews

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson has taken a swipe at "insidious" attempts to politicize Anzac day by a group of pro-Palestine activist teachers.

From 1916, Australian troops served with Allied forces throughout the Middle East, mainly taking part in action against the Ottoman Empire. Over three years
Australian troops and the Australian Flying Corps served in Egypt, Palestine and the territories now known as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

#####

Apparently the war in Gaza now is the fault of the Anzacs of WW1, according to some people.
Well, it is part of the long, long shadow of the Great War, like most of the horrors of the last 110 years. There is a reason it is referred to as the seminal catastrophe of the 20th Century.

Yes well bambu-ilk aren't having it, Anzacs and Anzac day are not 'myths', no matter what trashers today think.
They've trashed the national flag, trashed the national anthem [given it's not the best national anthem in the world, far from it...and a new one should be developed, something more like the US/French/Mexican anthems]...and they needn't bother, we're not changing them.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 23, 2024, 07:05:23 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 05:59:24 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 03:52:21 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 02:10:43 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:01:23 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on April 23, 2024, 08:18:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 02:49:03 AM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 22, 2024, 11:44:37 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 06:51:04 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 22, 2024, 04:08:21 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 22, 2024, 01:49:36 AM
I was just there today. Went to Poinsettia dog park and had lunch at the airport. Just a hop, skip and a jump from my home.

You could apply to become a border patrol agent..a short walk to work.

Cracking some Australian skulls when they inevitably overstay their visas does sound tempting. It would take a big dent out of disorganized crime.

LOL

Americans are the third largest group of visa overstayers in Australia...behind Malaysians and Chinese.
Thousands of Americans overstay, thousands.

My Communication professor in community college, Dr Debra Tolar, said that the women of Australia are the best for American men, because the Aussie women are straight forward and honest and if an Aussie woman likes you then she will let you know it. In California it is harder, unless you are rich and famous, so for the Californian men then Dr Debra Tolar said the Australian women were the best. ( By the way, Shakira should hire Dr Debra Tolar to work on her team, the last I heard Dr Debra Tolar was coaching people in Show Business, she could help Shakira with PR, etc. ) It is like in "Grease" where John Travolta fell in love with Olivia Newton John. The American men with the Australian women go good together.

And remember that the Philippines is a good Christian nation, and the women of the Philippines are great for the Aussie men. Check out Miss Charm Philippines 2024, Krishnah Gravidez, she is a beautiful woman. I was friends with Pia Reyes who was a Playboy Playmate from Manila, Philippines. Be sure to welcome the people from the Philippines to Australia.

Dr Debra Tolar says the Australian women are the best for California men.

Salute,

Tony V.

That was then, this is now.
Today, the question is, what is an "Australian woman".
In fact what is also being asked is "what is a woman?"
Today a "woman" could be a biological man.
It's all very confusing.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up shook up world.
Quote

A single Black woman from Africa has moved to Australia and has a Youtube channel.
Just one? Actually, I am surprised you allowed even that.
Quote
She has found it strange that no men are approaching her, including asking for her number, as in Africa.
Racist?
No, the men are petrified, petrified of being seen as "predators", "sexual harassers", etc.
She says you have to go on dating sites.
Get help. Incels like you are responsible for a lot of mass shootings. Or in your case, mass boomerang assaults.

What I wrote is true, and what she wrote is true.
I realize you miss the days when you could sexually harrass women without worrying about the consequences, including specifically the consequences to the lives of the women you accosted. Now they get to assert themselves and object to your noxious conduct and you do not like it. Welcome to Hell.

Some women are now complaining that, basically, men have all disappeared and those who haven't won't "try anything" on a date.
That, it any form, is classed as 'sexual assault'.

Men have disappeared, disappeared into saving their money and spending it on housing etc to set themselves up for a secure furture.
Last time I went on a date was in 1967...and I was a 'perfect gentleman'.
Disrespecting a woman's decision about her body and coercing sex is not manly. Men are not disappearing. The bad ones are facing the consequences of their actions.
Unless they seal the evidence at the University of Delaware
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 09:38:04 PM: Fox News;

I am Gen Z. Men in my generation are not dating. Why should we?

Sixty-three percent of men aged 18 t0 29 say they're single, as Gen Z men have given up on dating.

---
By Aldo Buttazzoni Fox News
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 23, 2024, 09:39:25 PM: Viruses of the mind.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/dont-believe-what-theyre-telling-you-about-misinformation
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 23, 2024, 11:48:28 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 09:38:04 PM
Fox News;

I am Gen Z. Men in my generation are not dating. Why should we?

Sixty-three percent of men aged 18 t0 29 say they're single, as Gen Z men have given up on dating.

---
By Aldo Buttazzoni Fox News

You killed the planet, grandpa, with your coal fetish. Now no one wants to think about having a future much less sharing one.

For that, on behalf of my nieces and nephews, thanks and go fuck yourself.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 12:46:44 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 23, 2024, 11:48:28 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 23, 2024, 09:38:04 PM
Fox News;

I am Gen Z. Men in my generation are not dating. Why should we?

Sixty-three percent of men aged 18 t0 29 say they're single, as Gen Z men have given up on dating.

---
By Aldo Buttazzoni Fox News

You killed the planet, grandpa, with your coal fetish. Now no one wants to think about having a future much less sharing one.

For that, on behalf of my nieces and nephews, thanks and go fuck yourself.

Overpopulation killed the planet, and who is responsible for that, exactly?
Say anything about overpopulation and Leftists run a mile.
Your wind and solar solutions are crocs at powering the world atm.
Coal and gas fired plants are needed and will be long into the future.
You and your climate alarmism actions are what are destroying the minds of young people as to confidence in their future.

9/11 didn't help much either.
Nor did Oct 7 and what's happened since then.
American youth, ...seeing the *millions* of pro-Palestinian protesters *rioting* in the streets of America, massive takeover stopping Americans from shopping etc, ...could well have been afffected in their minds.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 12:53:59 AM: Letting Europeans get on boats was much worse than 9/11 or 10/7.

The planet is underpopulated but it will get less so.

Dead minds like you who never made it out of the twentieth century will be plowed under if they do not want to wake up and keep up no matter how white they are and how much they bitch and moan.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 03:21:01 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 12:53:59 AM
Letting Europeans get on boats was much worse than 9/11 or 10/7.

The planet is underpopulated but it will get less so.

Dead minds like you who never made it out of the twentieth century will be plowed under if they do not want to wake up and keep up no matter how white they are and how much they bitch and moan.

Car Wizard [you tube]...you should take notice of him.
He's American, knows all about vehicles, gas and electric.
He's very experienced, has his own large workshop, and has had for a long time.
'5 cars never to buy used'
'5 engines [with cars/p up trucks] to never buy.'

'EVs, ...batteries in EVs can degrade quickly in very hot or very cold climates'...'buying used EVs? you could be up for $10,000 for a new battery, $19,000 in a Tesla'.

ETC etc etc.

XXX

Seems the Wizard underestimated the cost of new batteries for Teslas.

20,000 to 35,000

However, these prices could increase as they do not include incidental expenses (like other parts) and labor.
25 Mar 2023
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 03:23:48 AM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 12:53:59 AM
Letting Europeans get on boats was much worse than 9/11 or 10/7.

The planet is underpopulated but it will get less so.

Dead minds like you who never made it out of the twentieth century will be plowed under if they do not want to wake up and keep up no matter how white they are and how much they bitch and moan.

Underpopulated?
Where you gonna put all the extra billions of people you desire?
Where you gonna grow their food?
Where are they all gonna live?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 05:46:46 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 03:23:48 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 12:53:59 AM
Letting Europeans get on boats was much worse than 9/11 or 10/7.

The planet is underpopulated but it will get less so.

Dead minds like you who never made it out of the twentieth century will be plowed under if they do not want to wake up and keep up no matter how white they are and how much they bitch and moan.

Underpopulated?
Where you gonna put all the extra billions of people you desire?

They are coming whether you or I desire them or not.

Quote
Where you gonna grow their food?
Where are they all gonna live?

Golf courses, country clubs, subdivided mansions, vacant office buildings and malls for a start.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 05:52:07 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 03:21:01 AM
'EVs, ...batteries in EVs can degrade quickly in very hot or very cold climates'...'buying used EVs? you could be up for $10,000 for a new battery, $19,000 in a Tesla'.

Hand cranks used to be very dangerous in gas powered cars. They could break a finger or hand just trying to start one up. Somehow someone came along and fixed that issue. Expect similar leaps in battery tech to hit the market shortly. Then it is whoosh, off we go.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2024, 01:38:43 PM: Bambu, that is why my Communication Professor, Dr Debra Tolar, said that Australian Women are the best for American Men, is because Australian Women tell the man straight out that they like him if they like him, the Australian women are honest and straight forward, you do not have to guess what an Australian woman is thinking as she will tell you. If an Australian woman likes an American man then she will tell him that she likes him. According to Dr Debra Tolar.

And on the issue of Shakespeare, I have a video of me doing Prologue from Henry V on my You Tube Page, you can hear the refugee children playing outside as we filmed, Esperanza and Bing used to help the refugee children from Mexico, etc, we used to have a million refugee children here.

https://www.youtube.com/TonyVerley

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 08:25:28 PM: 97 percent of all idiots credit and quote statistics from fox news.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 24, 2024, 09:41:27 PM: Bambu, you need to speak up for what you want, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, as we send Trader Joe's, and Northgate Markets, to Australia, then you need to let them know what products you want to buy. I strongly suggest the fresh baked bread at Northgate, and the fresh made tortillas, and the marinated and spiced meats, etc. Also, be sure to get the El Monterey Burritos from Ruiz Foods from Dinuba, California. And be sure to get the canned soups that you enjoy, etc. Tell them what you want and they will send it, you guys need to speak up.

In France they are getting better food because they are speaking up.

We have cheese from Joseph Farms in California, and we have lots of good products, the Australians need to let Trader Joe's, and the Northgate Markets, know what you want, just tell them what you want. The Stagg Chili is good, the Hormel Chili is good, the Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli is great. The Anthony's Pasta is great. Oscar Meyer meat is good. Ball Park Franks are great, and Hebrew National hot dogs are great. The Louisiana Hot Links are great. Digiorno frozen pizzas are great. Tyson Foods from Arkansas can send you frozen chicken and other foods. Just let them know what you want, and they will send it. They want to make people happy and they want happy customers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 10:52:21 PM: Bambu wants to be a real boy.

It just aint gonna happen no matter how hard or long he squeaks about it.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 25, 2024, 12:19:03 PM: Scotus hearing today is a BFD. Hopefully a decision will clarify that treason monkeys are not above the law.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2024, 02:55:00 PM: When I worked at Universal Studios we had our own Police Department, the cops worked for us, and that is what they need to do for the Metrolink Trains, they need to have their own police department which is focused solely on protecting the Metrolink passengers.

And we need to improve our schools, and we need to have after school programs for the youth, and we need to teach the teens how to earn honest money, and for the gangs we have Homeboy Industries and Father Boyle, etc, we need to nurture a better society.

Things will improve in California now that Mayor Bass is working to help the homeless, and now that Governor Newsom is lowering taxes for film and television producers, etc. As the economy improves then crime will go down.

Anyhow, the trains need their own police force.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 25, 2024, 03:41:50 PM: Quote from: Oiled on April 25, 2024, 12:19:03 PM
Scotus hearing today is a BFD. Hopefully a decision will clarify that treason monkeys are not above the law.
You would think the lawyers for a man challenging a sitting President in an election would have been more aware then to argue a sitting president can with impunity order the assassination of man challenging a sitting President in an election.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: DeeJ on April 25, 2024, 04:46:57 PM: gradycartoons.com

Trump returns

Four Senators America has no need For
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 25, 2024, 05:04:05 PM: The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2024, 10:04:55 PM: Bambu, I am drinking Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Australia, the brand is Franzia, I paid $15 for a 5 Liter box, from a store named Von's. Normally I buy the wine from California, but Von's only had the Australian wine, and so I figured I would go ahead and support the Australians by buying some Australian wine. This would be good wine to sell in Alaska where wine is hard to get, they need to sell Franzia in Alaska. And the Mexicans would probably buy this wine. The Australian wine is good wine, and the people of Taiwan would love Franzia wine, and the Philippines, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 10:57:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 10:52:21 PM
Bambu wants to be a real boy.

It just aint gonna happen no matter how hard or long he squeaks about it.

'boy'?
In what context?
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 11:10:22 PM: Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 05:46:46 AM
Quote from: bambu. on April 24, 2024, 03:23:48 AM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 12:53:59 AM
Letting Europeans get on boats was much worse than 9/11 or 10/7.

The planet is underpopulated but it will get less so.

Dead minds like you who never made it out of the twentieth century will be plowed under if they do not want to wake up and keep up no matter how white they are and how much they bitch and moan.

Underpopulated?
Where you gonna put all the extra billions of people you desire?

They are coming whether you or I desire them or not.

Quote
Where you gonna grow their food?
Where are they all gonna live?

Golf courses, country clubs, subdivided mansions, vacant office buildings and malls for a start.

They're needed for the homeless, working poor, sick unemployed, people living in abject poverty who are here how.
Atm, I'm only one pension payment away from financial imposition on my preferred way of life.
Heaven knows how homeless, people living in poverty, sick unemployed etc people are managing.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 11:20:33 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2024, 10:04:55 PM
Bambu, I am drinking Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Australia, the brand is Franzia, I paid $15 for a 5 Liter box, from a store named Von's. Normally I buy the wine from California, but Von's only had the Australian wine, and so I figured I would go ahead and support the Australians by buying some Australian wine. This would be good wine to sell in Alaska where wine is hard to get, they need to sell Franzia in Alaska. And the Mexicans would probably buy this wine. The Australian wine is good wine, and the people of Taiwan would love Franzia wine, and the Philippines, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

You buy our wine, Tony, ...the company makes a profit, pays taxes...and our govt uses those taxes to buy your war planes, your nuke subs, and hopefully soon nuke missiles from you. :)
Drink up!
Not too much though, alcohol can be bad news if not consumed in moderation.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 26, 2024, 12:02:41 AM: Yesterday attended the blockbuster footy game in Sydney for Anzac Day.
Car is broken down, nothing major, saving up to have it fixed...so had to catch public transport to Sydney then around in Sydney to get to the stadium by 'Light Rail' Trams.
Only good thing was that it was all free for anyone with tickets to the game.
Blockbuster game, blockbuster crowd (double usual footy crowds), blockbuster time of day, packed in like sardines on the trams.
Best of luck to tourists trying to work out the light rail system...and catch connecting light rail, bus, train.
Not enough time to get from one to the other...poor programming.
Not everyone is an Olympic sprinter.
I was responsible for navigation, not the best job did I do.
Next time, few weeks hence, gotta do it all again.
Non-blockbuster game, time, day.
I made a lot of mental notes yesterday, which I'm committing to paper today.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: bambu. on April 26, 2024, 12:28:33 AM: Autumn...sunny, cloudless afternoon, the footy players ran out, chopper landed centre stadium...delivering the revered Anzac Day Cup trophy.
Chopper rose a bit, bowed to the crowd, then departed.
Riderless horse in the middle, ....and large flags of Australia and New Zealand were unfurled horizontally, then the 40,000 crowd stood as a young naval woman bugler played The Last Post, a minute's silence ( not one sound was there, usually some no-idea of more make a noise), then she played Reveille.
The national anthems of both nations were then played.
Ceremony concluded.
Game was played.
Anzac haters lost again!
National flag haters lost again!
National anthem haters lost again.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2024, 12:52:53 AM: Quote from: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 10:57:22 PM
Quote from: facilitatorn on April 24, 2024, 10:52:21 PM
Bambu wants to be a real boy.

It just aint gonna happen no matter how hard or long he squeaks about it.

'boy'?
In what context?

As opposed to being a fucking blockhead, blockhead.

No one here believes you left your house.

No nukes for you.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Walter Sobchak on April 26, 2024, 10:27:37 AM: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/trump-supreme-court-immunity-takeaways-00154470

Some spares, some strikes, some gutterballs.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Oiled on April 26, 2024, 10:33:30 AM: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.

The fly ash regulations will be helpful to many communities and water supplies.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 26, 2024, 11:26:54 AM: Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 26, 2024, 11:36:27 AM: Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.

The fly ash regulations will be helpful to many communities and water supplies.

This is a BIG DAMN DEAL!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 26, 2024, 11:43:40 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 11:26:54 AM
Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.

The Europeans are not waiting to import more dinosaur flatulence

The use of renewable energy has many potential benefits, including a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the diversification of energy supplies and a reduced dependency on fossil fuel markets (in particular, oil and gas).The growth of renewable energy sources may also stimulate employment in the EU, through the creation of jobs in new green technologies.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Renewable_energy_statistics
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 26, 2024, 11:49:10 AM: Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 11:26:54 AM
Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.
US natural gas production has increased every year under Biden, increased above the levels of production under your idol even discounting the COVID year.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: jmmengel on April 26, 2024, 12:01:05 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on Today at 11:49:10 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 11:26:54 AM
Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.
US natural gas production has increased every year under Biden,
So did natural grass.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: LarryB! on April 26, 2024, 12:39:28 PM: Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 12:01:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on Today at 11:49:10 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 11:26:54 AM
Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.
US natural gas production has increased every year under Biden,
So did natural grass.

Lame!
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 26, 2024, 04:34:57 PM: Quote from: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 11:20:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2024, 10:04:55 PM
Bambu, I am drinking Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Australia, the brand is Franzia, I paid $15 for a 5 Liter box, from a store named Von's. Normally I buy the wine from California, but Von's only had the Australian wine, and so I figured I would go ahead and support the Australians by buying some Australian wine. This would be good wine to sell in Alaska where wine is hard to get, they need to sell Franzia in Alaska. And the Mexicans would probably buy this wine. The Australian wine is good wine, and the people of Taiwan would love Franzia wine, and the Philippines, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

You buy our wine, Tony, ...the company makes a profit, pays taxes...and our govt uses those taxes to buy your war planes, your nuke subs, and hopefully soon nuke missiles from you. :)
Drink up!
Not too much though, alcohol can be bad news if not consumed in moderation.

Yes, always in moderation.

And it appears that the Franzia wine from Australia is very popular.

https://www.franzia.com/

And yes, when you buy our defense items then it creates jobs here, in the Antelope Valley, and in China Lake, and in Virginia, etc. But, defense is about making everyone safe and saving lives and promoting peace through strength, defense is not about making money, it is about making our people safe, and the children safe. When I helped to build a laboratory where they have worked on Missile Defense for decades then it was not about money, it was about stopping missiles and saving lives, and we have been able to stop missiles in Israel, etc, we have made a lot of progress on Missile Defense. Defense is not about money, and we are sending defense items to Ukraine for free. We want for you to be safe and happy.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

And I have been sending messages to Giorgia Meloni telling her that Italy needs to rise again in the region, and Athens, we need for Italy to rise to meet the needs of the 21st century. And we can work together as a team to improve the world. The United States can help to run the Western Hemisphere, and Rome and Athens can help to run the East. And China can help. And the Philippines, and Taiwan, etc. And Pope Francis is a great man of peace.

We need to stop Putin, he needs to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we need to put in our allies to run Russia, we have friends in the Space Program, and in the Arts, etc, in Russia, and we need for our friends to rise and to take control of Russia and to send Putin to Cuba. We have the World Bank on our team, and we can make our allies and friends in Russia rich and powerful if they would rise and take control of Russia and send Putin to Guantanamo Bay. Money has power.

When Athens built their Empire they used money and a central banking system, they built their democracy using money. And they had brilliant smart people. And Jesus waited for Rome to come to power before Jesus came. And an education was valued in Rome, and they all studied the art of Rhetoric, etc. And then the Renaissance was great, we need to have another Renaissance. France and Spain can help, etc, as we advance peace and the arts, etc.

The weapons can keep us safe while we advance education and peace and the arts, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: Hairy Lime on April 26, 2024, 05:20:48 PM: Quote from: FlyingVProd on Today at 04:34:57 PM
Quote from: bambu. on April 25, 2024, 11:20:33 PM
Quote from: FlyingVProd on April 25, 2024, 10:04:55 PM
Bambu, I am drinking Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Australia, the brand is Franzia, I paid $15 for a 5 Liter box, from a store named Von's. Normally I buy the wine from California, but Von's only had the Australian wine, and so I figured I would go ahead and support the Australians by buying some Australian wine. This would be good wine to sell in Alaska where wine is hard to get, they need to sell Franzia in Alaska. And the Mexicans would probably buy this wine. The Australian wine is good wine, and the people of Taiwan would love Franzia wine, and the Philippines, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

You buy our wine, Tony, ...the company makes a profit, pays taxes...and our govt uses those taxes to buy your war planes, your nuke subs, and hopefully soon nuke missiles from you. :)
Drink up!
Not too much though, alcohol can be bad news if not consumed in moderation.

Yes, always in moderation.

And it appears that the Franzia wine from Australia is very popular.

https://www.franzia.com/

And yes, when you buy our defense items then it creates jobs here, in the Antelope Valley, and in China Lake, and in Virginia, etc. But, defense is about making everyone safe and saving lives and promoting peace through strength, defense is not about making money, it is about making our people safe, and the children safe. When I helped to build a laboratory where they have worked on Missile Defense for decades then it was not about money, it was about stopping missiles and saving lives, and we have been able to stop missiles in Israel, etc, we have made a lot of progress on Missile Defense. Defense is not about money, and we are sending defense items to Ukraine for free. We want for you to be safe and happy.

Blessed are the peacemakers.
Clearly, it's meant to apply to all purveyors of dairy products.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2024, 05:41:21 PM: Quote from: Hairy Lime on Today at 05:20:48 PM
Clearly, it's meant to apply to all purveyors of dairy products.
Title: Re: News in General
Post by: facilitatorn on April 26, 2024, 05:42:47 PM: Quote from: LarryB! on Today at 12:39:28 PM
Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 12:01:05 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on Today at 11:49:10 AM
Quote from: jmmengel on Today at 11:26:54 AM
Quote from: Oiled on Today at 10:33:30 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/coal-fuel-future-decline-00153666

Coal decline continues, helped along by new regulations, the aging of remaining coal plants, and rapid growth of clean energy.
The rapid growth of Natural gas has put coal as the odd man out, in the US.
Coal is expanding in Asia and developing countries.
The USA has the capacity to expand natural gas in Europe through LNG exportation.
Sadly Biden is delaying that day until we get leadership with brains.
US natural gas production has increased every year under Biden,
So did natural grass.

Lame!

Red is naturally suspicious of anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time. They are definitely not his kind of people.